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(Studio: Carol Lin) Tonight’s Democratic debate in Milwaukee, Wisconsin; another shooting linked to the Ohio highway sniper, and Dale Earnhardt, Jr.’s win in the Daytona 500 auto race reported; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Carol Lin) Report introduced.
(San Francisco: Miguel Marquez) The throngs of gay couples flocking to San Francisco, where a judge may rule on Tuesday to stop the issuance of marriage licenses, featured; scenes shown of same-sex couples lined up outside City Hall. [Gay COUPLE – comments on making history.] [Gay MAN, WOMAN – offer views.] [USC law professor Erwin CHEMERINSKY†- comments on the potential constitutional challenges.] [Gay couple Eric OLIVER, James PARKER – comment on the possibility of their marriage being nullified.] The impact of the marriage rush on heterosexual couples trying to get married mentioned.
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(Studio: Carol Lin) Tonight’s Democratic debate in Milwaukee in advance of Tuesday’s Wisconsin primary noted.
(Milwaukee, Wisconsin: Kelly Wallace) The debate reviewed; scenes shown. [Senator John EDWARDS – attacks Senator John Kerry.] [After the debate, Howard DEAN – says we are not dropping out of the race after Wisconsin.] [KERRY – comments on the controversy over President Bush’s military service.] [Representative Dennis KUCINICH††, Rev. Al SHARPTON – comment on whether the president lied {about the Iraq war.}]
(Studio: Carol Lin; no location given: William Schneider) The significance of the Wisconsin primary as the last big hope for Dean & Edwards and the damage to Bush’s credibility discussed.
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(Studio: Carol Lin) The arrest by Iraqi police of Muhammad Zimam Abdul-Razzaq††, who is on the US military’s most-wanted list, and an attack on the police station in Fallujah, Iraq, noted. [US administrator in Iraq Paul BREMER – comments on Iraqi security forces.]
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(Studio: Carol Lin) The political turmoil in Haiti as the uprising against President Jean-Bertrand Aristide continues featured; scenes shown of street fighting; details given about Haiti’s political & economic problems. [Gonaives Resistance Front Buterr METAYER† {thru translator} – says we will march to the capital.] [ARISTIDE – comments on the numerous coups d’etat Haiti has undergone.] Live telephone interview with journalist Amy Bracken† about the current situation in Port-au-Prince. [BRACKEN – describes what’s happening currently; comments on the opposition to Aristide and potential US intervention.]
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(Studio: Carol Lin) Dale Earnhardt, Jr.’s victory in the Daytona 500 NASCAR race noted; scenes shown.
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(Studio: Carol Lin) Report introduced.
(Daytona Beach, Florida: Suzanne Malveaux) President Bush’s campaign trip to Florida featured; scenes shown of Bush starting the Daytona 500 auto race; details given about the significant voting bloc comprised of “NASCAR dads”; excerpt shown from an ad attacking Democratic candidate Senator John Kerry. [BUSH – comments on having flown fighters while he was in the {National} Guard.] [Race FANS – describe NASCAR dads.] [Rothenberg Political Report Stuart ROTHENBERG†- comments on the importance of the job loss issue for NASCAR dads.] [Kerry campaign strategist Mark MEHLMAN†- comments on the Bush campaign’s use of negative ads.] [Republican STRATEGIST – accuses the Kerry campaign of hypocrisy.]
(Studio: Carol Lin) Live interview held with targeted political marketer Hal Malchow† about how political campaigns target voters; examples shown of targeted ads. [MALCHOW – estimates how much information a political campaign might have on an individual voter; says the information is used to help campaigns answer basic questions; comments on data used to target Hispanic voters in the Arizona gubernatorial race; talks about how direct marketing can determine close elections.]
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(Studio: Carol Lin) A scholarship, meant to protest Affirmative Action, offered to whites only by the College Republicans at Rhode Island’s Roger Williams University noted.
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(Studio: Carol Lin) The continuing lines of gay couples waiting for marriage licenses in San Francisco; the high stakes for Howard Dean in the upcoming Democratic primary in Wisconsin, and the statement from Iraq’s Foreign Minister that the new Iraqi government will ask the US to turn former President Saddam Hussein over for trial noted.
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(Studio: Carol Lin) Live discussion held with criminal defense attorney Jayne Weintraub† and former federal prosecutor Wendy Murphy† about the Martha Stewart insider trading case and the Jayson Williams manslaughter case. [WEINTRAUB, MURPHY – talk about Stewart’s ad proclaiming her innocence; speculate on possible strategies in the Williams case.]
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(Studio: Carol Lin) Report introduced.
(No location given: Paula Zahn) The story of forensic artist Lois Gibson†, a rape victim whose sketches of crime suspects based on witness accounts have led to hundreds of arrests, presented. [GIBSON – comments on her rape ordeal; talks about how she came into her profession; says her attack gives her an edge.] [Police OFFICER, crime victim Pam MINX‡- comment on Gibson’s empathy with witnesses & victims.]
(Studio: Carol Lin) The naming of Gibson by the Guinness Book of World Records as the world’s most successful forensic artist noted.
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(Studio: Carol Lin) Report introduced.
(London: Richard Quest) Last night’s British Academy Film Awards {BAFTAs} reviewed; scenes shown of celebrities; film excerpts shown.
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(Studio: Carol Lin) Audiotapes played of callers’ opinions on how much military service matters in the presidential election.
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