said he will not drop the ball here. he will keep republican activists fired up. he talked about the special elections upset for republicans last night in new york's ninth congressional district and said that we have to be conservative, we have to create jobs and he said that he'll be the best guy out there to really talk about jobs and job creation because that's what he did in texas. you know, the national state of the economy right now will offer him a chance to really sell that message, randi, in the general election. >> peter, thank you very much. and that will do it for me. thanks everyone for watching. cnn newsroom continues right now with brooke baldwin. hi, brooke. hello to all of you. i want to begin with really what could have been a worst-case scenario for the search and rescue team in southern california. i want to begin by talking about this 8-year-old boy. he ran away from his elementary school back on monday. he then disappeared into the san bernardino national forest.

but little joshua raub is autistic, meaning he may not have been able to understand what is going on, plus his tendency may be to hide from the very people who are trying to help and find had him. add that to really horrendous weather, thundorrer, lightning forcing the crews to run for cover, that happened more than one time. and this area, right around it, around lake arrowhead, heavily wooded, mountainous. with so much working against them, the searchers used a very unique approach. get this, they blasted ozzie osborn. you know the song "no more tears" to lure joshua out of the woods. ozzie, it so happens, is a favorite of joshua. so 24 hours after running from his school, one rescue team found him. i want to bring in justin wheat wheaton. he was one of the first to actually find joshua. justin joins me on the phone. justin, congratulations to you and your team. take me, if you will, to the

moment your teams had been out there searching for some 14 hours in this the forest. you see footprints, a rain-soaked t-shirt and what happened next? >> well, we were waiting for some more resources, some people that were going to help us track from the t-shirt that we had identified 100% his. so we were just sitting there trying to stay off the tracks, and we were just waiting. i heard a mumbling and grumbling maybe 20, 30 yards off in this the bushes. the second i heard it it, i knew, that's a kid. we all jumped up and ran off in that direction. sure enough, he was just standing there in a bush, no shirt, no shoes, just in his shorts and was very happy to be found. >> what did he say to you, justin? >> he didn't have many words. when we first found him, he said thanks. we tried, you know, getting him to eat something, getting him to drink something, put some clothes on him. as we were holding him because the helicopter was coming in, he said, you saved me.

>> talk about this terrain. we were looking at some of the images. it it looks like it could be steep slopes, loose rocks. i imagine that was tough enough for you to maneuver. you all are professional search and rescue teach teems. let alone this little boy to meander so far off the beaten path and survive. >> yeah. it was rough. the search area we had was only maybe about a mile, mile and a half from the school, and it's level for a little ways, then it just drops off into very steep terrain, heavy live wooded, lots of rock, lots of loose trees, lots of animals out there and stuff. just not the kind of place anybody really wants to be. >> and then, justin, other than the happy ending here, which we're reporting, what really caught our attention, the role of music in finding this 8-year-old, specifically ozzy osborn and allen jackson playing off some lound speakers? >> it was a bizarre thing to be

sitting there in your briefing and they give you the normal, he's wearing a striped shirt, gray pants, sandals, and oh, yeah, he likes ozzie osborn and country music. so the parents had brought in a couple of cds and there were teams up more in the neighborhoodses driving around blasting ozzy osborne to see if he was in a house somewhere if he'd come out. >> so the reason for that, as we mentioned, he is autistic and it was the idea of bringing something familiar. so it was the father's voice and also these songs that hopefully would lure him back toward safety. finally, i mean, happy for you, it's a happy ending. it it was a rescue, not a recovery. >> yep. >> justin wheaton, again, wonderful job. thank you so much for calling in. i really appreciate it it. just to update you here on joshua, he was airlifted to loma linda medical center to just make sure he was okay.

he appears to be in good condition. but we can't tell you the story about joshua without talking about his parents here. joshua had been removed from his parents' custody about three weeks ago after someone saw him tied to a pole. as the family was packing to move. he was living with a teacher after that. and after his release from the hospital, he was turned over to child protective services, reportedly there is a custody hearing tomorrow. also this today -- new details we're getting on this flight that was evacuated in washington just a short time ago. the united airlines flight was headed from dulless to xpraengs when an engine problem forced the pilot to stop the plane on the tarmac after it just left the gate. we have also learned that supreme court justice ruth bader ginsburg was on that plane. her staff says she is doing just fine. jury selection begins in this case against the so-called underwear bomber, but walking into court today he delivers

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with the news. what are you learning? >> we heard yesterday, brooke, that perhaps president ahmadinejad was ready to release the hikers. this morning, not sox. a judge apparently we're told is blocking the processing. he has it to personally approve the process. so we didn't see that release today, but now we're hearing that a plane from the gulf company of oman is headed to iran to try to get those hikers released. an omans i envoy will try to negotiate the last-minute details and possibly get the hikers out. obviously the families being very careful and the state department here being very careful about what they're going to say. but, if you remember, last year around this time sarah shourd, the third hiker that strayed into iranian territory allegedly was released with the help of the omani government. they sent a plane, envoy, there to get her out and they flew out with her to oman. so obviously this is a good sign

that there's a lot of hope. the swiss government also rs working this, the swiss ambassador was in with the iranian foreign minister today. swiss officials telling us no news yet, but again it doesn't look bad. >> right. sarah shourd engaged to shane bauer. we talked to the mothers back in may. they remained hopeful. i think the phrasology you keep using as well as the state department, cautious optimism. we'll continue to follow it and see if in fact the hostages are freed to leave. both of these young men from the united states. elise labott, thank you so much. also today, we have that it frantic 911 call from that fiery crash and amazing rescue out of logan, utah. remember the motorcyclist that was trapped underneath the burning car? take a listen to the call.

>> just shows you how dangerous the scene really was. 21-year-old brandon wright was the young man pinned underneath this fiery car, covered in gasoline. his bike and the car, as you can see, on fire. there they were dragging him out. a crowd of strangers, nearby construction workers, good samarit samaritans, lifting off this it 4,000-pound car. more of those good samaritans are coming forward, talking. here is what they told cnn's "american morning." >> i think my human instinct and, you know, the people who were trying to help, it's their human instinct that was the motive or like the -- that was driving them to had help. >> i saw a lot of blood and i saw how he was unconscious. at the time we didn't think about ourselves. we had to pull him to safety.

>> brandon wright's family is obviously quite grateful for the actions of some of those strangers. >> the family, brandon first and foremost, his parents, siblings and everyone else is incredible thankful for these angels who came to his aid yesterday. watching the video gif us chills. the car could have blown up at any time. it's amazing they risked their lives, 12 people or however many it was, risked their lives to save brandon's life. >> by the way, brandon write is still in the hospital. coming up, there is a new poll revealing whether americans trust president obama or republicans more when it it comes to the economy. as the president hits the road selling the jobs plan, he's trying to use a certain kind of leverage. we're going to go live to north carolina, brianna keilar is standing by. [ tires screech ]

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> the president of the united states venturing into the deep south today to try to sell his new jobs package. north carolina, a state that went for barack obama by the slimmest of margins back in 2008. that could prove crucial come 2012. we'll talk about that here in just a moment. first, i want to show you this poll, pretty good news for the white house here. it shows americans trust the president more than they trust the republicans when it comes to handling the economy. a solid majority, 74% likes his plan to help the states hire teachers, first responders. another solid majority likes the idea of hiring unemployed workers to build roads, bridges and schools. and another solid majority likes

his plan to cut the payroll tax on workers. here is the president today. want to just play this p clip, trying to turn that support into leverage for his jobs plan. >> we've got to tell congress to do their part. you've got some republicans in congress, they like to talk about how, we're in favor of america's job creators. well, you know what? if you're in favor of america's job creators, this is your bill. this will actually help america's job creators. so we need to pass this jobs bill right away. >> brianna keilar live for us in raleigh. brianna, does the white house believe it it can harness all this backing for the president's jobs plan and actually get something passed? >> reporter: they do. this is really the strategy, brooke. witness the take it out of washington strategy, if you will, the idea here -- and we've heard the president say this here today, the third of his

out-of-town stops in the last six days -- he wants the help of americans telling their members of congress to help him pass the jobs bill. here today someone yelled from the audience, i love you, barack. and this happens from time to time, brooke. he said, if you love me, help me passes this jobs bill. it it's unclear if it's working at this point, bus this is the strategy the white house is going to do for months, for the better part of the rest of the year. >> we know the president keeps saying, pass this bill, pass this bill right away, one could take this as passes this whole thing right away. now i'm hearing this suggestion, maybe not the whole thing. >> reporter: yeah. so it's been clear that the president's strategy has been, here's the bill, i even wrote it for you, just pass the whole darn thing. and if you don't pass the whole darn thing, i'm going to slam you for getting in the way of putting americans back to work. that's the strategy. but then yesterday we heard that he said to a group of hispanic

journalists that he wouldn't veto bits and pieces of the bill because there are some provisions, in fact, the bulk of the bill, that house republicans are on board with. that is the payroll tax cuts portion of this. so the conventional wisdom here is, doesn't that undercut really the white house's argument, the president's argument, to pass this entire bill? they insist, though, that it doesn't and they're just sort of -- there's a reality of letting congress do its work, brooke. >> we mentioned this off the top. he's in north carolina, not at all a coincidence that the president is shopping his jobs plan there, is it? >> reporter: yeah. you know this because this is your college stomping grounds, unc. but you mentioned he won here by the slimmest of margins, and boy did he. 0.3% over john mccain. that of course is when the president was very are popular. right now his disapproval rating has hit an all-time high. so you can see that's quite

slim. he didn't even get the popular vote here in north carolina, and this is seen as a state, the 15 electoral votes he really must win for whoever his republican challenger is, he's really trying to hold on to north carolina, if you will, and it's part of this kind of swing state swing that he's been doing, virginia, ohio yesterday, north carolina today, although the white house does say, brooke, it's not about campaigning for the reelection. they say it's about campaigning for growth and jobs. and they say they will be going to some non-swing states. none on the schedule yet, though. >> but as you mentioned, virginia, ohio, north carolina, never a coincidence in politics, you know that. >> reporter: never. >> thank you, brianna keilar. still ahead -- a man walks into this arkansas courthouse, no criminal record, no priors, and he asked to see a specific judge, begins shooting. find out how this man was prepared for war and his connection to this particular judge. also, we are getting a

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did you hear? nasa announced its plans for its first heavy-lift rocket that would carry astronauts beyond low orbit earth where they've never gone before. this is it the next generation in space flight now that the shuttle is retired. let me bring in my fellow space geek john zarrella with details on the development from nais nasa. first describe the configuration. it almost looks like an apollo-era capsule. >> yeah. they're going to put the capsule on top because of survivability. all the studies have said that it's ten times more survivable to have a capsule on top if there's an accident than if you have like the shuttle on the side. and a lot of this is going to be

reusable. the external tank won't be, but the boosters on the side will be reusable, as will the capsule that will take the astronauts to whenever they're going and they'll be able to come back and reuse it it. >> what's the price tag? >> price tag is about $18 billion over the next six years. $10 billion for the rocket, $6 billion for the capsule, and $2 billion to retrofit all of the kennedy space center. but during the press conference today, brooke, senator kay bailey hutchison said that this will ensure nasa remains the leader in space exploration. >> so if we're talking beyond low orbit earth, john zarrella are, are we talking mars? >> yeah, we're talking an aft roid probably first. the plan is by 2017 a lunch unmanned, one launch a year, 2025 astronauts go to an aft roid and in the 2030 time frame,

that's when we have plan ares to put astronauts on mars. if all goes well. 2030 is a long way off, brooke. you'll probably still be around. i may not be. >> i was just sitting here wondering, hmm, who's going to be covering that? hopefully you will be and i'll be right along your side, john zarrella. >> there you go. >> we do have some sound from that news conference. let's roll that. >> i don't want to raise the hopes that everything is going to go exactly in a box by an outline that has been put forward because we are pushing the envelope. we're going to the next iteration of space leadership, and this today i believe is the commitment that america is making to assure that we're not going to be the also-rans. we are going to continue to be the world leader. >> now, you know, one of the

interesting things about this, brooke, this rocket is behemoth. it it's about the length of a football field. >> what? >> the larger version will be bigg oger than the saturn 5 rockets, the one that will actually get humans out there to mars. >> that's huge, ginormous, if i may. >> yeah. >> so we're talking 2017 for the first launch, price tag $18 billion. can nasa deliver within that time and within that budget? >> well, $3 billion a year, and there had been a lot of fighting between congress and nasa to come up with this number because nasa said there's no way they could do it for what they with were getting in the budget. this is a compromise number. congress appears to be on board and nasa says they can deliver. >> okay, john zarrella, see you in 2017. we'll be doing that together. >> absolutely. let's check some other stories unfolding right now on this wednesday. we are hearing more details about what happened during a courthouse shooting rampage in

arkansas. the 48-year-old gunman fired more than 70 shots at this courthouse in van bourne yesterday. he was shot and killed by police and an administrative assistant was injured. many fearful for their lives hid in the building's vault and in the jury room. and for the first time we are hearing the 911 calls.

>> police say that the gunman's weapons malfunctioned several times but he kept firing, including firing shots at nearby motorists. also, a courtroom outburst today from the man accused of trying to detonate that bomb in his underwear while on a plane. here's what we're learning from are wdiv. reporting umar farouk abdulmutallab said, quote, osama is 00 live and i'm being forced to wear prison clothes. this is the first day of jury selection and the man is

representing himself. he is accused of trying to blow p up an airline bound for detroit christmas day 2009. and a huge political upset in new york. republican bob turner won that special election for the seat once held by former democratic congressman anthony weiner. turner told a packed room that they were sending a message to washington by electing him. the ninth congressional district is one of the strongest jewish districts in the country. turner says he believes many people there are unhappy with the president's position on key issues including jobs and the economy. two memphis twin boys -- look at these guys -- are now able to look at each other face to face for the first time. the 7-month-old once convict joined twins were separated in a 13-hour surgery last month. doctors say this is the most complex case they have seen in the hospital's history. jacob and joshua spaits were a particularly rare type of convict joined twins, joined

back to back at both their lower pelvis and spine. right now the babies are recuperating in the pediatric intensive care unit. >> of course i was scared. of course i knew that this or that could have happened but i just prayed and stayed faithful, you know, and just basically i had a lot of people with me. so i think -- i'm overall happy with the decision with them being separated. i'm glad i made that decision. >> doctors say the boys have some health problems that will require ongoing medical treatment, but they hope both will eventually be able to walk with the help of braces. now this. what would you like it to aspire to? >> what are your dreams? >> right now i don't have none. >> candid, heartbreaking words from this young boy living in poverty. right now he and his mother are are having trouble eating, just flat-out living. these are the faces right here of poverty. you're going to hear how they

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with the nation's unemployment rate still lungering at 9.1%, it it seems like everybody from the smallest business owner to the largest corporate mega manager has an opinion or two about how to get americans back to work. but who has a plan that will work? this weekend, fareed zakaria cites down with the president's job czar, jeffrey immelt, former ceo for general electric aleele. let's listen to what he says. >> a lot of the problems you see that needs to be fixed to get

american employment up, to really transform the jobs situation, these are big changes, the long-term challenge, educational system, whole system of reforming the bureaucracy, getting much more deeply invested in infrastructure. we're not doing most of these things right now. are are you confident we're going to be able to do them? >> look, i'm optimistic and confident because i believe in the end our system works. i actually look at where we are today as a natural progression of economic crisis, anger, fear, all of that kind of playing out. in the end, we've got to work together. you know, in the end we've got to find ways to drive common solutions to bigger problems. i think that's true for the private sector, businesses working together. i think it's true between the public and the private sector. so ultimately what we have to get to is we have to have a logical discussion about

infrastructure, about education, about solving some of the problems. because they're not going to be involved on their own. you know, education in this country is not going to be magically solved by cutting the budget deficit. in fact, it gets tougher. so i believe ultimately in our system, i just think we're in a particularly tough time right now because we're coming out of a crisis where people are are still angry, and that's understandable. i kind of get that. but ultimately there's a sense of teamwork that's very much a part of the american culture, a sense of partnership that is very much a part of the american culture that i think is -- will ultimately play out. >> i should mention fareed zakaria will join me in the "newsroom" tomorrow and friday. this weekend, watch a special edition of fareed zakaria gps, sunday night 8:00 p.m. eastern.

more than 46 million people in the united states now live in poverty it. that is the highest level it's been since 1993. you sit there and ask, whatpove? the government sets the poverty line for a family of 4 with an income of $22,300 a year. poppy harlow revisited a family living in poverty to see if life has improved for them. >> come outside, meet the people in the community where you live, meet the people in the communities where you work and meet the people in the communities where you represent. >> reporter: see the face of pofr itty. >> yes. >> reporter: we met ann valdez a year ago, living under the poverty line like millions of americans. we decided to come back a year later and see how ann's dog. >> my grandparents were one of the first tenants to live here, 1954 lnchts has the situation gotten better for you? >> no, it actually hasn't changed very much. right now i'm living on

approximately $200 cash a month. 360 food stamps. i do not have a full-time job. on a daily basis since about 2004. >> reporter: how important are the safety nets out there for you right now? the things that are paid for by the government? >> well, the safety nets are very important, and the more that they get cut, the scarier it is to think about tomorrow. i buy a lot of nonperishables so that this way there's always something to eat. most of the jobs they try to get for us are minimum wage jobs. so if i get a minimum wage job, they're still going to leave me to apply for medicaid and food stamps. i'm still dependent on the system. sometimes you have to forget about getting what's ledgy because you can't afford what's healthy. food for five. >> reporter: brian, your mom

grew p up in poverty. you've grown up so far in the same situation. what are your aspiration snz what do you want to become? >> i want for high people in the high chairs like the senator, the congressman, even the mayor to come down here, see what's going on in these neighborhoods, see how destroyed these neighborhoods are, the spirits of these people. they are completely gone. >> so what would you like to aspire to? >> reporter: what are your dreams? >> right now i have none. >> reporter: you were telling me before, brian, firefighter? >> yeah. that's what it was. that's what i want to be, a firefighter. >> he is 12. census figures show that without help from the federal government, millions more people would have sunk below the poverty line in 2010.

nasa is warning a defunct satellite is now falling from space, will hit earth very soon and the space agency is giving the probability that it could hit an actual person. chad myers is fired up about this one. we'll talk to chad next. introducing the schwab mobile app. it's schwab at your fingertips wherever, whenever you want. one log in lets you monitor all of your balances and transfer between accounts, so your money can move as fast as you do. check out your portfolio, track the market with live updates. and execute trades anywhere and anytime the inspiration hits you. even deposit checks right from your phone. just take a picture, hit deposit and you're done. open an account today and put schwab mobile to work for you.

nasa is keeping its eyes on the heavens, on the lookout for a defunct, no longer working, satellite that's expected to plunge back to earth in the coming days. chad myers, um, okay. >> and parts are going to hit the ground. >> there's a satellite, it's fall, par for the course for nasa. so where is it and where will it fall? >> nobody knows because it's going around the earth and the earth is spinning under it. so when it decides to actually come out of orbit, had ththen w know. within hours advance, within 6,000 square miles where it will actually land. >> so is it actually in its entirety, or does it burn up in the process? >> it will break up, but they still think the biggest piece that hits the ground will be 300 pounds. that's going to leave a mark. >> yes, it it might leave a mark or two. >> take a look at this. >> show me. >> those are not bugs.

those are real satellites that are really going around the world right now. and one called the uars, upper atmosphere research satellite, is going to fall from the sky because when it was decommissioned about five years ago, they used the last gasp of energy and brought it down to a lower orbit because they knew it would eventually fall to the earth and burn up. they didn't want it just sitting up there. so it's on its way down and sometime at the end of september or beginning of october it will actually fall to the ground. here's the problem. it it's pretty big. >> that's the satellite? >> that's it, about 10,000 pounds worth of stuff up there. and about 30 pieces are big enough that will make it through the atmosphere and will not burn up. >> so as rocky said in the commercial, what's the over/under? what's the likelihood it hits one of us? we shouldn't laugh. >> no. the likelihood it hits land is less than 50/50. think of the pacific ocean. >> i'm still not loving that probability. >> i get that part. i know.

the chances of you being hit by a piece of space junk in your lifetime is 1 in 3200. that seems really low to me. i don't know anyone that's been hit by anything. >> i just didn't realize. we learn something new every day. i didn't realize defunct satellites they just let them -- >> about one per year falls to the ground every year. this one we know about, we know it's coming down, maybe some hard hats before it it's all done. i don't know. likelihood that it it splashes in the ocean but there's a chance it hits land. >> 1 in 3200. i can take those odds. chad, thank you so much as always. now, listen to this. >> there was a very radical group of teachers who were teaching kids that the ults is dominated by a white male, racist imperial power structure. >> arizona's attorney general wants to ban classes that he says are radical and promote an overthrow of the u.s. government. now the classes are even more popular than ever, teachers

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everyone remembers when arizona shined a spotlight on itself with the passage of its tough new immigration laws. now the state is facing this constitutional showdown over a controversial measure banning educators from teaching about latino culture. supporters of the ban on ethnic st studies say such classes promote the overthrow of the american government. the teachers say, hold on, that's a lie. thelma gutierrez looks at the emotional issue.

>> reporter: in arizona, it's a battle for the classroom and the right to teach american history, government, literature and art from a mexican-american perspective. >> culture clash tackles what kind of issues would we call those? social justice issues. >> reporter: ethnic studies instructors call it an academic awakening. >> i want people to know we're proud of our contributions. >> reporter: but former state superintendent of schools tom horne, now attorney general of arizona, says he couldn't disagree more. >> in the mexican-american studies program there was a very radical group of teachers who are teaching kids that the united states is dominated by a white male, racist, imperial power structure. >> reporter: he says some of the books used in the classroom are radical and have no place in the classroom. a law passed in arizona last year bans courses that, quote, either promote the overthrow of

the united states government or promote resentment toward a race or class of people. but sean arsay, direct aror of the mexican-american studies program says horne is misrepresenting the curriculum and never spent a day in their classrooms. >> we don't teach racism. we teach about racism, about injustice. >> reporter: a group of ethnic studies teachers in tucson, arizona, are fighting back in federal court, arguing the ban is unconstitutional. >> if students don't see themselveses in the curriculum, they're not going to be as engaged in school. >> it's that racial identity that we have severe problems with. >> reporter: current state schools superintendent john hawpen thaul commissioned an audit to assess the curriculum. while they did find a, quote, overabundance of controversial found no evidence the program promoted the overthrow of the american government, promoted resentment toward any race nor evidence that it advocated et

nick solidarity. >> that's one of the prouder moments that i've had, knowing our state superintendent, his own auditors found what we've been saying. >> it was obvious to us that the audit was a whitewash. didn't represent what was going on in the classes. >> that frustrates and angers me because he's been in my classroom and i would never change. i invited him back. >> the audit also found that stupt who is took the curriculum had a better chance to graduate than those who didn't, but unless the federal government intervenes, the program will be closed. >> thank you. don't forget to catch cnn's next documentary, as always, solidad o'brien is hosting this one. you can catch it sunday night, september 25th, 8:00 eastern

right here on cnn. ron paul was one who got applause at the cnn tea party debate monday night when he suggested if a sick person doesn't want to get hels insurance, it's their choice and he or she would have to face the consequences. we are now learning one of his former staffers died without health insurance. we caught up with congressman paul. we asked him about this. that is coming up. also, one of president obama's former advisers is now running for senate. paul is standing by with new information fresh from the world of politics. s. in here, inventory can be taught to learn. ♪ in here, machines have a voice... ♪ [ male announcer ] in here, medical history follows you... even when you're away from home. it's the at&t network -- a network of possibilities, creating and integrating solutions, helping business, and the world...work.

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the trial of dr. conrad murray is sure to draw attention from hundreds of fans, but no one will watch as closely as the king of pop's family, who still believe his death could have been avaded. jermaine jackson sat down with piers morgan ahead of the trial. >> is it possible knowing michael that he could have just ordered and demanded that conrad murray give him his drug and i believe he's going to claim, tried to resist it, but eventually under pressure? is that possible? >> being a doctor, you take an oath to care for your patient. not to kill them. >> how many of the people

directly around him at the time he died do you think are culpable for a former responsibility for his death? >> see, that's a question i have. that's a question we have as a family because i've said in the book, why didn't somebody call me or jackie or tido, marlin, his family, to say, come down, your brother is not acting normal. had we been called, he'd be alive today. >> jermaine jackson, thursday night, 9:00. you know the time. . and now, to washington we go. let's go to paul steinhauser with the news fresh off the cnn political ticker. let's talk poll numbers. what do you have? >> you got it. first, i want to apologize because usually, you get wolf blitzer. the main man. >> we're happy to have you. >> i have no beard, i'm not an

anchor. these are brand new numbers from cnn orc. national numbers. we did them over the weekend after this president gave the speech thursday night to congress and the nation on jobs. the first number, do you approve or disapprove. let's go with this number first because that's the one on the screen. this is who do you trust more in the economy? they trust the president more than republicans in congress. 46% say the president. the bottom 13% say dwoent trust either to handle the economy. but go back to that either number. the overall approval, disapproval for the president. 43%. so, he didn't get really much of a boost of all at all out of that speech and 55% say they disapprove -- north carolina, where was he yesterday? ohio. friday, virginia? what they have in common? three battleground states he

won. in twag 2008, and he's going to have a tough time keeping them. >> but by the slimmest of margins in north carolina. brianna keilar was reporting this, .3%. second topic, a former obama administration official now throwing in her hat for the u.s. senate. >> elizabeth warren is her name. she was the head of the consumer protection, i'm sorry, the consumer financial protection bureau. wanted to get that right and messed it up. she basically developed that consumer protection financial bureau and she went back to harvard university, where she's a law school professor and today, she announced for the senate, they're now eight democrats up there running for the senate nomination next year and one wants to be the winner to go against scott brown, the republican senator up there. he won that special election last january to fill the seat of the late ted kennedy.

this seat has been in democratic hands for generations. they think they can grab it back. >> speaking of historically democratic areas, let's talk new york. we're reporting on this yesterday that the special election for congressman weiner's old seat is close and now, we've learned mr. turner took it. >> he did. >> and this basically, you look at this district in new york city in the boroughs, partially queens and brooklyn. overwhelmingly a democratic district. 3-1. but the republicans tried to tie the democratic candidate in this race to president obama. tried to make it a referendum on president obama. yes, there were local issues in the area. but the republican came out a winner and they won that other special election in nevada. republicans are youing right now. they are very happy. they're saying this is a

referendum on president obama. democrats say these are special elections and don't have a bearing on what's going to happen next year. back in '09 and '10, the democrats won a lot of special elections, but didn't do so well last year. >> we can't say it's a harbinger of things to come. thank you very much, taking wolf's spot. come back any time. this is your political ticker nor this hour. meantime, just about top of the hour here. take a look at this. i told you i would highlight these types of stories and today, i have another one about a child who didn't have to die. we can do better. i'll tell you how. the news is now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com nasa reveals the future of space travel. a new rocket designed to take humans where they've never gone before.

plus, will casey anthony's lies and bizarre behaviors caused by seizures? her parents speak out for the first time since the jury acquitted her daughter of murder. sonny hostin's on the case. >> we're getting duct tape, superglu, he's not leaving our sight. >> a young autistic boy goes missing and the search includes the voice of ozzy osbourne. welcome back, hour two. as i begin this hour, i want to go back. i want to take you back to monday night. the moment from our republican debate there in tampa, florida. wolf blitzer asking one of these candidates, asked ron paul, what happens when a person without health insurance gets ill. gets severely ill and requires expensive treatment. who pays? >> this whole idea that you have to compare and take care of

everybody -- >> but congressman, are you saying that society should just let him die? >> no, i practice medicine before we had medicaid in the early 1960s when i got out of medical school. at santa rosa medical hospital in san antonio. and the churches took care of them. we never turned anybody away from the hospital. we've given up on this whole concept that we might take care of ourselves and assume responsibility for ourselves. >> ron paul says it's not the government's business. he said the reasonability lies with the neighbors, friends, churches. ron paul had a friend who died uninsured. ken schneider. paul's 2008 campaign manager. did ron paul take care of his friend? i want to bring in ryan.

what have you learned? >> as you pointed out just a moment ago, ron paul taking that stand the other night. he drew very continue veroversi lehrs of approval, but did not bring up that story, a very personal story. as you mentioned, ron paul had that top aide. paul says schneider was the one who talked him in to running for president of 2008. in june of that year, he died of pneumonia. he was 49 years old. had no health insurance. colleagues say a preexisting condition made it impossible for him to get coverage. i spoke with paul about this and he kept saying that he was cared for. an aide to paul said he spent several weeks in the hospital and his bills totalled more than $400,000. the aide says that pauls staff's raised more than $50,000 for that, but the rest was passed on to schneider's estate.

i asked paul specifically whether this might make him and his followers seem a little bit harless on this issue. some might be surprised that you don't take this more personally, given the experience this you have? >> how can i take it any more personally because he's a friend and did what i could to help him, but it is something that you know, so unfortunate. it was a tough time for all of us. >> now, despite the fact that about $350,000 of kent schneider's bill was passed on to his estate, an aide to congressman paul says to his knowledge, the hospital has not yet tried to make a claim for that money. >> you talk to his supporters and they say yes, they raised that 50,000, but in talking to ron paul today, did he tell you

what paul did to help defray the cost? >> he says that you know, this was really, it played out over a few weeks. that he did everything he could. they went on the internet to raise money. and since his death, to defray those costs, but it does kind of, it makes ron paul at least, analysts say it makes him look consistent on the issue, but how it makes him look personally toward his friend, he says over and over again, he was cared for. he got the care he needed at the time. it was unfortunate at what happened at the end. as for the cost, he did everything he could to raise money on the internet to defray those costs. >> to follow up, you have this bill totalling some $400,000 for this deceased friend of ron paul's. the supporters say they raised the 50,000 against that.

but would it be paul's position, we heard him tell wolf monday night, keep passing the hat at church, make the remaining $350,000. is that how he would say it worked? >> i think he believes that that's part of how it would work. he implied in the debate the other night and since then, that it is the role of friends, relatives, others to help, but also that churches and charities could help. you rolled that sound bite where he talked about that. when i asked him specifically, look, in this day and age, do you think churches and charities could really take up that final burden of $400,000 like was the case in kent schneider's bills. he said, no, that couldn't happen today because the governor's driven up the cost. he steers the issue back to his point that a government role in health care does nothing but drive up the cost of health care. >> i'd love to hear from kent schneider's family's perspective. i'd sure you've tried to call

them. >> we have. we've tried to reach someone we believe is his sister in kansas. we've not heard back. >> don't miss brian's report next hour with wolf. 5:00 eastern here on cnn. now, to wall street we go. let's take a peak at the big board where the numbers are settling. we'll take a look. it's up. up a nice chunk today. 140 points. alison kosik as always live at the new york stock exchange. u.s. markets, they are up despite new concerns. europe may be heading for a recession. >> oh, exactly. and keep in mind europe is still a mess financially, but the reason we're seeing this rally is because there's some optimism now that steps are going to be taken to improve the situation in europe. that eventually something will be done to keep things from unraveling because you have to

remember, europe has a huge set of debt issues. but despite that, there's still talk of a recession in europe. you know, greece is on the edge of defaulting, but even if greece is saved, there is a growing belief that europe may not be able to avoid a recession. there are some fund managers surveyed by bank of america who see a 55% chance that europe could fall into a recession in the next 12 months. that's up from 14% in july. the main reason is because if greece falls, it could take these other countries with it. that could spread throughout the euro area, so even if a default is avoided, consumer confidence, business sentiment, that would all take a hit. that's why the thinking is europe could be headed for a recession. >> the other story i did want to ask you about, some people on my team were a tad excited about this. we hop on the internet to buy a plane tiktd, but there's this new way to book your ticket and hopefully find a cheaper fare? how's that work?

>> google now has a new search mechanism where you don't even have to know where you want to go. it lets you make an open ended destination search. say you want to get out of town, kind of go anywhere, but you're not sure. you can put in these parameters, but only three hours from home. for less that $300 and bam, up on this map would come up all these destinations. you could say, i think i'm going to go to bermuda because it's less than $300. yeah, right. it's still a little limited. you can only search round trips, domestic economy, to certain cities. got some limits, but it is growing. right now, google's got stiff competition. but you know this, google the king when it comes to search, so we can only imagine how this site is going to grow. >> those crafty people in mountain view, california. if only google would pay for the

vacation as well. >> exactly. >> thank you very much. and now, listen to this. just released. this chilling 911 happened during the moments gunmen opened tire inside an arkansas courthouse. we're learning why this man wanted to see a judge and how he was prepared for war. that is ahead. plus, his parents are homeless. they get evicted from their house. he's living with his special ed teacher and then up and goes missing. up next, you will hear my interview with one of the men who found him and why they used ozzy osbourn and alan jackson music to try and find him. don't miss it. ♪

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more tears" to lure him out of the woods. ozzy is a favorite of joshua's and monday, one rescue team found him. last hour, i talked to justin wheaten, one of the first to find missing joshua. >> we were waiting for some more resources, some people that were going to help us track from the t-shirt we had identified 100% his. so, we were just sitting there trying to stay off the tracks and we were just waiting, hear a mumbling and grumbling, maybe 20, 30 yards off. the second i heard it, i knew, that's a kid. we all jumped up and ran off in that direction. sure enough, he was standing there in a bush, no shirt, no shoes, just in his shorts and was very happy to be found. >> what did he say to you, justin? >> he didn't have many words. when we first found him. he said thanks, which i, getting

him to eat something, drink something, as we were holding him because the helicopter was coming in, he said, you saved me. >> talk about this terrain we were looking at some of the images. looks like it could be a steep slopes, loose rocks. i imagine that was tough for you to maneuver. you're a search and rescue team, let alone this little boy to wander so far off the beaten path and survive. >> it was rough. the search area we had was only about a mile, mile and a half from the school. and it's level for a little ways, then just drops off into very steep terrain. heavily wooded. lots of rock. lots of loose trees. lots of animals out there and stuff. just not the kind of police anybody wants to be. >> and then, justin, other than the happy ending here, what really caught our attention, the role of music in finding this

8-year-old. specifically ozzy osbourn and alan jackson playing over some loud speakers? why did some of the rescuers do that? >> it was a bizarre thing to be sitting there and you're bracing and they give you the normal, oh, he's wearing a striped shirt, gray pants, sandals and oh, yeah, he likes ozzy osbourn and country music. the parents brought in a couple of cds and more in the neighborhood driving around blasting ozzy osbourn to see if maybe he was in a house somewhere, if he would come out. >> and how is 8-year-old joshua doing now? he was air lifted to yorba linda medical center. appears to be in good condition. we can't tell you this story without sharing this about his parents. joshua had been removed from his parents custody after someone saw him tied to a pole as his family was packing to move. he was living with a teacher after that. after his release from the

hospital, he was turned over to child protective services and there is a custody hearing tomorrow. just in. this is a pretty bizarre situation involving the infamous white house party crashers. he says he thinks his wife has been kidnapped. he says mikail is missing. joe johns is investigating this for us. but first, this. the voters are getting the message. voters of new york sure got the message. >> texas governor rick perry referring to a big win in the race to fill anthony weiner's old seat and republicans say the white house better be scared. also, perry confirms he's meeting with a pretty famous billionaire tonight. a billionaire by the name of trump. is perry look iing for an

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if it is interesting and halling now, you are about to see it. rapid fire. let's go. beginning with this. a courtroom out bust from the man accused of trying to detonate a bomb in his under wear in a plane. he said quote, o sam's alive and i'm being forced to wear prison close. the nigerian national is representing himself. the judge has rejected his

request to be tried using islamic law. he is accused of trying to blow up that airline on christmas day in 2009. it has been less than two months since the death of amy winehouse and today, on what would have been her 28th birthday, her family and friends are celebrating her life by launching a charity in her name. focuses on helping young people in need due to ill health, disability, financial disadvantage or addiction. those are his words and he talked to piers morgan last night and his daughter's death in a prime time exclusive. >> right now, i wouldn't be as surprised. it's just incredible the force, her force, her nature, has gone. but it hasn't really gone because i'm a -- my family, we're firm believers in life after death. she's right here with us all the

time. he is big, green, bendable and busted. you remember this video. police say the two 19-year-olds, jacob kiss dressed in a gumby costume and his buddy, turned themselves in in the san diego 7-11 robbery last week. the clerk thought it was a joke, now the case is in the hands of a district attorney to decide if charges will be filded. and what about walrus? as many as 20,000 are congreg e congregating. their migration started three weeks earlier than last year and experts blame receding arctic ice, which is at its third lowest level in history. scientists fear the walruses may be headed toward extinction. this just in. an amazing tribute to the victims of 9/11.

this happened thousands of miles above san marcos, texas. 14 skydivers boarded that plane, jumped out on sunday. you see that what spells out. 9/11. took them four times, actually, to perfect that formation. it's amazing. two of the divers with firefighter paramedics in corpus christi area. they're the ones who came up with this sky high plan. and now, joe acosta joins us from richmond, virginia with the latest off the political ticker. rick perry got a pretty busy day in virginia, doesn't he? >> yeah, he came to virginia, which last time i checked, is not one of the early primary states. iowa, new hampshire, south carolina, those are the states where you'll find most of the presidential contenders these days. but rick perry came to virginia to talk at liberty university. that is a school that is very important to the evangelical

christian mooument in this country. he also spoke here in richmond to a group of republicans. this is a state not that important in the republican primary season. it is a very important state when it comes to presidential battlegrounds in the general election and we asked governor perry after his speech today whether or not he was getting a little ahead of himself. >> it seems as if you're already looking past the primaries and to the general election. aren't you being a tad overconfident? >> i understand who the opposition is in this election cycle. and there are seven other individuals on that stage who are quite capable, but the fact of the matter is, my focus and i think as our focus all should be, is on the problems facing america today and that is an administration trying to spend our way to prosperity. >> oh, okay. that's -- and so, you notice there, we asked whether or not he's getting a little ahead of himself.

why isn't he talking about these other candidates and he started talking about president obama. >> well, let's pivot back to the historically democratic district in new york, congressman weiner's old seat now filled by a republican. rick perry not too shy about his feelings there either. >> no, he talked about that in his speech today here in richmond, also in his remarks to us afterwards. this is something that you know, nominees do. when they've gotten the republican nomination or democratic nomination. they start making comments about special elections that have happened that are beneficial to their part. this is something the campaign of mitt romney was accused of not too long ago. everybody was saying mitt romney's talking more about president obama than he is about the rest to have field. it is the strategy of the front-runn front-runner. >> what about this? >> word on the street, that

perry has a meeting with would be candidate, donald trump. do we smell an endorsement here? >> yeah. i don't know. governor perry, he confirmed that he's having this dinner date with the donald. later this evening. it has been called i believe the meeting of the hairs, instead of the -- >> you're making that up. >> no, i did see that out there. that was on twitter earlier today. but you know, governor perry can afford to do things like this. for some of the other candidates, this might be viewed as a risky move because donald trump is unpredictable. he will say what's on his mind and sometimes, those things aren't very politically correct, but rick perry knows that donald trump has occasionally said that if he doesn't like the field out there, he may jump into this race and trump, as you know, even though he jumped out and decided not to run, his poll numbers were strong enough to have an impact in this race.

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they would have found a women inside with her five children and their elderly grandmother. what happened inside this home defied logic. it happened when matthew was left out in the front yard, unresponsive. he had to be rushed to the hospital. he and his sibling had been battling stomach problems, but she thought they were getting better. as it turns out, matthew would never recover. he died from bronschial pneumona and the medical examiner says it was natural causes. while that may be the medical definition of how matthew died, i have to ask you this. what is natural about a teenager living in a small home isolated from the world with 200 filthy animals, a home that by all accounts, you could smell from the street? >> when i tried to take with them, he don't answer. he just say hi or something. he don't say nothing.

>> it smelled like something was dying in there. i always used to assume it was manure for the plants the lady used to water every morning. >> so, she watered her plants. who nurtured the children? children's services says it had never been called to that home before last week, but a spokesperson for the department of children and family services reminds us that social isolation is one of the most powerful risk factors for serious harm to children. he says and i want to quote, if we never knock on that door that no one ever seems to open, we may never know how bad it is or how we could help. would you? would you help if you could? their mother now in jail, charged with neglect. >> my heart weeps for the ones we can't save because they didn't do nothing wrong. >> again, i ask, what about the

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there are some new developments on the fate of those two american hikers held in an iranian prison. also, nasa unveiling the design of the rocket that's supposed to replace the space shuttle. want to begin with mohamed. what are you hearing? we know there's a plane from ohman heading to tehran. who's on it? might it mean these two american hikers could be released? >> reporter: that's the question right now. western diplomat is telling cnn there is an ohmani plane who would play a role in the negotiating the release of the two hikers.

there's been a lot of speculation if they would be released, if they could come to oman. that having been said though, officials have not commented. we reached out to many of them. they're not confirming those reports at this time. whether or not they will be freed, contradictory information at this stage. ahminedjad said they could be leased in a matter of three days. we heard from judiciary saying they're the final arby tors and a case is being considered at this time. >> we will have to wait to see if mahmoud ahminedjad makes good on his words. next, john zarrella is in miami making a big announcement on plans for the new rocket. tell me about the new rocket. what does it do, where can it go and what's the price tag.

>> it will be about 300 feet long, size of a football field, bigger than a saturn 5 rocket. it could be ready, the first test flight, about 2017. ultimately, it can fly. it's supposed to fly astronaut to an asteroid in 2025 and on to mars sometime in the 2030 time frame. about $18 billion over the course of the next five to six years to get this thing developed, but nasa is saying let's get this rocket done nasa said they had to stop. so now, they've made the announcement everybody's been waiting for. >> quickly, any of your astronaut friends, would they want on this thing? >> every one of them i know is ready to go on this rocket. absolutely. >> john zarrella, thank you very

much. still ahead, casey anthony's parents, they are speaking out for the first time since she was acquitted of murder, but that is not the headline. her mother, cindy, suggests that casey's lies and behavior were cause bid seizures and she's getting specific. elizabeth cohen gives us the truth behind grand mall seize yurs and sunny hostin about why no one brought this up at the trial. [ oswald ] there's a lot of discussion going on about the development of natural gas,

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casey anthony's mother has a new excuse for her daughter. seizur seizures. a jury found her not guilty and a lot of people disagreed with that verdict. cindy went on the dr. phil show this week. claimed casey had grand mal seizures. >> i don't know why she's having a seizure. does chef a brain tumor? were they caused by stress? i don't know. i don't know if she had a seizure that day and blacked out. that's what i want to find out down the road. i'm not making justifications for that, but there's a cause for those. you don't just have a grand mal seizure. >> your theory is that she is a victim in this in some way, an illness, a tumor or something. >> i truly believe that because there was never any signs that

casey was an unfit mother. she was an awesome mother. >> dr. phil's response, he told cindy she is in denial, but it got uz wondering what is a grand mal seizure. we asked elizabeth cohen. >> a grand mal seizure is basically what most picture when we think of a seizure. two things happen. one, muscles contract violently and two, the person becomes unconscious. cindy anthony said she's not sure why her daughter had these seizures and said she would like to know the cause. there are several causes. epilepsy, brain tumors, strokes can cause seizures and so can infections. now, again, what happens in a seizure, someone becomes unconscious because these signals are just going haywire in their brain. in her interview with dr. phil,

cindy anthony wondered whether her daughter suffered from post partum schizophrenia. it is a more extreme decide that post partum depression. caylee was 2 years old when she died. it usually sets in within just months. >> thank you very much. what about the legal side here to cindy anthony's claim? sunny hostin on the case. the obvious first question, if casey had suffered from these suzanniers, wouldn't the attorneys brought it up in trial? >> that is what people would think, but apparently, cindy says they didn't want her to bring that up. that was very contradictory to their theory of their case because the defense case here basically was casey anthony had nothing to do with the death of caylee anthony. casey anthony happened upon her

father with caylee and she had drowned. to try to explain away casey's behavior by discusses seizures would have sort of muddied up the waters for the defense theory, so it's not surprise to me that something like that would not be brought in front of a jury. >> would it be used as maybe a reason for her behavior, her ever changing stories? >> well, you know, some would say perhaps. we just heard what elizabeth had to say. grand mal seizures and this sort of schizophrenia. we usually see those this epilepsy. i think what we're seeing is a mother really scarred by everything that's happened. her father's torn apart and she's trying to figure out why, what really happened to my family and i think we're seeing a very tortured mother. >> also, this. we found out casey's lawyer, jose baez, now helping defend

the american jailed in aruba for the death of his companion. another high pro file case. first, your reaction and where did he come from? what is his background? >> you know, i think -- i'm not surprised that gary jordano, he's in trouble. he's being held for quite some time. at this point in time, jose baez is really the new johnny coch n cochran. the you're guilty and want to go home, you hire jose baez. if you're in trouble, you want the best go-to person in the criminal justice system, that person is jose baez because by all accounts, even though people have criticized him, he really connected with that jury and he is the reason casey anthony is walking free. the question, the answer to the question, where did he come from? many don't know because while he

graduated from law school in 1997, he was admitted to the bar in florida in 2005. so this is someone who didn't have a lot of experience going into the casey anthony case. apparently, she heard prison inmates talking about the fact jose baez was a good attorney and hired him. as a trial attorney, i can tell you that the best trial attorneys are those that are scr scrappy, those that connect with juries. certainly, he has now the experience of a lifetime having tried a case like that and has become the go-to person. that's why gary jordano has him as his attorney. >> thank you very much. on the case as always. still ahead, a man walks into an arkansas courthouse. no criminal record, no priors. asks to see a specific judge and then opens fire. find out what this man brought that signalled he was prepared to do battle. also, we are hearing this

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police say the gunman in the arizona courthouse shooting was armed to the tee. kept firing even when his weapo weapo weapons malfunctioned. new details about what happened. the 48-year-old gunman fired more than 70 shots, even aiming at nearby motorists before he was shot. police did shoot and kill the gunman, both in his head and torso. an administrate ir assistant was shot. some hid in the vault and jury room while dialing for help.

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police say the gunman had three semiautomatic handguns, a semiautomatic rifle and was wearing a tact kl vest. let's get a quick check with wolf. see what he has coming up. i was sneaking a pick at your twitter page. you have a big interview, too. we know that governor perry and donald trump are having dinner tonight in new york and you, sir, are having mr. trump on before that. >> just before the dinner in new york. the front-runner for the nomination, governor perry is going to have dinner with trump in new york. a lot of these candidates making a visit to see trump in advance of their more assertive run, so donald trump going to assess what's going on.

what about the other candidates? and what about him? he's still toying a little bit with the idea of running in this election under a certain circumstances. we're going to press him on that. in our 6:00 p.m. eastern hour, we have an interview with the former u.s. ambassador. bill richardson. he's just out of cuba. he tried to get an american who's been serving a sentence free. failed to achieve that goal. we're going to talk about what's going on in cuba and havana right now. he spent the last several days there. a lot's at stake in u.s.-cuban religi relations. it's a big show. >> really, this time. thank you very much. still ahead here though, a developing story involving the infamous white house party crashers. the husband says he thinks his

wife has been kidnapped. he says michaele is missing. joe johns has been digging on this one, who is next. ♪ gue thameans youan dit all. it's thevseason of doing now combine the all-star editn discount with oer offers for a tal value of $6,000. or quifieduys can get 0% apr for 60 mont plus $1,000 llan ll sileradmols. get to your evy aler and ghat truck today

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let's check in with joe johns cht let's begin with michaele salahi. one of the several in the real housewives of d.c. wouldn't be too tough to recognize her in public. her husband says she's been abducted. what makes him think that? >> this is a couple that's been made famous or infamous, by stunts generated for them, including their arrival by showing up unannounced at a white house state dinner. now, tareq salahi has announced his wife has gone missing. he says he was afraid the local authorities are not taking the situation seriously. the local authorities in question who happen to be the warren county, virginia sheriff's department, have not responded to several calls and e-mails trying to clarify the situation, so what we do know is that most law enforcement organizations do not take a

missing person's report seriously until the person's been missing for at least 48 hours. hasn't be that long yet. still, tareq salahi says he contacted the fbi. the manager says the last time tareq saw michaele was at their home around 11:00 yesterday. michaele told him she was going to get her hair done, but mised the appointment. also supposed to go to a dance class. he claims he got a call from michaele late last night from an o o oregon cell phone number. tareq claims the sheriff's deputies have told him his wife called them, that she was okay, just dealing with family issues, but he's claiming he thinks she's forced to make that call under duress. >> so, what is the husband, what

is he specifically asking r for? >> well, he's just asking for the authorities to take a very close look at it r very seriously and take his report seriously, apparently. again, we've reached out to the sheriff's deputies and they haven't said a word to us about what's going on here and we'd love to hear from them. they also tell us they're swamped with call frs the media. we know that a bankruptcy auction at the winery they own in northern virginia is scheduled to occur this weekend and court records show they owe a lot of people a lot of money. a law firm almost half a million dollars, an accountant $700,000. i talked to the auctioneers, is equipment and winery is still expected to go on auction