tonight i have the honor to announce the games of the 31st olympiad are awarded to the city of rio de janeiro. >> the celebration begins in rio. the brazilian city beat out. these are live pictures by the way. they're still reacting. it beats out chicago, tokyo and madrid for the 2016 summer

games. it is official. rio will host those games first time ever in south america. members of the international olympic committee voted earlier today in denmark on four possible cities. chicago, tokyo, madrid and rio. this means that the games will be there for the first time in that continent rio beating madrid in the final round of voting. chicago learned at the outset that it was out of the running. here's what that looked like today. about an hour and a half ago. >> the city of chicago having obtained the least number of votes will not participate in the next round. >> chicago area residents gathered downtown in daley plaza were stunned by the news that their city was the first one eliminated. it got the fewest votes. many assumed chicago would make it past the first round. chicago was eliminated in spite of a personal appeal by the ioc to bring the 2016 games to his adopted hometown. he called chicago a diverse city

that could easily host the world. on his way back from his trip to copenhagen, the president met with general stanley mcchrystal for 25 minutes. the top u.s. commander in afghanistan had been in london. he flew over to copenhagen to meet with the commander in chief. today's chat follows wednesday's three-hour meeting at the white house. the president and his national security team are considering the u.s. strategy in afghanistan including sending more troops there. 3 1/2 years after his capture, a video is released proving an israeli soldier held by hamas militants is alive. it shows that the sergeant is reading a newspaper dated september 14th, 2009. in the video he describes himself as healthy and says he's being well treated. he also said he misses his family and longs for the days he'll see them again. he also makes an appeal to benjamin netanyahu to bring him home. israeli officials say they released 19 palestinian female

prisoners in exchange for the videotape. the swap could signal an end of israel's two-year long blockade. the u.s. unemployment rate is now at a 26-year high. it inched up to 9.8% last month. the last time we saw jobless numbers this high was july of 1983. the unemployment rate at that point was 10.1%. lawmakers worked until after midnight on a health care compromise bill. senate finance committee chairman max baucus announced work was completed on all parts of the legislation. democrats made last-minute changes to ease the bill's impact on working class families. one change would exempt millions of people from a requirement to buy health insurance. no mandate. a final committee vote is set for early next week. a number of studies indicate the quantity and quality of foods we eat may lead to cancer. that's something dr. sanjay

gupta explains in today's health minute. >> we have all seen the headlines. green leafy vegetables keep cancer at bay. blueberries a cancer cure. despite that, your diet doesn't impact cancers that way. >> there's not one type of diet or one magic food that will prevent cancer. >> reporter: a harvard nutrition specialist co-authored the book "drink, eight and weigh less." he suggested today% of cancers in the u.s. are don't exercise. obesity is a proven cause of certain cancers but our approach to eating is the real downfall. >> we don't pay enough attention to the quality of our food. we seem to be supersizing large amounts in place of high quality foods and that leads to excess

calories and overweight and obesity. >> reporter: go beyond the headlines. eat well and eat less. you may just keep cancer away. for today's health minute, i'm dr. sanjay gupta. last night david letterman revealed he was the target of an extortion attempt that involved some pretty personal stuff. was his monologue the right place to make the revelation? we're asking your views on this and that today.

a shocking revelation from david letterman on his show last night. he said police arrested a man that tried to extort $2 million from him. the suspect in the plot is joe halderman. a longtime employee of cbs magazine show "48 hours."

during the monologue, dave said he got a package three weeks ago from a man who claimed to have information damaging to his public image. then he explained why he went to authorities. >> would it be embarrassing if it was made public? especially for the women. that's a decision for them to make if they want to come public and talk about the relationships. if i want to talk about the relationships but you don't want a guy saying i know you had sex with women so i would like $2 million or i'll make trouble for you. >> got some very strong opinions on this all day. let's go right to the phones and say hi to anglo in new york. what do you think? >> caller: hi. i was outraged that he would make light of the fact that an

affair with girls that work for him. the only reason why he admitted to it is because he was being extorted and instead of being embarrass and giving a sincere apology, he goes and makes a joke of it. in my opinion he's no better than liberal democrats including bill clinton. >> all right. thanks. elizabeth in austin, hi. what do you think? >> caller: i think he's an entertainer. i don't think an entertainer's personal life should be that important to us. i think the personal life we care about are the lives of the ones that are supposed to be representing us in washington d.c. letterman is an entertainer. >> jeremy in dayton. how are you dog? >> caller: not too bad. i agree with the last caller. letterman is a comedian. he wanted to let his voice be heard before anyone else got their voice heard.

i love david letterman. i watch him every night. i think that it was just his way of venting last night and making a joke about it and before anybody else. >> i mean, do you think he did it in the right forum. there was a lot of laughter during the time -- it was a ten-minute recitation. good call. appreciate it. james am mississippi writes this -- art in union city, california disagrees -- martin posted this on my facebook page. thanks everybody. your turn to weigh in. you can comment all afternoon. facebook page is up and running.

head to facebook.com chuck roberts or call us toll free, 877-tell-hln. e-mail cnn.com/hln. you can also text views plus your name and comment to hln standa tv. you may remember him as the teacher that drones on and on and on but he also knows a thing or two about money. ben stein in this week's "minds over money." >> my basic philosophy about money is make as much as i can possibly make and spend as much as i can spend as fast as i can but along the way because of some residual teaching by my mother and father i save a little bit. i think what people should learn is that when they do get money, save some. there will be rough patches in life. you should save enough that if you lose your job, you can keep

yourself going for a couple years until you find the next one. not saving so much that it hurts, you're not saving enough. you have to say a modest standard of living especially when you're young will pay enormous dividends when you're old. when you're young, you're the caretaker. diversify. get yourself into everything. american stocks, american growth, american value. foreign stocks. developing. get yourself into bonds. american bonds. foreign bonds. mostly government bonds. get yourself a little bit of commodities. in 1994 i could have bought one share of berkshire hathaway or one speed boat. i bought the boat. shares are over $100,000. i got so much pleasure out of that boat, it's well worth it. i would do it again in a second.

>> rescue teams in indonesia are scrambling to find survivors in the rubble of flattened buildings. we have stories of incredible rescues. two days after the deadly quake. a grim assessment from the government of the number of people who may still be trapped.

rio de janeiro will host the 2016 summer olympics and the party continues. they are reveling in the moment. members of the international olympic committee having voted -- it was announced a few minutes ago. they voted over several hours in copenhagen on four possible cities. chicago, tokyo, madrid and the winner rio. this means the games will be in south america for the first time. rio beat out madrid in the final round of voting. chicago got the fewest number of votes among the four finalists. officials in indonesia say 3,000 people may still be trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings after wednesday's powerful earthquake. rescuers are finding survivors including this woman trapped under piles of debris at her collapsed college. she was trapped almost two days. amateur video taken moments

after the roof of a sports facility collapsed during karate practice. students struggled to crawl out. wednesday's quake had a magnitude of 7.6 and killed 1,100 people. the number will probably go up since so many people are still missing. in the south pacific mass burials are being planned for the tuesday's earthquake and tsunami. at least 169 people were killed on samoas. homes and beachfront villas were wiped out from monster waves. the u.s., australia and new zealand sent supplies and troops and those supplies are still bees dispatched. so many water pipes were destroyed so drinking water is a problem. the search for a missing newborn gets more desperate. tennessee police are getting tips and leads every hour. today they released a police sketch of the suspect. authorities say they get more

concerned as time passes because they're not sure whether the suspect knows how to care for the infant. the newborn's mother says a heavy set white woman with blonde hair went to her daughter tuesday posing as an immigration agent and she was stabbed with a kitchen knife and grabbed the boy. police canvassed her neighborhood and also looking into the possibility someone in a kia expespectra followed her from walmart. a sheriff's deputy said she saw a man's feet sticking out from a stall in the women's restroom and she heard a child. >> the child sounded like he or she was in distress. i yelled come out of there. he let the girl out. she came out. she was shaken. i grabbed her. i said are you okay? >> the girl said she was okay. an agent also at the park detained the man who is now

charged with aggravated child molestation. remember that facebook poll that asked whether president obama should be killed? the secret service says a kid was behind the prank. the secret service determined there was no threat to the president after agents met with the young man and his parents. he is a juvenile and will not be prosecuted. the secret service is not identifying the child, the parents or even where they live. an exciting edition to our prime time lineup. try to catch the show. it's "the joy behar show." it's her not for nothing commentary. here's joy. >> all i keep hearing is that president obama is trying to do too much. that he has too much on his plate. rush limbaugh has too much on his plate. barack obama is the president. he's supposed to be busy. sorry, but after two terms of a

president who had more time to work on his tan than george hamilton, obama looks like a guy with hyperactivity disorder. how you spends your time is also important. obama has spent the last eight months trying to pass health care reform and negotiate a ban on nuclear weapons. bush spent eight years just trying to pronounce the word nuclear. president obama hasn't taken on too much. he just has to work too hard to achieve anything because a lot of people in congress fight him at every turn. it was easy to sit on your behind and criticize. my staff is doing that right now. i see you. i'm watching all of you. rather than accuse obama of being overly extended, why don't these blow hards in congress come up with alternatives and solutions. you hear an endless stream of no. i don't want to. you'll do what? they sound like me on my wedding night. may i offer up this solution, when these lazy s.o.b.s come up

for midterm election, tell them you would have voted for them but you were just too busy. that's just me. >> joy behar tonight and every weeknight at 9:00 eastern. a family's dog was euthanized by mistake hours after being picked up by animal control. the dog got loose from the family's backyard. he was picked up by animal control. the next morning the woman and daughter went to the shelter to pick up their dogs. >> one of the workers came up to the other staff member sand told him that he was mistakeningly euthanized that morning because he fit the description of other dog. it was carelessness on someone's part not doing their job. >> both dogs microchips implanted. the other dog was okay and leased back to the family. they tried to turn the sad situation around and quickly

adopted another dog scheduled to be euthanized. 600,000 doses of h1n1 nasal spray are en route to 21 states. that's earlier than first predicted. 7 million doses should be shipped by the end of next week with many more to follow. health officials say the flu is widespread across the country and already higher than usual for this time of the year. 16,000 nurses are suing to avoid being forced to take the new flu vaccine. a union for a group in washington state opposes their health care system's new mandatory vaccination policy. they say it needs to be supervised by the federal or state government. the policy would make any nurses who don't get a vaccine wear a surgical mask while on duty. no order on who will lead bank of america but ken lewis will get pension benefits worth $53 million. lewis is leaving amid heavy criticism over his bank's takeover of merrill lynch.

he will get $3.5 million a year for the rest of his life. what scientists are discovering from a skeleton who replaces lucy.

tonight i have the honor to announce that the games of the 31st olympiad are awarded to the city of rio de janeiro. >> the announcement today in copenhagen. look at the celebration there and in rio. the brazilian city beats out chicago, tokyo and madrid for

the 2016 olympic games. it's official. members of the ioc made several ballots in denmark today. rio beat out madrid in the final round. the games will be in south america for the first time ever. the ioc might have been impressed that more than half of the olympic venues are already built. games will be held august 5th through the 21st, 2016 and the theme, live your passion. the first city knocked out of the race was chicago. >> the city of chicago having obtained the least number of votes will not participate in the next round. >> that news stunned the crowd that gathered in daley plaza in the heart of chicago right in the loop. many thought the city would at least make it past the first round. chicago's loss is surprising if not stunning because of the last minute push from a very high profile person who was advocating for chicago. president obama made a quick trip over to denmark to lobby for his adopted hometown.

earlier he said chicago not only represents the american dream but also the olympic spirit. on his way back to the u.s. from denmark, he met with general stanley mcchrystal for about 25 minutes. the top u.s. commander in afghanistan had been over in london. he flew to copenhagen to meet with the commander in chief. today's chat follows wednesday's three-hour meeting at the white house. the president and his national security team are considering the u.s. strategy in afghanistan including sending more troops there. 3 1/2 years after his capture a video is released that proves an israeli soldier held by hamas is alive and well. this is video which israel received from hamid karzas show soldier reading a paper from september 2009. he misses his family and longs for the day he'll see them again. he appeals to benjamin netanyahu to bring him home.

they released 19 palestinian female prisoners today in exchange for the videotape. israel made it clear that it would not ease the embargo until the soldier is home free. the search for a missing newborn gets more desperate. tennessee police are getting tips and leads every hour. today they released a police sketch of the suspect. authorities say they get more concerned as time passes because they're not sure the suspect knows how to care for the newborn. the newborn's mother said a heavy set white woman with blonde hair showed up on tuesday posing as an immigration agent. the woman stabbed her repeatedly with a kitchen knife and grabbed the boy. police are looking to the possibility that someone in a kia spectra followed her home. the dad behind bars says his ex-wife is the one breaking the

law. christopher savoie said she illegally fled to japan with the children after he was given sole custody of the kids. he went to japan to get them back. he was put in jail for that. his current wife said he went there because he loves his children. >> of course he loves those children. i've never seen them on the big screen like this before. i took these pictures. you cannot fake that kind of affection. they're nestles in his arms. he's just grabbing those kids. the smiles or huge. their eyes are smiling. these children love their father. they love their father. >> savoie and his ex-wife were divorced in january after 14 years of marriage. a shocking revelation by david letterman in front of his audience last night. he said police arrested a man who tried to extort $2 million from him. the suspect in the plot is joe halderman a longtime employee of the cbs news program "48 hours."

halderman is expected to appear in court in less than an hour for his arraignment. at a news conference, the manhattan d.a. talked about the arrest. >> indicted on one count of larceny first degree. punishable by up to 5 to 15 years in straight prison. >> during the show last night david letterman said he got a package from man who claimed to have information damaging to his he explained w embarrassing if it were made public? more so probably to the women. that's a decision for them to make if they want to come public and talk about the relationships. if i want to go public and talk about the relationships. but what you don't want is a guy

saying i know you had sex with women so i would like $2 million or i'm going make trouble for you. >> what do you think about this? was it clear that the audience thought this was not part of the joke here? you think he handled it well or not? are you sympathetic? are you outraged? are you a little squeamish about it? tell us what you think. call us at 877-tell-hln. you can e-mail at cnn.com/hln. or text views plus your comment and name to hlntv. standard text rates apply. we'll get your responses on this all day. rescue teams in indonesia are scrambling to find survivors in the rubble of flattened buildings. we have stories of incredible rescues fully two days after the quake and a grim assessment from the government on the number of people who may still be trapped.

if you want to see kanye west and lady gaga in concert, you'll have to wait. after announcing a tour, it's been canceled. melissa long joins us with more on this. >> people wonder why was this three-month, 34-show tour canceled just after it was announced? the concert promoter live nation isn't indicating the reason. just a short time ago kanye west had announced that he was considering taking some time off. that's what he told jay leno just a day after so many people labeled an embarrassing moment at the mtv awards. recall what happened at that awards program last month. he jumped on the stage and took the mike away from taylor swift. the tour was to kick off in just weeks through the u.s. and canada. if you did buy a ticket, you'll

get a refund wherever you bought the ticket. if you purchased it through the phone or internet, you'll be automatically refunded. that's the story. you can read more about it. get more information on the concert being canceled and the entire performance and entire line of concert shows being canceled on our website today. >> i wonder how many presales they had. interesting to know. what else is generating buzz today? >> as you've been reporting, roman polanski was arrested last weekend in switzerland. this is related to that 1978 warrant. david well, the former prosecutor in the case, spoke to the news media back in 2008 and now he's saying he lied about the statements he made for that hbo documentary on the rape case against polanski. the program was called "roman polanski wanted and desired." he lied about trying to urge a judge to sentence polanski to prison in having sex with a 13-year-old girl.

this is what he told wolf blitzer on "the situation room." >> i was a d.a. in malibu the last couple of years in the office. the film crew said they were from france and making this documentary and they're going to try to sell it over there. i was under the impression it would never be shown in the united states. i made these comments just to liven it up a little. it was a bad thing to do in retrospect. i never knew it would be shown in the united states until someone called and told me it was on tv. >> so you heard from david wells again, the former prosecutor. what about the documentary director? she's astonished that he changed his story. you can read more about the story, see the entire interview on our website. >> he thought because its with a french crew it would never be seen in the u.s. appreciate it. an exciting addition to our

prime time lineup. joy behar airs every night. last night she chatted with comedian jeffrey ross about his new book. >> it took sarah palin four months to write her book. how long did it take you? >> it took me a year. in all fairness i had to use complete sentences. >> that's true. is it a tell all? >> it is a tell all. not like mackenzie phillips talking about having sex with her father. i don't think we have to tell everything. i was molested but you don't see me crying about it on the oprah winfrey show. >> joy behar tonight at 9:00. top cnn heroes of '09 have been announced. friends of cnn heroes will tell you more about the extraordinary individuals and their work as you begin voting to which one you want to be cnn hero of the

year. john ledge end introduces you to doc henly. >> hello. i'm john legend. during last year's cnn heroes all-star tribute, i had the honor of performing and recognize the great works of every day citizens changing the world. as founder of the show me campaign which seeks an end to global poverty, i am thrilled it to be able to help cnn introduce one of top ten honorees. now more than ever, the world needs heros. >> approximately 1 billion people lack access to clean water. all of that could be prevented. regulars sit on the same stool and pay the same tab every day. i felt like they wanted to be a part of something. i use to do be a bartender and now i provide clean water to people in need. i got on the ground in darfur

and seeing these people living in conflicts but their biggest concern was the huge loss of life because of the unclean water. that's when water changed. whether we're filtering water or drilling a well, we want to train and educate people already on the ground. enabling locals to fix their own water needs. the joy is the only thing that helps lift the burden. you can be just a regular anybody and you really, really can can change the world. i'm walking truth of that. >> so take a minute to go to cnn.com/heros and vote for the top ten cnn hero who inspires you the most. they'll be honored. the all-star tribute is hosted by anderson cooper thanksgiving night on cnn.

officials in indonesia say 3,000 people may be trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings after the powerful hearth qua earthquake that hit wednesday. this woman was found under piles of debris under her collapsed college for two days. here's amateur video taken just after the roof after a sports facility collapsed during karate practice. students struggled but managed to crawl out. the quake was 7.6 magnitude and killed 1,100 people but officials say the number will go up since so many people are still missing. in the south pacific, mass burials are planned for the victim the tsunami on tuesday. homes, beachfront resorts and villages were wiped out by monster waves. survivors say they will never

forget the noise from the roar of the water and everything crashing in around them. relief workers say drinking water supply is the most pressing problem because so many water pipes were just destroyed. a south florida mom is accused of being so drunk they passed out in her parked minivan leaving two toddlers to wander off. someone found the kids ages 3 and 4 several miles from home trying to cross a busy road. they found the woman passed out in the van in her driveway. she's charged with dui and child neglect. her husband refused to post her bail saying she's stupid. two off-duty law enforcement officers came to the rescue of a 13-year-old georgia girl. a sheriff's deputy saw a man's feet sticking out from the stall in the women's restroom and heard a child cry. >> the child sounded like he or she was in distress. i yelled, hey, come out of there. come out. he let the girl out.

she came out. she was shaken. i grabbed her. i said are you okay? >> she said she was okay. an off-duty georgia bureau of investigation agent also at the bark detained the man now charged with child molestation. remember the facebook poll asking whether president obama should be killed? it was a kid behind the threat and there was no threat to the president after the agents met with the young man and his parents. he's a juvenile and will not be prosecuted. the secret service has not identified the child or the parents or even where they live. the unemployment rate is now at the highest point in 26 years. it inched up to 9.8% last month. last time we saw jobless numbers this high was july 1983 when unemployment hit 10.1%. there's no word of who will lead the bank of america but ken lewis will get a pension of $53

million. that's in a statement that b of a filed with stockholders. he's taking early retirement. lewis is leaving amid heavy criticism over the bank's takeover of merrill lynch. he'll get 3.5 million a year for the rest of his life. for a lot of people, keeping fit is a full-time job. the new york jets safety kerry rhodes shares his tip in today's fit nation report. >> there is no question for kerry rhodes, fitness is a job. on the field -- >> i'm big on the fruit. >> off the field. even on twitter. >> a lot of people have been asking me to give them workout tips. what do i do? what do i eat? losing 25 pound over the next few months. that's a failure. you're trying to do too much. >> rode's tip number one.

start slow. >> work your way up. take your time to get to that point where you can do more. >> he said it is all about setting reasonable goals and keeping your routine interesting. >> do creative things. not get you'd to doing the same thing over and over. >> during the off-season, a typical meal for rhodes? an early morning snack, banana, gra knoll a, oatmeal, toast. a lean hamburger patty. for dinner, a chicken salad. he loads up on thing like water, fruit, green tea or energy drinks to help stay full throughout the day. >> get at least four meals in your system. whether it be a snack for one meal or an energy drink for one meal. >> his advice for fans who tweet him and to kids who are obese, make fitness a priority. >> pout paper what you want to do. overall, where you want to be at the end of the day. be active. that's the biggest thing. >> cnn reporting.

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chicago having obtained the least number of votes will not participate in the next round. >> just like that, the olympic committee voters shocked the windy city in a tie profile delegation. also, david letterman shocks his audience with his admission, he is the target of an extortion plot. we'll have you weigh in on this. and take a good look at this sketch right here. investigators say she attacked a new tennessee mom and stole her newborn baby. it is friday. so glad you're with us here. yes, it is official.

rio is hosting the 2016 summer olympics. members of the international olympic committee voted earlier today in denmark on the host city, and yes, they were celebrating. the choice were chicago, tokyo, madrid and rio de janeiro. rio beat out madrid in the final round of voting. this mean the games will be in south america for the first time ever. the first city, the very first knocked out of the race, it was chicago. that stunned the crowds that had gathered in daily plaza, expecting some sort of celebration today. you see the shock on their faces there. many thought the city would at least make it past the first round of voting. chicago's loss is especially surprising once the city's bid got a last-minute push from a very high profile resident, president obama himself elf made a quick trip to copenhagen, denmark to lobby for his home town and he made the personal appeal to the ioc. on his way back, the president, president obama, met with general stanley mcchrystal for

about 25 minutes. the top u.s. commander in afghanistan had been in london but flew to copenhagen to meet with his commander-in-chief. today's chat follows wednesday's three-hour meeting at the white house. the president and his national security team are considering the u.s. strategy in afghanistan right now, including sending war troops there. talking about your money, opportunity employment rate is now the highest it has been in 26 years. it inched up to 9.8 last month. the last time we saw jobless numbers this high was back in july of 1983 when unemployment hit 10.1%. lawmaker worked until after midnight on a health care compromise bill. around 2:00 a.m. eastern time, senate finance committee chair max baucus said work had been completed on all parts of the legislation. democrats made last-minute changes to ease the bill's impact on working class families. one change would exempt millions of people from a requirement to buy health insurance in the first place. a final committee vote is set

for next week. we've been telling but this today. a cbs news producer is being arraigned for trying to blackmail late night host david letterman on the late show. he told his audience for last night's show that he would testify to a grand jury about the plot. prosecutors said a man who turns out to be a producer for 48 hours wanted $2 million to keep quiet about david letterman's sexual relationships with female members of his staff. joe halderman is charged with first degree attempted grand larceny. there is his picture. he is expected to be arraigned in a few moments. the manhattan d.a. said he waited outside his home to give him the letter. >> haerldman said he needed to make a large chunk of money by selling letterman the so-called "screenplay treatment." the one page screenplay treatment attached to the letter referred to mr. letterman's

great professional success and to his "beautiful, loving son." >> on his show, letterman said it has been tough on him and his family. he made some jokes while explaining the whole thing. a.j. hammer joins us from new york. a huge shock today. how do you do letterman handled it last night? what doubt? >> it is unbelievable. i for one think that dave did the right thing under extraordinarily difficult circumstances. you can really their pain in his voice last night. he knew going into it, the audience would think it was a big set-up to a huge joke and there was a lot of inappropriate laughter as he told the story. but i think that by putting it out there on his platform. his stage. setting the record straight before the leaks and speculation began. and then to shut it down to any further questioning of him saying that's all i have to sigh this, he stayed as in control of the situation as he could. he took time to set the whole thing up and then tackled the main question straight on.

>> this whole thing has been quite scary. i had to go downtown to testify before the grand jury. and i had to tell them how i was disturbed by this. i was worried for myself. i was worried for my family. i felt menaced by this. we get to what was all the creepy stuff? that he was going to put into the screen play and the movie? and the creepy stuff was that i have had sex with women who work for me on this show. now, my response to that is, yes, i have. i have had sex with women who work on the show. >> people were laughing there, as you saw. he wasn't really making a joke. as for these women in question, he said it was up to them if they wanted to make their relationships public. >> kind of beating the tabloids to the pump.

he was having a field day with it. i guess the long term question is do you think this will hurt him and his show? >> i'm not sure. it remains to be seen. a lot of people will judge him and the fact that he had sex with members of his staff. and those people will inevitably be turned off by what he did. a huge part of david letterman's act is having a lot of fun at the expense of celebrities who get themselves into exactly this type of trouble. can he continue to do that without being hypocritical? i'm not sure. he is always very self-deprecating. i would be surprised if this doesn't occasionally work into his on-air conversations. here's the thing. i've always said any celebrity who engages in inappropriate behavior or even what appears to be inappropriate behavior has got to know that someday there is a reasonable chance that people are going to find out. for better or worse, it comes with the territory. that that, this is obviously something that david letterman would have preferred remain private. and i happen to be a long time fan and admirer of the man. i feel terribly for him that he

was forced into such a devious way to have to bare his soul in the way did he. regardless of how you may judge what he has confessed to doing, it is hard to imagine the personal pain that he must be dealing with right now. so we have a lot to talk about tonight. the very latest on letterman's sex extortion shocker, including all the brand new explosive developments happening. today we'll see you at 11:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. >> a lot to sort through. we're asking our viewers to sort through this. what do you think about david letterman? how doubt he handled the announcement? do you think he handled it well or not? give us a call and let us know. you can also e-mail us. cnn.com/hln. or you can text your views. hlntv. standard text rates apply and we'll air some of your responses. a mother so drunk she passed out in her minivan in the

driveway of her own van. but get this. her two toddlers were inside and they got out. what happened to the kids when they left?

the search for this missing newborn baby gets more desperate. official are trying to follow tips about anthony carillo. they are concerned the suspect doesn't know how to take care of the newborn. the newborn's mother maria says a heavy set white woman with blond hair went to her home on tuesday posing as an immigration agent. she said the woman stabbed her repeatedly with a kitchen knife and took the baby. police have canvassed her neighborhood. they're looking into the possibility that someone in a kia spectra who park next to her in a walmart follow her home and then took the baby. a south florida mom is accused of being so drunk, she passed out in her parked minivan

leaving two toddlers to wander away. they were in the back. broward county deputies say someone found the kids, ages 3 and 4, mile from home trying to cross a busy street themselves found the woman passed out in her van in the driveway. she is charge with dui and child neglect. her husband refused to post her bail and said she was "stupid." i'm jane velez-mitchell. a new york city cop is accused of killing an innocent woman while allegedly driving drunk behind the wheel. the nypd officers investigating the crime are either covering something up or they're just totally incompetent. eats way, they sabotaged the investigation. the cop allegedly wreaked of booze and was slurring his speech. but law enforcement waited 7:20 to give him a sobriety test. big surprise, by the time he was finally tested, the driver had zero alcohol in his system. now this cop's attorney even had the guts to call him a silver

hero because he was performing cpr on the same woman he allegedly ran over with his car. figure that one out. this case makes my head spin. i don't know who i should be more angry at. the cop who was allegedly drunk behind the wheel or the cops who were obviously asleep at the wheel. i'm jane velez-mitchell. that's my issue. >> find out what he was she has on her mind. it is every night at 7:00 eastern right here on hln. two offduty law enforcement officers came to the rescue of a 13-year-old georgia girl. a pretty lucky girl. they were at a park where sheriff's deputies say she saw a man's feet sticking out from a stall in the women's restroom and she heard a child cry. >> the child sounded like he or she was in distress. i yell, hey, come out. come out. he let the girl out. she came out. she was a little disheveled and shaken. i grabbed her and said are you okay? >> the girl that she was okay. an offduty georgia bureau of investigation agent who was also at the park detained this man.

he is charge with aggravated child molestation. a group studying information needs in communities says you have a right to broad band internet and that politicians should ensure that everyone else does as well. the group says the government should also do more to help independent journalists, because access to information is as vital as clean air and safe streets. the report says one-third of people in the u.s. don't subscribe to broad band and in some rural communities, it is not even available. to indonesia where rescue teams are scrambling to find survivors in the rubble of flattened buildings. we will have stories of some incredible rescues for you. but first, some incredible success stories in our new series, break through women, robin meade tells us how sude orman went from struggling to being a financial expert. she is known for her no

nonsense approach to money. >> stop, stop, stop. you cannot afford it. >> reporter: before fame and foreign, her life was a different story. she grew up with a speech imthat he had sximt lacked self-esteem. at 29, she was a waitress making $400 a month with dreams of opening her own restaurant. her life changed when some customers chipped in to leave her a big tip. a $50,000 loan so she could realize her dream. >> we want to help people who have touched our own lives. i think just me being a waitress who loved being a waitress inspired them to want to help me. >> reporter: but orman invested the money and her luck quickly change. >> i didn't know any better. within three months, all $50,000 had been lost. >> reporter: the experience motivate her to get a job as a stockbroker. >> the true secret isn't just to bring all these great things to you all the time but to make greatness happen out of everything that happens to you. >> reporter: she eventually got her money back and worked her way to the top. she is now an emmy award winning

financial expert and best selling author. >> i want women to respect themselves enough to understand what they have doesn't matter. who they are is the key to changing everything in their lives.

in indonesia, official say 3,000 people may still be trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings after wednesday's powerful earthquake. rescuers are still finding survivors. amazingly so, including this woman who was trapped under pile of debris after her collapse. this was taken moments after a sports facility collapsed africa ratty practice. students are trying to crawl out. wednesday's quake had a magnitude of 7.6. the united nations estimates it killed at least 1,100 people but official say that number will more than likely go up since so many people are still missing. in the south pacific, mass burials are being planned for victim of tuesday's earthquake and tsunami. at least 169 people were killed on samoa, american samoa and tonga. home, beachfront resorts and

villages were wiped out completely by huge waves. survivors say they will never forget the roar of the water and the sound of everything around them crashing down. the united states, australia and new zealand have sent in supply and troop to help out. relief workers stay drinking water supply is the most pressing problem right now since so many water pipe were destroyed. the tennessee dad who was behind bar in japan charged with kidnapping his own two children says his ex-wife is the one breaking the law here. christopher savoy said he illegally fled to japan with the children after a u.s. court gave him sole custody of the kids. the wife did. he went to japan to try to get them back but was arrested and jailed. his current wife said he went there because he loves his kids. >> of course he loves those children. look at the pictures. i've never seen them on the big screen like this before. i took these pictures. you cannot fake that kind of affection. they're nestled in his arms. he is just grabbing those kids.

the smile are huge. their eyes are smiling. these children love their father. they love their father. >> he and his ex-wife were divorced in january after 14 years of marriage. defense attorney are trying to stop prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the caylee anthony murder case. the defense file several motions after the state attorney's office released hundred of documents relate to the case. anthony's attorney jose baez said prosecutors won't be able to prove how she died. >> what they're lacking in this situation with all that's coming out is any forensic evidence. that's the problem with the case is there is not enough to substantiate these charges, which are first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse. >> casey anthony said she did not kill her daughter. the child's remain were found near the woods near the anthony

family's home. we have an exciting addition to our lineup. the joy behar show airs every night at 9:00 p.m. eastern. here's a quick taste of what you'll get. her not for nothing commentary. >> not for nothing, but all i keep hearing is that president obama is trying to do too much. that he has too much on his plate. rush limbaugh has too much on his plate. barack obama is the president. he is supposed to be busy. sorry, but after two terms of a president who had more time to work on his tan than george hamilton, obama looks like a guy with hyper activity disorder. by the way, how you spend your time is also important, may i just add that. obama has spent the last eight months trying to pass health care reform and negotiate a ban on nuclear weapons. bush spent eight years just trying to pronounce the word nuclear.

president obama hasn't taken on too much. he just has to work too hard to achieve anything because a lot of people in congress fight him at every turn. you know, it's easy to just sit on your behind and criticize. my staff is doing that right now. i see you. i'm watching all of you. rather than accuse obama of being overextended, why don't these blow-hards in congress come up with some alternatives or solutions. all you hear is this endless stream of no, i don't wanna. you're going to do what? they sound like me on my wedding night. may i offer up this solution? when these lazy sobs come up for the mid-term election, just tell them you would have voted for them but you were too busy. that's just me. >> you can capture the joy behar show right here on hln. sarah palin's publisher has just released the cover of the book. it is called going rogue. it will hit book stores next month. but preorders have already made

it a top seller. david letterman is the target of an extortion attempt. was the show the appropriate place to make the revelation? we'll have your views after the break. you're watching hln. not long ago, this man had limited mobility.

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so don't wait any longer, call the scooter store today. it's full and boy are they celebrating. rio is getting the 2016 olympics. they voted earlier in denmark today on which would be the host city. the choices, chicago, tokyo, madrid and rae over de janeiro. rio beat out the final round of voting shortly after the announcement was made there. this means the games will be in south america for the first time ever. believe it or not, the first city knocked out of the race was chicago. >> the city of chicago, having obtained the least number of

votes, will not participate in the next round. >> just like that, the stunned crowd really gasped. they gathered today expecting some sort of celebration. many thought the city would at least make it past the first round. chicago's loss is especially surprising since the city's bid got a last-minute push today from a very high profile resident, barack obama himself. he made a quick trip to copenhagen, denmark, to lobby for his home town and made a personal appeal to the ioc. the white house spokesman robert gibbs said the president is disappointed at chicago missing the bid but not sorry he went to denmark to make his pitch. on his way back from his trip to denmark, president obama met with general stanley mcchrystal for about 25 minutes today. the top u.s. commander in afghanistan had been in london but flew to copenhagen to meet with his commander-in-chief. today's chat follow a three-hour meeting at the white house. the president and his national security team are considering the u.s. strategy in afghanistan, including sending

more troops there. we're talking money now. the unemployment rate is the highest it has been in 26 years. it inched up to 9.8% last month. the last time we saw jobless numbers this high was back in 1983 in july when unemployment hit 10.1%. lawmakers worked until after midnight on a health care compromise bill. around 2:00 a.m. eastern, the senate chair max baucus said work had been completed on all parts of the legislation. now, democrats, they made last-minute change to ease the bill's impact on working class families. one change would exempt million of people from a requirement to buy health insurance. a final committee vote is set for next week. education secretary arnie duncan said federal stimulus money for education is meant to be extra dollars for school. he said some states are cutting their own education spending, and using that money to make up for it. duncan said the states will be

health accountable, but because of the way the law is written, there may not be much federal officials can do here. a cbs news producer is charged with trying to blackmail late show host david letterman. he will his audience that he toefd a grand jury about the plot. a producer for "48 hours" wanted $2 million to keep quiet about david letterman's sexual relationships with female staff members. a few of them. joe halderman seen here is charged with first degree attempted grand larceny. the manhattan d.a. said he waited outside david letterman's home to give him a letter will. >> halderman quoted that he needed to make a large chunk of money unquote by selling letterman a so call quote screenplay treatment. unquote. the one page screenplay treatment attached to the letter referred to mr. letterman's great professional success and to his "beautiful, loving son."

>> last night letterman explained why he wentz to the authorities. >> would it be embarrassing if it were made public? perhaps it would. perhaps it would. especially for the women. but that's a decision for them to make if they want to come public and talk about the relationships. if i want to go public and talk about the relationships. but what you don't want is a guy saying, i know you had sex with women. so i would like $2 million. or i'm going to make trouble for you. >> we want to know, what do you think about this scandal? do you think letterman handled the announcement well or not? are you sympathetic with david letterman? are you outraged? let us know what you think. 877 tell hln. or text the word views plus your comments and name.

standard text rates do apply. arizona senator john ensign is under investigation. the probe follow allegation of improper conduct linked to an extra-marital affair by the senator. there is secrecy and isn't saying much about the investigation. back in june, he admitted he did have an affair with the wife of a former aide. later his attorney release ad statement saying that aide and his wife got $96,000 as a gift from ensign's parents. remember that facebook poll that asked whether president obama should be killed? well, the secret service says a kid, a child was behind the prank. the secret service determined there was no threat to the president after agents met with the young man and his parents. he is a juvenile. he will not be prosecuted. the secret service is not identifying the child, the parent or where they live. take a look at this shot. the search for this missing newborn baby gets more desperate. tennessee police say they are getting tip and lead about yair

anthony carillo every hour. they released this sketch of the suspect. authorities say they're concern the suspect doesn't know how to care for a newborn. the baby's mother maria says a heavy set white woman with blond hair went to her home tuesday posing as an immigration agent. the woman stabbed her repeatedly, she said with a kitchen knife, and took the baby. police have canvassed her neighborhood. they're looking into the possibility that someone in a kia spectra who parked next to her at a walmart in the area followed her home. some new clues to tell but how humans evolve. what scientists are discovering from an ancient skeleton that replaces lucy was previously thought to be the human's oldest relative. all this just ahead.

move over loosy. it seem another female fossil may be the oldest ever found of a human ancestor. it is a four foot tall female. arty predates lucy by more than a million years. researchers say it could offer new clues to how humans may have evolved. >> if you were to ask someone on the street today, what did an early ancestor of humans look like, they would probably say, well, it would look like lucy, and before that, it would look like a chimpanzee. what the fossils that are being described in science today will tell you is that both of those conclusions are very incorrect. >> well, arty was discovered in ethiopia in 1994, sandwiched between layers of volcanic rock.

a group studying information needs in community says you have a right to broad band internet. and politicians should ensure that everyone else does, too. the group says the government should also do more to help independent journalists because access to information is as vital as clean air and safe streets, they say. the report says one-third of people in the u.s. don't subscribe to broad band and in some rural communities, it is not even available. if you wanted to see kanye west and lady gaga in concert, you'll to have wait a while. reggie, do we know why it was suddenly canceled? >> we didn't until now. now billboard.com, they apparently had an event today. billboard did. celebrating ladies in music. lady gaga is one of them and she is saying it was a mutual decision. she did go on to say she is

going on her own headlining tour. so lady gaga fans, have no fear. you'll be able to see her soon. as for kanye west, we haven't heard much from him today. they were supposed to be on a 34-show tour. that was supposed to start in phoenix next month. that dual concert has been killed. if you purchased a ticket, you'll get a refund wherever you purchased it. phone and internet purchases will be taken care of automatically. as you know, kanye has been in the headlines quite a bit. you see him there from the red carpet at the mtv music awards where he got up on stage, very much uninvited and interrupted taylor swift's speech. he would later say that some of this had to do with the fact that he had yet to fully mourn for his mother, who as you know, died two years ago as a result of a surgery that went wrong. so there you have it. >> so maybe it is the time off. >> maybe he needs some time off. a choreographer saying it was artistic difference that's they had. who know?

>> who knows? folks can get a reif you said if they have a ticket. what else is getting a lot of buzz? something connected to roman polanski? >> this has been a huge headline in the entertainment world dating back to that 1978 warrant for his arrest, after he fled the u.s. and went to europe. he is behind bars now, awaiting a possible extradition. david well is a former prosecutor in the original case. and now he says, he lied about statements that he made in the 2008 hbo documentary on the rape case against roman polanski. that prosecutor that he lied about trying to urge a judge to sentence polanski to prison for having sex with a 13-year-old girl. listen to what he told cnn's wolf blitzer in the situation room. >> i was a d.a. in malibu the last couple years in the office. this film crew that that they were from france and making this

documentary and going to try to sell it over there. i was of the impression that it never would be shown in the united states. and i made these imprudent comments, just to liven it up a little. in retrospect, it was a bad thing to do and i never knew it was going to be shown in the united states until somebody called and will me it was on tv. >> a bit confusing why you could lie if it is not in the united states, rather than if it were. in any case, the person who made the documentary says that she is astonished, had no idea that he wasn't telling her the truth. by the way, you can watch the whole interview by going to cnn.com. we go to indonesia where rescue teams are scrambling to find survivors in the rubble of flattened buildings. we have stories of incredible skoosz two days after that deadly quake. and the grim assessment from the government on the number of people that may still be trapped.

officials in indonesia say 3,000 people may still be trapped under the rubble of buildings after wednesday's

powerful earthquake. rescuers are still finding survivors, like this woman who is trapped under pile of debris at her collapsed college for almost two days. a miraculous discovery there. this amateur video was taken moments after the roof of a sports facility collapsed during karate practice. students are struggling to crawl out. wednesday's quake had a magnitude of sufficient.6. it kill 1,100 people but officials say that enough will probably go even higher since so many people are still missing. in the south pacific, mass burials are being planned for victims of the tsunami. at least 169 people were kill on samoa, american samoa and tonga. home, beachfront resorts, villages completely wiped out by monster waves. survivors say they will never forget the noise from the roar of the water, and the sound of everything around them crashing down. the united states, australia, and new zealand have sent in supplies and troops.

relaef workers stay drinking water supply is the most pressing problem right now since so many water pipes were destroyed there. that tennessee dad we've been telling but lou is behind bars in japan, charged with kidnapping his own two children, said his ex-wife is the one breaking the law. christopher says she illegally fled to japan with the kids after a u.s. court gave him sole custody. he went to japan to try to get them back but he was arrested and jailed. his current way of amy says he went there because he loves his kids. >> of course he loves those children. look at these pictures. i've never seen them on the big screen like this before. i took these pictures. and you cannot fake that kind of affection. they're nestled in his arms. he is grabbing those kids. their smile are huge. their eyes are smiling. these children love their father. they love their father. >> savoie and his wife were divorced in january after 14

years of marriage. to south florida where a mother is accused of doing the unthinkable. being so drunk that she passed out in her parked minivan, leaving her two toddlers to wander away. broward county deputies say someone found the kids, ages 3 and 4, mile from home, trying to cross a busy street. they found the woman passed out in the van in her driveway. she is charged with dui and child neglect. her husband who is rebecause thing to post her bail calls her "stupid." two offduty police officers say they came to the rescue of a 13-year-old georgia girl. they were in a park where a sheriff's deputy said she saw a man's feet sticking out from a stall in a women's restroom and she heard a child. >> the child sounded like he or she was in distressful hey, come out of there, come out. he let the girl out. she came out. she was a little disheveled and shaken. i grab her and said are you okay? the girl said she was okay. an offduty georgia bureau of

investigation agent who was also there at the time detained this man. he is charge with aggravated child molestation. defense attorneys are trying to stop prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the caylee anthony murder case and they want charges dropped completely against the mother, casy. the state attorney's office released hundreds of documents related to the case. anthony's attorney jose baez said prosecutors won't be able to prove how caylee died. >> what prosecutors must do is prosecute their case and what they're lacking in this situation with all that's coming out is any forensic evidence. that's the problem with the case. there is not enough to substantiate these charges, which are first-degree murder and aggravated child abuse. >> casey anthony said she did not kill her daughter. the toddler's remains were found last december in the woods near the anthony family home. 16,000 nurses are suing to

avoid being forced to take the flu vaccine. a union for washington state opposes the new mandatory vaccination policy. they say it needs to be supervised by the federal or state government. now, the policy would require any nurses any nurses who don't get the vaccine to wear a surgical mask while they are on duty. no word on who will lead bank of america. but the retiring ceo will get pension benefits worth $53 million. he is leaving amid heavy criticism over his bank's takeover of merrill lynch. he'll get $3.5 million a year nor the rest of his life. >> for the rest of us, here's good news in a bad economy. if you can get away for a trip now, it's a great time to go. ultra cheap deals are out there. >> do i have great news for you

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get more great consumer advice every saturday and sunday at noon and 4:00 p.m. eastern here on hln. when strangers tried to break into a woman's home she grabbed the first weapon she could find. this was no game. she was playing to win. 3w4r57             

this is olympic fever. what the brazilian city did to top chicago and two other con ternds to win the 2016 olympic games. david letterman's shocking admission to sex with late night staffers and the threat to expose it. the hunt is still on from a newborn snatched from his home and the woman who took him. police have released her sketch.

hi, everybody. i'm chuck roberts. it's official. rio de janeiro is hosting the 2016 summer olympics. members of the international olympic committee voted in denmark on the host city. the choices being chicago, tokyo, madrid and rio de janeiro. the games will be in south america for the first time ever. the first city knocked out of the race, though, was chicago. it got the fewest votes. that stunned the crowd that gathered in day lee plaza expecting some sort of celebration. many thought the city would at least make it past the first round. chicago's loss is surprising since the bid got a last minute fush from president obama. he made a quick trip to copenhagen to lobby for his adopted hometown and to make a personal appeal to to the ioc. the man charged with trying to extort money from david letterman is set to be arraigned right now. in front of his late night show

audience letterman said the man tried to extort $2 million from him. he also explained why he went to authorities. >> this whole thing has been quite scary. i had to go downtown to testify before the grand jury. and i that had to tell them how i was disturbed by this. i was worried for myself. i was worried for my family. i felt menaced by this. we get to what was it, what was all the creepy stuff that he was going to put into the screenplay and the movie. and the creepy stuff was that i have had sex with women who work for me on this show. now, my response to that is yes, i have. i have had sex with women who work on this show. >> the suspect in the alleged plot is joe halderman, a long time cbs news employee. he worked at 48 hours as a producer. in fact, he won an emmy.

he's charged with attempts grand larceny of more than $1 million. for more on where this extortion case goes from here and how strong it might be. defense attorney darren joins us live. thanks for your time: is extortion hard to prove? >> it can be. in a case like this as you said at the top of the show, extortion is no laughing matter. i'm going to refrain from doing my top ten list about why david shouldn't pay extortionists. it can be a difficult case to prove. but it's made easier whereas here you have an undercover sting operation. and in this particular case there were several meetings that were held between either letterman or letterman's people in the alleged extortionist. in at least one meeting law enforcement was in the next room. that can make it difficult from a defense perspective when you

have the accused own words on tape to be used against him. >> could he claim he was pitching a screen play and needed up front money to proceed? >> generally you have to look at all of the prosecution's evidence and a good defense lawyer will then say to him or herself, all right, accepting that the prosecution can prove all of these things, how can these things be true and my client still be innocent or how can the prosecution fail to prove an essential element of the crime charged? but turning over that bogus check and then the -- >> and cashing it. >> yeah. and attempting to cash it. that's going to be a tough one unless he's got some really good explanation about why david would be paying him $2 million. >> what does david have to fear? a moral clause in his contract? could that be the issue?

would there be follow-on civil litt litigation maybe? >> it's common there be a morality cause. it's appeared david has received expert public relations advice about how to get in front of the story. everybody that i've talked to is of the same mind that he did the right thing by admitting this publicly. obviously it takes the power out of it from anybody that wants to extort or hold something over his head when he admits it publicly. the response seems to be a good one. he has a history of crazy people in his life. this woman who had been stalking him who ultimately committed suicide, an attempted kidnapping of his child. >> why did this go to grand jury?

>> it's a good opportunity to keep things done privately. it's a good investigative tool. there's nothing unusual about hearing this is the case that went before a grand jury. it allowed david to maintain some amount of privacy during the course of this investigation. >> listen, we appreciate it. great to have you with us, darren. the search continues for a missing newborn in tennessee. the search is getting more desperate. police are getting tips and leads about yair anthony carillo every hour. authorities say they're concerned that the woman doesn't know how to care for the baby. the newborn's mother said a heavy set white woman with blond hair showed up at her door on tuesday posing as an immigration agent. the woman stabbed her repeatedly and took the boy. they're also looking into the possibility that someone in a kia spectra who parked next to

her followed her home. president obama met with general stanley mcchrystal on air force one. today's 25 minute chat follows wednesday's meeting at the white house. the president is considering a change in strategy in afghanistan. one of the options, of course, is sending a lot more troops there. the unemployment rate is the highest since 1983. when unemployment hit 10.1%. elizabeth smart's father is speaking out about his daughter's emotional testimony. smart, now 21, recounted how brian david mitchell abducted her seven years ago and raped her repeatedly every day. she described him as evil, wicked and slimy. her father ed got very emotional talking about hearing his daughter's testimony.

>> you know, there were certainly a lot of things that i have never heard before. and i had -- i had no idea she had gone through so much out there. >> elizabeth smart wanted to face her alleged abductor in court. however, he was removed from the courtroom before disruptive behavior before she arrived. smart was rescued in 2003 after a motorist spotted her walking the streets with him and his wife. they were trying to determine if he is mentally competent to stand trial. arne duncan will be in chicago to discuss school violence. this comes after the beating death of a 16-year-old honor student, derrion albert.

dr. steve perry says the public should be more outraged. >> when the child doesn't see a future they have to connect to that with which is now. when a child cannot make it home from school in their school uniform, i am amazed we are not more enraged. if this had been a white police officer that split the kid's head open blood would run through the streets. because it was a young brother killed by another young brother, we are just sad. that's not enough. when you have an area where we have children failing as a sthan dard, we can only expect that the grown people are not handling their business. >> four suspects are facing first-degree murder in his death. hundreds of documents released this week in the caylee anthony case in florida. why are defense lawyers

demanding prosecutors drop the murder charge against her mother, casey anthony? here at the bar and grill. i come out here because everybody knows my name. they have good newsic. bartenders are cool. the food is absolutely fantastic. >> we are in downtown cincinnati. this is art central. whether it be musical, gallery showings, it's premier place for people to come express themselves. it's next to the river. it has magnificent lakes. i might wander down with a model

airplane. i live in my own world. i take advantage of the space. the tour is over.

move over, lucy. another female fossil may be the oldest skeleton found of a human ancestor. scientists believe the fossilized remains of a female are 4.5 million years old. ardi predates lucy by a million years. it may offer new clues as to how humans may have evolved. >> if you were to ask someone on the street what did an early ancestor of humans look like. they would probably say well it would look like lucy and before

that it would look like a chimpanzee. what the fossils that are being described in science today will tell you is both of the conclusions are very incorrect. >> ardi was discovered in ethiopia 15 years ago. it took three years to dig up the skeleton and years more to study it. defense attorneys are trying to stop prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the caylee anthony murder case. they want murder charges dropped against caylee east mother casey. the defense filed several motion after the state attorney's office released hundreds of documents related to the case. prosecutors won't be able to prove how caylee died, prosecutors say. >> what prosecutors must do is prosecute their case. what they are lacking in this situation with all that's coming out is any forensic evidence. that's the problem with the

case. there's not enough to sub stan state first-degree murder and child abuse. >> the toddler's remains were found in december near the woods of the family home near orlando. we have an exexciting edition to our prime time lineup. the joy behar show is quite the hit. premiered this week. airs every weeknight at 9:00 eastern here. here's a taste of what you'll get. it's her "not for nothin'" category. >> all i keep hearing is president obama is trying to do too much. that he has too much on his plate. rush limbaugh has too much on his plate. barack obama is the president. he's supposed to be busy. sorry, but after two terms of a president who had more time to work on his tan than george hamilton, obama looks like a guy with hyper activity disorder. by the way obama has spent the

last eight months trying to pass health care reform and negotiate a ban on nuclear weapons. bush spent eight years just trying to prouns pronounce the word nuclear. @ obama has to work too hard to achieve anything because a lot of people in congress fight him at every turn. it's easy to sit on your behind and criticize. my staff is doing that right nour. i see you. i'm watching all of you. rather than accuse obama of being overextended, why don't the blow hards in congress come up with alternatives or solutions? all you hear is the endless stream of no, i don't want to. you're going to do what? they sound like me on my wedding night. may i offer up this solution? when these lazy sobs come up for midterm election you would have voted for them, but you were just too busy. that's just me. >> tonight kathy griffin and vanessa williams will be on joy's show.

reality tv was too much for jon gosselin. why he told producers to stop the show and how they're reacting.

lawmakers work until after midnight on a health care compromise bill, about 2:00 in the morning eastern time. max baucus said work had been completed in all phases of the legislation. democrats made last-minute changes to ease the bill's impact on working class families. one change would exempt millions

of people from any requirement to buy health insurance. the final committee vote is set for next week. officials say 3,000 people may still be trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings after wednesday's powerful earthquake. rez c rescuers are still finding survivors. including this woman trapped under piles of debris under her collapsed college for two days. most students could crawl out. others couldn't. wednesday's quake had a magnitude of 7.6. it killed 1,100 people. officials say the number will probably go up as so many people are still missing. in the south pacific mass bur yals are being planned for the tuesday earthquake and s tsunami. survivors say they'll never

forget the noise from the roar of the water and the sound of everything crashing down around them. the united states, brazil have sent in supplies and troops. tlc is stopping all production on the reality show "jon & kate plus 8." jon gosselin sent a cease and desist order to stop filming his children. he told larry king he's trying to protect his kids. >> i'm asking not to be on the show. and i'm asking my children not to be on the show. i don't want them to film anymore. i don't think it's healthy for them. the reason i don't think it's healthy for them is we're going through a divorce right now. i don't think it should be televised. i think the kids should be taken off the show. >> he doesn't want to go to a judge. he doesn't want to deal with the question of the best interest of the children. that's kate's sole concern. >> kate accused jon of stopping the show because producers wanted to focus more on her experience as a single mother

and give him a lesser role. a south florida mom is accused of being so drunk she passed out in her driveway with the kids in the back and two of them wandered away. broward county deputies say somebody found the kids ages the 3 and 4 miles for home trying to cross a busy road. the woman was passed out in the driveway. her husband has refused to post her bail saying she's stupid. 16,000 nurses are suing to avoid being forced to take the new flu vaccine. a union for the group in washington state opposes their hospital's new mandatory evacuation policy. it's a policy that would make any nurse who didn't get the vaccine wear a surgical mask while on duty. david leather man was the target of an extortion attempt involving personal stuff. was his show the appropriate place to make the revelation?

just breaking news coming in. the man charged with trying to extort money from david letterman has entered a not guilty plea. joe halderman, the producer at cbs was arraigned in a new york court just a few moments ago. his bail is set at $200,000. last night in front of his audience letterman said he tried to extort $2 billion. >> this thing has been quite scary. i had to go downtown to testify before the grand jury. and i had to tell them that i was disturbed by this. i was worried for myself and for my family.

i felt menaced by this. we get to what was it. what was all the creepy stuff. that he was going to put into the screen play and the movie. the creepy stuff was that i have had sex with women who work for me on this show. now my response to that is, yes, i have. i have had sex with women who work on the show. >> halderman worked with cbs for 20 plus years. he's charged with grand larceny of more than $1 million. rio de janeiro and all of brazil are celebrating. probably will for a while. they are the host of the 2016 summer o limpingics. members volt voted today. the games will go to south mirk for the first time ever.

the first city knocked out of the race was kwhig. >> the city 06 chicago will not participate in the next round. >> that stunned the crowd atday lee plaza they were the favorite going into voting today. chicago's loss is surprising as the bid got a last-minute push from a high profile resident. president obama who made a quick trip to denmark to lobby for his hometown. the president is said to to be, quote, disappointed. the search for a missing newborn gets more desperate. tennessee police say they're getting tips and leads about carillo every hour. today it released a police sketch of the suspect. they're concerned the suspect, a woman, doesn't know how to care for the baby. the newborn's mother said a heavy sit white woman with blond hair came to the door tuesday

posing as an immigration agent. police have canvassed the neighborhood. they're also looking into the possibility that somebody who parked next to her at wal-mart followed her home. he is leaving amid heavy criticism over the bank's takeover of merrill lynch. he would get 3.5 million a year for the rest of his life. officials say 3,000 people in indonesia may still be trapped after wednesday's powerful earthquake. rescuers are still finding survivors, including a woman. trapped the right there under piles of debris for almost two days. here's amateur video taken after the roof of a sports facility collapsed. most students could crawl out on their own.

wednesday's cake killed 1,100 people but the number will probably go up because so many people are still missing. in the south pacific mass burials are now planned for the victims of the tsunami. survivors say they'll never forget the noise from the roar of the water and the sound of everything around them crashing down. the united states has sent in supplies and troops. drinking water is the most pressing problem because so many water pipes were destroyed. heartbroken families beginning the task of collecting bodies for burial and coming to terms with all they've lost. one family's agonizing loss. >> i can't believe she's gone. >> they were trying to make it home when they were both swept away by the tsunami. >> i held her hand.

the wave got us. then i was trapped between two cars. that's when her hand just -- her hand just left mine. i can hear her say, mom, see. then i saw her floating away. and -- i knew right there that she was gone. that she was taken from us. >> her body was found the next day in some trees not far from the point where she and her mother were separated. >> they found her she still had her backpack on. >> the village has been hit extremely hard by the tsunami. >> it happened so fast. i'm so sorry i lost my mom. she was a great woman. on thursday a team from hawaii's

national guard helped villagers search for a 6-year-old boy who is still missing. >> our loved ones we have to bury next to our houses. >> they say they plan to bury her daughter here, in their front yard. sad story. the tennessee dad who is behind bars in japan charged with kidnapping his two children said his ex-wife is the one breaking the law. christopher said she illegally fled to japan with the children after a u.s. court gave him sole custody of the kids. he went to try to get them back. but he was arrested in jail. >> of course he loves those children. look at these pictures. i've never seen them on the big screen like this before. i took these pictures. you cannot fake this kind of affection. they're nestled in his arms.

he's just grabbing those kids. the smiles are huge. their eyes are smiling. these children love their father. they love their father. >> he and his ex-wife were divorced in january after 14 years of marriage. a mother allegedly so drunk she passed out behind the wheel in her driveway. her two toddlers in the back got out. what happened to the kids when they left?

u.s. attorney general will be in chicago next week to discuss school violence. this comes after the beating death of 16-year-old derrion albert captured on video. he was the honor student

attacked outside of a high school loost week as so many people watched. cnn education contributor says the public should be more outraged by the brutal attack. >> when a child doesn't see the future, they have to connect to that which is now. that which is now is making it home. when a child cannot make it home from school in their school uniform, i am amazed that we are not more enraged. if this has been a white police officer that split the kid's head open, blood would run through the streets. baa it was a young brother killed by another young brother, we seem to just be sad. that's not enough. with failed schools we find there's no such thing as a strong school system with a weak community. when you have an area in which we have children failing as a standard, we can only expect the grown people are not handling their business. four suspects are charged with first-degree murder in the

albert death. 30 students last year in chicago were killed. the unemployment rate is the highest it's been in 26 years. it inched up to 9.8% last month. the last time we saw a jobless figure that high was 1983. lawmakers worked until after midnight on a health care compromise bill. about 2:00 in the morning eastern time max baucus said work was finished on all parts of the legislation. democrats made last-minute changes to ease the impact on working class families. one exempts millions of people from the requirement to buy health insurance, the mandate. >> a south florida monoaccused of being so drunk she passed outside in her parked mini van leaving the toddlers inside to wander off. someone found them miles from home trying to cross a busy road. the woman is charged with dui and child neglect.

her husband won't post bail for owe, sayinging she's stupid. a man in new york is being hailed as a hero. you may call the story yesterday. you've seen the incredible video. there he is, as he pulled a boy onto the fire escape. the boy is okay and recovering in the hospital. she described the rescue. i decided to look outside and see what's happening. i had to go up the there. i didn't see nothing happening. i was worried about that is he still alive? he just dropped. it e he wasn't helping himself or helping me bring him up. he couldn't hold his weight. he was unconscious. it scared me. this has because famous because

somebody happened the to been o the camera. what is the merit? the merit is that you save somebody. the whole community is being great. they adopted me like a son. i'm a part of a big family. >> who is he? 33, shopkeeper that lives around the corner. he's new to the u.s. 15 years ago from romania. says he plans to visit christopher in the hospital. two offduty law enforcement officers came to the rescue of a 13-year-old georgia girl. a dep say said she saw a man's feet sticking out from a stall in the women's restroom and heard a child's screams. >> the child sounded like he or she was in distress. i yelled, hey, come out of there. come out. he let the girl out. she came out. she was a little shaken. i grabbed her. i said, are you okay? >> well, the girl said she was okay. an offduty georgia bureau of

investigation agent detained the man who is now charged with aggravated child molestation. tlc is stopping production on the reality show "jon & kate plus 8." the network says jon gosselin sent a cease and desist order to stop filming his children. he told larry king he's trying to protect his kids. >> i'm asking my children not to be on the show. i don't want them to film anymore. we're going through divorce. i don't think it should be televised. i think my kids should be taken off the show. >> kate gosselin accused jon of stopping the show to give him a lesser role. a group studying information needs in communities says you have a right to broad band internet and a politician should

ensure everyone else does too. the government should also do more to help independent journalists because access to information as vital as clean air and safe streets. the report says 1/3 of people in the u.s. don't describe to br d broadband. new research suggests half the babies born in rich nations will will live to be 100 or older. these people will be generally healthier than their olders. their rate of strokes will likely increase because people who live past 80 are particularly susceptible. people may have to wait longer before retiring and caring for them is expected to put an extra financial burden on families. joy behar premiered this week and airs every night here. last night she chatted about president obama. >> comedians have avoid ad lot of jokes about obama. you think it's time now? >> i think obama, his skin is

thick. i think he can take it. >> might as well do it here. she described the abductor as evil and slimy. now elizabeth smart's dad is speaking out about his daughter's emotional testimony.

a meeting on air force one. the president met with general stanley mcchrystal on board the jet. he flew to denmark to meet with his commander in chief. today's 25-minute chat follows wednesday's three hour meeting at the white house. they're considering u.s. strategy in afghanistan including a request to send more troops there. they said it's meant to be extra money for schools.

he says the states will all be held accountable but there may not be much frl officials can do. move over lucy. another female fossil may be the oldest skeleton ever found of a human ancestor. scientists believe the fossilized remains are 4.4 million years old. ardi predates lucy by more than a million years. it could offer new clues into how humans evolved. >> if you were to ask someone on the street today what did an early ancestor of humans look like, they would probably say, well, it would look like lucy. and before that it would look like a chimpanzee. what the fossils that are being described in science today will tell you is that both of those conclusions are very incorrect. >> so ardi is part of our new

history textbooks. ardi was discovered back in '94 in ethiopia sandbetween the layers. elizabeth fully study it. elizabeth smart's father is speaking about his daughter's emotional testimony yesterday. she called mitchell evil, wicked, and slimy. her dad, ed, got emotional when talking about hearing his daughter's testimony. >> there were certainly a lot of things that i had never heard before and i had -- i had no idea what she had gone through, so much out there. >> elizabeth smart wanted to face her alleged abductor in court if he was muzzled, but mitchell had to be removed from the courtroom for disruptive behavior before she got there. this court proceeding was an

attempt to determine whether or not the 55-year-old mitchell is mentally competent to stand trial. defense attorneys are trying to stop prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the caylee anthony murder case and they want the murder charge dropped against caylee's mother, casey. the defense filed several motions this week after the state attorney's office released hundreds of documents related to the case. anthony's attorneys told nbc's "today" show, prosecutors will have a hard time proving their case. >> what we saw is that there is a foreign hair at the crime scene. and that's why you do crime scene evidence, is to see what are the hairs might be. >> what are the possible explanations from that? could it be a hair from a police officer? >> if it were casey anthony's hair, they would say, that's our culprit right there, because what you have also is foreign dna on the duct tape. you have no toxicology showing any chloroform. all these things the public that were led to believe were true, they were misled. >> casey anthony said she did

not kill her daughter. we'll have amazing rescue video to show you. a deaf man couldn't hear the screams for help. he couldn't shout, but he was somehow able to save his family from a burning apartment. lot abt

last night his monologue hit much closer to home. the alleged extortion plot that the late-night host says he's at the center of. the land of the sambaa, carnival, and soccer has another reason to celebrate. the big announcement that had people dancing in the streets of rio de janeiro. and a newborn was snatched from his home and police are

released a sketch of the suspect and they need your help to track her down. it kind of could be a plot for a made-for-tv movie except this story started playing out on late-night talk on the stage last night. it is now moving to a new york city courtroom. susan candiotti is live with the latest on the newest extortion scheme. very candid and very uncomfortable confession from david letterman. susan, a suspect is under arrest and he has just been formerly charged. >> that's right. he stepped up to the plate. when the judge asked him, how do you plea, he said in a loud, clear voice, not guilty. prosecutors say they will present what they call compelling evidence to say, that isn't so. in fact, it was david letterman himself on his show last night, and to the surprise of his audience, confessed to them that, in fact, he had had sexual affairs with members -- certain members of his staff. he didn't say exactly when that happened, but the audience, in fact, not knowing how to react,

at first started laughing, because they thought he was kidding around, but he was being very serious. and in fact, the district attorney here in new york confirmed that they set up a sting operation, that david letterman, they said, was approached back on september the 9th when a cbs news producer by the name of joe halderman left minimum a package inside his car that was parked outside his home at about 6:00 in the morning. at that time, letterman found the package, contacted his lawyer. the lawyer set up three meetings with mr. halderman. two of those three were recorded by the district attorney's office in which this man, halderman, demanded $2 million in cash in order to prevent him from publishing what he called a screenplay about the alleged sexual affairs. well, one that david letterman says he did in fact have with some members of his staff. and after that, prosecutors put up a dummy check for $2 million.

they said that halderman went to a bank in connecticut, deposited it, and that's when they arrested him outside of cbs studios yesterday. so bond has now been set at $200,000, cash or bond, and mr. halderman's attorney says they're going to try to make bond. they say that his client is not guilty, that there are two sides to this story. you just haven't heard his side yet. richelle? >> that's true, we haven't heard his side, susan, but what he's accused of doing, the blatant paper trail is just about -- it's astonishing, susan. but you're right, we haven't heard his side. all right. susan candiotti. >> reporter: that's right. >> go ahead. >> reporter: i was going to say, we are learning, however, that mr. halderman, who is -- he worked for cbs news for more than 20 years. he has won an emmy. this is a man who, according to his defense attorney, has been divorced for a number of years now, was very close to his two

children, anyoges 11 and 18, couldn't bear to be apart from him and the children had moved out to live with his ex-wife in colorado and that he really wanted to be with them. that he was strapped, living paycheck to paycheck. and according to prosecutors, he's a flight risk and would be willing to do anything, apparently, to be with his children, according to prosecutors. >> it's going to be fascinating to hear the rest of this and see how it plays out. appreciate it. not sure if you saw this last night, but during his show last night, david letterman said this all began when he got a package from a man who claimed to have information damaging to his public image. susan just touched on that. and then letterman explained why he went to authorities. watch this. >> would it be embarrassing if it were made public? perhaps it would. perhaps it would. especially for the women.

but that's a decision for them to make, if they want to come public and talk about the relationships. if i want to go public and talk about the relationships. but what you don't want is a guy saying, i know you had sex with women, so i would like $2 million or i'm going to make trouble for you. >> clearly awkward. the audience didn't really know how to react, because they didn't know when he was serious, when he wasn't. and lots of you are sharing your views on this on my facebook page. you can do that if you go to pacebook/richellecarehln. this is what some of you were saying. marie wrote this. letterman was brilliant. he was able to bring this out himself in a funny way before the tabloids got ahold of it and get the person who was trying to extort money. again, this person just accused, just charged right now. george feels this way. it looks like dave is going to regret all those bill clinton jokes. his chickens have come home to

roost. this is kevin's comment. very poor moral judgment on his part, but most of us are guilty of poor moral judgment at one time or another. so he's choosing to reserve judgment. jennifer, jennifer was very frustrated. this is what jennifer wrote. i'm just tired of celebs and their stupid antics. they just need to get over themselves and get some morals. all right, jennifer. we very much appreciate your passion and taking the time to post your comments on my facebook page. we really do. let's get to some callers now. sarah is calling us from lawrenceville, illinois. all right, sarah, let 'er rip, go for it. >> caller: okay. i said that i was not at all surprised and the only thing i was shocked about was that any of his female staffers would even want to have sex with him. i think that he likes his notoriety. i think he thinks it will make the public believe he has something he definitely does not have, which is sex appeal to women. based on his jokes and remarks about clinton and edwards and

others, i always felt that he tried to project an image and approve of that type of behavior and he was above it himself. >> so you think that he feels like he's in some sort of boy's club now that this has come out. is that what you think? >> yes. and i think he'll like the fact that you will all have him on the headlines for two or three months, as all celebrities do like. >> okay. thank you for your take, sarah. we appreciate it. let's hop over to colorado springs now. kathy is calling us from colorado springs. kathy, i got a little bit of a hint from my producer on what you are going to say. >> caller: first of all, i've always been a big fan of david letterman, but who wasn't fished off the company dock at one point or thought about it? and secondly, i heard that one of the women involved might be a past or present girlfriend of this extortionist, and all that does proves that letterman's

skills in that department are so talented in the extreme that a guy would risk a high-powered job to go after him. and i would have known that letterman was doing that, i would have tried harder to get a job on his show. >> so you're a big fan? >> ever since the day i first saw him. i think he's attractive. i think he is funny. so much so, that i've never turned over to leno. and i have nothing against leno, i just love letterman. >> let me ask you another question before i let you go. and also you would -- i don't want to go it this way, you would also date somebody that you worked with? >> caller: well, we've all thought about it at one point in our life. i'm close to letterman's age -- >> you can't say we all have, you don't know. >> caller: i've got plenty of bosses come on to me, that's for sure, and i don't want to get into that, but it's, you know, it's a -- >> you're just saying it's more common than most of us want to

admit. >> caller: of course it is. that's where the phrase, fishing off the company dock comes from. thanks for yo . >> thanks for your call. "prime news" starts at the top of the hour. check them out at c cnn.com/primenews. how about this? rio de janeiro and all of brazil are celebrating big-time today. that's because rio is the host city for the 2016 summer olympics. members of the international olympic committee voted earlier today and picked rio above chicago, tokyo and madrid. this means the games will be in south america for the first time ever. the first city knocked out of the race, the first was chicago. and that stunned the crowds who had gathered in daley plaza, excepting some sort of celebration. chicago's loss, especially surprising since the city's bid got a last-minute push today from a very high-profile

president, president obama, former resident. he made a quick trip to copenhagen to make a personal appeal to the ioc. he is back in washington now and says he's not sorry he travelled to denmark to pitch for his adopted hometown. >> and so although i wish that we had come back with better news from copenhagen, i could not be prouder of my hometown of chicago, the volunteers that were involved, mayor daly, the delegation and the american people for the extraordinary bid that we put forward. >> there you have it. rescue teams in indonesia are scrambling to find survivors in the rubble of flattened buildings. we have stories of incredible rescues two days after that deadly quake. and a grim assessment on the number of people that may still be trapped.

3 1/2 years after his capture, video is released that proves an israeli soldier held by hamas militants is alive. 3 1/2 years. this is the video which israel received from hamas. it shows that sergeant gilad shalit, reading a newspaper dated september 14th, 2009, he's healthy and being treated well, that's what he says. he also says he misses his family and longs for the day he'll meet them again. and he also makes an appeal for benjamin netanyahu to bring him home. they've released 19 female prisoners today in exchange for that videotape. this swap could signal the end of israel's two-year-long blockade in gaza. israel has made it clear it would not ease the embargo until after shalit's release. well, while he was in denmark, president obama took time to meet with general stanley mcchrystal for about 25

minutes. the top u.s. commander in afghanistan had been in london, but he flew to cope n hanhagen meet with the commander in chief. the president and his national security team are considering the u.s. strategy in afghanistan, including, possibly, sending more troops. remember the facebook poll that asked whether president obama should be killed? the secret service says a child, a kid was behind that prank. and the secret service determined there was no threat to the president after agents met with the child and his parents. he's a juvenile, he will not be prosecuted. the secret service is not identifying the child, the parents, or where they live. well, we have an exciting, fun new addition to the prime-time lineup, "the joy behar show," premiered this week and it airs every night 9:00 p.m. eastern timing right here on hln. so just in case you missed it, i

hope you didn't it, but in case you dit, this is her "not for nothing" commentary. >> not for nothing, but all i keep hearing is that president obama is trying to do too much, that he has too much on his plate. rush limbaugh has too much on his plate. barack obama is the president. he's supposed to be busy. sorry, but after two terms of a president who had more time to work on his tan that george hamilton, obama looks like a guy with hyperactivity disorder. by the way, how you spend your time is also important, may i just add that. obama has spent the last eight months trying to pass health care reform and negotiate a ban on nuclear weapons. bush spent eight years just trying to pronounce the word "nuclear." president obama hasn't taken on too much. he just has to work too hard to achieve anything because a lot of people in congress fight him at every turn. you know, it's easy just to sit on your behind and criticize.

my staff is doing that right now. i see you. i'm watching all of you. rather than accuse obama of being overextended, why don't these blowhards in congress come up with some alternatives or solutions? all you hear is this endless stream of, no, i don't want to, you're going to do what? they sound like me on my wedding night. may i offer up this solution? when these lazy sobs coming up for the midterm election, just tell them you would have voted for them, but you were just too busy. that's just me. >> you can catch "the joy behar show" again at 9:00 p.m. eastern time here on hln. and the guest tonight, kathy griffin and vanessa williams.

officials in indonesia say 3,000 people may still be trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings after wednesday's powerful earthquake. rescuers are still finding survivors, including this woman who was trapped under piles of debris at a collapsed college. she was there for almost two days. this amateur video was taken just moments after the roof of a sports facility collapsed during karate practice. most students managed to crawl out on their own. wednesday's quake had a magnitude of 7.6. u.n. officials estimate it killed 1,100 people, but officials say that number will probably go up since many people

are still missing. and in the south pacific, mass burials are being planned for victims of tuesday's earthquake and tsunami. at least 169 people were killed in samoa, american samoa, and tonga. homes, beachfront resorts and villages were wiped out by monster waves. survivors say they will never forget the noise from the roar of the water and the sound of everything around them crashing down. the united states, australia, and new zealand has sent in supplies and troops. relief workers says the drinking water supply is the most pressing problem, because many of the pipes, the water pipes were destroyed. the search for this missing newborn, a missing newborn, we do not have the picture right now, it's getting desperate. tennessee police say they're getting tips and leads about yair anthony carillo every hour. police also released a sketch today. authorities say they get more concerned as time passes, because they're not sure that

the person that took this child knows actually how to take care of him. the newborn's mother says a heavyset blond white woman went to her home posing as an immigration agent. the woman stabbed her repeatedly with a kitchen knife and then took the boy. police had canvassed her neighborhood and also looking into the possibility that somebody in a kia spectra that parked next to grurrolla at a walmart may have followed her home. h1n1 vaccines are on their way to people. up to 7 million doses of the more common flu shot should be shipped by the end of next week, with many more to follow. health officials say the flu is widespread across the country and already higher than usual for this time of year. the focus of wall street

today was the monthly jobs report. the numbers were disappointing. they were. but investors shrugged off the bad news. felicia taylor is at the business desk in new york with a wrap-up of the trading day. and news about an increase in consumer bankruptcy. >> not such good news there, no, not really. but stocks did recover part of their early losses today, ending the day modestly lower. most economists think it's going to top 10% before we start to see any real improvement. employers slashed 263,000 jobs from the payrolls in september and that is about 100,000 more than economists were expecting. the dow industrials fell for the fourth straight down, down 21 poi points. one effect from joblessness and housing debts is a rise in the number of people claiming bankruptcy. consumer bankruptcy has topped 1 million during the first nine months of 2009. according to the american bankruptcy institute, this is

the first time since the 2005 bankruptcy overhaul that filings have surged past 1 million during the first three quarters of the year. so not good news there. back to you. >> thank you, felicia. new clues as to how humans evolved. what scientists are discovering from an ancient skeleton who replaces lucy. y8!d!d!d!d!d!d!d!d

rio de janeiro will be the 2016 summer olympics host city. rio beat out madrid in the final round of voting among members of the international olympic committee. this means the games will be in south america for the first time ever. >> the city of chicago, having obtained the least number of votes, will not participate in the next round. >> getting knocked out in the first round stunned the crowds that had gathered in chicago's daley plaza. they were expecting to celebrate something. chicago's loss is especially surprising since the city's bid

got a last-minute push from a very high-profile person, former resident there, president obama. he made a quick trip to copenhagen, denmark, to lobby for his adopted hometown. once he got back to washington, he congratulated rio and said he had no regrets about going to lobby the ioc in person. >> i'm glad i was able to come in and help make that bid in person. >> madrid and tokyo were also in the running to host the 2016 games. and while he was in denmark, he took time to meet with general stanley mcchrystal. he flew to cope n hanhagen to m with his commander in chief. today's chat follows wednesday's three-hour meeting at the white house. the president and his national security team are considering the u.s. strategy in afghanistan, that includes considering possibly sending more troops to tlp.

the unemployment rate is now the highest it's been in 26 years. it inched up to 9.8% last month. the last time we saw jobless numbers this high in july of 1983 when unemployment hit 10.1%. lawmakers worked until after midnight on a health care compromise bill, about 2:00 in the morning eastern time, senate finance committee chair max baucus said work had been completed on all parts of the legislation. democrats made last-minute changes to ease the bill's impact on working class families. one change would exempt millions of people from a require to buy health insurance. a final committee vote is set for next week. education secretary arne duncan says federal stimulus money for education is meant to be extra dollars for schools, but he says some states are cutting their own education spending and using the stimulus money to make up for it, rather.

duncan says the states will be held accountable, but because of the way the law's are written, there may not be much federal officials can do about it. a cbs news producer has pleaded not guilty to charge he is tried to blackmail "late show" host david letterman. letterman told his audience last night on the show that he testified before a grand jury about this plot. a producer for "48 hours" is accused of demanding $2 million to keep quiet about letterman's sexual relationships with female staff members. joe halderman is charged with first-degree attempted grand larceny. his bond is set at $200,000. the manhattan district attorney says halderman waited outside letterman's home to give him a letter. >> halderman wrote that he needed to make, quote, a large chunk of money, unquote, by selling letterman a so-called, quote, screenplay treatment,

unquote. the one-page screenplay treatment attached to the letter referred to mr. letterman's great professional success and to his, quote, beautiful, loving son. >> now, this was awkward. very awkward. last night, letterman explained to his audience why he went to authorities. watch. >> would it be embarrassing if it were made public? perhaps it would. perhaps it would. especially for the women. but that's a decision for them to make, if they want to come public and talk about the relationships. if i want to go public and talk about the relationships. but what you don't want is a guy saying, i know you had sex with women, so i would like $2 million or i'm going to make trouble for you. >> all right.

a spokesperson for letterman's production company issued a clarification, saying this, exactly. all the relationships david letterman was referencing when discussing the matter on the "late show" pre-dated his marriage. all right? got a lot of comments about this on my facebook page. now, the way you can get in on that conversation is go to facebook.com/richellecarehln. let's fair a few comments with you. this is what mike wrote. i have no sympathy for letterman. he was never funny. he's just mean and angry. he deserves what he gets. i feel bad for the idiot who extorted him if he goes to jail. all right, mike. okay. here's what amy said. amy disagrees saying, i don't condone infidelity, but extortion is a crime. errol feels this way. i got lots of -- this is from errol. he says, nobody's business but

his. just because he's a public figure does not mean he's not entitled to a private life. and finally, this is bryson's take. i guess comedians are human too. all right, fair enough. thanks to everyone who shared their views on this. i really appreciate it. arizona senator john ensign is under investigation by the senate ethics committee. the probe follows allegations of improper conduct linked to an extramarital affair by the senator. the panel has a tradition of secrecy and isn't saying much about the investigation. in june, the nevada republican admitted he had an affair with the wife of a former aide and later his lawyer released a statement saying that aide and his wife got $96,000 as a gift from ensign's parents. remember that facebook poll, the one we told you about, that asked whether president obama should be killed? the secret service says a kid was behind that prank. it's determined that there's not really a threat to the president, because secret

service went and talked to this young man and his parents. he's a juvenile, he's not going to be prosecuted. the secret service is not identifying the child or the parents or where they live. new clues as to how humans evolve. what scientists are discovering from an ancient skeleton thought to be human's oldest relative.

all right. move over, lucy. seems another female fossil may be the oldest skeleton ever found of a human ancestor. scientists believe the fossilized remains of a four-foot tall female are 4.4 million years old. ardi predates lucy by more than

1 million years. researchers believe it could offer new clues as to how humans may have evolved. >> if you were to ask someone on the street today what did an early ancestor of humans look like, they would probably say, well, it would look like lucy, and before that, it would look like a chimpanzee. what the fossils that are being described in science today will tell you is that both of those conclusions are very incorrect. >> clearly, this is a pretty big deal. ardi was discovered in ethiopia in 1994, sandwiched between layers of volcanoic rock. a group studying information needs in communities say you have a right to broadband internet and politicians should ensure everyone else does too. the group says the government should also do more to help independent journalists, because

access to information is as vital as clean air and safe streets. well what do you think? the report says one-third of people in the u.s. don't subscribe to broadband and in some rural communities, it's not even available. let's get to the internet right now. if you wanted to see kanye west and lady gaga in concert, you're going to have to wait. just days after they announced the joint tour, it was doa. cnn.com's catherine callaway joins us now with more on this. so, do we know the cause of death, catherine? >> no, we do not. you know there's going to be some really disappointed fans again in this, kanye's announcement. only that the tour has been called off. they didn't really say why it was canceled. but oddly enough, you may remember, richelle, that kanye had said recently that he wanted to take some time off. apparently, he is. this is coming, though, on the heels of that mtv awards

impairment in which he apologized on "the jay leno show" for grabbing, taking the microphone away from winner taylor swift and this tour was supposed to be a three-month tour, 34 shows, across the u.s. and canada. it was supposed to start next month in phoenix. and if you purchased a ticket, we're told that you will get a refund where you purchased it, and phone-in and internet purchases would be automatically refunded. time off, though, richelle, may be a good thing for him. he's saying now that his erratic behavior recently is all because he hasn't had enough time or mourned properly for the loss of his mother who died two years ago. >> yeah, lady gaga might not be feeling this, but it may be a blessing in disguise for kanye, for sure. you know -- >> very interesting development, though. we'll have to see what he actually says about it. >> right. exactly. he might have to put a little spin on it, but he might appreciate the time off, for sure. what else is getting a lot of attention on cnn.com today? >> everyone knows about roman

polanski being arrested in switzerland on that fugitive warrant from the '70s. he goes there to accept an award and instead, he is thrown in jail. well, the story just gets stranger now, as david well, the former prosecutor, is now going public, saying that he lied about statements that he made concerning the polanski case. in a 2008 hbo documentary, he said that he actually lied about trying to urge a judge to sentence polanski to some prison time for the 1978 case of having sex with a 13-year-old girl. and wolf blitzer talked with him and here's what he had to say about lying in that documentary. >> i was a d.a. in malibu the last couple of years in the office. this film crew said that they were from france and making this documentary and they were going to try to sell it over there. i was of the impression that it never would be shown in the

united states and i made these imprudent comments, just to liven it up a little. in retrospect, it was a bad thing to do, and i never known this thing would be showed in the united states until someone called me and said it was on tv. >> wow, all right. >> what?! >> the director is now saying he can't believe that this guy is now saying that he lied. it leaves a lot of people scratching their heads. this guy was a prosecutor. said he lied to liven up the documentary. what? >> it's so bizarre, catherine. i saw it the first time and seeing it a second time when you showed it, it's still bizarre to me. >> we have the entire interview, go to cnn.com and you can watch it and read the latest on the roman polanski case. you have to wonder now what polanski was fating in this situation, right? >> very odd. i hope people will check it out. thank you for that wrap-up, catherine, do praesappreciate i.

have a good weekend. we have this just into hln. the cbs news producer accused of trying toex tort $2 million from "late show" host david letterman is now out of jail. it was a $200,000 bond. joe halderman plead not guilty earlier today in a courtroom in manhattan. this is kind of what happened last month. he allegedly told letterman he would basically tell everyone the entertainer's romances that he had with show staffers unless he paid him the money, but he is now out on bond. rescue teams in indonesia are scrambling to find survivors in the rubble of flattened buildings. stories of incredible rescues two days after a deadly quake.

"prime news" is coming up in just a few minutes. this is when i always turn to my friend, mike, to see what he's been working on up in the office. and this baby, still missing. >> yeah. >> this baby is still missing. >> we were hoping by now that yair carillo would be found. he's about a week old.

you know the story. we've been talking about, in tennessee where someone posing as an immigration agent comes up to his mom, maria gurrolla, and says, give me the baby. the mom says no, is stabbed multiple times. we always take your questions, your comments. call in, 1-877-tell-hln. we just had an update on this story, david letterman, the water cooler topic of the day. people are talking about it. what a tv moment. on national tv. it was surreal. >> people didn't know if she was joking, what -- >> and they applauded and cheered. >> but he admitted having sex with women -- >> multiple -- >> that he worked with. >> i guess sbord subordnants.

i want to hear your voice on this topic. a topic we've been talking about, we've been covering very intently. the tragic death of derrion albert. a great kid. >> he was beaten to death in chicago earlier this week. i believe it was 290 kids last year were killed in chicago, so derrion is one of many, but it was taped on a cell phone. they've arrested four people, mike, in charge. they want three more. nobody is calling in to, mike, nobody is calling in to --derrion is going to be buried tomorrow. and no one is calling in tips. and this no snitching thing is unique to chicago, but we'll talk to people in the community that want this to stop because it's not okay. i don't understand how the people that were there watching haven't called. and then thousands of people have seen this video since then and nobody will call to make this stop. that's not okay. >> no, it's not. that's our "what matters" segment. a spirited show. richelle and i coming your way

in a little more than ten minutes. call 1-877-tell-hln, e-mail us, text us, hlntv. both of us will be talking to you. call in and we'll be looking forward to it. >> be there in just a little bit. you probably heard this yesterday, kind of of hard to hear, elizabeth smart, spoke out about what she has been through, now her father speaking out his daughter's emotional testimony now. she is 21 years old now and recounted how brian david mitchell abducted her seven years ago and raped her every day, she described him as evil, wicked with and slimy. her father, ed, got very emotional about hearing his daughter's testimony. >> you know there were certainly a lot of things that i have never heard before and i had -- i had no idea that she had gone through so much out there. >> elizabeth wanted to face her alleged abductor in court, if he

was muzzled. however, mitchell was actually removed from the courtroom for obstructive behavior before she even got there. smart was rescued in march of 2003 after she was spotted with mitchell and his wife. court proceeding was to help determine whether the 55-year-old mitchell mentally competent to stand trial. officials in indonesia say 3,000 people may still be trapped under the rubble of collapsed buildings after wednesday's powerful earthquake. rescuers were still finding survivors, including this woman who was trapped under piles of debris at her collapsed college for almost two days. this amateur video was just taken just homes after the roof of a sports facility collapsed during karate practice. most students managed to crawl out on their own. wednesday's quake had a magnitude of 7.6 and officials estimate it killed 1100 people, but officials say that number will probably go up since so many people are still missing. 16,000 nurses are suing to avoid being forced to take the new flu vaccine a union for the

group in washington state opposes their health care system's new mandatory vaccination policy. they say it needs to be supervised by the federal or state government. the policy would make any nurse who does not get the vaccine wear a surge cal mask while on duty. when strangers tried to break into a texas woman's house, you won't believe what she did. )$)$)$)$)$)$)$)$)$)$)$)$

a one-week-old baby snatched, his mother stabbed over and over with a kitchen knife, and now police believe the suspect is a complete stranger. a sketch released just this morning. will it help police find this newborn? plus, an unlikely hero, a man in a wheelchair stops a guyment issed of groping a little girl in a toy aisle at walmart. the suspect tried to make a run for it but our hero steps in, tackles the guy up against a soda machine. and i'm going to have the honor of talking to this brave man, you got to stick around for that call in. love hearing from you, the number, 1-877-tell-hln.

start your message with the word prime t is your chance to be heard. >> controversy, opinion, your point of view. this is "prime news" much. >> welcome this is "prime news" i'm mike galanos. major developments in the frantic search to find a missing newborn from tennessee. detectives release this sketch of the alleged kidnapper, heavy set blonde woman in her 30s last seen wearing a black shirt, blue jeans. she is accused of stabbing the little baby's mom multiple times, nine times, to be exact, at her home in nashville. witnesses may have seen the getaway car. the little guy is in extreme danger, turns one week old today. should within his family, with his mom. instead, he is god knows where. we will take your calls, 1-877-tell-hln is the number. joining us to talk about this, hln law enforcement analyst mike

brooks. mike, first off, we have walked down the road find out where little yair is. what are police saying now? >> they put out this composite photo, if you will. apparently after she was stand, she ran down to a neighbor's house and basically told him, hey there is a woman, get this woman out of my kitchen, he rap down, saw what appeared to be this suspect car driving away. they are also looking at the possibility, mike that this car may have been parked next to the victim's at a local walmart, maybe it was captured on videotape, they are looking at all these different leads, full, but a spokesperson today said, from law enforcement basically some of these leads are going away. but we have got this -- these, you know, photos, these composites up on a digital billboard now, mike. so you know earthquake the more it's out there in the public eye, the more possibility there could be of finding the person responsible for this. >> let's listen to police real quick, mike, again giving us basically what they have at this point.

let's listen. >> witnesses see a dark, small car that resembles a police vehicle on east ridge drive at the time of the attack. we have every reason to believe that this is a stranger abduction and it's very difficult to determine a motive for a stranger abduction. >> okay, stranger abduction, mike. clarify what that means, 'cause we may say stranger abduction but very well, this could be someone that targeted yair's mom, right? >> absolutely a stranger abduction is someone who most likely had never come into contact with the victim before, didn't know the victim at all. you know, they are going to be looking at any women who may have just been in the hospital, may have lost a child. you know, people who are watching the show, if you know somebody who fits this description, you know, give law enforcement a call. also going to look at -- people can target women like this, too, mike. they will look at listings of new birth announcements. they will drive down the street and see if they see a blue or a pink balloon on somebody's mailbox, basically, announcing that they have just had a child. now, these are things that

people need to think about when they put these things on mailboxes around neighborhoods, put out birth announcements. a shame we even have to think about this but it is a reality nowadays. >> mike, we have that in this case. we have "it's a boy" sign in front of the house. mike we have talked about these types of crimes before, isn't it something that's planned, not just the spur of the moment thing, it is someone, let's say a woman, and again going by past experiences here, someone who is basically hell bent on having a child. so, they can't maybe become pregnant so they become heavy set, act like they are pregnant and that's what we could have here, right? >> it could very well be that, mike. as i said, they are going to be look at any women who may have lost a child, trying to get pregnant. they have, what i call, hate the term, person of interest, a tip, that played out, didn't go any were this is what we have right now the best we have to go on this composite we are looking at, mike. >> what are the odds this person is local and had been target egg

and watching maria garolla, up until the point she had the baby? >> i think most likely it is someone local. again, probably someone she never had any contact with. you never really knew, maybe the person was riding by, saw she was out walking, that she was pregnant, maybe seen her at doctor's appointment. looking back, when did she go to the doctor, when did she go to the hospital? looking at videotape to see if there is anybody that matches the description of this woman they are looking for. >> mike, get a call n laurie is with us in canada, hi, laurie, your comment or question here. >> caller: hi, my comment is about all these child abductions and i feel like my comment is a mission impossible-type comment, very far-fetched but i believe that we are so big brothered with video surveillance with our computers, track what you've done, you know, everything that you do is monitored. and if we microchip our pets and i think that if you leave a

straightforward life, i really think that we should be microchipped and gps in a place where nobody can remove it. >> wow. >> put an end to where people -- so people can be tracked. i think that if we are so monitored and so deeply monitored, you know, people can see what we are doing anyway. and i think that if you are not afraid of anything, then why should you be afraid to have something like that done? >> interesting theory, laurie, thanks for "the call." mike, you and i, both of our hearts are broken over stories of child abductions and especially obviously when it ends in the death of a child but okay, let's talk about what we know, what we have right now as far as monitoring, who could have done this. let's get back to walmart, mike, 'cause that could be the key of all of. this you have video at walmart, 'cause that video can be enhanced, a good look at who might have been in that car right? >> absolutely, mike, how many cases have we seen at walmarts, at targets where the video

surveillance was there and it helped make the case? again, they can say -- they can take this, send it up to the fbi lab, to their engineering section and enhance that video and get an even better look at the person who was inside that car. and if that person got outside the car, which not saying exactly how good of a picture they have, you know it could definitely be a break that they are looking for in this case. >> about 20 seconds, isn't the key here someone who knows the person who did the abduction? i mean, suspect that what happens, they say, wait a minute, something's wrong here? i didn't know she was pregnant or something doesn't click in and they have got to come forward? >> usually, mike, it is someone very, very close to them, a husband, a brother, sister, a relative. they know. and there's people out there know, but one thing i can say, in cases like this, mike, we usually find the safe return of the child because the people are caring so much for these children. >> yeah, hoping and praying for little yair. mike, thanks again. coming up, the talker, water cooler topic of the day david

letterman, talk about a tv moment, national tv last night admits he has sex with women who worked for him. why did he come clean? because someone allegedly was going to blackmail him a producer for "48 hours." we will lay all that out for and you also talk about the right and wrong of this. what about workplace issues? make for a pretty uncomfortable work environment there, david letterman show. what do you think? call in, 1-877-tell-hln.

david letterman the water cooler topic of the day. he admitted last nate on national tv, he had multiple sexual relationships with women

who worked for him in the past. here he is, david letterman, letting it loose on "the late show." >> creepy stuff was that i have had sex with women who work for me on this show. now, my response to that is, yes i have. >> all right, you maybe wondering, so why is he coming out now? here is the deal. police are saying that that man you are looking a at there, joe halderman, producer for cbs' "48 hours" is accused of going to letterman, demanding $2 million, threatening to expose letterman's sexual escapades. halderman arrested today, pled not guilty to one count of attempted first degree grand larceny, out on bail now. talking about this one, hit it on a few fronts, talk about the plot itself, blackmail, fascinating enough. also talk about david letterman making the move to go on national tv and go on offense and basically make fun of himself before anybody else can and also about where david letterman could have gone wrong

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welcome back to "prime news" on hln. david letterman admitting last

night on his show, "the late show" he had sexual relationships with women that worked for him. in the past, came clean, joe halderman, a producer for "48 hours" threatened to blackmail him. experts standing by. two of my favorite guests joining me, lisa bloom, legal analyst for our sister network cnn joining us and cooper lawrence, psychologist and author of the book "the cult of celebrity." a lot of folks want to weigh in. let me get you two first. lisa, i will start with you, you can make a pretty good argument, good moveby letterman to go on the offensive and make fun of himself before someone else can take the first shot at him, right? >> yeah, absolutely. he did what he had to do, because once he went in front of the grand jury and testified yesterday, that's over a dozen steps, once law enforcement is involved there is always the potential for labours, so you got to get out in front of the story, as a comedian, he did it so artfully, he had laughing. he makes himself the butt of the jokes right off the bat.

who can top that? who is going to make it worse for letterman? he has already come out swinging and i think a very effective job from a pr point of view. >> before we get to the calls, cooper, your point of view, your take on this as you watch it unfold and even beyond. >> he used the word sex, he didn't say i had an inappropriate relationship, wasn't trying to gloss over it. came out, as los angeles sa was saying in front of it the best defense is an offense. i don't know sports, that the right -- >> best offense is a good defense. >> really good sports analogy here, but what's really great, you can't fault him and say, well, he has privileges he is a celebrity. he said, yep, i was caught, i did it. >> take some calls. christina, you are with us in florida. christina, your thoughts? >> caller: i can't agree more with lisa bloom, 100% agree with her that he took control of the situation that wanted to control him. i mean this is a guy who has had

stalkers in the past. >> right. >> caller: completely invaded his privacy. and the fact that he has had inappropriate or sexual relationships with people in the workplace, that is about as shocking as, i don't know, something that's not shocking. >> right. and we will get into that a little further. i think what people, okay, maybe he was on the offensive, but he is not innocent this, i think there are workplace issues. get one more call in and continue the conversation. debbie in illinois. debbie, your thoughts? >> caller: no i disagree. i'm glad the blackmail came out and going to be looking into that but i think we are just -- we as a nation just take it so lightly anymore that, oh, yeah, we can just -- all of us make fun of it and maybe i wouldn't look quite as bad as evan, you know, thinks. i really think they should look into it it i think cps should look into it. >> lisa, you think that will happen, cbs follow suit and say what did happen here over these past few years or past 20 years snchbl yes, full disclosure, i'm a cbs legal analyst as well as

cnn, i don't know any of the people involved in this. i would think that they would. here is the issue. are they all consenting adults and no one's hurt? >> exactly. >> no one is making any claims of inappropriate conduct? i think he is off the hook. somebody makes a different claim, then we have an issue but don't have facts to support that yes. >> i want to read a facebook comment agreeing with our call. sandy m. writing that "making light of a boss having sex with an employ which have not my idea of funny. it is a clear abuse of his position of boss. no respectful boss would do this" let's listen again as david letterman, and he gets the cheers and the laughter's fesses up. let's listen. >> the creepy stuff was that i have had sex with women who worked for me on this show.

now, my response to that is, yes, i have had sex with women to who work on this show. >> cooper what do you make of that? sandy on facebook offended and the audience laughing and cheering. >> i see their point for sure, because we have in this country at some point, decided that people having sex with each other that seem inappropriate is perfectly okay. but we don't know the full story. we don't know if he came onto her and it was an abuse of power, could i see it being a problem but we don't know the full nature of the relationship, we don't know the whole story behind it i think people meet in the workplace all the time. i don't know the reality of it all, lisa will tell you that. >> let's hit on that could you finish your point, cooper? >> i am agreeing with some of the calls, we have made light of sex in general and coming out and talking about it publicly. is nothing private anymore? >> talk about the legality. lisa, aren't there policies in place? i mean, reportedly -- >> yes. >> david letterman at the time with one, not going to name names a lot going on out there could have been in his 50s this person worked for him in her

20s, no the that age mattered but clearly someone that worked for him. how does this play out when you talk about workplace policies? >> almost every company has a policy against sexual harassment and it follows the law and the law is that you can't sexually harass employ yes, that is quid pro quo, which means you can't say you have to have sex with me or else you are not getting promoted. that is very rare. the more common kind is hostile work environment. did the relationships create a hostile work environment so that other employees felt threatened or uncomfortable? as i said, so far we haven't heard facts in support of that but i think that is the concern of your facebook viewer and many others who expressed that concern. >> michael, can i say something about that? >> 20 seconds. >> i have friends on the letterman show and immediately called them and asked them what they know, they said they were so discreet, nobody knew. this is the kind of thing when everybody who worked for letterman found out about this, found out like we did they were all shocked. >> in defense of the audience, i think they were all laughing and clapping because they were just so shocked. usually a comedy show. >> more on this coming up. stay with us.

welcome back. this sin credible. police say a 34-year-old man, this part is not, is accused of groping a 10-year-old girl, in the toy aisle at walmart that is the sick part, tried to make a run for t here's where it gets good, because someone stepped up. people are screaming someone to stop him a man in a wheelchair, he makes the tackle, stops this gay and joins us now. i have the honor of welcoming this hero, cameron allner is with us right now to tell his story and cameron, i hope you know you are an inspiration to all of us. tell us how things went down here. your first day on the job, right, working for comcast there in front of the walmart, what do

you hear? >> i hear a man yell willing from the back of the store saying "stop this man, stop this man, he grabbed a little girl." and at first, before he said he grabbed a little girl, i thought he stole something, i so i backed up a little bit, i wanted to get out of the way. and when he said he grabbed a little girl, it kind of got my interest and i saw him coming running around the corner, next thing i know, i'm tackling him into the coke machine and we are going at it on the ground. >> wow. how did you pull off the tackle? i mean, when he is coming up to you, he is making the run for it you know you're gonna do something here what's going on in your mind and how did that play out from there? >> actually, i -- not much was going through my mind, you know? besides, you know, i was hoping somebody else was gonna step up and tackle him for me. i mean, i -- i never thought that i was going to be the person that would take him down. i saw him running toward me and

anticipated and, you know, since nobody else stepped up, i did. >> you made the tackle. so, what happens then? so now you're -- now i'm guessing you're wrestling the guy he is trying to probably still get out of there? >> no, as soon as -- as soon as i grabbed ahold of him, there was a -- add look of astonishment on his face, he didn't quite know what hit him. from that point on, it was just down hill for him. the gentleman who was chasing him and yelling at him to stop he came up and helped grab him and subdue him and we waited for the police to show up. >> have you come to grips with it yet what you have done? you know if this guy gets out of there, he may have the opportunity to try this with another little girl. >> yeah, but you know, everybody keeps calling me a hero and everybody keeps saying, you know, that i have done this wonderful thing, but for me, it's just, you know, stepping up when someone's in need and i think everybody needs to do that when someone's in need.

>> well put. well put. i hope many will follow your lead. i want to bring in officer james vol jer, westminster police. you were on the scene there, right? >> that is correct. >> could you believe what had transpired here, guy making a run for it cameron in a wheelchair makes the tackle? i mean trngs is good when we help each other out lining this, isn't it? to a point i guess, we don't want to get dangerous, but go ahead. >> you know, everything went down in the right manner in this instance. you know, the little girl who needed help knew to scream loudly and look for an adult and we are very fortunate we had the witnesses that were on scene that heard this going on and came to her assistance. >> have you had -- what's been the reaction from the police department to cameron? did you guys get a chance to thank him? >> you know, i don't know personally exactly what all has gone on. i know that he needs to be commended for his actions. >> yeah. you know, i know cameron, i know you have -- you are

uncomfortable being call adhere row but you are an inspiration, someone else might step up, they might hear this story, might be a little more likely to step up. that's got to make you feel good that sounds like that is your motto, when someone needs help, we do it. >> definitely, definitely makes me feel go and i'm glad that i was able to be in the right place at the right time. >> you never done anything like this before? >> no. most definitely not. this is -- this is by far a first for me. >> all right. you made the tackle. had you played some football in the past, anything that where you knew what you might want to do here? >> yeah, well, i mean, i played texas football, so as you can imagine, you know, that's about as rough as football as you can get. right. >> and i've also played basketball and so i mean, i had an idea of how i was gonna hit him, but like i said, you know, it didn't really -- nothing was going through my mind, i just knew that the guy had to stop and, you know, i was gonna stop him. >> nice job. again, we know that the

accident, putting up christmas tree lights and fell that's how you are now in a we'll chair but no matter, again, i know you are uncomfortable with the hero label but you are you are an inspiration to us all it is an honor to talk to you, cameron. >> well, thank you very much. >> james thanks you as well. coming up, talk about michael jackson, the autopsy is out and we are finding out he is not exactly the sickly skeleton he portrayed in the tabloids, a healthy 50-year-old man no illegal drugs in his system that has got to be trouble for dr. cameron murray. it has been an exciting week on hln, the day but a of the "joy behar" show, coming up after nancy grace tonight at 9 eastern.

welcome back to "prime news" on hln. we are getting news on the michael jackson story. his autopsy has been released and as we look over this story, what's most shocking is what's not in it the coroner says jackson was a healthy 50-year-old man. you wouldn't think of that, looking at the tabloids. just this past june, check out the headlines, "the sun" has jackson starved, totally bald. inside, said he had nothing but pills in his some manning. "the globe's" autopsy bombshells a quote, jackson injecting her whip, fighting anorexia. today, totally different picture. no illegal drugs were in his system, all vital organs healthy. coroner's red flag, again, that

potent sedative administered in the hours before his death. you look at this. this cannot be good when you talk about that man, dr. conrad murray, because one of the defenses that we have kind of speculated on it is going to be, well, how many other doctors have been in his past? what did other doctors do? he is the scapegoat 'cause he was the last man standing. if michael jackson is a healthy 50-year-old man, it wasn't cumulative but a one time and could be a one time or one time too many with the sedatives, dip practice van, propofal. diprivan. more on the autopsy what it could mean in the case what could mean for dr. conrad murray. there is no question, fitness is big on the field, off the field for kerry roads, even on twitter. >> a lot of people asking twitter, give them workout tips and what do i do?

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send the kids off to school, run erwrapped, church, little league practice, but no guarantee they are coming home. that is the harsh, heartbreaking reality for the family of dare yin albert beaten to death by a mob last week on his way home from school, but is he the victim of a bigger problem in chicago? i want to welcome richelle carey for the what matters segment. what do you have? >> reporter: what makes der yin's death so much more senseless is the number of people who did nothing. seems a code on the stretch, no stitching. what i'm going to show is hash. so many people have seen it. this is cell phone video that

someone shot. there are about a dozen people who stood around and did nothing, didn't even call police and are not calling police now. what can be done to get people to step up? joining me now is to hardman, director of cease-fire and amin nah matthews she also worked with cease-fire and knows d s s yin is going to be buried tomorrow. i also saw something this week, a member of der yin's family, the way they are getting through is praying for forgiveness. how are they getting through? what can you tell me about that? >> well, you know this is a hard -- a hard thing to deal with. community-wise as well as family. but they are just getting through it the best way they can with the prayers and the support that has been coming in and just trying to plan his funeral and get through tomorrow as far as

the funeral and healing process for, you know, his sister, ray ya. >> the same person also said that he didn't understand why young people were so angry, why they were so angry. to, can i get you to speak to that? >> yeah, there's a lot of anxiety in the community, depression, a lot of guys are frustrated because of hopelessness, they come from dysfunctional family, disfunctional communities to a degree and the guys feel they have been disenfranchised from overall society. so, there's a serious epidemic going on in chicago with our youth today and violence is just at that particular level right now. last year in chicago, we had 510 homicides. 85% of the 510 homicides were homicides committed against african-american youth here. the leading cause of death of african-american youth in the united states between the ages of 15 and 34 is homicide. >> wow.

>> okay. >> that should make people mad, not just sad but make people mad. talk about the investigation now, this is something i think should make people mad. i know there are four people in custody but they are looking for three more and they have not been able to get people to call in, even though their -- the people who are responsible, their pictures have been all over tv. can you talk to me about what this no snitching is all about? before i get to you do that i want to play something for you first and then get your response to this. so, just sit tight for a second and listen to this. >> some call a snitch, snitch, don't snitch, it's not your business, okay? so -- >> is that something somebody told you or something you tell people? >> that's the way of the streets, you snitch, snitches get stitches, put it like that. >> tio, explain what in the world this is. >> well, that's happened down behavior. you know, most people believe that because there's a lot of distrust for the police department all across the nation. however, you can break the code

of silence by talking your friends out of not shooting somebody. that's how you break the code in reverse. at ceasefire, we mediate 286 conflicts this year bus guys talked to us, they break the code every day 'cause they know we may not say nothing to nobody else but we can stop a homicide with the information. that's what the people need to step up and start doing, looking at what happened to dar yin, somebody out there in the crowd should have stepped up and said you know what stop it stop it right now, not doing this anymore, off a lot of people out there that had influence over the crowd, somebody should have came to their senses and said, look here, man, that's one of our brothers and ma is happening across america, african-american youth not looking at each other as brothers anymore. everybody is choosing sides, you don't have to break a code as far as telling on people all the time because people -- there is a big distrust out here, don't get me wrong, i'm not supporting the code what, i'm saying, break the coded by stopping it on the front end. >> okay to, but if we are not stopping it on the front end,

okay, are you telling the young people that they do need to pick up the phone and help the police solve this murder? are you telling young people that? >> well, let me tell you this here, there's too much hype with the code of silence, first of all. people have broke the code all across the united states, that big motion picture "american gangster" frank lucas, he told on everybody. right now in chicago, people get arrested every day, 40 people might get arrested 35 out of 40 turn state evidence on their friends. >> you tell people not to bea live the hype, right? >> don't believe the hype that is what i'm talking about people are breaking the code. >> i wanted to read you a comment i got on my facebook page i was startled, this person appeared to be someone older, not a young kid, older person who said the police get fide investigate and solve crimes, why should the public do their jobs for them? if that's the case, pay them a lot less. amin nah, can i get you to respond to that? >> well, you know what one thing that i really want to discuss is about how the family feels.

they lost der yin and the community has lost these young guys that are going through the process of being convicted and away from their families. derrion's family wants the communeity, the ci community that it has to stop, those stop. their hearts are going up to the families in the process of going up to the county jail every day to see their sons and we have to bring the neighbor back in the hood. and the albert family wants to rally up with us as ceasefire and partner up with us to say, look, stop it, we are brothers, we are sisters, we mothers. it must stop. i can't comment on what the police officers' jobs are. i know what my job is as a violent interrupter and i know that that beating shouldn't have happened, like tio said. someone needs to step up and we got to take control of our community. this is our community and our brothers and sisters, yes, they are angry because of the dynamics of how the public schools are closing and they got

to commute all the way over to another territory and the unsafetiness of it, but we have to take our communities back and the albert family sends their condolences out not a death condolence but as far as freedo have lost their sons to their son's beating. >> t.o., is there a dynamic in other cities? there are derrions unfortunately every day. it appears to be worse in chicago. is that a myth? >> that's not a myth. 75% of the youth in chicago are on the defense. they're afraid themselves. nobody wants to be victimized here in chicago, so most of the young people, they mount them -- they call it being mounted up. they're prepared for anything. we have to get chicago to a safe place here where young men and women feel good good enough about going to school every day and not in fear.

most guys walk past each other, guys don't speak to one another. people are paranoid. there's a history of gang violence in chicago that dates back 40 years. a lot of young men and women are fighting about reasons they know nothing about. 50% to 60% of the violence, they get into the pettiest of conflicts and end up shooting each other because their mind goes from one to ten in the kill zone right away. >> we're about out of time -- just a mist. let me pose this question to you and see if you can do it in 15 seconds. please tell me you're hopeful. i just need to hear that you two are hopeful. >> oh, yeah. >> oh, we're hopeful. we have an opportunity now for the mayor and all the -- the president, to come back and put the city back on track as well as with the communities and the families. we've come together and we bring the hope back into chicago. >> we're out of time. thank you both. appreciate it.

a one-week-old baby snatched, his mother stabbed over and over with a kitchen knife. now police believe the suspect is a complete stranger. a sketch released just this morning. will it help police find this newborn. plus, an unlikely hero, a man in a wheelchair stops a guy suspected of groping a little girl in a toy aisle at walmart. the suspect tried to make a run for it, but our hero steps in, tackles the guy up against a soda machine. i'll have the honor of talking to this brave man, cameron aulner. love hearing from you. the number, 1-877-tell-hln.

e-mail us, cnn.com/primenews. shoot us a text at hlntv, all you have to do, start your message with the word prime. it's your chance to be heard. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com we have major developments in the frantic search to find a missing newborn from tennessee. new today, detectives released this sketch. it's of the alleged kidnapper, heavy-set blond woman in her 30s, last seen wearing a black shirt, blue jeans. she is accused of stabbing the baby's mom multiple times, nine times to be exact. this is at a home in nashville. witnesses may have seen the getaway car. police say the little guy here, he's in extreme danger. little guy turns one week old today. should be with his family. with his mom. instead, he is god knows where. we'll take your calls. 1-877-tell-hln is the number. joining us to talk about this, our hln law enforcement analyst

mike brooks. mike, first off, as we walked down the road to find out where he is, what are police saying right now? >> mike, they put out this composite photo, if you will. apparently after she was stabbed, she ran down to a neighbor's house and basically told him, there's a woman, get this woman out of my kitchen. and so he ran down and saw what appeared to be this suspect's car driving away. they're also looking at the possibility, mike, that this car may have been parked next to the victim's at a local walmart. maybe it was captured on videotape. they're looking at all these different leads, if you will. but a spokesperson today said from law enforcement, basically some of these leads are going away. but we've got this -- these, you know, photos, these composites up on a digital billboard now, mike. the more it's out there in the public eye, the more possibility there could be a finding of the person responsible for this. >> let's listen to the police real quick, mike. giving us basically what they have at this point.

let's listen. >> witnesses saw a small dark car that resembles a police vehicle on east ridge drive at the time of the attack. we have every reason this is a stranger abduction. it's difficult to determine a motive for a stranger abduction. >> stranger abduction, mike. clarify what that means. we may say stranger abduction, but very well this could be someone who targeted the mom. >> absolute ri, a stranger abduction is someone that most likely had never come into contact with the victim before, didn't know the victim at all. you know, they're going to be looking at any women who may have just been in the hospital, may have lost a child. people who are watching the show, if you know somebody that fits this description, you know, give law enforcement a call. they're also going to look at -- people can target women like this, too, mike. they'll look at listings of new birth announcements, drive down the street to see if they see a blue or pink, you know, balloon on somebody's mailbox. basically announcing they've just had a child. these are things that people

need to think about when they put these things on mailboxes around the neighborhoods and put out birth announcements. it's a shame we have to think about this, but it's a reality. >> we have in this case. we have the "it's a boy" sign in front of the house. we talked about the types of crimes before. isn't it something that's planned, not just a spur of the moment thing, let's say a woman. we're going by past experiences here. someone who is basically hell-bent on having a child. they can't maybe become pregnant, so they become heavy-set, act like they're pregnant and that's what we could have here, right? >> it could very well be that, mike. they're going to be looking at any women who may have just lost a child, trying to get pregnant. you know, what they call, i hate the term, person of interest from a tip. apparently that didn't go anywhere. but this is what we have right now. this is the best we have to go on, this composite we're looking at, mike. >> what's the odds this person

is local and had been targeting and watching maria up to the point she had the baby? >> most likely that it is someone local. again, probably maybe she never had any contact with. you never really knew, maybe the person was riding by, saw she was out walking, you know, that she was pregnant. maybe seen her at a doctor's appointment. all these kind of things, they're going to be going back, taking a look at when did she go to her doctor, when did she go to the hospital, taking a look at videotape to see if there's anybody that matches the description of this woman they're looking for. >> let's get a call in. laurie is with us in canada. your comment or question here? >> caller: hi. my comment is about all these child abductions, and i feel like my comment is a mission impossible type comment, very far-fetched. but i believe that we're so big brothered with video surveillance, with our computers, the ability to track what you've done, you know, everything that you do is monitored. and if we microchip our pets and i think that if you leave a

straightforward life, i really think we should be microchipped and gpsed in a place where nobody can remove it. put an end to where people -- so people can be tracked. i think that if we're so monitored, and so deeply monitored, you know, people can see what we're doing anyway. i think that if you're not afraid of anything, then why should you be afraid to have something like that done. >> interesting theory, lori. thanks for the call. mike, you and i both our hearts are broken over stories of child abductions. >> yeah. >> and especially obviously when it ends in the death of a child. >> right. >> let's talk about what we know, what we have right now as far as monitoring, who could have done this. let's get back to walmart, mike. that could be the key to all this. if you've got video at a walmart, because that video can be enhanced and you can get a pretty good look at who was in that car, right? >> absolutely. how many cases have we seen at walmart, at targets where the video surveillance was there and

it helped make the case. again, they can take this, send it up to the fbi lab, to their engineering section and enhance that video. and get an even better look at the person who was inside that car. and if that person got outside the car, which we're not saying exactly how good of a picture they have, it could definitely be a break that they're looking for in this case. >> we've got about 20 seconds. isn't the key here somebody who knows the person who did the abduction? isn't that what happens and they say, wait a minute, something's wrong here. i didn't know she was pregnant, or something doesn't click in. and they've got to come forward. >> usually, mike, it's someone very, very close to them. a husband, a brother, sister, a relative. they know. and there's people out there know. but one thing i can say, in cases like this, mike, we usually find the safe return of the child. because people are caring so much for these children. >> yeah. we're hoping and praying for little yair. coming up, this is the talker, the water cooler talk of

the day, david letterman, national tv last night he's had sex with women who have worked for him. why did he come clean? because someone allegedly was going to blackmail him. a producer for a 48 hours. we'll lay all that out for you. let's talk about the right and wrong of this. what about workplace issues? had to make for pretty uncomfortable work environment there for the david letterman show. call in, 1-877-tell-hln.

welcome back to "prime news" on hln. david letterman, water cooler topic of the day. he admitted last night on national tv that he had multiple sexual relationships with women who have worked for him in the

past. here he is, david letterman letting it loose on the late show. >> the creepy stuff was, that i have had sex with women who work for me on this show. now, my response to that is, yes, i have. >> you may be wondering, why is he coming out now? here's the deal. police are saying joe, the producer for cbs' 48 hours, accused to letterman, demanding money. arrested today. pleaded not guilty to one count of attempted first-degree grand larceny. he's out on bail now. we'll be talking about this one. we'll hit it on a few fronts. we'll talk about the plot itself. blackmail is fascinating enough. we'll also talk about david letterman making the move to go on national tv and go on on fence, basically make fun of himself before anybody else can. and where david letterman could

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welcome back to "prime news" on hln. continuing our conversation concerning david letterman

admitting last night on the late show that he had sexual relationships, plural, with women who had worked for him in the past. came clean because joe alderman, producer for cbs' show "48 hours" threatened to blackmail him. two of my favorite guests joining me to talk about this. lisa bloom. also with us, cooper lawrence, psychologist and author of the book "the cult of celebrity." a lot of folks want to weigh in. your take on this, lisa, i'll start with you. you can make a pretty good argument, good move by letterman to, you know, go on the offensive, make fun of himself before someone else can take the first shot at him, right? >> yeah, absolutely. he did what he had to do, because once he went in front of the grand jury and testified yesterday, that's over a dozen citizens. once law enforcement's involved, there's always the potential for leaks. you've got to get out in front of the story. as a comedian he did it so artfully he had people laughing, makes himself the butt of the

jokes right off the bat. who's going to make it worse for letterman? he's already come out swinging. i think a very effective job for a pr point of view. >> cooper, your take on this as you watch it unfold? not only last night, but beyond as people are talking about it today. >> it's so interesting he actually used the word sex, he didn't say i had inappropriate relationship, he wasn't trying to gloss over it. he came out in front of it, as lisa was saying. the best defense is an offense, is that -- i don't know, sports. is that the right -- >> you're right. >> but what's really great here is, you can't fault him and say, he's gotten special privileges because he's a celebrity. this is just a man who was caught and came out and said, yep, i did it. >> let's get some calls in. we'll get into the blackmail plot. chris tinea in florida, your thoughts? >> caller: i can't agree more with lisa bloom. 100% agree with her that he took control of a situation that wanted to control him. i mean, this is a guy who's had

stalkers in the past, who completely invaded his privacy. and you know, the fact that he's had inappropriate, or sexual relationships with people in the workplace, that's about as shocking as, you know, i don't know, something that's not shocking. >> we'll get into that a little further. i think, maybe he was on the offensive, but he's not innocent in this. i think there are workplace issues. we'll get one more call in. debbie in illinois, your thoughts? >> caller: i disagree. i'm glad the blackmail plot has come out and they're going to be looking into that. but i think we as a nation just take it just so lightly anymore that, oh, yeah, we can just make fun of it, and maybe i won't look quite as bad as everyone thinks. i really think that they should look into it. i think cbs should look into it. >> lisa, do you think that will happen, cbs the look into it and say what happened over the past few years, or 20 years? >> yes. and full disclosure.

i'm a cbs legal analyst as well as cnn. i don't know any of the people involved in this. i would think they would. here's the issue, are they all consenting adults and no one's hurt and no one's making claims of inappropriate conduct? then i think he's off the hook. if someone makes another kind of claim, we have a different issue. but we don't have any facts to support that yet. >> i want to read a facebook comment. sandy writing that making light of a boss having sex with his employee is not my idea of funny. it's a clear abuse of his position as boss. no respectful boss would do this. let's listen again, as david letterman, and he gets cheers and laughter as he fesses up. let's listen. >> the creepy stuff was that i have had sex with women who work for me on this show. now, my response to that is, yes, i have. i have had sex with women who

were from this show. >> all right, cooper, what do you make of that? sandy on facebook was offended. the audience laughing and cheering. >> i see their point for sure. because we have in this country at some point decided that people having sex with each other, that seem appropriate is perfectly okay. but we don't know the full story. we don't know, if he came on to her and was an abuse of power, i could see it being a problem. we don't know the full nature of the relationship. i think people meet in the workplace all the time. i don't know the legality of it all, lisa will tell you that. >> let's hit on that. could you finish your point, cooper? >> i'm agreeing with some of the callers that we have made light of sex in general. there's nothing private anymore. >> let's talk about the legality. lisa, aren't there policies in place? i mean, reportedly david letterman at the time, with one anyway, we're not going to name any names, but he could have been in his 50s. the person who worked for him in her 20s.

not that age matters, but clearly someone who worked for him. how does this play out when you talk about workplace policies? >> well, almost every company has a policy against sexual harassment. and it follows the law. the law is, that you can't sexually harass an employee. there's quid pro quo that you can't say you can't have sex with me or you won't be promoted. the more common kind is hostile work environment. did the relationships create a hostile work environment so others were uncomfortable. i think that's the concern of your facebook viewer, and many others who have investigated that concern. >> about 20 seconds. >> i actually have friends on the letterman show and i immediately called them and asked them what they knew, and they said they were so discreet, nobody knew. this was the kind of thing that when everybody who worked for letterman found out about this, they found out like we did, they were all shocked. >> in defense of the audience, i think they were all laughing and clapping because they were so shocked. it's usually a comedy show.