after days of searching for a newborn boy found safe. police found a break in the case to the surveillance in the video. and one of the "real housewives" is facing a tragedy. also a new energy drink pushes the limits with a controversial marketing campaign. just how close to a drug can caffeine get? good saturday to you. you're watching hln. so glad you are. i'm susan hendricks. an update for you a newborn baby boy kidnapped from his mother has been found. >> 7 day old, yair anthony

carillo was found in a home in ardmore, alabama, at approximately 10:00 p.m. after investigators located a suspect involved in the tuesday attack. >> 39-year-old tammy renee silas is in an alabama jail right now awaiting charges. there is a sketch of her. she's accused of taking the baby from its home in tennessee on tuesday, just four days after he was born. police say his mother was stabbed several times during the kidnapping. now a key break in the case came after a car tammy renee rented was spotted on a surveillance tape following the mother out of a walmart parking lot. the baby is in a foster home until he can be reunited with his family. authorities still don't have a motive for the kidnapping. the fbi has arrested a man who allegedly stalked and took nude videos of sportscaster erin andrews. michael david barrett, is his name. he was taken into custody as he arrived at chicago's o'hare airport last night. he is facing federal charges of interstate stalking.

barrett allegedly followed andrews. the fbi says he then tried to sell the videos to the celebrity website tmz after tmz apparently refused, he allegedly posted the videos on the internet. andrews thanked the fbi and federal prosecutors for their work on the arrest. she also said she hopes the case will help other people who have been victimized in a similar manner. the former fiance of one of the real "housewives of atlanta" has been killed. police say a.j. jewell died from massive head injuries after a fight in the parking lot of an atlanta strip club. police say they've charged a suspect with voluntary manslaughter. no word yet on a motive here. jewell was engaged to castmember kandi burruss and appear frequently on the show. police say he worked at the body tap club where the fight occurred. he drove himself to the hospital after last night's fight. later died. burruss has been tweeting about

her fiancee's death. she's the newest member of the hit reality show and is an award-winning writer and song brighter. a monster typhoon is clobbering some people who were hit by another storm last week. typhoon parma landed in the philippines today with more than 100-mile-an-hour winds when it hit the coast, however the biggest threat is not wind, but rain. another typhoon slammed some areas last week, including the capital manila. and today's typhoon expected to bring up 20 more inches of rain. the government evacuated tens of thousands of people who were in the typhoon's path. air traffic control officials are working to get transatlantic flights from britain back on schedule. that's because a glitch in the air traffic system in scotland calls dozens of flight delays this morning. officials say there was no risk to the safety of the passengers and that backup systems were used while engineers fix the malfunction. british airways says it experienced minor delays, but that the airline is now back on a normal schedule.

a remote area of eastern california has been hit by dozens of quakes since thursday including several fairly big ones since last evening. the strongest in the past 24 hours was a magnitude 5.2, but several other stronger than magnitude 4.5 also hit the area. the quake swarmed so it's called, started on thursday, with a magnitude five quake. they've been centered about 180 miles north of los angeles in the sparsely populated owens valley. so far no substantial damage or injuries are reported. mourners gather today for the funeral of a chicago honor student whose beating death was caught on tape. many civil rights leaders are expected to attend services for 16-year-old derrion albert. the images of his beating by a group of other teens shocked people across the nation. four teens are being held without bail in the death of derrion albert. the reverend jesse jackson will speak at today's funeral. he says those pictures, along with increasing deadly violence

in chicago, may have cost the city the chance to host the 2016 olympics. you can play a great game and still not win, that is what president obama said after learning that chicago will not host the 2016 olympics. he and the first lady made personal pitches in denmark for having the games in their hometown, but chicago was the first of the four finalists to be eliminated. quite a shocker. tokyo and madrid were also knocked out. leaving rio de janeiro the big winner. thousands of people celebrated at the city's copacabana beach yesterday. the man who reportedly tried to extort money from david letterman has pleaded not guilty. joe halderman had a court hearing in new york yesterday. he's facing larceny charges that could land him in jail up to 15 years. after the hearing, halterman was released on $200,000 bail. he reportedly demanded $2 million to keep quiet about david letterman's affairs with co-workers. letterman admitted on thursday

to having sex with female staffers on his show. his production company says he didn't violate their harassment policy. cnn has learned the extortion suspect joe halderman is deep in debt despite having a six-figure salary as a producer for cbs show "48 hours." he was paying close to $7,000 a month in alimony and child support from a 2003 divorce. halderman is 50 years old. a recent contract put its salary at more than $200,000 a year. president obama's trying to make the case that health care reform will be good for job growth. right now the nation's unemployment rate stands at a whopping 9.8%. that is the highest its been since 1983. but in his weekly radio address, the president said an overhaul of the country's health care system would help by making it more affordable for small businesses to start up. >> we certainly made progress on

this front since the period last winter when we were losing an average of 700,000 jobs each month. but yesterday's report on september job losses was a sobering reminder that progress comes in fits and starts and that we will need to grind out this recovery step by step. republicans are laying the blame for the sky-high unemployment rate at the feet of president obama and the democrats. congresswoman candice miller said the president's economic stimulus bill fell far short of the mark. >> all told, our economy has lost roughly 3 million private sector jobs since president obama and speaker nancy pelosi's trillion-dollar stimulus plan became law. at the time the people of michigan were told that the so-called stimulus would create jobs in our state immediately. more than 100,000 of them. well, now local economists say that we're on track to lose 300,000 jobs just this year alone. and while the american people

were promised that the stimulus would prevent unemployment from rising above 8%, it's now teetering on the verge of 10%. >> miller also called for tax cuts for small businesses to help put the economy back on track. the former first senator of alaska has a change of heart and plans. we'll tell you what is new for todd palin.

a rally will be held in washington today in support of an american father arrested in japan. savoie was locked up this week when he took his kids from his ex-wife. his attorneys say savoie was afraid he wouldn't be able to see his children ever again. the rally will include a candlelight vigil in front of

the white house tonight. former alaska governor sarah palin isn't the only member of her family to quit her job. last month her husband todd palin walked away from his oil field job. his resignation comes nearly two months after his wife stepped down as alaska's governor. palin's personal spokeswoman says todd palin's now spending more time with his family. he made a little more than $34,000 working part-time for a british petroleum as a production operator. he also has a job working in his family's commercial fishing business. a 5-year-old florida boy who got trapped in a spinning washing machine was rescued just in time. the boy's mother ran into a nearby barbershop for help when her son got locked in a machine. an off-duty cop was there luckily. rushed back to find the child already covered in water and suds. the officer could not yanked open the jammed washer drawer so he ripped off the electrical wires to shut off the machine. >> i was thinking maybe that he

possibly would drown in the water and thinking about him tumbling as possibly you know he could break his neck or something, so my thing was to get him out. >> when i had seen him in there, my heart just dropped. >> luckily the boy only got a few bumps and bruises and he reportedly climbed into the washer and his younger brother accidentally locked him in. that automatically started the machine. a california man accused of having a gang sign tattooed on his 7-year-old son will not face a charge of mayhem, which carries the potential life sentence. he still faces seven to ten years for child endangerment along with his fred who inked a dog paw on the boy's hip. the paw's a symbol of the fresno bulldogs gang. the judge agreed with defense attorneys that any damage left by a small tattoo does not amount to permanent and painful disfigurement. she says that law's more appropriately applied to injuries from beatings and stabbings. the man says he aloud his son to get the tattoo because the boy wanted it. the tattoo, meanwhile, is being removed.

>> dwindling workforce and growing number of senior citizens japan is facing a fiscal squeeze. some say there's a segment of a population overlooked, fatigued to the country's economic survive. we hear about a lush mountain village on the japanese island of where are told will see the wave the future. couple high on the japanese mountains provides a glimpse of what the rest of the ageing world might look like in the coming years. at first i was afraid to touch the machine. i was afraid i'd break it, she says, especially a designed mouse and mini keyboard allows elderly hands to navigate in a modest house. there are among some 200 elderly who are the backbone of the agricultural company. almost half of the 2,000s are dents in the town are 65 years and older. >> for more on this great story

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as many as 4,000 people could be buried under this, the rubble, following this week's devastating earthquakes in indonesia. that's according to the united nations. people are digging with chisel,

hammers and even their bare hands looking for survivors and belongsing. a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit the city of sumatra wednesday, and a 6.6 magnitude quake struck thursday in the same region. so far government officials have confirmed more than 530 deaths. earlier the united nations estimated more than twice that number were kid. but with thousands still listed as missing the death toll could easily go much higher than that. samoa's government is planning a mass burial tuesday for the island tsunami victims. 168 people have died there, nearby america samoa and tunga says the sinceami struck on tuesday. giving tetanus shots. one family buried four generations after 13 of its members died in the tsunami. ranged in age from 9 months to 97 years old. very devastating. survivors of the tsunami say they're trying to cope as best they can with the disaster.

>> just slipped through my hands. i just couldn't help her anymore, you know? at the time i was under the water. >> i don't know, just feel numb, you know? i don't know whether to cry or -- feel helpless right now. all the things that i worked for, it's like gone, in like, two minutes. that's how long the wave came in together away from. >> the u.s. coast guard reports that harbors are open and there is no significant pollution in the ports of america samoa. i'm reynolds wolf for hln. a look at your forecast across the nation. you can expect some scattered showers, possibly some thunderstorms in parts of the northeast. but when you head to the southeast, dry and relatively cool. breezy for you in parts of the midwest, including places like the twin cities and back into st. louis. high pressure building into the central plains, relatively dry there. same story over the northern plains. but in the north and central

rockies, highest elevations could be dealing with some snowfall. heavy rain for central and south texas. and back into the four corners, relatively dry conditions. a few spotty showers here and there and dry for much of the west coast, until you get back to northern california and back into seattle and portland. in terms of high temperatures 79 degrees in dallas. 78 for memphis. 79 in washington, d.c. 66 in boston. 65 in salt lake city. and speaking of the colors you are seeing on the maps check out the colors that you might be seeing across the parts of the count row in terms of your fall colorings. pop out across parts of the adirondack and back into normal and the central and northern rockies. the fall foliage is just dynamic. figure you will have to wait until, say, late october, november for much of the southeastern u.s., including much of the appalachians. that is is a look at your forecast. i'm reynolds wolf for hln. we're learning details about a settlement director roman polanski made with his sexual assault victim. according to court documents in

1993, polanski agreed to pay the woman $500,000 to settle a civil lawsuit. court papers don't indicate if polanski ever paid but as of 1993 he still hadn't paid and owed her more than $100,000 more with interest. he pleaded guilty to having sex with the woman when she was just 13 years old. after giving her champagne and part of a quaalude. polanski left the u.s. in 1978, the night before he was to be sentenced. he was arrested last weekend in switzerland on a fugitive warrant. arciolhaeologist in britain have found a small prehistoric site near the stonehenge. the new site is called bluehenge. the holes where they were placed still remain. the new site is located about a mile from stonehenge. archaeologists say it could date back to 5,000 years. two good samaritans put their lives on the line to rescue some people from a burning car. witnesses say the car hit a tree at more than 100 miles per hour near chesapeake, virginia,

yesterday. a truck driver pulled over and sprayed the car with a fire extinguisher. police say another driver jumped in and pulled two people out. >> lost control. and flee it. i man, rapidly, very rapidly, down in here disappeared into the woods into the embankment. >> one rescuer was slightly injured. the people in the burning car were hospitalized with burns and lacerations. police say someone could have died if those two good samaritans hadn't helped. a 42-year-old grandmother gorilla who was going blind has a new outlook on life. a delicate surgery to restore her vision wasn't even the tricky part of her operation.

if the stall could talk what tales of adventure he would tell. the old lab/boxer mix vanished ten years ago, ten. he was just found 1,300 miles from home. an oklahoma family took him in as a stray. their microchop revealed his name. the little girl who found him by the side of the road says it was a happy ending. >> if i didn't then he would just be sitting there right now with no family, no friends, no nothing. >> isn't she cute? the family tracked down brindle's owner on facebook. they will soon be reunited. it looks like cocaine, it is marketed like cocaine, and kicks

like cocaine. but this kind of blow, yes, it is legal, the controversy surrounding a new energy drink.

good saturday to you. you're watching hln. so glad you are. i'm susan hendricks. an update for you a newborn baby boy kidnapped from his mother has been found. >> 7-day-old, yair anthony carillo was found in a home in ardmore, alabama, at approximately 10:00 p.m. after investigators located a suspect involved in the tuesday attack. >> 39-year-old tammy renee silas was taken into custody by official marshals after federal authorities formally charged her with kidnapping. she's accused of taking the baby from his home in tennessee on tuesday, just four days after the baby was born.

police say his mother was stabbed several times during the kidnapping. now a key break in the case came after a car tammy renee rented was spotted on a surveillance tape following the mother out of a walmart parking lot. the baby is in a foster home until he can be reunited with his family. authorities still don't have a motive for the kidnapping. the fbi has arrested a man who allegedly stalked and took nude videos of sportscaster erin andrews. michael david barrett, is his name. he was taken into custody as he arrived at chicago's o'hare airport last night. he is facing federal charges of interstate stalking. barrett allegedly followed andrews to several hotels and shot the videos through peepholes on doors to adjacent rooms. the fbi says he then tried to sell the videos to the celebrity website tmz. after tmz apparently refused, he allegedly posted the videos on the internet. andrews thanked the fbi and federal prosecutors for their work on the arrest.

she also said she hopes the case will help other people who have been victimized in a similar manner. the former fiancee of one of the real "housewives of atlanta" has been killed. police say a.j. jewell died from massive head injuries after a fight in the parking lot of an atlanta strip club. police say they've charged a suspect with voluntary manslaughter. no word yet on a motive here. jewell was engaged to castmember kandi burruss and appeared frequently on the show. police say he worked at the body tap club where the fight occurred. he drove himself to the hospital after last night's fight. later died. burruss has been tweeting about her fiancee's death. she's the newest member of the hit reality show and is an award-winning writer and song writer. a monster typhoon is clobbering some people who were hit by another storm last week. typhoon parma landed in the philippines today with more than 100-mile-an-hour winds when it hit the coast. however, the biggest threat is not wind but rain.

another typhoon slammed some areas last week, including the capital manila. and today's typhoon expected to bring up to more than 20 inches of rain. the government evacuated tens of thousands of people who were in the typhoon's path. air traffic control officials are working to get transatlantic flights from britain back on schedule. that's because a glitch in the air traffic system in scotland calls dozens of flight delays this morning. officials say there was no risk to the safety of the passengers and that backup systems were used while engineers fix the malfunction. british airways says it experienced minor delays, but that the airline is now back on a normal schedule. a remote area of eastern california has been hit by dozens of quakes since thursday including several fairly big ones since last evening. the strongest in the past 24 hours was a magnitude 5.2, but several other stronger than magnitude 4.5 also hit the area.

the quake swarmed, so it's called, started on thursday, with a magnitude five quake. they've been centered about 180 miles north of los angeles in the sparsely populated owens valley. so far no substantial damage or injuries are reported. mourners gather today for the funeral of a chicago honor student whose beating death was caught on tape. many civil rights leaders are expected to attend services for 16-year-old derrion albert. the images of his beating by a group of other teens shocked people across the nation. four teens are being held without bail in the death of derrion albert. the reverend jesse jackson will speak at today's funeral. he says those pictures, along with increasing deadly violence in chicago, may have cost the city the chance to host the 2016 olympics. you can play a great game and still not win, that is what president obama said after learning that chicago will not host the 2016 olympics. he and the first lady made personal pitches in denmark for having the games in their

hometown, but chicago was the first of the four finalists to be eliminated. quite a shocker. tokyo and madrid were also knocked out. leaving rio de janeiro the big winner. thousands of people celebrated at the city's copacabana beach yesterday. cnn has learned the extortion suspect joe halderman is deep in debt despite having a six-figure salary as a producer for the cbs show "48 hours." he was paying close to $7,000 a month in alimony and child sfrpt a 2003 divorce. halderman is 51 years old and a longtime employee of cbs. a recent contract put his salary at more than $200,000 a year. president obama's trying to make the case that health care reform will be good for job growth. right now the nation's unemployment rate stands at a whopping 9.8%. that is the highest its been since 1983. but in his weekly radio address, the president said an overhaul

of the country's health care system would help by making it more affordable for small businesses to start up. >> we certainly made progress on this front since the period last winter when we were losing an average of 700,000 jobs each month. but yesterday's report on september job losses was a sobering reminder that progress comes in fits and starts and that we will need to grind out this recovery step by step. republicans are laying the blame for the sky-high unemployment rate at the feet of president obama and the democrats. inner party's weekly radio address, congresswoman candice miller said the president's economic stimulus bill fell far short of the mark. >> all told, our economy has lost roughly 3 million private sector jobs since president obama and speaker nancy pelosi's trillion-dollar stimulus plan became law. at the time the people of michigan were told that this so-called stimulus would create jobs in our state immediately. more than 100,000 of them.

well, now local economists say that we're on track to lose 300,000 jobs just this year alone. and while the american people were promised that the stimulus would prevent unemployment from rising above 8%, it's now teetering on the verge of 10%. >> miller also called for tax cuts for small businesses to help put the economy back on track. a vacation may fit in your budget this fall. >> you'll find the lowest prices during the first two weeks of november and then during the first two weeks of december. >> reporter: mexico's one destination that's cheaper to visit this year. >> fares are down about 30% to resort like puertvallarta and cancun. >> reporter: they're also bargains in europe. >> and amsterdam you can get a package deal for 33% less than you paid last fall. london, which is always a big favorite, is down 32%. and rome is down 26%. >> reporter: but know how much to spend. >> people in most major cities should be able to fly to mexico

during the fall for about $300 or a little bit less than that. now to get to europe from the east coast during the fall you will pay as little as $400 to $600 round-trip and from the west coast about $500 to $700.

a rally will be held in washington today in support of an american father arrested in japan. savoie was locked up this week when he took his kids from his japanese ex-wife. she report lead took the children to japan without telling him which may have violated custody terms in the u.s.

his attorneys say savoie was afraid he wouldn't be able to see his children ever again. the rally will include a candlelight vigil in front of the white house tonight. former alaska governor sarah palin isn't the only member of her family to quit her job. last month her husband todd palin walked away from his oil field job. his resignation comes nearly two months after his wife stepped down as alaska's governor. palin's personal spokeswoman says todd palin's now spending more time with his family. he made a little more than $34,000 working part-time for a british petroleum as a production operator. he also has a job working in his family's commercial fishing business. national guard was called in to help provide security at some d.c. public schools. guardsmen were stationed at a high school football game last night along with police officers. the company that used to provide school security suddenly folded. d.c.'s schools were suddenly short 300 guards. that left school administrators

scrambling and parents pretty worried. >> i'm real concerned as a parent because i didn't even let my own child go to school for his ownest. >> a d.c. spokesman who says d.c. police who oversee used two security firms to fill in the gap. a 5-year-old florida boy who got trapped in a spinning washing machine was rescued just in time. the boy's mother ran into a nearby barbershop for help when her son got locked in a machine. an off-duty cop was there luckily. rushed back to find the child already covered in water and suds. the officer could not yank open the jammed washer drawer so he ripped off the electrical wires to shut off the machine. >> i was thinking maybe that he possibly would drown in the water and thinking about him tumbling as possibly you know he could break his neck or something, so my thing was to get him out. >> when i had seen him in there, my heart just dropped. >> luckily the boy only got a few bumps and bruises and he reportedly climbed into the washer and his younger brother accidentally locked him in.

that automatically started the machine. a california man accused of having a gang sign tattooed on his 7-year-old son will not face a charge of mayhem, which carries the potential life sentence. he still faces seven to ten years for child endangerment along with his friend who inked a dog paw on the boy's hip. the paw's a symbol of the fresno bulldogs gang. the judge agreed with defense attorneys that any damage left by a small tattoo does not amount to permanent and painful disfigurement. she says that law's more appropriately applied to injuries from beatings and stabbings. the man says he allowed his son to get the tattoo because the boy wanted it. the tattoo, meanwhile, is being removed. a 42-year-old grandmother gorilla who was going blind has a new outlook on life. a delicate surgery to restore her vision wasn't even the tricky part of her operation.

as many as 4,000 people could be buried under this.

the rubble, following this week's devestating earthquakes in indonesia. that's according to the united nations. people are digging with chisel, hammers and even their bare hands looking for survivors and belongings. a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit the city of sumatra wednesday, and a 6.6 magnitude quake struck thursday in the same region. so far government officials have confirmed more than 530 deaths. earlier the united nations estimated more than twice that number were killed. but with thousands still listed as missing the death toll could easily go much higher than that. samoa's government is planning a mass burial tuesday for the island tsunami victims. 168 people have died there, nearby america samoa and tunga since the tsunami struck on tuesday. medical teams are giving tetanus shots and antibiotics to survivors. one family buried four generations after 13 of itsz members died in the tsunami. they ranged in age from nine months to 97 years old. very devastating. survivors of the tsunami say they are trying to cope as best they can with the disaster.

>> i didn't mean to let go of the lady. just slipped through my hands. i just couldn't help her anymore, you know? at the time i was under the water. >> i don't know, just feel numb, you know? i don't know whether to cry or -- so helpless right now. all the things that i worked for, it's like gone in, like, two minutes. that's how long the wave came in together away from. >> the u.s. coast guard reports that harbors are open and there is no significant pollution in the ports of america samoa. we're learning details about a settlement director roman polanski made with his sexual assault victim. according to court documents in 1993, polanski agreed to pay the woman $500,000 to settle a civil lawsuit. court papers don't indicate if polanski ever paid, but as of 1993 he still hadn't paid and owed her more than $100,000 more with interest. he pleaded guilty to having sex with the woman when she was just

13 years old. after giving her champagne and part of a quaalude. polanski left the u.s. in 1978, the night before he was to be sentenced. he was arrested last weekend in switzerland on a fugitive warrant. archaeologist in britain have found a smaller prehistoric site here in the fabled stonehenge. the new site is called bluehenge. the stones are no longer there but the holes where they were placed still remain. the new site is located about a mile from stonehenge. archaeologists say it could date back to 5,000 years. two good samaritans put their lives on the line to rescue some people from a burning car. witnesses say the car hit a tree at more than 100 miles per hour near chesapeake, virginia, yesterday. a truck driver pulled over and sprayed the car with a fire extinguisher. police say another driver jumped in and pulled two people out. >> lost control. and flee it. i man, rapidly, very rapidly, down in here disappeared into the woods into the embankment.

>> one rescuer was slightly injured. the people in the burning car were hospitalized with burns and lacerations. police say someone could have died if those two good samaritans hadn't helped. a 420-pound grandmother gorilla was going blind. had cataracts on her eyes. that's not why zookeepers at miami zoo were worried. >> the thing is she's a 42-year-old gorilla and the huge risk of the anesthesia. this san animal because of her advanced age when you keep in mind that the gorilla's live to be around 5 z, actually a little less, 42 an extremely advance age for this animal. >> doctors say the surgery went well and one shows heals her quality of life at the zoo should greatly improve. if could talk, what tales of adventure he would tell. the old lab/boxer mix vanished

ten years ago and was just found 1,300 miles from home. an oklahoma family took him in as a stray. their vet found a microchip, which revealed the dog's name was which revealed the dog's name was brindle and came from virginia. the little girl who fouchnd himn the side of the road said it was a happy ending. >> if i didn't, he would be sitting there right now with no family, no friends, no nothing. >> she is the cutest. the family tracked down brindle's family on facebook. they will soon be reunited. now you can get higher returns from your savings. hln money expert clark howard tells you where to find the best rates. are you a sitting duck? you know what i mean by that? you hang out with the bank you've been using, they're offering you a worse and worse and worse deal.

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you, don't miss clark's show today at 4:00 p.m. eastern. he will help you save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. it looks like cocaine, is marketed like cocaine and kicks like cocaine. but this kind of blow? yes, it is legal. the controversy surrounding a new energy drink.

after days of frantic searching, a newborn boy is found safe. police got a break in the case from parking lot surveillance video. one is facing real tragedy after a violent beating outside an atlanta nightclub. pushes limits with a controversial marketing campaign. just how close to a drug can caffeine get? good saturday to you. you're watching hln on this first weekend in october. so glad you are. i'm susan hendricks. we'll have stories just ahead, but first a newborn boy kidnapped from his mother has just been found.

>> seven days old, anthony carillo was found in a home in alabama approximately 10:00 p.m. after investigators located the suspect involved in the tuesday attack. >> 39-year-old tammy renee silas was taken into custody by federal martials after federal authorities arrested her for kidnapping. she took the child just four days after the baby was born. the mother was stabbed several times after the kidnapping. a key break in the case came after a car tammy rented was found on surveillance video following her mother out of the parking lot. authorities still don't have a motive for the kidnapping. they allegedly arrested a man who staukd and took nude videos of sports caster erin andrews. he was taken into custody as he arrived at chicago's o'hare

airport last night. he faces charges of federal stalking. he shot the videos through peepholes in doors to adjacent rooms. he then tried to sell the videos to the celebrity web site tmz. after tmz apparently refused, he allegedly posted the videos on the internet. andrews thanked the fbi and federal prosecutors for the arrest. she also hoped it would help people who have been victimized in a similar manner. the fiance of one of the real housewives has died. they have charged a suspect with voluntary manslaughter. there is no word yet on the motive. jewell has been engaged to him, who appeared periodically on the show.

burruss has been tweeting about the show. she is also an award winning singer and songwriter. some people were hit by another storm just last week. typhoon parma landed in the phillipines today with 100-mile-an-hour winds as it hit the coast. but the big concern is not wind, but rain. today's typhoon is expected to bring up to 20 more inches of rain. the government evacuated tens of thousands of people who were in the typhoon's path. air traffic control officials are working to get transatlantic flights from brilt britain back on track. officials say there was no risk to the safety of the passengers and the back-up systems were used while engineers fixed the malfunction. british airways said it experienced minor delays but that the the airline is back on

a normal schedule. a remote area of eastern california has been hit by dozens of quakes since thursday, including several fairly big ones since last evening. the strongest in the past 24 hours was a magnitude 5.2, several others slightly stronger, 4.5, in the area. thursday they started with a magnitude 5 quake. they have been centered north of los angeles in the sparsely populated owens valley. so far no substantial damage or injuries are reported. people gathered today for a college student whose beating death was caught on tape. the images of this beating by a group of other teams shocked people across the nation. four teens are being held without bail in the death of derrion robert. the reverend jesse jackson will

speak at his funeral. he says it may have cost the city the chance to host the 2020 olympics. after learning that chicago will not host the 2016 olympics. the first lady held pitches, but chicago was the first of the four finalists to be eliminated. quite a shocker. tokyo and madrid were also knocked out, leaving rio de janeiro the big winner. thousands of people celebrated at the copy a -- copacabana beach celebrated. the man who tried to extort david letterman was in court yesterday. holderman was released on $200,000 bail. he reportedly demanded $2 million to keep quiet about david letterman's affairs with coworkers. letterman admitted on thursday

to having sex with female stafrds staffers on his show. he didn't violate the harassment policy. halderman is deep in debt despite being paid six figures on the show "48 hours." halderman is 51 years old and a long-time employee of cbs. a recent contract put his salary at more than $200,000 a year. president obama is trying to make the case that health care reform will be good for job growth. right now the nation's unemployment rate stands at a whopg 9.8%. an overhaul of the country's health care system would help by making it more affordable for small businesses to start up. >> we certainly made progress on this front since the period last

winter when we were losing an average of 700,000 jobs each month. but yesterday's report on september job losses was a sober reminder that progress comes in fits and starts and we will need to grind out this recovery step by step. the sky-high unemployment rate, congresswoman candace miller said it has fallen short of the mark. >> our country has lost 3 million private sector jobs since the stimulus plan became law. at the time, the people of michigan were told that this so-called stimulus would create jobs in our state immediately, more than 100,000 of them. well, now local economists say we are on track to lose 300,000 jobs just this year alone. and while the american people were promised that the stimulus

would prevent unemployment from rising above 8%, it's now teeterring on the verge of 10%. >> miller also called for tax cuts for small businesses to help put the economy back on track. we have something new for you this weekend. we call it "my city, my secret." it's a look at hidden places in towns all across the country. we start with a tour of cincinnati. >> what's going on? donny jones here from the cincinnati bengals. don't forget. cincinnati is my city. these are some of my best-kept secrets. here is the mt. adams bar and grill. i come to the mt. adams bar and grill because everyone knows my name, they have good music, and the food is absolutely fantastic. >> we are in downtown cincinnati in the aronoff center.

it is a place where people can come and express themselves. >> we're in ian park, a place you can bring your family and friends or be by yourself. what's unique about ian park is it's in the city, it's next to the river and it has these magnificent lakes. i wandered down with one of my model airplanes. sometimes i'll play with a remote control cars or my airplanes. i'm in my own little world. the tour is over, but i hope you enjoyed coming to the best-kept secrets in cincinnati.

a rally will be held for a man jailed in japan. she took his two kids from his ex-wife. he reportedly told them to japan

without telling her. he said he was afraid he wouldn't ever get to see his children ever again. the rally includes a candlelight vigil tonight. sarah palin isn't the only member of her family to quit her job. last month her husband, todd palin, walked away from his oil field job. his resignation comes nearly two months after his wife stepped down as alaska's governor. mr. palin is now spending more time with his family. he made a little over $34,000 working part-time with british petroleum as a production worker. he also works part-time in his family's fishing company business. guardsmen were stationed to the high school football game last night along with police officers. the company that used to provide school security suddenly folded. d.c. schools were suddenly short 300 guards. that left school administrators

scrambling, and parents pretty worried. >> i'm real concerned as a parent because i didn't even let my own child go to school today for his safety. >> d.c. police hired two new security firms to fill in the gaps. a five-year-old florida boy who got trapped in a spinning washing machine was rescued just in time. the boy's mother ran into a nearby basketbarber shop when h got stuck in the machine. a man came in and couldn't get open the jammed door, so he ripped out the wires to shut off the machine. >> i was afraid they might possibly drown in the water, and thinking about him tumbling, he could break his neck or something, so my thing was to get him out. >> when i saw him in there, my heart just dropped. >> luckily the boy only got a few bumps and bruises.

he reportedly crawled into the washer and his brother locked him in. that apparently started the machine. the man accused of having a gang tattoo put on his seven-year-old son will not face life imprisonment, but will still have to go to jail. he faces a sentence. the judge agreed that any damage left by a small tattoo does not amount to permanent and painful disfigurement. she said that law is more appropriately applied to injuries from beetle aatings an stabbings. he said he allowed his son to get the tattoo because he wanted it. a 42-year-old gorilla who is going pliblind has a new outloon life. but the steady part of the operation wasn't even the tricky part.

as many as 4,000 people could be buried under this rubble following this week's devastating earthquake in indonesia. that is according to the united nations. people are digging with chisels,

ham measurmer hammers, even their bare hands looking for survivors. a 7.6 magnitude hit tsumatra wednesday, and another strong quick hit thursday. with thousands still missing, the death toll could go higher. they're planning a mass burial tuesday for the 160 killed in the tsunami that struck on tuesday. medical teams are giving tetanus shots and antibiotics to survivors. one family buried four generations after 13 of its members died in the tsunami. they ranged in age from nine months to 97 years old. very devastating. survivors of the tsunami say they are trying to cope as best they can with the disaster.

>> i was trying to help a lady and she slipped through my hands. i just couldn't help her anymore. >> i just feel nothing. all the things i worked for and it's, like, gone in two minutes. it took everything away from me. >> the u.s. coast guard reports that harbors are open and there is no significant pollution in the ports of american samoa. two good samaritans put their lives on the line to rescue some people from a burning car. witnesses say the car hit a tree at more than 100 miles per hour near chesapeake, virginia yesterday. a truck driver pulled over and sprayed the car with a fire ex tissue twisher. another driver jumped in and pulled two people out. >> very rapidly disappeared into the woods, into the embankment.

>> one rescuer was slightly injured. the people in the car were covered in burns and lacerations. those two people could have died if those two good samaritans hadn't helped. a 42-year-old gorilla that was almost blind should soon see the world more clearly. yesterday josephine had cataract surgery on both her eyes. it's a unique procedure for gorillas, but that's not people at the zoo were worried. >> thing is, she's a 42-year-old gorilla, and the huge risk here is the anesthesia. the surgery itself isn't that much of a risk. when you look at gorillas live to be around 50, actually, a little less, 42 is an extremely old age for this animal. >> things seemed to have gone well and her quality of life at the zoo should greatly improve. if he could talk, what tales he would tell. the old lab-boxer mix vanished

ten years ago and was just found 1,300 miles from home. an oklahoma family took him in as a stray. their vet found a microchip which would reveal the dog's name was brindle and also the owner was in virginia. the little girl who found him on the side of the road said it was a happy ending. >> if i didn't, then he would just be sitting there right now with no family, no friends, no nothing. >> she is the cutest. the family tracked down brindle's family on facebook. they will soon be united. now you can get higher returns on your savings. hln money expert clark howard tells you where to find the best rates. >> are you a sitting duck? you know what i mean by that? you hang out with the bank you've been using, they're offering you a worse and worse and worse deal. the fees they charge you on a

checking account, the puny returns they give you on a savings account, the deals just get more and more unfriendly to you. do you have to sit there and take it? no, you don't. a lot of people are reluctant to move their checking account, but at the very least, dip your toe in the water by moving your savings. you better have some savings, by the way. but if you look at the on-line banks, the deals that are there are generally paying interest rates that are so much higher than you can get from a traditional bank that you're crazy to let your idle cash sit and stew at the giant bank. after yoas for your checking account, i promise, not as hard to move as you think. what you'll get is a much better deal. try it. i'm clark howard. for more ways for you to pack a punch in your wallet, go to cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> and if you want even more ways to make your money work for you, don't miss clark's show

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hello, i'm jeri willis, and this is a special edition of "your bottom line." could your spending limits be cut because of where you shop? who is watching you? we'll take a check into your background file and the big business of privacy data brokers. and what in the world is a service center? it starts now. let's begin with your credit. indispensable when it comes to getting a home, a loan or even a job. credit companies used to look at

just your credit score to determine your risk. they have been prompted to scour your spending habits, and if they don't like what they see, the result could be a lower spending limit. >> he is an entrepreneur, candidate for office, and according to american express, a credit risk. coming home from his honeymoon last year, he was shocked to find amex had cut his credit limit from $5400 to just $3800. >> i've been very responsible, making sure i paid my bills on time. >> even more surprising? one of the more reasons amex gave for its decision. other cards used by consumers from where they recently shopped had poor ratings. >> i didn't know credit companies could actually assess your credit ratings based on others around you.

>> with more than 20% of credit card customers defaulting on their debt, they're trying to weed out the riskier ones. how? by looking for changes in the way we shop. >> you're shopping from a middle or upper tier retail store and suddenly it shows a purchase at a dollar store, some form of downshifting, suddenly shopping at walmart. >> those red flags can lead to a deeper hole in your behavior. >> if you suddenly had a lot of credit at a local bar, that would be a red flag to spending habits. >> amex says they have never looked at where they shop for a decision. it's debt level, fica scores and

bank scores. that is still the most predictable sign of spending behavior. >> all they can do is look at the purchases coming in and see changes in that pattern. >> as for kevin, it has encouraged him to become involved. >> no one should be penlized by the actions of others. >> so kevin is not alone when it comes to dealing with questionable credit card practices. so what is your credit card company looking at and how can they best look out for the bottom line? he joins us in washington. the publisher and editor of the times. just how much info are these companies looking at? >> the first problem is we don't know. we know they're doing it, and one of the ironies is in trying

to protect your privacy, there is transparency so we know what they're talking about. we know of another company that was lowering limits because people were going to marriage counselors and personal counselors and place to get their tires retread. i think we need a stronger policy so people know. >> millions of credit cards, we make hundreds of purchases every year. how can these companies possibly keep up? >> the key is these companies have been fining their cognitive behavior in analysis for a long time. but the key issue is it was okay and we had our desires to take a summer cruise and they were going to tell us where we prefer to go and what kind of wine we want with dinner. the problem was, when charges went off from 5 to 10%, they

suddenly panicked for new tools to identify consumers in financial distress, and, of course, these tools are misapplied. >> we were talking about emergency codes, though, where they put numbers on certain types of purchases. help me understand that. >> in other words, when you make a transaction, the consumer actually sees a statement at the end of the month of what you purchased. you don't understand that there is actually a code associated for any merchant you purchased it from. so if you went to a pawn shop and bought a necklace. you wouldn't identify. exactly where we are, what they're doing because you're using a credit card. can you fight back? >> well, you should not be shy about communicating with your credit card company because most of us have a choice of credit cards, and there -- like robert said, they're in panic mode right now, and you can remind

them that you're a good customer and that you want to know what their policies are, and by the way, you want to lower my interest rates because it's too high. we're finding a company out in denver that's starting to do this on behalf of consumers and they're having great success just by asking for these sorts of pro consumer actions. >> stick around. they'll take a look at your personal background file.

now, it sounds simple, but as one georgia family found out,

the information isn't always right. >> with all the good stuff -- >> a job offer with good benefits, a dream for this woman's husband that suddenly turned into a nightmare. >> he did the drug test, and of course that was fine, and what we needed was the background check, and that was supposed to turn out fine. >> but his background check revealed two felony convictions, and like that the job offer was gone. she wants her identity hidden to avoid further problems for her husband. >> we're just -- we're in shock. >> in shock because the records belonged to another man with the same name and same birthday as her husband. >> how did they put these two together? how could they miss this? >> the report came from choice point, one of the nation's largest commercial data brokers, part of the multi-billion-dollar industry that sells your personal information obtained from public and private records to employers and law enforcement. privacy advocate lily coni says

most people have no clue what's in these databases that can have incorrect or outdated information. >> let's say it was an arrest based on faulty information and it was resolved and there was no trial, no conviction, they still have that original arrest record that may be in the database somewhere that has been passed on repeatedly to people outside of your knowledge. >> senator patrick leahy has introduced those databases to make sure they're more accessible and secure. >> today people cannot do that with surety. >> choice point says under the fair credit reporting act, they may have falsely made reports about them, as well as public information used for such reports and correct such information as appropriate. the company says those corrections typically take two weeks. time, this woman says, her husband didn't have. >> i called the department of justice and the fbi.

>> and her congressman, who was able to get choice point to quickly correct the mistake. her husband got the job, but she's still concerned. >> because this will happen again. if my husband ever has to have a background check or maybe if he ever changes jobs, that record is out there. sdp >> so if you're trying to get that job, how can you be sure the record is accurate? back with us once again is evan hendricks. welcome back. good to see you. evan, how often is that information wrong? you see the story, you see the consternation going on with that family. how often do they just have stuff that's not right? >> right, we don't have the research to give us really strong numbers on that, but we know it has to be pretty bad because with credit reports, which is much more standardized and much more advanced than the evolution, we have a 25 to 30% error rate. with these background checks,

these companies like choice point, they're not the only one, there's a whole bunch of them, they're like knuckle draggers. like in this case they'll produce a record and a name and birth date match, they won't look to see do they have the same social security number, do they live in another state? people have been pinned with felonies because people like choice point and these background check companies are in such a hurry to sell this information, they can't bother to make one more check to make sure they don't mess up someone's life. >> lily, it seems to me it's in my best interest to get this report and scan it for errors. is it easy to get it? choice point says they make these available all the time to consumers. >> you want to see the report that they may share with a business. using only a birthdate or name, you're going to pull up a lot of errors. there is an application process that choice point has established for its own record

system where individuals can submit this additional information to the company and it's more information than just your name and birthdate. they ask for social security number and address. they even ask if you've fallen into bankruptcy or any criminal act with the social justice system, which creates other opportunities for the company if it's not using proper policies regarding privacy, to take that information and add it into their record system. but it's important to see the information in order to begin the process of protecting yourself. >> evan, can you get this info corrected? is it hard? >> well, you have a right to correct it, but because of the work of the privacy information center, we know that choice says the record is beyond the reach of the law, and this is why a company i'm working with, called "i.d. watchdog" and others like it are actually providing services to make it easy for people for a fee to get all these records together so they can review them before they go in for that employment application. >> eye-opening information.

thanks so much for joining us. coming up, you may not know what a fusion center is, but chances are your personal information is already a part of it.

it's no secret that the government holds a lot of information on your personal life, and in the wake of 9/11, fusion centers were selt up to track terrorists bringing together information from local, state and federal law enforcement. but critics say these centers are really domestic surveillance agencies watching all of us, even if we haven't violated the law. >> drop the bike. >> it was the morning of connecticut governor's jodi royal's inaugural parade. >> hold out the camera and i

just shoot governor royal. >> about 20 minutes later, she was -- he was stopped by police. they had been looking for him after he was on a bulletin wanted. they were alarmed by his blog posts. who is going to protest the inaugural ball with me and no need to make nice. >> why do i have to make nice with a political figure simply because she won an election? >> they went digging for more information. they learned he had been a green party protest or, and had once been convicted for civil disowe bead yens. he had no history of violence. they say police aren't supposed to gather information on citizens who are suspended of a crime. >> if we're interested in someone because they're an

advocate for a green party candidate and we think they're suspicious because they want to get other people to protest someone's ideas but not because they think they're a true threat to their lives, i think that's just troubling. >> today law enforcement collects and shares more information than ever and much of it goes on state intelligence centers called fusion centers. >> fusion centers were started after 9/11 to help federal, state and local law enforcement connect the dots and stop terrorist attacks. the homeland security says they are a critical tool in keeping the nation safe. >> an fbi agent might be sitting next to a state highway patrol officer. they don't merely share space. they share databases and techniques. >> but what's going into those databases has critics worried? the aclu says there is evidence that some fusion centers have targeted muslim groups and peace activists for surveillance. >> to collect information that

has absolutely no relevance to whether they're breaking the law. >> the direct or of new jersey's fusion center says law enforcement works hard to balance national security with individual privacy. sdplz we in law enforcement and certainly in fusion centers are attuned to the bill of rights. we're not in the business of investigating first amendment or constitutionally protected rights. >> but ken thinks police in his town crossed the line. >> police did not determine the difference between who was dangerous and who was merely expressing protected -- constitutionally protected viewpoints. >> you don't have to be a political activist to be watched these days, whether you're a blogger or just a member of a social network, everyone could be searching the web for information on you. the professor of law at the university of maryland and the founder of networking excellence, welcome to you both.

daniel, you spent a ton of time with fusion centers. i know people out there are wondering, oh, my gosh, should i be worried about this? how concerning is it for the average american? >> i think it's concerning to all of us, quite frankly. the frankly. the problem is we are not going to know what fusion centers have on each and every one of us because their practices are not transparent and there is little oversight. >> i want to talk a about employers, friends, social networking sites. liz, you have a good list of dos and don'ts. >> basically if you wouldn't say it in an auditorium with the general public don't post it on-line. don't bad mouth your company, colleagues or customers, don't share private information, no off color jokes or provocative photos. >> danielle, employers are looking. a lot of people are saying it is

not their right to look on my social networking site but they do it. >> legally they can and in a sense it is smart for them to to make sure their employees aren't people -- the people they want their clients to look at and see online. so in a sense it makes sense from a business perspective to look at this information. nearly 50% of all employers readily admit they are looking at your social networking activity. >> liz, i want to turn to you. it is not so simple. not just what i post. other people talk about you online. there is stuff other people share about you that you have no control over. how do you take care of that to put your best face forward to an employer or federal government. >> google yourself. see what comes up when people search on your name and clean up anything on any pages that you control. your social networking profiles,

take off any provocative photos, inappropriate comments. your friends pages, ask them to take that down. what you can do going forward is be mindful of what you post. >> thanks for that. don't move. the daily assaults on your personal privacy continue. what you can do about it next.

>> there is something i want to you know about me. i am not into depriving myself, but i am cheap. you give me a half hour one after another, i will show you how you can be thrifty and live like a king at the same time. >> ever since i can remember, i have been fascinated by money. making it, saving it, studying it. by the time i was 31, i earned enough to retire and i embarked on a new mission, helping you take care of your money so you can save more, spend less, and avoid getting ripped off.

>> now from his radio studio, your money expert, clark howard. >> you know what? we as americans can do so much more with less and it's rhetoric we've all heard. maybe even talked at ourselves, but now we are walking the talk and i have proof in several areas. first, you want video entertainment? you can entertain yourself all you want for $1. i can't guarantee the movies will be good, but red box is booming. those are those fancy vending machines popping up all over the place where you can rent the late release movies. you know what? it's $1 per day. don't forget about it because it's $1 every day until you remember to return it. video games? i saw recently the rental of video games as an alternative to buying them is up 30% in the last year. again, another cheap way for you

to have entertainment at home. and third, if you are in college, going to college, or know someone who is, how about renting text books instead of buying them? probably never heard of that. there is a website called chegg.com where you can learn whether the text books you need for school can be rented instead of purchased. think about the money you will save. do you have money saving questions you want to ask me? fire away. >> what is going on with your credit card, beth? >> caller: about months ago i closed a credit card because it went over the limit $2 and they started charging me like 31% interest even though i closed it since i closed it, they charged me about $600 in interest. >> wow. >> caller: and they did a negotiation with me.

if i paid the $600 they would drop the interest to 0% and i could pay off my $2,500 balance at $50 a month. i don't know if i should do that. i'm a homeowner. i own a home jointly with a relative and i'm wondering if they can put a lien against my home if i don't pay them for a while. >> let me explain how that plays out. >> cris: >> caller: okay. >> if you have a credit card that goes into charge off. the credit card company wanted to really eat you up. what they would have to do is they would have to hire a law firm to sue you against the unpaid balance of the credit card, get a judgment against you and then having the judgment, a judgment becomes what lawyers call a license to hunt. they go out and try to figure out what assets you have. at that point is when it's possible that they might try to go after the home that you

jointly own with somebody else. >> caller: okay. >> that is a lot of ifs getting to the point where that would happen. here's what you do. you can have one more conversation with the credit card company and say no more conversations. you tell them here's my alternative offer. you agree to waive all interest and i will pay you on a payment plan and you will pay off the balance at 0% interest. >> caller: okay. >> now if they don't accept that and here's the offer you make. you either accept this because i'm offering to pay you 100 cents on the dollar of the principal i owe you, but these are my terms. if you do not accept them, you will get not a single penny from me ever again. >> hello, marty. >> caller: hi, clark. >> how are you doing? >> caller: well, clark, the reason i called is i'm

finding myself in a mortgage dilemma that i'm not even sure is a serious dilemma. i'm in a 5-1 tharm is going to mature in april 2012. it is 5.75% on the primary which is $200,000 and a second at $10,200 at 7%. the worth of my house dropped down to about roughly $235,000. everybody is advising me to get out of this arm and get into a fixed rate while the rates are down. i have been talking to lenders trying to figure out and i find myself choking on adding $11,000 into my note for the closing costs. >> closing costs lately have been off the charts crazy. >> caller: yes, sir. >> they have been really, really up there. you said the value of your home has dropped to? >> caller: around 235. >> the first is at?

>> caller: $200,400. >> equity is 17%. >> caller: yes, sir. >> i think you've not some time. there is enough slack in the economy that i think you are okay to sit tight for a while before you would have to hit any panic button. as far as that arm when we are looking three years out, that arm going crazy on you, 2012 and beyond, how long do you expect you are going to own this house? >> caller: we have no plans on moving. >> this could be a forever house? >> caller: yes, sir. >> here's your assignment. you told me that your work is still good. you're still making good money as an electrician. >> caller: yes, sir. >> you need to pour every dollar you can into paying down

principal to create more head room that will give you the opportunity to refi. the market place took equity away from you. you are now going to have to rebuild that by paying down debt. >> next on clark howard -- >> a collection agency was pretending they were going to put your stepson in jail and were talking to you about the ticket? >> caller: exactly. >> do you know how much they have broken the law? >> i'm with my family in london and we are here why? trips to europe are the cheapest they have been in eight years because of the sick economy. that means you can travel really well. hotels extra cheap and airfares extra cheap. in the heart of london, the london eye. on this side of me is big ben. the most famous tourist attraction in london.

one of my favorite ways to

save shopping in england is go to the 99 p store. everything is 99 pence, roughly $1.65 in today's exchange rates and they have a ton of good stuff in there. lynn is with us. hello, lynn. >> caller: how are you doing, clark? >> great except you have a phone call nobody wants. >> caller: sure did. >> tell me about this, if you would. >> caller: my husband and i received a call from a department stating they were calling from a warrant division and looking for my stepson. i said why are you looking for my stepson. they said he owed $271 on a traffic fine. come to find out, this was a traffic ticket he received in 2001. that is correct, my stepson did have a traffic ticket. he went to probation. my husband end up selling his car and paid the traffic ticket off.

>> wow! >> reporte . >> caller: unfortunately, we don't have a receipt. i did research and called back and called back and it was a collection agency. >> they were pretending they were going to put your stepson in jail and talking to you about the ticket. do you know how much they have broken the law? >> caller: no, i don't. >> under the fair debt practices act, a collection agency is not allowed to impersonate a member of law enforcement number one. number two, a collection agent is never allowed to talk to someone else about another person's debt. >> caller: okay. >> so do you have an answering machine or do you use voicemail? >> i have an answering machine and i have the first call she placed to our answering machine. >> you do? >> caller: yes, i do. >> wow! okay. i want you to call the district

attorney or the solicitor in the jurisdiction where your stepson originally got this ticket eight years ago and offer to play the tape for the d.a. or solicitor. the collection agency operating on behalf of either the court or the jurisdiction is totally in violation of the law and the district attorney should know that that's going on. how would you like for me to answer your money question? that's easy. all you do is go to cnn.com/clark howard and submit a video question to me. you'll see the link right on the home screen. speaking of asking me a money question, carmen has done so about her retirement plan. let's see what's on carmen's mind. >> i'm carmen. >> i'm ray. >> we need a money coach. my biggest concern related to

finances is having enough money for retirement. i currently have a roth ira through my employer and my husband and i each have one through the bank. i don't feel i need two because of the fees. i'm being charged a fee from the bank and then i'm being charged a fee through my employer. it's not a large amount of money, but it's money that i can use to save and contribute to one roth instead of two. my question is, do i really need two roths. >> carmen, i love what you've got. it's a special roth that more and more people will have over the next few years as a choice in a 401(k) plan. you can stay in the traditional 401(k) or make the decision you did and go into the roth 401(k). they are wonderful because you put in after tax dollars that will grow tax-free through the years and they will never be taxed again. plus you are still eligible for

whatever employer match your employer chooses to make. that goes in pretax dollars and that portion will be taxed. yeah, there is a fee embedded in a 401(k) plan and a management fee involved in the roth ira you are doing. you do want to do both because it gives you the double opportunity to save. i think it's great. why am i so hot on the roth 401(k) versus the traditional 401(k)? simple. you know what? you have a regular 401(k) and you put the money in. when you go to spend it in retirement, you have much less money than you thought because it gets shaved away by taxes. you have a dollar in there and that's a dollar you get to spend in retirement with the roth 401(k). essentially it means when you retire you have about 40% more money that you can spend than you thought you did. >> next on clark howard --

>> you said you want me to direct you to a legitimate place to buy gold. which means you already know how many snakes there are in the grass who are out there pretending to sell gold or selling gold but ripping you off when you go to buy it.

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about you taking control of your wallet. if you go to cnn.com/clark howard and scroll down to commentaries, i have a variety for you to see how to take control right now. now we are at the cheap way of seeing the bird's-eye view of london. we are at monument tower. had to walk 311 steps up from the ground. we have a view of the complete panorama of london. very much like the london eye but 1/7 the cost. over here is tower bridge and the tower of london. a beautiful view from up here. all you have to do is be fit enough to walk the stairs. every day when i do research for my radio show, i go to cnnmoney.com. you should too.

poppy harlow is here from cnnmoney.com with some good money tips for you. poppy? >> trying to keep your small business afloat in these tough times can be a daunting task, but maximizing your company's website is a cheap and easy way to target your customers. here are three tips to help you do just that. first of all, focus on the content. consider the top three things that a customer would come to your site looking for and highlight those things on your home page. don't bury the information. give a measure of free advise elevates your reputation and consider your site's design. slick effects and animations are great for making a splash, but most consumers prefer an easy to navigate, clear to manage webpage that, well, they can use easily. you want to check out

cnnmoney.com/smallbusiness. a lot of stories and tips right there. back to you. >> hi, andy. how are you? >> caller: not too bad. >> andy, tell me what you're thinking of doing. >> caller: i would like to find a legitimate place to buy the actual real gold. >> what if i were to answer your question not the way you asked it? >> caller: go ahead and i will see if it is something that is going to work for me. >> okay. i would much prefer for to you consider instead of buying the actual tangible gold, that you buy what's known as a gold etf, exchange traded fund where you will buy actual ownership of gold that will be stored for you off site, not in your possession, but you will have the value of that actual gold

and with that, what happens is that you buy gold and you buy it with just money. then you buy it from an outfit that stores it for you and when you want to sell your gold, they take your gold and they sell it to somebody else. i know it sounds like i'm talking about a scam or something, but this is completely legit and you don't have to deal with the storing of the gold. you don't have to deal with the big rip off they charge you to buy the gold. you don't have to deal with the big rip off when you go to sell it. here's the neat thing. let's say you want to turn that gold back into money, you can do it like that. you can sit down at your computer and in a blink of an eye, you can sell your shares and in a couple of days, you have your money. in u.s. dollars.

do i have great bargain news for you for christmas shopping. if you go back over recent years, the toy market has been really a toy story of two places. you know what they are? wal-mart, the nation's largest toy seller and target. it used to be toys r us was the biggest in the game, but they have faded. toys r us is doing something that is great for this time in history. they are going to open hundreds of temporary toy stores around the country. there is plenty of vacant retail space, plenty of people they can hire to work the registers and it's going to inject new competition into the toy market that we haven't seen in a long, long time. you as a parent will be smiling because as we move through october into november, there is going to be deal after deal. >> next on clark howard --

>> caller: they claim the packaging is inadequate for the items and i feel like my only recourse is to go to small claims court. >> you should do that because if you sit on your rights, you should file. that's not all you should do. 

everybody's got to eat. sometimes i like to eat too much. but one thing i don't want you to do is spend too inasmuch the supermarket. i have advice about a gotcha you have to watch for. that's just one thing you will learn this half hour to help you stretch every dollar. >> ever since i can remember, i have been fascinated by money. making it, saving, it, studying it. by the time i was 31, i made enough to retire. i embarked on a new mission. helping you take care of your money. so you can save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. >> now from his radio studio,

your money expert, clark howard. >> i have to tell you about the tale of two people in the household. if my wife gives me the grocery list, i buy whatever the cheapest is in each thing. when she goes grocery shopping, somehow magically we spend a lot more money because we have organic this and organic that and organic the other. a lot of people really believe in the health claims and maybe they are true. who knows. about organic products. should you believe it? let me tell you something. there is more and more stuff saying organic that truly is not organic. the federal government continually loosened the standards on what can say organic. there is something you should look for before you spend huge amounts of money buying organic stuff. make sure it says on the front 100% organic. don't buy something that said organic or some organic

ingredients. if you are going to spend the big bucks, get the real deal. speaking of the real deal. when something says natural on the package, what does that mean? nothing. it's a marketing term in most cases. you are throwing your money away. you want my opinion on something other than food? i bet. how about your wallet? david, how are you? >> caller: just fine, clark, thank you. >> you are in the midst of doing building at your house. >> caller: yes, sir. >> i don't know if i'm supposed to congratulate you or send you my regrets. >> caller: what we are doing is having a mother-in-law suite built on to our home. my mother-in-law is willing to pay for the room addition so we have something along the lines of a gifting type thing. >> how much money is it going to cost?

>> caller: in the ballpark of $40,000. >> let me tell you how you can play that. >> caller: okay. >> you can do it in a way where there is no gift tax issue at all. >> caller: that's what i was looking for. >> your mother-in-law is allowed to give you and your wife $13,000 each, each year without any tax implications at all. >> caller: okay. >> so she can right off the top give you $26,000. don't. she has to write two checks, one to you and to your wife. it's important there two separate checks. >> caller: okay. >> so then for the remainder, you said it is going to be 40 total? >> caller: about 40. >> she can give you a note for $14,000 with the first interest payment due january 2nd, 2010. on that day she can say oh, i'm gifting you that money. you're done.

>> caller: okay. >> actually she would have to do seven and seven, two different notes. >> caller: right. >> and so the $40,000 can be transferred from her to you and your wife in a very sport period of time completely tax free. but the notes need to say $7,000 loan until january 2nd, 2010 at an interest rate of 6% or something that would feel like a market interest rate. >> caller: right. >> due and payable at that time and then when that time comes, she forgives it and that becomes a gift. john joins us. john, welcome to "the clark howard show." how are you? >> caller: hi, clark. thanks for taking my call. >> my pleasure. what's going on with your wife? >> caller: what's going on is very simple.

i believe it was in 1994 and 1995, she had a settlement for credit card debt and it was settled and there was a settlement drawn up and all and it was a done deal. in '02 approximately, the same company sent a collection agency on her for the same debt that was settled and i believe that she showed the settlement papers and it was dropped. now just yesterday a subpoena was dropped here for the same company. >> no way. she was served court papers? >> caller: no. i'm serious. yes. >> this is very important. very important. you ready? >> caller: yes. >> what happened was a collection agency bought what's known as zombie debt. the bank your wife reached a settlement with 15 years ago, they are reporting her still as not having paid this and some zombie collector paid the bank, a penny or two cents on a dollar

on this debt. even if she had no paid it is well outside the statute of limitations to sue. what the zombie collector does is they file suit against your wife, expecting she is not going to show up in court. then they will get a default judgment from the court, an illegal judgment. it is one that will have full force of law that will then be a judgment against her that will stay on her credit in most states for seven years and allow the collector once they have the judgment to garnish your wife's wages or empty her checking account. >> caller: oh, my gosh. >> she must answer the court and must if necessary appear in court. they are trying to take advantage of the fact that the courts are busy and a lot of people will say that's not a problem. i took care of that long ago. that's too long ago for that to be an issue for me.

they sue you against it and failure to defend yourself means you lose even on an illegal action. >> caller: unbelievable. >> it is unbelievable and it is a crying shame that this is going on. >> next on clark howard -- >> we are hoping to get some good advice on how to better manage these larger debts.

it's time for money coach. that's where you pose your money riddle to me and i try to give you the best advice i can for your life and your wallet. let's meet ken and lisa. >> my name is ken. >> i'm lisa. we need a money coach! >> our financial situation is pretty stable right now, but the current economy, you never know. we are trying to get a handle on our debts and how we should handle paying those off. our two largest debts right now are our home mortgage and home equity line. one extra thing is the car. it's really old and has a lot of miles and we are going to be needing another car. should we be paying more on the principal on our mortgage or throw as much into home equity line as possible. >> i love your question, but

it's the wrong one. your mortgage, you don't owe very much on it and not that many years left to pay. your home equity line, a tiny amount of money owed on it. it is a floating rate in the 3s. that will go up over time. you owe so little that's not a priority. any extra cash you have, you should pop into savings. i know, puny amounts of interest you earn on the savings. the purpose is to build up that money so when it comes time to replace that car, you have a substantial amount of money to be able to pay cash for a used car or make a meaningful down payment on a newer used car or brand-new one. this is always a juggling act. do you pay off debt? do you build savings? normally in most circumstances i talk about savings rates at 2% and amount owed on a mortgage is such that the interest rate is a

significant factor. 5 plus%. so why would i tell anybody ever to put money in savings instead of towards the mortgage? normally i wouldn't. i would say put your extra dough towards the mortgage balance or any other high interest rate debt. we know there is a specific goal here. same for you. if you have a goal you are trying to meet, relatively short-term, pop the money in savings instead of paying down debt. what's happening with you, jennifer? >> caller: my husband and i are purchasing a recreational vehicle from a private party. the seller owes a little more on it than he is selling it for. our concern is that that we never bought anything where it has been owed more on it and we talked to his bank and they said we could come into the bank and give him the money and he would pay the remainder at the bank

and the bank will sign off the title to him and he would have to be oblijed to send the title to us once they receive it. we are concerned because not doing this before, what's the best way to protect ourselves? >> what i advised people in the past and what is the normal procedure is that you would pay the portion that you are to pay with the check made out to the individual and to the bank that the money is owed to. what is the most important thing for to you do is the bill of sale needs to be a thoroughly thought out bill of sale. in this case the bill of sale would not only have the vin number of the rv, the brand name, model and year and almost a narrative following the initial things. >> caller: okay. >> and the bill of sale should

have two copies. the two copies should be signed by both you as the buyer and the seller involved. you can do this face-to-face or no? >> caller: yes. >> what i recommend when you do it face-to-face is that you, the seller, and a bank officer sitting down at the desk doing all this paperwork. at that time. i would put on the bill of sale, seller agrees to forward title by and should you designate a method like fedex or u.p.s. that the seller forward the title within a certain number of days of when the title is received with lien cleared from the bank. i would say within five days is a reasonable period of time. >> caller: okay. >> for the seller to get out

there and get to a fedex or u.p.s. facility and send that to you. >> next on clark howard. >> where can we check or try to find out if these coins are worth anything? >> that is not an easy thing to do.

>> you can get tons more money-saving advice from me on the web. all you do is go to cnn.com/clark howard. you got a question about credit cards, checking accounts, cars, houses? you name it, go to cnn.com/clark howard and that's also the address you visit if you might want me to be your money coach. upload a video telling me your story or fill out the e-mail form and maybe you will be a candidate on money coach. you know what else is there? commentaries from me. i've got a website for you that is choke a block full of money saving tips. it's cnnmoney.com. here is poppy harlow with some new info for you. poppy? >> rising unemployment is creating an interesting new trend. according to the census bureau,

one of every eight people between 25 and 34 are moving back in with the parents. so if you are a mom or dad and your kid has found their way back into the nest, cnnmoney.com has tips on how to deal with the situation. first of all, don't baby your babies. while your kid is looking for a job, charge them rent and assign responsibilities around the house. recommend job search websites or help them network with your friends and suggest they get a temp job while looking for a permanent one. don't forget the exit strategy. make sure your child put money aside for moving expenses so they can find their own home. you can find more tips at cnnmoney.com all right there in that story. back to you show. >> hello, teresa. how are you doing? >> caller: hi, clark. my brother passed away about 10 years ago and he had old coins in a safety deposit box. i'm trying to find out what is

the best route or where can we possibly check or try to find out if these coins are worth anything? >> that is not an easy thing to do. i'm going to give you how i would do it as a layman. lay person. are you good on the web? >> fairly good, yes. >> there is a website called money.org. >> caller: okay. >> and it is the website of the coin people. and it's like the trade association for coin dealers. they have some consumer information on it, but not -- that's not really their market. what is available on their website is information on where they are going to be coin shows. >> caller: okay. >> and i know a lot of people would say why aren't i saying ebay, ebay, ebay? a lot of people do now sell coins on ebay.

but again you don't know what you have. you don't have a feel for range of value. but when there is a coin show you can go with the coins you have from your late brother at shows and say, okay. and you want not for the collection, you want per coin. >> caller: okay. >> what is this? what's it worth? you're not going to know from a single dealer what you've got. >> caller: okay. >> but by the great thing about shoe leather at a show is you can go booth to booth to booth to booth and show what you've got and then see what value people offer you for it. >> caller: okay. >> then you've set in place a competitive marketplace. you can at that point get the cards of the people who seem to be on the up and up who gave you decent offers on your coins and then you can go test the marketplace on ebay and see what people will pay you for particular coins that may have

turned out to have meaningful value. in the new credit card bill of rights, guess who was left out? small business owners. at the last minute, a provision was put into the law or basically taken out that gave the credit card companies permission to do anything they want to if you have one of those business cards. now, remember, with a business card as an entrepreneur you also sign for personal responsibility. the worst of all possible worlds. because of this loop hole in the law what i recommend is that you turn your business cards in for personal cards, because you were liable anyway. and just pay those personal cards from your business. you could always do that. now it becomes extra smart because then you're protected by the new protections in the credit card law that otherwise you're left high and dry from. and do this quickly.

>> next on "clark howard" -- >> we're trying to figure out when she gets to jfk if she should exchange money there. >> no, no, no, and no. >> caller: and then if she should -- >> no way!

after days of frantic searching a newborn boy is found safe. police got a key break in the case from a parking lot surveillance video. one of the real house wives is facing a real tragedy after a violent beating death outside an atlanta night club. also, a new energy drink pushes the limits with a controversial marketing campaign. just how close to a drug can caffeine get? good saturday to you. you're watching hln on this first weekend in october. so glad you are. i'm susan hendricks. those stories are just ahead. first, a newborn baby boy kidnapped from his mother has been found. >> 7-day-old anthony carillo was

found in a home in alabama at approximately 10:00 p.m. after investigators located the suspect involved in the tuesday attack. >> 39-year-old tammy rene silas was taken into custody by federal marshals after authorities formally charged her with kidnapping. she is accused of taking the baby from his home in tennessee on tuesday, just four days after the baby was born. police say his mother was stabbed several times during the kidnapping. a key break came after a car tammy renee rented was spotted on a surveillance tape following the mother out of a walmart parking lot. the baby is in a foster home until he can be reunited with his family. authorities still don't have a motive for the kidnapping. the fbi has arrested a man who allegedly stalked and took nude videos of sportscaster erin andrews. michael david barret is his name. he was taken into custody as he arrived at chicago's o'hare airport last night. he is facing federal charges of

interstate stalking. barrett allegedly followed andrews to several hotels and shot the videos through peepholes on doors to adjacent rooms. the fbi says he then tried to sell the videos to the celebrity website tmz. after tmz apparently refused he allegedly posted the videos on the internet. andrews thanked the fbi and federal prosecutors for their work on the arrest. she also said she hopes the case will help other people who have been victimized in a similar manner. the fiance of one of the real house wives of atlanta has been killed. police say a.j. jewel died from massive head injuries after a fight in the parking lot of an atlanta strip club. police say they have charged a suspect with voluntary manslaughter. there is no word yet on a motive. jewel had been engaged to cast member candy burress and appeared frequently on the show. police say he worked at the body tap club where the beating happened. burress has been tweeting about her fiance's death.

she is the newest member of the hit reality show and also an award winning singer and song writer. a monster typhoon is clobbering some people who were hit by another storm just last week. typhoon parma landed in the philippines today with more than 100-mile-per-hour winds when it hit the coast. however, the biggest threat is not wind but rain. another typhoon slammed some areas last week including the capital, manila. today's typhoon is expected to bring up to 20 more inches of rain. the government evacuated tens of thousands of people who were in the typhoon's path. air traffic control officials are working to get trans atlantic flights from britain back on schedule. that's because a glitch in the air traffic system in scotland caused dozens of flight delays this morning. officials say there was no risk to the safety of the passengers and that backup systems were used while engineers fixed the malfunction. british airways says it experienced minor delays but that the airline is now back on a normal schedule.

a remote area of eastern california has been hit by dozens of quakes since thursday, including several fairly big ones since last evening. the strongest in the past 24 hours was a magnitude 5.2 but several others also hit the area. the quake squaurm so it's called started on thursday with a magnitude 5 quake. they have been centered 180 miles north of los angeles in the sparsely populated owens valley. so far no substantial damage or injuries are reported. mourners gathered today for the funeral of a chicago honor student whose beating death was caught on tape. many civil rights leaders are expected to attend services for 16-year-old derrion albert. the images of his beating by a group of other teens shocked people across the nation. four teens are being held today without bail in the death of derrion albert. the reverend jesse jackson will speak at today's funeral. he says those pictures along

with increasing deadly violence in chicago may have cost the city the chance to host the 2016 olympics. you can play a great game and still not win. that is what president obama said after learning that chicago will not host the 2016 olympics. he and the first lady made personal pitches in denmark for having the games in their hometown but chicago was the first of the four finalists to be eliminated. quite a shocker. tokyo and madrid were also knocked out. rio de janeiro, the big winner. thousands of people celebrated at the city's copa cabana beach yesterday. the man who reportedly tried to extort money from david letterman has pleaded not guilty. joe halderman had a court hearing in new york yesterday. he is facing larceny charges that could land him in jail for up to 15 years. after the hearing halderman was released on $200,000 bail. he reportedly demanded $2 million to keep quiet about david letterman's affairs with co-workers. letterman admitted on thursday

to having sex with female staffers on his show. his production company says he didn't violate their harassment policy. cnn has learned the extortion suspect joe halderman is deep in debt despite having a six figure salary as a producer for the cbs show "48 hours." he was playing close to $7,000 a month month in ail moany and child from a 2003 divorce. he is 51 years old and a long-time employee of cbs. a recent contract put his salary at more than $200,000 a year. president obama is trying to make the case that health care reform will be good for job growth. right now the nation's unemployment rate stands at a whopping 9.8%. that is the highest it has been since 1983. in his weekly radio address the president said an overhaul of the country's health care system would help by making it more affordable for small businesses to start up. >> we certainly made progress on

this front since the period last winter when we were losing an average of 700,000 jobs each month. but yesterday's report on september job losses was a sobering reminder that progress comes in fits and starts and that we will need to grind out this recovery step by step. >> republicans are laying the blame for the sky high unemployment rate at the feet of president obama and the democrats. in their party's weekly address congresswoman candace miller said the president's economic stimulus bill fell far short of the mark. >> all tolled, our economy has lost roughly 3 million private sector jobs since president obama and speaker nancy pelosi's trillion dollar stimulus plan became law. at the time the people of michigan were told that the so-called stimulus would create jobs in our state immediately. more than 100,000 of them. well, now local economists say we're ontrack to lose 300,000 jobs this year alone. while the american people were

promised that the stimulus would prevent unemployment from rising above 8%, it's now teetering on the verge of 10%. >> miller also called for tax cuts for small businesses to help put the economy back ontrack. the former first husband of alaska has a change of plans.

a rally will be held in washington today in support of an american father arrested in japan. christopher saboy was locked up this week when he took his two kids from his japanese ex-wife. she reportedly took the children to japan without telling him which may have violated custody terms set in the u.s. his attorney says he was afraid he wouldn't be able to see his children ever again. the rally will include a candlelight vigil in front of the white house tonight.

former alaska governor sarah palin isn't the only member of her family to quit her job. last month her husband tom palin walked away from his oil field job. his resignation comes nearly two months after his wife stepped down as alaska's governor. palin's personal spokeswoman says todd palin is now spending more time with his family. he made a little more than $34,000 working part-time for british petroleum as a production operator. he also has a job working at his family's commercial fishing business. the national guard was called in to help provide security at some d.c. public schools. guardsmen were stationed at a high school football game last night along with police officers. the company that used to provide school security suddenly folded. d.c. schools were suddenly short 300 guards. that left school administrators scrambling and parents pretty worried. >> i'm real concerned as a parent because i didn't even let my own child go to school today for his safety.

>> a d.c. school spokesman says d.c. police who oversee school security hired two new security firms to fill in the gap. a 5-year-old florida boy who got trapped in a spinning washing machine was rescued just in time. the boy's mother ran into a nearby barber shop for help when her son got locked in the machine. an off duty cop was there luckily, rushed back to find the child already covered in water and suds. the officer couldn't yank open the jammed washer door so he ripped out the electrical wires to shut off the machine. >> i was thinking maybe he possibly would drowned in the water and thinking about him tumbling possibly, you know, could break his neck or something. so my thing was to get him out. >> when i seen him in there my heart just dropped. >> luckily, the boy only got a few bumps and bruises. he reportedly climbed into the washer and his younger brother accidently locked him in. that automatically started the machine. drew peterson's trial will not be moved to another county.

the former illinois police officer has pleaded not guilty in the death of his third wife kathleen savio. peterson's attorneys upset that the judge will also allow evidence under a so-called hearsay law. the evidence could include letters from savio that discussed her fear of him. peterson's attorney argues that using the letters is unfair because the defense can't cross examine a dead person. >> it was very rewarding to finally have a judge declare the statute constitutional on all grounds because as you guys know, it's been much maligned in the news media and the statute is equitable. it's fair. it will improve our system of justice. >> we can't be anything but disappointed. this law is -- when you read -- there have been legal commentators and lawyers who have commented on it that think it's a horrible law. i think it's a horrible law. >> at the time of her death peterson's ex-wife was seeking orders of protection against him. peterson also denies involvement in the disappearance of his

fourth wife. we have something new for you this weekend. we call it my city my secret. it's a look at hidden places in towns all across the country. we start with an insider tour of cincinnati. >> what's going on, dhani jones here from the cincinnati bengals and of course don't forget, cincinnati is my city. these are some of my best kept secrets. you're at the mt. adams bar and grill. i come to the mt. adams bar and grill because everybody knows my name. they have good music. the bartenders are cool. the food is absolutely fantastic. we are in downtown cincinnati at the aronoff center. it's art central, whether it be musicals, gallery showings, it's a premier place where people can come and express themselves. we're in eden park a place where

you can bring family and friends or be by yourself. what's unique is it's in the city, next to the river, and has these magnificent lakes. i might wander down with one of my model airplanes. sometimes i'll run my radio control cars. other times i'll set off rockets so i sort of live in my own world by taking advantage of the space. the tour is over. sorry, i have to go but i hope you enjoyed some of the best kept secrets of the great town of cincinnati.

as many as 4,000 people could be buried under this rubble following this week's deadly earthquakes in indonesia according to the united nations. people are digging with chisels, hammers, even bare hands, looking for survivors and belongings. a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit the city of sumatra wednesday and a 6.6 magnitude quake struck thursday in the same region. so far, government officials have confirmed more than 530 deaths. earlier the united nations estimated more than twice that number were killed but with thousands still listed as missing the death toll could easily go much higher than that. samoa's government is planning a mass burial tuesday for the island tsunami victims. 168 people have died there. nearby american samoa and tonga since the tsunami struck on

tuesday. medical teams are giving tetanus shots and antibiotics to survivors. one family buried four generations after 13 of its members died in the tsunami. they ranged in age from 9 months to 97 years old. very devastating. survivors of the tsunami say they are trying to cope as best they can with the disaster. >> just slipped through my hands. i couldn't help her anymore. at the time i was under the water. >> i just don't know whether to cry. it's so hopeless right now. all the things i worked for and it's gone in two minutes. that's how long the wave came in and took everything away from me. >> the u.s. coast guard reports that harbors are open and there is no significant pollution in the ports of american samoa. we are learning details about a settlement director

roman polanski made with his sexual assault victim. according to court documents in 1993 polanski agreed to pay the woman $500,000 to settle a civil lawsuit. court papers don't indicate if polanski ever paid but as of 1993 he still hadn't paid and owed her more than $100,000 more with interest. he pleaded guilty to having sex with the woman when she was just 13 years old after giving her champagne and part of a quaalude. he left the u.s. in 1978 the night before he was to be sentenced and was arrested last weekend in switzerland on a fugitive warrant. archeologists of britain have found a smaller, prehistoric site near the fabled stone hen nge. the new site is called blue henge. the stones are no longer there but the holes remain. the new site is about a mile from stone henge. archeologists say it could date back 5,000 years. two good samaritans put their lives on the line to

rescue some people from a burning car. witnesses say the car hit a tree at more than 100 miles per hour near chesapeake, virginia yesterday. a truck driver pulled over and sprayed the car with a fire extinguisher. police say another driver jumped in and pulled two people out. >> lost control and slid, i mean rapidly, very rapidly down the hill. disappeared into the woods into the embankment. >> one rescuer was slightly injured. the people in the burning car were hospitalized with burns and lacerations. police say someone could have died if those two good samaritans hadn't helped. a 420-pound gorilla who was almost blind should soon see the world more clearly. yesterday josephine had cataract surgery on both eyes. it's a unique procedure for gorillas. but that's not why keepers at the miami zoo were worried. >> the thing is she's a 42-year-old gorilla and the huge risk is the anesthesia. the surgery itself isn't as risky. this is an animal that because

of her advanced age when you keep in mind gorillas live to be usually around 50 or a little less 42 is an extremely advanced age for this animal. >> doctors say the surgery went well and once josephine heals, her quality of life at the zoo should greatly improve. if this dog could talk what tales of adventure he would tell. the old lab/boxer mix vanished ten years ago and was just found 1300 miles from home. an oklahoma family took him in as a stray. their vet found a microchip, which revealed the dog's name was brindle and his owner was from virginia. the little girl who found him by the side of the road says it was a happy ending. >> if i didn't, then he would just be sitting there right now with no family, no friends, no nothing. >> she is the cutest. the family tracked down brindle's owner on facebook and

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after days of frantic searching a newborn boy is found safe. police got a key break in the case from a parking lot surveillance video. and one of the real housewives is facing a real tragedy after a violent beating death outside an atlanta night club. also, a new energy drink pushes the limits with a controversial marketing campaign. just how close to a drug can caffeine get? good saturday to you. you're watching hln on this first weekend in october. i'm so glad you are. i'm susan hendricks. those stories are just ahead, but first a newborn baby boy kidnapped from his mother has been found.

>> 7-day-old anthony carillo was found in a home in ardmore, alabama at approximately 10:00 p.m. after investigators located the suspect involved in the tuesday attack. >> 39-year-old tammy renee silas was taken into custody by federal marshals after federal authorities formally charged her with kidnapping. she is accused of taking the baby from his home in tennessee on tuesday just four days after the baby was born. police say his mother was stabbed several times during the kidnapping. a key break in the case came after a car tammy renee rented was spotted on a surveillance tape following the mother out of a walmart parking lot. the baby is in a foster home until he can be reunited with his family. authorities still don't have a motive for the kidnapping. the fbi has arrested a man who allegedly stalked and took nude videos of sportscaster erin andrews. michael david barrett is his name. he was taken into custody as he arrived at chicago's o'hare airport last night.

he is facing federal charges of interstate stalking. barrett allegedly followed andrews to several hotels and shot the videos through peep holes on doors to adjacent rooms. the fbi says he then tried to sell the videos to the celebrity website tmz after tmz apparently refused he allegedly posted the videos on the internet. andrews thanked the fbi and federal prosecutors for their work on the arrest. she also said she hopes the case will help other people who have been victimized in a similar manner. the fiance of one of the real housewives of atlanta has been killed. police say a.j. jewel died from massive head injuries after a fight in the parking lot of an atlanta strip club. police say they have charged a suspect with voluntary manslaughter and there's no word yet on a motive. jewel had been engaged to cast member kandi burress and appeared frequently on the show. police say he worked at the body tap club where the beating happened. burress has been tweeting about her fiance's death. she is the newest member of the

hit reality show and is also an award winning singer and songwriter. a monster typhoon is clobbering some people who were hit by another storm just last week. typhoon parma landed in the philippines today with more than 100-mile-per-hour winds when it hit the coast. however, the biggest threat is not wind but rain. another typhoon slammed some areas last week including the capital, manila. and today's typhoon is expected to bring up to 20 more inches of rain. the government evacuated tens of thousands of people who were in the typhoon's path. air traffic control officials are working to get trans atlantic flights from britain back on schedule. that's because a glitch in the air traffic system in scotland caused dozens of flight delays this morning. officials say there was no risk to the safety of the passengers and that backup systems were used while engineers fixed the malfunction. british airways says it experienced minor delays but that the airline is now back on a normal schedule.

mourners gathered today for the funeral of a chicago honor student whose beating death was caught on tape. many civil rights leaders are expected to attend services for 16-year-old derrion albert. the images of his beating by a group of other teens shocked people across the nation. four teens are being held without bail in the death of derrion albert. the reverend jesse jackson will speak at today's funeral. he says those pictures along with increasing deadly violence in chicago may have cost the city the chance to host the 2016 olympics. you can play a great game and still not win. that is what president obama said after learning that chicago will not host the 2016 olympics. he and the first lady made personal pitches in denmark for having the games in their hometown but chicago was the first of the four finalists to be eliminated. quite a shocker. tokyo and madrid were also knocked out leaving rio de janeiro, the big winner. thousands of people celebrated at the city's copa cabana beach

yesterday. the man who reportedly tried to extort money from david letterman has pleaded not guilty. joe halderman had a court hearing in new york yesterday. he is facing larceny charges that could land him in jail for up to 15 years. after the hearing halderman was released on $200,000 bail. he reportedly demanded $2 million to keep quiet about david letterman's affairs with co-workers. letterman admitted on thursday to having sex with female staffers on a show. his production company says he didn't violate their harassment policy. cnn has learned the extortion suspect joe halderman is deep in debt despite having a six figure salary as a producer for the cbs show "48 hours." he was paying close to $7,000 a month in alimony and child support from a 2003 divorce. halderman is 51 years old and a long-time employee of cbs. a recent contract put his salary at more than $200,000 a year.

president obama is trying to make the case that health care reform will be good for job growth. right now the nation's unemployment rate stands at a whopping 9.8%. that is the highest it has been since 1983. in his weekly radio address the president said an overhaul of the country's health care system would help by making it more affordable for small businesses to start up. >> we certainly made progress on this front since the period last winter when we were losing an average of 700,000 jobs each month. but yesterday's report on september job losses was a sobering reminder that progress comes in fits and starts and that we will need to grind out this recovery step by step. >> republicans are laying the blame for the sky high unemployment rate at the feet of president obama and the democrats. in her party's weekly address congresswoman candice miller said the president's stimulus

bill fell short of the mark. >> all tolled our economy has lost roughly 3 million private sector jobs since president obama and speaker nancy pelosi's trillion dollar stimulus plan became law. at the time, the people of michigan were told that this so-called stimulus would create jobs in our state immediately. more than 100,000 of them. well, now local economists say we are ontrack to lose 300,000 jobs just this year alone. while the american people were promised that the stimulus would prevent unemployment from rising above 8%, it's now teetering on the verge of 10%. miller also called for tax cuts for small businesses to help put the economy back ontrack. japan is facing a fiscal squeeze. some say there is a segment of the population overlooked but key to the country's economic survival.

we hear about a lush mountain village on the japanese island where we're told we'll see the wave of the future. this 80 something couple high in the japanese mountains provides a glimpse of what the rest of an aging world might look like in the coming years. at first, i was afraid to touch the machine. i was afraid i'd break it, she says. a specially designed mouse and mini key board allows elderly hands to navigate in a modest house outfitted with business technology they are among 200 elderly who are the backbone of an agricultural company. almost half the residents in this town are 65 years and older. >> for more on this great story and other exciting sad vancadva medicine head to our website, cnn.com/vital signs.

a rally will be held in washington today in support of an american father arrested in japan. christopher savoie was locked up this week when he took his two kids from his japanese ex-wife. she reportedly took the children to japan without telling him, which may have violated custody terms set in the u.s. his attorney says savoie was afraid he wouldn't be able to see his children ever again. the rally will include a candlelight vigil in front of the white house tonight. former alaska governor sarah palin isn't the only member of her family to quit her job. last month her husband todd palin walked away from his oil field job. his resignation comes nearly two months after his wife stepped down as alaska's governor. palin's personal spokeswoman says todd palin is now spending

more time with his family. he made a little more than $34,000 working part-time for british petroleum as a production operator. he also has a job working at his family's commercial fishing business. the national guard was called in to help provide security at some d.c. public schools. guardsmen were stationed at a high school football game last night along with police officers. the company that used to provide school security suddenly folded. d.c. schools were suddenly short 300 guards. that left school administrators scrambling and parents pretty worried. >> i'm real concerned as a parent because i didn't even let my own child go to school today for his safety. >> a d.c. school spokesman says d.c. police who oversee school security hired two new security firms to fill in the gap. a 5-year-old florida boy who got trapped in a spinning washing machine was rescued just in time. the boy's mother ran into a nearby barber shop for help when her son got locked in the

machine. an off duty cop was there, luckily, rushed back to find the child already covered in water and suds. the officer couldn't yank open the jammed washer door so he ripped out the electrical wires to shut off the machine. >> i was thinking maybe he possibly would drown in the water and thinking about him tumbling and possibly breaking his neck or something so my thing was to get him out. >> when i seen him in there my heart just dropped. >> luckily, the boy only got a few bumps and bruises and reportedly climbed into the washer and his younger brother accidently locked him in. that automatically started the machine. drew peterson's trial will not be moved to another county, will not. the former illinois police officer has pleaded not guilty in the death of his third wife kathleen savio. peterson's attorney is upset a judge will also allow evidence under a so-called hearsay law. the evidence could include letters from savio that discuss her fear of him. peterson's attorney argues that using the letters is unfair

because the defense can't cross examine a dead person. >> it was very rewarding to finally have a judge declare the statute constitutional on all grounds, because as you guys know, it's been much maligned in the news media and the statute is equitable. it's fair. and it will improve our system of justice. >> we can't be anything but disappointed. this law is -- when you read -- there have been legal commentators and lawyers who have commented on it that think it's a horrible law. i think it's a horrible law. >> at the time of her death peterson's ex-wife was seeking orders of protection against him. peterson also denies involvement in the disappearance of his fourth wife. a california man accused of having a gang sign tatooed on his 7-year-old son will not face a charge of mayhem which carries a potential life sentence. he still faces seven to ten years for child endangerment along with his friend who inked a dog paw on the boy's hip.

the paw is a symbol of the fresno bulldogs gang. the judge agreed with defense attorneys that any damage left by a small tatoo does not amount to permanent and painful disfigurement. she says that law is more appropriately applied to injuries from beatings and stabbings. the man says he allowed his son to get the tatoo because the boy wanted it. the tatoo meanwhile is being removed. a 42-year-old grandmother gorilla who was going blind has a new outlook on life. the delicate surgery to restore her vision wasn't even the tricky part of the operation.

as many as 4,000 people could be buried under this, the rubble following this week's devastating earthquakes in indonesia according to the united nations. people are digging with chisels, hammers, even their bare hands, looking for survivors and belongings. a 7.6 magnitude earthquake hit the city of sumatra wednesday and a 6.6 magnitude quake struck thursday in the same region. so far government officials have

confirmed more than 530 deaths. earlier the united nations estimated more than twice that number were killed but with thousands listed as missing the death toll could easily go much higher. samoa's government is planning a mass burial tuesday for the island's tsunami victims. 168 people have died there. nearby american samoa and tonga since the tsunami struck on tuesday. medical teams are giving tetanus shots and antibiotics to survivors. one family buried four generations after 13 of its members died in the tsunami. they ranged in age from 9 months to 97 years old. very devastating. survivors of the tsunami say they are trying to cope as best they can with the disaster. >> the lady just slipped through my hands. i couldn't help her anymore. at the time i was under the water. >> i don't know. i don't know. just feeling -- i don't know whether to cry or -- it's so

hopeless right now. all the things i worked for gone in two minutes. that's how long the wave came in and took everything away from me. >> the u.s. coast guard reports that harbors are open and there is no significant pollution in the ports of american samoa. we are learning details about a settlement director roman polanski made with his sexual assault victim. according to court documents, in 1993 polanski agreed to pay the woman $500,000 to settle a civil lawsuit. court papers don't indicate if polanski ever paid but as of 1993 he still hadn't paid and owed her more than $100,000 more with interest. he pleaded guilty to having sex with the woman when she was just 13 years old after giving her champagne and part of a quaalude. polanski left the u.s. in 1978 the night before he was to be sentenced and was arrested last weekend in switzerland on a fugitive warrant.

two good samaritans put their lives on the line to rescue some people from a burning car. witnesses say the car hit a tree at more than 100 miles per hour near chesapeake, virginia yesterday. a truck driver pulled over and sprayed the car with a fire extinguisher. police say another driver jumped in and pulled two people out. >> lost control and slid, i mean rapidly, very rapidly down the hill. disappeared in the woods into the embankment. >> one rescuer was slightly injured. the people in the burning car were hospitalized with burns and lacerations. police say someone could have died if the two good samaritans hadn't helped. a 420-pound gorilla who was almost blind should soon see the world more clearly. yesterday josephine had cataract surgery on both her eyes. it's a unique procedure for gorillas but that's not why keepers at the miami zoo were worried. >> the thing is she's a 42-year-old gorilla and the huge risk is the anesthesia. the surgery itself is not as

risky. this is an animal that because of her advanced age when you keep in mind that gorillas live to be usually around 50, actually a little less, 42 is an extremely advanced age for this animal. >> doctors say the surgery went well and once josephine heals her quality of life at the zoo should greatly improve. if this dog could talk what tales of adventure he would tell. the old lab/boxer mix vanished ten years ago and was just found 1300 miles from home. an oklahoma family took him in as a stray. their vet found a microchip which revealed the dog's name was brindle and also his owner was from virginia. the little girl who found him by the side of the road says it was a happy ending. >> if i didn't, then he would just be sitting there right now with no family, no friends, no nothing. >> she is the cutest. the family tracked down

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a brutal, deadly beating. four people charged with first-degree murder. a vicious attack captured on this cell phone video, so disturbing. derrion albert, a 16-year-old honor student kicked, hit in the head with a 2 x 4, just a good kid, promising future. his makeshift memorial was even burned so why was he a target? plus an unlikely hero. a man in a wheelchair stops a suspected man from groping a little girl in the toy aisle at walmart. the suspect tries to make a run for it but our hero steps in and makes the tackle against the soda machine. i'll have the honor of talking with this brave man coming up.

controversy, opinion. your point of view. this is "prime news." i'm mike galanos. all right. we have major developments in the haleigh cummings case. the last person to see the 5-year-old is avoiding police. even skipped town. misty cummings now back in florida after a nasty blowup with her new husband, ron, haleigh's dad. cops want answers. we all do. why won't haleigh's step mom come clean? earlier this week i had a chance to speak with a psycho therapist and tj hart program news director in gainsville to sort out some answers. all right. tj, get us up to speed. misty, back in satsuma, give us the lowdown. where was she and who was she with? >> she was down in orlando with a friend for a day or two and went to the park and spent a few days around the area and then i spoke with misty just last night and also with her mother-in-law,

said the two got together for the weekend, ronald and misty. also went to a park, let junior get away from the hubbub that goes on with folks trying to sneak around for stories in the area. ron came back a day early and misty came back a day later and since then the police have held open an open invitation for her and extended that once again any time she wants to, welcome to come in and get that time line straightened out. >> okay. was there a nasty fight, her and ron, and that's why she high tailed it to orlando or was this a planned trip? help us out with that, tj. >> well, my sources tell me it was a planned trip but there are other conflicting stories out there that say, yeah. if a fight did take place. i will tell you that during this period of time a pond was being drained. tensions were high. no one knew if a child was in the pond that was being drained. there were a lot of people calling the home, stopping by, a lot of raw nerves and a lot of

other friction going on, too. remember, her brother tommy crosslin was in jail on $50,000 bond for theft of a gun and he had just made mention that he didn't believe she was home the night the baby disappeared. that factored into a lot of the hubbub around the household at that time, too. >> okay. haleigh's grandmother was on nancy grace' show last night and they called the family dysfunctional. let's listen. >> to me, it's a very dysfunctional family and that's the best way i can describe that. one minute, you know, they say one thing and then the next minute they call and say, well, i was sorry. you know, i didn't mean to say that. and we'll do better next time. so i just don't know what to think of the whole thing. >> again, that's ron's mom. stacy kaiser, she nailed it, dysfunction. that's putting it mildly isn't it? >> i think it is. it sounds to me like a family

that doesn't take good responsibility for their actions and make change when they're supposed to. >> let's get a call-in, guys. jennifer with us in florida. your thoughts here? >> caller: hi, mike. i love your show. >> thanks. >> caller: thank you. my theory is, sir, on haleigh cummings, i do believe misty took haleigh and junior to the party. okay? this is very parallel to the casey anthony case. >> you're thinking the partying was part of that with little kayll kaylie and casey as well. it's a growing trend with young mothers. they take their children so they can party. >> you're not the only one that believes that theory. thanks for the call. tj, clarify for us again, we're backtracking here but let's get the viewers up to speed on the theory that there was a party.

that misty took the kids to it or at least haleigh. help us out. what do we know of this theory? >> this comes from a letter that our radio station received through a private investigator and it came from a party pal of misty's to her boyfriend. he took it to a mutual friend of all of ours. she scan/faxed it to us and she makes reference in it to a signed statement by a guy named joe. it's all about this statement she alludes to in all of her letters that state there was supposedly a party where haleigh was taken along with junior andw other people at a guy named chad's house. the baby allegedly ate oxycontin, died, put into a black bag and dumped into a pond. a pond was drained of course but whether that has any relevance to the letter or not, but that is the story going around. they haven't found a dead child. they're still looking for a live

one. >> all right. coming up, michael jackson's autopsy is out. we're finding out he wasn't the sickly skeleton he was portrayed by the tabloids to be. he was a healthy, 50-year-old man. no illegal drugs in his system. this could be a huge blow to the defense of dr. conrad murray.

there are foreclosed homes really littered across neighborhoods, across this country. might even have some in your own neighborhood. there's a new federal program to help some hot buyers and ease this housing crisis. the program is off to a pretty slow start. >> super duper. thank you. >> reporter: finally lisa has the key to a new home, the first she's ever owned. >> when's the house warming

party? >> right now. >> reporter: but reaching this moment has been a test of endurance. she bought the house with the help of the federal government's neighborhood stabilization program or nsp which has $6 billion to help people buy foreclosed or abandoned homes in 250 cities nationwide. but most of the money hasn't been spent yet and how it's distributed varies from state to state. in phoenix, arizona the goal is to help 900 home buyers. but six months into the program lisa is just the third person to close on a home. >> what's it been like? >> it's been rough. it's been a long process. >> tired? >> no, i was more annoyed. >> reporter: since june we've tracked lisa's progress through the neighborhood stabilization program one of the nsp programs offers prospective home buyers up to $15,000 to cover downpayment and closing costs. the idea was also to help banks get foreclosed homes off their books and keep neighborhoods from deteriorating in value. >> $15,000 back.

>> reporter: but lisa's real estate agent lance connelly doesn't think banks got the memo. did you find banks were eager or willing to deal with you? >> no, not -- pretty much every bank except for fannie mae was pretty much unreceptive to the program whatsoever. >> reporter: the housing department official in charge of dishing out the money here in phoenix says people like lisa are competing with real estate investors. they offer the banks cash, usually at a lower price. locasio bid on nearly 30 homes before striking a deal. >> reporter: do you still think this is money well spent? >> i do. any time you stabilize a neighborhood, that's the fabric of our communities, so ghost towns don't do anybody any good at all. >> reporter: maria is trying to build momentum and has helped organize this spanish language telethon to get the word out. city housing officials say there

is reason to be optimistic about the plan. another 72 families have been approved and are ready to start home shopping. everyone here agrees this program is off to a slow start but the neighborhood stabilization program won't last forever. the clock is ticking and set to expire toward the end of next year. cnn, phoenix, arizona. let's meet one of cnn's top ten heroes. >> this is cnn heroes. >> hello. i'm john legend. during last year's cnn heroes and the all star tribute i had the honor of performing and helping to 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 to be able to help cnn introduce one of this year's top ten honorees. now more than ever the world needs heroes. >> approximately 1 billion people lack access to clean

water. it's killing more children than aids and malaria combined, yet it can be prevented. your regulars sit on the same stool, pay the same tab every day. i felt they really wanted to be part of something. my name is doc henry. i used to be a bartender and now i provide clean water to people in need. i got on the ground in darfur seeing these people live in conflict yet 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. that joy is the only thing that helps lift the burden. you can be just a regular anybody and really can change the world. i'm walking truth of that.

coming up on the show, david letterman comes out with a stunning announcement on national tv, admits he's had sex with multiple women who have worked for him. why did he come clean? allegedly he was being blackmailed by a cbs producer from another show demanding $2 million. we'll hit this on all fronts from the blackmail plot to letterman coming clean on national tv to whether or not it was even right for him to have the relationships in the first place. all right. i know you're sticking around for that. here is a new way for you to join the conversation. become a fan of prime news on facebook. go to facebook. look for us there. prime news, hln. you'll get behind-the-scenes footage. look at that. picture of the pensive mike galanos. can't resist that. check it out. facebook, become a fan.