a terror suspect is indicted. what's next for the man xarncha with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. the trial of two people charged with trying to blackmail john travolta. mackenzie phillips said she had a consensual long-term incest affair with her father. why talking about that now? we'll get your views about the shocking claims. a busy thursday under way. i'm chuck roberts. breaking news about a nationwide terrorism investigation. the colorado man, the 24 year old facing charges of lying to the fbi, faces a new count of

conspireing to set off bombs. najibullah zazi will appear in a denver courtroom later today. court documents claim zazi plotted for more than a year to carry out a bomb attack and he stockpiled bomb making chemicals he bought from beauty supply stores. zazi was arrested last saturday. his father, mohammad, and a new york muslim cleric, also charged with lying to investigators. afzali has been released after posting $1.5 million bail. two new jersey police officers are still recovering from gunshot wounds sustained during an early morning raid in lakewood in ocean county. one officer shot in the face. his condition is serious but stable. another shot in the foot. bulletproof vest protected the other two officers involved in executing a search warrant for firearms and narcotics. the suspect also received multiple gunshot wounds but is

expected to survive. to kentucky where the fbi is investigating the death of a u.s. census worker found hanging from a tree near a cemetery. the word fed was written on bill sparksman's chest. fbi agents are looking into whether the victim was part of a crime. the disappearance of haleigh cummings, a letter claims the girl died after ingesting oxycontin. she claims it happened after haley was put to death but the letter claimed misty and haleigh were at a party when tragedy struck. we learn more about the content of the letter on hln's nancy grace last night.

>> this letter came from a girl behind bars who is friends with misty who is a party friend of misty's who is saying that misty was with her that night. this letter is claiming that misty and this girl and other girls were together that night and haleigh was with them partying. they were all partying and misty -- haleigh got her hands on oxycontin and ingested it and died. and that's when this other friend at the party panicked. put haleigh allegedly in a bag and threw her in a pond. that's what this letter is saying. >> authorities did search a large pond near the home but they found no human remains. they said the search was based on one of the thousands of tips they received. they would not confirm whether it had anything to do with the alleged letter. actor john traffic elvolta d to return to the bahamas next

week to finish his testimony. mike walters of tmz joins with us more on the story. what's the document in question? it is a refusal to transport document? >> right. when this whole thing happened and ambulance was at the house and his son was really hanging onto life at that point, what they do is they give you a piece of paper that you sign that basically if you don't want your son or your family member to be transported by ambulance, which not a lot of people would do that, if you don't want them to, you can sign it and apparently john signed this document. this person allegedly took the document that he signed, which was a big deal when this happened that john wanted to take his kid on his private jet and get out of the bahamas and not go to the hospital, he took this document and tried to extort him and charged him for it. what's really interesting, we found out today that there's apparently secret videotapes. this will be the smoking gun in the case. two secret videotapes where this

person had gone to somebody who is a lawyer in the bahamas and said we need to ask for money. this is worth millions of dollars. if it goes public, it will be bad for them. they started to extort him and had secret meetings about money and fun enough on the tape they are arguing over money that they should get $25 million or more. that's what they agreed on. >> a key witness is said to be injured, right, in this secret taping is no longer available for trial? >> the police sting that's a sticky situation. we don't know what happened but one of the witnesses in the sting tapes was a cop and now he's been seriously injured in weird circumstances. we're trying to figure out what happened to him. like i said, these two if this tape gets admitted to court, this is bad for both of them. in the next few days a motion

will be filed to try to suppress those tapes. john was there. very emotional. he left the bahamas but will be back next week when this hits the fan. >> let's show you what he testified to talking about the day his son died. he was pounding on the door referring to the caretaker, the nanny taking care of him. pounding on the door upstairs. i ran downstairs with my wife to help my son. the nanny was doing compressions. i was doing the breathing. i took the place of the woman doing cpr. what a moment that was for him to testify about that recalling all of that. was the ambulance attendant involved at that point, the one who is a defendant in this case? >> right. exactly. he was there on scene as that moment happened. he was one of the people in the room trying to revive jett travolta. john says in the testimony that at some point during that whole thing he was told your son is not alive. john is claiming that's why he wanted to sign that piece of

paper and not have him go to the hospital and have all of that stuff done. he wanted to take him to his private jet and get him home because he wasn't alive. whether he was or not, we were not there. that's one of the issues and i don't know why -- i'm in the media. i can tell you even if we did get that document or someone would buy it, it's not worth that money any way. that's the mistake they made. no one would buy something like that that doesn't mean anything. he refused to transport. so what. they made a huge mistake and got caught on tape allegedly if the tapes get into court this will be -- >> travolta is heading back home for now and will appear again at the trial. mike wahle thank you. the new senator has a strong kennedy connection. we'll find out what it is on hln news and views.

here's what it looks like 40 miles northwest of los angeles. more than 2,000 people were warned to evacuate. this fire is now about 40% contained. this time yesterday it was about 20% contained. a california man says he is jaycee dugard's father and wants to be reunited with her. dugard turned up in the bay area last month 18 years after she was abducted. ken says he dated dugard's mother for a month in 1979 but didn't find out she had become pregnant and had a child until much later. he says he wants to meet jaycee and get to know her and is willing to take a paternity test to prove he's her father. >> i believe that jaycee lee is my daughter. i reached this conclusion based on the facts that the fbi told

me that jaycee's mother, lee, identified me as the father. the sheriff's department treated me as the father. we understand and respect that she and the children have suffered greatly and may need time before we are reunited. however, we are reaching out today and hoping and praying that she will hear us and take the first step in helping confirm that she's my daughter and the children, sisters and mothers of my grandchildren. we love you, jaycee. we're waiting for your call. we're waiting for your call and we would like to meet in a private setting hopefully very, very soon. >> dugard's daughter said she and her family have a number of issues to deal with and a paternity test is not among them. novelist nicholas sparks' latest book is flying off the shelves. we caught up with the

bestselling author in this week's road warriors. >> i'm nicholas sparks. i'm the author of "the notebook" "message in a bottle. i know i have to eat well. when i get into the hotel at night i order grilled chicken sandwich with fruit on the side. every hotel has a grilled chicken sandwich. i like to work out. i do short intense stuff that gets the heart rate up and exercises the muscles and basic routines that i go through and i make time to read. i talk to my wife. we set a time aside during the day to do those things and it makes traveling easier.

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mackenzie phillips says her dad was a good man despite claims they had an affair. she talked about her decades long sexual affair with john phillips. she said she's hoping to help someone else by telling her story. >> i went to my father and said, look, we need to talk about how you raped me. and my dad said, raped you? don't you mean when we made

love? and in that moment i thought, wow, i'm really on my own here. >> the video shows john phillips there on the left. there we go. that's him. mackenzie's former stepmother says john was incapable of having sex with his own child and john phillips' second wife said whether this story is true or not, delusional or not, very hurtful for the family. a half sister tells the magazine "us weekly" she does believe mackenzie phillips. we've been asking your thoughts on this. is mackenzie phillips helping anyone by sharing this story so publicly or should she have kept it between herself and maybe her therapist? let's go to the phones and talk to michelle in san diego. what do you think? >> caller: i think that she did everybody a big service. i feel that when you're in the public eye, you know, there is things you tell and things you don't tell. i really feel like she was more

humanized as a person by telling her story. and i believe that she will help tons of people with this because people who are going through something like that don't feel that they can speak out and she is being a helpful person in telling her story. >> greg in arizona. where are you on this? what are your thoughts? >> caller: i feel something that personal and private should be kept between you and your family and therapist and the only reason to come out and do this is for money. shame on oprah for televising it and mick jagger should get an attorney and sue her. >> i'm not sure how he weighs in. okay. all right. what do you think?

[ inaudible ] >> you're on a bad cell. i apologize. we'll have to do it next time on a land line. sorry. we're being inundated with e-mails on this. robben in st. louis writes -- anna in california says -- lillie in new jersey writes -- what do you think? should mackenzie phillips share this with the whole wide world? what do you think? 877-tell-hln, e-mail at cnn.com/hln or text views plus your comment and name to hlntv if you're out and about. standard text rates apply.

heavy storms are gone now and more people in the southeast are going home. a few say they got help from two teenage heros as the floodwaters began to rise. a couple of 16 year old best friends from the atlanta area decided to make it their mission to save as many people as possible. >> the one to go out there and get it done. i can't stand sitting at home watching helpless people and not do anything. >> it makes me proud of them. these boys have done the right thing. >> rescue teams are going door to door looking for animals, handing out food and whatever else it takes. the community is pulling together. a suburban atlanta school devastated by the floods this week will not reopen any time soon. pictures now of clarkdale elementary in austell, georgia,

symbolize how bad it was. officials say the interior of the building is pretty much a together loss. the superintendent says clarkdale may have to be gutted and entirely rebuilt before the students can return. it is a mess. president obama presided over an historic session of the u.n. security council today. heads of state from all member nations voted unanimously for a resolution to eliminate every nuclear weapon in the world. the council is calling for all countries to work toward limiting the spread of nuclear arms, reducing arsenals and reducing nuclear terrorism. we have an exciting edition to our prime time lineup. "the joy behar show" will air every night. this is her moment of joy commentary. >> this week we got the season premiere of "dancing with the stars." right from the start it was

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breaking news about a nationwide terrorism investigation. the colorado man facing charges of lying to the fbi now faces a new count of conspireing to set off bombs, which is a more serious case. this indictment was filed in a new york federal court. 24-year-old najibullah zazi will appear in a denver courtroom later. court documents claim he plotted for more than a year to carry out a bomb attack. prosecutors allege he stockpiled bomb making materials and claimed he was seeking urgent help to build bombs in the last two weeks. his father, mohammad, who lives in new york and a muslim cleric

are also charged with lying to investigators. afzali has been released after posting $1.5 million bond. the state department is ridiculing a tape. it's been posted on a russian website. it's hard to make out. it's very difficult. it allegedly shows a state department employee who works at the u.s. embassy in moscow having sex with a prostitute. hatcher recently worked as a reporter officer focusing on religious freedom issues in russia. a senior state department official said hatcher was approached by russians to tried to blackmail him and the tape appeared on the internet after he reported the incident. the u.s. ambassador to russia says parts of the tape were clearly fabricated. the state department calls this a smear campaign intended to discredit the diplomat. four new jersey police officers were shot during an early morning raid in lakewood in ocean county. one was shot in the face. his condition is serious but stable. another shot in the foot. the other two officers involved

in executing a search warrant for suspected firearms and narcotics were shot in bulletproof vests. the suspect also received multiple gunshot wounds but should survive. now to kentucky, the u.s. is investigating the death of a u.s. sensors worker found hung from a tree. fbi agents are looking into whether the 51 year old was a victim of anti-government sentiment. he was doing field work to supplement his income as a substitute teacher. the crime prompted the census bureau to suspend all door to door interviews in that rural area. john travolta will not testify today in the extortion trial linked to the death of his autistic son. he and his wife arrived at a courthouse yesterday under tight security on the stand he talked about his desperate effort to save his son who suffered a seizure. a paramedic and a former senator are accused of trying to extort $25 million from the movie star.

tmz says secret videotape captured the two haggling over how much money to demand. travolta said they threatened to publicize medical information about his son's death. the 16 year old fell ill at the family's vacation home in january. both defendants pleaded not guilty to blackmailing charges and are free on obama bond. a new bombshell in the disappearance of haleigh cummings. a letter allegedly from the friend of haleigh's stepmother said she died after ingesting oxycontin at a party. she claims that it happened after haleigh was put to bed but the letter claims that misty and haleigh were at a party when tragedy struck. we learned more about this last night on hln's nancy grace. >> this letter came from a girl behind bars who is friends with misty who is a party friend of misty's who is saying that misty was with her that night and this

letter is claiming that misty and this girl were together that night and haleigh got her hands on oxycontin and ingested it and died. and that's when this other friend at the party panicked, put haleigh allegedly in a bag and threw her in a pond. that's what the letter is saying. >> authorities search large pond near the home and found nothing like human remains. they say the search was resulting from hundreds of tips they received. breaking tonight, nancy grace with the late details of the disappearance of haleigh cummings. don't miss that tonight. a california man says he's jaycee dugard's father and wants to be reunited with her. dugard, you remember, turned up in the bay area last month 18 years after she was abducted.

ken slayton says he dated dugard's mother in 1979 but didn't find out she was pregnant and had a child until much later. slayton wants to meet jaycee and get to know her and is willing to take a paternity test to prove he's her father. >> i believe that jaycee lee is my daughter. i reached this conclusion based on what the fbi told me. i was identified as the father by jaycee's mother. the sheriff's department treated me as the father. we understand and respect that she and the children have suffered greatly and may need time before we are reunited. however, we are reaching out today and hoping and praying that she will hear us and take the first step in helping confirm that she is my daughter. and the children, sisters and the mother of my grandchildren. we love you, jaycee.

we're waiting for your call. we're waiting for your call and we will like to meet in a private setting hopefully, very, very soon. >> dugard's lawyer says she and the family have a lot of issues to deal with and that a paternity test is not among them. jaycee's alleged abductors are in jail. authorities have been searching their property to see if they might be connected to the disappearances of two other children. hot santa ana winds are driving a wildfire right for people's homes in southern california. these are pictures just in. this is what it looks like today. this is 40 miles north and west of los angeles in ventura county. firefighters are cutting and burning away brush to get it under control. 2,000 people have been warned to evacuate. this fire is now only 40% contained. two california endurance runners found alive after disappearing on monday in a remote national forest. the woman was so weak she could

barely flag down her rescuers. her brother-in-law was found hours earlier. endurance athletes run for a full day covering up to 100 miles. rescuers had to send other endurance runners after them. this terrain was so rough for search vehicles and dogs they couldn't get in that far. her husband thanked the rescuers. >> i'm eternally grateful. appreciate everything you have done. thanks for finding my wife. she's really, really strong willed. don't tell her she can't do something. she'll prove you wrong. >> they tried to follow the pair into the backcountry. she's severely dehydrated and in serious condition. there was a prediction there would be a vaccine for the aids virus in two to three years. that was 25 years ago. today researchers may be on the verge of producing one.

scientists are optimistic about test results coming out of thailand. indications are that researchers are getting close to creating an hiv vaccine. 16,000 participants were followed in the three-year trial. researchers found those who received a series of inoculations and this is a combination drug were 31% less likely to contract the virus compared to those on a placebo. the vaccine didn't prevent everyone from being infected, it's an important first step. dr. sanjay gupta explains why. >> what the scientific community is telling us and talking about over the next week or so is this idea that this is proof of principle. this is the proof that this

pathogen that causes hiv was thought to be too tricky and invasive and hid too well but you can create a vaccine that works. >> more details to be presented next month at an aids vaccine conference in paris. martin miller off to war again but this time it's different. he's taking his son. virginia cha joins us with one of the most powerful stories anywhere on the internet today. >> absolutely. this family is making a huge sacrifice. both father and son are paratroopers. both serving in the same squadon in afghanistan. back at home in north carolina, mom and wife says she doesn't want to think about the phone ringing or getting the knock at the door. they didn't plan to serve together. martin miller followed in his dad's footsteps.

he said watching had his dad jump out of planes looked cool. after a year in college, he joined his dad at ft. bragg. the two are very close and they are in the same squadron but they are in different troops. family members are not supposed to serve under other family members. dad says he understands the realities of what could happen. >> if something happens, it will be -- i could still function but the only thing i say is it won't be pretty. i don't know how to explain it. knowing that other people rely on me as well, i can't get all broke up about it but more than likely if something did happen to him, i would probably break when i got back. >> meanwhile, mom leads a ft. bragg family support group and

learned to be independent over the years because she's had to. go to cnn.com/living and find out what the younger miller says about how he deals with concerns about his father's safety. >> wow. imagine. another hi interest story involves a mafia boss and a crocodile. the crocodile is the enforcer? >> you heard of the phrase taking a bite out of crime? this would qualify as putting a bite into crime. antonio has been charged with illegal possession of an animal after this crocodile was found in his naples home used to sb d intimidate people. according to the italian force, the crocodile was fed mice. capable of pulling off a limb in

one bite. the crock is creative. it got us to thinking about this famous scene from "the godfather." it comes to mind. by the way, this is not the first time the forest service has found an illegal crocodile in someone's home. to get details on that one, go to cnn.com/world. >> i can hear people clicking over there right now. great story. thanks. what are you doing next tuesday night? we have an exciting edition to our prime time lineup. "the joy behar show." that's next tuesday. the 29th. tune in.h 28% of your daily fibe. but i like this chicken tuscany., i like it too. but it has fiber in it. that's right. fiber? yeah. but i like it. (announcer) progresso. you gotta taste this soup.

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mackenzie phillips says her dad was a good man in spite of her claims they had an affair. she spoke with oprah winfrey about had her affair. the former child star said she began using hard drugs as a

teenager. >> i didn't start using cocaine until i was 15. >> 15? were you getting the drugs from your father? >> from dad. i would go and steal drugs from him and he would give them to me. >> you were rolling joints for him at a young age? >> he taught me to roll joints when i was 10. i was visiting him for the weekend. he said i got a job for you. i thought a project. something. he took out some pot in a shoe box and started showing me how to clean the pot and how to roll joints and so i became the official joint roller at that point. >> at 10. >> phillips' memoir went on sale yesterday. should mackenzie phillips share this with the world or keep it largely between herself and her therapist? we're talking about the affair with her own father of course. call us now toll free. there's the e-mail address.

cnn.com/hln or you can text views and your comment and name to hlntv. standard text rates apply. a.c.o.r.n. is suing the people that filmed undercover videos at their offices. you recall seeing the tapes of a.c.o.r.n. workers advising two people posing as a pimp and prostitute. they tell how to cheat the irs and hide illegal income. the filmmaker set up employees according to a.c.o.r.n. and violated maryland wiretapping laws. maryland is where one of those tapes is made and it's illegal to record a conversation unless both sides know about it. we're hearing more about an escaped killer. phillip paul is a paranoid schizophrenic convicted of strangling an elderly woman and slashing her neck. he said he didn't have a plan.

>> i knew i was going to the fair a few months before. i wasn't really planning on doing it. you know, when it got to that point when i seen that there was room to jump over the fence, i just went for it. >> the head of the male institution where paul lives has now resigned. deputies outside chicago raided a dogfighting operation in a house also used as a day care center. the day care operator said she wasn't involved in dogfighting and kids weren't near the animals. police say the dogs were too close for comfort. nine dogs had to have surgery they were so badly hurt. >> this is a difficult one to sum up given the carnage and what you see on these poor dogs. you add it was going on within feet of a day care center, there was a swing set within ten feet of the swing set was a long that the dogs were chained to. it's very unsettling to put it lightly. >> that's the cook county sheriff.

ten kids were at home when deputies arrived. three people charged with felony dogfighting. some welcome news on the job front. the number of laid off workers filing for filing for first-time unemployment dipped again for the third straight week, another sign the economy is making a comeback. but the news from realtors isn't is promising. they report sales of existing homes fell 2.7% in august. sales have been increasing the four previous months. investing in the stock market can always be a gamble. it's a big casino. but if you play your cards right, you can weather the ups and downs. clark howard has some tips. >> it seems that we are such pack animals that we follow the herd when we shouldn't. i'm going to give you an xamplt a lot of people were shellshocked by the huge decline in the stock market that went on for about a year and a half.

saw your account values just evaporate right before your eyes and your 40 1(k)s or iras. we're at the worst possible moment. people said i can't take this anymore, sold out their position and put their money into ultra safe things. now the stock market's had a big run-up that may be running out of steam. don't know. but people were pushing money back into stocks after they've already recovered big value. doesn't work. you're working against yourself. put money in steady as you go. i'm clark howard. for more ways for you to invest wisely, go to cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> don't miss clark on weekends. he'll help you save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. she has been stuck at a home behind the elementary school

since monday morning when she went to work. >> a couple of teens in georgia jump into action and do what they can to save as many flood victims as possible. but rescuers aren't always exactly what you expect.ge ive h. whatcha eatin'? yoplus. it's a yogurt for digestive health. here...blackberry pomegranate. i can't find my hand. (announcer) yoplus and new yoplus light. digestive health alternatives from yoplait.

a new indictment in a nationwide terrorism investigation. what is next for the man charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction? and a substitute teacher making extra money is a census taker. he is the victim of a horrifying violence in kentucky. find out why the fbi is investigating his brutal death. and mackenzie phillips said she had a con scheh consensual affair with her father. this is hln "news and views." i'm susan hendricks. our top story this hour, president obama declaring four counties in georgia a federal

disaster area because of this week's flooding there. people returning to their waterlogged homes need to be very careful. state officials say homes are probably contaminated with bacteria from the floodwaters. as one official put it, color ox is going to be your best friend. hundreds of people are waiting for the water to recede in shelters. these pictures of clarkdale elementary in austell have come to symbolize the severity of the flooding. 400 students are back in class today at two other schools in the district as well. school officials say the interior of the building is pretty much a total loss. the superintendent of clarkdale may have to be gutted -- the school has to be rebuilt, that is. breaking news about a nationwide terrorism investigation. the colorado man facing charges of lying to the fbi faces a new count of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction.

najibullah zazi will appear in a denver courtroom later today. federal prosecutors want him transferred to new york. court documents claim zazi plotted for more than a year to carry out a bomb attack. prosecutors allege he stockpiled bomb-making chemicals that he bought from beauty supply stoerz and claim he was seeking urgent help to build explosives during the last two weeks. his father and a new york muslim clerk ahmad afzali are also charged with lying to investigators. afzali has now been released from custody in brooklyn after posting $1.5 million bail. the international science community is cautiously optimistic about test results coming out of that i would. thailand. 16,000 participants were followed for three years in the trial. research easy say those who received a series of inocuations were 30% less likely to get the

virus. but it is still considered an important first step. dr. sanjay gupta explains why. >> what the scientific community is going to be talking about is this idea that this is proof of principle. this is this proof that this pathogen hit too well but you can create a vaccine that works. >> more details will be presented at the aids vaccine conference next month in paris. president obama presided over a historic session of the u.n. security counsell today. heads of nation from all member nations voted unanimously for a resolution to eliminate every nuclear weapon in the world. the council is calling for all countries to work toward limiting nuclear arms and preventing nuclear terrorism. it is only the fifth time all heads of state have attended a security council meeting.

president obama heads to pittsburgh next, where leaders from the world's top economic powers are meeting to focus on the worldwide financial crisis. we expect to see huge protests in pittsburgh today as the g-20 summit gets started. green peace protestors yesterday rappelled over this bridge and hung that huge banner. nine people were arrested there. another five people were arrested at another bridge where they were planning a similar stunt. the state department is blasting this tape which has been posted on a russian website allegedly showing a state department employee who works at the u.s. embassy in moscow having sex with a prostitute. it's hard to make out. difficult to see. but brendan kyle hatcher who was married recently worked as a reporting officer, a state department official says he was approached by russians who attempted to blackmail him and that the tape later appeared on

the internet after he reported the incident. portions of the tape, he says, were clearly fabricated and is being called a smear campaign. we take you to kentucky where the nba is investigating the death of a u.s. scensus worker found hanging from a tree. fbi agents are looking into whether the 51-year-old was a victim of anti-government sentime sentiment. a new bombshell in the disappearance of haleigh cummings to tell you about. allegedly from a friend of haleigh's stepmother claims the little girl died after ingesting oxycontin. misty croslin was babysitting the little girl when she

disappeared. he learned more about the content of the letter at nancy grace's show last night thnchts letter came from a girl behind bars who is friends with misty, who's a party friend of misty's who's saying that misty was with her that night and -- this letter is claiming misty, this girl and other people were together that night and that haleigh was with them partying -- they were all partying and misty -- haleigh got her hands on oxycontin and ingested it and died. and that's when this other friend at the party panicked, put haleigh allegedly in a bag and threw her in a pond. and that's what this letter is saying. >> authorities searched a large pond near the cummings' home but didn't find any human remains. they say the search was based on one of the thousands of tips they have received but wouldn't confirm whether it had anything

to do with the alleged letter. wat watch "nancy grace" tonight. hot santa ana winds are driving a wildfire in southern california today. this is what the fire looks like. 40 miles north of los angeles. firefighters are cutting and burning away brush to get it under control the best they can. more than 2,000 people were warned to evacuate to leave their homes. right now the fire is only 40% contained. more hln after the break. ( clicking )

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hellhime glacier and has our report. . >> reporter: this is the fjord in southeastern greenland. this crew are providing logistical support for scientists like dr. gordon hamilton. the beauty of this sort of thing, does this still hit you? >> every time i come here, i think, oh, my god, it's unbelievable. >> reporter: dr. hamilton is a glaciologist from maine. >> the white mass in the background is the greenland ice

sheet. >> reporter: the size is difficult to comprehend. >> it reached thickness of about two miles thick at the center. in terms of the volume, if you were to melt the whole ice she sheet -- >> reporter: the ice sheet feeds into outlet graciers like this one. . >> you can see it over here. >> reporter: the blue line marks the front of hellhime glacier where ice melts off into the fjord. but it's retreating. hellhime is eight kilometers shorter than it was ten years. and dr. hamilton's research shows it's flowing into the ocean much faster. . >> some scientists believe what is happening in greenland is part of a natural cycle. but others say human activities are drastically changing the

landscape with consequences that will be felt around the world. for more on the story, head to cnn.com/ecosolutions. a long-time friend and adviser to the late senator edward kennedy will take over his seat in washington temporarily. deval patrick is appointing paul kirk to serve as interim u.s. senator. kirk served as kennedy's chief of staff and is chairman of the democratic party before heading up the kennedy library foundation. he will not be a candidate in the january special election to choose kennedy's permanent success successor. a.c.o.r.n. is suing the people who filmed the undercover videos at their officers. these are a.c.o.r.n. workers acting as a pimp and a prostitute.

>> a.c.o.r.n.'s lawsuit says the filmmaker set up its employees and violate state wire-tapping laws. in maryland where one of the tapes was made, it's illegal to record a conversation unless everyone knows they're on tape. the lawsuit seeks an injunction to stop any further distribution of the videos. the economies of the g-20 nations took a big hit during the global recession. signs are pointing to a recovery but the pace differs around the world. poppy harlow joins us with a closer look on all of this. >> reporter: hi, susan. not talking about the united states today. the g-20 is kicking off. let's talk about china first because we want to take a snapshot of three different economies and when you look at china, this is a country that has weathered the economic

downturn better than any other g-20 nation. there is the evidence. quarter after quarter, despite the slowdown, still growing at an annual rate of more than 6%. last quarter, that gdp rose up to 8%. china had a massive stimulus package just like the united states. but it was different, aimed more direct at consumers to boost their spending. in japan, their economy finally picking up. $250 billion stimulus package in japan that also included a cash for clunkers program like we had here in the u.s. but given that, still economists not exactly sure this is a true recovery when you look at japan. growing worries about deflation and we have record unemployment in japan, 5.7%. that was the reading last month. that is lower, of course, as you know than here in the u.s., where we are nearing 10%. . >> how are the eu nations faring

in terms of economic recovery? i guess it depends on where you are. >> reporter: you're right. it differs country to country. look at germany. that's the biggest economy in europe. they've rebounded and done so sooner than many economists expected. same story when you look at france. both also had big stimulus packages. you see the trend here. but when you look at the united kingdom, the manufacturing and the services sector, they're rebounding and here's some positive news. the latest consumer confidence survey in britain showed slight improvement. you've seen negative gdp readings for five quarters in a row. you have a near 8% unemployment rate in great britain, the highest they've seen since 1995. that's a look at three of the g-20 economy. much more detail in this story, the rundown right there on cnnmoney.com. >> thanks for your rundown. this is the story today that everyone is talking about. actress mackenzie phillips now says she had sex for years with her own father and it gets even

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mackenzie phillips says her father was a good man, in spite of her claims they had an incest winehouse incestuous affair. she spoke about it yesterday with oprah winfrey. phillips says she hopes she's helping someone else by telling her story. here's part of it. >> i went to my fatheren and i said, look, we need to talk about how you raped me. and he said, raped you? don't you mean when we made love? and in that moment i thought, wow, i'm really on my own here. >> this video right here shows john phillips on the left, mackenzie's former stepmother says john was incapable of having sex with his own child. and john phillips' second wife says whether the story is,

quote, delusional or not, it is very hurtful for the family. but her half sister tells us she believes mackenzie phillips is telling the truth. we've been asking you, we want to know your view on the story today. is mackenzie phillips helping others by telling her story to oprah or should chef kept it between her and her therapist. we start with judy in texas. judy, what do you think about mackenzie sharing her story? what's your view? >> caller: well i got to meet him whenever i was 12. later on that evening, he came over to our house and my brother and i had pitched a tent. he tried to come in the tent and get in the sleeping bag with me. i yelled for my mom and when i did, he got up and went back in the house. and the next morning when he was gone, my grandmother's pitbull was gone. >> you weren't surprised at all?

>> no, not at all. it happened everywhere. >> all right. judy, thank you so much. certainly strong allegations there, judy called in. we can't verify that story but we appreciate the kauchlt we go to mike in seattle. mike, what do you think about this? do you think she should have gone public with the story? >> caller: yes, i do, kind of. but i think she should have let sleeping dogs lie. her father cannot defend himself. sure, it was wrong if it happened. it could be a ploy to sell her book. why now? >> but if this did happen and if you do believe that it happened, don't you believe it would help other people if she did tell the story or no? >> caller: sure, if it did happen, yeah, it sure would help other people. but it's been eight years and it's just kind of farfetched for me to see this. >> mike, we appreciate your view. thanks for calling in. we go to anne in connecticut.

anne, you're on the line. what do you think? >> caller: i say, go mackenzie. she has provided a model for children to report familiar rapists. this is rape. and the funny thing is the stepmother's response was textbook to blame the child and defend the rapist. and children are so disempowered of authority figures. they're afraid. they don't want to cause trouble and it's stacked against them. and the family will later shun them when they do split with the tribe and speak up for themselves. i think it's vastly unreported in my 20 years as a counselor. >> you think she's opening the door by saying this happened to me, don't be afraid to come forward? >> caller: what was so amazing was the lifestyle they led that it's absolutely believable that there were no boundaries and

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the white house has just announced vice president joe biden will visit portions of north georgia hit by blooding. president obama has declared four counties in georgia a federal disaster area. the georgia governor says request for similar declarations in other counties are pending. hundreds of people are still stranded in shelters waiting for the water to recede. the disaster declaration will free up money to provide temporary house and home repairs to those hit by the flood. >> listen, do not -- you're not

going to drown. we're going to be there for you. stay with me, okay. >> okay. okay. >> try to grab on to something up above. if you see a tree, if you see anything -- >> nothing, nothing. >> stay on the phone with me, okay. >> that is so hard to listen to. we played you that compelling 911 call yesterday. today, the family of sadie is dealing with the tragedy of her death. she was swept away by floodwaters just blocks from her home. >> translator: he holds his 4-year-old daughter as close as he can. he lost his wife. his children lost their mother to a wall of water early monday morning.

>> my dad said, i will go look for her. and we said, okay. then my grandma said, come here, like that. >> reporter: he wanted to say how great he thought his mom was. his father helps him out. >> my wife, she loved him very much. she worked very hard for her kids. >> reporter: flowers mark the location where her minivan began to float away. she was driving home from her overnight job at the local sam's club and was already on her street when the water rose around her. she frantically called 911 and relatives for help but became trapped in the minivan before anyone could get to her. >> why nobody had my wife out of the car? >> reporter: he wonders if there's anything anyone could have done to save her.

little brianna understands what's happened. >> she's too little. >> devastating story. our thanks to wsb. seydi will be buried tomorrow morning. she was just 39 years old. we tant to get you updated. breaking news about a nationwide news story. najibullah zazi faces a new count of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. he will appear in a denver courtroom later today. federal prosecutors, though, want to transfer him back to new york. court documents claim zazi plotted for more than a year to carry out a bomb attack. prosecutors allege he stockpiled bomb-making materials he got from beauty supply stores. and claim he was seeking urgent help to build explosives during the last two weeks. his father and a new york muslim

clerk ahmad afzali are also charged with lying to investigators. afzali has now been released from federal custody. he has been in brooklyn, after posting $1.5 million bail. we take you to kentucky where the nba is investigating the death of a u.s. census worker found hanging from a tree near a cemetery. the word "fed" was written on his chest. fbi agents are looking into whether the 51-year-old was a victim of anti-government sentiment. he was doing field work to supplement his income as a substitute teacher. the crime has promised the census bureau to suspend all door-to-door interviews in the rural area. the international science community is cautiously optimistic about test results coming out of thailand. 16,000 participants were followed for three years in the trial. researchers say those who received a series of

inoculations were 30% less likely to get the virus. but it is still considered an important first step. dr. sanjay gupta explains why. >> what the scientific community is telling us and what they're going to be talking about over the next week or so is that this idea is proof of principle. this is this proof that this pathogen hit too well but you can create a vaccine that works. >> more details will be presented at the aids vaccine conference next month in paris. actor john travolta will not be testifying today in an extortion trial linked to the death of his autistic son. but he will at a later date. we are hearing probably next week. yesterday he and his wife arrived at the courthouse there in the bahamas under tight security. on the stand he spoke about his desperate effort to save his son who suffered a seizure. a paramedic and a former ba

haiman senator are accused of trying to extort money from the star. videotape captured the two haggling over how much money to demand. 16-year-old jett fell ill at the family's vacation home last year. a new bombshell to tell you about in the disappearance of haleigh cummings. a letter allegedly from a friend of haleigh's stepmother claims the little girl died after ingesting oxycontin. misty croslin was babysitting the little girl when she disappeared. she claims it happened after haleigh was put to bed. but the letter claims misty and haleigh were actually at a party when tragedy struck. we learned more about the content of the letter on "nancy grace" last night. >> this letter came from a girl behind bars who is friends with misty, who's a party friend of

misty's who's saying that misty was with her that night and -- this letter is claiming misty, this girl and other people were together that night and that haleigh was with them partying -- they were all partying and misty -- haleigh got her hands on oxycontin and ingested it and died. and that's when this other friend at the party panicked, put haleigh allegedly in a bag and threw her in a pond. and that's what this letter is saying. >> authorities searched a large pond near the cummings' home but didn't find any human remains. they say the search was based on one of the thousands of tips they have received but wouldn't confirm whether it had anything to do with the alleged letter. breaking news tonight, watch "nancy grace" for all the late-breaking detail s in the disappearance of haleigh. firefighters are on full attack. an update on their efforts to

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president obama presided over a historic session of the u.n. security council today. heads of state from all member nations voted unanimously for a resolution to eliminate every nuclear weapon in the world. the council is calling for all countries to work toward limiting the spread of nuclear arms, reducing nuclear arsenals and preventing nuclear terrorism. to california now where hot santa ana winds are driving a wildfire toward people's homes in the southern part of the state. this is what the fire looks like

40 miles north of l.a. firefighters are cutting and burning away brush to get it under control. more than 2,000 people were warned to evacuate, to get out. right now, the fire is only about 40% contained. michael moore's latest documentary is called "capitalism, a love story." it is based on the premise that greed and corruption have ruined democracy in the united states. the ever-controversial moore spoke with cnn's larry king last night about the issue. >> are you saying capitalism is a failure? >> yes. i don't have to say it. capitalism in the last year has proven that it's failed. all the basic tenets of what we have been taught about the free market, enterprise and competition, just completely fell apart. as soon as they lost essentially our money, they came running to the federal government for a bailout, for welfare, for

socialism. i thought the basic principle of capitalism was that a sink-or-swim situation. and those who do well, the cream rises to the top and those who invest their money wrongly or don't run their business the right way, they don't do well. >> moore's latest film will be released nationwide next friday. after tours of duty in eastern europe, the balkans, sergeant martin mill miller is off to war again. but this time, he's taking his own son. misla long joins us now with one of the more powerful stories on the site. >> reporter: this story out of fort bragg, north carolina. they have deployed back in august to afghanistan. this is not unheard of to have a father and son in the same squadr

squadron. they are serving together in afghanistan training security forces. as you would imagine, this is so difficult for mrs. miller who is back at home worried about her husband and worried about her son. but let's hear first from mr. miller about how he would react if something happened to his 20-year-old son. >> if something happens to him, oh, yeah, it will be -- i can still function. but the only thing i can say, it won't be pretty. i don't know how to explain it because knowing that other people actually rely on me as well, i can't get all broke up about it. but more than likely, if something was to happen to him, i'd probably break when i got back. >> reporter: the mill men are both paratroopers and say they didn't plan to march shoulder to shoulder, just happened that

way. i mentioned mrs. miller, she stays very busy, she is a co-leader of a family readiness group, an army support group aimed at helping spouses, children, others to try to make the best of very difficult situations for those people that are back at home waiting for their loved ones to come back home. i was talking to my colleague about this story earlier. he said it's one of his favorite stories he's ever covered in hi career. it's right now on the main pa of cnn.com. >> melissa, thanks. imagine being out of work for a year even though job-hunting every day. we are tracking folks that know that frustration. poply harlow looks at what two job-hunters are up against. >> reporter: these two don't have much in common. rachel is 28 and worked in recruiting after graduating from college. anthony's 46. he worked on wall street for 20 years but he never went to college. the thing they do have in common -- a long job search

after being laid off. rachel lost her job back in november. >> i definitely didn't think that i would be sitting here nine months later without employment. >> when i first was let go, i figured maybe a month, two months. and i didn't think it would last this long. >> reporter: for anthony, it's been more than a year since he was laid off. and each day brings more work to find work. >> this afternoon at 2:30, i have the recruiting meeting with somebody that i was networking with. tomorrow morning at 10:00, i have another meeting with a recruiter. i'm not sure if they have positions. but just to do some networking. >> reporter: rachel spends a lot of her time making business connections using social networking sites and she also applies for jobs online every day. you've applied for more than 650 jobs? >> correct. >> reporter: how many interviews have you had out of that? >> maybe ten. >> reporter: anthony has applied for hundreds of jobs, too, and

he's using employment agencies in his search. bull when his unemployment benefits run out, he'll be forced to take any job he can find. >> i'm going to put like a deadline as to when i'm going to have to really seriously look for something, whether it be a department store or something like that. >> these are people that i've e-mailed. >> reporter: until a job comes along, rachel has started a blog, kickedforward.com, based on the quote, when life kicks you, let it kick you forward. >> it's difficult. but i think i'm trying to be as optimistic as possible that i'll find a position soon. >> reporter: rachel says she started to get more interviews since we first talked with her in august. and anthony is hearing about more openings and hoping one of them is for him. >> i'm anxious to get back to work. almost a year in the house can drive somebody crazy. >> reporter: poppy harlow, cnn, new york.

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>> i didn't start using cocaine until i was 15. >> 15? >> yeah.oh, 15. >> 15. >> yeah. >> were you getting the drugs from your father? >> from dad. i pilfered his personal pharmacy. i would steal drugs from him and he would give them to me. >> weren't you rolling joints for him at a young age? >> he taught me to roll joints when i was 10. i was visiting him in malibu for the weekend. he said i have a job for you. and he took out some pot and a shoe box and started showing me how to clean the pot and roll joints. so i became the official joint roller at that point. >> at 10. >> phillips tell-all memoir "high on arrival" went on sale yesterday. should phillips be telling the

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♪ welcome to comcast local edition. i am donna richardson and my guest this hour is colonel george f. johnson iv superintendent of the maryland natural resources police. colonel, thank you for joining me. >> great to be here with you. >> in addition to being with the maryland natural resources you are president of the maryland police chief association, and who in addition to chief are your members? and who is working with you? >> it is comprised mostly of chief of police from all over the state and state government and law enforcement chiefs and county and municipalities that

exist in all of the state of maryland. >> i know as a group i know there are several initiatives taking place. there is a new one. checkpoint strike force. >> yes, it is a research based-multi-state situation where we pick and we go out there and we look for drivers that are impaired and work to get them off of the road and we do that through our sobriarity checkpoints and our saturation patrols. >> and so, which jerse - jurisdiction, one specific area or all of the jurisdictions now involved? >> all throughout maryland, the chiefs of police have signed on. every jurisdiction signed on in some way shape or form to participate in the checkpoint strike force. >> and so do you find that the checkpoints are helpful in hopefully lowering traffic

fatalities? >> absolutely. fatalities have been reduced 20 percent in the areas where we are doing the checkpoints . it proves to be extremely beneficial to us in many different ways. >> and do you find that the residents are supporting the checkpoints and do you have partner necessary this effort? >> yes, we do. as you know, it is a powerful organization of mothers against drunk drivers. we work with them chosely in this endeavor and other organizations. their surveys indicate 85 to 90 percent of the people they talked to support the checkpoints. >> do you do these at specific times of year or are the checkpoints ongoing initiative. >> they are ongoing initiatives. they will be taking place every week and everywhere and where you think that it is the best

possible opportunity to deploy the work force and effective use knowledge of our people in this endeavor. >> as you are having the checkpoints and i know initially you are looking for impaired drivers, but are you finding other things when you are pulling over the impaired drivers? >> oh, yes. people are very surprised what we run into on the checkpoints. the main focus is to get the impaired drivers that use alcohol off of the streets and identify them. but we are running into people who have warrants on them. their licenses are suspended, some people have drugs in the vehicle this we were able to detect and find. there is a whole gamut of things and seat belt usage. it helps us with the seat belt initiatives and child safety seat. we are able to make different

observations and of course, we put a lot of emphasis on the seat belt usage and child safety seat as well >> i know some jurisdiction or most of the them, there is zero tolerance if you don't have your seat belt on, it is amazing that people are still driving without them. >> it is with the seat belt usage, if you are involved in an accident with the impaired drivers that use alcohol that gives you that much more of a chance to survive. >> how can citizens assist with the checkpoint strike force? >> we need them to be our eyes and ears out there. as with many thing necessary law enforcement and we ask citizens to do. if they see a person driving erratically or aggressively and feel they are under the influence of alcohol. pick up the cell phone and dial the number 911 or what ever it is that they feel comfortable in using.

>> thank you, colonel for joining me. >> donna thank you for helping us. >> thank you for watching comcast local edition. i am donna richason.

a terror suspect is indicted. what is next for the man charged with conspiracy to use weapons of mass destruction. more testimony in the bahamas of two people trying to blackmail john travolta. mckenzie phillips claims she had a sexual consensual incestuous relationship with her father. i'm chuck roberts. breaking news about the nationwide terrorism investigation. the colorado man, the 24-year-old man facing charges of lying to the fbi, faces a new

count of conspireing to use a weapon of mass destruction. najibullah zazi will appear in a denver courtroom. federal prosecutors want him transferred to new york. court documents claim he plotted for a year to carry out a bomb attack. zazi was arrested saturday, his father and new york muslim cleric ahmad afzali has been released. two new jersey police officers recovering from gunshot wounds in lakewood. one officer was shot in the face and another shot in the foot. bullet-proof vests protected the other two officers involved in the search warrant for fire arms

and narcotics. to kentucky now where the fbi is investigating the death of a u.s. census worker found hanging from a tree. the word fed was written on bill sparkman's chest. he was doing field work to supplement his income as a substitute teacher. this crime has prompted the census bureau to suspend door to door canvassing in that area. the state department is blasting a website. the tape allegedly shows a state department employee who works at the u.s. embassy in moscow having sex with a prostitute. matthew chance is in moscow with the latest. >> reporter: the tape is very heavily edited. it has been put on a russian website which is believed to be close to the russian security services. the state department says it is a smear campaign aimed at

discrediting one of its employees, brendan kyle hatcher, the second circuit of the embassy in russia. he is in charge of liaison with religious groups. what the video shows is someone resembling mr. hatcher walking through the streets of moscow, it cuts to a hotel with the lights on with somebody resembling hatcher lying on the bed in his underwear. it cuts to be the same room but this time with the lights switched off and you can see in the darkness a man and a woman having sex. it is not possible to determine whether the man is the diplomat or not. it comes at a sensitive time in a relationship between russia and the united states. just when you thought things were getting better and russia coming towards the u.s. position a bit more when it comes to

heavier sanctions in iran, this scandal threatens to throw a wrench in the works. >> somebody was trying to compromise hatcher. were they trying to recruit him or discredit him? what was the goal? >> it is not altogether clear except to say that hatcher is the person responsible for the liaison with the religious groups and human rights groups. these are often mistrusted by the kremlin, seep as western sponsored organizations designed to overthrow authorities here. he may have been targeted for that reason. the u.s. ambassador here as well as the state department are saying they are standing by their employee. listen to ian keller, the state department spokesman in washington. >> we believe as the ambassador said in the interview that he has been subject of a smear campaign using the russian

press. and, of course, this kind of campaign is disgusting and deplorable. mr. hatcher is -- enjoys the full confidence of the ambassador and fully intends to serve out the rest of his tour in moscow. >> there's been no reaction so far from the russian side, but this scandal does threaten to cast more of a shadow on this very tense relationship between the u.s. and russia. >> we will wait to see if the russian ministry has a response. a new bombshell in the disappearance of haleigh cummings. a letter for a friend of haleigh's stepmother says she died after ingesting oxycontin.

mis misty croslin was babysitting. we learned more about the content of the letter on hln's nancy grace. >> this letter came from a girl behind bars who is friends with misty who is a party friend of misty's who is saying that misty was with her that night and -- or this letter is claiming misty, this girl and other people were together that night and haleigh was with them. they were partying -- haleigh got her hands on oxycontin and ingested it and died. and that's when this other friend at the party panicked, put haleigh, allegedly in a bag and threw her in a pond. and that's what this letter is saying. >> authorities searched a large pond near the home finding nothing that resembled human remains. the search was based on one of the thousands of tips they sieve received. don't miss "nancy grace" she

has the late breaking details on the disappearance of haleigh cummings tonight 8:00 and 10:00 eastern. a california man says he is jaycee dugard's father and wants to be reunited with his long lost daughter. she turned up 18 years after she was abducted. ken slaton says he dated dugard's mother for a month in 1979 and didn't find out she became pregnant and had a child until much later. he wants to meet jaycee and is willing to take a paternity test to prove he is her father. >> i believe jaycee lee is my daughter. i reached this conclusion based on the facts that the fbi told me that jaycee lee's mother identified me as the father. the el dorado sheriff's department treated me as the father. we understand she and the children have suffered greatly and may need time before we are

reunited. however, we are reaching out today and hoping and praying she will hear us and take the first step in helping confirm she is my daughter and the children, sisters, and the mother of my grandchildren. we love you, jaycee and waiting for your call. we're waiting for your call and we would like to meet in a private setting hopefully very, very soon. thanks. >> dugard's lawyer say she and the family have a lot of issues to contend with. paternity tests not among them. phillip and nancy garrido are still in jail. authorities are searching their property to see if they are connected with the disappearance of two northern california children. two endurance runners have within found alive. a chopper found maria armenta so

week. her brother-in-law was found earlier. ultra runners usually run for a full day, covering distances up to 100 miles. rescuers had to send other endurance runners after them. search vehicles and dogs couldn't get in. armenta's husband thanksed the rescuers. >> i'm eternally grateful. i appreciate everything you have done. thanks for finding my wife. she is really, really strong willed. never tell her she can't do anything. >> several dozen endurance runners showed up trying to follow the pair into the back country. she was severely dehydrated. danger doesn't end when flood waters start reseeding. >> no sign of the cat? ah, too bad. here are some footprints. >> potentially deadly surprises in georgia neighborhoods.

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people returning to waterlogged homes need to be careful. houses are contaminated with bacteria from the flood waters. clorox is going to be your best friend. hundreds of people are stranded in shelters. a suburban atlanta school will not reopen any time soon. these pictures of clarkdale elementary in austell have come to symbolize the severity. officials say the interior of clarkdale is pretty much a total loss. the superintendent said the school may have to be gutted and entirely rebuilt. there are many concerns flood victims need to consider. wsb affiliate reporter tom reagan found out among them fire and explosions. >> reporter: with their homes flooded and much of their belongings unsalvageable, the last thing people need is

something like this. >> no sign of the cat. too bad. >> here are some footprints. >> whoa. >> the blast behind my back blew the door off the maintenance building and rattled homes nearby. >> the explosion shook the ground, shook the trailer, we thought a huge oak tree had fallen on the house. >> all of a sudden the building just exploded and the garage door flew up and landed five or six feet from my front porch. myself and photographer aaron frederickson scramled to get our equipment together while still covering what was going on. we called 911. within minutes crews arrived on the scene. a maintenance worker told me fumes built up inside. >> gasoline, propane tanks, paint cans. >> a maintenance shed. >> yeah. diesel fuel. >> that is what was exploding?

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we have more information on the biodiesel fire. it is in oseola county. it is east of the new eden energy company according to the ""orlando sentinel."" 3,000 gallons of methanol, sodium methane and 4,000 gallons of biodiesel may be gone. a breaking story near st. cloud where a biodiesel plant has suffered an explosion and the fire has spread quite extensively. mackenzie phillips says her father was a good man. she made the claims they had an

incestous affair. she spoke with oprah yesterday. the former child star says she is hoping she is helping someone else by telling her story. >> i went to my father and i said, look, we need to talk about how you raped me. and my dad said raped you. don't you mean when we made love. and in that moment i thought, wow, i'm really on my own here. >> this video shows john phillips on the left. mackenzie's stepmother says he was incapable. whether the story is delusional or not it is hurtful for the family. her half-sister china tells the magazine "us weekly" she does believe mackenzie. is mackenzie phillips helping anybody else sharing a story so

intimate so publicly or should she have kept it between herself and her therapist. let's go to the phones and say high to cathy in michigan. >> caller: i am supportive of mackenzie's public disclosure of her relationship with her father. she may be helping another victim, man, woman or child. i don't feel anyone that is a victim of abuse by anybody should be silenced. >> okay. willis in california. hi. >> caller: hi. how are you doing? >> good. >> caller: what do you think? >> i think mackenzie phillips is lying. she is a drug addict and alcoholic. she admits to having sex with mick jagger at 17 or 18. she was doing the show "one day at a time." she was found in the gutter drunk and passed out. she is looking to make some money and put herself in the

headlines. >> you think it is a book deal, nothing else? >> caller: i think it is all about money. >> betty, you get the last word. >> caller: i think it is sad people can lie about such things as this. i went through it myself. i kept silent my whole life. i'm 54 now. i think people should speak out and more people should be believed about it. if more people would talk out and speak about it then maybe some child might not have to go through what she went through, what i went through, what many people go through. >> is criticism of her make it less likely people who suffer this abuse to go public? >> caller: i think so. i believe the more people feel even children -- i talk to my children about such things all their life to come and tell me anything. but a lot of people don't have that. i believe that if people think it is okay to speak out even if

you have been through it. i was ashamed so i didn't want to speak out. >> i'm up against a break. great call. thank you so much. i appreciate it. we'll be right back with more hln coverage. moammar gadhafi speaking before the u.n. what is he saying? )d)d)d)d)d)d)%

breaking news about the nationwide terrorism investigation that has been percolating. the colorado man facing charges of lying to the fbi faces a new count of conspireing to use a weapon of mass destruction. an indictment handed up in a new york court, najibullah zazi made a brief court appearance in denver today. federal prosecutors want him transferred to new york. court documents say the 24-year-old plotted to carry out a bomb attack. he stock piled bomb making chemicals and seeking urgent hem to build explosives over to last two weeks. zazi was arrested last week.

his father and ahmad afzali were charged. afzali has been released. two new jersey police officers are controversying from gunshot wounds in lakewood, new jersey. one officer was shot in the face. he may lose his eye. another officer shot in the foot. the suspect jaime gonzalez received multiple gunshot wounds. he faces four counts of attempted murder. his bail is set at $2 million. the other s.w.a.t. team members were protected by their bulletproof vests. to kentucky where the fbi is looking into the death of a u.s. census worker was found hanging from a tree. the word fed was on bill sparkman's chest. he was doing field work to up plemt his income as a substitute

teacher. the bureau has suspended all door to door canvassing in that area. the state department is blasting a tape which has been posted on a russian website. it is difficult to make out any identities in this portion of tape. allegedly showing a state department employee having sex with a prostitute. brendan kyle hatcher, who is married, recently worked as a reporting officer focusing on religious freedom and human rights issues in russia. a senior state department officials say hatcher was approached by russian officials who tried to blackmail him. the u.s. ambassador to moscow says portions of the tape were clearly fabricated. the state department calls this a smear campaign intended to discredit the diplomat. they are standing fully behind him. actor john travolta will not testify today in the bahamas but will appear later, probably next

week. yesterday he and his wife kelly preston arrived at the courtroom under tight security. on the stand he talked about his desperate effort to save his son who suffered a seizure. a paramedic and senator are accused of trying to extort $25 million from travolta. secret police videotape captured the two haggling over how much money to demand. they threatened to publicize medical information. jett travolta fell ill at the family's vacation home. both defendants pleaded not guilty and are free on bond. a bombshell in the disappearance of the florida girl haleigh cummings. a friend of the stepmother claims haleigh died after ingesting oxycontin. misty was babysitting the little girl and claims it happened after haleigh was put to bed. the letter claims misty and

haleigh were at a party when tragedy struck. we learned more on "nancy grace." >> this letter came from a girl behind bars who is friends with misty who is a party friend of misty's who is saying misty was with her that night and -- or this letter is claiming misty, this girl and other people were together that night and haleigh was with them partying -- they were parties and misty got -- excuse me. haleigh got her hands on oxycontin and ingested it and died. that is when this other friend at the party panicked, put haleigh allegedly in a bag and threw her in a pond. that is what this letter is saying. >> authorities searched a large pond near the cummings' home. they didn't find human remains. they didn't confirm whether it had anything to do with that alleged letter. don't miss "nancy grace" with the late-breaking stuff on the

disappearance and new developments. was the letter for real? what is the fallout? 8:00 and 10:00 eastern on hln. a california man says he is jaycee dugard's father and whants to be reunited with her. dugard turned up in the bay area 18 years after she was abducted. ken slayton said he dated dugard's mother in 1979. he didn't know she was pregnant until much later. he is willing to take a paternity test to prove he is her father. >> i believe that jaycee lee is my daughter. i've reached this conclusion based on the facts that the fbi told me that jaycee lee's mother identified me as a father and the el dorado sheriff department treated me as the father. we understand and respect that she and the children have suffered greatly and may need time before we are reunited.

however, we are reaching out today and hoping and praying she will hear us and take the first steps in helping confirm that she is my daughter and the children, sisters and the mother of my grandchildren. we love you jaycee and waiting for your call. we're waiting for your call and we would like to meet in a private setting hopefully very, very soon. thanks. >> dugard's lawyer says she and the family have a number of issues to deal with right now and a paternity test is not among them. jaycee's alleged abductors phillip and nancy garrido are in jail. authorities are searching their property in antioch to see if there is connection between the disappearance of two other young girls. a long time aide and friend of senator ted kennedy will fill

his seat what is the implication. paul steinhauser is here to talk about paul kirk, the new senator. >> he is on his way to washington. he will be sworn in as the u.s. senate's 100th senator. this morning in boston, massachusetts. governor deval patrick. that is john kerry, massachusetts' only senator. paul kirk, the state lawmakers passed a law allowing deval patrick to name a senator. >> consistent with senator kennedy's wishes and the expectations of the governor and the legislators, i shall not be a candidate in the special election for the united states senate in december or january. >> now, whoever does win that election and in december and the

general election in january, that person will serve out the remaining three years of the late senator kennedy's term. >> was this fast tracked. >> this started in the summer. ted kennedy wrote a letter urging for massachusetts to change its law. the old law didn't allow for a temporary replacement. why the urgency? health care reform was ted kennedy's big things. with a major vote most likely this fall on health care kennedy didn't want his state and his party without a crucial vote. that is why this happened and now kirk becomes the 60th democratic vote in the senate and he will vote on whatever happens on health care. >> remind us who paul kirk is. >> a long time friend and adviser to senator kennedy. he was one of kennedy's top staffers in washington, d.c. he was the chairman of the democratic national party in the 1980s and he was also or is

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of the fire, 40 miles north of downtown l.a., ventura county. firefighters are cutting and burning away brush to get it under control. more than 2,000 people were warned to evacuate. this fire is still only 40% contained. we are getting great i report images from the wildfires burning across several parts of southern california. jeff shewmon captured these images of the fires in moorpark, california. he says the fire has grown. it is being fueled by the strong santa ana winds. this is the time of year they come. they come from the hot desert across the california l.a. basin and wreak a lot of havoc. he could feel the intense heat of the flames. officials say this fire consumed

16,400 acres. many thanks to jeff shewmon. to all of our i reporters, your safety is our number one concern. if you have breaking news, go to ireport.com and send them in. how do you explain to a small child her mom was swept away in a flood? that is a difficult task facing a north georgia man. wsb talked with a grieving family. let's listen. >> no madre. she no have no madre no more. >> reporter: mr. bars yag -- burciaga. >> my dad said i'm going to go look for her. we said okay. me and my sister stayed in my room. my dad went and, like, then, my grandma started coming and like

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she was a child actor, appeared on many show for a number of years in the '70s and '80s, mackenzie phillips says her dad, a singer, was a good man claiming they had a incestous affair. she spoke about her battle with drug abuse. she began using hard drugs as a teenager. >> i didn't start using cocaine until i was, oh, 15. >> 1r5. and were you getting the drugs from your father? >> from dad. i pilfered his personal pharmacy. i would steal drugs from him and he would give them to me. >> weren't you rolling joiptds for him at a young age? >> yeah. i was visiting him in malibu. he said, i have a job for you. oh, my gosh. a project.

he took out some pot in a shoe box and started showing me how to clean the pot and showing me how to roll joints. i became the official joint roller at that point. >> at 10. >> her memoir is called "high on arrival." should she be sharing such an ind mat story with the whole world or kept it between her an her therapist? is there is lesson giving value? 1-877-tell-hln, cnn.com/hln or text views plus your comment to hlntv. standard text rates apply. the number of laid off workers filing for first-time employment dipped again. the government says that is another sign the economy is making a comeback. some economists thought the number would rise. the news from realtors not so promising. existing home sales fell 2.7%.

sales had been increasing the last four months. investors are showing their disappointment in the stock market today. the economies of the g-20 nations took a big hit in the global recession. signs are pointing to a recovery, although the pace differs. cnnmoney.com poppy harlow joins us with a closer look. >> the g-20 nations gathering in pittsburgh right now. cnnmoney.com is looking closer at three huge economies outside of the united states. when we look at china, for example, they weathered the global recession better than any other g-20 nation. at the depths of the global downturn the economy in china was still growing at a rate of 6% annually. last quarter gdp increased to nearly 8%. china like the u.s. had a massive stimulus package, aimed at consumers to boost spending. it worked. take a look at japan.

not far away. their economy growing once again at a really rough period. a big stimulus package, $275 billion in stimulus which economists, though, still not sure if the recovery we are seeing in japan is a true recovery. there are growing concerns about inflation and unemployment there at a record 5.7% last month. that's still so much better than 9.7% unemployment in this country. >> speaking of economic engine, how is the european engine faring, is it equal across the board? >> no, germany, sooner than expected, same story in france. both big tim lsu packages there as well. uk seeing manufacturing and services, those sectors rebounding the latest consumer confidence in the uk shows a slight improvement. but still challenges there as well. we have seen negative gdp

readings for five quarters in a row for britain. unemployment near 8%. that's the highest we've seen in the uk past 1995. those are three big economies. take a look at this story, outlining many more on cnn money. >> i appreciate it poppy, appreciate the update. protesters in pittsburgh for the g-20 summit protesting best they can. you can see brand-new video. police are ordering them to disperse. they do not have a permit. police used smoke bombs. we have no word yet of arrests or injuries. we can also tell you a lot of shop keepers in the affected area have just board up their businesses. they are not opening at all. these are brand-new pictures just in from pittsburgh. they are rolling trash bins toward police. they are blockading roads with pallets, wooden pallets doing whatever they can to get their point across. a lot of people are just staying inside or not even reporting to work today in pittsburgh.

the drop in existing home sales last month making investors cautious about the strength of the housing market. as we head to the closing bell, the dow jones industrial average is down. we'll be right back. there is 22 points down.

we're going to start in pittsburgh. hundreds of protesters there. you can see this. they are trying to march to the g-20 summit site. police have ordered them to disperse. can you protest but these folks don't have a permit. the police at one point used smoke bombs. so far we have no word of any arrest or injuries. they are rolling trash bins towards police, blocking some roads with pallets and steel as well. the president and mrs. obama arrived in pittsburgh a little while ago for this summit. the point of the summit is to bring leaders of the world's top economic power together to discuss the worldwide financial

crisis. the summit also brought together a variety of protesters opposed to capitalism. global warming among other things. and earlier the president presided over an historic session of the u.n. security council. heads of state from member nations voted unanimously for a resolution to eliminate every nuclear weapon in the world. the council is calling for all countries to work towards limiting the spread of nuclear arms nuclear arsenal and preventing nuclear terrorism. that's a tall tasks. this is only the fifth time heads of state attended a security meeting. the state department is calling a reported sex tape a smear campaign. this video allegedly shows a state department employee in moscow having sex with a prostitute. a department spokesperson says the video is a fake. the video is a montage of clips

showing the embassy employee brendan hatcher on a street and also in a hotel room, cut to blurry images of the couple having sex. he is married and has served as a liaison officer for russian religious education. more breaking news, about the nationwide terror investigation we've been following for a few days now. the colorado man facing charges of lying to the fbi faces a new count of conspiring to use a weapon of mass destruction. the indictment was filed in a new york federal court. najibullah zazi made a brief court appearance today. he's going to be back in the courtroom tomorrow. federal prosecutors want him transferred to new york. court documents claim zazi plotted for more than a year to carry out a bomb attack. they allege he stockpiled bomb making chemicals he bought from beauty supply stores. they also claim he was seeking urgent help to build explosives during the last two weeks.

he was arrested saturday. also his father, mohammed was release add short time ago, also a new york muslim cleric who was also arrested in the probe was granted a $1.5 million bond. both are charged with lying to investigators. talk about the weather. president obama has dislard counties a disaster area. it's probably contaminated with bacteria from the floodwater. one official put it this way, clorox is going to be your best friend. hundreds stranded in shelters as they eat, waiting for some of this water to go down. a suburban atlanta school devastated by the floods will not reopen any time soon. these pictures of clark dale elementary have come to symbolize the flooding.

school officials say the interior of the building is pretty much a total loss. look at that. the superintendent says clarkdale may have to be gutted and entirely rebuilt before these students can return. let's get to kentucky where the fbi where the fbi is investigating the worker found hanging from a tree. the word "fed" skrauld on his chest. the 51-year-old was a victim of anti-government sentiment. he was doing fieldwork to substitute his income as a teacher. they was suspended all work in that area. a new bombshell from hail-of- haleigh cummings. claims she died after ingesting

oxycontin. misty, dating her father at the time, was baby-sitting her. she claims the little girl disappeared after she put her to bed. the letter claims they were at a party, a party, when this tragedy struck. learned more about the content of the letter on nancy grace last night. >> this letter came from a girl behind bars who is a friend of misty's, who is a party friend of misty's, saying she was with her that night. misty and some other people were together that night and haleigh was with them partying. they were all partying -- haleigh got her hands on oxycontin and ingested it and died. and that's when this other friend at the party panicked, put haleigh allegedly in a bag and threw her in a pond. that's what this letter is saying. okay. a pond. authorities did search a large

pond near the cummings home. they did not find a body. i'm sure you remember that. they say the search was based on one of thousands of tips they got but wouldn't confirm whether it had anything to do with this alleged letter. breaking news tonight, watch nancy grace for late breaking developments in the disappearance of haleigh cummings, 8:00 p.m. eastern time right here on hln. this could be big, international science community cautiously optimistic about test results coming out of thailand. early indications suggest researchers are closer to developing an hiv vaccine. 16,000 participants followed for three years in this trial. researchers say those who got a series of inoculations were 31% less likely to contract the virus compared to those on a placebo. but the vaccine didn't prevent everyone from being infected. still, this is considered obviously a very important first step. chief medical correspondent dr.

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about her decades long sexual relationship with singer john phillips. you might not want your kids to hear about this. phillips says she hopes she is helping someone else by telling her story. >> i went to my father and said, we need to talk about how you raped me. my dad said, raped you? don't you mean when we made love? and in that moment i thought, wow, i'm really on my own here. >> this video shows john phillips on the left. mackenzie's stepmother says he was incapable of having sex with his own child. his second wife said, whether the story is delusional or not, it's hurtful to the family.

her half-sister china tells the magazine "us weekly" she does believe mackenzie. we've been asking for your views on this, asking you to clearly be respectful. this is a very highly charged topic. is mackenzie phillips helping others by sharing her story so publicly or maybe you think she should have kept this between her, her family and her therapist. so let's get to the phones and talk about this. maria is calling us from mississippi. maria, what do you think? >> like i say, i think she is helping others by telling her story. people need to realize that that does happen. they don't need to, you know, close their eyes to that. because if you've got a daughter at home, you don't need to close your eyes. >> you're thinking this is not about our comfort level? this is about her helping other people. >> helping others. >> let's talk to betty. betty, this is something people have been talking about a lot in

the past few days. it is difficult to talk about. do you think she should have dealt with this privately? >> yes, i do. i think she should have kept it privately between her and her therapist, not broadcast it to everybody. her father is dead. he cannot defend himself in any way, whether it happened or not. and when she was talking about having sex with mike jagger, she was smiling about me. she was proud of it. she was an adult. she was 18 to 28 years old. she had control over her own actions. >> well, betty, there are people that have written in the fact that regardless of what age this started that her father was still the person who had some sort of power over her. there's people that say there's never consent when there's a father involved. can you agree with that? >> no, i don't agree with that at all. >> okay, betty. thank you for your phone call. put that out there. miranda calling us from wichita,

kansas. miranda, where do you stand on this? this is clearly an emotional topic for a lot of people. what do you think? >> i think god bless her and help heal her. our country places such a stigma on victims of sexual or physical abuse and these people need to be brought back into mental health, wellness and wholeness. they don't need to be victimized twice. >> miranda ark, let me ask you this. this is a comment i saw on my facebook page. let me ask you, there's some people saying maybe she could have helped people by a foundation or donating her time and maybe not have written a book. that's not my opinion, i'm just saying i read that on the comments on my facebook page. what do you think about that or do you think it's her choice to write a book if she wants to. >> it's her choice. it's also about helping her, helping others this. crime happened to her. >> okay. so it's her choice how she chooses to deal with it. >> i believe so. >> miranda, that you for your phone call and thank you for

letting me put you on the spot. we've been inundated on the facebook page. if she finds any healing, that's her call. if one person reads it and realizes she's not alone, then mackenzie has helped one person. kevin says this. kevin was not feeling it. kevin says she's just trying to sell her book. not much money has been coming her way since "one day at a time." why talk about it and bring it up 30 years later. douglas feels this way, maybe she should say too much publicly. i think she's probably still pretty messed up from something this sick and twisted. i feel sorry for her. a broad spectrum of views. thanks for your e-mails, phone calls, text your facebook comments. news at the top of the hour, a lot more to talk about that. check this out on cnn.com/primenews. let's lighten it up.

what are you going to be doing next week. an exciting addition to our lineup. joy behar show will air at 9:00. last night in new york, cool kids hanging out, celebrities came out to wish her luck. >> i think it's a great idea. joy is a friend. i think from what i hear over the dinner table is she's going to be able to approach the news and approach talk show subjects from a completely different angle. i think that's where her interest lies, not just in the way you hear it conventionally on all the other shows. i think she's interested in different ways of looking at it. >> joy, i'm being forced to do this because they don't think i actually know you. kick everybody's you know what when you're doing your show, because you know you're going to be good at it. >> you can catch the joy behar show at 9:00 p.m. eastern time beginning next tuesday.

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the sense of urgency that the interests of massachusetts demands. i have prepared to make a prompt appointment and i'm pleased to appoint paul kirk as the interim united states senator from massachusetts. >> a long time friend and adviser to the senator ted kennedy will take over his seat onjust temporarily. massachusetts governor, deval patrick signed the legislation to give the authority to name a temporary replacement. paul kirk was a kennedy chief of staff and chairman of the democratic party before heading up the kennedy library foundation. he will not, he says, run in the january special election to choose a permanent replacement expected to be sworn in tomorrow. actor john travolta will not be testifying today in the

extortion trial, but probably will next week. he and his wife arrived at a bahamian courthouse. he talked about the desperate attempt to save his son who suffered a seizure. they are accused of attempting to extort $25 million from the star. secret videos captured haggling over how much money to demand. they threatened to publicize public information about his death. he got sick at their vacation home. both defendants pleaded not guilty to the blackmail charge. they are free on bond. two california endurance wonners have been found alive after disappearing monday. in a remote national forest. the chopper found her so weak she could barely flag down

rescuers. her brother was found earlier. they run up to 100 miles a day, they had to send other endurance runners after them. the terrain was too rough for search vehicles. dogs couldn't go there either. armenta's husband thanked the rescuers. >> i'm eternally grateful. i appreciate everything you've done. thanks for finding my wife. she is really, really strong willed. never tell her she can't do anything. she'll prove you wrong 100% of the time. >> after an internet appeal several dozen endurance runners showed up trying to follow them in the back country. she's been treated for severe dehydration. if you believe in the man in the moon, you may want to toss him a lifejacket. several space probes found water all over the moon's surface. traces of water in the lunar dirt were detected by identifying chemical signature.

scientists who didn't believe it was possible and tests after tests showed the same results. stocks gained in the early going after two fresh economic reports. didn't sustain it, though. stephanie elam joins us in new york with a look at the day on wall street. couldn't keep it going, stef? >> not today, richelle. stocks fell a second day in a row after a better report on unemployment was offset by a decline in home sales. the dow fell 41 points to close at 9107. nasdaq dropped 23 points or 1%. s&p 500 off as well. oil prices continued their recent slide. so far this week, oil prices down $6. sales of previously owned homes held 2.7% last month backing off from a big improvement in july. analysts had been expecting sales to rise for a fifth month in a row. fewer people lined up for

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president obama is in pittsburgh for a meeting of the world's top economic powers. not everyone in the steel city is happy to see him or any of the leaders. the g-20 summit will focus on efforts to revive the global economy. the president will welcome the world leaders at a dinner this evening. protesters on the street outside the summit venue had a runnin with police. video of that right here. the marchers with trash dumpsters, officers fired tear gas into the crowd. they say it was illegal because the organizers did not have a permit. brian cob was there when things

got serious today between police and protesters. some folks got really caught in the cross fire. >> whoa, get back. >> by order of the pittsburgh chief of police, i here by declare this to be an unlawful assembly. i order all those assembled to immediately disperse. you must leave the immediate vicinity. if you remain in this immediate vicinity, you will be -- >> come on.

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like that, sideways. lean over. >> water? >> where is stewart? >> behind you, filming. >> are you rolling? >> yeah. >> hold on. okay. we just went down one street. we were all tear gassed. it's getting into everyone's eyes and throats. it's really bad. protesters have now shifted directions to go up here, up one of the main drags. it's very, very dicey right now. okay. >> wow.

our own brian todd and stewart. quite the professionals, aren't they? they are okay. just wanted to show you what's going on, the clash between the protesters and police. all right. vice president biden will tour the flood zone tomorrow. president obama has declared four counties federal disaster area because of all the flooding that really came to a head on monday. the declaration covers cobb, douglas and others in the atlanta metro area. the governor said disaster declarations for several other counties are pending. it's probably going to happen for them as well. hundreds are still stranded in shelters waiting for the water to go down. it will provide temporary housing and home repairs for flood victims. got some breaking news about that nationwide terrorism investigation we've been

following for days now a colorado man charged with lying to the fbi faces a new count of conspiring to use a weapons of mass destruction. this indictment was filed in a new york federal court. najibullah zazi made a brief appearance in court. tomorrow he'll be back in federal court. federal prosecutors want him transferred to new york. court documents claim zazi plotted for more than a year to carry out a bomb attack. prosecutors allege he stockpiled bomb making chemicals he bought from beauty supply stores. they also claim he was seeking usu urgent help. the exact word they used was urgent help over the last few weeks. his father, homeland zazi was let go. he was granted a $1.5 million bond today. both are charged with lying to investigators. some pretty big news here. international science community is cautiously optimistic about

test results coming out of thailand. listen to this, early indications suggest researchers are getting closer to creating an hiv vaccine. 16,000 participants were followed for three years in this trial. researchers say those who got a series of knock layings were # 1% less likely to contract the virus compared with those that got a placebo. it did not prevent everyone from being infected. still, this is considered really a huge, important first step. chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta explains why. >> what the scientific is telling us and what they are going to be talking about over the next week or so is the idea this is proof of principle." this is proof. they thought it was too tricky, too evasive, it hid too well but you can create a vaccine that works. >> more details. you obviously want to know more

about this. it's a big deal. more details next month in paris. if you have any children's and infant tylenol products in your home, pay attention to what i'm about to tell you. makers of tylenol recalling products made between april 2008 and june of 2008. they are pulling the products from warehouses and retail stores as a precaution due to possible contamination. they sent a written statement. it detected bacteria, an ingredient that is inactive. although the ingredient was not used in any packaged product it was produced at the same time. the spokesperson for the u.s. food and drug administration says the likelihood for a serious medical event is small. again, talking about children's and infant tylenol liquid product produced between april and june of 2008. mackenzie phillips said her

father was a good man despite their affair. she talked about the decades long sexual relationship with her father, singer john phillips. she says she hopes she's helping someone else by talking about this. i wept to my father and said, we need to talk about how you raped me. and my dad said, raped you? don't you mean when we made love? and in that moment i thought, wow, i'm really on my own here. >> this video shows john phillips on the left. what's the family saying about this? mackenzie's stepmother says he was incapable of having sex with his own child. john phillips second wife says whether the story is delusional or not it is hurtful for the family. her half-sister china tells the magazine "us weekly" she does

believe mackenzie. is mackenzie phillips helping we went back and forth in our morning meeting about how to handle this. everyone has been talking about it. we made this your views topic for today. is mackenzie phillips helping by sharing her story or should she have kept this between hers and her therapist of lots of comments, facebook, e-mails. let's check out some comments on my page. hope fully her story can reach many people. it was very sad. i hope she can find some kind of peace. i will say not being ugly, there are two sides to every story and her dad is not here to give his. john phillips passed away several years ago. mandy wrote this. i do not think it's appropriate for her or anyone else to air such things. i don't buy that as a way to heal, because there are many things that will help one heal

besides airing your laundry. shaun wrote this, i'm in full agreement more awareness needs to be shed, but not when it's going to profit you. had she shared the story without a book deal the public and myself would be more receptive. it's a piece of some of the views you shared about this story. well, firefighters in southern california say they are on full attack, an update on efforts to stop a 25 square mile wildfire burning in the county. taking its rightful place

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story." it's based on the premise greed and corruption has ruined democracy in the united states. the ever controversial moore spoke with our sister network cnn larry king yesterday. here is what he had to say. >> are you saying capitalism is a failure. >> yes. i don't have to say it. capitalism in the last year has proved it failed. all the basic ten either we were taught about the free market, free enterprise, competition just completely fell apart as soon as they lost essentially our money, they came running to the federal government for bailout, welfare, socialism. and i thought the basic principle of capitalism was it's a sink or swim situation. and those who do well, the cream rises to the top. and those who invest their money wrongly, you know, don't run their business the right way,

they don't do well. >> moore's latest film will be released all across the country next friday. actor john travolta will not be testifying today in an extortion trial linked to the death of his autistic son. he will probably be testifying next week. yesterday he and his wife kelly preston arrived at a a bahamian courthouse. on the stand he talked about his desperate effort to save his son who suffered a seizure. a former bahamian senator are accused of trying to extort $25 million from him. secret police videotape captured the two haggling over how much money to demand. travolta said they threatened to publicize medical information about his son's death. 16-year-old jett had the seizure at the family's vacation home last january. they have both pleaded not

guilty and are free on bond right now. there's a new bombshell in the disappearance of haleigh cummings. a letter from a friend of haleigh's stepmother claims the little girl died after ingesting oxycontin. misty croslin, who was dating haleigh's father at the time was baby-sitting her the night she disappeared. that was back in february. she claims this happened after she put haleigh to bed. the letter claims misty and haleigh were at a party when tragedy struck. we learn more about the contents of the letter on nancy grace last night. >> this letter came from a girl behind bars who is friend with misty, who is a party friend of misty's, who is saying misty was with her that night. the letter is claiming misty, this girl and other people were together that night and that haleigh was with them partying -- they were all partying and misty got -- excuse me. haleigh got her hands on oxycontin and ingested it and died. and that's when this other

friend at the party panicked, put haleigh allegedly in a bag and threw her in a pond. that's what this letter is saying. >> the pond. you remember this, i'm sure you do, authorities searched a large pond near the cummings home. they did not find the party. they say that search was based on one of the thousands of tips they had gotten but wouldn't confirm whether it had anything to do with this alleged letter. all the latest news tonight, watch nancy grace for late breaking developments in the disappearance of haleigh cummings. that's at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. right here on hln. imagine being out of work a year, even though you were job hunting every day. we are tracking some folks who know that frustration all too well. today's money and main street, poppy harlow looks at what two job hunters are up against. they don't have much in common. rachel is 28 and worked in

recruiting after graduating from college. anthony is 46. he worked on wall street for 20 years but he never went to college. the thing they do have in common, a long job search after being laid off. rachel lost her job back in november. >> i definitely didn't think i would be sitting here nine months later without employment. >> when i first was let go, i figured maybe a month, two months, you know. i didn't think it would last this long. >> for anthony it's been more than a year since he was laid off. each day brings more work to find work. >> this afternoon at 2:30 i have a recruiting meeting with somebody i was working with. tomorrow morning i have another meeting with a recruiter. i'm not sure if they have positions but just do networking. rachel spends a lot of time using business connections, using social networking sites and applies for jobs online every day. >> you've applied for more than 650 jobs. >> correct. >> how many interviews have you

had out of that? >> maybe ten. >> anthony has applied for hundreds of jobs, too. and he's using employment agencies in his search. when his unemployment benefits run out, he'll be forced to stop looking on wall street and take any job he can find. >> a deadline as to when i'm going to have to really seriously look for something, whether it be a department store or something like that. >> these are people that i've e-mailed. >> until a job comes along, rachel has start add blog, kickforth.com based on the quote, when life kicks you, let it kick you forward. >> it's typical, but i think i'm just trying to be as optimistic as possible this i'll find a position soon. >> rachel said she started to get more interviews since we first talked with her in august. despite the tough job market,

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"prime news" is coming up in just a few minutes. here' a preview of what you can expect. new revelations just coming in on the accused yale killer raymond clark. his high school ex-girlfriend is now making some pretty frightening acquisitions. also degrading sexual remarks aimed at 13, 14-year-old girls at a top-ranked high school in new jersey. parents appalled about this so-called slut list.

a new lawsuit could mean trouble for abercrombie and fitch. a teenager claims they refused to hire because of a head scarf. that's coming up at the top of the hour. an amazing story of survival in the california wilderness. don't go anywhere.