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CNN SATURDAY MORNING NEWS
You've Got News: What's Hot Online
Aired January 25, 2003 - 08:16 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
HEIDI COLLINS, CNN ANCHOR: From the front page to the Web page, what's making news is getting lots of attention on the Internet. As usual, we're finding out what you're wanting to know about.
So, we have Regina Lewis, AOL's online adviser, joining us today from New York.
Good morning, Regina.
Thanks for being here.
REGINA LEWIS, AOL'S ONLINE ADVISER: Thanks, Heidi.
COLLINS: Let's go ahead. We're doing this a little bit differently today because we want to start, we're going to talk about the top five issues that everybody's talking about on the Internet. Let's start with five and go all the way down to one, if we could.
LEWIS: Sounds good.
COLLINS: OK.
LEWIS: No. 5 is rallying against the war. A lot of people launching virtual protests. One person wrote, "It's our duty to question the policies of the administration" and they sure are, in droves, online.
No. 4 is the Super Bowl match up. A lot of online traffic around the big game. A couple things caught my eye. There was a big online poll in which 56 percent of people said they'd like to see the game played in a cold weather city. Now, Heidi, if you check out the weather forecast for Green Bay, that'd be like negative eight.
COLLINS: Right.
LEWIS: So you can't imagine. But by far my favorite tidbit in the Super Bowl arena came in an entertainment board, where one woman wrote, "We have a big screen TV. The entire neighborhood watched every play-off game in my home and I was eaten out of house and home. Does anyone have affordable recipe ideas?"
And one of the replies was genius. Get this. Someone wrote, "Have a baked potato party."
COLLINS: Wow. LEWIS: "Buy a bag of potatoes" -- Heidi, right, three or four bucks?
COLLINS: Yes.
LEWIS: And everybody brings a topping.
COLLINS: Hey, I love that.
LEWIS: I do, too.
COLLINS: Great idea.
LEWIS: Me, too.
COLLINS: And you can make them as low cal as you want, which is still the point for all the guys.
LEWIS: Exactly. You can just have the toppings. Sure.
COLLINS: Right. The guys are very concerned with their weight.
OK, so tell us, we were wondering a little bit earlier about getting Super Bowl tickets. You can actually still do this?
LEWIS: Oh, absolutely, eBay, right?
COLLINS: Yes.
LEWIS: They're still up for auction but get a load of these prices. Tickets are going for about two grand apiece. If you want to sit on the 50 yard line, that number goes up to five grand and, of course, because of the timing, you'll want to search regionally, because you will have to work it out with the seller exactly how you're going to get your hands on the actual ticket stub. But they are there. There are hundreds of them.
COLLINS: Wow, hundreds, huh? All right. You've just got to be ready to fork over the dough, it sounds like.
LEWIS: Yes, big time.
COLLINS: OK, let's go on to number three.
LEWIS: No. 3 is on the 30th anniversary of "Roe v. Wade." You can imagine a lot of heated discussion on that.
And No. 2 is Laci Peterson. People following the breaking news there and, importantly, on that site, if you go to lacipeterson.com, they have a guest book and you can send well wishes and thoughts to the family.
COLLINS: Yes, and, you know, that press conference last night just absolutely heartbreaking.
LEWIS: Oh. COLLINS: I think what struck me the most is that they, the brother, they're now naming the baby. And I believe that they said the name was Conner. They're saying that they very much miss Laci and Conner. So certainly...
LEWIS: It was just heart...
COLLINS: Yes.
LEWIS: ... it was just absolutely heartbreaking and a lot of people are writing. I mean essentially it's potentially a triple loss, the loss of their daughter, their unborn grandson and perhaps in a faith end, their former son-in-law. Just tragic.
COLLINS: All right, what's number one?
LEWIS: No. 1 is Iraq, absolutely, the showdown. In an interesting poll taken by about two million people -- that's an awfully big number -- 66 percent said they fear war is inevitable at this point.
COLLINS: Hmmm.
LEWIS: Yes.
COLLINS: All right, 66 percent. All right.
Unfortunately, that is going to do it for us today.
Regina Lewis, we certainly appreciate all of your traffic watching on the Internet.
LEWIS: OK. I'll keep watching.
COLLINS: Great.
That's the technical term, anyway.
Thanks so much, Regina.
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