SWAT Team at the Mall
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: I'm Kyra Phillips. More of YOUR WORLD TODAY in a few moments. Here in the U.S., we begin with a developing story out of Houston, Texas. Live pictures, via our affiliate KPRC out of Houston, Texas. It's a tense situation. Apparently now over at greens point shopping mall. Police say there was an overnight burglary at one of the mall's shops and workers may have walked in on one of the bad guys. Some of the workers there reported hearing gunshots. Police quickly surrounded the place. No reports of injuries and no word of any arrests at this time. Sean Taylor, his legs carried him to stardom with the Washington Redskins and the NFL, but a bullet wound to one of those legs cost him list life. Taylor died this morning one day after being shot in his home yesterday. The bullet struck his femoral artery. He lost a great deal of blood before he reached the hospital. We heard from his friend and former attorney.</s>RICHARD SHARPSTEIN, SEAN TAYLOR'S FRIEND: The door was burst open. Later, Jackie tried to call 911 and it's unclear whether the phone lines were cut or the phone was broken or off or unplugged or turned off. She had to use her cell phone to eventually call 911.</s>PHILLIPS: Police are not saying whether they think Taylor's home was targeted at random. Horrific new details in the Baby Grace death. We caution you, extremely disturbing. Texas investigators are confident that 2-year- old Riley Ann Sawyers is indeed Baby Grace, the girl whose body washed ashore at Galveston Bay packed in a little plastic box. The mother has been talking to authorities. Kimberly Dawn Trenor says that she and the girl's stepfather tortured and beat the girl to death. The child was thrown across the room, held under water, her head slammed on the tile floor three times. They're now in custody. The mother says they hid Riley's body for a month or two and then dumped her in the bay. Bad brain surgeries, doctors operating on the wrong side of a patient's head. A hospital is fined $50,000 after three separate incidents. All the cases happened at Rhode Island hospital, the most recent, an 82-year-old patient on Friday. He's okay, along with the man operated on in February. A third patient died in August. The state then ordered the hospital to review how its surgeries are done.</s>DR. DAVID GIFFORD, DIR., R.I. DEPT OF HEALTH: They made changes in the operating room. And for the most part, implemented those. This did not seem to translate out for procedures done outside of the operating room.</s>PHILLIPS: In a statement, the hospital said, "We are committed to continuing to evaluate and implement changes to our policies to help ensure these human errors are caught before they reach the patient." Back on the job, Vice President Dick Cheney arriving just after 7:00 this morning, doctors treated him for an irregular heartbeat. 66-year-old Cheney has a history of heart problems. He has had four heart attacks since 1978. Spokeswoman says Cheney has resumed his normal schedule.</s>KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: We've got an update now on that story that we just brought you out of Houston, Texas. CNN has confirmed that two people are now dead after the shooting that happened here at this Houston shopping mall. The Greenspoint shopping mall. Apparently it's a murder/suicide. Live pictures coming to us from our affiliate KPRC. It's come to an end. A tense situation at this mall. Two people dead. Murder/suicide. It's a sketch that may have solved the mystery for a grieving family. An Ohio grandmother saw this picture and recognized it as her granddaughter. Straight ahead in the CNN NEWSROOM, we're going to talk with the artist who drew that picture of the dead child that police called Baby Grace. That artist says that she uses her own near-death experience at the hands of a serial killer to inspire her work. That's exactly what she did with that piece. Meantime, "Your World Today" continues after a quick break. I'm Kyra Phillips. I'll see you in the NEWSROOM at about 1:00 Eastern.</s>HALA GORANI, CNN ANCHOR: Welcome back, everyone, to all of our viewers joining us from around the globe, including, this hour, the United States. This is YOUR WORLD TODAY. I'm Hala Gorani.</s>JIM CLANCY, CNN ANCHOR: I'm Jim Clancy. And let's take a look now at our top stories. U.S. President George W. Bush says Israeli and Palestinian leaders are going to be working to reach a peace deal by the end of 2008. The two sides agreed on a framework for creating a Palestinian state. Tackling the tough issues, just as the peace summit began near Washington. Mr. Bush says the summit won't resolve long-standing disputes, but it will kick-start meaningful negotiations.</s>GORANI: Also, in a related headline, Hamas has no seat at the summit. And in Gaza, the Palestinian territory that it controls, tens of thousands of people rallied against the conference. Many called the Palestinian president, Mahmoud Abbas, the traitor for even joining the talks. Hamas says it will reject any concessions that he makes with Israel.</s>CLANCY: All right. Let's go now to Annapolis and Saeb Erakat, the long-time negotiator on the Palestinian side. You've heard all the skepticism. Do you have hope today and why?</s>SAEB ERAKAT, PALESTINIAN NEGOTIATOR: Well, Jim, I think, yes, I have some hope today. Seven years after a total stalemate, after a total dead lock between Palestinians and Israelis. Today I think we have an opportunity in Annapolis. President Bush brought the world here today, Arabs, Muslims, Africans, Latin Americans, Europeans, Russians. Everyone is here. Chinese, Asians. And I believe the message for the world today, look, Palestinians and Israelis, we're not going to negotiate for you. We're not going to make the decisions required from you. You know what needs to be done. You don't need to reinvent the wheel. You don't need</s>CLANCY: All right.</s>ERAKAT: Jim, today . . .</s>CLANCY: Go ahead.</s>ERAKAT: We have something -- yes, go ahead, Jim.</s>CLANCY: Let me just ask you this. Did the U.S. president lean on both sides here? You know, we heard him mention illegal outposts, but not settlements. On the other hand, we heard earlier the Israeli side didn't want to talk about some of these most difficult issue that is have been avoided so long and yet today we heard the prime minister saying the Israeli side was going to do exactly that.</s>ERAKAT: Well, that's what we -- the reason why did not we reach an agreement the last 40 days. Once the Israeli side, you know, Israel and Palestine living side by side in peace and security without the caveat (ph) and the nature (ph) and the description (ph). Once they said they'll be committed to their obligations from emitting (ph) from the road map, I think there was a document. I have to be very frank with you, Jim. If I violate that agreement as a Palestinians, the Israelis have teeth. Meaning they can close my town, they can stop people (ph) movement and so on and so on. If the Israelis say they don't have sacred debt (ph) and they don't</s>CLANCY: There's some people that say the Bush administration has ignored the Middle East, let it fester for the past seven years. Now the last year of his term, President Bush comes in and says, do it. We have one year. Do it. Do you think the deadline will be met?</s>ERAKAT: Well, you know, we would have loved to have started this process once President Bush became a president. Now, seven years later, President Bush brought the world here. I think today Palestinians and Israelis need decisions. I think the negotiations were done. We were in Camp David. We were here before. We know the issues. We know the outcome of the negotiations. It's up to us now to make the decisions required to make the agreement to produce the two-state solutions. And once you do that, once decisions are made, you don't need more than three to six months to produce a treaty.</s>CLANCY: You know, would you admit the Palestinians made -- the Palestinian side made serious mistakes? Another in to Fatah that went nowhere, achieved nothing. And the Israeli side made mistakes, too, but not talking. But what will the Palestinians do, from their side, to ensure this process does work?</s>ERAKAT: Well, this is why -- I think, yes. Yes, you're right. We're not perfect. Ever since Adam negotiated Eve, the man standing to you (ph) could be the Moses (ph) advantage negotiator in history. Have no country, no army, no navy. If it's my word against any Israelis and the Congress and the Senate, I don't stand a chance. I know all of this. But who said life is about justice and fairness? We're seeing our interest. An agreement at the end of the day that reflect the need of both sides. Today I can tell you today, for the majority of Israelis and the majority of the Palestinians, there is no more significant need than having peace. A two-state solution. That's what we're going to pursue. I hope we can learn from our mistakes. By the end of the day, what's needed is to produce a two-state solution, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security on the Syrian border.</s>CLANCY: All right. That is the promise of the Annapolis conference. A lot of people waiting to see when it might come true. Saeb Erakat, chief negotiator for the Palestinians, thank you, as always, for being with us.</s>ERAKAT: Thank you, sir.</s>CLANCY: Hala.</s>GORANI: Well, let's take a look at some other stories now. The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, is calling for a calm in the suburbs of Paris after two nights of rioting. The violence centered in the Paris suburb of Villiers-le-Bel and it was triggered by what appears to be a tragic, deadly accident. Still, the anger sparked by the death of two teenagers shows that for many immigrants in France, life, they say, hasn't changed much. Jim Bittermann is in Paris and sent us this report.</s>JIM BITTERMANN, CNN CORRESPONDENT, (voice over): For the 30,000 residents of a suburb near the Paris airport, there was disbelief and shock. Two nights of</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Everybody is cared about what happened in 2005. But since then, nothing has been done for the children over there.</s>BITTERMANN: And experts say the outburst of violence, once again, demonstrated how tense the suburbs remain over housing and unemployment among the dissentients of immigrants, the same two issues as two years ago. And a feeling of exclusion.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's still the same frustration. And what's missing is also the work that is not being done on the discomunision (ph) from the institution, from the police, from the state.</s>BITTERMANN: That lack of change on the ground was also the complaint of six mayors from local communities at a news conference later in the day. They called for a return to calm and appealed to parents to urge their children to stay at home. Nicolas Sarkozy, who two years ago had to deal with riots as interior minister, will now, once again, have to deal with the same problem as president. He'll hold immediate meetings with local officials and with his security cabinet upon his return from a state visit to China. Jim Bittermann, CNN, Paris.</s>CLANCY: Coming up next, a show and tell assignment lands a British school teacher in a Sudanese prison cell.</s>GORANI: Authorities say allowing her students to name a stuffed bear Muhammad is, according to them, a crime under Sharia law. Could she really face 40 lashes or even prison as punishment? That story plus . . .</s>CLANCY: She can put a book at the top of the best seller list, but can Oprah Winfrey put Barack Obama at the top of the polls in his bid to become president of the United States? We'll have a report.