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Quick Guide & Transcript: Gaza border deal, Top Ten Art Crimes
RELATEDSPECIAL REPORTCNN STUDENT NEWS(CNN Student News) -- November 16, 2005 Quick GuideGaza Deal - Learn why the latest deal between Israelis and Palestinians is considered a breakthrough. Top Ten Art Thefts - Take a look at what the FBI hopes to achieve by hanging a list of art crimes on its Web site. Young Guns - Get behind the wheel with a young racer who may be destined for NASCAR's checkered flags. TranscriptTHIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED. MONICA LLOYD, CNN STUDENT NEWS ANCHOR: Thanks for joining us for this Wednesday edition of CNN Student News! I'm Monica Lloyd in Atlanta. A deal is struck: when the Secretary of State works overtime, to help achieve a breakthrough in the middle east peace process. A new wanted list goes up: when the FBI reaches out to the public for help in recovering stolen artwork. And the track heats up: When NASCAR scouts look for new talent, who'd sooner race than legally drive! First Up: Gaza Deal LLOYD: U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had been scheduled to leave the Middle East by Tuesday, but she'd also been working on a deal that could help further peace talks between Israelis and Palestinians. And it looks like her decision to stay in Jerusalem an extra day paid off. A closed border between Palestinian-controlled Gaza and Egypt could open as early as November 25th. Guy Raz brings us perspective on why this is so important to the region. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) GUY RAZ, CNN REPORTER: With less than two hours of sleep, Condoleeza Rice should've been dead tired, instead, she was beaming. CONDOLEEZZA RICE, U.S. SECRETARY OF STATE: I am pleased to announce today that Israel and the Palestinian Authority have concluded an agreement on movement and access. RAZ: Overnight, the secretary twisted arms on both sides. RICE: I have to say as a football fan, that sometimes the last yard is the hardest, and I think we experienced that a bit today. RAZ: For two months, Palestinian and Israeli officials have been at loggerheads over the issue of border crossings in Gaza. RICE: This agreement is intended to give Palestinian people the freedom to move, to trade, to live ordinary lives. RAZ: This terminal, the Rafah crossing, will open in ten days. It connects Gaza to Egypt and, by default, to the outside world. It's been shut since Israel pulled out its soldiers and settlers out of Gaza. Israeli fears that armed militants and weapons would flow through that border have, apparently, been allayed. RICE: Our commitment to security is strong, as always. Progress like today's agreement cannot continue unless there is also progress in fighting terror. RAZ: Video cameras will be installed at the terminal to allow Israeli security officials to monitor the crossing, though Israel will have no veto power over who can enter and exit that border. At the same time, Palestinian goods will be allowed to transit out of Gaza without restriction. Israel will continue to monitor goods coming into Gaza. Meanwhile, work on a Palestinian sea port will also begin in earnest. Palestinians have never had control over an international border crossing. The Bush administration believes this is an important step. Gaza is widely seen as the proving ground for Palestinian statehood...Good governance there, say U.S. officials, will hasten the process of establishing an independent state. Guy Raz, CNN, Jerusalem. (END VIDEO CLIP) Shoutout CARL AZUZ, CNN REPORTER: Time for the Shoutout! Who painted this famous piece of art? If you think you know it, shout it out! Was it: A) Vincent van Gogh, B) Claude Monet, C) Leonardo da Vinci or D) Paul Cézanne? You've got three seconds--GO! This is a work of Vincent van Gogh titled "The Starry Night." It was completed in 1889. Top Ten Art Thefts LLOYD: It may not be the first thing that springs to mind when you think of a "wanted list." But descriptions of various artworks are now hanging, so to speak, on the FBI's Web site, as the agency's Top Ten Art Crimes. Officials are hoping that the public can help them recover priceless art and artifacts. Kelli Arena canvases the details for us. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) KELLI ARENA, CNN REPORTER: Art thieves are often portrayed in movies as suave, debonair criminals. But this undercover FBI agent has chased them for the past seventeen years and says Hollywood's got it wrong. UNDERCOVER FBI AGENT: I see people coming into the business who are common criminals. In other words they are not specialized art thiefs. A lot of people are getting involved because of seeing the value of the material. ARENA: He's part of the FBI's new art crime team, formed one year ago following the looting of museums in Iraq. The team just scored a major success recovering Rembrandt's self portrait. UNDERCOVER FBI AGENT: You know I always say that the real art in stealing art is the sale of it, not the theft of it, because selling it is the hardest part. ARENA: The recovery rate of stolen art is very low. The FBI puts it at five percent. Most pieces go underground for years before resurfacing on the market. On its top ten list--the FBI notes Munch's The Scream is still missing--as is Rembrandt's Stormy Sea and this Davinci's Madonna. Jo Backer works at Christies Auction House and is responsible for making sure no stolen property is sold. JO BACKER, CHRISTIES AUCTION HOUSE: When you steal a piece of art, you are stealing not only from the owner of that piece of art, be it a museum or a private collector, but you're really stealing from everybody. ARENA: Investigators estimate there is six billion dollars worth of stolen art still out on the streets--and most jobs are pulled off by insiders...with access to storage areas. One of the biggest consumers of stolen art is the United States. BONNIE GARDNER, FBI ART THEFT PROGRAM: We do know while some stolen art is sold on the black market a good deal of the stolen artwork moves into the legitimate art market. And why is this? It is because the art market is largely unregulated. ARENA: The FBI wants to both enlist the public's help and issues a warning. Agents say you'll be out a lot of money--and could be prosecuted if you buy stolen art or artifacts---and they say not knowing it's stolen isn't a good enough excuse. Kelli Arena, CNN, Washington. (END VIDEO CLIP) Baseball Steroids LLOYD: A "three strikes, you're out" steroids-testing policy for Major League Baseball takes effect next season. Officials and players agreed on the policy yesterday. It specifies that a player caught using steroids or other performance-enhancing drugs, will be suspended for 50 games. A second offense will result in a one-hundred game suspension. And a third will mean being banned from baseball, unless the player's granted reinstatement after two years off the field. These tougher rules come as Congress threatened to crack down on steroid use in Major League Baseball. Under the current rules, a third offense results only in a 60 day suspension. And a fourth in a year long ban. Is this Legit? AZUZ: Is this Legit? NASCAR is named for Harold NASCAR, inventor of the inline piston system that made racecar development possible in 1911. That's about as false as you can get! NASCAR is an acronym for National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. Young Guns LLOYD: NASCAR crowns its champion this weekend, so we're doing a special series on racing this week. Our first report takes a seat next to a 15-year-old who may have what it takes to be a stock car superstar. Doctor Sanjay Gupta asked whether his talent was something he was born with, or something acquired from countless laps on the track. (BEGIN VIDEO CLIP) SANJAY GUPTA, CNN SR. MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT: You wouldn't expect someone who takes the bus to school to attract the attention of one of the top teams in NASCAR. But 15-year-old Marc Davis has done just that. The soft-spoken high school sophomore has been recruited as a driver by Roush Racing, whose stable includes NASCAR stars Mark Martin and Carl Edwards. Roush became interested in Davis after he won two national championships in two different divisions in 2003, and the racing team is now giving Davis a car and other assistance. Davis' goal is nothing less than to drive in NASCAR when he turns 18 -- the minimum age for a NASCAR driver. MARC DAVIS, DRIVER: I think Roush is giving us the help and experience I need. My dream is to win the Daytona 500 in 2008, 2009. GUPTA: Davis isn't the only talented teenagers recruited by a big name NASCAR team. 15-year-old Chase Austin, from Kansas, is in driver development program at Hendrick Motorsports, which includes former NASCAR champion Jeff Gordon. And 15-year-old Joey Logano has signed on with Joe Gibbs racing, home to former NASCAR champs Tony Stewart and Bobby Labonte. Dr. Robert Cantu is a neurosurgeon and an expert on the medicine of motorsports. He says raw talent can be spotted young. DR. ROBERT CANTU, NEUROSURGEON: You need concentration. You need good hand-eye coordination. These are things that can be spotted at a very early age. GUPTA: Sports psychologist Jack Stark says experience is the key. JACK STARK, SPORTS PSYCHOLOGIST: You have to have what they call, a lot of seat time. Some of these kids have been in hundred, two hundred, three hundred races. They start out in carts and then get up to the bigger cars. GUPTA: That's what Marc Davis has done. Davis won the first race he entered and has kept on winning. Perhaps showing he has nature and nurture on his side. Doctor Sanjay Gupta, CNN, Reporting. (END VIDEO CLIP) Promo LLOYD: Do NASCAR drivers need to stay in shape? If you're thinking, "what difference does it make if all they do is turn left"... you'd better join us on the track for tomorrow's program. The second part of our "NASCAR: Driven to Extremes" series explains how racing compares to running a marathon. Don't miss it. You can think of this series as three test laps for the upcoming "CNN Presents: Classroom Edition," which examines safety and athletic performance on the track. Our in-house educators have tuned up our Web site with free classroom materials... So make a pit stop today at CNN.com/EDUCATION! Before We Go LLOYD: Before we go... It's how you combine the vision of engineering with the imaginations of children...And still manage to have a little fun. With identical sets of Legos and a deadline of two hours, five boys set to work stacking their ideas for the future; specifically, how their neighborhoods would look in the year 20-55. The winner, a 14-year-old from California, carried home a five-thousand-dollar scholarship and the title of "Lego Preservation Architect"! Goodbye LLOYD: That fills up our block of time for the day! For CNN Student News, I'm Monica Lloyd. 
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