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Aired June 04, 2011 - 16:00 ET
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RICHELLE CAREY, CNN ANCHOR: An E. coli infection linked to certain produced has killed at least 18 people in Europe. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says cucumbers, tomatoes and lettuce imported from Germany and Spain will be tested before they're sold here, still here are some tip from an expert on food safety on how to protect your family from E. coli.
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DR. DAVID ACHESON, LEAVITT PARTNERS (ON THE PHONE): Well, it comes from three main places for a consumer, number one, it's often present on meat, raw beef, particularly. So make sure you cook those hamburgers properly, especially as we're heading into the summer season. The second risk is on fresh fruits and vegetables, make sure you wash them. If they come already washed, you're fine. If they've not been wash, wash them or if you can peel them, peel them. And the third area of risk is milk. And make sure the milk you drink is pasteurized and not raw.
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CAREY: Four Americans have gotten sick but that was after coming back from Europe. There were no known cases of E. coli food contamination in the United States.
NATO officials now confirmed that they used precision strike helicopters against targets in Libya overnight. These are NATO Apache attack helicopters leaving a French assault ship. Alliance officers say they targeted a Libyan radar installation and a military check point. This video was released by the British military. Up to now, NATO had only struck targets in Libya from fixed wing aircrafts.
Gunfire sends demonstrators scattering in western Syria. This in Hama, Syria that is north of Damascus. Witnesses said military forces and police fired randomly into this massive crowd of anti-government protestors yesterday. A human rights group estimates 80 people were killed. They had to rely on eye witnesses and Youtube videos because CNN is not allowed to report from inside Syria.
Testimony in the trial of Casey Anthony sounds a lot like the TV show "CSI" today. Experts are discussing microscopic evidence found on the trunk of her car. Evidence, they believe, is linked to the death of her two-year-old daughter, Caylee.
Sean Lavin is outside the courthouse in Orlando, Florida. You know, Sean, this is how prosecutors make cases nowadays especially when there is not an eyewitness to the crime. This scientific evidence is cutting edge and it matters.
SEAN LAVIN, CNN CORRESPONDENT: That's right. They're relying heavily on this forensic evidence. They're breaking the mold, so to speak. They're bringing in new things that haven't been done before. The first thing they brought out today after court got in session just about 9:00 a.m. was an expert witness from the FBI. Her name was Karen Lowe. She went on the stand and explained why a hair found in Casey Anthony's trunk is what she believes to be a hair from a dead or decomposing body such as Caylee Anthony. The reason for that is because she found a marking on the hair that she has only found during decomposition stages. Take a listen to what she has to say on the stand earlier today.
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KAREN LOWE, FBI FORENSIC EXAMINER: The hair in (INAUDIBLE) swabs was microscopically dissimilar to the head hair sample (INAUDIBLE) coming from Casey Anthony. The head hairs in Q12 exhibited similarities to a hair found in a hairbrush which was identified as belonging to Caylee Anthony.
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LAVIN: Now Jose Baez is Casey Anthony's lead attorney did not want this testimony in court today. He objected to it, but the judge allowed it anyway. While all this is going on, Caylee Anthony's grandparents, George and Anthony's parents are sitting there in the courthouse, reliving these details. I just got off the phone with their attorney, Mark Litman and he told me that this is really tough for them obviously, but they're there because they want the truth, and they will stay there until they find it out, anchor.
CAREY: And they actually had to ask the court, Sean, for permission to attend the trial because they're on the witness list. Generally speaking, they're not allowed in there but the judge clearly said that was fine.
LAVIN: That's right, the judge made an exception in the case and you can make a motion to ask for that when needed. In this case, the judge thought it was appropriate because he sees them as victims, too. They lost their granddaughter and they want the truth.
CAREY: A heartbreaking testimony so far. Sean Lavin reporting live from Orlando. Sean, thank you very much.
Let's get to Arizona now. More than 1,000 firefighters are battling wildfires. 250,000 acres have burned across the state forcing thousands of people to have to leave their homes. Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is taking a look at the damage. She is expected to hold a news conference shortly. Smoke and ash from these fire can be seen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. That's about 200 miles away.
And if you checked your calendar, you know that the Atlantic hurricane season is here. Jacqui Jeras is in the weather center checking out a little bit of activity that is already worth paying attention to.
JACQUI JERAS, AMS METEOROLOGIST: Right on time. How about that? We're watching this (INAUDIBLE) of disturbed weather. It's in the western Caribbean. Right now, it's just basically a cluster of showers and thundershowers but it's been bringing some torrential downpours to parts of Haiti and to Puerto Rico over into Jamaica as well. We think it's going to be very slow to organize and it's going to be very slow to move. So that's the bad news that some of these areas could get some flooding as a result of this. The longer that it sits over the warmer water, eventually it is going to likely develop into something.
Right now, the National Hurricane Center puts a 30 percent chance or a medium probability of it developing into our first tropical depression, possibly our next tropical storm as well. NOAA also released their past week their forecast for the season, expecting it to be above average. Expecting 12 to 18 named storms. Six to eight of those becoming hurricanes. And three to six of them becoming major hurricanes. They also say the likelihood of seeing more U.S. landfalls is greater than what we experienced last year.
Here is the list of the names. Everybody likes to look and see if their name is there. Arlene is number one, and I see Richelle turning her head. (INAUDIBLE) not you. No Jacqui either. Never been on that list.
A quick note on the wildfires, still very dry conditions here along with gusty winds. That smoke is moving from Arizona into parts of New Mexico. So air quality is bad. They're even smelling this hundreds of miles away in Albuquerque and into the Santa Fe area. The heat is on. We'll see more of it tomorrow across the mid south and the deep south. Heat indices between 100 to 105. So that's really getting dangerous, guys.
And our last weather headline has to do with the flooding that's been going on the Missouri River. And we got a great I-report here from South Sioux City, south Nebraska actually. Our i-reporter here Jim Hedley (ph) sent these photos. He's the managing editor of the "Dakota City County Star" there. He said residents have about two weeks to evacuate and get out before the big release of water which is expected to flood parts of that city. So you can see those folks there with sand bags and trying to get ready as the water heads their way. Anchor.
CAREY: This is when communities come together for each other, don't they.
JERAS: They do.
CAREY: All right. Jacqui, thank you.
A political fallout after that terrible jobs report. We'll look at how the disappointing numbers are affecting the race for the White House.
(COMMERCIAL BREAK) CAREY: Job numbers out this week have a lot of people worried that the economy could go into recession again. There's a chart. A little blue nub at the end of the rope, that's job growth for me. 54,000 new jobs, that's it. Way down from the month before and way, way down from a year ago. Let's bring in Alison Kosik.
Alison, these numbers are, they're not good. There's a lot of political ammunition you can get out of these numbers as well.
ALISON KOSIK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: There definitely is. There's plenty for politicians to talk about because, Richelle, the numbers this week on jobs were bad news for the economy, and if you're an individual investor, they were bad for you as well. You know what? If things don't improve, it could wind up costing President Obama his own job.
Now things in the economy have slowly been looking up for the president, but May's numbers really show an anemic job growth. And the unemployment rate is moving in the wrong direction. Now we are still a long ways off from the election, but yesterday, it was no coincidence that the president held an event right in front of autoworkers. He touted some of the positives in the economy but he also made it clear. He knows the economy is still in bad shape.
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BARACK OBAMA, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: We still face some tough times. We still face some challenges. You know, this economy took a big hit. You know, it's just like if you had a bad illness, if you got hit by a truck, you know, it's going to take a while for you to mend. And that's what's happened to our economy. It's taking a while to mend.
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KOSIK: And the big question is going to be how much patience will the American people have? And you know what it's really going to depend on how much better or worse things are by the time the election rolls around. But for Republicans with hopes to get into the White House, the report is giving them an opportunity to criticize the president.
Take a look at this. You know, our e-mail box quickly filled up with some criticism from some of the candidates, the Republican candidates. Governor Tim Pawlenty said "Today's under whelming jobs numbers report demonstrates President Obama's failure to address the tough challenges we face as a nation." From Governor Mitt Romney - "President Obama's policies made the recession worse." And from businessman Herman Cain, "We have yet to see the positive results from the billions of taxpayer dollars that were spent on the stimulus."
Now, of course, those candidates they're hoping the criticism gets them much-need attention until they wind up putting their own economic plans forward. But you know, it's amazing, Richelle, this one report that comes out every month, the jobs report, is really going to have a huge impact on the election because jobs is what is really going to help power this recovery forward. And who could forget it was a bad economy, Richelle, that helped President Obama surge past Senator John McCain in the last election cycle. Richelle.
CAREY: It absolutely was. And now it's going to be interesting to see if it's actually his undoing now. Alison, thank you very much.
KOSIK: Sure.
CAREY: Is innovation the seed that can get the economy moving? Fareed Zakaria thinks so. He'll host a CNN special tomorrow night focusing on innovation. Among other things, he'll look at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, the Pentagon agency better known as DARPA and here is a preview.
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FAREED ZAKARIA, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): The high stakes of providing sound technology for soldiers in combat motivates the DARPA team to create the best technology in the world.
REGINA DUGAN, DEFENSE ADVANCED RESEARCH PROJECTS AGENCY: They simply must work in all numbers of austere situations. Life and death, and that kind of urgency, it focuses the mind and inspires greater genius.
ZAKARIA: Most famously, DARPA funded the first version of the internet then called ARPANET. In 1969, computer hubs called nodes were able to send messages to each other over a phone line.
DUGAN: That original investment was about $150 million. And that gave birth to the internet now, about $300 billion later.
ZAKARIA: These days DARPA is working on a slew of exciting innovations including big dog, a groundbreaking project in robotics. The idea is to create a robot with animal-like capacities and strength that can go with soldiers on combat missions in rough terrain.
DUGAN: When you watch the big dog video what you'll see is that it really looks like a dog, moving. And it has all sorts of other attributes that make it resilient in difficult environment.
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CAREY: Wow, that's unbelievable, that video there. That is just part of tomorrow night's "Fareed Zakaria: GPS" special, "Restoring the American Dream, How to Innovate," airs at 8:00 p.m. Eastern here on CNN.
The origin of the X-Men, go back to the beginning in the latest installment.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Fire!
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We're the better men. This is the time to prove it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: There are thousands of men on those ships. They're just following orders.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I have been at the mercy of men just following orders. Never again.
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CAREY: Wow. Once friends, now enemies, mutants battle each other in mankind "X-Men First Class." Our critic weighs in in just a couple of minutes.
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CAREY: Humans with super human abilities. We know them as mutants from the X-Men series. The latest film in the franchise takes us back to the beginning for a look at how Professor X and Magneto became archenemies. Movie critic Grae Drake joins us from Los Angeles for today's reviews.
Hi, Grae, good to talk to you.
GRAE DRAKE, MOVIE CRITIC: Hey, Richelle.
CAREY: OK. First, we'll set it up to get people up to speed. We'll play a clip and then we'll talk about this, all right?
DRAKE: All right. I'm ready.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know when I do this, bad things can happen.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I supposed you can control it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It controls you. It's why we're here, Alex. That's why we're training.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: This is like any other muscle in the body. You can control it. Try higher frequency, much higher.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're right, Alex. I want you to hit the x and try not to hit me. There's a good champ.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You're serious?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm very serious. I have complete and utter faith in you.
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CAREY: OK, great. In the interest of full disclosure, I haven't seen any of the X-Men movies so watching this clip, it looks pretty good. What do you think?
DRAKE: OK. You're in luck because if "X-Men: First Class" had its own mutant ability, it would be not sucking like the last two that the franchise did. CAREY: Really?
DRAKE: This movie is a really fun summer popcorn flick. They really did a great job. So all of the movie nerd and comic book fans out there can exhale finally. We did have to sit through an uncomfortable first 15 minutes of the movie with James McAvoy doing a weird Austin Powers impersonation. He uses the phrase "groovy mutations" twice and luckily we get to focus a little bit more on Michael () who plays Magneto. Now he was last seen in "Jane Eyre" this year where his super power in that movie was locked in crazy ladies' closets.
But anyway.
CAREY: Oh, no.
DRAKE: So "X-Men: First Class" was set in the '60s and it serves as kind of a prequel to the movies that started coming out in 2000. And so like you mentioned, we get to see mutants as kind of becoming friends. There's a lot of fedoras and go, go boots and a lot of guys wandering around, just pretending that they can't shoot laser beam boomerangs out of their chest. Very fun.
CAREY: OK. So what is your grade?
DRAKE: I give this movie a solid A because finally we get a chance to explain all that historical archival footage of submarines being lifted out of the ground, out of the water at the Cuban missile crisis. But I'm not a history professor. I have no idea.
CAREY: All right. I love that.
All right. For our next movie now, Grae, this is out in limited release. It's called "Beginners," it's a movie about a 75-year-old man, who after the death of his wife, decides to tell his son I'm dying, too, and I'm also gay. Let's take a look.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oliver.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I'm not sorry I woke you. I went to a bar tonight.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You did?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, they had some wonderfully loud music. What kind of music is that?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Probably house music.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: House music? OK. House music.
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CAREY: That's a great clip, Grae. I love that, and the cast is fantastic. Ewan McGregor and Christopher Plummer. What do you think?
DRAKE: Well, this movie is basically what it would be like if Christopher Plumber in his famous role as Captain Von Trapp from the "Sound of Music" married Maria, she died and then he admitted that he was really in love with Max Detweiler. But a lot more funny than the previews make it look. Now that clip is a much better gauge of just how compassionate and cute this movie is. It's all about relationships.
So Oliver, played by Ewan McGregor, his son, is falling in love with a new girl, and he's comparing that up against, you know, his father finding a boyfriend named Andy. And even Ewan McGregor's relationship with the dog, Arthur, is treated really just in a funny way with. It's a good movie with a lot of compassion for people who are dead set on being who they are regardless of the cost.
CAREY: So what's the grade?
DRAKE: I definitely gave this movie an A. It was a really good watch.
CAREY: Two As?
DRAKE: I would say, yes, AA. It's not a great bra size, good week for movies to see.
CAREY: And two completely different movies. OK. So if you don't want to go out, (INAUDIBLE) a couple of DVDs that are out. The first one is called "Drive Angry." The description blows me away. A vengeful father escapes from hell and chases after the men who killed his daughter and kidnapped his granddaughter. That's a feel good movie.
DRAKE: It is such a feel good film. It's a winner of 2011. Hands down. But this movie is about - so Nicolas Cage has escaped from hell. That's really all you need to know. It's fast cars, lots of guns, Amber Herd being a total butt-kicking babe in this movie and Nicolas Cage's hair frequently waving in the breeze as he drinks beer out of human skull, like sign me up, super fun rental. Absolutely rent this movie.
CAREY: And I got short and I think we have time really quickly for "The Company Men" about a guy who loses his corporate job, goes to work for his brother-in-law, and kind of redefines himself. Real quick, what do you think?
DRAKE: Yes, I will say watch it. It is very serious. It is not beer drinking out of a human skull, but an interesting movie to watch in this economy actually with a lot of interesting performers. Ben Affleck, who just keeps getting better which is actually a good thing. I don't think he started out on the highest note but the "Company Men" was interesting.
CAREY: OK. Grae Drake, great to talk to you. Thank you.
DRAKE: Yes. Thanks a lot, Richelle. CAREY: All right. CNN producers, anchors, reporters also have bags packed, always and has an inside (INAUDIBLE) from some of the best restaurants, hotel and travel spots all around the world. And this week's travel insider, CNN political team tells us some of their favorite places to eat while on the campaign trail.
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SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT (on camera): Oh, my god, barbecue. Anywhere in the south really the barbecue is so good that even when you go to like gas stations, they have good barbecue.
WOLF BLITZER, "THE SITUATION ROOM": I go out of my way every other year or so when I'm in New Orleans, there's these beignets. It's really very sweet, tasty desserts at a place called "Cafe Dumont (ph)."
O'BRIEN: The airport where usually the food is awful has good barbecue.
MARY MATALIN, CNN POLITICAL CONTRIBUTOR: (INAUDIBLE) They make best in Des Moines, which is a kind of crumpled up hamburger on a soft bun. I have tried for 30 years to make it at home. I can't make it there, and I would travel the earth to find it, but I have only found it in Des Moines, Iowa.
John KING, ANCHOR, "JOHN KING USA": I do always make the point when I'm in Arkansas of going to "Doe's." It's a meat place. It's a slab place. It's not fancy, but boy is it good.
CANDY CROWLEY, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL CORRESPONDENT: (INAUDIBLE) there's a place that is called the Crown Candy Kitchen which has the best malts in the world. And I'm a vanilla girl (INAUDIBLE).
O'BRIEN: They have really good barbecue in St. Louis, excellent barbecue in Houston, very good barbecue in Nashville just the other day.
BLITZER: I could live without all that barbecue.
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CAREY: Is Wolf serious? Who could live without barbecue, especially the barbecue in Houston that Soledad was talking about. That was fun.
Well, conservative Christians and the presidential hopefuls who court them come together this weekend in Washington.
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CAREY: Top stories. Start in Wildwood, New Jersey, where an 11-year- old girl fell 100 feet to her death from a ferris wheel. She was on a class trip when she plunged from one of the tallest ferris wheels on the east coast. This is the first time someone has fallen from the ride since it opened in 1985. Another heartbreaking story, a hotel security guard suspected of killing a 16-year-old American student in Costa Rica faces homicide charges now. Investigators say the teenager left his room after curfew and the guard apparently thought he was a robber and shot him in the chest. He was a student from Kansas. This was a nine-day trip with his Spanish Club from high school.
Jurors in the Casey Anthony murder trial are getting an education in Forensic Science. She is the Florida mother accused of killing her 2- year-old daughter Caylee back in 2008. Today's testimony is focused on microscopic evidence, mainly a hair found in the trunk of Casey Anthony's car.
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JEFF ASHTON, PROSECUTOR (voice-over): In this case, did you eliminate the defendant, the victim's mother, as a possible source of the hair with the decomp root?
KAREN KORNSBERG LOWE, FBI LABORATORY EVIDENCE TECHNICIAN: that hair was microscopically dissimilar to the known head hair sample identified as coming from Casey Anthony's, so it was not consistent with the genetics from Casey Anthony.
ASHTON: But it could be from any maternal relative who had nine-inch long light brown to brown hair?
LOWE: If there's another relative whose hair has the same microscopic characteristic, then I might not be able to distinguish them.
ASHTON: Well, I mean, if - if there's a maternal relative who has blond hair, could that person be excluded just by - by seeing them?
LOWE: Potentially, yes.
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CAREY: The defense claims that Caylee - 2-year-old Caylee drowned in the family pool.
Former vice presidential nominee and presidential candidate John Edwards says he did not break the law. Yesterday, he pleaded not guilty to charges of conspiracy and campaign law violations. Prosecutors said that Edwards broke the law when he accepted $900,000 to hide an affair with a campaign worker.
A gathering of Christian Conservatives in Washington this weekend is big draw for almost every Republican presidential candidate that they include former U.S. senator Rick Santorum, who's expected to formally announce his candidacy on Monday.
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RICK SANTORUM (R), FORMER U.S. SENATOR: I have always been for pro- life. I'd always been for traditional marriage, but I'd always been like a lot of folks. A lot of folks that weren't here last year that came this year, who come and make the pledge, vow to social conservatives that they'll check the boxes. They'll be for the things that social conservatives care about. Ladies and gentlemen, I just don't take the pledge, I take the bullets.
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CAREY: It's a two-day event. It wraps up tonight with a keynote speech from GOP presidential candidate Herman Cain.
And for the latest political news, you know where to go, CNNPolitics.com.
Voters in Peru go to the polls tomorrow. It's the second round of the country's presidential elections. Take a look at the candidates. The daughter of a now jailed former president, Keiko Fujimori, is an unlikely politician, like her father. A Peruvian descended from Japanese immigrants. She's 36 years old, educated in the United States and married to a man from New Jersey.
Ollanta Humala ran for president five years ago. Analysts say he failed because of his friendship with Venezuela's president Hugo Chavez.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE: He's a former army officer who was linked to a 2005 military uprising and accused of being an extreme leftist. She's the daughter of a former president who's serving a 25-year sentence for human rights violations.
Forty-eight-year-old Ollanta Humala lost the 2006 presidential election in Peru mainly because he was depicted as a close ally of Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez. That's a point his rival, 36-year- old Keiko Fujimori, a Right-wing lawmaker has frequently used against them.
KEIKO FUJIMORI, PERU PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE (through translator): There are recordings and witnesses that prove that this gentleman is a good soldier of Chavez.
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CAREY: Keiko Fujimori's father was president of Peru for 10 years. He's in prison on corruption charges.
The diagnosis of cancer was once considered basically a death sentence, but survival rate is on the increase. Cancer is no longer the number one cause of death in America. Take a look at the list on your screen. We're going to tell you which one of the diseases listed below has the highest mortality rate. Then we'll take a look at the new strategies and treatments helping cancer patients live longer.
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CAREY: And welcome back. Before the break, we listed some of the leading causes of death in America and asked which one has the highest mortality rate. Well, according to the latest figures in the Centers for Disease Control, heart disease is number one, killing just over 616,000 people a year. Cancer is second with a little under 563,000 deaths.
And a revolution is actually taking place in the war on cancer. In healthy living news, the exciting evolution of new strategy and better weapons.
Dr. Bill Lloyd joins us from Chicago. Dr. Lloyd is there attending the annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, the world's largest meeting of cancer treatment specialists, so all this information is hot off the presses. Dr. Lloyd, we certainly appreciate it. Thanks for joining us.
DR. BILL LLOYD, HEALTHY LIVING EXPERT: Oh, it's a wonderful time to be here in Chicago, at the ASCO meeting, Richelle, because that revolution is under way.
You know, without painting too rosy a picture, it is cancer, after all, but since 1970, there has been a four-fold jump in the number of cancer survivors in just four decades which is an enormous growth. And then if you look at the 10-year survival for different cancers, they're now equal to what used to be five-year survivals. So people are not only living longer, they're enjoying better lives even though they have cancer and, Richelle, patients now have more options than ever before.
CAREY: Dr. Lloyd, tell us what some of the weapons are on the war on cancer that are helping us make these improvements by leaps and bounds.
LLOYD: Let me tell you about five powerful weapons that weren't here just a few years ago. And the first one is the Internet. It's allowed researchers to collaborate and work together like ever before. And for patients, they can use the Internet as well. I recommend ClinicalTrials.gov to find out about the latest research in fighting cancer.
Also, in the past, we used to go after the entire organ that had the cancer. It involves a lot of surgery and damage to a lot of healthy tissue. Now we use critical targets. We go after specific cancer cells and spare the rest of the healthy body. The discovery of biomarkers, these are small strips of protein. They're like a license plate. They help us target specific areas where we want to treat the cancer, and, again, sparing the healthy tissue. We call this individualized medicine.
And then selective radiation. Instead of, again, burning an entire lung and damaging other nearby tissues, technology now allows us to target the specific area that will benefit from that radiation therapy. And then finally, there's a variety of biologic tools that are available to boost the body defenses, even vaccines made from the patient's own tumor cells. CAREY: I want to go back to something you just said, though. So there's a new strategy you say d o not involve always directly attacking and killing the tumor. Talk about some of the diseases that have benefited from that particular advance.
LLOYD: Sure, sure. What we're saying before, of course, you've got a diagnosis of cancer, you're going to have mutilating surgery, lots of radiation, and then we're going to poison you with chemotherapy and the outcomes weren't good.
Now, with these select, individualized therapies, many cancers are experiencing remissions, recoveries and even cures like never before. We talk about diseases like cancers of the liver, leukemia and non- Hodgkin's lymphoma at the top of the list. And many, many thousands of Americans are diagnosed with this condition every year, these three important cancers.
Now, you talk about diseases like cancer of the pancreas, of the esophagus, well, these diseases need more work, but even in those areas, they're finding ways to extend survival and improve the quality of life.
CAREY: And talking about improving the quality of life, tell us right now some of the things that we can do to keep cancer at bay that would really make a difference.
LLOYD: Here are five easy steps that anyone can take to reduce their risks of getting cancer and help them survive cancer if they develop it.
The first one is no tobacco. Don't ever smoke, and if you smoke, stop. And stay away from the second-hand smoke.
Everyone should get down to their normal weight. Individuals that have a high BMI and high body fat are at a much greater risk of developing cancer.
Know about the important screening tests that you should take. Ask your doctor. These include self exam tests as well, to include the testicles and breasts.
Think about the antioxidant diet. That means a diet loaded with vegetables that have plenty of bright colors. Red and green peppers, et cetera, the brighter the color, the more antioxidants that are in those food product.
And then finally, know your own risks for developing cancer, specifically your family history. Because if there's a trend for specific types of cancer, you can be tested and you can be screened more regularly, tested more often and earlier in life to find those tumors and treat them effectively.
CAREY: Dr. Lloyd, that's great advice and all those things are doable and not optional, quite frankly, not optional.
LLOYD: You can take management of your own health care and guide yourself to a healthy future.
CAREY: Thank you, Dr. Bill Lloyd. Appreciate it very much.
LLOYD: We'll talk again soon.
CAREY: Yes, we will.
An ancient mystery is solved under the ground in St. Augustine, Florida. We're going to show you the discovery. Just hang on a couple of minutes. Don't go anywhere.
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CAREY: So it took detective work and maybe a little luck, but archeologists in St. Augustine, Florida have uncovered the remains of a church that date back - that dates back rather to the Spanish Colonial Era.
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AYESHA FAINES, AFFILIATE REPORTER, WJXT (voice-over): Archeologists from the University of Florida solved a mystery 300 years old.
PROF. KATHLEEN DEAGAN, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: And it's a real detective story when all the pieces come together.
FAINES: They found the Church of Nombre de Dios and la Leche. It was built in 1677 and written about glowingly in many old documents, including letters to the King of Spain.
FAINES (on camera): This tape measure marks the parameters of the actual church. Archeologists believe it was about 90 by 40 feet, which means it was likely the largest church in the Spanish colonies at its time.
DEAGAN: The governor bragged that was the finest church in the provinces.
FAINES (voice-over): It was also the first stone building in the State of Florida. But in 1738, the Spanish governor blew up the church at the start of the British invasion. Our cameras were rolling as archeologists unearthed history. Parts of the original foundation, bits of artwork (ph) from the walls and artifacts like this white clay pipe.
PROF. GIFFORD WATERS, UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA: It probably dates to sometime in the 1700s.
FAINES: The dig drew the attention of tourists.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: I think it's fantastic.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Just to be at a place where everything first started.
(END VIDEOTAPE) CAREY: Ayesha Faines, a CNN affiliate WJXT reports that after the dig is complete, artifacts from the church will go on public display, so they'll get to see it, too.
China makes history in France. Li Na won today's French Open Final over Francesca Schiavone. She became the first Chinese tennis player, man or woman, to win a grand slam singles title. Congratulations to her.
Lawyers for the NFL and the players return to court yesterday, making their cases for and against the legality of the three-month-old lockout, but today there is no sign that any agreement might be near to salvage the football season. I need football. And Appeals Court has ruled twice in favor of the league owners allowing the lockout to remain in place during the appeal.
President Obama touts the auto industry recovery as a success of the bailout. The political ticker is ahead.
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CAREY: So they're calling it pure gold - sweet potatoes.
Our Tom Foreman tells us how this simple and delicious food is helping "Builds Up America."
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TOM FOREMAN, CNN CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): It's like watching a magic trick. A tractor rolls over the bare dirt, cutting furloughs, a planter drags behind and there they are - the green shoots of sweet potatoes. There is no more wonderful sight for Jerome Vick.
JEROME VICK, SWEET POTATO FARMER: Sweet potatoes on our farm make approximately 50 percent of the farm income on this farm.
FOREMAN: And right now they are pure gold for many in this state.
SUE LANGDON, NORTH CAROLINA SWEET POTATO COMMISSION: Right here in this field is the capital. North Carolina is the capital of sweet potatoes. Bar none.
FOREMAN: The North Carolina Sweet Potato Commission says this year about 400 farmers will plant 60,000 acres of sweet potatoes worth about $182 million to the state economy. That's a record.
LANGDON: We've grown almost half of the sweet potatoes that are produced in the United States.
FOREMAN: They're selling all over the world. Sweet potatoes producers are cashing in on the healthy eating craze by aggressively advertising that this Native American plant can help with everything from digestion, to joint pains or heart disease. That's pushing demand for sweet potato fries, chips and pies.
LANGDON: Currently, about 20 percent of the sweet potatoes produced in North Carolina are being exported, and that - that looks to rise to even more.
FOREMAN: How much more? Hard to say, but this year Vick expects to grow enough on his farm to meet the sweet potato needs of four million people.
VICK: You might as well say that we got four million people eating at our dinner table, which is perfectly all right with me.
FOREMAN: And next year, they hope to be breaking records, again.
Tom Foreman, CNN.
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CAREY: Welcome back.
Career diplomat Lawrence Eagleburger has died. He serves a brief stint as acting Secretary of State under President George H. W. Bush in the early '90s. President Obama says Eagleburger played a pivotal role during the fall of the Berlin Wall and also the end of the Cold War. Lawrence Eagleburger was 80 years old.
Time for "CNN Equals Politics." And for an update on that, we're keeping an eye on all of the latest headlines at CNNPolitics.com desk. Here's what is crossing right now.
U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates today warned about potential clashes in the South China Seas. Gates' statement comes amid tensions as China stakes claims on sovereignty the area and other nations dispute those claims. Vice President Biden stopped by a Naval Base in Naples, Italy today to thank U.S. troops stationed there. Biden and his wife are in Italy to mark the country's 150th anniversary as a republic.
And President Obama talks about the turnaround of the U.S. auto industry during his weekly media address. The talk was recorded yesterday during a visit to a Chrysler plant in Toledo, Ohio.
And for the latest political news, you know where to go, CNNPolitics.com.
NEWSROOM continues next hour with my friend, Don Lemon.
DON LEMON, CNN ANCHOR: How are you?
CAREY: What's going on?
LEMON: So it's the first time we got to work together -
CAREY: Yes.
LEMON: -- and it's very short in this little thing. Hey, come on, producers, can we co-anchor together or do something (INAUDIBLE)?
CAREY: Please. I never get to see him anymore because he's all busy and famous and smart.
LEMON: Oh, stop it. We'll talk after this, get this out of the way.
CAREY: OK.
LEMON: Let's talk some business and then - and then we'll have a little fun.
But, you know, can you believe it's been 30 years since the first reported case -
CAREY: Thirty years.
LEMON: -- of HIV today? And you know what we're doing to - not really commemorate it but to mark this.
CAREY: Yes.
LEMON: What we're doing is having the AIDS quilt in the studio. It has traveled the world, and we're going to have part of it.
CAREY: How powerful is that?
LEMON: And see - look, how beautiful it is. And, I mean, we talk about this AIDS memorial quilt, and I'll talk to Stephanie Laster, Richelle. She's HIV positive, both her mother and her son died from HIV/AIDS complications. She's going to bring some of the panels that she made in honor of them. So it's going to be an emotional - an emotional talk.
There is Dr. Sanjay Gupta, who's been covering the 30th anniversary extensively -
CAREY: Excellent.
LEMON: -- for the medical unit. So also, I want you to take a look at this. Have you seen this video? Look. Called "Man down." As you can see, a man gets shot there. Begins with pop star shooting a man in the head and ends with viewers learning the man had raped her. It's all dramatization, of course, Richelle.
CAREY: However -
LEMON: But it is drawing a lot of fire and has the Parent Television Council up in arms about this. So -
CAREY: And we have talked to - I've touched on this story a couple of times this week. You're going to get a huge response. Viewers are weighing in.
LEMON: Yes.
CAREY: Some are saying it's just art. Let Rihanna say what she wants to say. Others are saying it's more than just art in this case because of what she has lived through.
LEMON: Yes.
CAREY: But the view. So it's going to be a good discussion.
LEMON: Good. I'm glad you warned me, and I'm excited to have that discussion. That's coming up.
And then, we're going to take a closer look at this. I know you guys have been covering it extensively. What is the fascination, the Casey Anthony trial?
CAREY: The Casey Anthony trial?
LEMON: Look at this people. Why are they running to secure seats? It's like it's a sporting event or a concert. Why are people so riveted, Richelle, by this very high-profile trial and high profile trials in general? We're going to discuss that in our earlier hours, tonight. And at 10:00 Eastern, I'm going to be talking with a former FBI profiler who actually worked on the Casey Anthony case -
CAREY: OK.
LEMON: -- and now that he's not with the agency he can talk about it.
CAREY: He can talk about it.
LEMON: And make sure you join us at 10:00 P.M. for the Casey Anthony trial. It's a special report.
CAREY: Looking forward to it, my friend. All right.
LEMON: Good seeing you.
CAREY: From falling fruit to the charging brides. Another early tradition - the running of the brides. Don, isn't this fun? This is Filene's Basement. Of course, hundreds of brides to be strategize and then line up outside the store yesterday morning. And as soon as the doors open, they charge, looking for the perfect wedding dress for a bargain price. That's the only reason do we get up that early.
LEMON: Speaking of a mob scene, those women running for the trial and these women running for -
CAREY: And then they're running for those dresses.
LEMON: Yes. But those dresses are expensive, so I understand why they're running.
CAREY: Isn't that the truth? All right. All right.
Thanks for joining me here in the NEWSROOM. I've had a great time. I'm Richelle Carey, sitting in for the Fredricka Whitfield, and my friend, Don Lemon, is next.
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