279 Killed in Turkey Earthquake
COSTELLO: It is 30 minutes past the hour. Good morning to you. It's time for top stories: Texas Governor Rick Perry is looking to reenergize his presidential campaign with a bold economic plan that includes a flat tax. Perry outlined the plan in "The Wall Street Journal" and will officially announce it at an event this morning later in South Carolina.</s>CHO: President Obama is tired of waiting for Congress to act, so he's rolling out changes to the government's mortgage relief program himself. Under the new rules, homeowners who are up to date with mortgage payments will qualify for new loans at today's new low rates, no matter how far the value of their homes have fallen.</s>COSTELLO: Five days after he was killed in his hometown of Sirte, Moammar Gadhafi has finally been buried. An official with Libya's National Transitional Council telling CNN the deposed dictator was laid to rest at dawn at an undisclosed location.</s>ANNOUNCER: This is CNN breaking news.</s>CHO: And back to this morning's breaking news out of eastern Turkey. A two-week-old baby incredibly has been found alive in the earthquake rubble. Diana Magnay is here with the latest. She's live from Turkey this morning. Diana, what do you know about this? It is just remarkable.</s>DIANA MAGNAY, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Hi, Alina. It is. Some very, very dramatic scenes that have been taking place here at the site behind me in the town of Ercis this morning. I'm going to step out of the way and we'll zoom in so you can get a closer look. The baby, 14 days old, was pulled out of the rubble here alive. And bear in mind -- the earthquake took place on Sunday. It is now Tuesday morning. The baby is fine. It's a little girl. She's on her way to the hospital for check, but her relatives said she looked as though she was doing fine. Now, they're working frantically to take out her mother and her grandmother, both of whom are still in the rubble. I just spoke to a health worker who's coming out, one of the rescue workers and he was thrilled. He came up and said, they're both there, they're healthy, in broken English, wanting to tell us that they were healthy and alive and saying to us that they should be out with the next few minutes. Very, very exciting scene here this morning, Alina.</s>CHO: Oh, my goodness, Diana, that is unbelievable. So, are they able to -- do you know if rescuers are able to actually see them? How do they know they're OK? They've just had verbal contact?</s>MAGNAY: I think they've managed to get quite close to them. I mean, the guy who came up and talked to me -- his English wasn't really good enough for a full interview. But he seemed pretty convince that they were healthy and he said they'd been working on trying to free them for the last two hours, and that it was going to happen really very soon. So they must have gotten close enough to be really in a position where they can get them out fairly shortly. I talked to one of the rescue workers who sort of overseeing various sites here, and he said, bear in mind, the search and rescue operation, it's going to go on for a good, long time, because you can take people out of the rubble still alive on 17 to 20 days after an earthquake such as this. So, even though moments like this are remarkable, because of lives saved, we can hope this kind of story will continue over the next few days, Alina.</s>CHO: Let's certainly hope so. Diana Magnay, thank you so much for that update from live Turkey. And too find out how you can help those devastated by the earthquake in Turkey, visit our "Impact Your World" page. You can find it at CNN.com/Impact. Attorneys for Dr. Conrad Murray now making their case at the Michael Jackson death trial. Among the first defense witnesses was one of Jackson's longtime doctors. He told the jury that Jackson was looking for someone to give him Propofol so he could sleep.</s>DR. ALLAN METZGER, TREATED MICHAEL JACKSON: He asked me about intravenous sleep medicine.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Did he happen to mention the name of this medicine?</s>METZGER: I think he used the word juice.</s>COSTELLO: The defense is trying to establish that Jackson was shopping for Propofol in the months before he died. The case could go to the jury by the end of the week.</s>CHO: Also new this morning, Michele Bachmann's camp is trying to downplay claims that her senior staff is downright mean. Yesterday, her entire New Hampshire senior staff, which resigned last week, released a letter, accusing the congresswoman's national campaign of being rude, unprofessional, dishonest, and at times cruel. Her spokeswoman telling our John King it's unfortunate they want to call names.</s>COSTELLO: You can now add author to the first lady's resume. Michelle Obama writing a book about nutritional and edible gardening. It's called "American Grown: How the White House Kitchen Garden Inspires Families, Schools, and Communities." The book will be released in April. The first lady accepting no advance for the book. She'll be donating all proceeds to charity.</s>CHO: Writing a book and sent her first Twitter message last week. Amazing.</s>COSTELLO: That was kind of pathetic, though. She had to learn how. But she knows, which is good.</s>CHO: So did I, not too long ago.</s>COSTELLO: Coming up next on</s>AMERICAN MORNING: President Obama rolling out new rules to help struggling homeowners refinance their mortgages. But will his plan really help the housing market and boost your home's value?