we are getting a horrifying new picture of an honor student's beating death straight from one of the suspects. and now a fourth teenager faces murder charges. plus, 12 years old, pregnant, and gone without a trace. the race to find a missing girl and her family before she faces a difficult delivery. and you've probably never heard a sermon like this. a pastor shattered a decades-old secret when he told his congregation he was born a woman. hey there, thanks for having us over. i'm virginia cha. let's get right to it. our top story today. one of the suspects accused of killing a chicago honors student has admitted to jumping on the boy's head while the boy was

lying on the ground. that is from the state attorney. now, four teenagers have been charged with first-degree murder in this horrifying death. one is a juvenile. 16-year-old derrion albert was beaten to death after being hit over the head. his mom says he was headed for college. >> an honor student. he loved school. >> good boy. >> never a problem out of him. >> not a gangbanger. >> no. >> we're not saying that this is a gang-related incident. right now this appears to have -- you had a young man that's making attempts to go home. >> him trying to help out his friend, it's just like he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. >> first we want to warn you that you may find this video disturbing. police say they're looking for three more suspects involved in the attack that was caught on a cell phone. that's what you're looking at here. they've increased patrols in the neighborhood. there were 290 shootings involving school age kids in chicago last year.

34 of those kids were killed. the secret service is trying to find out who put a poll on facebook asking if president obama should be killed. the possible responses to that, by the way, were yes, no, maybe, and yes if he cuts my health care. the social networking site took it down yesterday along with a third-party application that lets people create polls. a professor told our sister network cnn the poll is part of a bigger problem. >> this president gets more death threats than pretty much any president in recent history. and so if we really just focus on this issue and don't focus on the broader problem, then we're really going to miss the point because we have to realize that america's a country that is sick with the disease of racism, and the disease of racism has its greatest impact on those who think they've been cured. so i'm not so angry about this incident as much as i am about the environment that's been created around our president. >> by the way, the obama poll was made available to everyone on facebook. a suspect in a 9/11

anniversary bomb plot arrived at federal court earlier this morning. now, in the next hour naj booulia zazi is set to be arraigned on charges that he conspired to use weapons of mass destruction. authorities say zazi and at least two other men stockpiled beauty products with ingredients that could be used to make homemade bombs. they were allegedly targeting mass transit in the new york city area. roman polanski's lawyer filed a motion today for the director's release from a swiss prison. the oscar winner was arrested on saturday for a 1977 sex crime. now, back then polanski pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl but fled to france before sentencing. french and polish officials are urging switzerland to let him go free on bail. otherwise, he could spend months in jail fighting extradition to the u.s. a custody battle has turned ugly. and it's going on on two different continents. a tennessee man is under arrest in japan after he was caught trying to steal back his

children. christopher savoie says his ex-wife violated herr custody agreement, kidnapping the kids and taking them to japan. before his trip to get them savoie talked about how much he was struggling to cope. >> everywhere i look around there's a picture. i can't go in his bedroom because i'm like, he'll never sleep in this bed again. it's hard to have quiet moments because my kids' words haunt me during those quiet times. >> by the way, a tennessee court awarded savoie full custody, but japan doesn't recognize u.s. family court orders. so savoie might not ever get to see the kids again. tennessee police have issued an arrest warrant for the ex-wife. savoie's second wife says he is facing criminal charges in japan. flood waters are beginning to subside in some areas of manila after a week of torrential rain in the philippine capital. saturday's downpours approached a record with a month's worth of rain falling in just six hours.

at least 240 people have died in the floods. another three dozen are missing. by the way, if you would like to know more about the efforts to bring aid to these communities devastated by severe flood sxug want to know how you can make a difference, just check out cnn.com/robin, click on the impact button for details on where donations are needed. brrr. a cold front affecting weather out west. we're going to go to bob van dillen. and a cold front affecting us. >> one of them was so cold it dropped the temperature back 20 degrees in the deep southeast. that's one area we're going to watch. another one is a low pressure region up to the north in the pacific northwest. right across washington state down through oregon in toward central california. a lot of cloud cover wrapped up with it but not much rain. ahead of the cold front a little blustery. winds gusting to 45 miles per hour in las vegas. but your temperatures are still going to get into the low 90s. also red flag warnings.

all the areas shaded in pink watch the outdoor burning today. it's going to be breezy, it's going to be hot and it's going to be dry. relative humidity levels getting down to single digits at times right around the desert southwest. look at the rain coming in right around bellingham, some light showers near seattle too. it's going stroech down to eugene, oregon but it won't be heavy. the big area of low pressure we're watching is still around ontario. look at the clouds wrapping around this thing. winds right around cleveland gusting to near 40 miles per hour at times this morning. now the rain is pushing on through central new york state headed in toward basically albany but should fall shy of new york city. take you live to nyc. if you are traveling out here, you're not going to get the rain but you're going to get the wind. it's going to be a little cooler today as well. 72 degrees the high temperature. look at the beautiful blue skies. lots of sunshine in nyc. but again, breezy conditions might see a delay at airport. more on that in just a bit. also had some rough weather on the other side of new york state. look at this. this is buffalo from yesterday. you see many large trees down. i saw one of the reports, the coast guard station in buffalo,

59-mile-per-hour wind gust when that cold front raced on through, just barreling down trees along with it. that's what we had yesterday. more showers for buffalo today. talk about that in about a half hour. virginia. >> it's always so surprising when you see that. thank you so much. >> you hate to see big trees like that. >> i know. it's so dangerous. thanks so much, bob. speaking of weather-related damage remember the georgia man we told you about yesterday whose car was swallowed up by a sinkhole? well, he was victimized again. someone broke into his car while it was still in that hole. authorities say recent rain that pounded northern georgia appears to have caused the ground to buckle. >> i said where's the car? and he said in the hole. and i felt like my breath was taken away because just the thought that his car had been swallowed by the ground and he got out of it was amazing to me. >> now, the victim says he was told it's his responsibility to get the car out of that hole. it's been in the sinkhole for three days. forget where you put the keys this morning or you can't find those papers. what if you could just rewind

and check your digital memory? well, one man is testing that idea. also a 911 dispatcher got a pretty shocking call. there was a fire. and he recognized the address. it was his house.

a security specialist for actor john travolta testified that he told his boss about an alleged demand for $25 million just days after travolta's son died. now, two people, including a paramedic, are accused of threatening to release a document that travolta signed unless he paid up. that document, by the way, was similar to a liability form in case the family refused to send jett travolta to the hospital in the bahamas after his seizure. travolta, by the way, is expected to testify again. the pilot behind the miracle on the hudson will return to flying. u.s. airways made that announcement yesterday. captain chesley sullenberger

will also work with the airline's safety management team. now, you may recall in january sully glided his plane to a safe splashdown in the hudson river. that was after losing both engines to bird strikes. all 155 people on board survived. a 911 operator in massachusetts got a call that he was not expecting. people reporting a fire. well, the fire was at his house. he said he made the callers repeat the address and even then he still couldn't believe it. >> i'm like, are you sure? like are you sure on the address? because that's my house. it's surreal. it's -- you don't believe -- you hear it, and it's not registering. >> his parents also live in the apartment building. he says they all lost everything. but the good news is no one was hurt. and new this morning, home prices are heading higher once again. our money expert jennifer westhoven here with that news. we like to hear that. >> yeah.

and it's not that they're suddenly rocketing or things are all better. but you know, hey, they're going in the right direction. that's the good news from a report that just came out a few minutes ago. it's a new gauge of the housing market saying that home prices were up. and that was in all the 20 major markets that they look at. now, they're looking very short term, month to month. they're looking from july compared to june. but hey, that's some good news in a bad economy. now, prices have been stabilizing over the past three months or so now. of course, they're still sharply down from last year by about 13% overall compared to last july. here's a starbucks cup of coffee you don't have to stand in line for. you think it's worth it? they're rolling out their own line of instant coffee. now, virginia, how would you say that? >> via? >> they say via. >> you say via, i say via. >> maybe they'll have ads. they're selling it at starbucks. they already have it at the one downtarz stairs i saw. they'll have it at costco.

but here's the thing. if you have something like this, does it devalue your brand? but it's a dollar for a packet. it's pretty expensive. i haven't tasted it yet but i'm sure people around the country will be deciding if they think it's worth it to pay buck for instant coffee. we'll see. and switching, different topic, cnn and hln, we want to make sure you've got the news that you want wherever you are. so cnn unveiling the new iphone app. you can program it, mycnn on your iphone, to bring you the news you care about, breaking news alerts, your weather and traffic. you can personalize it to where you live. it is about $2. and it's at cnn.com/iphone or at the istore. virginia, back to you. >> interesting stuff, jen, thank you so much. all right. listen to this. health care workers in new york say they're planning to protest the state's mandate that they get a flu shot or they lose their jobs. new york, by the way, right now is the only state that has that rule. some think swine flu concerns prompted the drastic measure. workers have until november 30th to get vaccinated, but some of

them say they think it should be their option, their choice. children's hospital in cincinnati, ohio, by the way, made a similar order, but it's not statewide. here is something that i think will put you on the edge of your seat. watching someone climb a suspension bridge all the way to the top and suddenly looking like he can't hold on anymore. plus, from going down the drain to turning up the lights, how cow manure is generating electricity for hundreds of homes. don't go away. >> hi. my name's chris, and san diego is my city. >> ireporters, grab your cameras and give us an inside tour of your town. be a part of hln's new series, "my city, my secret." >> go to ireport.com/my citymysecret.

talk about tense moments on a bridge in toledo, ohio. you have got to check out this video. police say a man climbed the bridge's suspension cables all the way to the top. he doesn't have any rappelling equipment there. he nearly fell several times. somehow he hung on. it's not clear why the man was climbing the cables. but rescuers did help him get down safely. the aclu -- oh. just had to see that one more time.

he is okay, though. the aclu is fighting a plan to put up dozens of police cameras around sacramento. now, the group says the cameras would be an invasion of privacy and that there's no proof they would stop or lower crime. a lot of people around the city, though, support the idea. >> people know there's a camera in front of them might not be doing the bad things that they're doing out here. one's not going to do the trick. you need more than one. if you have a bunch of them out and people are getting busted on these cameras and people are knowing about that, it will probably help. >> the cameras will be paid for by a $615,000 grant from homeland security. the city plans to discuss this whole thing tonight. the founder of cirque du soleil is about to become the first clown in space. he says he plans to hand out red noses to the astronauts and tickle them while they sleep. but seriously, folks, the $35 million trip has a serious mission. the billionaire is plan's a global broadcast from the international space station about the world's growing shortage of clean water. arguably, the city of

chicago's biggest stars on their way to copenhagen. they are trying to bring the olympics back to the windy city for 2016. rafer weigel has the details for us. >> arguably? oprah winfrey's not one of the city's biggest stars? president obama? >> exactly. that's what i'm saying. arguably they are the best just in case someone wants to argue with me. >> i'm just kidding. good morning to you, virginia. you're absolutely right. the city of chicago sending in its big guns trying to convince the ioc to make the second city its first choice. their delegation got an olympic size send-off at o'hare. united planes provide aid plane with chicago 2016 on it. that took off last night. but beforehand it was time to party chicago style in the terminal. they had a blues brothers cover band. and nadia comanecii and bart conner will join the president for the big presentation. it's down to chicago via tokyo. they'll make the decision on friday. and the cowboys got their

first win in their new home. they did it with defense, which is very uncharacteristic for them lately. the cowboys actually trailed at halftime and were booed by their fans. there's a lot of pressure to win in big d. quarterback tony romo seemed to feel it. he was kind of tense. but jerry jones is happy for a week. smiles. everyone smiles. and it's another edition of this day in at this timer. texas tech coach mike leach banned his entire team from the social networking site after a player criticized him on it. and then new york jets coach rex ryan benched receiver david clownie against tennessee after clownie tweeted he wasn't getting enough playing time. you can't ban twitter any more than you can ban twitter. but tweeting something about your coach -- brian gives us an e-mail that suchlz it up perfectly. he says "coaches should not ban their players. however, coaches should be free to punish their players accordingly." "hmm, let's see, whine about the coach and expect something positive? i guess you don't have to be smart to play football."

well said, bryan. let's ends it on a bittersweet story. the los angeles angels played tribute to a fallen angel after clinching their division title. pitcher nick adenhart who was killed in a car can't in april, his number 34 and his likeness mobbed by the players after they beat texas. then in the locker room they also poured champagne on his jersey as if he was there. and virginia, they said as long as they go in the playoffs they're going to carry his memory along with them. >> that is so great. a good thing to end on. thanks so much, rafer. >> thank you. listen to this. maybe one day soon you're going to be able to have all of your experiences, your memories saved on a computer. microsoft is apparently working on a new device you wear around your neck that can capture every detail of your life in pictures. you can even save receipts, bills as files. add it all up, it's practically a replica of the brain and it never forgets. one of the researchers says by 2020 he thinks our entire life histories will be searchable. think about that. can you turn a cow farm into a power plant?

well, two brothers in washington state have managed to do just that. get this. they're using cow manure to generate electricity for about 500 homes. they collect manure in a tank, turn it into methane that generates power. >> this is local energy. if this was not being produced here, it would probably be produced with imported natural gas. so this is money that's staying in the community. >> speaking of natural gas. one farmer says this process is saving him up to $5,000 a month. losing some weight could help some people sleep better. the center for obesity research and education found overweight people who lost 10% of their body weight decreased sleep apnea. the study also found that sleep apnea got worse for patients that gained five to ten pounds. obstructive sleep apnea, by the way-s when your breathing stops or becomes shallow while you sleep. researchers studied more than 250 people. this is a very special day here at hln. we have an exciting new addition to our primetime line-up. "the joy behar show" premieres

tonight at 9:00 eastern right here on hln. that's less than 11 hours from now. make sure you tune in. check out her very first show. u.s. officials celebrating a victory in the war on drugs. plus, burger lovers getting a feast on a new treat. we're going to tell you about it. it has a lot of calories. xxxx

four teenagers have now been charged with first-degree murder in that gruesome beating death of a 16-year-old chicago boy. one suspect has admitted to jumping on the boy's head while the boy was lying on the ground. witnesses say 16-year-old derrion albert was just a bystander at a street brawl and that he was hit over the head with a board. in about half an hour a suspect in a 9/11 anniversary bomb plot will face a federal judge. najibullah zazi is accused of conspiring to use weapons of mass destruction. authorities say zazi and at least two other men were targeting mass transit in the new york city area. at least 23 people have been killed in vietnam by a typhoon.

that is according to the associated press. the storm made landfall today with winds up to 104 miles per hour. some 200,000 people have been evacuated. disaster officials are warning about possible flooding and mudslides. hey there. those are the headlines for you. welcome back. i'm virginia cha in for richard lui today. the white house is pushing for new sanctions on iran. it is trying to round up international support for penalties against companies that do business in that country. especially in energy, financial, and communications industries. those penalties would kick in if iran refuses to come clean about what it's doing with its nuclear program. >> this is an important day and an important week for the iranians. they have decisions to make. they have one of two paths that they can take. they can continue the path that they've been on, or it can make a decision to step away from its

nuclear weapons program. >> iran recently admitted that it's operating a second nuclear facility to enrich unionium. that admission came just before international inspectors were about to disclose the existence of that operation. iran continued its defiance this week. it test-fired missiles capable of reaching israel. you probably remember it was one year ago today stocks took a major drop. a lot of bad things followed for the economy. of course, we are still recovering as you know. our money expert jennifer westhoven here with more on this anniversary. hey there, jen. >> thanks, virginia. of course they dropped because there was so much concern about the financial system. but the magnitude of the drop was huge. the biggest plunge by points in one day in history. the dow off 777 points. of course, we're still not back to this 10,300 level. but people basically felt sick, investors, by the time the closing bell rang that day. so many warning signs about the financial system then. lehman brothers had collapsed. there were calls for a huge

bailout. but on this -- basically, before this day the house rejected the government's bailout plan. now, later on it did pass, of course, but there were a lot of fears the economy might sink into a great depression, driving the dow down to 6,500 by march, even after the initial drop. now, stocks have recuperated much of that loss since then as things have stabilized, at least in the financial system. so many people out of work. we're a long way from the economy recovering. but at least the financial system has recovered, which is kind of like the foundation of the house. we have still a long way to go from the dow's all-time high of 14,000. virginia, back to you. >> thanks so much, jen. at least 75 detainees at guantanamo bay are now cleared to be released. a task force made the recommendations as part of the obama administration's push to close that prison. there are more than 200 detainees there. a few of them on the list have already been sent back to their homelands or relocated to another country. the secret service is trying to figure out who put a poll on

facebook asking if president obama should be killed. the possible responses to that poll were yes, no, maybe, and yes if he cuts my health care. the social networking site took it down yesterday along with a third-party application that actually lets people create polls. the obama poll was made available to everyone on facebook. police have arrested a suspected bank robber who's accused of holding up six banks in a single week. heather brown is accused of telling bank tellers that she had a bomb. but investigators never found any explosives. these banks were in three new england states. she's only charged with one robbery right now. fbi statistics show it's extremely rare for women to rob banks. if you hear someone say go fly a kite today, it may be because it's supposed to be really windy. it would be a good day for that. >> or you've got one of those powdered wigs on a la ben franklin. but you're going to need it too. look what's happening here. you had the rain shield going

through central new york, behind that a lot of wind and that wind is really going to be a factor for you today. specifically around cleveland and detroit. we're going to wacht winds there gust to about 35, 40 miles per hour too. also notice the lake effect rain, beginning to fall apart just a bit around ontario. now picking up when you get in toward cleveland, stretching toward erie, pen. with a heavy shot of rain coming in right past buffalo, right past rochester, shower activity around syracuse and utica right now. heavy downpours going right down the thruway. chef aide central park and new york. good to fly up there due to the rain but the wind will affect you later today. beneficial rain, we had that stuff going on too mainly across southern parts of texas. you guys still in that drought especially from austin to san antonio all the way down to brownsvil brownsville, but most of the rain so far has been around austin and is going to stretch in toward houston. west another cold front. you can see the clouds clearly wrapped up with that off the pacific and in toward northern parts of california. but ahead of it it's going to be extremely dry. it's going to be hot.

it's going to be windy too. red flag warnings, those are the areases that are shaded in pink, nevada toward utah strenks toward western colorado. lower parts of wyoming, also in toward montana. you're looking at a high fire danger area today. that's why we had those red flag warnings posted up there. and i think you'll see a break from that starting tomorrow through probably the end of the week as that cold front ushers in some cooler air and a wetter atmosphere, which is great. look at the rain all the way in toward seattle. it's light rye noi now, picks up a little later today, about a quarter inch of rainfall that's what you're going to get right there. take a look at this photo taken last night at comerica park in detroit. this is a thunderstorm squall line that went through the region. twins were supposed to plate tigers last night. didn't get going. obviously, you can see why. we're going to see more wind today, but i think the rain steers away. so they'll probably get the doubleheader in. and that is the only pennant race that is still alive. so hopefully they'll get that in. more details in just a bit. >> look how ominous the clouds are hanging over the park. >> i didn't see any storm damage reports there, but buffalo did have the damage.

they had the wind damage in buffalo. so there you go. >> all right, bob, thanks so much. >> yep. okay. i just want to remind you that this is a special day here at hln. we have an exciting new addition to our primetime line-up. it's "the joy behar show." it premieres tonight at 9:00 eastern on hln. and that is less than 11 hours from now. make sure you tune in and check out her very first show. the next time you go to your favorite fast food restaurant, why limit yourself to the things on the menu? we're going to give you the scoop on the secret items they're not telling you about.

nine homeless sex offenders have been ordered to move from a makeshift camp near atlanta. police say the georgia department of transportation, which owns the property, told the sex offenders yesterday that they had 24 hours to leave.

it's uncertain where they're going to live now. state law bans sex offenders from living, working, or loitering within 1,000 feet of schools, churches, parks, or any other spot where children may gather. we would like to hear from you on this. where do you think sex offenders should live? are state laws too restrictive? call us right now. 1-877-tell-hln. e-mail us at cnn.com/hln. we will air your comments starting at noon today. well, this afternoon congress will take on banned substances such as steroids, which are making their way into over-the-counter products. democratic senator arlen specter will lead a judiciary committee hearing on whether it should be reregulating those supplements. now, he is a phillies fan, and issue caught his attention after phillies pitcher j.c. romero was suspended for 50 games. romero you may recall tested positive for a banned substance. he is suing the maker of an

over-the-counter supplement. okay. it's a secret. fast food chains, some of them around the country, are keeping the secret from you. they actually offer choices that aren't on the menu. here's an example. starbucks has a short size coffee that is smaller and of course cheaper. but it's not on the menu. places like chipotle and taco bell will make anything you want pretty much as long as they have the ingredients. and that is just a little taste of the secret menu items out there. check out the whole list at cnn.com/robin. you just ask sometimes. they'll make it for you. >> exactly. okay. so we're talking about the agency that guarantees the safety of your bank deposits. it's taking an unusual step to make sure it can make good on that promise. jennifer westhoven joining us now. i know, the secret menu thing, you're still thinking about that? >> yeah. just ask. it's okay. they might make it. >> exactly. just ask. don't be afraid. >> so the fdic, you think of them as the agency that guarantees your money at the

bank. so normally, you know, they bail out the banks. now the banks are being asked to bail out the fdic. can you imagine if you were asked to pay three years' worth of taxes early? you'd probably go -- that's one way to look at the scenario, though. basically, the fdic, its finances have gotten a bit frayed, so it's looking at its options. and one report is it's going to ask banks to cough up up to three years' worth of fees early. but it's a sign of the times. the fdic, they have been in trouble lately because so many small and medium size banks have gotten into trouble and have failed that the agency needs some help. 95, by the way, so far this year. and we're still counting. you may get something that you didn't order along with your next ups package. "the new york times" reports that ups is testing a plan to leave you with your regular package and a little box full of coupons, flyers, samples. they are hoping you will not think of it as junk mail. kind of like that val pack. because they're looking at the trends. they're saying, well, people are

being more careful with their money, maybe they're happier to get coupons these days. all i'm saying, virginia, is if you don't need a piece of furniture, getting a coupon for 10% off does not mean go spend that money right now. >> that's right. >> a lot of people are being careful. so don't get too tempted. >> good point. jen, thank you so much. all right. maybe some of you saw it. former house majority leader tom delay dancing with a foot injury last night. but he did make it through the tango on "dancing with the stars." ♪ delay and his partner actually tied for last place with kathy ireland and her partner. other stars who danced last night include kelly osborne and donny osmond. take a look at this. these people, they're rescue workers, and they're under attack from hundreds of bees. you see, they responded to an accident yesterday when a truck that carried bee hives

overturned. one person actually died in the accident. when rescuers came to help, the bees attacked both them and the survivors. a turkish news agency says 20 people were hospitalized because of this. a pastor lived with a big secret for decades until he gave the sermon of his life. he told his congregation he used to be a woman.

we just want to let you know that this is a special day here at hln. we have an exciting new addition to our primetime line-up. it's "the joy behar show." it premieres tonight, 9:00 eastern right here on hln. we want to let you know so you can be sure to tune in and check out her very first show. winds could be a huge problem for crews trying to fight a wildfire at yellowstone national park today. the forecast calls for rain and possible snow by tonight. lightning started that fire on september 12th, and it grew over the weekend. flames are covering 9,300 acres but the park is still open. officials say there's no danger to travelers or tourists. roman polanski's lawyer

filed a motion today for the director's release from a swiss prison. the oscar winner was arrested saturday for a 1977 sex crime. back then polanski pleaded guilty to having sex with a 13-year-old girl. but then he fled to france before sentencing. he has owned a home in switzerland for years. so many people are wondering why he was arrested now. >> the issue is why not earlier? not why did they do it now. what the authorities are saying now is that yes, they knew he had a house but they knew about the zurich film festival specifically, so they knew a time and place that he'd be there. >> by the way, woody allen, martin scorsese among 138 people in the film industry who've signed a petition for polanski's release. swiss officials say it will be weeks, though, before they decide whether to let him out on bail. two u.s. service members were killed trying to get supplies for a school in the

philippines. a u.s. navy captain says their vehicle rolled over a landmine on the island of jolo. the state department says that area is home to several islamic militant groups, some with ties to al qaeda. candidates vying for the late ted kennedy's senate seat have less than four months to mount their successful campaigns. that includes raising millions of dollars, collecting thousands of signatures to get on the ballot. last week the massachusetts governor appointed kennedy's former aide and democratic party chairman paul kirk as a temporary replacement until january's special election. "tonight show" host conan o'brien was the butt of his own jokes last night. he talked about an injury that sent him to the hospital last week. >> as you may know, on this past friday's show i was doing a stunt right here and i hit my head and i suffered a concussion. yeah. and i promise, folks, if you're a very good audience, i'll do it again tonight. >> now, people have been asking me all weekend. people were asking me how bad it was.

folks, i'll be honest with you, i hit my head so hard that for five seconds i actually understood the plot of "lost." >> well, later he showed footage of his fall. you can see that -- right there. he hits his head pretty hard. oh, gosh. it happened while he and guest teri hatcher there were filming a segment of them, as you can see, competing in a race. >> and like a pro he keeps going. wow. well, a college football star was actually badly injured after dropping a weight bar on his neck. rafer with this upsetting story. >> yeah, virginia. it's everybody's worst nightmare if you've ever been bench-pressing. you worry that this is going to happen. fortunately, well, usc running back stafon johnson is in stable condition but yet still critical condition. he dropped a weight bar on his throat while he was bench-pressing 275 pounds, according to a university spokesman. the bar slipped out of his hand, and he did, they say, have a spotter. he was in surgery for more than seven hours with injuries to his

neck and larynx. the hospital says they do expect him to make a full recovery but they don't know -- he will definitely not play again this season. texas tech coach mike leach banned his entire teamseason. and texas coach leetch banned his entire team from using twitter. rex ryan also benched receiver david clowny against tennessee after clowny tweeted that he wasn't getting enough playing time. you can't twitter something bad about your boss and not expect to have consequences. but coaches can't ban twitter anymore than they can ban the internet. doug in texas e-mailed a question with his own coach. would coach lombardi let his players tweet? while they're at it, make them get haircuts too. and glen sent us this note. it's funny, those that make millions on the field continue to show that they do not know how to act off of it. thanks to all you guys that chimed in on that. lastly, dallas cowboy's former receiver, michael irvine,

the playmaker will play on. dance another day. he bounced back last night after he had a pretty bad performance the week before, but got enough votes and his performance was a little better last night, i guess than the week before. then there's this gal, natalie coughlin, the olympic swimmer performed nicely. she got a 21, moves well. and you know, i guess when athletes are dancing, it's sports news. >> some kind of news. >> an athlete wins this thing every year, so we've got to keep our eye on it. >> they do very well, so in that vein, it is an athletic endeavor. rafer, thanks so much. today's hot viral video, a bulldog puppy who just can't get up. this is one of those videos that really caught on. 1.8 million people already. how cute is that. i feel for this poor little guy that's rocking and rolling. >> i just want to help him. >> where is the hand that reaches out and helps him. >> this is so cute. we dug this up for you on youtube. so cute and sad at the same

time. all right. hopefully he got some help. by the way, if you've seen more of those student driver signs on the road, it's no coincidence why driver's ed classes are making a come back. and military gunners fired round after round until this boat sank. y8

right now on "showbiz tonight," roman outrage. tonight, the shocking arrest of legendary director roman polanski, more than 30 years after pleading guilty to having sex with a minor. why even polanski's victim is saying, leave roman alone. tonight, "showbiz tonight" with the great debate. was the arrest just plain wrong? tonight, the disturbing michael jackson tapes. brand-new revelations on nbc's "dateline" about how jackson says his father would beat him

and how he would fantasize his father would just drop dead. >> i would say, janet, shut your eyes. she would say, okay, they're shut. i would say, picture joseph in a coffin, he's dead. plus, are simon and paula reuniting? tonight, the reported $100 million deal in the works. tv's most provocative entertainment news show starts right now. hello, everyone. i'm ashleigh banfield in new york. a.j. hammer has the night off tonight. and tonight, roman outrage. there was an explosive reaction around the world today to the startling arrest in switzerland of legendary director roman polanski. more than 30 years after pleading guilty to having sex with a minor, the oscar-winning director sits in a swiss jail tonight. there was international mystery and intrigue today about why the

decision was made to go after polanski now. and from hollywood to washington, from france to switzerland, the arrest of polanski made for big news breaking today. >> reporter: legendary director roman polanski, who brought us "rosemary's baby," "chinatown," and the oscar-winning film "the pianist," and dealing with yet another very real personal drama. one that has even sparked an explosive international incident. more than 30 years after the case that led polanski to flee to europe, the 76-year-old was blindsided over the weekend in switzerland. he was arrested on charges stemming from the decades'-old case in which polanski admitted to having sex with a minor. polanski walked into a police trap at the zurich airport over the weekend, where he was supposed to receive a lifetime achievement award from a zurich film festival. instead, he was arrested and thrown in jail. and now he may be forced to

return to los angeles for the first time since the case made international headlines. but tonight polanski says he will fight extradition back to the u.s. that's what his lawyer said this morning on "good morning america". >> he wants to struggle and i think that it will be possible for us to obtain his freedom. >> reporter: "showbiz tonight" is in zurich, switzerland, tonight as the controversy and outrage continue. cnn's own morgan neill tells "showbiz tonight," this could be one long battle with the u.s. >> here at the film festival, the reaction has been overwhelmingly pro-roman polanski. what we're hearing is that they are going to try and fight this extradition request. now, one of the things that they'll be hoping for is some kind of bail. they're hoping to see him freed under bail with the promise, of course, that he would return for a judgment. we've heard from a swiss legal expert here, who says he thinks that could very well happen.

>> reporter: polanski has been running from the u.s. since 1978, after pleading guilty to having sex with then-13-year-old samantha geimer. she admitted to giving her quaaludes and champagne and served 42 days in jail under psychology evaluation. he had struck a plea bargain, but fled the u.s. after hearing that the judge planned to sentence him to even more jail time than originally agreed upon. he told abc's diane sawyer in 1994 that it took a long time to really understand what he had done. >> i think at that time, i had a hard time to persuade myself that it was wrong, because i don't think anybody was hurt. >> you don't? >> at that time, i said. later on, i realized, you know, just, you know, i was too close to the forest to see the trees. >> reporter: the victim, now 45, says she forgives polanski. she says she wants to see the

case dismissed and told cnn's larry king she doesn't want him to serve anymore jail time. >> larry: you don't think he deserves more time in jail? >> no. and the publicity was just so traumatic and so horrible that, i mean, his punishment was secondary to just getting this whole thing to stop. >> reporter: "showbiz tonight" can tell you that u.s. prosecutors say they consider him a convicted felony and fugitive and want justice served. >> it's not consensual sex when she's 13 and he was 40. >> reporter: today, the ladies of "the view" had an explosive debate over whether polanski deserved to be arrested. >> as a grown person, take responsibility for the fact that you knew -- >> he did. >> he did. >> and take responsibility for the fact that you fled the country. >> and "showbiz tonight" can tell you, most of europe is outraged at polanski's arrest. france is so mad, they're culture minister lashed out at

the united states. >> translator: in the same way that there is a generous america that we like, there is also a scary america that has just shown its face. >> reporter: both france and poland have appealed to none other than u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton, demanding polanski's release. but the state department says, this is pretty much california's deal. >> the role of the department of state will simply be to review that request. >> reporter: no one can know for sure the outcome of this explosive arrest, but one thing is certain. this is yet another dramatic chapter in the life of one of the world's most controversial directors. so was it really necessary to arrest roman polanski? with us tonight in new york is carolina bermudez, a senior editor for "in touch weekly." and tonight in hollywood, carlos diaz, a correspondent for "extra." there are a lot of things we've got to keep in mind here about what has happened to polanski through the years.

back in '77, he served 42 days in prison after reaching a plea deal. earlier this year, a l.a. superior court judge acknowledged there was problems with the way the case was originally handled. and as we've heard polanski's victim, samantha geimer, has said repeatedly that she thinks this case should be closed. carolina, given all that, should he still have been arrested, or is it finally time to let this thing go? >> well, that's the hard question, ashleigh. i think my feelings are so conflicted on this story, i don't even know how to answer that. we're looking at the victim here that says she doesn't want to be dragged in the mud again and the public outcries of everyone she's hearing right now. i mean, here's the point. the guy did flee. he is a fugitive. and i know that justice does need to be served, but why after 30 years, and why this set up sting? he used to vacation in switzerland, three months at a time. why have they let this go on to this point and why is the state of california pursuing this so vehemently? that's what i'm not understanding. >> totally cat and mouse. and i think you're right, there

is some question about the timing here. samantha geimer, the victim you were talking about, she couldn't have been clearer about how she feels than when she spoke to cnn's larry king back in 2003. take a look at this. >> i never even asked for him to be put in jail. >> your father was happy with that? >> i don't know about that. i know i didn't talk to him -- >> larry: you think he didn't deserve more time in jail? >> no. and the publicity was just so traumatic and so horrible that, i mean, his punishment was secondary to just getting this whole thing to stop. i mean, it was crazy. there were people outside my house and, you know, it was horrible. >> carlos, you heard polanski's victim there. was this arrest really necessary, or is it time to move on? >> it's tough for a man to answer that question, i'll be honest with you, because if i say, oh, no, they should let him go, i sound like i'm insensitive to the 13-year-old girl at the time, back in 1977. but i watched that entire larry king interview today and she's

very well spoken, very articulate when she says, you know, listen, it was a bad thing that he did, i have forgiven him. i think we should move on. the problem is, now they have him. so there are two scenarios. you let him go and all of a sudden, the united states is like, we don't know what we're doing. or we bring him in and all of france is mad at us now. the problem is, they have him now, and that's where the conflict now arises. >> and he's going to fight tooth and nail on this one, he said. and i can tell you one person who certainly thinks that polanski deserves to go back to jail, is "view" cohost joy behar. and let's not forget joy's brand-new show, it debuts here on tuesday night at 9:00 p.m. but at her day job on "the view" this morning, joy said that even though polanski's victim forgave him, there was still a crime committed. watch this. >> forgiveness is not permission, and forgiveness doesn't mean he didn't break the law. i believe that no matter how old you are or how long the crime ago the crime is committed, you should be punished for it. >> carolina, what about those

people who say he did serve that time in jail, that was the agreed upon time, he did everything that was asked of him, did it all voluntarily, showed up for everything. there are allegations and strong evidence that the judge in this case reneged on the plea deal, may have misbehaved. should that count for anything? >> i believe so. and i think that's the angle they'll go with. there was a sign of judiciary misconduct and that's where roman was standing. h e he says, i served the time in the mental institution, served the time for 42 days, once i heard the judge reneged on this deal, that's the reason i fled. but if this was the common man, the book would have been thrown at him a long time ago. >> if they could have caught up with that common man. carolina bermudez and carlos diaz, thanks very much for your thoughts on that. now we want to hear from you about roman polanski. given that he did everything the system asked him to do before he ultimately fled the u.s., here's when we're asking on our "showbiz tonight" question of the day. roman polanski arrested, should

he be forgiven for having sex with a minor? vote at cnn.com/showbiztonight or e-mail us at "showbiz tonigh tonight"@cnn.com. tonight, brand-new revelations from nbc's "dateline" and the chilling michael jackson tapes. >> i would say, janet, shut your eyes. she would say, okay, they're shut. sadly i would say, picture joseph in a coffin. he's dead. are you sad, she would go, no. >> disturbing descriptions of the alleged abuse that michael suffered. also, our simon cowell and paula abdul reuniting? tonight, reports that a $100 million deal may be in the works. plus, simon's incredible confessions about himself. and sarah palin, listen up. wait until you hear what new hln star joy behar is saying about you. this is "showbiz tonight" on hln. and now the "showbiz news ticker," more stories from the

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welcome back to "showbiz tonight." i'm ashleigh banfield in new york. a.j. hammer has the night off tonight. everyone here at hln is super excited about the debut of "the joy behar show." joy's new show starts tuesday night right here on hln and joy sat down with "showbiz tonight's" a.j. hammer and he asked her what we can expect from her new show. take a look. >> we'll have an interview with someone, you know, a one on one, like you're doing. then we'll have a panel of people talking about issues of the day. different kinds of people filling in and weighing in on topics. republicans, democrats, people on all different sides of the issue. we'll have another guest, we'll have -- i've been doing rants every day on something. you know. >> so it's going to be -- there'll be some entertainment,

some politics, a little bit of everything. >> yeah, a talk show -- the morning talk shows on sunday always fascinate me. like mclaughlin report and "meet the press". i like the panels that they have. and john king has them on cnn. i love those kinds of shows. so we'll do a little of that, but a little lighter, pop culture, we'll have politics, a potpourri. >> a different feel then, i imagine, considerably different from what you do every morning on "the view." so what about doing this show really excites you the most about it? because it's really a chance, i see it, for you to sink your teeth into something different every day? >> i think it is. and it's going to be, like every segment is going to have a little bit more to talk about than i can on "the view." "the view" has five people a lot of days sitting there trying to talk at one time. it's a little bit difficult to get through everything subject. but sometime i leave there and i think, i have more to say on that or i want to hear what somebody else has to say about

that. >> so you get to start a point and finish it. because that does get missed out on in the morning sometimes. i believe you said to me once, you would love to have sarah palin on your show. she would be a terrific guest. but what in particular, what would you love to ask sarah palin? what are you dying to ask her? >> there are things to ask her about some of the outrageous statements she's made in the past and what is she talking about? one thing i would like to ask her, no one has really gone there with on katie couric and katie asked her, wheat do you read and she couldn't answer. she's not stupid. why didn't she come up with "the new york times," "time" magazine, "newsweek." she couldn't think of one thing to say? what was the matter of her? did she have a little bit of a seizure at that moment or what? i have serious questions to ask her. she doesn't believe for choice for women, even in the case of rape and incest, i think that's rather abusive to women to say things like that. that's why a lot of women have

turned on her, who actually were welcoming another woman in the game. but when you say things like this, and oh, my god, this woman would not protect me if something happened to me. that's a serious issue. >> and being able to challenge her and say, hey, how is that not narrow minded. how can you not expand your thinking beyond that? >> exactly. >> all right, well, congratulations on your show. >> thank you very much. >> we are all really looking forward to joy's new and joy just confirmed on "the view" today that she has a huge guest for her first show, bett midler. turn into the debut of "the joy behar show" tuesday at 9:00 p.m. on hln. the showbiz on call phone lines have been inundated with people calling in about mackenzie phillips' shocking incest claims. the phones started ringing the moment mackenzie said she had a sexual affair with her father over a ten-year period. we got a call from lucinda in tennessee. she says mackenzie should be praised for coming forward with such a painful family secret.

>> caller: i think miss phillips is incredibly brave. the healing process has finally begun for her and ultimately, even her family. i wish all people who had been molested as a child would come forward and begin to heal. >> well, thank you, lucinda. we also heard from robin calling in from showbiz on call from tennessee. >> caller: i keep hearing the word "uncomfortable" thrown around in regard to mackenzie phillips, that it's making people uncomfortable for her to come out with this. i'm sure that she was very uncomfortable when it was happening to her as well. has anyone thought about that? i applaud her for coming forward. good for you, mackenzie. maybe you'll help some other girls in the same situation. >> thank you, robin. you can call us at showbiz on call and let us know what you think about this and anything else that's on your mind. the showbiz on call phone lines are always open, 1-888-sbt-buzz.

leave us a voice mail and we'll play your calls right here on "showbiz tonight" and your calls online are also available on our home page, cnn.com/showbiztonight. pretty scary explosion in a small massachusetts town and it is connected to tom cruise. holy cow. so why did people in this small town see a fireball in the sky and what the heck does tom cruise have to do with a massive explosion? also, a different kind of explosion on "snl." an f-bomb live on tv. i'll tell you who dropped it. and wait until you see her face when she realizes what she'd just done. also, brand-new chilling moments from the michael jackson tapes revealed on nbc's "dateline." >> my father walked in the room, and god knowsheim telling the truth, i fainted in his presence many times. >> michael jackson in his own words, describing in horrific detail his father's alleged abuse and how he used to fantasize about his dad dying.

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now on "showbiz tonight," disturbing brand-new michael jackson tapes. michael's fantasies about his dad dropping dead. >> i would say, janet, shut your eyes. she would go, okay, they're shut. i said, picture joseph in a coffin, he's dead. do you feel sorry? she would go, no. >> tonight, michael's astounding revelations, caught on tape. simon cowell's raw confessions. the tough as nails "american idol" judge opens up about his personal demons. hugh jackman's cell phone fury. >> i cannot see his face. all the time his face --

[ phone ringing ] do you want to get that? >> it is the video we've uncovered today that's going to make you stand up and cheer? plus, more stories breaking from the "showbiz news ticker," tv's most provocative entertainment news show continues right now. welcome back to "showbiz tonight." it's 30 minutes past the hour. i'm ashleigh banfield in new york. a.j. hammer has the night off. tonight, brand-new revelations from the disturbing and chilling michael jackson tapes on nbc's "dateline." and now, there are brand-new devastating stories of jackson talking about his father from beatings to wishing his father was dead. here is the big news breaking tonight. jackson is heard on the tapes saying he hated his father for beating him. and for the first time, jackson admits he actually pictured his father dead in a coffin.

michael also reveals his debilitating fear of his father, even after he became a worldwide superstar. michael says he would just throw up seeing his dad. and jackson in his own words on why he thinks he was treated like a freak by the media. he says, it was racism. joining me tonight in new york is jane velez-mitchell, the host of issues with ja"issues with j velez-mitchel velez-mitchell", which you can catch every night here on hln. she's also the author of the brand-new book, "i want." it's in stores right now. and also joining me tonight in hollywood, carlos diaz, a correspondent for "extra." all right, you two. the tapes we heard were from some 30 hours of interviews that jackson taped with his former spiritual adviser in 1999 through 2001 if jackson is heard in unbelievably graphic detail claiming that his father had a ritual of abuse, that he hated his father, and would even

imagine his father dead. take a listen to. >> jane, michael jackson is saying he pictured his own father dead because of all of this abuse. does this surprise you at all?

>> well, some of the new details are shocking. the idea that anyone would oil a little boy's body so that when you whip them, it becomes more painful, that is true sadism. but overall, we've known for a long time and michael jackson has spoken on camera about this in the past, of these horrific beatings that left him nauseous, that left him terrified of his father. and in 2003, joe jackson actually admitted that, he said, i didn't beat him, but i whipped him with a belt and a stick, as if there is any difference between beating somebody and whipping them with a belt and a stick. this is horrific stuff and it's a cautionary tale. hopefully all parents have moved beyond this kind of sick discipline. >> it seems almost like that joe jackson might not have known what it means to beat a child. the michael jackson that we all knew and loved was the ultimate showman, the powerful performer that commanded the stage with the moonwalk and was thrilling audiences all around the world. so carlos, does it absolutely boggle your mind how someone

once seen as so powerful could be so hurt and so vulnerable? >> i'm no psychiatrist, but it's the classic, trying to please your parents, parents that could never be pleased. at least his father, joe, could never be plooeased. and people talk about that moonwalk performance at the motown awards, michael jackson cried after that performance, because it wasn't up to what he thought would be his father's expectations. here's a guy, in michael jackson, that was trying to please joe jackson, a man that was impossible to please. and that's what kept driving michael jackson over and over again. and i was as horrified as jane was when i heard the whole "oil me down" story for beatings. that is premeditated. that is not, you know -- >> it's not reactionary, you're right. >> that is premeditated. >> it's just sick to think of how that could have actually played out. and it isn't like, we haven't heard that michael had problems with his father before, but never in this kind of

frightening detail. for michael himself, he was about 42 years old when he recorded these confessions with the rabbi. and listen to how michael said he felt as an adult when joe jackson would walk into a room, he said, it actually made him physically ill. >> jane, will anyone who's heard jackson in his own words will be able to even look at joe jackson the same way?

>> i don't think so. and hi certainly that night behaved very well in the wake of his son's death. we all remember how he went on the red carpet and started promoting his new record album when people were asking him about his son's death, which was completely, completely creepy. and this is one of the reasons why when katherine was fighting for custody of the jackson's children, she had to get joe jackson a promise. i will not live at the family compound and i will have absolutely nothing to do with raising these children. that's how toxic this guy is. >> michael's abusive past obviously haunted him throughout his life, but so did the tabloids and all the press that pounds on his bizarre lifestyle. and on one of those tapes, guys, that aired on "dateline," michael actually blamed are racism for why what he called the white press turned on him and turn hied him into a freak. listen.

>> wow, carlos, what do you make of this racist conspiracy theory? >> well, i do agree with michael jackson that he did break boundaries. he really introduced african-american videos to mtv. there were no african-american videos before michael jackson as far as being played on mtv. so he did break the mold there. and he really was one of the first artists that white girls were like, wow, he's attractive. i wouldn't mind dating that guy, and there you go. but i don't think the media went down those roads because of racism. he's a uniquely eccentric individual and i think that's what fueled it, not because he was black. >> carlos diaz, jane velez-mitchell, thanks so much to both of you. tonight, also, the startling

hugh jackman smackdown. he goes nuts on a guy's who cell phone rings right in the middle of his broadway show. >> well, if you've ever been annoyed by a cell phone call, you are going to love this unbelievable video. and simon cowell's raw confessions. the tough as nails "american idol" judge opens up about his own personal demons. tonight, joy's anger words about elton john not being allowed to adopt a baby because he's gay. >> he may be gay, but he also happens to be a celebrated humanitarian and has been knighted by the queen of england. in fact, some people think he is the queen of england. >> less than 24 hours before joy behar kicks off her brand-new show here on hln, she's igniting a firestorm. oh, boy, oh, joy. this is "showbiz tonight" on hln. now the "showbiz news ticker," more stories from the "showbiz

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welcome back to "showbiz tonight." i'm ashleigh banfield in new york. a.j. hammer has the night off tonight. and tonight we are on the verge of seeing a reunion. are we really? simon cowell and paula abdul? there is big news breaking. there's a new report today that simon cowell is signing a $100 million deal that will cover his "american idol" contract and bring his british tv show, "the x factor" to the u.s. and the deal may include a brand-new partnership with paula. also brand-new tonight, hugh jackman's cell phone fury. you have got to see the video when a cell phone went off while jackman was sharing the stage with daniel craig. joining me tonight, carolina bermudez, and jeremy blackwell, the managing editor for

accesshollywood.com. let's get to that report in the daily mirror in london that simon cowell is doing that $100 million deal to bring "the x factor" to the u.s. and that paula is in the running to be a judge on the show. do you think that would be a smart move for paula and for simon? >> absolutely. think of all the publicity, simon and paula back together. that's a perfect, perfect combination. and everybody knows that behind the scenes, simon is really very fond of paula. i think if anything, it would get them the publicity that they need at the beginning of a show. >> and ever since paula was replaced by ellen degeneres, simon has barely commented on it. do you think it's because he's been secretively working away behind the scenes with paula? >> like carolina said, they are close friends and i think it's very likely that "the x factor" will be on u.s. tv sets in 2010 and simon has a lot to gain from

bringing that show over here, let's just say. >> and he's also celebrating the big 5-0, his 50th birthday. and he just posted a pretty amazing and lengthy letter to his younger self. he writes to himself, quote, you never married, but you have no regrets about that. family life would be a problem now. you almost never stop working or thinking about work. in los angeles, you like to sit out by the pool at night, have a beer and a cigarette and think and think and think. sometimes, when friends are over, you want to ask them to leave. you get hit by black moods and you want to be alone. stuff like that is difficult when you have a wife and kids. i'll say. carolina, wowza, how about that, simon cowell, moody guy. are you surprised? >> not at all. i love this letter. i think it gives us a realistic look into who simon cowell is as

a man. this letter to his younger self, it gave us a look into a guy who normally we think he has this cold, black heart and it kind of made him a little bit more approachable in my opinion. >> i was just surprised he did it at all. i've never seen him really being into writing that personally. i want to move on to hugh jackman. during his broadway play, jackman and daniel craig were rudely interrupted by a ringing cell phone in the audience. the best part was how both hugh and daniel handled it. take a look at this.

>> i can't imagine being that person. i think it kept ringing because

the person didn't want to admit it was his or her phone. jeremy, you've got to think that anybody who has ever been annoyed by a rude cell phone is about to stand up in the living room right now and cheer, right on, guys. >> just like all the people in that theater did. and if all the place to have your cell phone ring at, the one with wolverine and 007, i mean, bad luck. >> you know, i love it -- i never know whether they're supposed to get out of character, have fun with an audience, but i have seen hugh jackman do this before. i was actually in an audience, "the boy from oz," when he was on stage and he did the same thing. people walked in late and he played it right into part of the show. you've got to kind of wonder, carolina, i think that's really endearing. it makes you like the character and it makes you like the actor. >> absolutely. that's why they get paid the big bucks, ashleigh. and who's the jackass who goes into a broadway play nowadays and doesn't turn off his cell phone. this is a lesson for us all. respect the actors that are up there and do the right thing, turn it on silent.

you're not that important. you don't need to get phone calls that are that urgent when you're at a broadway play. >> imagine how embarrassing it would be if it was just an accident, someone thought he or she turned it off. jeremy, what's your advice, if it were you and you're sitting there with a phone ringing in a dark theater like and two actors looking at you, would you pretend it wasn't yours or go ahead and play along? >> you have to fess up with it. there's no other choice. you have to take the hit and move on. i personally, it never would be me, so it's hard for me to hypothetically put myself in that situation, but, you know, if you don't admit to it, you should be taken out and flogged and never allowed back in a broadway theater. >> and there's that little blinking red light that's probably going to give you away too. appreciate it, both of you. tonight, joy behar's explosive new elton john controversy. anger over sir elton being rejected of an adoptive parent because he's gay. >> he may be gay, but he also happens to be a celebrated humanitarian and has been knighted by the queen of

england. in fact, some people think he is the queen of england. this is "showbiz tonight" on hln. now theticker. more stories making news right now -- ashleigh banfield. right now hollywood's a list and the ugly truth about mariah carey. the songbird is unrecognizable in the british film "precious." what the director lee daniels did, all he could, everything he could, to make her look ugly. mariah makes up a brand new word to describe it. >> i mean, really, lee went all out. he wasn't just like, i want you to be plain jane or whatever. he was like, you're going to have basically anything that he considered ugly was what he did to me. like dark circles and overhead

lighting and just like really bad, like, hideous, edosity i'll call it. >> doesn't sing a note in the movie. another big stretch but call it is a blessing. >> everything in the universe kind of is what it's supposed to be and comes back to you. i feel really grateful. i feel like, okay. this is a great chance for me to escape from the image of whatever it is that i do. >> "precious" opens in november. $

an afghan immigrant accused in a terror plot makes his first appearance in a new york courtroom. how did he plea and what's next? this right here, this is the scene out of an action movie you would think. it is not. it is real life and a very close call for a man who scaled a bridge. we'll tell you how it ended. it's been 27 years but now feels like the time. >> and a stunning mission from a man of god. a pastor in oregon reveal as secret he's lived with for almost three decades when he finally got off his chest during a sunday serm than no one

expected to hear. i'm richelle carey. welcome to hln "news and views." let's get started right now. the man in the center of a cross country terrorism investigation pleaded not guilty to plotting an attack on new york city. najibullah zazi pleaded not guilt any a courtroom. he did not speak during the proceeding. his lawyer entered the plea for him. he later told reporters the case against his client amounts to a rush to judgment. not conspiracy. >> now, i'm not saying that i've seen all the evidence in this case, but just what i've seen so far, mr. zazi traveled to pakistan, which is not illegal. mr. zazi purchased certain products that contain chemicals that allegedly could be used to make a bomb. those acts were not illegal. and i have not seen any evidence whatsoever of an agreement mr.

mr. zazi and anyone else that is the essence of a conspiracy charge. >> prosecutors say zazi was planning to use homemade products to plan an attack on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. his father and a new york man also arrested. zazi ordered without bail. his next court date is supposed to be december 3rd. one of the suspects accused of killing a chicago honor student has admitted to jumping on the boy's head while he was lying on the ground. this story has affected a lot of you. this information coming from the state's attorney. four teenagers have now been charged with first-degree murder in this gruesome death. one is a juvenile. 16-year-old derrion albert was beaten to death. the family says he was an easygoing child, a great kid headed to college.

>> he was a good boy? >> yeah. >> not a gang member. >> no. >> we're not saying that this is a gang-related incident. right now this appears that you had a young man that's making attempts to go home. >> him trying to help out his friend, just like he was in the wrong place at the wrong time. >> we warn you, it is very disturbing. police say they're looking for three more suspects that did attack. this is cell phone video of what happened. they've also increased patrols in the neighborhood. there were 290 shootings in chicago schools last year and 34 kids were killed. north carolina police are looking for a 12-year-old girl who was nearly nine months pregnant. she disappeared from her home in morseville last week along with

her younger sister and adopted dad. apparently he left his estranged wife saying he was taking one of the girls to school. police say he may have abducted them. an urgent situation. hess is their legal guardian and police say there's no evidence he has harmed the sisters. the pregnant girl has not identified the father of her child, and she is in immediate need of medical attention. investigators suspect the girl's father may have taken them to tennessee. well, traveling 7,000 miles to get his two kids back and now he's in jail in japan. a tennessee court recently gave christopher full custody of his 8-year-old son and 6-year-old daughter, but by then his ex-wife, a japanese native, had taken the children all the way to japan. yesterday a friend reportedly witnessed arrest, says he picked them up as they walked to school. instead of heading to the

nearest airport, he drove straight to the con lit where japanese police were waiting. before the drama unfolded, the boy told cnn affiliate wtzs he desperately missed his children. >> everywhere i look around there's a picture. i can't go in his bedroom. because i'm like, well, you know, his bed again. i just said i love you, isaac. i remember that. remember that, i love you and that i want you back. you should be here, in school, with your daddy. it's hard to have quiet moments. because my kids' words haunt me during those quiet times. >> what now? there is a warrant out for his ex-wife's arrest in tennessee, but japanese law doesn't recognize u.s. family court orders. fellow filmmakers are rallying behind roman polanski as his attorneys file a motion to have him released pap decision on that motion could actually take weeks.

then there could be an appeal to that. in all, 138 people including directors woody allen, pedro and martin scorsese and others in the film industry signed a petition against his arrest. polinsky was on his way home when detained by swiss police. the u.s. wants him extradited for drugs and having sex with a 13-year-old girl back in 1977. postproduction on polanski's latest movie "the ghost," that's now on hold. actor john travolta could be back on the stand sometime today. this is all in the trial of two alleged extortionists. paramedic and attorney are fighting to have the video sioux pressed that may show them talking with travolta's lawyer arguing the tape was illegally recorded. accused of threatening to release a key medical document shortly after the death of travolta's autistic son. police have arrested a

suspected bank robber accused of holding six banks in a single week across three states. heather brown is accused of telling the bank teller she had a bomb but investigators never found explosives and brown is on probation for a 2006 bank robbery. if it sounds unusual it is. fbi statistics show it's extremely rare for women to rob banks. the secret service is trying to find out who could put a hold on facebook asking if president obama should be killed. the possible responses, yes, no, maybe and yes, if he cuts my health care. the social networking site said yesterday along with a third party application that lets people create polls. the obama poll was made available to everyone on facebook. that's obviously a lot of people. and until thursday to come clean about the nuclear program in iran. if not, the obama administration is considering new sanctions

targeting iran's energy, financial and telecommunication's sector. thursday's meeting between iran and world powers has taken on added urgency. last week tehran admitted it was building a second enrichment facility south of tehran and just yesterday iran tested long-range missiles capable of reaching israel and u.s. bases in the middle east. nobody's expecting breakthroughs but the talks in geneva, previous meetings have done nothing to convince the iranian government to give up its nuclear program. at least 23 people have been killed in vietnam by a typhoon. it made landfall today with winds up to 90 miles per hour. more than 150,000 people had to be evacuated. officials are warning rivers are rising, homes flooded and some areas are threatened by mudslides. clearly, it's not over. this is the same storm that devastated parts of the

philippine. at least 284 people are dead or missing there. the pilot behind the miracle on the hudson will return. us airways made the announcement yesterday. of course, we're talking about captain chelsea sullenberger who also worked with the airlines safety management team and knows a thing or two about that. you may remember in january sully glided his plane to a safe splashdown in the hudson river. that was after losing both engines to bird strikes. all 155 people onboard his plane survived. former vice presidential candidate sarah palin has finished her memoir just four months after signing a pre-book deal. palin's a visors say it's going to be called "going rogue: an american life." a comment by a john mccain adviser who complained she wasn't following his campaign book last year. the publisher moved up the book's relaes date to november 17th in time for the holiday

rush. here is something that will put you on the edge of your seat. someone climbing a suspension bridge all the way to the top and suddenly looking like he can't hold on anymore.

some really tense moments on a bridge in toledo, ohio. police say a man you can see, climbed the bridge's suspension cables all the way to the top, and several times feeling like he was going to fall. look at this. he did hang on. no idea why in the world he did this. craziness. what in the world. yes, he did manage to make it back down safely. my goodness. well a group of homeless sex offenders are being ordered out of a wooded area they were told

to move into in the first place. yesterday we told you about this makeshift camp in an area behind an office park in suburban atlanta. probation officers in cobb county, georgia, told the sex offenders to move there as a last resort. cobb count hey one of the nation's toughest sex offender policies to the point where this particular area of the woods where he moved were about the only place the group could legally move. but the state department of transportation owns the woods and decided the sex offenders had to get out. the county sheriff says he doesn't know where they will go now. so we want to know your views on this. where's do you think sex offenders should xwliv and do you think state laws concerning them might be too restrictive? clearly, people get outraged when we talk about sex offenders. we understand this, but we really want to have a real discussion about this. let's get to the bone. angela from north carolina. what do you think? >> caller: the sex offenders i think they should have stayed in

jail. they belong in a cell, because i don't know has these people can do next, and the woods is not the right place to put them. >> okay. you're seeing the first step is just tougher sentencing in the first place? >> caller: yes. >> thank you for your phone call. we know this is really personal for you. richard you sharing that with us. let's get to west virginia. john is on the phone. what do you think? i know people get outraged about this and sometimes it's tough to have a real discussion about it, but let's try to do that. what do you think? >> caller: i am a registered sex offender in the state of west virginia. i believe that it should be based totally on the circumstances and severity of the crime. you know, in children -- >> what are the restrictions on you right now, john, if you don't mind me asking? >> caller: i have to register for life, give them my address. they have 20 know where i work. i have actually been arrested because i failed to inform them of a job change. and, again, you know, the circumstances should dictate that. >> did you know you had to do

that? >> caller: yes. >> why didn't you? >> caller: actually, i was two days late. that was the problem. but, again, i think that the circumstances should definitely be investigated before they just lump everybody into one category. >> okay. appreciate your call, john, very much. >> caller: thank you. >> troy is calling us from daytona. in florida, troy, what's your take? for the most part, most sex offenders are going to get out. it's something we have to deal with. what do you think? >> caller: i know we can't keep them in jail. if they want freedom, maybe not quite like "escape from new york" the movie, put them on an island, give them means to survive and if they want freedom, associate with each other. lock them up on an island. especially the violent one, the rapisting and child molesters. >> troy, thank you for your phone call. we've had some interesting phone calls to start with. we want to continue to get your views on this. where do you think sex offenders should live? realistically. all right? are state laws too restrictive?

do you think they're right on the mark? continue to call us. 1 dsh 8 7 1-87 1-877-hln. text us, text your comments to me at hlntv, standard text rates apply. we'll continue to air some of your responses throughout the day. pretty personal phone calls to get started. so who knows what we'll have next. how about this, speaking of personal, a pastor has a big secret for decades until he gave the sermon of his life. the shocking revelations he told his congregation.

a u.s. customs chief call it is a bad day. seizing $41 million in drug money smuggled in from the u.s., concealed in shipping containers full of fertilizer chemicals. u.s. customs officials say the huge cash seizure is a side of multi-national cooperation in drug investigations. look at this. that's a british naviship sinking a fishing boat it says has about 384 million dollars worth of cocaine hidden on it. the navy intercepted this boat off the coast of south america this month. of course, the crew had been taken off before this happened.

the defense ministry says the boat was acting suspiciously in an area known for drug trafficking. a transgender pastor came out to his congregation in the middle of his sermon. the reverend david weekly says he was born a woman and kept his gender reassignment surge ray secret for 27 years. a few years after the surgery he was ordained as a united methodist pastor. he's been in his current church about two years and last month decided to let his congregation in on his story. >> from early childhood, i always had this discrepancy between myself identity and how the world perceived me. >> the congregation accepted it without question. >> to carry that burden all by yourself. >> despite his congregation support, the reverend says he is actually worried about losing his ordination. the united methodist church

could pass a law in 2012 banning transgender clergy. how about this? the real-life soap opera revolving around the reality show "jon & kate plus eight" it's taking a new twist. jon is gone. the cable network will relaunch the show in november at "kate plus eight." jon and kate gosselin are going through a very public divorce, even if you don't want to pay attentions, you know you've heard the details. their split was featured during an episode of the show. tlc says the show will focus on kate gosselin's evolution of a single mom to 5-year-old sextuplets and 8-year-old twins because it is supposed to be about the kids. remember? johnny carson said good-bye to "the tonight show" his last guest was bette midler. tonight the divine ms. m will be the first guest on the joy behar show. be sure to be there when she welcomes bette midler. the show premieres tonight at

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this tennessee father traveled 7,000 mimes to get his two children back. according to a tennessee court he has full custody. why is he locked up in jail in japan? the explanation of this dramatic international custody battle. >> reporter: the u.s. embassy here in tokyo says it is fully aware of what has happened to the american that they have sent representatives to speak to him yesterday and today and that he has been given a list of attorneys to try to get legal representation here, but this is a very delicate matter. very difficult situation, because japanese family law is very different from american family law. in the event of a divorce, only

one parent typically is recognized as the custodian. the other essentially has no rights and japan also hasn't signed on to the hague treaty, which really means here japan isn't necessarily obligated to act in any sort of way in this matter. what this means for christopher savoy in a jail cell even though under u.s. law he is considered the full custodian and his japanese ex-wife is the one considered the abductor under japanese law he is the criminal here. japanese police say he grabbed his two children, 8-year-old isaac and 6-year-old rebecca as he walked to school with their mother monday morning. he took them, or attempted to take them, to the u.s. consulate. steps from the doorway, from the doorway of the u.s. consulate, local police stopped them and because he was standing on japanese soil, he was arrested and charged with kidnapping. before all of this happened, savoy shared his frustration and desperation from his tennessee home. >> i said they're what? they're what?

they're in japan? >> the u.s. state department says they believe there are up to 100 cases involving japanese and american citizens, and parental abductions. they are hoping for a long-term solution but in the meantime, for this case, a very sad story about divorce, and two cultures and laws colliding. for cnn, tokyo. next story is pretty urgent as pell. north carolina police looking for a 12-year-old girl who is nearly nine months pregnant. she disappeared from her home in mooresville last week along with her younger sister and her adoptive father, michael has apparently left his es strained wife a note saying he was just taking one of the girls to school. police think he may have abducted them. hess is their legal guard yand an police say there's no evidence he would harm the sister. the pregnant girl has not identified the father of her child and she is in need of immediate medical attention. investigators suspect the girls may have been taken to

tennessee. one of the suspect accused of killing a chicago honor student admitted to jumping on the boy's head while he was lying on the ground. that's from the state's attorney. four teenagers have now been charged with first-degree murder in the gruesome death. weren't of them is a juvenile. 16-year-old derrion albert was beaten to death. his family says he was an easygoing child, a great kid, and he was headed to college. >> i'm just -- >> a good boy? >> yeah. >> not a gang member? >> no. >> we're not saying that this is a gang-related incident. right now it appears you had a young man making attempts to go home. >> him trying to help out his friend. like he was at the wrong place at the wrong time. >> famous video we're about to show you, if not, it is very disturbing. police say they're looking for

three more suspects involved in this attack. this is cell phone video. because of everything that's going on, they have increased patrols in the neighborhood. there were 290 shootings in chicago schools last year and 34 kids, 344 childr children, were and pleading not guilty to plotting an attack on new york city. najibullah zazi formerly charged in a new york courtroom just a few minutes ago. he didn't speak during the proceedings but his lawyer entered the plea for him. the lawyer later told reporters the case against his client really to him amounts to a rush to judgment, not a conspiracy. >> now, i'm not saying that i've seen all the evidence in this case, produced by the government, but what i've seen so far is that mr. zazi traveled to pakistan, which is not illegal. mr. zazi purchased certain

products that contained chemicals that allegedly could be used to make a bomb. those acts were not illegal. and i have not seen any evidence whatsoever of an agreement between mr. zazi and anyone else that is the essence of a conspiracy charge. >> prosecutors say zazi was plotting to use homemade explosives to target mass transit in new york on the anniversary of the september 11th attacks. his father and a new york man have also been arrested. zazi was ordered held without bail. his next court date is december 3rd. fellow filmmakers are rallying behind oscar winner roman polanski as his attorney file as motion to have him released. a decision on that motion could actually take quite a few weeks and then there might be an appeal. in all, 138 people including directors woody allen, and

martin scorsese. also others in the film industry. they have all signed a petition against his arrest. polanski was on his way to zurich for the film festival saturday when detained by swiss police. the u.s. wants him extradited for drugging and having sex way 13-year-old girl back in 1977. postproduction on polanski's latest movie "the ghost" is now on hold. washington, live pictures now. a showdown in the senate finance committee over government-run insurance plan as part of the health care overhaul. democrats jay rockefeller of west virginia and you just saw moment ago charles schumer of new york are pushing amendments to the proposed, the proposals offered by right there chairman max baucus. that's who you're seeing. currently the bill has no public option. it was designed to attract the vote but no is a republicans are

supporting it. demming raised rejections to adding a public plan. it's not clear whether it will get passed. cnn and hln want to make sure you've got the news you want wherever you are. so as technology changes, we do, too. cnn is unveiling the new cnn iphone for $1.99. that's it. the power of the world's news leader right in your hand. go to cnn.com/iphone. just this is just a simulation. you can program it, mykrnen, to bring you the news you care about. mycnn. news alerts, weather, traffic. just an i phone simulator. your experience might be different. but pretty cool, huh? something to put you on the edge of your seat. someone climbing on a suspension bridge all the way to the top and then it looks like he cannot hang on. what in the world?

i'm jane velez-mitchell. here's my issue. had are we going to realize the face of alcoholism isn't just that bum on the corner with a brown paper bag? another innocent civilian mowed down by an apparent drunk driver. this time the alleged drunk driver was an off-duty new york city cop. witnesses say he wreaked of booze and his passenger, a fellow cop, allegedly fled the scene while this woman was bleeding to death. it appears to be another case of somebody making a terrible choice in this case getting behind the wheel under the influence of alcohol. you know, this is national recovery month, and it's time we start getting real about

drinking problems. alcoholism doesn't recognize age, gender or economic status. obviously, it also does not recognize the dark blue police uniforms of the nypd. i'm jane velez-mitchell, and that's my "issue." find out what else jane has on her mind. watch "issues" with jane velez-mitchell every night at 9:00 eastern on hln. got amazing video. this really is. intense moments on a bridge in toledo, ohio. look at this guy. he climbed the cables of a suspension bridge all the way to the top and looked like he was going to fall part of the time. don't know why he did it. he managed to hang on, and he got down to safety, but what is he doing? yikes! he's okay, at least physically. the secret service is trying to find out who put a poll on facebook asking if president obama should be killed?

possible responses, yes, no, maybe and yes if he cuts my health care. the social networking site was taken down yesterday along with a third party application that led people 20 the poll. the obama poll was made available to everyone on facebook. millions of people. the pilot behind the miracle on the hudson will return to flying. us airways made the announcement yesterday. of course, we're talking about captain chelsea sullenberger who also worked with the airlines safety management team and knows a thing or two about that. pretty much an expert on that. you may remember in january sully glided his plane to a safe splashdown in the hudson river. that was after losing both engines to bird strikes. all 155 people onboard his plane survived. when johnny carson said good-bye to "the tonight show" his last guest was bette mid plerp tonight, the divine miss m will be the first guest on the "joy behar show." be sure to be there when joy

welcomes bette midler, tonight at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on hln. one of hugh jackman's best known roles is wolverine, but did the claws come out when the actor's broadway play was interrupted by an audience member's cell phone call. you've got to see his reaction.

at least 23 people have been killed in vietnam. this is the aftermath of a typhoon. it made landfall today with winds up to 95 miles per hour. more than 150,000 people had to be evacuated. officials warn that rivers are still rising, homes are flooded, and some areas are still being threatened by mudslides. this is the same storm that devastated parts of the philippines. at least 284 people are dead or missing there. i-reporter jess lives in hodgy min city vietnam and decided to go there for the weekend with some of his friends. they got stuck in a resort on china beach after the airport closed. he said as the surf and winds began to pick up, he thought it

would be a good idea to start taping. >> i shouldn't be out here, but let me just tell you, these are downed trees everywhere. you can just see -- that cloud. another fallen tree. whoa. still got more tile flying off over there. >> okay. let's go. >> unbelievable. look at the tile that's blown off the roof as we stand here. i walked out here, maybe one minute ago, and literally was literally blown off my feet. over there. unbelievable. look at all the tile that's blown off. so far, no broken windows.

but i would say there will be shortly. off of the tile roofs. flying off like saucers. >> the tide came up 20 to 30 feet. while shooting, the biggest problem was the wind and sand that continued to blast him. hour thanks to jeff and a reminder as always to our i-reporters, you've got to seek safety first before you pick up a camera, always. if you have pictures or video of stories in your part of the world, go to ireport.com and click on the i-report. told you about this yesterday. a makeshift camp in an area behind an office park in suburban atlanta. probation officers in cobb county, georgia, told the sex

offenders to move there as a last resort. cobb county has one of the nation's toughest sex offender policies to the point it was about the only place this group could live legally, but the state department of transportation owns the woods and decided that the sex offenders had to go. they had to get out. the county sheriff says he doesn't know where they're going to go now. asking for your views on this. where do you think sex offenders should live? are state laws too restrictive? continue to call us at 1-877-tell-hln. e-mail, cnn.com/hln. also search richelle carey hln in facebook and leave your comment on my facebook page. you can also text us, text the word views plus your comment and name to hlntv. stand text rates apply. we will air some of your responses throughout the day. a 911 operator got called. he was not prepared for this call. people were calling to report a

fire. he says he made the callers repeat the address, and even when he heard it, he still couldn't process it. >> like, an address? it's surreal. you don't believe. you hear it, and it's not registering. >> yes, his house and his parents also live in the apartment building. he says they lost everything, but nobody was hurt. nobody was hurt. a philadelphia man charged with animal cruelty after wrapping a cat from head to toe in duct tape. look at that. the animal was made to look like a mummy. it took a team of animal nurses and doctors an hour and a half to get the tape off. its name is now sticky. this man is charged for leaving the cat for hours and yu7bder

going psychiatric testing. >> he was very remorseful for what he did and hopefully will get the help that he needs. >> sticky's going to get 4e7, because the animal where sticky was treated got dozens of adoption requests. the cat could have a new home by the end of the day. a roofing company goes to the wrong address and that's left a south florida home with just half a roof over his head. the roofing company worked on the wrong house and the roofer wants the homeowner to pay for their mistake. the workers are offering to finish the work at a discounted rate but fisher thinks the company is trying to take advantage of him because he's elderly. if the roof isn't repaired soon, his insurance policy may be canceled. here's some good news in a bad economy. home prices are climbing. standard & poor's shows prices up 1.2% from june to july. that's the six month in a row

there's been a growth in 20 major cities. still home prices are more than 13% lower than what they were in july of last year and the index is about a third lower from its peak that was in mid 2006. when hugh jackman hits broadway, you expect a show stopper. a cell phone in the audience almost stole the show last night. >> you want to get that? you want to get it? i don't care. doesn't matter. >> a cell phone camera caught it all. as you can see jackman and his co-star remain in character accent and all which prompted applause from the rest of the audience. the pastor of a small oregon church says you could have heard a pin drop when he revealed something to his congregation. why he broke a decade's old silence now and how his

congregation is reacting.