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Countdown’s Top Five

1. The second miracle for Captain Al Haynes. People whose lives he saved during that are now paying him back, , so his daughter
   can afford a bone marrow transplant.
2. A 76-year-old producer says the 74-year-old Clark because of his age.

1. Accuser talks to
2. Alistair Cooke
3. The scourge of Japan, Godzilla,

• John Kerry has a virtual lock on the .

• How do you keep the campaign fresh for eight months? How do you keep your puss in front of the cameras? Some speculation tonight that Kerry may pop up internationally.
• The departure of
• George Bush

• The .

1. The IRS has just ruled that taxpayers who are diagnosed as obese can

• A mother who in a fire six years ago may be reunited with that daughter as soon as tomorrow, after a New Jersey court hearing starting at 4:00 p.m.

• Five American icons in court

Today’s Top Newsmakers

1. A woman in New Britain, Connecticut, who is OK after she drove her car into a stream at a city park. She explains she was re-enacting something she`d seen in the Mel Gibson movie "The Passion of the Christ."
2. Louis Kadlecek of Angleton, Texas, celebrated his 21st birthday by going drinking for four days. Louis had never been in an airplane before, so he broke into a hangar .
3. The residents of the Spring Haven Retirement Community Center in Florida, three of them go to a hospital with minor injuries after at their salad bar.
4. Anonymous owner of a trailer in DeKalb County Alabama goes away on business for a few months, comes home to find out that and set up a methamphetamine lab.
5. Mouthwash, specifically , it has been proven in kill E. Coli and salmonella in chickens. It`s a mouthwash and a chicken vaccine.
   

Let's Play Oddball!

Tonight it's "strange animals caught on grainy black and white video."

1. Slidell High School in Slidell, Louisiana. 1,200 bats live in harmony with nature and man alike in the rafters .
2. A real , roaming the lot down at Grover`s Auto in Zumbrota.
3. Lisa, the iguana is four feet long. is to be considered armed and probably very, very strange.

Keeping Tabs

1. Janet is going .
2. You`d think somebody would notice when a 6-foot-tall, 700-pound statue would disappear from Disney World. But, apparently, the park was able to of Mickey Mouse without too much fuss.
3. And from wardrobe malfunctions to major malfunctions. It`s brother Mike and the latest .