Arrests Made in Sean Taylor Shooting
NGUYEN: Good morning, everybody. From the CNN center in Atlanta on this Saturday, hope you're having a great one. I'm Betty Nguyen.</s>HOLMES: And I'm T.J. Holmes. So glad you could be here. We are jam-packed with a bunch of major developing stories this morning. Up first here, the hostage crisis at Hillary Clinton's New Hampshire campaign office. You may have missed this one overnight. This was a developing story. Senator Clinton did talk about it late last night. We'll have the developments.</s>NGUYEN: Yeah, that drama is putting a spotlight on a major problem in this country and that is mental illness and the lack of affordable treatment options. We've got a reality check for you this hour.</s>HOLMES: Also our other major story this morning, four arrests in the killing of NFL superstar Sean Taylor. The suspects are in jail and have a video court appearance coming up in about an hour. We will take you there live on this</s>CNN SATURDAY MORNING. NGUYEN: But first up, Senator Hillary Clinton says she is relieved and grateful, this after a hostage drama at her presidential campaign office in New Hampshire ends peacefully.</s>HOLMES: And she spoke late last night after this thing ended. This morning the suspect behind bars. We want to go to Rochester now live to CNN's Jim Acosta who's on the story for us. Hello again to you, Jim.</s>ACOSTA: Good morning, T.J. You know, the Clinton campaign says it is doubtful that the candidate will be making an appearance at this office here in Rochester today, because they say they don't want to appear that they are politicizing what happened here yesterday. So, in the meantime, for these campaign staffers who went through this terrible ordeal yesterday, they will be getting back to what they should be doing. That is politics.</s>ACOSTA (voice-over): Wearing a fake bomb that was nothing more than road flares duct taped to his chest, Leeland Eisenberg surrendered to police, ending a tense hostage crisis that brought the race for the White House to a standstill. For more than five hours, Eisenberg, a 46-year-old with a history of mental illness, was holed up inside this Hillary Clinton campaign office in Rochester, New Hampshire, threatening to blow up a handful of staffers, a child and himself. At one point during the crisis, Eisenberg called CNN, complaining that he had been unable to seek treatment for his mental illness and added that he had gone to that campaign office to speak with the candidate directly. But police say involving the presidential hopeful was not an option.</s>CHIEF DAVID DUBOIS, ROCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE POLICE: We decided not to introduce anyone from the campaign or the senator's office into the negotiation process.</s>ACOSTA: Eventually the hostages were released. The fake bomb was destroyed by police. And late in the evening, Senator Clinton flew to New Hampshire for a brief visit with the then released hostages and their families.</s>SEN. HILLARY CLINTON (D), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: We're immensely relieved that this has ended peacefully. To see the people who were directly held hostage and their families and to thank the New Hampshire professionals who made this day turn out as well as it did.</s>ACOSTA: Over at Eisenberg's mobile home community a few miles away, neighbors say they saw early warning signs of trouble ranging from alcohol abuse to loud arguments at the suspect's home.</s>GEORGE ISAACSON, NEIGHBOR: He would walk over to the filling station right up the street every day and always get either a 12-pack or something like that. This is every day.</s>ERIC CARLSON, NEIGHBOR: They hauled him away for domestic violence, yes. I don't know what happened. I was coming in from work and they were hauling him in the cruiser.</s>ACOSTA: On Eisenberg's front door, a note from his family saying they have no comment for now.</s>ACOSTA: And as for Leeland Eisenberg, he is in jail this morning. And as for this Clinton campaign office behind me, after everything that they went through yesterday, the doors are locked, the lights are off. It is very likely that much of this campaign staff today will be taking a much-needed breather. T.J.?</s>HOLMES: We know politics is hot and heavy right now. But, yeah, this is one reason, one day they can probably all use a break and deserve one. Jim Acosta for us there in Rochester, New Hampshire, we appreciate you. And of course, this hostage crisis highlighting the issue of mental health. How common are mental disorders and where can you find help? Our Josh Levs has some answers for us in the dot com desk coming your way in about 10 minutes.</s>NGUYEN: Four men are due in court in Lee County, Florida, in about an hour. They're facing murder charges in the death of Washington Redskins star Sean Taylor. Twenty-year-old Venjahk Hunte, 17-year-old Eric Rivera Jr., 17-year-old Jason Scott Mitchell, and 18- year-old Charles Wardlow were arrested in connection with the killing in Miami. Our John Zarrella is in Ft. Myers covering this morning's proceedings and he joins us live. What are we expecting to see in court today, John?</s>ZARRELLA: Well, Betty, probably not a whole heck of a lot. The four young men spent the night in the Lee County jail and they will make their first appearance in about an hour from a video hook-up between the jail and the justice center here, the Lee County justice center, with a judge in the justice center, all four of them making that first appearance. Then we expect at some point they will be transferred to Miami to face the likely murder charges, all four of them. They were picked up yesterday in the Ft. Myers area. They spent much of the day being questioned at the Florida department of law enforcement offices and ultimately one, perhaps more of them, confessed to the murder of Sean Taylor.</s>ZARRELLA (voice-over): Totally distraught, shocked, the mother of Jason Mitchell arrived to face the unthinkable -- her son is being charged along with three others in the murder of Washington Redskins football star Sean Taylor. Miami-Dade police say the four young men ranging in age from 17 to 20 came from Ft. Myers, Florida, across to Miami to burglarize the player's home.</s>ROBERT PARKER, MIAMI-DADE POLICE DIRECTOR: They were certainly not looking to go there and kill anyone. They were expecting a residence that was not occupied. So, murder or shooting someone was not their initial motive.</s>ZARRELLA: During a Friday night news conference, police said the suspects had previously visited the house but would not elaborate on the connection. Outside the headquarters of the Florida department of law enforcement in Ft. Myers, where the four had been questioned all day, reporters got glimpses of them in handcuffs and even watched as a court stenographer followed one of the suspects into the interview room.</s>PARKER: I'm just going to tell you that we have confessions within this investigation. I'm not going to tell you which ones confessed and which ones did not. We have more than one confession. I'll put it at that.</s>ZARRELLA: Police say they are looking into the possibility that at least one of them knew someone in Taylor's family. All four of the suspects are no strangers to the law with charges ranging from drug possession and sales to grand theft auto. Taylor was murdered in the early morning hours last Monday when he reportedly confronted his assailants at the door to his bedroom. He was shot once in the leg and died the next day from massive bleeding. The grandmother of suspect Jason Mitchell says she saw him the day of the shooting. You saw him Monday here, though, right?</s>MILLIE HENDRICKS, MITCHELL'S GRANDMOTHER: I saw him home Monday.</s>ZARRELLA: But you don't know about Sunday.</s>HENDRICKS: No, I do not. I don't know nothing about no Sunday. I saw him Monday.</s>ZARRELLA: Taylor's memorial service will be held on Monday in Miami, Taylor's hometown. The entire Washington Redskins football team, along with several thousand mourners, are expected to attend.</s>ZARRELLA: Now, these first appearances are generally very brief with the judge letting the defendants know what they face. Now, police would not say exactly what led them to the four individuals, tips they said, but would not elaborate on how the arrests went down. Betty?</s>NGUYEN: And as we get into this case, John, we learned a little bit earlier from one of the defendants' attorneys who said essentially, yeah, they went to the house but they weren't intent on killing anybody. Is that what you're hearing on your end?</s>ZARRELLA: That's exactly right. That's what police believe, that they went there to burglarize the house. They did not know that Sean Taylor was going to be there. Remember that Taylor -- the Redskins didn't even know he was going to be there. He had come to Miami to seek a second opinion on his injured knee. He hadn't even played in Redskins games for a couple of weeks, so that's why he was down in Miami. He apparently went there within a couple of days before he was shot and killed. Betty?</s>NGUYEN: He may have just surprised them as they were burglarizing the home.</s>ZARRELLA: Yes.</s>NGUYEN: You're going to be in the courtroom at 9:00 a.m. sharp when that hearing gets under way. I know we'll be talking with you shortly after that. Thanks, John. Talk to you soon.</s>HOLMES: Of course an important day today, world AIDS day 2007 and a huge concert just getting under way in Johannesburg, South Africa. This hour, it's the fifth year for this annual concert.</s>NGUYEN: It is huge, as you said, T.J.. Let me just give you a lineup here, Peter Gabriel, Annie Lennox, the GooGoo Dolls, Ludacris. Those are just some of the artists expected to perform today. You want to keep it right here because we will be talking with some of those performers throughout the morning.</s>HOLMES: The face of AIDS has changed dramatically from the image most people had just a few years ago. We asked Dr. Anthony Fauci, one of the leading U.S. experts on AIDS for his opinion on this. Take a listen.</s>DR. ANTHONY FAUCI, NATL INSTITUTES OF HEALTH: The face of AIDS in the U.S. today is the young African-American woman who was infected by a partner who she did not know that that partner was infected and had no reason to believe or even means to protect herself. The face of AIDS is the young African-American man who's bisexual and because of the stigma associated with being gay superimposed upon the stigma associated with being infected, the person does not counsel nor appreciate what one needs to do to decrease or eliminate the risk of HIV. So, it really has been transformed over the years to a situation where you have 12 percent of the population in the United States is African-American and among new infections, among men close to 50 percent of the infections are in African-American men and among women, over 60 percent of the new infections are among African-American women.</s>NGUYEN: That is staggering, over 60 percent of the new infections.</s>HOLMES: Scary, scary words there. That's the reality from Dr. Fauci. And that entire interview you can find at cnn.com, but the numbers are staggering. They are disturbing and certainly for the African-American community, there's been some scary stuff. We talk about this AIDS quilt. I'm going to be going out. 10:00 we'll be live at the location where they actually keep it here in Atlanta, Georgia. But 47,000 of those panels as you see there, they represent some 91,000 names, people who are memorialized by this quilt. Would you believe 91,000 people that have died of AIDS here memorialized in this quilt, only a few hundred are black on this quilt, so memorialized on this quilt.</s>NGUYEN: Really and when you look at the numbers, I mean it just doesn't add up.</s>HOLMES: It doesn't add up. But we are going to get in that too with the executive director, the person who manages the quilt project, the names project, as it's called, the AIDS memorial quilt, more commonly known as but the quilt itself is fascinating, an amazing thing. We were talking about it earlier, we can't believe how huge it is, that you can't get it together in one place anymore.</s>NGUYEN: When you hear numbers about AIDS and how it's spread worldwide and how many millions are affected and you see 47,000, it doesn't really register until you actually physically see this quilt. It is so big that they can't put it in one place.</s>HOLMES: May not be able to do it ever again. It was done in 1996 the last time at the national mall in DC, but it may never happen again.</s>NGUYEN: You'll be there at 10:00 a.m.</s>HOLMES: We'll be there starting at 10:00, yes.</s>NGUYEN: We'll be looking forward to that. In the meantime, let's get a check of the weather for you with Reynolds Wolf. He's in the severe weather center. What are you watching today?</s>NGUYEN: What a day in store for us. Thank you, Reynolds. Listen to this, folks. Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez has more harsh words for the United States.</s>HOLMES: He's also got some more harsh words for President Bush. He's even got some harsh words for Betty.</s>NGUYEN: Well, not me in particular.</s>HOLMES: For CNN, all of us really here at CNN. We'll tell you what he's saying this time around. What is Josh Levs saying this time around? Good morning, Josh.</s>LEVS: Looking forward to that. After the events yesterday at Clinton campaign offices in New Hampshire, we today are taking a look at how common mental disorders are in America. That's coming up right here on CNN SATURDAY MORNING.