Countdown’s Top Five
- Michael Jackson`s movie suggestion, featuring driven by a small boy.
- The top car star of all time, according to a poll of car enthusiasts, the 1969 Dodge Charger, playing
- We put it to the vote. America has spoken. "" is voted the favorite new William Hung hit, this by viewers.
- Three, women in control.
- Martha Stewart steps down as head of her company, but maintains an
- And a trend of working mothers leaving their careers to spend
- A reminder that even
- Nine people, eight of them children, killed in the in Fresno's history.
- An update on the Utah woman who doctors say refused a C-section in order to save her unborn twins. Today, Melissa Rowland pleaded not guilty to murder. The
- Top Four cults in California:
- The of the Madrid terror attack, Bush`s strong ally of office, and his replacement now promising to of Iraq within just a couple of months.
- Elsewhere in the war on terror, an apparent terrorist
Five numbers that shape this day
- Fourteen million, the number of Americans who use mass transit trains and busses on a daily basis.
- $515 million, the amount proposed by Senate Democrats, Friday, to increase rail security and safety.
- $1.77, the national average for a gallon of gas, the highest price ever on record.
- 48, the number of babies born in January and February in one Everett, Washington baby hospital, more than twice normal rate.
- Nine months since the aircraft carrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, returned to its port in Everett, Washington. You do the math.
Today’s Top Three Newsmakers
- Porn movie director James DiGiorgio, who took time off from making such films as "Boob Watch" and "Boob Watch 2" to direct a public service announcement for kids, complete with puppets, for a group.
- The Trufresh Company in Suffield, Connecticut. They say they have a new technique that brings some of their lobsters after being frozen.
- The who tried to steal donated clothing from one of those big metal charity bins by climbing in through the small slot on the front. He, of course, became trapped inside the dark metal box. Police showed up hours later and found the man begging for a light for a cigarette.
Let's Play 'Oddball'!
- According to a University of Arizona study, the keyboard that typed this story is .
- The city of Aliso Viejo, California, is safe tonight, after reacting swiftly to a potentially deadly substance that had insinuated itself into the daily life of the unsuspecting hamlet: .
- The Perito Moreno glacier in Buenos Aires where more than 10,000 tourists to have flocked to get a firsthand view of awesome power of global warming in action. Actually, it's a .
Keeping Tabs
- Britney Spears might
- Omarosa, the former Al Gore scheduling staffer and former Trump apprentice let it be known today that she would like to become a former congresswoman and, after that, a former president.
- The National Trust of Australia has named Russell Crowe and Nicole Kidman as
