controversial comments. >> this city will be chocolate at the end of the day. >> reporter: what was behind that? >> the only thing i regret is that people misunderstood the quote and the comment so much. at that time there was this notion that some of our business people were saying to national media groups they didn't think certain people would come back. i wanted to send a strong signal that everyone was welcome. it was misinterpreted. coming up next hour -- >> video like this. plus a claim from this man that he was shot by white people who were hunting black people. the folk offense an fbi investigation after hurricane katrina hit, did lawlessness really rule the streets of new orleans? i'm heidi collins. "cnn newsroom" continues with tony harris. >> it is friday, the 28th of august and here are the faces of the stories driving the headlines. in the cnn newsroom this

morning, two kidnapping suspects expected in court today. the 11-year-old girl, they're accused of snatching is now 29 and back with her family today. hurricane katrina four years later, cnn investigates vigil ante justice in the days after the storm. he is the most powerful banker in the world, ben bernanke, federal reserve chairman and identity theft victim. good morning, everyone. i'm tony harris and you're in the "cnn newsroom." waking up free for the first time 18 years after being abducted. jaycee dugard was just a child when she was snatched and now she is a woman with two children of her own said to be fathered by a man who kidnapped her, raped her and held her captive. our dan simon is outside the place where this horror happened in antioch, california. dan, good to see you this

morning. first of all, let's talk about philip and nancy garrido. who are these people? >> well, garrido is 58 years old and his wife is 55. they have been living in this home behind me for many years. they had this hidden backyard, as you probably have been hearing about, tony. a series of tents and sheds. we can tell you that authorities were here all day yesterday searching this home, taking out bags of evidence. we should also point out that mr. garrido did an interview with kcra television. this was a phone interview and in that interview garrido doesn't make a whole lot of sense, not terribly coherent and he mentioned something about documents, repeatedly mentions something about these documents. documents he claims he handed over to the fbi and he said if you read them, if you read these documents, they will contain information "that humans have never fully understood." i want you to listen now to part

of that interview. >> wait till you read that document. my life has been straightened out. wait until you hear the story of what took place at this house. you're going to be absolutely impressed. an absolutely disgusting thing that took place with me in the beginning and to be able to understand you have to start there. >> well, that was just one aspect of the interview. garrido also talked about his relationship with the victim. he fathered two children with her. he said, strangely, if you talked to the victim, she would tell you, basically, they had nothing but a positive relationship. listen to that. >> what's kept me busy the last several, several years is i completely turned my life around. and you're going to find the most powerful story coming from the witness, from the victim. you wait, if you take this a step at the time, you'll fall over backwards and in the end

you'll find the most positive heartwarming story and revealing something that needs to be understood. >> well, as for the victim, we are told that jaycee dugard is in a motel here in antioch. she has been reunited with her mother. she is at that hotel, motel, also, with her two children. tony, obviously, just an incredible story here in this quiet neighborhood. you know, a lot of people are wondering what the neighbors thought about these people. were there suspicions and we can tell you, yes, we spoke to one neighbor who said he observed a couple children living in this backyard. he was so concerned about what he saw that he claims he actually called the local sheriff's department a couple years ago. authorities came out and had a brief conversation with garrido but the home was never searched. one of the many questions left

unanswered how this went on for so long. >> i'll ask you a series of questions here that we may not know answers to at this point, but we will get them at some point down the road here. let's go back first to the phone interview with the local television station and the second clip that you played for us. you have garrido acknowledging that jaycee was a victim here, was a victim. i just want to the extent that we know the answer to this, that would make him, garrido the victimizer unless he's claiming that he somehow saved her. can you give us any clarity on that bit of the exchange from that interview with a local television california station? >> well, all we can really tell you, tony, is that when he went inthis, first of all, let's back up a little bit. how did he get caught? well, he went to the campus of ucal berkeley and was there with a couple of children, presumably his own children that he fathered with the victim in this

case. he's there on campus and he wants to distribute some literature to some students, but to do that, the university requires that you have a permt and that you undergo a background check. clearly, he didn't do that. so, university police officer confronts him, asks him for some identification, she runs up a quick background check on him and determines that this guy is a sex offender and here he is with a couple of children and that eventually leads to an interview with his parole officer and that happens the very next day. that happened on wednesday. so, what happens during that meeting with the parole officer? well, it takes place in san francisco and in walks garrido along with the victim in this case. he's also there with his wife, nancy garrido and also taken his two children, the children he father would the victim in this case. you have all these people and the parole officer wondering what the heck is going on here. and garrido opens up and

confesses to the whole episode. that's how he was caught. >> the only point i'm trying to make here is that in his own words may be the seeds of an admission, which seems obviously at this point given what we know about the case at this point. in his own words in this interview with the california television station, he, himself, is saying that jaycee is a victim. that's the only point i'm trying to make there. dan, appreciate it. would you agree with that? >> yeah, it's interesting that he chose that word. >> yes. >> but he said, look, if you talk to the victim in this case, she will tell you that she really isn't a victim. i think that's the point he was trying to make. >> yeah, okay, dan simon, appreciate it. thank you. you know, one of the few people who can even come close to knowing what jaycee dugard and her family is going through right now is elizabeth smart. you may remember she was abducted from her utah home in 2002 and held captive for nine

months. elizabeth and her father, ed smart, talked to anderson cooper about what the reunion was like. >> there's got to be a lot of ups and downs with it. can you talk a little bit about just what that's like? >> well, for me y was just like overwhelming happiness because, i mean, i was out of that terrible situation and i was with my family and i was with my friends and i thought life was just going to resume back to what it had been before. so i was just very, very happy and then, of course, i wondered what was going to happen, what my captors were going to be, where they were going to be kept, what was going to happen to them. i mean, there was certainly some questions i had. >> what do you think the reunion is like for this young woman, jaycee, who has been away for so long? >> when we were transferred up

to the salt lake police department one of my biggest concerns was that law enforcement would try to get the full story from elizabeth and i'm hopeful that jaycee will not immediately have to go through that. i mean, that's basically reliving the whole nightmare of the time that she was gone and, you know, now is a time to rejoice, to be happy, to reconnect as a family. you know, the other will come and it has to come, but, you know, right now it is just a time to live and feel the joy and happiness that life can bring. >> and we will hear from jaycee dugard's stepfather in the next half hour of "cnn newsroom." thousands are turning out to pay their respects to senator ted kennedy. people started lining up before the doors opened this morning at

the jfk presidential library. more than 21,000 people filed past the senator's casket yesterday. viewing hours were extended until 2:00 a.m. deborah feyerick live from boston and, deborah, what a nice touch here. family members are greeting those who are in line paying their respects. >> that's exactly right, tony. really made this a very personal experience. kara kennedy out greeting folks on that line along with her two kids shaking hands and tim shriver is one. they have set out 15 condolence books and all these people have already stood in a line, basically, in order to get into the museum to see the casket and now they are basically signing these books that will be given to the family and become part of the history of this entire event. as you see, the line stretches all the way down here and, tony, the buses behind, you may be able to make out, state

legislatures, state lawmakers, congressman, senators all of them coming today to pay their respects. this is going to be going on all day. you could hear the planes going on overhead and these two ladies at the end of the line. lizzy has a personal story. what happened? >> i have a personal story. mr. kennedy helped my family very much because in 1998 when the embassy in nairobi, kenya, my family was back in kenya and i did not know what to do, but by the moment i was given the number to the office by my attorney. i went -- but she mentioned went to zimbabwe and my family went there and got the update and my husband joined me after three years because of mr. kennedy. it was a deadline. if i did not meet that deadline, they could have stayed there and i found good for that family and i found good for mr. kennedy, and god bless him so much. >> again, this woman over here.

you also, you tried to say hello to the family, as well. >> i tried. what happened was i am trying to make a point is that the day that my son's special needs and so kennedy's organization helped us get in touch with the organization to do for my son. but the most important reason why i am here today is because when he won that third term and it was freezing cold and i went down past the station and i met him, his wife and i guess the other fellows over here. you know and and i said to him, i said, senator ted kennedy, you stuck to my heart. i know you have a lot of money and you're a wealthy man, you know, but that's not important. you know what touched me is when you said the price you all are paying on the loss of your loved ones. >> oh, thank you so much. and, again, what i want to show you, justine by walking along this line, all of these folks have a personal story. whether it's that the senator's

office helped somebody get out of a country at a difficult time. whether he helped get an autograph for a special needs child. uknew rose kennedy, as well, right? >> yes, i did. when i was working in 1965 i met her i was asked to go down to the store for homes and the building -- >> what was she like, very quickly? >> she was great. wonderful person and, you know, she filled her children with passion and that's what ted had. he was filled with passion and he left his mark on the world. >> and, tony, just really, you could talk to millions of people on these lines, well, there aren't millions but the line does stretch a quarter mile long. and all these people coming out to pay their respects. one more look, all these people signing the book. >> deborah feyerick a scene you can't see see from your location. let's take this full. this is the senator's widow. vicki kennedy on the viewing line.

hugging, greeting the people who have lined up to pay their respects to the kennedy family. that is vicki kennedy right there hugging, taking a moment to talk to individuals moments ago wiping away tears. what a moment. and we invite you to stay with cnn for our continuing coverage of the life and the legacy of senator ted kennedy. his body will lie in repose at the john f. kennedy presidential library until a memorial service tonight at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. and the private funeral services will be held saturday, tomorrow, followed by his burial at arlington national cemetery. and still to come, if you took advantage of the cash for clunkers program, do you need to report the cash to the irs? personal finance editor gerri willis answers your e-mails.

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new york with her top tips. good to see you. good friday to you. you ready to dive into the old e-mail bag. >> let's do it. >> joe from indiana who writes, do you have to claim the money in the cash for clunkers program you received as income, love this question, in your tax returns for next year? >> isn't that a good question? >> yeah, it is. >> well, joe, you don't have to claim the money in the federal tax return, but you may have to pay taxes on the state level. look, the rules are different state to state and you have to ask your state tax department or check with your accountant, but you could owe some dough at the state level. unintended consequences. >> exactly. our second question comes from april who writes, i have been teaching children in a low-income school called head start for about five years now. i'm trying to find out if there is a loan forgiveness program out there for me. please help me, gerri. >> well, good news, april. you probably qualify for loan forgiveness program. you may be able to get your

perkins loan forgiven 100%, and the stafford loan forgiveness program may forgive up to 5,000 bucks depending on your state's rules. finally, you may be able to get the entire amount of your federal loans forgiven by the public service loan forgiveness program depending on your qualifications. now, to get the public loan forgiveness you will have to work full time for ten consecutive years and for more info and, of course, the head of your head start program. >> you have time for one more, gerri. >> definitely. >> this one from james, i like this one, too. if i add someone to my credit card as an authorized user to help their credit score, will it affect mine just for making that change? assuming they don't misuse it. >> right. well, you know, tony, a lot of people do this. the answer for james is, no. when you add someone as an authorized user, there are no changes on your credit report so there is no impact on your scores. now, keep in mind that any debt

incurred by that authorized user will show up on your credit reports and will impact your scores. finally, unless the it is your spouse or children, fico will not give them the benefit of having them the credit. if you are doing it to make your son or daughter look better to creditors, that will not work any more. if you have a question, send to me at gerri@cnn.com. >> did i hear you, a new fico something -- what? i am trying to keep up with the old and now there's new. >> there's a lot of scores. they make scores for the insurance industry, they make scores for banks and lenders and, you know, there's lots of development in this area. it's hard for consumers to keep up with. you can get your credit score at myfico.com by paying about 15 bucks. at the end of the day, we always say check your credit report and

make sure it's right so you know if you're going out there to get credit what the lender will see. >> gerri, you'll join me next hour. is this true, is this accurate? federal reserve chairman ben bernanke getting his i.d. stolen? >> doesn't matter who you are, tony. i mean, how smart you are, how, you know, do you have a cushy job? it doesn't matter. these fraud artists are out there to get your identity, they want to steal it. even if ben bernanke is not safe. >> if it can happen to ben bernanke, it can happen to each and every single one of us. first-time home buyers could be available for an $8,000 tax credit. you can learn all about it at cnn.com. a girl abducted when she was 11 years old reappears and now she has two children. hear from her stepdad in just a few minutes. i have asthma.

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a kidnapping nightmare that began two decades ago when jaycee dugard vanished. her mother issued this plea for her daughter's return back in 1991. >> she's a pretty, young, innocent child and you may like her, but we love her, too. and it's time that she comes home to her family. her sissy has been asking for her and she needs to be with us. >> wow. jaycee's mom in 1991. her little girl is now a 29-year-old woman and she's finally been reunite would her family. police say dugard was kept in a backyard compound. pillp and nancy garrido. the girls were born in the

backyard and have never been to school and have never seen a doctor. we have details on the day the horror began from dugard's stepfather who winced the abduction but couldn't stop it. he spoke to "american morning." >> jaycee walked up the hill on the her way to the busstop and a car circled and got my attention and that's how i recognized the car and it went back up the hill and waited for her to get to the top of the hill and i guess they wanted to see if cars were coming from behind or from above. once it got next to her, it cut her off and basically when i saw the door fly open i jumped on my mountain bike and i couldn't get to her in time and i yelled at a neighbor for 911 and they had a two-minute head start. i really have a lot of questions like how did they get out of there? you think they would have blocked the roads off and had him, but they got away. >> the suspects are due to appear in court in plasterville, california, today. let's go there live to dan

curmen of our affiliate kron and, dan, good to see you. i believe we have confirmation on the time of the arraignment today. >> that's right. i just talked to the district attorney's office and in their news release they said the arraignment of this couple will be at 1:00. the court will say it will be closer to 1:00 california time. we can expect to see them in court. at this point, the formal charges have not been filed and the d.a.'s office told me they are still putting those together. >> dan, you were there. my understanding is that you were there for the news conference yesterday and how shocking was it, first of all, to hear the news that you heard, first of all, that they had found her and that she was alive and, apparently, in good shape? >> well, i think the most shocking thing after the initial shock that she was alive 18 years later. somebody goes missing in 1991 and is never heard from since, you just expect the worse after a while, especially in this

business. but i think the next shocking point was that she had been just outside antioch in the bay area living in that secret backyard all this time and i think even more shocking was is that garrido was on federal parole and parole agents had to come and visit the house routinely and never spotted the secret backyard and sheriff officials said the way it was set up, it was easy to miss. but, apparently, jaycee and the two young girl husband been living in that secret backyard the entire time. that's what is most shocking and most surprising. >> dan, i'm sure you have been doing what good reporters do, that's talking to neighbors who live near these two, this couple. what have they been telling you? >> well, you know, neighbors, you know, they've seen odd goings on and they've described garrido odd in general in and around the thing. i've read some reports about people calling the sheriff's

department reporting odd things but them telling them, well, they couldn't get a search warrant and they couldn't go in. that's what i've read in some of the newspapers, as well. so, apparently, there were several opportunities to it and it never happened. what is also pretty amazing about this, how the whole kidnapping plot was uncovered. it all happened because he brought the two young girls with him to uc berkeley to try to pass out pamphlets and a various uc berkeley police officer who stopped him, questioned him and got information on his background and found out he was on federal parole and she was the one who contacted his parole officer and made him come in and it was when he came into that office that he brought the wife and jaycee and the two young girls and what really tipped off the parole agent was on all his viz oots the house, he had never seen jaycee and never seen the two young girls and that's why he started asking the l the questions and suddenly the whole plot started to unravel. >> dan, i almost feel a little

nauseous asking this next question, but the idea that he would bring everyone to the parole officer's office, i am wondering did anyone in the neighborhood tell you that they had seen this group being essentially passed off as a family? >> well, no. no one had indicated that they had seen this whole group as a group together all at once ever. and, in fact, at the news conference yesterday, sheriff officials had indicated that both jaycee and the two young girls very rarely left that backyard. so, it's very questionable as to why in this instance maybe he decided that the jig was up and he decided he was going to bring everybody and also curious why he brought the two young girls with him to uc berkeley and why he was not afraid it was tip everybody off. >> dan kerman from our affiliate kron, he's outside the superior court building in plasterville where the arraignment will be

held later today for the two suspects in this amazing story. dan, thank you. let's get to some business news now, a new government report shows now that after years of record growth, the farm industry is set to take a pretty big hit here. susan lisovicz at the new york stock exchange with the biggest details. susan, good to see you. >> good to see you, tony. the u.s.ing ing agriculture dep said it could fall 40% this year. in real dollars we're talking about $40 billion. fruits and vegetables are commodity and there's less demand in a global recession. farmers are getting lower prices for their corn and wheat and many other products. but we have to say, you mentioned it, tony, we have to put this in perspective. farmers have been doing okay in this recession because they're coming off years of record-breaking profits. all that demand for our exports

to china and all that demand for corn-based ethanol has put them in a better position. what does it mean for you and me? well, lower prices at the grocery store, so, mixed news coming from the heartland, tony. >> and, susan, how important is farming really these days to our overall economy? >> just less than 1% of americans, believe it or not, directly involved in agriculture, tony. a century ago, 30%. >> absolutely. >> but farming does have a much bigger impact because they spend on big ticket items like tracto tractors, they buy huge quantities of seed and fertilizers and half of the nation's land. so, agriculture accounts for more than 4% of gdp. by the way, the recession and prices also affects the prices for farmland. so, a lot of pressure then on family farms. one other thing we're talking about the economy. we're seeing and watching shares up 1%. bad news for whirlpool employees. we have it confirmed now that

whirlpool is closing a plant in evansville, indiana. that would affect 1 ,100 jobs and they're going to mexico. so, we've been seeing a lot of signs of growth, tony, improvement in the economy, but not every day we're going to hear good news. this is something that's going to come out very uneven and in terms of the market, we're seeing an uneven performance. dow under pressure, but the nasdaq is doing just fine. tony. >> susan, appreciate it. see you next hour, thanks. so, a milestone has been reached in afghanistan. another u.s. serve member has been killed there, making august the deadliest month in for americans in the war 45 the number of u.s. troops killed this month. live pictures now from the jfk library in boston where people continue to file past the casket of senator ted kennedy. the public viewing will last until 3:00 p.m.

a private memorial service after the funeral mass tomorrow, the senator will be buried in arlington national cemetery. stay with cnn for continuing coverage of the life and legacy of senator ted kennedy. again, the body will lie in repose at the john f. kennedy memorial library until a memorial service at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. private funeral services held tomorrow followed by his burial at arlington national cemetery.

you see representative, the back of representative john lewis greeting members of the kennedy family after just taking his turn in line paying his respects in passing the casket of senator edward kennedy. want to just show you this moment taking place right now live at the john f. kennedy presidential library. as you know, the senator's body will lie in repose there until a private memorial mass later today and, again, literally thousands of people have been paying their respects passing the casket. started yesterday afternoon, as you know, into the evening, wrapped up at about 2:00 a.m. this morning the hours had to be extended and, so, it begins again today.

a representative john lewis there from georgia. well, hurricane katrina was sweeping into new orleans four years ago tomorrow law and order was being swept out. the fbi is now investigating reports of several shootings by vigil antes and gary tuchman tracked down this particular story. >> reporter: listen to these shocking comments made be hurricane katrina survivors days after the storm. >> we shot him. >> they were loiters. >> reporter: is this true? we came to new orleans to find people in this documentary shot by danish filmmakers and talk to this man who says three nights after katrina he saw three armed white men, one of whom pointed his gun at him. >> he said i'm going to get you. >> reporter: danelle harrington who said he was walking to a ferry boat in the mostly white neighborhood of old algiers

point. >> he hit me in my back and i fell and hit the ground again. >> reporter: his life was saved by this surgeon, who says his hospital typically gets one or two gunshot victim in a 30-day period. the doctor says about half of those gunshot victims die. clearly, people were taking matters into their own hands and no shortage of panic, paranoia or lawlessness in new orleans. many who took extreme measures, nothing to do with race. >> private militia, neighborhood watch. >> reporter: a neighborhood watch with dozens. >> yep. >> reporter: he doesn't know who shot danelle harrington but told me he and his neighbors have a huge number of weapons ready to keep criminal uz way and some of his neighbors have been firing shots. >> i use the second amendment, i bare arms to protect myself.

>> reporter: residents were very blunt in the documentary. >> that was our sign down the street we had. 12 gauge shotgun. >> reporter: in the documentary they appear to be drinking beer while making these comments. this is wane. >> if it moves, you shot it. >> reporter: four years later, we found wane at his home. you said "it was like pheasant season in south dakota, if it moved, you shot it." >> taken completely out of context. first of all, they said what was the noise like over here? i said i grew up in south dakota. the first day of pheasant city you shoot at anything that moved. >> reporter: the inference was that you shot at anything. >> which is totally untrue. i don't know, i don't remember the interview. >> were you bragging? >> probably. >> reporter: nathan was also interviewed in the documentary. >> you do what you have to do.

we happened to run into him at a bar. >> ever ask me if i shot anyone. >> reporter: i don't think you said you shot somebody, but you would if you had to. >> green, yellow, black, if they were on my property causing harm to my property, food. i gave plenty of food away to people. >> reporter: but you would have shot somebody on your property? >> absolutely. >> reporter: that didn't happen? >> no, that didn't happen. >> reporter: vinnie said he almost fired at somebody. >> i know you're there, i'm going to count to three and then i'm going to shoot. i said, one, two and you hear, no, don't shoot. and you hear footsteps just running off. >> reporter: police in the military were no where to be seen, but four years have gone by and what you're about to hear from the man who was shot is absolutely stunning. >> reporter: how many times have the new orleans police talked to

you about this case? >> zero, none. >> reporter: ac thompson is a reporter. he has been investigating the case for two years and wrote about it in the wrote about it in a nationwide magazine. >> people died of violence and it seem tld was no real effort by law enforcement to figure out -- police say they would look into the allegations. but when cnn contacted them they declined to make any comments. now the fbi is on the case interviewing harrington. >> at the time, i thought i guess you could consider him like a neighborhood hero. i felt like a vigilante. i was going protect my home. i don't care what it takes, i will protect my home. >> harrington doesn't know who

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the public viewing will be followed by a private service this evening. and examining a period during 1962 when nixon viewed kennedy as a potential competitor. he talked with aides about wiretapping kennedy. >> and you can watch it all tonight. cnn will air the film tonight at 11:00 p.m. and finally found after 18 years in captivitcaptivity, jaycee du

back out of captivity. her suspected captors are due for arraignment four hours from now in california. dugard was just an 11-year-old when she was snatched. her stepfather witnessed the abduction but couldn't stop it. >> what would you want to say to those people? to her abductors? >> hopefully, kiss your [ bleep ] good-bye. >> we are outside the place where the horror happened in antioch, california. dan, today's court hearing will be nothing knew for phillip garrido. he has been here before? >> reporter: he has. he served time in the 80s and 90s for a crime he committed a long time ago. sexual offense there in nevada. he was able to get out of jail early. we should tell you that the

victim in this present case, jaycee dugard is now in a local motel in the area. she has been reunited with her mother. she is there with her two children. tony, we should tell you a lot has been made about this backyard of the house. i just had a chance a moment ago to go in the driveway over here. behind there, there is a fence and when you -- you can't really see anything from this vantage point but when you walk back there, you can see how authorities made that claim that you would not have been able to discover the hidden backyard. looks like a junk yard and there is a fence, a wooden fence. you would think it looks just like somebody's junk yard. when you go behind that sense is where the blue tents and sheds were found. and yesterday during a news conference, authorities describe

what that area looked like. >> after you read that document, we look at the story of what took place at this house. you are going be absolutely impressed. it's a disgusting thing that took place. i turned my life completely around to be able to understand that you have to start there. >> we apologize. that was the wrong piece of sound. you listened to the jailhouse interview that the suspect in this case, 58-year-old did with kcra television in sacramento. in that interview, garrido talked about the relationship he had with the victim in that case. he used the word victim, but in that interview he said that if you were to talk to jaycee dugard, she would tell you that the two actually had a positive

relationship. it is clear that the suspect has some mental issues. we talked to neighbors who say that garrido made claims he invented a device that allowed him to do some kind of mind control. so obviously, some huge issues there. one neighbor also told us he was suspicious about what was happening behind the house. he thought a couple of children were living in the backyard. called the sheriff's department a couple of years ago. he said the sheriff had a brief conversation with the garridos, but the authorities left and didn't do much of a serf. i believe now we have the search from the undersheriff talking about the backyard. take a look at that. >> the gates bothered me. in and out through the back. >> weirdos.

you got the creeps from them, you know? >> i knew he had a past. he said he was in prison a while back for 11 years for crime against a woman. >> all right. obviously having some issues with rolling the proper sound. right there you are hearing from some neighbors. but bottom line as you alluded to earlier, the garridos will be arraigned. >> law enforcement has got to come up with a better explain nati explaination. sounds like they need to do more than they did. it seems to me that law enforcement will have to come up with a better explaination. one more quick one, when did authorities become suspicious of garrido? >> it was on tuesday when

garrido showed up at cal berkley with a couple of children, presumably the children he fathered. he was trying to hand out religious material to students on campus. in order to do that you have to have a permit and undergo a background check by the university. a police officer there was suspicious of what he saw. ran a background check on garrido. garrido handed him his drivers license. it was determined he was a sex offender. garrido's patrol officer got involved. garrido shows up with the victim and the two children for the meting. and aforting to the authorities, confessed to the whole thing. >> appreciate it. thank you. take you back a little bit. this case actually goes back almost two decades. we take you back in time now to the scene of the kidnapping and coverage of jaycee's

disappearance on affiliate station kcra. >> 13 hours and two long. >> a mother, a father terrified. their daughter, 11-year-old jaycee lee dugard was kip napped as she walked to the bus stop. a man grabbed her, she screamed, and the car sped away. >> she is 11 years old, a pretty little blond. some psycho snatched her up. >> you wonder what goes through an 11-year-old's mind. she has got to be scared. >> since the kidnapping, a massive search has been underway in south lake tahoe,el dorado county and more. >> deputies have been going door to door asking residents if they

have seen any suspicious characters or the vehicle used. >> california highway patrol and the city and the sheriff's department actively doing follow up leads on calls and canvassing neighbors. >> jaycee's parents agreed to talk with reporters tonight in hope that the kidnapper and their daughter might see the story. >> drop her off. let her go back home. don't hurt her. >> i need her home. i need her to come home tonight. if you hear mommy, i love you and i want you to come home tonight safe and sound. >> jaycee is now 29 years old. she was kidnapped 18 years ago. we are told california authorities are right now putting together formal charges against the suspected kidnappers.

58-year-old phillip garrido and his 54-year-old wife nancy. they are set to be arraigned about four hours from now and cnn is staying on this story throughout the day. firefighters are moving in while residents head the other way in some communities south of los angeles. as many as 1500 people were forced out of the seaside community overnight. four fires are burning. this is not helping residents east and northeast of the city who are being urged to evacuate. let's get you now to reynolds who is following this story for us. let's talk about danny at some point. >> we got to talk about danny. one of the big issues you have in california is for the winds to pick up as they often do in the afternoon. speaking of wind we have to turn

to danny. it is a ragged mess. take a look at it. normally it would be much better defined and a lot of development on one side of the storm and on the west side you would see something. the center of circulation is clean. think about a big ceiling fan with two or three of the blades knocked off. winds are around 40 miles an hour. the edge is, again, just clean. we may see a center try to reform. we will watch it very carefully. where in the world is this thing headed. we have the national hurricane center brave the storm and veering off to the northeast. winds are 45 miles per hour. and veering off with a possible landfall as a very weak tropical storm as we get into sunday at 8:00 a.m. i don't think it will ever make hurricane strength but we will see a little pluxuation in

power. right now we have a tropical storm that is in effect. that will remain in effect as the storm continues to meander to the north. you are talking about the fires. santa barbara county, very dry conditions. take a look at this video. it is hard to tell from this footage that we have. but some of these flames get up to 50 to 100 feet in height. there you have the warm air going right up the hillside almost fans the flames. when you get back in the valleys, getting up to the 80s and 90s. and the warm air will help drive

the foliage even more. thank you. now to the economy and your wallet. new numbers out today on how much we are spending and earning. consumer spending rose two tenths of a percent in july boosted by the cash for clungers program. consumer spending is the big question mark the increase was in line but personal incomes were flat. that's weaker than expected showing. paying final respects to senator ted kennedy and honoring his public service. mourners continue to go past the senator's flag draped casket. they started lining up before the doors opened this morning. we are live. i got to tell you something, we saw congressman john lewis a short time ago. but nothing has been more moving

than to see the senator's widow vicky online, greeting these online, queueing up to pay respects. >> the kennedy family is very much involved. you saw vicky, reggie, nephews and nieces. we are in the parking lot. people are signing these condolence books. some brought prepared things and others are making it up. buss behind me, some of them saying thank you, senator kennedy. those are bringing people in from a nearby convention center in order to get them here. 15 condolence book.

oi wanted to ask you, tell me the impact that senator kennedy had on you? >> number one i would have to say it is about service. really taught us to understand that. no matter where you come from as long as you work hard you can do whatever you want to do. the whole american dream idea he personified that. and in haiti, the term kennedy is equivalent to good wealth. if you are going pass down something like a hand me down to a friend or family, you call it a kennedy. >> wow. all right. so interesting. it seems that he and his whole family really made everyone feel included that they were part of a much larger picture. >> look at the amount of people and the fact that the family came out to thank everyone. it's -- we stand from afar think

it is so far away and think you can't reach and touch the family themselves but they show you that you can. no matter where we are. >> thank you very, very much. again, what people are doing is once they come out from inside, and it was interesting. i was inside earlier this morning. they did open the doors about 15 minutes earlier. wa really struck me was the profound silence of that room once you enter it. and it's interesting. on television you see what appears to be gray screens. those are shades which cover huge windows that overlook the bay, the water there. and so again, just really a picture of beauty as you walk in. and also there are a lot of pictures of the senator, of him as a little boy. one of him being poked by an elephant. and also pictures of him and his brother and all the dignitaries

he met. you do get a real sense of history. and all these people came out to celebrate it. first time i heard doing an act of charity is called a kennedy in haiti. >> first time for me, too. and again we encourage you to stay with us for continuing coverage of the life and legacy of senator ted kennedy. and a memorial service will be held tonight. private funeral services will be held tomorrow followed by his burial in alrlington national cemetery. the tea part ies are going on. that is next. progress... it starts with more models than toyota or honda with an epa estimated 30 miles per gallon highway or better. next, it's a lineup of hybrids that fit the way you live,

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our top stories, a woman snatched from a bus stop when she was 11 years old. a convicted sex offender has confessed to kidnapping her, keeping her locked in a shed and fathering two children with her. phillip and nansy garrido are set to be arraigned today. a train wreck kills five and injures many others. several cars derailed. and mourners have just a few more hours to pay their respects to senator ted kennedy. the public viewing is scheduled to end at 3:00 p.m. eastern time. mass is tomorrow. we will get another check of our

top stories in 20 minutes. activists on both sides of the health care debate are hitting the road to drive home their points. le's talk to them. first big government opponents big a 33-city bus tour of the country today and mark williams is an organizer of the tea party express and he joins me now from sacramento. good to talk to you. >> i appreciate the opportunity. look, i want to understand the work that you are doing a little better. we went to the website tea party express.org. correct? >> correct. >> and i would encourage others to do that as well. your purpose statement reads join the tea party express as we cross the nation rallying nations to oppose out of control spending, higher taxes, bail outs and growth in the size and power of government. are we talking about out of control spending generally, or is this, in part, a rebuke of

democratic spending? i am trying to figure out if you are a partisan organization or non-partisan in your efforts here. >> we are non-partisan. if you ask any random 100 people who will be here, you mention george w. bush, you will probably have to stand back at what will happen next. generally seen that in the last couple of years, we began this reckless mess that we are in now which has only been accelerating since the beginning of the year. it is spending in general. it is government intrusion in general. it is out of wrack priorities in general. what brought everything together was the obamacare idea. >> why do you call it obamacare? why do you do that? >> they change the name. kennedycare today? is it obamacare? health insurance reform?

kennedycare? >> democrats aren't calling it obamacare. who is calling it -- >> no it is kennedycare officially. i can't keep track of the name changes. they change it every time a focus group comes back. that is the issue that has brought everybody together. we find that there are different priorities. here in sacramento, the main focus after we leave here, the rally will be taken over by farmers and other kurns who need water which is being denied to them for the sake of a minnow. you want food or a minnow. the legislature will be taking that matter up in a couple of weeks and they are here to be heard. michigan will be jobs and the disast trous condition that state is in. >> it's about big government? the intrusions of big government and power and spending. >> to be fair, yes.

>> so the argument then is you indicated this has been growing in it's momentum. where was the bus tour? when the bush administration cropped up? helped the auto industry? where was the bus tour when the bush administration was pushing a stimulus package through congress? >> it hadn't reached critical mass. working stiffs wo were not a far left wing rent-a-mob. these are people who really need to be motivated into action. this happened organically because one guy on tv who went into a rant. and what we are doing what the tea party express is we are taking the words and trying to channel them into positive action. there are hundreds of tea party groups out there.

we all come together under one umbrella and that is protecting the constitution and the rights and freedoms to hold the different views and esspouse the different views because that is what is being threatened. >> the criticism is that you are rallying in a way now in a way that you didn't during the bush administration because you have attached to issues and your c e core -- the core group of people don't support the president, will never support the president and are working to defeat the president. how do you answer the criticism? >> then i had 15,000 disgruntled anti-obama people here on tax day. it didn't look that way to me from the stage. this is not anybody upset over one particular politician or one

particular party. if you ask the republicans they are just as upset at their party as the democrats. this is americans standing up to tack back their country the feeling i get is when i was a kid in the 60s and 70s. the nation went this way and the government went that way. the greatest threat to the nation right now could very well be its own government and we need to take back control of this country. jerry garcia once said it's -- it's clear somebody has got to do something and it is pathetic that it has to be us. i think he got it backwards. we have been allowing our rep sentives to do the job that we hired them to do. >> just because it doesn't go the way -- the debate doesn't go the way you want it doesn't mean you are not being listened to. this is debate.

>> you will see debate across the country this is democracy. this is federal hall. this is what we celebrate. that's what the tea party express is. a celebration of america, a celebration of freedom, free speech, and a celebration of democracy. this is the way it works. >> and this is not routing for the failure of this american president? >> it's routing for the failure of those policies being enacted now that are directly contrary to the ideals and policies of this country. >> mark, good to talk to you. let's do this a few more times during the tour. >> let's. for your indoor cat... fueling an exhilarating adventure. each entrée is bursting with high-quality protein plus wholesome grain and garden greens.

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we heard from the tea party express. we will now hear from jermemiah byrd. did you hear my conversation a

couple moments ago? >> i did. i heard your conversation with mark. thank you for having me. >> my pleasure. i will not have you respond directly to mark because he can't respond back and that gets messy. do you believe the president made a strategic mistake by not writing a reform bill sending it to congress, and essentially asking congress to make it better? >> no. absolutely not. i think the president did what the american people wanted him to do which was to lead and that is what he has done from the beginning. from the beginning of the health insurance reform, the president has said over and over again, there are three things we have to do. we have got cut costs, ensure choice in your plan and doctors, and make sure we have health insurance for all americans. i think that is what you see that people want across the country. i don't think there was a mistake in that. i think it was a waz thing to do and shows his true leadership.

>> the first stop on this tour, what is it? 11 cities? >> yes. >> wednesday in phoenix. >> what took you so long? >> we started the health insurance reform organizing, we kicked it off on june the 6. and we have had 12,000 events in every district in over 2,500 towns promoting health insurance reform. >> well, let me jump in here. because what's the issue? marketing? have you not done the job of marketing? looks like you have been pummelled during the town halls on people who have pounced on the lack of a bill, and the breach in in m cases with bad information. >> when you look at local media, the folks that the different local newspapers and channels and what congress is really looking at, you will see that

people have been coming out not only in the town halls but in events before this began whether it was round tables or door to door, just like we did on the campaign, and when you look at the town halls, there were over 2,000 supporters of health insurance reform in that event and you see that across the country. supporters of reform are far outnumbering opponents. and some of the 24-hour cable news eco-chamber has focussed on the small minority of folks that object. >> you know, the criticism has been, and nothing against local television, but if it is not on cnn, it didn't happen. part of the criticism is you have been slow to organize. >> we have had 12,000 events

since june. the bus tour is a great example. we were having great stops. overwhelming support in these areas have elected officials. folks coming out and sharing their stories about the skyrocketing costs of health care. getting health insurance reform passed. and you have seen that across the country. i think we have been -- we were on the front end of this, not coming on late in the scene and we have been talking to folks door to door, on the phone, around their kitchen tables, and everywhere that they go. >> so your bus tour is an 11-city tour over how many days? >> it will last until folks come back to washington from the recess. >> tea party express? 33 stops. >> and we have over 2,000 events

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the day right here in the cnn newsroom. you think idea theft can't happen to you? not even the federal reserve chairman is immune. ben bernanke's wife was preyed upon as well. here are ways to protect yourself and your money. jerry, what is going on here? >> reporter: i got to tell you. no one is safe. ben bernanke's wife, anna, was sitting in a starbucks near their home on capitol hill. she had her handbag on the back of her chair like so many of us women do. the purse disappears and what is taken? checkbook, drivers license, four credit cards and a little bit of cash. according to the "newsweek" version, a couple of days later the thooefs are trying to cash bernanke checks. turns out this is a really

sophisticated crime ring where people were stealing hundreds of i.d.s and selling them to people who wanted them. doesn't matter how famous you are, how well educated you are, you can be a victim of identity theft. >> i am just thinking about the image. i am in the market of an i.d. got one for you. name bernanke. mean anything to you? >> who would buy that. >> what is it that people can do to protect themselves? >> there the reality is there is no magic bullet. and as we said,this is a huge indust industry. take small steps. buy a sledder. put in financial statements from a bank. credit card offers. make sure you don't put it in the garbage.

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you want to check your credit card statements and your bank statements online at least once a week, maybe more. i peek in. it is a great way to manage your money to begin with. and you know if somebody is taking advantage of you. >> a lot to do but it's your money. have a great weekend. >> my pleasure. trying to unravel an 18-year-long kidnapping. a woman snatched from a bus stop when she was just 11 years old is reunited with her mother.

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>> music really saved me from a lot of stuff going on in the streets and i figured i could do the same thing with other kids. >> reporter: he came up with an idea that offered kids ages 9-14 to learn music for free. >> no advertisement, just word of mouth. >> no strings attached, no instruments needed. just bring yourself. >> i call it the no excuse process. i give the transportation, instruments, food, teachers. no excuse why you not here. >> at first, 42 kids showed up. >> in a week and a half we had 65, 70 kids. >> a year later? >> i have like about 100 kids in the program, still. and 400 on a waiting list. >> reporter: a year-round music

education program for three hours a day, five days a week known as the roots of music, fuelled by donations, volunteers, and lots of love. for kids like these, riding the program bus 20 minutes is an exercise in discipline. his mother sees the transformation. >> ever since he has been in the band he has been a much better child. academically and behavior. >> ten to the second pow sner. >> program co-founder helps make math something to smile about. >> all of the kids have gone up a letter grade in math and language arts. >> a success rate worth bragging about. >> the program is supported by donations. for more information, visit the website at roots of music.com. kid rock sings in michigan. may i help you? hello, down here!

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you love yourself some kid rock don't you? >> i love him. >> do you? >> do not give it away or tell. i love kid rock. >> perhaps no american city has been hit harder by the decline of the auto industry than detroit. kid rock. >> reporter: this is no ordinary

concert. it's kid rock performing at his biggest headline show, bringing 80,000 people to his hometown of detroit. ♪ >> reporter: detroit has never seen times like this. but there is an unexpected friend in kid rock. how long have you had this? >> this? probably ten years. >> reporter: you won't leave will you? >> no, i will never leave. >> i got one more song for you. >> reporter: the downfall of the auto industry hits home for kid rock. >> it is mind blowing to everybody in this town. >> reporter: this

self-proclaimed son of detroit is working on more than just his music. >> i have become more in tune and realized how much the stuff that i am doing can help people. >> you look at how he is helping people in detroit trying to fund music scholarships. i think he has had a major positive impact on detroit. >> reporter: kid rock's music scholarship is funded by the apparel industry he bought. and american badass beer can be thanked for creating jobs in the state. >> no way to get love and respect if you don't give it first. >> reporter: but battling unemployment, detroit has problems bigger than this larger than life