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CNN LIVE AT DAYBREAK
Talk of CNN: Foreign Exchange Students in Utah
Aired November 21, 2002 - 06:42 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: We welcome a new team to our "Talk" of CNN segment this morning. Joining us -- joining us from Salt Lake City, Utah is The Z Morning Zoo with Frankie and DB.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How you doing?
COSTELLO: I'm doing fine. How are you?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Doing great.
COSTELLO: What a strange story coming out of Utah this morning about the foreign exchange students.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Isn't that wild, especially the breaking news that you were just mentioning.
There were three foreign exchange students that were staying with a Payson, Utah couple, which is just south of Salt Lake City, and the parents happened to stumble across a video they made. And it was basically anti-American skits on this CD ROM. And I guess they were sending them over the Internet to their friends and stuff like that. But they were in turbans in front of the American flag saying that they were, you know, hijacking a couple of American planes and they wanted ransom money. It was really kind of messed up.
COSTELLO: Where were the kids from?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They were from Germany, Spain and Sweden.
COSTELLO: Why were they doing this?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They really didn't say. But from what I had read, and we had the couple on the show yesterday, they actually made some remarks after the 9/11 thing and they were actually kind of hinting around of making some fake terrorist threats. So I don't really know why they did it or what the -- you know they said that they were sorry, but they ended up deporting them back to their countries.
COSTELLO: So the people hosting these students called the State Department, Immigration Service, how did that work out?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well what they did is they called the director of the Foreign Exchange Student thing and then they called the police and then the police called the FBI.
COSTELLO: Unbelievable, and the students have -- are they ever going to have foreign exchange students in their home again?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: You know from what it sounded like yesterday, it sounded like not for a while.
COSTELLO: Not for a while.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Or maybe just from California.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, really.
COSTELLO: Well one more question for you guys, do you think these students were really serious or did they -- was it some kind of sick joke?
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Well it sounded more like a sick joke, but from, like I said, from what I read this morning, one or a couple of them had hinted around in the past about making like terrorist threats or you know, fake terrorist threats. So I don't know. I don't -- I don't really know the meaning behind it now.
COSTELLO: Very strange. Well welcome to the show, Frankie and DB, we'll check back with you next week.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Cool.
COSTELLO: We appreciate it.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: See you next week.
COSTELLO: All right.
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