[O'brien:] The ever so tasteful clock counting down for Martha Stewart. She must surrender for her five-month prison sentence by 4:00 tomorrow. Hoards of media, curious onlookers, have descended on Alderson, West Virginia, taking up positions outside Camp Cupcake, as they call it, to await the arrival of inmate number 55170-054. That could happen anytime. I guess you could call her 54. CNN's Mary Snow is among the throngs standing by. And Mary, it's really quite a scene there. There's a lot of support in and out of Camp Cupcake for Martha.
[Snow:] That's right, Miles. It is quite a scene. And you know, just a little over 24 hours from now, this will be Martha Stewart's new home. And in the road behind me, just a half mile down that road, she's scheduled to report here for five months. Just about anywhere you go in Alderson, the focus is on one thing, and one thing only, and that is Martha Stewart. And it's not just the residents who are waiting for her arrival; it's very clear that the inmates are well aware she's on her way. Here are Martha Stewart's new neighbors.
[Unidentified Female:] Free Martha! Freedom!
[Snow:] Tucked in the Appalachian Mountains, the absence of high security walls has given Alderson the name Camp Cupcake. But some inmates made it clear they don't like the sugarcoated name.
[Unidentified Female:] I'll tell you one thing. This ain't no damn Camp Cupcake!
[Snow:] And Alderson locals agree.
[Hillary Benish, Alderson Hospitality House:] That's really a disservice. Actually, none of the local people around here ever refer to it as Camp Cupcake.
[Snow:] Space is tight. And as far as just who will share quarters with Martha Stewart, there are more than 1,000 possibilities, including 48-year-old Meg Scott Phipps, a former North Carolina agriculture commissioner serving 48 months for campaign finance fraud. Or 34-year-old Kentucky housewife Kimberly Goodson, serving 87 months on intent to murder. And from someone who served time at Alderson, inmates come from all different backgrounds but share something in common no privacy.
[Judith Kelly, Arrested Protestor:] Your freedom is totally taken away. They strip you of everything. Strip searches are part of the procedure there. Counts, constantly having to jump through hoops for people, kind of invasion of privacy at all times.
[Snow:] While Martha Stewart will serve her five months for lying about a stock sale, she's in the minority. Sixty-one percent of inmates are doing time for narcotics charges, 15 percent for bribery, fraud and extortion, four percent for white-collar crimes. And when Martha Stewart arrives here at the so-called Camp Cupcake, she'll find another kind of camp, so to speak, a media camp. There are satellite trucks parked here at the entrance to Alderson. And on the size of about a football field, all kinds of cameras, cables, waiting for her arrival. And it is growing really almost by the hour. Big question is when she will arrive here. She is scheduled to be here by 2 p.m. tomorrow afternoon. A lot of kind of speculation about how she'll spend her last day of freedom. And there had been talk about a wedding she was invited to tonight in New York. Her publicist got married over the weekend. You may recall seeing those photographs from the Bahamas when Martha Stewart did attend the wedding. The reception is tonight. But a spokesperson for Stewart says that she does not plan to attend Miles.
[O'brien:] CNN's Mary Snow in Alderson, West Virginia. Thank you very much Kyra.
[Phillips:] It's been a week since sales of the popular arthritis drug Vioxx were halted worldwide on fears it might cause heart or liver problems. Now there's at least one lawsuit on the table, plus a call for congressional hearings on how Vioxx got approved in the first place. CNN's medical correspondent, Elizabeth Cohen, here to talk about the fallout. What's the latest?
[Elizabeth Cohen, Cnn Medical Correspondent:] Well, the fallout is big. Vioxx was approved about five and a half years ago and was a very popular drug, one of the most popular, in fact. Tens of millions of people took it for arthritis pain and for other pain, as well. Well, there's a new study that was done by Kaiser Permanente, the HMO, and it was reported in the "Wall Street Journal" that said that nearly 28,000 people had heart attacks and also people who died because they were taking Vioxx when they could have been compared to people who were taking the competitor, which is called Celebrex. And so this says that this was these deaths were avoidable, didn't have to happen, and that it was because people were taking this drug instead of another drug.
[Phillips:] When did the company know about the problems?
[Cohen:] Well, this is the $64 million question, as it were. When did Merck, which makes Vioxx, know that there were heart issues with Vioxx, and at what point did they know it? Now the drug was approved in 1999, and some people say that just one year later, there were studies that that showed that there were heart problems, and that Merck and the FDA should have acted on it. But it took them years to put warnings on labels. And of course, it wasn't taken off the market until just a couple of weeks ago, until five and a half years later.
[Phillips:] Yes, we were talking about it. But what is Merck saying now, spokespeople?
[Cohen:] What Merck says now is they put out a statement, and it says, "We have conducted controlled clinical trials in over 28,000 patients," and Merck promptly disclosed these results to the FDA. We have called the FDA repeatedly, and they have repeatedly said, no comment.
[Phillips:] All right. Elizabeth Cohen, thanks so much.
[Cohen:] Thanks.
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