phil black, cnn, the hague. amtrak travelers are stuck in stations today. service south of washington is canceled after a coal train derailed in quantico, virginia. that s let to a bunch of cancellations. here are the affected routes. if you re waking up this morning and want to head this way. washington to knew port nenewpo. charlotte, north carolina, to savannah, georgia, and virginia to sanford, florida, all canceled. limited alternate transportation will be available on some routes. amtrak is making calls to passengers with confirmed reservations on those shut-down trains, but people who were already on other trains when the accident happened had no warning. sitting on the train for like four or five hours and we had to take the bus. it was delayed a long time, and we re waiting to get on. hopefully we ll get on. miserable.
relatives of the three victims had supported lee s effort for a new trial. checking our political ticker, it is official. wyclef jean formally submitted his paperwork to run for president of haiti. he announced his candidacy for first time on cnn s larry king live. wolf blitzer who was filling in for layerly last night. let s listen in to part of that conversation. what qualifies you to be president of haiti? well, what qualifies me to be president of haiti when i look at the past 200 years with what our people have suffered, wolf, political instability, coup after coup, i feel that me running brings a new tool to the situation. meaning wyclef can sit with any political party, have a conversation. i m coming in neutral. i think 200 years we have suffered the exact same thing and what i m saying is when you
happens. cnn s ivan watson has been following developments in this story from turkey. he joins us from istanbul. you know, you talked to her attorney, so what s the latest, ivan? reporter: well, this is one of the very strange things about this case is that one of the defense attorneys who helped attract a lot of international attention to the case of this woman facing death penalty by stoning in recent weeks fled iran because he says he s afraid of being thrown in prison for the work that he did. he fled here to turkey smuggling himself across the border and ended up in a detention center for illegal immigrants here for six days here in istanbul. just hours ago he was released from that detention center, and before he d even had time to go to his hotel room and take a shower, european diplomats swept into the scene and swept him into a car and have taken him into diplomatic protective
so where does naomi campbell fit in all of this. let s connect the dots or the diamonds in this case. naomi says two mystery men gave her rough duirty diamonds back n 1997 in the middle of the night during that war. campbell assumes they came from taylor. here is why her story is so important. if prosecutors can link taylor to those diamonds, they could link him to the atrocities. it would help prove that taylor had contact with the currency that paid for the death and chaos. taylor has always denied he handled diamonds during that war. let s take a closer look now at campbell s testimony. one of the stars in the courtroom, too, a photograph from that night in 1997. here s cnn s phil black. reporter: naomi campbell was a reluctant witness. well, i didn t really want to be here, so i was made to be here. so obviously i m just like wanting to get this over with and get on with my life. this is a big inconvenience for me. reporter: she had been called before the special court for
he was the oldest. last time he was with me, we went home. she doesn t want to hear this story again. she told me whenever i see someone who is talking about my son, i feel bad. i cannot sleep. i get sick. this happened. nothing i can do. we pray for him. that s what she says. reporter: federal officials have told cnn that they can t rule out the possibility that some of the young men involved in this case could be trained to carry out terrorist attacks on u.s. soil. brian todd, cnn, minneapolis. just when you thought the lockerbie bomber s release couldn t be more infuriating, a new twist comes out in the wall street journal. new twist of the knife in the backs of his victims loved ones. how many more times can their hearts be broken? 65 years ago today, the world as we know it would be forever changed. as the united states used the first atomic weapon at war. dropping a nuclear bomb on