[Kyra Phillips, Cnn Anchor:] We have got a breaking or a developing story, rather, coming right in. A.J., thanks. This is coming out of Auburn, Massachusetts, just west of Boston. State police say that 15 people have been taken to area hospitals, after a tour bus rolled over in Auburn. The accident occurred about 2:00 p.m. Eastern time on the off-ramp from Route 290 to Exit 7. We're getting these live pictures in. It's a little shaky, because of the helicopters, our affiliate, WCVB, out of Boston, Massachusetts, there. Now we're back to tape. We're being told that all the injuries are being categorized as minor at this time. Also, the bus may have carried or had 50 to 60 people on board. It's not known how many for sure, but the bus could carry 50 to 60. The cause of the accident still is not yet known. But, at this point, we are being told these injuries are are minor, after state police say that 15 people have been taken to area hospitals, after this tour bus rolled over in Auburn. That's just west of Boston, Mass. We will keep you updated throughout the next hour. Now we're going to get him? Now you're well, going to get out of our way. New York State Troopers tell hunters to stay out of the woods until they track down a fugitive nicknamed "Bucky." Recess will have to wait, too, for hundreds of schoolkids. CNN's Allan Chernoff is in Fredonia.
[Allan Chernoff, Cnn Senior Correspondent:] Good afternoon, Kyra. And there certainly is a change of attitude around here. People typically are used to driving fast and furious along the roads. But we certainly have not been seeing that recently. In fact, on our way here, we were stopped at three separate police checkpoints, police searching furiously for Ralph Phillips. There is a massive manhunt under way hundreds of local state and even federal officials now searching for Ralph Phillips. It is particularly intense after the shooting last week of two state officers, one of whom died on Sunday, Joseph Longobardo. Another officer is in critical condition. He has fallen back into critical condition. And that is Donald Baker. Now, the police believe Phillips is actually hiding in the woods. And, according to local hunters, that will make it very difficult to find Phillips.
[Unidentified Male:] Well, it's very thick down here, really overgrown, grown in thick. You can't see deer. They can be 20 feet from you, and you won't even see them.
[Chernoff:] So, that would make it pretty tough for the officers to find him?
[Unidentified Male:] Oh, very hard, very hard, especially if he's in camouflage. You ain't going to find him a very hard time finding him.
[Chernoff:] And, if you are a good hunter, you could be out there for months?
[Unidentified Male:] Yes. He could stay out there for a long time down here. There's water. There's plenty of deer, turkeys. There's plenty of game.
[Chernoff:] Ralph "Bucky" Phillips escaped from the Erie County Federal Center five months ago. And he actually did it by using a can opener to cut open a hole in the ceiling above the kitchen. It was just four days before his scheduled release for serving three months for violating parole Kyra.
[Phillips:] All right, Allan Chernoff, we will stay on the manhunt for Ralph "Bucky" Phillips. That's for sure. Now, what happens in Vegas isn't necessarily staying in Vegas, at least not for Warren Jeffs. It has been nine days since the fugitive polygamist was snared snared in a routine traffic stop. But now he's in Purgatory Purgatory jail, that is, in Saint George, Utah. Our Gary Tuchman is also there. Gary, he arrived there not long ago.
[Gary Tuchman, Cnn National Correspondent:] Kyra, what happened in Las Vegas definitely, in this case, did not stay in Vegas. Warren Jeffs, arrested 20 miles north of Las Vegas, Nevada, on Interstate 15 eight days ago, is back home, back home in Washington County, Utah. We're 25 miles north of his power base, where thousands of his followers still live in the towns of Hildale, Utah, and Colorado City, Arizona. And, as we speak, the 50-year-old polygamist, fundamentalist Mormon leader is inside this facility behind me his helicopter landing just minutes ago it's not his personal helicopter it's a police helicopter that picked him up for the 120-mile right from Las Vegas to here. He waived his rights to an extradition hearing and arrived here under a lot of security. The reason for all the security, what is interesting about this man being on the top 10 most wanted list, usually, these are people like Osama bin Laden, who is currently on the list, who are considered threats to America as a whole. This man wasn't considered a threat to America as a whole, but they it gives an idea of how the authorities regard crimes against children. And it's believed, according to authorities, that Warren Jeffs has arranged hundreds of marriages, many of which are to men to underage girls. So, his charge here in Utah, which he will ultimately be standing trial for, unless there's a settlement beforehand, the charge is rape as an accomplice. It's not said, it's not alleged that he raped anybody. But it's alleged that he arranged a marriage to an underage girl, and the person who married that girl had sex with that girl. So, he's in jail now under heavy security. This Purgatory facility that is the name of it, the Purgatory Correctional Facility in the town of Hurricane, Utah, is a minimum- to medium- security facility. This is just where Jeffs will be held as he goes through the legal process. Tomorrow, or the next day, he is expected to have an initial appearance in Saint George, Utah, court. And then it's expected, within 10 days, he will have a preliminary hearing. In that preliminary hearing, the prosecution has to convince the judge they have probable cause to continue this case against Jeffs. Jeffs took off from Las Vegas an hour-and-a-half ago. He's now here. And a news conference will be held shortly to give us details about Jeffs' transportation, what his attitude was. Maybe we will learn that. But the fact is, the security was here because so many of Jeffs' followers are nearby. They have a concern that some of his angry followers might come out to this facility. If they have come out, we haven't seen them Kyra.
[Phillips:] Gary Tuchman, thanks. Men without conscience, men with evil intentions, but not madmen that's how President Bush describes the hijackers who attacked the U.S. five years ago this month and the terrorists who remain a threat today. You may have caught the president's speech on CNN just a couple hours ago. Let's catch up with Elaine Quijano at the White House Elaine.
[Elaine Quijano, Cnn White House Correspondent:] Good afternoon to you, Kyra. That's right. And President Bush today, interestingly, cited Osama bin Laden's own words and intentions, in trying to make the case that withdrawing U.S. forces prematurely from Iraq would be a mistake. The president made his arguments in a speech to a friendly audience, the Military Officers Association of America. Now, this was the second in a series a speeches, the latest round, really, of speeches, to try rally public support behind the president's foreign policy. With this, of course, being an election year and the five-year anniversary of the September 11 attacks just around the corner, the president reiterated his argument that success in Iraq remains integral in keeping America safe.
[George W. Bush, President Of The United States:] For al Qaeda, Iraq is not a distraction from their war on America. It is the central battlefield where the outcome of this struggle will be decided.
[Quijano:] Now, the president's speech, of course, came as the U.S. is now three-and-a-half years into the Iraq war, also just two months out until those congressional midterm elections, at the time when Democrats have been trying to seize on the unpopularity of the Iraq war. They blame the Republicans and President Bush for what they say are failed policies in Iraq, and for they also say is a failure to change direction. The White House has been aggressively pushing Back against that idea, insisting that there have been course directions as needed, as the enemy has changed in fact, the White House releasing, as well, this document. It's basically an update to the national strategy in fighting terrorism, releasing that to coincide with, again,the September 11 attacks right around the corner and those congressional midterms just weeks away Kyra.
[Phillips:] Elaine Quijano, at the White House, thanks. And, after the president's speech, I spoke with Pennsylvania Congressman John Murtha, a very vocal critic of Mr. Bush's handling of the war in Iraq. Here is what he had to say.
[Rep. John Murtha , Pennsylvania:] Well, this is a failed policy wrapped in illusion. And I have said this before. He brings in 911. Everything directed towards the al Qaeda in Afghanistan was absolutely right. Then, when the when the military asked for more troops in Afghanistan, instead, he diverted himself to Iraq, where there were no weapons of mass destruction, no al Qaeda. The incidents have increased since the governor since the government election is over, almost doubled to 800 a week. More people are being killed every day. Electricity, oil production, everything is below pre-war level. We need a change in direction.
[Phillips:] Well, Murtha says he believes diplomacy, not more military might, is needed in Iraq. This weekend, get a look at the man who brought terror to America. Watch "In the Footsteps of bin Laden," a "CNN PRESENTS" special investigation. The encore presentation airs Saturday and Sunday night, 7:00 p.m. Eastern, only on CNN. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld is resting up from surgery this hour. But hold the Purple Hearts. Doctors fixed what's being called an old athletic injury to Rumsfeld's shoulder. CNN senior Pentagon correspondent Jamie McIntyre on this story. Bragging about how he was known for those one-armed pushups.
[Jamie Mcintyre, Cnn Senior Pentagon Correspondent:] That's right. When Rumsfeld was in college, he used to make money doing one- armed pushups.
[Mcintyre:] You know, this this injury and surgery may earn him some bipartisan get-well cards, but probably not too much sympathy from Democrats, who are hoping to bring to a vote this week a vote of no-confidence in Defense Secretary Rumsfeld for his part in the Iraq policy. Rumsfeld did go into the hospital this morning for a previously scheduled surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff in his left shoulder that had been giving him trouble. It was elective surgery, on the recommendation of his doctor. We are told that it was completed in about two hours, under local anesthesia, but Rumsfeld did turn over the reins of power and the chain of command to his deputy defense secretary, Gordon England. He is expected to stay in the hospital overnight, and be out of the hospital, if not back at work, tomorrow, or certainly later this week. Rumsfeld, of course, is facing increasing criticism from members of Capitol Hill, particularly for that speech in which he drew a comparison between those who appeased the Nazis during World War II and those who are questioning the policies of the administration now, a theme that was also echoed by President Bush today. But one thing that seems increasingly clear, Rumsfeld is not going anywhere, not for health or other reasons. The Rums the the White House today gave him another resounding vote of confidence. And Tony Snow said, for those who are calling for him to step down that quote "It's not going to happen" Kyra.
[Phillips:] Jamie McIntyre, thank you. The whole world knew and loved the crocodile hunter, but only Australia could claim Steve Irwin as its own. Now, it seems, Australians are unable to think of anyone or anything else. ITN's Seth Conway has the story.
[Seth Conway, Itn Reporter:] At the family's Australia Zoo home, flowers and tributes have been laid for the larger-than-life conservationist.
[Unidentified Female:] He was a good man. And we have lost something very precious.
[Conway:] The stingray's deadly blow was caught on camera at Australia's Great Barrier Reef. Mr. Irwin was filming his latest documentary, and his support team has moved quickly to deny any suggestion that he was aggravating the creature.
[Unidentified Male:] I did see the footage. And it's shocking. It shows that the Steve came over the top of the ray, and then the tail came up and spiked him here, and he pulled it out. And, the next minute, he's gone.
[Conway:] Although Steve Irwin was famous for tackling crocodiles, police have confirmed no suspicious circumstances surrounding his death. His loss has even been marked at the highest level.
[John Howard, Australian Prime Minister:] There was nothing contrived. He was a genuine, well-off, remarkable Australian individual. And I am distressed at his death. And I think I speak for millions of people around Australia.
[Conway:] As Mr. Irwin's body was taken home, his final documentary, "Ocean's Deadliest," could not have had a more prophetic title. Seth Conway, ITV News.
[Phillips:] And tonight, on "LARRY KING LIVE," you are going to hear from Steve Irwin's longtime friend and manager, John Stainton. He witnessed Irwin's fatal attack. That's on "LARRY KING LIVE" tonight, at 9:00 Eastern, only on CNN. This just coming across the wires according according to the Associated Press, a federal bankruptcy judge approves Delta Airlines' request to terminate its pilots' pension plan once again, this just crossing the wires Ali Velshi working the story for us right now. We will try and get you more information of what it means now CNN confirming, a federal bankruptcy judge approving Delta Airlines' request to terminate its pilots' pension plan. We will see how this plays out for employees there at Delta. And, of course, we will talk more about, ever since 911, how the airlines industry has been affected. Well, out of control, burning everything in its path a closer look at the nation's number-one firefighting priority. And a storm named Flo, where is it headed? How bad could it be? It's all ahead from the CNN NEWSROOM.