dramatic, very passionate tweets the gravitas that they quite frankly deserve. this one, i wish i had a piano. that would make this easier. this one calls for an opper attic. >> memo to all the spotty, tax-dodging, scrounging anarchists in london, please just give it a rest for today, can you? thanks. [ laughter ] >> i like the thanks at the end. i feel like -- this is good. this parrot is the smartest animal i've ever seen. amazing. yeah. i don't know. the president has agreed to >> the thoroughly impertinent josh groban joins me tomorrow. move his speech to next thursday that's it for us tonight. "ac 360" starts right now. night instead of wednesday his first choice. the decision comes after a war of words over the speech request. it all started this afternoon when the house speaker snubbed thanks very much. good evening, everyone. the president of the united states perhaps for the first time in history. the speaker's spokesman accused the white house of ignoring the flooding and big controversy over how to fund disaster relief.

a leading congressman says we "decades if not centuries of should pay for it but only with protocol in what republicans spending cuts in unrelated call an effort to run up the programs elsewhere. even though during another big gop. disaster, he wanted relief money in case you were wondering what all the gamesmanship and game for his own district with no strings attached. playing and petty politics is we're keeping them honest tonight. about, jobs, not politics, jobs. also in a moment, we'll take you new numbers tonight showing the live to a town that's still private sector created fewer under water and you'll hear from than 100,000 jobs this month. a man who has been stranded by hurricane irene and he says forgotten by fema. rising waters leaving him surrounded. president obama requested a time roads are gone. to speak to congress wednesday nearby houses gone as well. power is out. supplies are still limited. night to lay out his new jobs he says he hasn't seen a government official or fema plan. worker and only local sheriffs the date he asked for would trying to deal with the problem. he joins us shortly by phone. breaking news tonight, late word that president obama will hit pre-empt a gop debate. hard hit patterson new jersey this evening speaker boehner's over the weekend. office made a counter offer for the following night, opening flood warnings in effect for the night for the nfl. area up and down the east coast the white house says speaker in fact days after rain from hurricane irene first began boehner was informed about the address. falling. boehner spokesman says he wasn't susan candiotti is in the middle of it in little falls, new jersey. now president obama has agreed to just move the speech to thursday. parts of little falls have been evacuated. what's the latest on the joining me chief white house correspondent jessica yellin and flooding there? >> reporter: just to give you a on the phone democratic sense of where i am standing on strategist paul bell gall la the ledge of one of those vacuum and -- jessica, we've heard from cleaners at a car wash now dipping into the water so you white house press secretary jay

carnie saying wednesday was the can see how high the water is. date, it was the right date, the putting this piece of paper in there to show you how fast the right time. but now the white house is backing down. current is flowing. what are your sources telling you tonight? it's cold here. >> reporter: first of all, if they're going to address a joint there are 18,000 people in new jersey who have remained session of congress there are only two days next week they evacuated. could do it, wednesday or 3,500 of them remain right here in this county. thursday, because those are the they are out of their homes and only two dates that both houses they don't like it. are in session. so the white house says they anderson, you know what? this is like the third time for picked the first date. some of these people they have clearly there is a disadvantage to going thursday because as you been out of their homes this year. point out the nfl is there -- is first time for a hurricane. two other times because of just playing then. one white house official says bad storms. this whole flap was silly. >> you went around the town in a boat today. that's what they told me. and they would have been happy what did you see? to go thursday had the speaker's >> reporter: well, there's a office said originally that street right down here that's a that's what they would have dead ender and someone who has a preferred. rowboat with a motor attached to the bottom line is, this is it, we went down there. clearly a case of bad you know, the homes have water halfway up in many cases. communication, ugly, bad there are some where you see communication between them but also bad feelings between the garages where they left the two offices right now up and not doors open and it almost looks a sign of good things to come as like the homes are on stilts they try to actually work out a because the water went all of jobs plan which as you point out the way in. we went back there with one man is the main theme here going who lived here for about 15 forward. years. >> indeed. paul, i've got to ask you. he said he's never seen it this bad. this does it make the president

i asked him what he saw about seeing his house for the first look weak, though? time, he said i don't have the >> reporter: well, yes. words to describe it. but until the speech comes. it's just that bad. if the speech is strong the >> a lot of people there also president will look strong. have been refusing to evacuate. how are they handling it? this little tit for tat today, >> reporter: yeah. i talked to a lot of those jessica yellin has it right, she's a terrific reporter. people too. you know, they say we've been it's classic sort of through this. i refuse to leave my house. miscommunication. it is the sort of thing that has never happened in my memory. we have flood insurance. a lot of them are simply worried i used to work for the house about looting for both majority leader who was a democrat when we had a themselves and their neighbors. republican president and i there's a strong police presence worked for a democratic out here. president with a republican we've seen police turning people speaker. you work these things out. back if it looks like they don't the fact that the speaker right belong. your heart goes out to everyone not leaving. away kind of went to the >> any idea when the floodwaters airwaves and the fact that apparently the president's staff might start to recede or fully didn't carefully vet the date go away? with the speaker, it really is a >> reporter: they hope it will shame. it's going to be a great football game, but hopefully the be by this weekend when people might start to be able to come president can get his jobs speech in before kickoff. back in where the waters are the highest. >> eric erickson, to jessica's some people already started the cleanup. point that it doesn't bode well they are going to have a rough go of it. ahead of this jobs plan, isn't >> susan, appreciate the reporting. this exactly what american people are sick of, this thanks very much. i want to tell you about the bickering and the lack of situation in vermont now. they haven't seen things this bipartisanship in washington? bad since 1927. crews have been working hard >> they are sick of it. reopening dozens of roads but i think they're sick of politicians in washington flat

people are still stranded from out giving speeches now back on sunday including the man regardless of party. i think people are kind of tired you're about to meet. of the speeches. todd trazaskosis stuck in a small town of gaysville. i spoke to him a short time ago. i completely agree with jessica and paul both on this. it is kind of a silly affair. you say there are a couple hundred people stranded in your there have been these incidents area. what's the situation now? in the past. the last one i could find was actually woodrow wilson back in >> the same as it has been for the last several days since the the 19 teens who had given an water came through. a bunch of the major roads have address to congress in january, february, march and april of been cut by the flow and local 1914 and i think congress had guys are slowly getting it enough of him and didn't want to schedule anymore but hadn't together at least around the happened since then. bridges and culverts that had these things happen. problems. so he goes, wednesday night on there's a lot of activity from the republican debate or he is thursday night. you don't just have the nfl, oekz oklahoma-arizona which i'll the local contractors. be watching. >> that's where your attention any farmer with a front loader is trying to clear roads. >> it's hard for people who are will be. jessica, any more details coming familiar with the region to be on the speech itself, what's in this plan? stuck in an area with roads >> reporter: well, they're being being impassible. very closely held. but people who have been in how is everyone holding up? >> caller: generally everyone consultation with the whoug and made it quite clear i'm given to has been pretty well. believe we'll hear about a i know state troopers organized something where they were payroll tax cut extension which getting prescription medicine is an employee payroll tax cut. dropped in.

not everyone has a generator. we do. also a tax break to possibly employers who hire -- can create new jobs. maybe even an additional could so do the neighbors. be tax break to people who hire that's why people have come up the long-term unemployed, folks our which way. we're housing someone's whose who maybe have been out of work house the river went through and for six months or longer. that could be in there. someone next door the bridge a lot of people think it could went out and there's a landslide up to the house. also include for example money we emptied the house out to renovate dilapidated schools yesterday completely because it won't be safe. or even money to bring they're not staying there. it won't stay on the hillside. low-income housing up to energy efficiency standards and create >> have you heard from fema or new ways for private funding to state, local officials? >> caller: just local. get into infrastructure investments in cities and states. all of these are ideas that haven't seen anyone further up the chain than the local person. they've talked to outside policymakers about a lot of people think could show up in i've been out busy doing things. the speech one way or another. >> the question is ultimately there's a local meeting every it's a big night. opening night of the nfl. day at the end of the bridge now you've heard what at least the where we get updates. inside jessica's getting about people are trying to talk to what's in the speech. insurance people. will the american people be up for listening to it? it's going to be a slow process because there's not a lot of >> reporter: it may well be, good cell service in the valley. erik makes a great point. the college football game may be i'm up on this foot trail that better, oklahoma and arizona. we cut because it's got a good spot where i get a decent signal. there's a great pass sang of

we get something at the house scrip tur. man meant it for ill but god but it isn't always reliable. meant it for good. i think the speaker and the >> you had to hike up a trail to get cell service to talk to us. president have sort of stumbled a lot of the homes in the area were washed away. here. maybe the good news is people will watch and there'll be a does everyone have some kind of highsened expectation of shelter at this point? producing a serious jobs program >> caller: i think everyone at for this country. this point has been accounted for. that's the big job we did the first day making sure the hopefully the president will propose something big and the neighbors we knew were where congress will pass it. they were supposed to be. >> eric? >> reporter: maybe. i got a phone to someone who so i've got the sneaking suspicion that american people wasn't able to talk to the are really done with the outside and their relatives were speeches. and it doesn't matter which worried. political party. we've been passing messages for i think they're really done with folks. the speeches. they're done with the bickering. they're done with the arguing over fema funding. if anybody needs a shower when they just want either washington the generator's running we can to do something or washington to get them into the mix. get out of the way and let them >> todd, i wish you the best. do something. and i'm not really sure how many we'll check in with you and i people will tune in on thursday hope the folks that need medication are getting it regularly. state troopers were trying to night. >> low expectations. make that happen. jess, is the white house feeling thanks, todd. pressure of expectations? i mean, we're talking about this hurricane and flooding damage could break the bank for nfl game. but i mean, what's your sense fema. from them? >> reporter: well, there's no doubt. funding it is turning into a this is a different kind of mess. speech. leading congressional it's not about talking to the

republicans say they want to pay american people as much as it is for disaster relief by cutting laying out -- i mean they want money elsewhere in the budgets. to get their message out but governor chris christi had sharp laying out for congress a clear plan, very specific, saying here words for those in washington with that idea and those who support it. is my proposal from the white house. now it's your turn to act. >> nobody was asking about and so they're taking it offsetting budget cuts in joplin. directly to congress. are going there because it's his one shot at sort of delivering i don't want to hear the fact the message to congress. that offsetting budget cuts come and then it's up to congress to first before new jersey citizens are taken care of. sort of take it, leave it, take you want to figure out budget pieces of it. it's really out of the cuts, that's fine. president's hands beyond that. turn it into that fiasco like and after months of hearing the debt limit thing. criticism that president's in the been specific enough on where they're fighting with each issues, here's a night when other for eight or nine weeks and you expect the citizens of there are very high expectations he better be very, very my state to wait? specific. they're not going to wait and so they do know that there's a i'll make sure they don't lot of anticipation for this. and the pressure is on for him >> governor christi taking aim at house republican leaders to deliver. mainly majority leader eric >> indeed. because although you made the cantor pushing for those offsets. point it is about congress he is aware of the wider audience of >> the federal government does people looking for the president to get out in front here. have a role in situations like this when there's a disaster >> reporter: absolutely. there's an appropriate federal and a prime time audience, too, role. most likely. we'll find the moneys. we have yet to see what time it is. they have not yet said what time we've had discussions about it will actually happen on these things before. thursday night. >> and why is that?

those moneys will be offset with appropriate savings or cost cutting elsewhere in order to is that just -- >> reporter: they still have to figure it out. then there's the nfl game. meet the priority of the federal so they have to figure out the government's role in a situation like this. timing vis-a-vis when the game >> keeping them honest tonight. kicks off. in other situations like this, i'm sure paul and erik could congressman cantor has had a explain it all to us. different plan. >> i'm sure they could. but i think we'll pass on that. just give us the money. that was his plan before. jessica yellin, eric erickson this is damage from tropical and paul bed gall la, thanks to all of you. still ahead on 360, muammar storm gaston which hit gadhafi's sons are speaking out as a do or die deadline congressman cantor's district in approaches for their father's richmond, virginia, back in 2004. the congressman sent out a press ancestral city. they're not backing down at release after funding arrived. least not verbally. it reads the magnitude of the the latest from tripoli tonight damage suffered by the richmond area is beyond what the new developments in aruba commonwealth can handle and that's is where i asked the where the search for the missing american woman goes on. president to make federal funds why the key suspect, this man available for the citizens affected by gaston. right here, gary giordano, won't the president then was george w. be going home to maryland bush and the house was anytime soon. controlled by republicans. he wasn't talking about offsets then. a year later a gop colleague a year later after hurricane katrina hit a gop colleague proposed an amendment that would

tie relief cut to spending cuts doing precisely what congressman cantor now wants to do. back then, the congressman had a different view and he voted no on putting any strings on disaster relief. what's changed between then and now? between it being in his district and being in new jersey and vermont? well, the budget deficit is also larger and national debt is bigger but the political climate is also different. keeping them honest. there has never been much of a partisan political issue before. "the new york times" citing research by senate democrats showing that congress has every time a local business opens its doors approved 33 emergency or creates another laptop bag or hires another employee, appropriations for fema dating back to 1989, and none of them it's not just good for business -- called for budget cuts elsewhere it's good for the entire community. to pay for them. as for congressman cantor, his office declined our invitation at bank of america, we know to come on the program tonight the impact that local businesses and when he asked what the have on communities, so we're helping them congressman would cut to pay for emergency funding, his spokesman with advice from local business experts refused to give an answer. and extending $18 billion in credit last year. that's how we're helping set opportunity in motion. he says any discussion of cuts would be in his words hypothetical. i spoke earlier with republican strategists and democrat

strategists. back when the hurricane hit his district, he wasn't calling for offset for federal disaster money. >> of course he's being hypocritical. he's being political. he's a smart guy. he must see political angle here. i frankly don't. not only did he support aid for his district which was necessary when tropical storm gaston hit a couple years ago and has voted for $50 billion of rebuilding aid for iraq and $56 billion of rebuilding aid for afghanistan with no offsets and he's voted for $40 billion over ten years in aid to oil companies. subsidies for oil companies. i suppose the people hit by the hurricane have two options. hope that cheney and bush invade them and then eric cantor will send them aid or incorporate oil companies because eric cantor supports aid to oil companies as well but not american citizens hit by a hurricane.

>> alex, what about that? using fema to push for spending cuts during the debt ceiling fight, this now just the agreed upon tactic of using one issue to fight another battle? is that going to be the way business is done now in washington? >> i'm not sure that it's just a political point or a politically useful issue. i think the president here is blaming atm machine for not giving him money when he drained the bank account. this is the president who spent $1 billion on a similar laws that didn't work and a healthcare bill that america doesn't want. now he keeps saying let's spend money we don't have. all republicans say this is important. great. let's take $6 billion we're throwing away on ethanol right now and use it for something more important. >> we governors like bock mcdonald or chris christie attacking the candidates saying now is not the time to start a

big fight in spending cuts in terms of disaster assistance. >> in a trillion dollar budget, something in washington has to be left important than helping the people that we saw with homes flooded and homes destroyed. i think that's what you can get support for in congress. if it's that important and it is it why did the president spend all the money? >> paul, what about that? what's wrong with an offset for federal spending? >> for emergency spending you don't have an offset because 11 days after opposition here's the tricky part, it's an forces stormed the capital and emergency, alex. there's a regular order of these captured muammar gadhafi's things. compound they're poised 60 miles we should have budget debates through the normal budget process. outside sirt. they've given the city until should we subsidize oil companies the way that eric saturday to surrender or face cantor wants to do? attack. gadhafi's whereabouts remain a should we spend billions and mystery. billions rebuilding afghanistan and iraq with no offsets but no money rebuilding america. those are the kind of debates you can have in the regular order. when there's an emergency, what do you do? americans drop everything and go to help people who are in need. two of gadhafi's sons are that's what cantor should be speaking out. one defiantly and some may see doing. delusionally. >> paul and i are going to agree he told a syrian tv station, we'll have victory soon. on this. he said he was speaking from a suburb of tripoli. you should have money saved away he didn't reveal where his father is but listen to what he for rainy day and president and did say. >> translator: we are fighting democrats should have thought about that when they spent a and we're drinking tea and trillion on stimulus and coffee and we're sitting with

trillion on health care we our families and we are fighting. didn't have and now that rainy day where we need that has come >> they called for libyans to and we don't have it. rise up against the gangsters, rats, mercenaries attempted to >> i got to say i helped the president balance the budget -- get control of his country. >> you can tell the atm it's an emergency and it still won't wherever you see the enemy have the money. >> excuse me for talking while attack them, they are weak they you're interrupting. have suffered lots of losses and they are now licking their wounds. but i helped the president balance the budget. i know what it takes. he predicted loyalist forces frankly the republicans don't. they are the ones who squaundrd would keep control of sirt and the clinton surplus. keep loyalist square. and they did it, here's how. his brother's comments were a bit more restrained but tax cuts for the rich which we suggested there's room to could easily repeal if we need negotiate with opposition forces. the money and i think we do. nic robertson joins me now from tripoli. we heard from his son when he subsidies for oil companies and phoned into that syrian other corporations. a war against a country, iraq, television station. that was no threat to america. we could -- we should revisit are there any credible reports these republican parties. about where he may be? when the republicans talk deficits to me, it's like an arsonist complaining about the fire department. it's not the fault of the people who are hit by a hurricane. nic, can you hear me? come on. clearly we're having some trouble getting in touch with >> it's not fair to say that it's republicans saying it's nic. anybody's fault. we'll try to check in with him we're just saying the bank in a moment. account is drained.

let's find the money somewhere. if democrats are going into the let's check in with isha sesay. a grim report from amnesty next election saying there's international. nowhere in the federal government that we can find a it documented the deaths of at few dollars to help people in least 88 detainees in syria need and nothing less important during the five-month uprising than that and republicans are going into the next election against the government. saying let's try to act like according to the report, at we're broke because we are, then least 52 of the victims' bodies i think that's the advantage showed evidence of torture. that will go to republicans. knock yourself out. all of the victims were male. >> alex, should eric cantor some as young as 13. proposing these offsets, should it be part of his responsibility growing tensions in bahrain. protesters say a 14-year-old boy to least list his priorities for what he would cut in order to do was killed by police today. these offsets? witnesses said officers fired a >> i think republicans have demonstrated a lot of willingness to do that. tear gas round directly at the that's a good point. child during clashes with protesters. >> can we ask cantor's office? former nba guard javaris they haven't listed specifics. crittenton will be returned to georgia to face a murder charge >> but during the debt ceiling in the death of an atlanta mother. debate for example, republicans were more than willing to he waived his right to fight prioritize spending. extradition today. i think that would be a great he was arrested monday in california on a fugitive place to get democrats and republicans on the hill and say, warrant. let's prioritize this stuff a settlement between mel because we've run out of money. >> paul, republicans are saying, gibson and oksana grigorieva. look, we send democrat controlled senate a fema funding bill and they left town for the gibson has agreed to pay his

month. >> fine. ex-girlfriend $750,000 and share whatever. time with their young daughter. these people are hurting. we need to help them. thankfully, the agreement i'm serious. requires both parties to not they left on their vacation. speak about each other publicly. whatever. when a storm hits, people need help. >> a wise idea there. they need help right away. they don't need help because they're democrats. beyonce and jay-z are expecting they don't need help because they're republicans. they are american citizens suffering through no fault of they broke the news at the mtv their own. what is really going on i video music awards. and now the baby to be has its own animation thanks to mma-tv. suspect is an insidious thing where the republicans are trying take a look. to discredit government. when they ran fema they discredited it and it is run by competent people. now fema is doing a good job. republicans want to defund it. >> discussing what to name the baby. i think really what they want to i don't know. i don't know how they come up show is that the government with this stuff there. we'll try to get in touch with cannot help you when in fact it nic robertson after the break can when there's an emergency and the latest on the case of and we need to help our the missing american woman in neighbors. >> if i can offer a slightly aruba. different point of view. the decision on whether her i don't think republicans are traveling partner, gary giordano trying to discredit government. it's done a good job of that by itself. the main suspect in the case will be released from custody or if he'll be held for two more republicans aren't saying don't months. we'll gettett latest from martin help people. republicans are saying where's

the money? there has to be priorities. it's time for washington to savidge from arube back. start acting like grown-ups. and katia may soon become hurricane katia. i'm isha sesay with break news. we'll have the latest on the storm tonight. he's here. nice wheels. oh, thanks. keeps me young. president obama wants to unvairl hello there, handsome. his new jobs program but house your dinner's in the microwave, dear. speaker boehner nixed his request to speak wednesday ♪ night. we'll have details on the speech showdown next. ♪ where do you want to go? [ female announcer ] we're throwing away misperceptions just drive. [ engine revs, tires screech ] about natural gas vehicles. more of the vehicles that fuel our lives mom? ♪ use clean american natural gas today. it costs about 40 percent less than gasoline, so why aren't we using it even more? no, it's just for new people. start a conversation about using more natural gas vehicles hey ! chocolate, vanilla or strawberry ? chocolate ! in your community. chocolate it is ! yeah, but i'm new, too. umm... he's new... er... than you. on every surface in your mouth. but did you know those same germs can build up and form a resilient layer called biofilm? even kids know it's wrong to treat new friends better than old friends. at ally bank, we treat all our customers fairly, biofilm germs are strong enough to survive daily brushing. with no teaser rates and no minimum deposit to open. thankfully, there's listerine® antiseptic.

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in tripoli. we hard from one of gadhafi's sons, saif, when he phoned into a syrian television station and insisted that his father was alive and well. any credible information on where gadhafi may be? >> reporter: there's none. already saif discredited himself by saying he was in a suburb of tripoli. it's hard to imagine how that would be possible. he talked about there being 20,000 troops loyal to his father in the town of sirte that rebels surrounded at the moment. that sounds like an outlandish figure as well. there's a lot in there that didn't really add up and certainly what he had to say about his father, i don't think that has anyone particularly convinced. >> the national transitional council issued an ultimatum yesterday for loyalist towns to surrender by saturday. saif says they are willing to defend those towns. sirte is where his father is from. a, do you think they'll defend that town and b, do you think the national transitional council is going to attack it? we often heard misleading reports from both sides. >> reporter: you know, the evidence on the ground is that the national transitional

council is massing rebel force outside of sirte and they do intend to go there. they have to capture it. it's part of the sort of key strategic coastal highway. they have to get to the highway then they can start pushing south. there's another town on the coast they have to capture too. that's important. they do intend to do that. the other town saif talked about also sort of thumbing their nose at the national transitional council, some think maybe muammar gadhafi or saif and other members of the family may be in that town. maybe no one sure. rebels also gave that until saturday. now saif said go ahead and attack now. it's anyone's bet with when the ntc will actually lead the advance on these towns. >> you're in direct correspondents with another one of gadhafi's sons online through e-mails. he seemed to go back on something he told you earlier before which is that he's no longer willing to negotiate with opposition forces.

why do you think there's that change? >> reporter: i think what's happening here is -- i think what he said on television was consistent with what i was hearing in e-mails. the way that the national transitional council had tried to play what he was saying by saying he was trying to negotiate a surrender. what he said he's willing to do is to negotiate with and talk to national transitional council military commanders. he's not willing to surrender but willing to talk to them about a cease-fire. i mean, what i take away from all this from his sons speaking at the same time, their first public broadcast with a completely divergent message, he saudi is loyal to his father and various times told to shut up and stay in the corner and now speaking his mind saying something different. we're seeing the first fractures

come within the family. this is an indication that for his part he's trying to look to the future about what he's going to do and he's perceived a weaker link in the chain compared to the rest of the family. i think that's what's happening here. >> nic robertson, appreciate it. stay safe. crime and punishment next and aruban mystery the american man held there in disappearance of a woman is not free to go. a magistrate in aruba has decided that gary giordano could be held for another 60 days. giordano says he was snorkeling with robyn gardner and she was swept out to sea on august 2nd. there have been troubling questions about his story after he told authorities that he's the beneficiary of a $1.5 million insurance policy he took out on gardner. giordano has to stay in jail for another 60 days. did the court elaborate on the decision at all? >> reporter: no. we didn't get any elaboration

whatsoever. the judge threw the book at him so we expected there would be some explanation as to what it was the judge heard or saw but instead there was none. the only thing we did get from court observers is this hearing took place at 9:00 in the morning. the answer from the judge didn't come until 4:15 in the afternoon. those who follow the legal system say when it comes to a detainment hearing they've never heard of it taking this long. >> i don't understand under aruban law which is dutch law if i'm not wrong, they can just continually hold him and then have hearings and then decide to hold him even longer? >> reporter: well, in theory it's not supposed to be so capricious where they say we would like to keep him longer and judge says that's fine, thank you. the way it's supposed to work is every time you go before the detainment judge the level of witness and the level of evidence you have to provide is that much higher. in essence they were going for 60 days. that meant they should have had

to provide the judge some very clear proof and some very good persuasive argument as to why gary giordano needs to be held and where their investigation is going. did they do that? we don't know. it was a closed proceeding. that's how it was supposed to be. we assume that's how it happened. >> i want to bring in jean casarez. she's a correspondent on trutv. aruban authorities have got to be feeling a lot of pressure given the natalee holloway. >> two women missing. no bodies. when i was in aruba last fall because they found a jaw bone they thought was natalee holloway. i pressured him about why they didn't file murder charges against joran van der sloot and they said they didn't have a body. they don't have a body here. >> there's no body here and it

makes the case -- can they just keep holding him? if they don't find a body, can they still go ahead with charges if there's not a lot of evidence on the beach? >> that will be determined. it's very difficult when you don't have a body. what else do they have forensically? we don't know as martin said. it's secretive there. the fact is they continue to hold him. they didn't do that with joran van der sloot. they kept letting him go and rearresting him. there's a risk of flight here. as martin said at the end of the 60 days, they have to press charges if they want this to go forward or release him and he'll fly back to the u.s. >> at the end of 60 days he could pick up and leave the island if he's not charged? >> reporter: well, in theory, yeah. he could walk out the front gate. his lawyer waiting there to pick him up and they would head off to the airport and he would hop the next flight back to the united states. it is possible, i'm told, that the prosecution might ask for an additional 30 days. if they get that far, they

better be ready to go to trial and the question is do they really have enough at this point or in 60 days to go to trial. >> jean, if he's released and comes back to the united states, could he be charged here? >> that's a good question. u.s. officials were never able to charge joran van der sloot in the death of natalee holloway. she was an american girl. this is an american girl. the fbi is helping aruban authorities. they weren't asked to do that with natalee holloway. with the text messages and phone records. are there anything that can provide charges on american soil and what about that life insurance policy? he was the beneficiary. admitted 1.25. fraudulently obtained that? u.s. officials could determine that, i think. >> on that insurance policy, she would have had to know about it, right? >> reporter: right. this is a result of a conversation i had with american express. you can't take a policy out on somebody. you're the beneficiary and they don't know their life was on the line.

she would have had to sign a document that said i allow for gary giordano to be the beneficiary if something were to happen to me. the question is did she know what she was signing or someone forged that signature? no proof of anything like that but the question has been raised, did she really know what documents she was signing? . >> what is the legal system and law enforcement system like in aruba, jean? you've been down there. are they up to a big investigation? >> that's a good question. i mean, they work with the hague. they work with the dutch authorities. these are not aruban officials. they are from holland and they are circulated and appointed to serve in aruba. that jaw bone that washed up on the shore was human. it wasn't natalee holloway's but it was human. i could tell they just really weren't aggressively wanting to find out whose human being jaw bone that was. that was a person that died and no one knows who it was.

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time now for the ridiculist.

every major news station that's out there, that's right, i'm going there. frankly they have all missed out on the opportunity of a lifetime. they put people like diane sawyer, people like your brian williams and me behind the anchor desk when they could have gone in a much different direction. a tiny, tan, poofy-haired muscle-loving direction. >> welcome to the news according to snooki. >> now, i have always known that snooki is a renaissance woman. she's so much more than what you see on "the jersey shore". she drink, dances, parties and smooshs but she also floss phases. she also writes best-selling books. she also holds the key to my heart. so i for one am not at all surprised to see that snooki counts anchoring the news among her myriad of talents. >> i've always wanted to be an anchor woman. and hello, i look hot doing it. >> she's no ann curry. but you need to give it a

chance. because the news according to snooki has something for everyone. she covers the important current events like hurricane irene knocking out power in the northeast. >> when you're powerless, you can't like straighten your hair, blow dry your hair, go on twitter, go on facebook. you can't do anything. you can't talk on the phone. you just sit there and do nothing. you can't even watch tv. believe me, snooki. i know what it's like to be powerless. powerless against your charms. she covers all the important environmental issues like global warming. >> every time i go down to seaside i'm sweaty in places i've never sweated before. obviously the sun is coming closer to earth. >> me, too. she covers medical news with the aplomb with a really buzzed, pint-sized sawn gentleman gupta. >> the surgeon general calls for health over hair. what the [ expletive ] does this one mean? >> that's actually not a lot of spray for an anchor. she's not afraid to show the lighter side of the news. take it away, wolf blister. >> a montana dog becomes a local

celebrity for his math skills. supposedly this dog can add, subject. i don't believe that. i mean, i have a dog of my own and she can't even walk straight. i mean, i can't even do math, really. let's get real with that fake story. >> i don't believe that about the dog, either. snooki keeping them honest. she covers news from galaxies far, far away. >> obviously