Woman Killed in Dog Attack
HARRIS: In news about your security now. Miami police are launching a new program aimed at thwarting potential terrorists. A program dubbed Miami Shield will include random high-profile security operations. Plain clothes and uniformed police will ride buses and trains and conduct public awareness campaigns in buildings. Appearing on CNN's AMERICAN MORNING, Miami Police Chief John Timoney denied a report that police will be demanding that people to show IDs.</s>CHIEF JOHN TIMONEY, MIAMI POLICE: Nowhere in America, whether it's terrorism or ordinary crime, without probable cause can you demand identification. That's not part of the program whatsoever.</s>HARRIS: Timoney says there's no specific credible threat of an imminent terror attack in Miami, but he says the city has been mentioned in intelligence reports as a potential target. Be sure to stay tuned to CNN day and night for the most reliable news about your security. And remember, you can catch AMERICAN MORNING with Miles and Soledad O'Brien at its new time 6:00 a.m. Eastern every week day here on CNN. Here's what's on the docket today in our look at legal briefs. This is day two of sentencing for Joseph Smith in Florida. Live pictures right now from Sarasota. Smith was convicted of raping and murdering 11-year-old Carlie Brucia. Relatives of Smith and Carlie testified yesterday. Jurors will decide whether to recommend life in prison or the death penalty. A federal hearing is scheduled this hour in Virginia in the so- called cell phone bank robberies. Candice Martinez is accused of robbing four Washington area bank while chatting on a cell phone. Her boyfriend is accused of driving the getaway car. And jury selection begins today in Houston in the first federal trial over the painkiller Vioxx. The case involves a man who died a month after he began taking Vioxx for back pain. Vioxx was pulled after a study showed it increased heart attack and stroke risk if taken for 18 months or more. A 76-year-old woman brutally attacked and killed in the front yard of her rural Texas home. A good Samaritan was also viciously assaulted. Authorities caught the attackers, but apparently the case will be dropped without charges filed. The reason? There are no laws in Texas that apply to dog maulings. CNN's Ed Lavandera has our report.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Get out of here. They're right here by the truck. Watch out for 'em. They're over here.</s>ED LAVANDERA, CNN CORRESPONDENT, (voice over): The voice you hear is Weldon Smith's wife calling 911 as he fights off six dogs biting into his leg. You can hear on the call that it takes a gun to put an end to the attack.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Right here . . . get him.</s>LAVANDERA: Smith and his wife had stopped along this quiet central Texas road when they saw the body of 76-year-old Lillian Stiles covered in blood. Her clothes ripped to shred. Authorities say the pack of dogs, a mixed breed, part pit bull part rotweiler, had just mauled her to death. When Smith got out of his car, the dogs came after him.</s>WELDON SMITH, DOG ATTACK SURVIVOR: Like a pack of wolves. You know, like coordinating on a kill. That's what they were doing. They were coordinating on a kill. And I just felt extremely lucky to get out from that with my life.</s>LAVANDERA: Then Stiles husband came out with a gun and killed one of the dogs. Now he's traumatized by the brutal way his wife of 55 years was killed.</s>JACK STILES, WIFE KILLED IN DOG ATTACK: Had she not been in my yard, I would have not even recognized her.</s>LAVANDERA: Weldon Smith is lucky to be alive. These are the wounds the dogs inflicted. The painful scars. Six bites on his right leg. Investigators say the dog owner is cooperating, but at this point it's doubtful criminal charges will be filed. If the dogs weren't properly vaccinated, investigators say they could charge a misdemeanor crime for that, but that's equal to a traffic ticket. That's one reason Weldon Smith is angry.</s>SMITH: It's so unnecessary. To me, having a pit bull around is worse than having a loaded gun laying around because you've got to pick that gun up and make it go off. That pit bull can go off at any time.</s>LAVANDERA: All the dogs have now been euthanized, little consolation to Lillian Stiles' husband who can only imagine the horror of his wife's final moments. Ed Lavandera, CNN, Milam County, Texas.</s>HARRIS: Wow. Fans try to disrupt sporting events all the time for no legitimate reason. But this guys says his excuse was a valid one. The permanent mark he planned to leave on this field. That story coming up. Also, a young father, a model for teenage parents, shot and killed. Last night, friends, family and his young daughter said a tearful good-bye. And you've probably seen this video by now. 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