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(CNN) -- Mikey Welsh, most famously known as the bassist for the rock band Weezer, died unexpectedly Saturday, according to the band. He was 40.

The cause of death was not immediately known.

Darryl Baety, a Chicago police spokesman, said that officers responded at 1:45 p.m. Saturday to a call from the Raffaello Hotel regarding a guest who had been scheduled to check out, but had not.

After first knocking on the door, hotel personnel entered and found someone who was "unresponsive and not breathing," according to Baety.

Police are conducting a death investigation related to the case, pending autopsy results, Baety said.

According to Welsh's official website, he was a painter before he made the the shift to music at age 19. A decade later, he had achieved fame as the bassist for the band Weezer, replacing the band's longtime bassist Matt Sharp.

Welsh was part of the band's 2001 "Green Album" release, which featured "Hash Pipe." The single became one of the band's biggest hits, peaking at No. 2 on Billboard's Alternative songs chart.

Welsh left the band shortly after, saying he had suffered a nervous breakdown.

The band remembered Welsh as vital chapter to their history and one to never "shy away from the absurd, dangerous or strange," according to a statement on Weezer's website.

Weezer played as scheduled Sunday during Chicago's RIOTfest.

CNN's Denise Quan contributed to this report.

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Editor's note: The Rev. Donald Cozzens is writer in residence and adjunct professor of theology at John Carroll University in Cleveland, Ohio. A priest of the Diocese of Cleveland with a doctoral degree, he is the author of several books on the Catholic Church, including "Sacred Silence: Denial and the Crisis in the Church" and "Freeing Celibacy," both published by Liturgical Press. For another view on this topic, read here.

The Rev. Donald Cozzens says the debate over celibacy for priests will be around for decades.

(CNN) -- It's an issue that simply won't go away. In spite of signals from the Vatican discouraging even discussions of obligatory celibacy for Catholic priests, the almost 1,000-year-old rule is under the microscope. And it will be for decades to come. Here's why.

In the Catholic tradition, even though sex is cast as sinful unless expressed in the conjugal embrace of husband and wife, it is held as fundamentally good, a part of God's creation.

The church even holds that marriage (including spousal lovemaking) is a sacrament -- something sacred that contributes to the sanctity of husbands and wives. In light of this official teaching, it is dawning on many Catholics that mandatory celibacy for priests, a canonically imposed discipline of the church, is precisely that -- a discipline.

They are asking, "How is it that a discipline of the church has been allowed to trump a sacrament of the church?" In effect, the church is saying that should God call a man to the priesthood, God will not, at the same time, call that individual to the sacrament of marriage. It's right to ask, how does the church know this?

Public opinion surveys indicate that most Catholics, priests included, believe the discipline of celibacy needs a serious review. Recently the retired archbishop of New York, Cardinal Edward Egan, observed that obligatory celibacy is open for discussion. It is not, Egan noted, a matter of dogma.

For decades now, bishops from Asia, Europe and the Americas have asked Vatican officials to consider optional celibacy for priests. The church's official response is consistent and succinct: As a precious gift from God, the discipline of celibacy for priests will remain in place.

This, in spite of the inherent paradox lying just below the claim that the gift of celibacy is a precious gift of God to the priesthood and the church: How can a gift be legislated? The church answers that if a man is called to the priesthood, God will grant him the gift of celibacy. Many priests today wonder how church leaders know this. Reading the mind of God in this matter --  in any matter of church discipline -- is risky business.

More and more Catholics today are coming to understand that celibacy as a universal law for priests had its origins in the 12th century and that during the church's first millennium, priests and bishops --  and at least thirty-nine popes -- were married.

Still, most well-read cradle Catholics are surprised to learn that St. Anastasius, pope from 399 to 401, was succeeded by his son, Pope St. Innocent I, and that a century later Pope St. Hormisdas' son, St. Silverius, also was elected to the papacy.

Even in our secular world, it's common to speak of church-based ministry as a calling, a vocation. Isn't it possible that God would call an individual to the priesthood and to the sacrament of marriage? God apparently did so for more than half the church's history. How do we know that God isn't doing so today?

For some years now I've been teaching in the religious studies department at John Carroll University in Cleveland. I've asked dozens of serious, healthy young students if they have given any thought to being a priest. They seem flattered by the question. With only one exception, each has answered, "Yes, I've thought about being a priest, but I want a family."

There are, of course, other factors, urgent and pressing, that will keep the celibacy issue alive. The Catholic priesthood is aging. The average age of active priests hovers at 60, and if retired priests are factored in, it is considerably higher. Moreover, Catholic seminaries are lucky to be half full.

Parish staffing challenges alone will press for a review of the celibacy rule. Catholic bishops simply do not have enough priests to meet the pastoral and sacramental needs of the Catholic faithful. Closing and merging parishes may offer some temporary relief for overworked priests, but the shortfall of priests will continue to challenge the vitality of Catholic parishes and the health of Catholic clergy for decades to come.

But the most human, existential factor that should keep the celibacy issue on the table is the spiritual and emotional health of priests. Celibacy really isn't the issue -- mandatory or obligatory celibacy is.

There are many priests who do possess the gift of celibacy -- it is their "truth" so to speak -- and their humanity, warmth and pastoral effectiveness give abundant evidence of their authentic celibate lives. But there remain other priests who believe deep down they are called to the priesthood but not to celibacy. And for these men, the burden of mandated celibacy threatens their spiritual and emotional well-being. The priesthood may be their "truth," but mandated celibacy wraps them in a cloak of loneliness and struggle.

I don't know Father Alberto Cutie. He appears to have touched the lives of many and preached the gospel with power and conviction. I suspect he feels called by God to be a priest, but not a celibate priest.

Surely he knows that Easter Rite Catholic priests are allowed to marry and that the church welcomes into the priesthood married convert ministers from other Christian denominations. Surely he knows that in many parts of the Catholic world, clerical celibacy is openly flouted, and church authorities choose not to notice.

I wonder if church officials understand the burden they place on the shoulders of a man who believes he is called to priestly ministry but not to celibacy. Certainly, a married priesthood will have burdens of its own and, sadly, scandals of its own -- infidelity and abuse among others. But it should be left to the individual priest and seminarian to determine whether or not he is blessed with the gift of celibacy.

A mandated "gift," after all, is really no gift at all.

The opinions expressed in this commentary are solely those of the Rev. Donald Cozzens.

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(CNN) -- "I AM" is a new CNN.com feature built on the belief that the labels we use for one another don't really reveal who we are.

We present a collection of people who may surprise you. They not only defy their labels, but they've done it in very public and dramatic ways.

This week, I AM presents four African-Americans who challenge conventional notions of blackness. But then defining what it means to be black has long been a matter of debate within the African-American community. The R&B singer, Billy Paul, once had a song called, "Am I Black Enough?"   Well are they? You be the judge.   Barbara Hillary  -- At the age of 75, she became the first African American woman to reach the North Pole.

Maurice Ashley  -- Is the first and only African American to attain the coveted title of International Grand Master of Chess.   Bliss Broyard  -- Author of "One Drop: My Father's Hidden Life -- A Story of Race & Family Secrets," learned her father was black just before his death.  Marvin Perkins  -- As an African American elder in the Mormon church, Perkins says he is one of the world's best kept secrets in the world.

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LAGOS, Nigeria (CNN)  -- Militants in Nigeria's oil-rich southern delta region said they killed six government soldiers after the military attacked one of its camps on Thursday.

Heavily armed Nigerian rebels pose a constant threat to oil pipelines in the country.

The Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta, in an e-mail, said three military gunboats attacked one of its camps around the Ke River in the country's Rivers state.

The group said the gunboats were repelled, with six soldiers dying and three militant fighters wounded in the skirmish.

There was no immediate reaction from the government.

Nigeria is Africa's largest crude oil producer and the fourth-largest supplier of oil to the United States. MEND has demanded that more of the country's oil wealth be pumped into the region instead of enriching foreign investors, and the militants have been attacking oil pipelines in retaliation against government forces, limiting the amount of crude oil that can leave the country.

MEND -- the largest rebel group -- has targeted foreign oil companies since 2006. It has bombed pipelines and kidnapped hundreds of foreign oil workers, typically releasing them unharmed, sometimes after receiving a ransom payment.

MEND hopes to secure a greater share of oil wealth for people in the delta, where more than 70 percent of the population lives on less than a dollar a day.

Its attacks on oil facilities have taken a toll.

"Anytime a pipeline is affected, anytime any production gets shut down, you see oil prices jump up one or two dollars a barrel just because there is no slack in the system," said Jim LeCamp, a senior vice president with RBC Wealth Management, which manages assets for wealthy clients worldwide.

Exxon and Shell are two of several companies that have been extracting 2 million barrels of oil a day in Nigeria. Recent rebel attacks on oil pipelines in the Niger Delta have cut overall production by roughly 10 percent -- meaning 200,000 fewer barrels of oil on some days.

That decrease in production comes at a time of increased demand from oil-hungry regions such as China, Russia and Latin America.

"Anytime there's a disruption there, it really affects the system," LeCamp said in a recent interview with CNN.

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Port-au-Prince, Haiti (CNN)  -- International aid groups were feverishly trying to get supplies into quake-ravaged Haiti on Thursday to prevent the situation from going from "dire to absolutely catastrophic."

The search-and-rescue efforts are the top priority.

"The ability to get people out of that rubble is paramount," said Jonathan Aiken, a spokesman for the American Red Cross. "You have a very limited time to accomplish that before people die and before you start to get into issues of diseases."

Behind the scenes, a massive coordination effort involving dozens of aid groups, the Haitian government, the United Nations and the U.S. military was under way to get food, water, tents and other supplies to survivors of the 7.0-magnitude earthquake.

Ian Rodgers, a senior emergency adviser for Save the Children, said aid efforts were at a "tipping point."

"People are without water; children are without food and without shelter," he said. "What we will see with the lack of water is the possibility of diarrheal diseases and, of course, that can kill children in a matter of hours if not tended to appropriately.

"It is very possible," Rodgers said, "that the situation can go from dire to absolutely catastrophic if we don't get enough food, medicine and work with children and their families to help them."

In the United States, President Obama promised the people of Haiti that "you will not be forsaken."

"Today, you must know that help is arriving," Obama said.

Precise casualty estimates were impossible to determine. Haitian President Rene Preval said Wednesday that he had heard estimates of up to 50,000 dead but that it was too early to know for sure. The Haitian prime minister said he worries that several hundred thousand people were killed.

The country's infrastructure has been devastated, the scope of the calamity enormous. "The government personnel that would normally lead these types of responses, they themselves have been affected," Rodgers said.

The Haitian government stopped accepting flights Thursday because ramp space at the airport in the capital city, Port-au-Prince, was saturated and no fuel was available, said Federal Aviation Adminstration spokeswoman Laura Brown.

Meanwhile, the pier used for delivery of cargo to Port-au-Prince was "completely compromised" by Tuesday's earthquake, said CNN's Eric Marrapodi. Three ships filled with medical supplies, food, clothing and water were turned away, he said. Roads leading into the city from the dock were bucked about 5 feet high by the earthquake, he said.

Relief agencies are focusing on food, shelter, medical care and communications, all of which will help establish a sense of security, Aiken said. "The people will at least know that the world is paying attention to them."

Supplies and security

A bottleneck of supplies has built up while authorities have tried to get Haiti's main airport functioning. Rubble-strewn roads, downed trees and a battered communications network have hampered humanitarian efforts. Aftershocks continue to jolt the region, causing further fear and panic among residents.

"We're going to have to wait for this pipeline of aid coming in from various places around the world to be set up and put into full gear before Haitians can get all the help that they need," Aiken said. "You're going to start seeing some progress on that today."

While planes were able to bring in the first round of supplies, the question became, Aiken said, "how do you get it to the folks who need it?"

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Haiti isn't accustomed to quakes and doesn't have the heavy equipment or specialized machinery to help clear the rubble, Aiken said. Aid groups and government agencies are coordinating to get the equipment in.

"It's basically a matter of clearing out the rubble, making sure that areas are workable, that you have security that can protect these supplies and that you have security in place to help people," Aiken said.

U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said a contingent of 2,000 U.S. Marines will help the international peacekeeping and police force established after the 2004 ouster of then-President Jean-Bertrand Aristide.

"We'll try to support them as they re-establish authority," Clinton said.

The American Red Cross emptied a warehouse in Panama that had been filled with everything from cooking kits to toiletries to medical supplies and tents. That load of supplies is likely to make it into Haiti on Thursday, Aiken said. "Our effort is immediate relief and supplies."

"The needs are overwhelming at this point in time," Rodgers said. "We are going to be doing our best to respond to that, but obviously that's a big task at hand."

Medical emergency

Hospitals in Port-au-Prince have collapsed, and the few facilities still open can't handle the needs of the injured. The United States and other countries were dispatching medical supplies, facilities and personnel. People who suffered broken bones from falling debris have been unable to get treatment; there's simply too many of them.

"We need medical help," Haitian President Rene Preval said. "Some of the hospitals, they collapsed. The hospitals, they are full, and they put people in the outside."

Clinton said, "Just getting to people to provide the medical assistance they need is proving to be very difficult."

See CNN's complete coverage of the quake

Barbara DeBuono, the former commissioner of health for New York state, said the coordination between the U.S. military and groups like the Red Cross is essential to treating the sick and injured. "Making sure that the right hand knows what the left hand is doing is really, really critical here, so that there isn't further chaos and confusion."

Aiken said officials would assess the situation on the ground and coordinate medical efforts.

As the days go by, health concerns will grow about diseases, like cholera and tuberculosis, from the thousands of corpses on streets and in the rubble. The bodies also can affect the water supply and sanitation.

"You can have airborne diseases," Aiken said. "You can have animals carrying [diseases] feeding off these corpses."

Haiti could also have a humanitarian crisis since tens of thousands of homes have been destroyed, forcing residents onto residents.

"There needs to be a place to put people and to set up a structure like a refugee camp," Aiken said. "That's all part of this."

But he said, for now, the priority is to rescue as many people as possible -- and get supplies in as quickly as possible.

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text: the

text: earthquake

text: he

text: said

text: Relief

text: agencies

text: are

text: focusing

text: on

text: food

text: shelter

text: medical

text: care

text: and

text: communications

text: all

text: of

text: which

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text: help

text: establish

text: a

text: sense

text: of

text: security

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text: that

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text: world

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text: Supplies

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text: security

text: A

text: bottleneck

text: of

text: supplies

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text: built

text: up

text: while

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text: have

text: tried

text: to

text: get

text: Haiti

text: 's

text: main

text: airport

text: functioning

text: Rubble

text: strewn

text: roads

text: downed

text: trees

text: and

text: a

text: battered

text: communications

text: network

text: have

text: hampered

text: humanitarian

text: efforts

text: Aftershocks

text: continue

text: to

text: jolt

text: the

text: region

text: causing

text: further

text: fear

text: and

text: panic

text: among

text: residents

text: We

text: 're

text: going

text: to

text: have

text: to

text: wait

text: for

text: this

text: pipeline

text: of

text: aid

text: coming

text: in

text: from

text: various

text: places

text: around

text: the

text: world

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text: be

text: set

text: up

text: and

text: put

text: into

text: full

text: gear

text: before

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text: can

text: get

text: all

text: the

text: help

text: that

text: they

text: need

text: Aiken

text: said

text: You

text: 're

text: going

text: to

text: start

text: seeing

text: some

text: progress

text: on

text: that

text: today

text: While

text: planes

text: were

text: able

text: to

text: bring

text: in

text: the

text: first

text: round

text: of

text: supplies

text: the

text: question

text: became

text: Aiken

text: said

text: how

text: do

text: you

text: get

text: it

text: to

text: the

text: folks

text: who

text: need

text: it

text: Impact

text: Your

text: World

text: How

text: you

text: can

text: help

text: Haiti

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text: n't

text: accustomed

text: to

text: quakes

text: and

text: does

text: n't

text: have

text: the

text: heavy

text: equipment

text: or

text: specialized

text: machinery

text: to

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text: clear

text: the

text: rubble

text: Aiken

text: said

text: Aid

text: groups

text: and

text: government

text: agencies

text: are

text: coordinating

text: to

text: get

text: the

text: equipment

text: in

text: It

text: 's

text: basically

text: a

text: matter

text: of

text: clearing

text: out

text: the

text: rubble

text: making

text: sure

text: that

text: areas

text: are

text: workable

text: that

text: you

text: have

text: security

text: that

text: can

text: protect

text: these

text: supplies

text: and

text: that

text: you

text: have

text: security

text: in

text: place

text: to

text: help

text: people

text: Aiken

text: said

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text: Secretary

text: of

text: State

text: Hillary

text: Clinton

text: said

text: a

text: contingent

text: of

text: U.S.

text: Marines

text: will

text: help

text: the

text: international

text: peacekeeping

text: and

text: police

text: force

text: established

text: after

text: the

text: ouster

text: of

text: then

text: President

text: Jean

text: Bertrand

text: Aristide

text: We

text: 'll

text: try

text: to

text: support

text: them

text: as

text: they

text: re

text: establish

text: authority

text: Clinton

text: said

text: The

text: American

text: Red

text: Cross

text: emptied

text: a

text: warehouse

text: in

text: Panama

text: that

text: had

text: been

text: filled

text: with

text: everything

text: from

text: cooking

text: kits

text: to

text: toiletries

text: to

text: medical

text: supplies

text: and

text: tents

text: That

text: load

text: of

text: supplies

text: is

text: likely

text: to

text: make

text: it

text: into

text: Haiti

text: on

text: Thursday

text: Aiken

text: said

text: Our

text: effort

text: is

text: immediate

text: relief

text: and

text: supplies

text: The

text: needs

text: are

text: overwhelming

text: at

text: this

text: point

text: in

text: time

text: Rodgers

text: said

text: We

text: are

text: going

text: to

text: be

text: doing

text: our

text: best

text: to

text: respond

text: to

text: that

text: but

text: obviously

text: that

text: 's

text: a

text: big

text: task

text: at

text: hand

text: Medical

text: emergency

text: Hospitals

text: in

text: Port

text: au

text: Prince

text: have

text: collapsed

text: and

text: the

text: few

text: facilities

text: still

text: open

text: ca

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text: handle

text: the

text: needs

text: of

text: the

text: injured

text: The

text: United

text: States

text: and

text: other

text: countries

text: were

text: dispatching

text: medical

text: supplies

text: facilities

text: and

text: personnel

text: People

text: who

text: suffered

text: broken

text: bones

text: from

text: falling

text: debris

text: have

text: been

text: unable

text: to

text: get

text: treatment

text: there

text: 's

text: simply

text: too

text: many

text: of

text: them

text: We

text: need

text: medical

text: help

text: Haitian

text: President

text: Rene

text: Preval

text: said

text: Some

text: of

text: the

text: hospitals

text: they

text: collapsed

text: The

text: hospitals

text: they

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text: full

text: and

text: they

text: put

text: people

text: in

text: the

text: outside

text: Clinton

text: said

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text: to

text: people

text: to

text: provide

text: the

text: medical

text: assistance

text: they

text: need

text: is

text: proving

text: to

text: be

text: very

text: difficult

text: See

text: CNN

text: 's

text: complete

text: coverage

text: of

text: the

text: quake

text: Barbara

text: DeBuono

text: the

text: former

text: commissioner

text: of

text: health

text: for

text: New

text: York

text: state

text: said

text: the

text: coordination

text: between

text: the

text: U.S.

text: military

text: and

text: groups

text: like

text: the

text: Red

text: Cross

text: is

text: essential

text: to

text: treating

text: the

text: sick

text: and

text: injured

text: Making

text: sure

text: that

text: the

text: right

text: hand

text: knows

text: what

text: the

text: left

text: hand

text: is

text: doing

text: is

text: really

text: really

text: critical

text: here

text: so

text: that

text: there

text: is

text: n't

text: further

text: chaos

text: and

text: confusion

text: Aiken

text: said

text: officials

text: would

text: assess

text: the

text: situation

text: on

text: the

text: ground

text: and

text: coordinate

text: medical

text: efforts

text: As

text: the

text: days

text: go

text: by

text: health

text: concerns

text: will

text: grow

text: about

text: diseases

text: like

text: cholera

text: and

text: tuberculosis

text: from

text: the

text: thousands

text: of

text: corpses

text: on

text: streets

text: and

text: in

text: the

text: rubble

text: The

text: bodies

text: also

text: can

text: affect

text: the

text: water

text: supply

text: and

text: sanitation

text: You

text: can

text: have

text: airborne

text: diseases

text: Aiken

text: said

text: You

text: can

text: have

text: animals

text: carrying

text: diseases

text: feeding

text: off

text: these

text: corpses

text: Haiti

text: could

text: also

text: have

text: a

text: humanitarian

text: crisis

text: since

text: tens

text: of

text: thousands

text: of

text: homes

text: have

text: been

text: destroyed

text: forcing

text: residents

text: onto

text: residents

text: There

text: needs

text: to

text: be

text: a

text: place

text: to

text: put

text: people

text: and

text: to

text: set

text: up

text: a

text: structure

text: like

text: a

text: refugee

text: camp

text: Aiken

text: said

text: That

text: 's

text: all

text: part

text: of

text: this

text: But

text: he

text: said

text: for

text: now

text: the

text: priority

text: is

text: to

text: rescue

text: as

text: many

text: people

text: as

text: possible

text: and

text: get

text: supplies

text: in

text: as

text: quickly

text: as

text: possible

question: Who said "The needs are overwhelming at this point in time?"

answer: Rodgers

text: Rodgers

question: What has backed up as Port-ay Prince airport reopens?

answer: Supplies

text: Supplies

question: What was the top priority?

answer: The search-and-rescue efforts

text: The search-and-rescue efforts

question: What concerns are growing as bodies begin piling up?

answer: diseases, like cholera and tuberculosis,

text: diseases, like cholera and tuberculosis,


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On CNN's "State of the Union," CNN host and chief national correspondent John King goes outside the Beltway to report on the issues affecting communities across the country. King recently traveled to Arizona, to explore the debate over how to control illegal immigration.

A fence separates the United States from Mexico in the U.S. Border Patrol's Yuma Sector in San Luis, Arizona.

SAN LUIS, Arizona (CNN)  -- The Yuma desert is below: San Luis, Arizona, to one side and San Luis, Mexico, to the other. On this clear day, the Colorado River is glistening, birds playfully circling over what any map defines as the U.S.-Mexico border in this area.

But from a helicopter above, the border is a steel barrier that stands out along the riverbank and against the desert sands, and is the dividing line that gets the most attention from those crying to cross illegally and those who believe recent efforts to bolster U.S. border security have been riddled with wrong choices.

Just this past week, eight Democrats in Congress wrote President Obama urging him to halt any further construction of the fence, one of the many border- and immigration-related political debates that have carried over from the Bush administration.

To the Border Patrol agents stationed in Yuma Sector, there is no debate. To them, the fence is a success story. From a Vietnam War-vintage Huey helicopter, pilot Chad Smith points across the border to Mexico's Highway 2 and then to the barriers that help stop illegal immigrants from making a sprint into southern Arizona.

"You can see the triple-layer fencing," Smith tells us as he lowers the helicopter and hovers over what was once a major crossing point for illegal immigrants and drug smugglers. "Steel fence right on the border, the pedestrian fence about 90 feet north of that, and then the chain-link fence with the barbed wire."

The fence has three layers in areas where there is an urban neighborhood on the Mexican side. Smith is among those who say their flights are less hectic now because while you can still clearly see the trails in the sand and in some hilly areas below, there is considerably less traffic.

"I've flown before and come back and had 70-plus [illegal immigrants logged in a tracking book]," Smith said. " I know guys who have gone on a flight and come back with 100-plus illegals in their logbook. Now it is in single digits, typically."

It is a fascinating view from above: Old trails in some places, and the remnants of newly placed white sandbags in others.

"It forms a pretty good bridge for them to drive across." Smith says of the sandbags. When they are spotted from above, Border Patrol agents on the ground are called in to destroy the makeshift crossings.

Congress in 2006 -- with then-Sen. Barack Obama's support -- authorized nearly $3 billion for 670 miles of fencing stretching from California to Texas. There are more lights, sensors and cameras, and there are also more agents like Mike Lowrie driving patrols and chasing tips called in from colleagues monitoring the camera feeds at the Yuma Sector headquarters.

Standing alongside the steel barrier at a point in which there is just one layer of fencing, Lowrie shakes his head when told that some in Washington want to stop additional construction in other areas.

"This used to be a very high-trafficked area, and now it is not," Lowrie told us.

Asked to define "high traffic," Lowrie says, "In the Yuma Sector, we would get about 800 a day. Now, 25 maybe, or 10."

Nodding toward the barrier, he continued: "Numbers don't lie. We didn't have it three years ago, and we were getting massive numbers of illegal entries. We have it now, and we don't."

But there are voices on both extremes of the immigration debate that say the role of the fence is exaggerated, or that say the barrier's benefit in slowing illegal traffic is offset by other costs.

Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, whose tough stance against illegal immigrants has earned him global media coverage, says the fence is fine, but: "We just arrested 150 in the past 14 days. They're still coming."

And Father John Herman, a Roman Catholic priest whose Spanish language Masses are packed with illegal immigrants, blames the fence for more risky crossings in less-populated desert areas.

"We know that the way enforcement has gone has driven many people into the desert and caused more deaths. Needless deaths. If we could only get together and work for comprehensive immigration reform."

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text: Union

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text: national

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text: fence

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text: success

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text: past

text: days

text: They

text: 're

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text: coming

text: And

text: Father

text: John

text: Herman

text: a

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question: What has the fence achieved?

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question: What has the fence made happen?

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New York (CNN) -- Officials are investigating reports that two fire department dispatchers trained in emergency medical care refused to help a pregnant worker who collapsed in a cafe they were visiting. The woman later died.

Eutisha Rennix collapsed while working at an Au Bon Pain restaurant in Brooklyn on December 9 and died at Long Island College Hospital, according to the district attorney's office for Brooklyn, which is looking into the incident. A spokesman for the office said Rennix was pregnant.

The district attorney's office identified the two dispatchers as Jason Green and Melissa Jackson.

The New York Fire Department has suspended them without pay pending a department investigation, spokesman Frank Dwyer said.

Although the two worked as dispatchers, they had been trained as emergency medical technicians, said Steve Ritea, another department spokesman. Emergency medical technicians receive several weeks of training in medical care, he said

Rennix's co-workers said Green and Jackson were in the cafe at the time Rennix collapsed, but left after telling her co-workers to call 911, local media outlets reported.

Rennix's mother, Cynthia, said she was told that her daughter's co-workers tried to get the two to help, but they refused, according to CNN affiliate NY1.

"If they were really caring and concerned, they would have taken a minute to see and probably, possibility, something to do or some way the could help her," Rennix said.

But Jeff Samerson, a spokesman for the EMT and paramedics union that represents Green and Jackson, told NY1 that Jackson herself called 911.

"These are people that are not in the field, that have not had patient contact in years. ... And they did the best they could," Samerson said.

The fire department, however, issued a statement saying, "All of our members have taken an oath to assist others in need of emergency medical care."

Cynthia Rennix told CNN that she feels the EMTs were "heartless" and "non-caring" and hopes that her daughter's tragedy will prompt the city of New York to implement some sort of training or classes to ensure that a situation like this won't happen again.

The victim's brother, Eudane Rennix, was overseas serving in the U.S. Army in Kuwait when he received the call about his sister's death. He came home on emergency leave and that is when, he said, the family broke down together.

"If this is your job, why wouldn't you want to help someone in need?" he said. "There's no excuse whatsoever."

Eutisha Rennix's fiance and the father of her unborn child, Harry Woodsen, said the losses have been hard on the whole family.

"Everybody has two losses," he said. "I lost a fiance, and I lost a child. Her brother lost a sister and niece. Her mother lost a grandchild and her daughter."

The outrage at the incident has rippled beyond Brooklyn.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg slammed the EMTs at a news conference Monday. "Somebody's dying down the street and they say 'Help them,' and they just sat there," he said. "There's no excuse whatsoever, as far as I can see."

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question: what happened to the emt's

answer: suspended them without pay pending a department investigation,

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question: What did her co-workers say?

answer: Green and Jackson were in the cafe at the time Rennix collapsed, but left after telling

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question: What did the fire department say?

answer: "All of our members have taken an oath to assist others in need of emergency medical care."

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question: What happened to Eutisha Rennix?

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question: What happened to the two EMTS while the city investigates the reports?

answer: New York Fire Department has suspended them without pay

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question: What did her co-workers reportly say about the two EMTS?

answer: Green and Jackson were in the cafe at the time Rennix collapsed, but left after telling

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question: Who collapsed while working at a Brooklyn cafe?

answer: Eutisha Rennix

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