President's Second Term Begins Today
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR, AMERICAN MORNING: There's your opening bell on Wall Street on a Friday morning, kicking things off down there; 10,471, off 68 points in trading from yesterday. A lot of that coming on some pretty tough news from Delta Air Lines and the losses they incurred in the last quarter of 2004. Nasdaq MarketSite, 2,045, off 27 points in trading yesterday. So we'll see which way we go today. Good morning, everybody. It's 9:30 here in New York. Good to have you along with us today. The Eastern half of the U.S. about to get socked by another big winter storm. Snow and ice already making roads dangerous in the Mid- Atlantic states, especially in North Carolina, tough going there. As much as a foot or more could hit in parts. Chad has the forecast as best as he can tell, 36 hours out. Back with Chad on that.</s>SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR, AMERICAN MORNING: Also this morning our series "What's In It For Me?" continues. Today Kelly Wallace looks at proposed changes in immigration laws. Eight million people could get documents to work legally, but there are powerful forces at work against them. We'll take a look at both sides of that issue, just ahead. Heidi Collins back with us also, with the headlines. Good morning.</s>HEIDI COLLINS, CNN NEWS ANCHOR, AMERICAN MORNING: Good morning, once again, guys. Good morning to you, everybody. "Now in the News" this morning: U.S. troops are beginning to trickle out of some tsunami-hit areas. About 15,000 American troops expected to pull out from Southern Asia within 60 days. Indonesia has said it wants international soldiers to leave the Aceh Province by the end of March. Some aid groups say U.S. forces are playing a key role in the effort. The confirmation of secretary of State nominee Condoleezza Rice is on hold until next week. The Senate has set nine hours aside on Tuesday for additional debate. A full Senate vote is expected on Wednesday. Northern Texas, now, the search underway this morning for a 19- year-old Wal-Mart cashiers whose apparent abduction was caught on tape. Surveillance video from a Wal-Mart parking lot shows the young woman chased down and pushed into her vehicle. Megan Leeann Holden was last seen leaving work on Wednesday night. A $10,000 reward has been posted for anyone with information in the case. Police in Philadelphia are looking into a complaint against comedian Bill Cosby. The woman described as an acquaintance of the entertainer claims he touched her inappropriately one year ago. Cosby's attorney says no criminal complaint has been filed and called the allegation, quote, "utterly preposterous and plainly bizarre". Cosby has canceled some upcoming public appearances citing personal reasons. Back over to you guys.</s>HEMMER: All right, Heidi. Thanks. It is snowing again this morning in parts of North Carolina. Even a little bit of snow and ice can paralyze that state. On Wednesday, an inch of snow came down in Raleigh-Durham. Roads became ice rinks instantly. Traffic was gridlocked. Forget about kids being allowed to stay home from school, instead the snow forced nearly 3,000 students to sleep over at their schools. I bet they loved that -- not. Here's Chad Myers watching the forecast. Give us the timeline, Chad. What do you expect at this point?</s>O'BRIEN: Today, the president's second term begins in earnest. We continue our series "What's In It For Me?" This morning we're focusing on immigration. Kelly Wallace is with us with more. Good morning.</s>KELLY WALLACE, CNN CORRESPONDENT, AMERICAN MORNING: Good morning, Soledad. What we tried to do here, focus on one person, one family, to find out what they expect President Bush to do over the next four years. Today we focus on a man who came to the U.S. Illegally, but now is a legal resident working with immigrants. And we asked what's in it for him when it comes to the president's second term agenda. In Hampstead, Long island, Carlos Canales is always on the move. The community organizer spends his days trying to help migrant workers like these men who are waiting for construction work; many are here illegally.</s>CARLOS CANALES, WORKPLACE PROJECT: They are not delinquent. They come here because they want to support their families. They want to make a living. They want to take food to the table. Canales was once in their shoes. He fled El Salvador's civil war in 1986. Now he's a legal resident in the U.S. working towards citizenship. His hopes for the new Bush administration ...</s>CANALES: Give the immigrant the same opportunity that was given to all of those that came before us, to the United States.</s>WALLACE: President Bush has promised to try and grant temporary worker status to some of the 8 million undocumented immigrants in the U.S., but Canales says that doesn't go far enough.</s>CANALES: You come here, as a slave, to work with no other right, but just the right to -- just to work, like an animal.</s>WALLACE: He knows some Americans instead want a crackdown on illegal immigration. In fact, one of the first measures Congress will take up, one Republican lawmaker's push to ban states from providing driver's licenses to illegal immigrants.</s>REP. JAMES SENENBRENNER (R) WISCONSIN: American citizens have the right to know who is in their country.</s>WALLACE: As well as a right to prevent their tax dollars from going to illegal immigrants, says this California radio host.</s>KEN CHAMPEAU, RADIO HOST: California has a cost of about $5 billion a year for illegal immigration. That's education, health care and all the other services that are used. People are tired of that.</s>WALLACE: But Canales says any crackdown on immigration won't keep people from coming to the United States illegally.</s>CANALES: We don't here we want to violate your laws here. We're coming where we need to come. It is a matter of necessity.</s>WALLACE: He says he's not too hopeful about the future, saying he doubts the president, who promised immigration reform during the campaign, will deliver.</s>CANALES: I don't see the logic. I mean, in politics, everything is business. He didn't do it before he was in election, why does he have to do it now?</s>WALLACE: But the president in a series of interviews before his inauguration says he will push for this, Soledad. But as you know, to get this passed and other priorities, he must even overcome opposition within his own party.</s>O'BRIEN: So, then if you had to lay a wager, obviously the man you focused on not sounding very optimistic. What do you think?</s>WALLACE: Well, it just seems that Republican leaders, you had Sensenbrenner there, you had House Majority Leader Tom Delay, others, who feel that the momentum is on their side. That they do not want to see what President Bush is proposing. They think it will reward illegal immigrants coming to the United States. So the momentum they think is on their side. Again, the president, as he's talked about, he doesn't have a lot of time. He has a number of priorities that have a lot of opposition from Republicans. Seems like Social Security reform might be the one that he'll put that political capital on.</s>O'BRIEN: Wasn't mentioned in the speech last night, was it?</s>WALLACE: I guess State of the Union?</s>O'BRIEN: Kelly, thank you very much.</s>WALLACE: Sure.</s>O'BRIEN: Bill, back to you.</s>HEMMER: How does the real CIA stack up with the Hollywood spy games? Former Agent Lindsay Moran is out with a new book called, "Blowing My Cover: My Life As A CIA Spy". Did her life look anything like the TV show "Alias"? She'll tell us Monday on AMERICAN MORNING. In a moment, one of the country's biggest companies apologizing for its role in a dark chapter of American history. Andy has that. And Donald Trump made some changes for the new season "The Apprentice". Will they fly with viewers? "90 Second Pop" has a shot at that, right after this.