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THE WEEKEND NEWSLETTER MSNBC..The Power of NBC News on Cable 24/7. Saturday March 8, 2003- Sunday March 9, 2003 ***PREMIERING THIS SATURDAY 3/8 at 5p eastern...join one of America's top radio voices and best-selling author Michael Savage for the premiere of his new weekly show, "Savage Nation". For more information click here: (www.savagenation.msnbc.com )*** Please note that MSNBC will be airing additional LIVE coverage, keeping our viewers up to date on the latest developments with Iraq. We have added special weekend airings of "The Abrams Report", "Hardball with Chris Matthews", "Countdown: Iraq" and "MSNBC Reports with Joe Scarborough".... For air times/dates, please see below. Also, on Sunday at 8pm, tune in for a special NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER: PETER ARNETT'S BAGHDAD DIARY/THE AFGHAN GIRL, as National Geographic EXPLORER correspondent Peter Arnett reports on how the foreign media in Baghdad are preparing for war. Then following at 10pm, tune in for MSNBC INVESTIGATES: CROSSROADS OF DEATH as MSNBC takes you right into the thick of things at Mazar e-Sharif, all because a documentary filmmaker was in the wrong place at the right time. Please check below for the complete weekend schedule and have a great weekend! SATURDAY, MARCH 8 6AM ET HEADLINERS & LEGENDS: BRUCE WILLIS Bruce Willis stunned Hollywood when he successfully jumped from a TV sitcom to movie royalty. He gained international celebrity and all that goes with it - the money, the fame and a very public divorce from wife Demi Moore. For this hero of box office blockbusters, the road to superstardom was long. See how this Manhattan bartender moonlighted his way straight to the top. 7AM ET-4PM ET MSNBC LIVE 4PM ET ECONOMY WATCH 5PM ET SAVAGE NATION (PREMIERE) 6PM ET COUNTDOWN: IRAQ (LIVE) 7PM ET HARDBALL WITH CHRIS MATTHEWS (LIVE) 8PM ET MSNBC REPORTS WITH JOE SCARBOROUGH (LIVE) 9PM ET MSNBC REPORTS: THE NEXT WAR We call it 9/11 now, the day that changed the world and the day that brought the future crashing into us. Suddenly we are facing a new kind of warfare - a hidden enemy willing to strike anywhere, targeting civilians, using terror as its greatest weapon. The U.S. has the most powerful war machine the world has ever seen, but it was created to combat conventional forces. Now, the military is rapidly shifting to face a new kind of danger that once seemed unimaginable. Whether it is in Iraq or against the shifting cloud of terrorism - American troops are now being challenged as never before. This is the story of what they're facing, and how well they're prepared to face it. 10PM ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES: CORONER: DEATH SCENE INVESTIGATORS In this installment from our "Coroner" series we spend a day in the life of several coroner's investigators. Forget what you think you already know about these men and women... they -love- what they do. Hosted by John Seigenthaler 11PM ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES: CRIME SCENE DETECTIVES The forensic scientists in this program are the real life version of Dr. Quincy...showing us how they ID killers with a single bite mark, and use insects to figure out when someone died. Hosted by John Seigenthaler. 12AM ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES: SEX CRIME DETECTIVES We follow as the Nashville Sex Crimes Unit of the Nashville PD uses its years of research to wrap up some of the most hideous crimes. John Seigenthaler hosts. 1AM ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES: CORONER DEATH SCENE INVESTIGATORS 2AM ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES: CRIME SCENE DETECTIVES 3AM ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES: SEX CRIME DETECTIVES 4AM ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES: CORONER DEATH SCENE INVESTIGATORS 5AM ET NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER: ON THE FRONTLINES (2HRS.) National Geographic EXPLORER correspondent Michael Davie joins sailors and marines aboard the amphibious warship USS Tarawa, which has been deployed to the Persian Gulf, as they engage in intense combat training. Boyd Matson hosts. SUNDAY, MARCH 9 7AM ET ECONOMY WATCH 8AM-6PM ET MSNBC LIVE 6PM ET THE ABRAMS REPORT (LIVE) 7PM ET COUNTDOWN: IRAQ (LIVE) 8-10PM ET ***PREMIERE*** NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER: PETER ARNETT'S BAGHDAD DIARY/THE AFGHAN GIRL National Geographic EXPLORER correspondent Peter Arnett reports on how the foreign media in Baghdad are preparing for war. EXPLORER's "Peter Arnett's Baghdad Diary" investigates the issues journalists are facing and what is going through their minds as war looms over Iraq. Boyd Matson hosts. 10PM ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES: CROSSROADS OF DEATH It was one of the bloodiest battles of the ground war in Afghanistan, and in this documentary we take you right into the thick of things at Mazar e-Sharif, all because a documentary filmmaker was in the wrong place at the right time. What the filmmaker, Dodge Billingsley, didn't know was that another American, John Walker Lindh - the man who will soon come to be known as the American Taliban - was there as well. Nor does Billingsley know that just yards from where he is standing lies the body of yet another American , CIA agent Mike Spann. Hosted by John Seigenthaler. 11PM ET NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC EXPLORER: PETER ARNETT'S BAGHDAD DIARY/THE AFGHAN GIRL 1AM ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES: CROSSROADS OF DEATH 2AM ET WEEKEND MAGAZINE: FIRE ON THE MOUNTAIN It all began with a lightning bolt. Within days, it was the deadliest wildfire in modern history. 2,000 acres burned, 14 lives lost -- all atop Colorado's Storm King Mountain. Bob McKeown reports. 3AM ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES: SPECIAL DELIVERY Step inside the busiest maternity ward in America, where day and night the babies just keep coming. It's Dallas' Parkland Hospital where 16,000 babies are born every year!!! Hosted by John Seigenthaler. 4AM ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES: PHOENIX ICU >From runny noses to brain tumors, nurses are healthcare heroes. Unfortunately, the >nursing field has become very vacant in America, leaving those faithful few with a >tremendous responsibility. Not only do they dispense medication and follow doctor's >orders, but they help with diagnoses and are counselors to scared patient. In this >program, we follow the lives of three nurses and take a look at this demanding and >often overlooked profession. John Seigenthaler hosts. 5AM ET MSNBC INVESTIGATES: MIRACLE BABIES Witness brand new, never performed procedures that are helping doctors save the lives of very sick babies -- some even before they are born! In this hour, we'll go inside the world's leading fetal treatment center. We'll follow families who are facing the greatest crisis of their lives and watch the drama that unfolds as they put the fate of their babies in the hands of surgeons. It's a difficult time, filled with gut-wrenching decisions as these parents and doctors desperately try to save their babies' lives. *Schedule subject to change. ========================================= For more info, go to http://www.msnbc.com/news/MSNBCCABLE_Front.asp This email is never sent unsolicited. You have received this MSNBC Primetime Announcements newsletter because you subscribed to it or, someone forwarded it to you. To remove yourself from the list (or to add yourself to the list if this message was forwarded to you) simply go to http://www.msnbc.com/tools/newstools/e/emailextra.asp?nfeature=22