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Aired September 27, 2006 - 06:00 & ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
MILES O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR:
Good morning to you, Wednesday, September 27.
I'm Miles O'Brien.
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR:
And I'm Soledad O'Brien.
Here's a look at what is happening this morning.
Today in Washington, both houses of Congress expected to vote on a detainee bill supported by the White House.
It would let the Bush administration put the country's most dangerous terror suspects on trial this fall.
Also in Washington today, a closed door hearing for former White House aide Lewis "Scooter" Libby.
Libby is accused of lying to investigators about the leak of the former CIA operative Valerie Plame's name.
At issue today is whether certain classified information should be disclosed in the case.
M. O'BRIEN:
At the White House tonight, President Bush hosting a working dinner with the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan.
The president aiming for a verbal truce between the two men, each accuses the other of not doing enough to fight al Qaeda and the Taliban.
Just a few hours from now, the leader of that polygamist cult, Warren Jeffs, will be in court for a hearing in Utah.
Jeffs is accused of forcing underage girls to marry older men.
Jeffs was on the FBI's 10 most wanted list when police arrested him last month.
S. O'BRIEN:
In Pennsylvania this morning, there may be another case of E. coli linked to bagged spinach.
Doctors are still running tests.
They say a patient bought a bag of contaminated spinach earlier this month.
And in San Francisco this afternoon, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger scheduled to sign a bill that caps greenhouse gas emissions from refineries and factories and utilities.
The cap is the first of its kind nationwide.
Time for a check of the weather forecast.
Chad Myers at the CNN Center for us.
Good morning.
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST:
Hi, Soledad.
Good morning, Miles.
(WEATHER REPORT)
Back to you.
S. O'BRIEN:
All right, thank you, -- Chad.
You're welcome.
S. O'BRIEN:
Forty-one days to the midterm elections.
President Bush is taking an usual step, he's declassified sections of a controversial intelligence report on the war on terror.
We begin this morning with two reports.
Elaine Quijano is at the White House.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT (on camera): President Bush insists politics are not the reason he decided to declassify portions of the classified National Intelligence Estimate dealing partly with Iraq.
But with Democrats pouncing on that report, it's clear President Bush is on the defensive.
On Tuesday, the president attacked what he called the politically motivated leaking of that NIE.
The president noted that it was completed back in April and leaked just weeks before the congressional midterm election.
Now Democrats argue the NIE is proof that the Iraq war has made the U.S. less safe, a charge the administration disputes.
Meantime, one day after sitting down with Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai, President Bush will meet with him once again today, and they will be joined by another key U.S. ally in the war on terror, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf.
President Bush hopes to ease tensions between the two countries over the recent resurgence of Taliban activity along their border.
Elaine Quijano, CNN, the White House.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
S. O'BRIEN:
Only 4 pages of the 30-page report have been declassified.
CNN's Kelli Arena has been looking through the report.
Here's hers.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
KELLI ARENA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (on camera):
The abridged version of the report pretty much mirrors what we've already heard from a variety of administration officials.
But there is one point that you don't hear much about, five years into the war on terror, the report says that Muslims who identified themselves as jihadists are increasing.
Now, as expected, the report has a lot to say about the war in Iraq.
It says that the conflict is shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders, that it has become the cause celeb for jihadists. But on the other hand, if fighters fail there, or think they fail, the report says that that will actually hurt the movement.
Now the war in Iraq is actually just one of the reasons cited for the growth of extremism.
Others are the slow pace of reform in many Muslim nations and pervasive anti-U.S. sentiment.
But the report is not all negative.
The analysts who wrote it say that moderate Muslim leaders are stepping forward to denounce the violence.
And it says that if Osama bin Laden or other al Qaeda leaders are caught that that could seriously fracture the movement.
Now this report was never meant for public consumption, it was written for high-level policymakers.
And some intelligence experts suggest that you know the fact that it was partially made public could have a chilling effect on analysts who prepare these intelligence findings.
Kelli Arena, CNN, Washington.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
M. O'BRIEN:
Some Democrats would like the administration to release yet another intelligence report focusing solely on Iraq.
They wonder if it is being kept under wraps until after the midterm elections.
Here's California Congresswoman Jane Harman.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REP. JANE HARMAN (CA-D), INTELLIGENCE CMTE.:
I have also learned, and it's been reported, that there may be another National Intelligence Estimate, this one specifically on Iraq, in our intelligence community.
I have not seen it, although I hear its contents are grim.
I understand it is stamped draft.
That is so it doesn't have to be sent up to Congress.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
M. O'BRIEN:
But the administration says the Iraq report was just commissioned in August and is still months away from completion.
Amid the intense debate about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, a huge bill to fund the fighting is making its way through Congress. The House yesterday approving a $70 billion new military spending bill for Iraq and Afghanistan, part of a record $448 billion Pentagon budget.
The Senate is expected to follow suit on that later this week.
An Army medic accused of going AWOL to avoid a second tour of duty in Iraq has surrendered to military authorities at Fort Irwin, California.
Augustine Aguayo applied for conscientious objector status in 2004, but the Pentagon rejected his request.
Aguayo says he won't serve in a war he founds -- he finds immoral.
He's now facing court-martial -- Soledad.
S. O'BRIEN:
Happening in America this morning.
In West Virginia, two men who worked at the Sago Mine during the January's tragedy have committed suicide.
The suicides happened separately within the past month.
Both men were interviewed during the investigation, neither one was blamed for the accident which killed 12 people.
In New Jersey, dozens of people are recovering this morning after breathing a cloud of poisonous gas.
It happened after a worker accidentally damaged a tank of sulfur dioxide and that sent the toxic gas into the air.
People reported immediately feeling sick, they couldn't breathe.
A HAZMAT team had to decontaminate the area.
In Rhode Island, a massive civil suit in the deadly Station nightclub fire.
Families of a hundred people who were killed, and victims of the fire as well, are filing that civil suit.
The suit names dozens of defendants, including members of the rock bank The Great White whose pyrotechnic display is what sparked that fire.
Firefighters guarding homes being threatened by a flare-up of that massive wildfire in Ventura County in California.
It's about 70 miles north of L.A.
One man said the fire sounded like a jet engine. Residents have been urged to leave their homes.
Some folks, though, are staying.
Supermodel Naomi Campbell's assault case resumes this morning in a New York City courtroom.
Campbell is accused of hitting her maid with her cell phone back in January when she couldn't find a pair of jeans.
Campbell faces up to seven years in prison if she's convicted.
Cowboys' receiver Terrell Owens was rushed to a Dallas hospital last night.
He reportedly suffered a reaction from painkillers he was taking for his fractured right hand.
Owens broke his hand in a game two weeks ago.
M. O'BRIEN:
Anna Nicole Smith's longtime friend and attorney, Howard K. Stern, says he is the father of her daughter, Dannie Lynn Hope, born earlier this month in the Bahamas.
Stern made the revelation last night on CNN's "LARRY KING LIVE."
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
HOWARD K. STERN, ANNA NICOLE SMITH'S ATTY.:
Anna and I have been in a relationship and we love each other and it's been going on for a very long time.
And because of my relationship as her lawyer, we felt that it was best to keep everything hidden, and we've actually done a pretty good job of that.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
M. O'BRIEN:
Until now, obviously.
Stern says the baby has been a ray of hope as the couple deals with the death of Anna Nicole's son, Daniel.
He died three days after the birth of his sister. Investigators in the Bahamas still don't know the cause of his death.
And you can watch Larry King every night at 9:00 Eastern right here on CNN.
S. O'BRIEN:
Today, Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf is going to meet with President Bush and the Afghan President Hamid Karzai at the White House.
Last night, though, he stopped by "The Daily Show" for some pointed political probing from the host, Jon Stewart.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
JON STEWART, HOST, "THE DAILY SHOW WITH JON STEWART":
Where's Osama bin Laden?
PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, PAKISTAN'S PRESIDENT:
I don't know.
Do you know?
If you know where he is, you lead on, we'll follow you.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
S. O'BRIEN:
Mr. Musharraf is promoting his memoir, "In the Line of Fire."
It's drawn headlines proclaiming his country was pressured by the Bush administration to support the war on terror following 9/11.
The administration is denying that charge -- Miles.
M. O'BRIEN:
Still to come in program, Hillary Clinton standing by her man and the debate between the Clintons and the Bush administration over who was tougher on al Qaeda before 9/11 gets even hotter.
And after 500 years, science finally peels back the layers of the painted Mona Lisa and restores her reputation.
What happened to her reputation?
I don't know.
It's all about the smile.
And Carrie Lee with business.
Hello, -- Carrie.
CARRIE LEE, CNN CORRESPONDENT:
Good morning.
Merck wins another legal victory in the ongoing trials for Vioxx. And which are the best companies to work for for working moms?
We'll have those stories and more coming up on AMERICAN MORNING.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
M. O'BRIEN:
Happening this morning.
In Pennsylvania, there may be another case of E. coli linked to bagged spinach.
Doctors are still running tests, but they say the patient bought a bag of contaminated spinach earlier this month.
Today in Washington, Congress expected to vote on a detainee bill supported by the White House.
It would let the Bush administration put the country's most dangerous terror suspects on trial this fall.
And later today, talks expected in Europe on Iran's nuclear program.
Iranian state television says Iran's top nuclear envoy will meet with the E.U.'s foreign policy minister.
They'll likely discuss an incentive program for suspending uranium enrichment -- Soledad.
S. O'BRIEN:
North Korean's nukes on Capitol Hill today.
A House committee will take up the big issue.
The big question is just how to get the North back to the negotiating table.
Here's senior U.N. correspondent Richard Roth.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
RICHARD ROTH, CNN SR. U.N. CORRESPONDENT (voice-over):
North Korea followed up its recent missile launches with a burst of verbal firepower aimed directly at the United States.
CHOE SU HON, N. KOREA DEPUTY FOREIGN MINISTER (through translator):
Today, there still persists the touch and go critical tension and confrontation on the Korean peninsula, rather than durable peace and security.
Its source is nothing but the U.S.' vicious, hostile policy.
And, says the minister, that policy is driving North Korea towards building nuclear weapons.
Though Pyongyang already claims to have such weapons, there's no certainty about what lies in its arsenals.
For the last 10 months, it has rejected six-party talks on its nuclear program to protest U.S. financial sanctions imposed, among other things, over Pyongyang's counterfeiting of U.S. dollars.
And at the U.N., North Korea repeated its line, drop the sanctions or no talks.
HON (through translator):
It is quite preposterous that the DPRK under the groundless U.S. sanctions takes part in the talks of discussing its own nuclear abandonment.
This is the matter of principle which cannot tolerate even the slightest concession.
Trying to find some way forward, the U.S. says it will meet one-on-one with North Korea if it first returns to six-party talks.
This week, the U.S. ambassador to South Korea said Washington is open to new approaches.
LI ZHAOXING, CHINESE FOREIGN MINISTER (through translator):
We hope the parties involved will be cool-headed and more flexible, expand common ground, meet each other halfway.
To ease this nuclear crisis, experts say something's got to give.
GARETH EVANS, INTERNATIONAL CRISIS GROUP:
Diplomacy has failed. There's been no inspection, verification.
They've walked out of the Non-Proliferation Treaty and they've probably acquired up to 10 nuclear weapons while we've all been sort of scratching our heads as to what to do about it.
ROTH (on camera):
There may soon be new urgency for fresh diplomacy.
This week, a senior North Korean official said his country plans to speed up production of fuel through nuclear weapons.
Richard Roth, CNN, the United Nations.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
M. O'BRIEN:
More violence in the Middle East.
Israel launches an airstrike in Gaza today at a suspected weapons cache and a teenaged girl is killed.
CNN's John Vause joining us live from Jerusalem with more, -- John.
JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT:
Miles, according to the Israeli military, the target here of this airstrike was a house which is being used to cover the entranceway of a tunnel which smuggled weapons from Egypt into southern Gaza.
The house was hit around midnight local time.
The Israeli Army, though, contacted the residents inside about 15 minutes before the airstrike, warning them to clear out.
According to witnesses, the residents did leave.
But Palestinian sources have told CNN the 14-year-old girl who died, and the 10 others who were wounded in the airstrike, lived next door to the target and their house was apparently badly damaged by the airstrike.
According to Palestinian human rights groups in Gaza, about 40 children and teenagers under the age of 18 have been killed in the last three months during a military assault, which was sparked by the kidnapping of an Israeli soldier, Gilad Shalit.
He's still being held somewhere in Gaza.
The Israeli military, though, confirms that so far in that three- month period it has killed at least 200 Palestinian gunmen.
Despite that, though, the Palestinian militants continue their attacks on Israel, in the last 24 hours firing two more of those crudely-made rockets from Gaza into southern Israel.
One of those landing in the Israeli border town of Sterat and wounding an Israeli soldier -- Miles.
M. O'BRIEN:
John Vause in Jerusalem, thank you very much.
The verbal war between the White House and the Clintons escalates.
The latest salvo fired by New York Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton in defense of her husband's efforts to go after al Qaeda. Senator Clinton questioned the current administration's response to an intelligence briefing President Bush received about a month before 9/11.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
SEN. HILLARY RODHAM CLINTON (D), NEW YORK:
I'm certain that if my husband and his national security team had been shown a classified report entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack Inside the United States," he would have taken it more seriously than history suggests it was taken by our current president and his national security team.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
M. O'BRIEN:
Senator Clinton's remarks coming just one day after Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice rejected former President Clinton's claims that the Bush White House didn't aggressively go after al Qaeda -- Soledad.
S. O'BRIEN:
Time for a check of the forecast with Chad at the CNN Center.
Good morning again.
Good morning, Soledad.
(WEATHER REPORT)
S. O'BRIEN:
All right, Chad, thank you.
You're welcome.
S. O'BRIEN:
The fur is flying, so to speak, over fat in New York City, the city proposing a doughnut and French fry ban of sorts. We'll explain just ahead.
And out for a little fresh air and out of the woods, Barbaro is on the mend.
We'll tell you the update there.
Plus, Paris Hilton has a date tomorrow, not a social engagement, she's headed to court.
Those stories and much more ahead on AMERICAN MORNING.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
S. O'BRIEN:
Some of the most popular stories right now .
Paris Hilton arraigned tomorrow in a Los Angeles courtroom on drunk driving charge.
Excuse me.
The minimum penalty for a first- time offender is a fine, probation and an alcohol rehab program.
Child porn charges against John Mark Karr could be thrown out.
A California judge is considering the arguments today.
No charges have been filed against him, as you know, in the JonBenet Ramsey case.
And science says Mona Lisa, what was behind that mysterious smile?
Turns out she was a new mother when she sat for da Vinci's master work.
New technology can see through the layers of paint and researchers say there's a thin veil over her dress, the kind that a pregnant woman or one who had just given birth would have worn.
Her hair was covered originally and it wasn't hanging loose the way a certain -- a woman of a certain reputation might wear it.
That's all the information that scientists were able to glean.
M. O'BRIEN:
Interesting.
Well, first it was indoor smoking, now its doughnuts and French fries.
A proposal in New York to ban restaurants from using artificial trans fatty acids, that's the artery clogging substance usually listed on food labels as partially hydrogenated oil.
The proposal won't be considered until December.
A similar ban already proposed in Chicago.
Well what are they going to go after next?
They going to make us wear our galoshes and button up our overcoats, too?
No -- only one glass of wine at night?
Anyway, Carrie Lee is here with business.
This is a tough town to live in.
How would we get to sleep so early if we...
M. O'BRIEN:
A lot of rules -- a lot of rules here.
Let's talk about the Dow.
Wow, what's going on?
Nice gains lately.
The Dow finished yesterday at its second-highest close ever.
And we are now just 53 points away from the all-time high set in January of 2000.
Take a look, gaining nearly 100 points yesterday, in part on a better-than-expected reading on consumer confidence.
That tells us how people are feeling about the economy.
Also there's some thinking that even as the economy slows down a bit, consumer spending is going to hold steady.
That drives two- thirds of the economy and so keeps things going, so Dow looking good. S&P now at a five-and-a-half-year high, and it's looking like a strong start for futures again this morning, so we could see even more gains.
M. O'BRIEN:
All right.
And we've got a Vioxx trial, another one to talk about.
Drug giant Merck, another win here.
This is on the ongoing Vioxx cases.
So, the jury here took just three hours to determine that there wasn't enough evidence to link Vioxx to a Kentucky man's heart attack back in 2003.
So the cases continue.
The latest here, though, a victory.
M. O'BRIEN:
And for those of us keeping score at home, where do we stand on the Vioxx trials?
Five wins, four losses and then one of the wins was overturned and headed to retrial, so about 50/50.
M. O'BRIEN:
When you say wins, wins for Merck?
For Merck.
M. O'BRIEN:
Wins for Merck, right.
M. O'BRIEN:
All right.
What else?
And then finally, "Working Mother" magazine is out with its list of the top places for working mothers to work.
And a couple of names here, IBM and Johnson & Johnson...
S. O'BRIEN:
Anyone we work for?
I looked for Time Warner.
M. O'BRIEN:
Yes, Turner Broadcasting is on the list.
... in the top 10, but I believe it is on the list.
M. O'BRIEN:
Yes, it's on the list, yes.
IBM and Johnson & Johnson the only companies that have been on the list every year since it was started 21 years ago.
The criteria here, looking at flexibility, leave time for new parents, child care, elder care and the number of women occupying top jobs. Other top names here, Abbott Labs, Ernst & Young, JP Morgan Chase and proud to say Time Warner is on the list as well.
M. O'BRIEN:
All right, thank you very much.
M. O'BRIEN:
Carrie Lee.
S. O'BRIEN:
Kentucky Derby winner Barbaro has a little stride to his step these days.
According to his doctor, the colt walks daily, is looking good and feeling good, apparently.
Barbaro, you'll remember, shattered his right hind leg at the Preakness back in May and then suffered from laminitis in his left hind foot back in July. Big problems, but the champion's vet says that Barbaro could have a hoof strong enough to sustain his weight within a year.
That's good news there.
Thanks for monitoring on what's going on with Barbaro.
M. O'BRIEN:
Wow, amazing!
They were giving him the last rites not too long ago.
S. O'BRIEN:
Remember that?
M. O'BRIEN:
S. O'BRIEN:
We were...
M. O'BRIEN:
S. O'BRIEN:
It was very close to seeing very -- just seeming very dire, so that's really good news.
A look at the morning's top stories are straight ahead, including the classified intelligence report that says Iraq is fueling global terrorism, and it's sparked a battle between Democrats and the White House.
We're going to bring you a live report from Washington, D.C. just ahead.
Plus, a toxic cloud that sickens dozens of people in New Jersey.
And a soccer match in Rhode Island.
Look at this.
First there's a shove, hits him with a ball, grabs him by the neck, punches him in the face.
M. O'BRIEN:
Looks like a stock car race.
S. O'BRIEN:
No surprise...
M. O'BRIEN:
S. O'BRIEN:
... that the brawl breaks out.
We'll tell you what happened, what kicked it all off just ahead on AMERICAN MORNING.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK)
S. O'BRIEN:
Happening this morning, President Bush getting ready to meet once again with the presidents of Afghanistan and Pakistan. He's going to host a White House dinner for them tonight. The president's aiming for a verbal truce between the two men. Each is accusing the other of not doing enough to fight al Qaeda and the Taliban.
In San Francisco this afternoon, California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger is scheduled to sign a bill that caps greenhouse gas emissions from refineries and factories and utilities.
The cap is the first of its kind nationwide.
And in just a few hours the leader of the polygamist sect Warren Jeffs is going to be in a Utah courtroom for a hearing.
Jeffs is accused of forcing underage girls to marry older men.
Good morning.
Welcome back, everybody.
I'm Soledad O'Brien.
M. O'BRIEN:
And I'm Miles O'Brien.
Thanks for being with us.
Forty-one days to go before the election and President Bush is questioning the timing of leaked intelligence.
The president has taken the unusual step of declassifying sections of the national intelligence estimate, a secret document that compiles the thinking of 16 U.S. spy agencies.
The report says the war in Iraq is fueling terrorism.
CNN's Brianna Keilar live in Washington with more.
Hello, Brianna.
BRIANNA KEILAR, CNN CORRESPONDENT:
Good morning, Miles.
And the declassification of these key findings are not going to be settling any debates between Republicans and Democrats.
But one thing is for sure, it will certainly give both sides some ammunition.
(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)
SEN. HARRY REID (D-NV), MINORITY LEADER:
We call for all of it, we Democrats.
You can't release it piecemeal.
It's another attempt by this administration to hide the truth from the American people.
KEILAR (voice over):
Democrats unhappy with President Bush's decision to declassify only a portion of a comprehensive intelligence report on the global trends in terrorism.
The president made the unusual move after Democrats backed up their criticism of the Bush administration's Iraq war policy with conclusions from the national intel estimate that were leaked to "The New York Times" and "The Washington Post".
GEORGE W. BUSH, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES:
We'll stop all the speculation, all the politics about somebody saying something about Iraq.
One of the declassified findings, "The Iraq conflict has become the 'cause celebre' for jihadists, breeding deep resentment of U.S. involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement."
But the document also says if jihadists are perceived to have failed, fewer fighters will be inspired to spread terror.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE:
Good afternoon, everybody.
In a series of news conferences, Democrats persisted, accusing President Bush and Republicans of playing politics with national security.
SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), NEW YORK:
They may not have a plan to complete successfully the mission in Iraq, but they do have a plan to win elections here at home.
The stakes are too high to let them take such a low road.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
Of course, that's a criticism that the president and Republicans are lobbing right back at Democrats.
And with midterm elections just around the corner, both sides are trying to convince voters that they are the best party for keeping Americans safe -- Miles.
M. O'BRIEN:
Brianna Keilar in Washington.
Thank you very much -- Soledad.
S. O'BRIEN:
The White House is denying a charge by the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
California Congresswoman Jane Harman is claiming that the Bush administration is keeping another intelligence estimate on Iraq under wraps until after the midterm elections.
Here's what she said.
(BEGIN VIDEO CLIP)
REP. JANE HARMAN (D), INTELLIGENCE COMMITTEE:
I have also learned, and it's been reported, that there may be another national intelligence estimate.
This one specifically on Iraq in our intelligence community.
I have not seen it, although I hear its contents are grim.
I understand it is stamped "draft."
If that is so, it doesn't have to be sent up to Congress.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
S. O'BRIEN:
The president's homeland security adviser says the report in question was just commissioned back in August, still months away from being completed -- Miles.
M. O'BRIEN:
Happening "In America," Dallas, a thief took the bait and police can't seem to land this one.
One of the police department's so-called bait cars designed to attract car thieves, well, it did just that.
It was stolen over the weekend.
It's outfitted with a high-tech tracking device, but for some reason it's not working and cops fishing for the bait are coming up empty handed.
In Rhode Island, looks like some high schoolers there forgot the no-hands rule in soccer.
Or maybe they thought they were playing hockey.
Or was it a stockcar race?
I don't know.
A couple of punches are thrown.
Then people from both sides jump in to break it up.
Of course the parents have to get involved.
School officials are investigating.
The students involved could be suspended for up to five games.
In New Jersey, dozens of people are recovering this morning after being sickened by a toxic gas.
Authorities say workers dismantling a pressurized tank damaged a container in Elizabeth.
They released a cloud of sulfur dioxide into the air.
That's a noxious substance.
A lot of people very nauseous and vomiting as a result.
Between 40 and 50 people had to be decontaminated near the scene of that.
In southern California, flames getting closer to homes in several communities north of L.A.
Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency for Ventura County.
More than 3,500 firefighters have battled the so-called Day Fire since it began way back on Labor Day.
It's still going.
Let's get a check of the forecast.
Chad, I can't -- that fire just won't stop.
CHAD MYERS, CNN METEOROLOGIST:
Well, right.
(WEATHER REPORT)
S. O'BRIEN:
Thank you, Chad.
You're welcome.
S. O'BRIEN:
We'll check back in with you in just a little bit.
All right.
S. O'BRIEN:
Want to share with you some videotape of what could be called a wild goose chase.
Except the goose isn't wild.
Take a look at this.
Here's a guy on a motorcycle.
There's his pet goose.
They travel together.
Motorcycle goes, goose goes.
Forty-three miles an hour is as fast as this goose can go.
M. O'BRIEN:
S. O'BRIEN:
The goose is named Harley.
M. O'BRIEN:
Of course.
S. O'BRIEN:
They hang out together.
And the goose will go on and on like this flying along...
M. O'BRIEN:
That is just too cool.
S. O'BRIEN:
... with his owner on the motorcycle.
M. O'BRIEN:
So he's like walking the goose now, or flying the goose.
S. O'BRIEN:
M. O'BRIEN:
Whatever you do.
S. O'BRIEN:
Pretty funny, huh?
M. O'BRIEN:
S. O'BRIEN:
And then take a look at this.
There's a contest for everything.
Well, this is a pancake stacking contest.
Chefs at the Cooking and Hospitality Institute of Chicago looking for a world record in pancake stacking.
M. O'BRIEN:
Ooh, look at that, how they...
S. O'BRIEN:
It took an hour.
M. O'BRIEN:
... overlapped them ever so slightly there.
S. O'BRIEN:
Also, they were able to use some long toothpicks I guess.
M. O'BRIEN:
That doesn't seem fair.
S. O'BRIEN:
Well, I think they got sort of stuck at 16 inches. So that's not going to qualify.
What is the record?
Anybody know?
M. O'BRIEN:
Oh, yes, I have that one just off the top of my head.
I keep that in my wallet.
S. O'BRIEN:
Come on, Miles.
You know everything about everything.
M. O'BRIEN:
Still to come on the program, Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton striking back.
She's responding to accusations that her husband failed to act on terrorist threats against the U.S.
Get right in the fray there.
Also, Mona Lisa.
What's the deal with that smile anyway?
What is she thinking about?
Well, some science has given us some new answers, we think.
And we'll tell you all about them coming up.
Also, Anna Nicole Smith's lawyer, well, more than just a lawyer, we might say.
You can call him daddy-o, too.
We'll explain ahead on AMERICAN MORNING.
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S. O'BRIEN:
Here's a look now at stories that CNN correspondents around the world are covering today.
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SETH DOANE, CNN CORRESPONDENT:
I'm Seth Doane.
I'm just back from a trip to Nepal, where high up in the mountains we get a rare glimpse at life inside a Maoist village. These are the areas the Maoists claimed as a base of their support during the last 10-year-long rebel-led insurgency.
Now with a cease- fire in effect, some are questioning whether or not the Maoists can hold on to that support without guns in their hands.
We also got the opportunity to meet Prachanda, the rebel chief, and hear more about the Maoist ideology.
According to Refugees International, up to 80 percent of Nepal is under Maoist influence.
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RICHARD ROTH, CNN SR. U.N. CORRESPONDENT:
This is Richard Roth at the United Nations, where today we'll be following the closing of the special General Assembly debate.
One of the featured speakers, Thailand.
That Asian country had a speaker slot last week, but because of the coup, it went to the back of the line of all the other countries.
Also of note, the Vatican is speaking to the General Assembly.
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JOHN VAUSE, CNN CORRESPONDENT:
I'm John Vause in Jerusalem.
Israel's president, Moshe Katsav, is under police investigation after being accused of sexually harassing a woman who once worked for him.
The complaint was made a month ago.
Since then, the president's official residence has been raided.
Investigators seizing computers, documents, and other files.
Mr. Katsav denies any wrongdoing, and this week produced a taped phone conversation where the woman, known only here as "Woman A," allegedly demands $200,000 to keep quiet.
The woman, though, denies that and says the tape was doctored.
The attorney general will decide in the coming weeks if there is enough evidence to lay charges.
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BEN WEDEMAN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT:
And I'm Ben Wedeman on the West Bank, where a new Israeli policy could send hundreds of foreigners packing.
We focus on the case of a Palestinian-American businessman who argues that Israel's decision to stop issuing tourist visas to foreign passport holders like himself could cost thousands of Palestinians their jobs, cripple the economy, and create even more instability in a region that can ill afford it.
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S. O'BRIEN:
For more on these or any of our top stories, you can go right to our Web site .
M. O'BRIEN:
Hillary Clinton is standing by her man.
The senator, former first lady, and likely presidential hopeful, joined the fight over who did what, when to fight al Qaeda.
She defended Bill Clinton's efforts, her husband, to stop al Qaeda and Osama bin Laden while he was president.
Mrs. Clinton also suggested that President Bush and then national security adviser Condoleezza Rice did nothing to stop bin Laden after they received an intelligence report warning of al Qaeda's intentions to strike in the U.S. weeks before the attacks.
Still to come on the program, tests in Pennsylvania for another possible case of E. coli.
Health officials say a person got sick after eating bagged spinach.
We'll tell you about that.
And a new effort by gays to end the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
We'll tell you about that, as well.
Stay with us.
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M. O'BRIEN:
Happening this morning in Pennsylvania, there may be another case of E. coli linked to bagged fresh spinach.
Doctors still running tests, but they say the patient bought a bag of contaminated spinach earlier this month.
Today in Washington, Congress expected to vote on a detainee bill supported by the White House.
It would let the Bush administration put terror suspects on trial starting this fall.
And later today, talks expected in Europe on Iran's nuclear program.
The Iranian state television says Iran's top nuclear envoy will meet with Europe's foreign policy minister.
They'll likely discuss an incentive program for suspending uranium enrichment -- Soledad.
S. O'BRIEN:
It's a new look at a centuries-old masterpiece. Canadian researchers using 3-D laser scans to reveal some of the secrets behind Mona Lisa's 500-year-old smile.
Our Canadian affiliate CTV's Kate Eggins has more.
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KATE EGGINS, REPORTER, CTV (voice over):
She's known for her famous smile and is perhaps one of the best-known faces in history.
Finally, though, some of Mona Lisa's mystery is being revealed.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE:
There's no special mystery like "The Da Vinci Code," no.
You don't have to find any code in it, no.
But we have to understand that in that painting, Leonardo decided or tried to infuse the subtlety and the reality of life.
They've learned Leonardo da Vinci modified the painting. Originally, Mona Lisa wore a bonnet which was later painted over.
She also once wore a transparent veil, a garment reserved for expectant mothers.
From that, art historians have a better sense of when Mona Lisa sat for the famous artist.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE:
The fact that she wears this (INAUDIBLE) proves to us quite certainly that this painting was commanded for this special occasion.
FRANCOIS BLAIS, NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL:
You wouldn't have been able to get the information unless you had a 3-D camera.
Two years ago, French scientists teamed up with the National Research Council to view the painting in a way not possible with the naked eye.
The NRC's 3-D color laser scanner has the highest resolution of any camera worldwide.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE:
Just the face is equivalent to 130 million pixel camera.
The surface of the painting is in very good condition. There's very little lost.
There is relatively little restoration on the surface.
So it is in good shape, despite the fact that it is yellowed and varnished.
Now scientists will turn attention to how the renaissance artist painted.
They'll look at how he layered colors, creating depth.
Those results are expected in the coming months.
Kate Eggins, CTV News.
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S. O'BRIEN:
The woman in the Mona Lisa is believed by art historians to be Lisa Gherardini, the wife of a Florentine merchant named Francesco del Giocondo.
In France, the Mona Lisa is known as La Gioconda.
M. O'BRIEN:
I love when you speak Italian.
Very nice.
S. O'BRIEN:
I mangled my way through.
I tried, though.
M. O'BRIEN:
Well, no, no.
Authorities in the Bahamas say they still don't know what killed Anna Nicole Smith's son Daniel.
But we do know something more about Smith's newborn baby.
Smith's attorney, Howard K. Stern, told CNN's Larry King last night he's the daddy.
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HOWARD K. STERN, ANNA NICOLE SMITH'S ATTORNEY:
Anna and I have been in a relationship and we love each other.
And it's been going on for a very long time.
And because of my relationship as her lawyer, we felt that it was best to keep everything hidden.
And we've actually done a pretty good job of that.
Our baby is the one ray of hope, and it's the one thing that's really keeping her going.
And through it all, even with all the pain, she has been a great mom, a very attentive mom, and she's always by Danni Lynn's (ph) side.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
M. O'BRIEN:
Larry King can be seen every night right here on CNN, 9:00 Eastern Time.
Up next, Andy Serwer, "Minding Your Business."
Hello, Andy.
ANDY SERWER, EDITOR-AT-LARGE, "FORTUNE":
Hello, Miles.
I'm happy to report there's some new amazing revolutions in the Hewlett-Packard case.
Yes, it's true.
The insane numbers of attempts to access phone records, insane.
And also, the destruction of a computer by hammer.
We'll tell you about that coming up next on AMERICAN MORNING.
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S. O'BRIEN:
Welcome back.
A look now at some of the stories we're working on for you this morning.
President Bush declassifies parts of that controversial intelligence report on the war on terror.
Palestinian sources say an Israeli airstrike killed a 13-year-old girl in Gaza today.
A former officer in the Air Force and the Navy takes on the military's "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
A new report shows that the housing bubble has burst.
And that huge wildfire north of Los Angeles is now threatening homes.
Residents are being urged to evacuate.
We're following all those stories and much more this morning -- Miles.
M. O'BRIEN:
In the "I'll Go Anywhere to Sell My Book Department," Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf showed up on Comedy Central's "Daily Show" last night.
He faced the tongue-in-cheek probing of Jon Stewart.
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JON STEWART, "THE DAILY SHOW":
Where's Osama bin Laden?
PRES. PERVEZ MUSHARRAF, PAKISTAN:
I don't know.
Do you know?
Do you know where he is?
You lead on, we'll follow you.
(END VIDEO CLIP)
M. O'BRIEN:
Musharraf is touring the U.S., promoting...
S. O'BRIEN:
That was an odd moment in TV, wasn't it?
M. O'BRIEN:
That was an odd moment.
That's why we share these things -- promoting his memoir.
It's called "In the Line of Fire."
It's drawn headlines for claiming his country was pressured by the Bush administration to support the war on terror following 9/11. The administration is denying the charge that there was a threat to bomb them into the stone age or some such.
HP, what does that stand for, hourly posting?
Hourly posting...
S. O'BRIEN:
As the world turns.
M. O'BRIEN:
As a new posting comes in, this is an all-HP segment.
M. O'BRIEN:
Brace yourselves, folks.
It's good stuff.
Interesting stuff this morning to tell you about yet again.
George Keyworth, the former director of HP, he was a leaker, right?
We all know that.
He resigned.
He was identified as such. But how much did he leak and what really was it all about?
Well, he's fighting back now through his lawyers and friends, saying it was really just innocuous information.
Also reminding us that he was a top official at Los Alamos and was privy to all manner of classified information there.
And anything he told the press was really just stuff that was a matter of public record.
Now, in "The New York Times" this morning, they have gotten a hold of a letter from Verizon to Keyworth which details the pretexting that took place against Keyworth and his account.
And private detectives went nuts, incessant, relentless, trying to access Keyworth's cell phone records for a whole year.
They called up, seemingly every day, posing as him, his wife, his daughter.
Trying to get records of his daughter's phones.
Text messaging.
Trying to get on the Internet.
Warnings were added to the file of Keyworth's account, saying that their voices don't match, the people on the voicemail.
There's stuff going on.
S. O'BRIEN:
So they weren't even good at it.
They weren't very good at it.
M. O'BRIEN:
So Verizon was suspicious of this?
Verizon was suspicious.
You know, you could say, well, why didn't they alert the authorities?
S. O'BRIEN:
Why didn't they just call him?
M. O'BRIEN:
S. O'BRIEN:
Or call him.
Apparently, they never did.
And we'll get some more good stuff out of that.
And then finally, "The Wall Street Journal" has the best nugget, I think, of the day.
And that is, one of the gentlemen who was apparently spying on Keyworth and other HP directors, a gentleman named Brian Wagner Denver (ph), 29 years old, heard that he was being fingered in this probe and decided that he would take action.
He knew he had records apparently on his personal computer that might implicate him in this case.
So what did he do?
He destroyed the computer with a hammer.
This in "The Wall Street Journal."
And you've got to wonder, how much hammering would you have to do before the -- before the computer was just dust?
M. O'BRIEN:
I mean, you would have to hammer the hard drive. Hammer.
S. O'BRIEN:
Hammer through your hard drive.
You hammer right away.
Apparently, it's just gone, he said.
Not erased the hard drive, a person familiar with the story said, destroyed it.
Destroyed it with a hammer.
S. O'BRIEN:
I'm not sure it's an admission of guilt, but it's certainly an admission of something.
I just decided to do that rather than take it to a landfill or turn it in.
It's something I just do with old computers, just hammer them.
S. O'BRIEN:
Hammer it.
M. O'BRIEN:
It's kind of like a de-text (ph) instead of -- I guess that's it, no more text there.
S. O'BRIEN:
All right, Andy.
Thank you.
S. O'BRIEN:
Time for a check of the forecast with Chad at the CNN Center.
Hey, Chad.
Good morning, Soledad.
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The next hour of AMERICAN MORNING starts right now.
S. O'BRIEN:
Thank you, Chad.
President Bush declassifies a key intelligence report.
Democrats not satisfied, though.
Today the political fallout.
M. O'BRIEN:
Hillary Clinton standing by her man, jumping into the debate over who's tougher on terrorists.
S. O'BRIEN:
A new challenge to the "Don't Ask, Don't Tell" policy.
As the Iraq war puts more pressure on the military, gays are questioning that controversial policy.
M. O'BRIEN:
Home prices down for the first time in a decade. Foreclosures and bankruptcies ahead on this AMERICAN MORNING.
S. O'BRIEN:
Welcome back, everybody.
I'm Soledad O'Brien.
M. O'BRIEN:
And I'm Miles O'Brien.
Thanks for being with us.
Parts of that controversial report on global terrorism now declassified, but the turmoil over its findings showing no signs of letting up.
CNN's Elaine Quijano joining us from the White House with more.
Good morning, Elaine.
ELAINE QUIJANO, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT:
Good morning to you, Miles.
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