thousands of people in california told to pack their bags. they have to go. a fast-moving wildfire is burning through the san bernardino national forest, but nature may be stepping in to slow things down. a new report says the number of kids diagnosed with autism and related conditions is climbing pretty quickly. what in the world is behind this increase? and, sure, they look cute. as florida woman found out, some raccoons are not in the mood to make nice. i'm richelle carey. welcome to hln "news and views" on this monday. let's get things started. mild winds and cooler temperatures are expected to. crews on the scene of a

fast-moving wildfire. this thing is burning in southern california. the so-called sheet fire has already burned more than 7,000 acres. it is threatening dozens of homes, and san bernardino county. fire officials say between 4,000 and 6,000 people were told they had to leave. the resort town of wrightwood is under a mandatory evacuation order. it not optional. residents quickly gathered what they could, packed it in their vehicles and got out. >> everything we could think of. clothes, computers. pictures. albums. >> mostly clothes and valuables. stuff from my wife's family. >> we evacuated 40 head from my ranch last night. >> tough time for them. california governor arnold schwarzenegger declared a state of emergency noor county. ten area schools are closed because of this fire. we are keeping an eye on that for you. the man accused of secretly taping espn reporter erin andrews in the nude will go

before a judge in chicago today. michael david barrett is charged with interstate stalking, accused of recording videos way cell phone camera through ultra peepholes in hotel room doors. prosecutors say barrett tried to sell the videos to celebrity website tmz.com. the judge is expected to decide whether barrett should be sent to los angeles as a federal prisoner to face charges or released on bail. tmz is based in los angeles. the attorney for the cbs news producer charged with trying to extort $2 million from david letterman says we've only heard one side ever the story. joe halderman pleaded not guilty to attempted first-degree grand lawrenceny and now out on bond. earlier today his attorney made the morning show rounds, as it sometimes customary in high profile cases like this. in an interview on the nbc "today" show, he accused the host of manipulating the story. >> david letterman didn't give his side of the story.

david letterman gave what he wanted the public to know. get out ahead of the story, that's what he did. he's a master of manipulating audiences. that's when he does for a living. to think david letterman gave the entire story and there's nothing more to be said is simply wrong. >> reporter: halderman's attorney said he is looking forward to cross-examining david letterman in court. accused of blowing up a dallas skyscraper returns to court today. the judge is holding a hearing on whether there is enough evidence to prosecute him. hosam maher smadi is charged with trying to use a weapon of mass destruction. >> some of the people told me that he was more of a party animal than a philosopher. >> reporter: two weeks before his arrest pulled over for a string of traffic violations and a dash cam video shows him asking about the legal process.

investigators have several people under round-the-clock surveillance in connection to a plot to explode bombs from new york, that's from a source close to this investigation, saying some traveled to pakistan with najibullah zazi now back in the u.s. he faces conspiracy charges related to the bomb plot. he pleaded not guilty last week and a jury is considering more charges in the case. some really unbelievable numbers. nearly 1 in 100 kids in the u.s. has some type of autism disorder. startling. those are the stunning results of two new government studies. the finding is a big increase over previous studies based on a survey of more than 78,000 people and health records. researchers caution greater awareness and more accurate diagnostic techniques explains some of this increase. a newborn baby who was kidnapped from his mother in nashville then briefly reunited

with her a actually now in state custody. authorities also removed the baby's three siblings from her home for what they're calling safety concerns. police say a woman posing as an immigration worker went to her house tuesday, stabbed her eight times and took the four-day-old baby. they found yair anthony carillo. they charged a woman with kidnapping. they got to see their baby before taken into foster care. they're not elaborating. foster care is generally temporary. a man is in the hospital with significant injuries to his arms after being attack by a tiger at the kag calgary zoo. more information about what's

happening now. >> -- came into contact with our 2-year-old male tiger vitaly that had overnight access to the yard. the second went to the aid of his companion and they managed to get away from the tiger. security personnel were alerted to the incident when one called for assistance on a kren phone. the security officer received the call ran towards the tiger exhibit and encountered both men on a public path just east of the tiger enclosure. she took the men to the zoo security office, arriving at 1:07 a.m. a call was immediately placed to 911, requesting police and medical assistance. another member of the zoo security staff administered first aid to the injured man. the second man refused any first-aid treatment. paramedic arrived at the zoo security at 1:13 a.m. one man was transported to foothills hospital where his

injuries are being treated. the information we have is while his injuries appear not to be life threatening they are, however, quite serious. calgary police services is investigating with the assistance of calgary zoo staff. the director and zookeeper were called immediately after the incident and the tiger locked indoors while the investigation took place. the tiger enclosure is surrounded by two fences. one of them 42 inches in height. designed to keep the public from coming too close to the enclosu enclosure, and the second designed to keep the tigers inside their exhibit area. the second exhibit fence is 15 feet in height way three-foot overhang joined at a 90-degree angle to the top of the main fence. it also has a four-strand, 120 volt hot wire located about 16 inches from the end of the overhang. we currently have three adult siberian tigers at the calgary zoo. a 14-year-old female, a

9-year-old female and the 2-year-old male. the male tiger vitaly had access to the outside yard overnight, as i mentioned, and the two females were inside the building when the incident occurred. that is my statement, and we'll open the floor to questions now. would you like to -- >> i climbed the public fence slightly north of the west public gate. >> [ inaudible ]. >> the west gate, slightly north of the west gate. >> are there security cameras that might have been captured on? any way to monitor the public coming in? >> yes, there are cameras around the zoo. >> you've been listening to an update from the calgary zoo, and this is why. it appears two gentlemen, we're not sure of their age, first broke into the calgary zoo at 1:00 a.m. then once they got into the zoo, decided to break into the tiger

exhibit with two fences. at least one fence being 15 feet tall. where there's three siberian tigers. two were not accessible to the area they broke into, but one of the siberian tigers was. one of the gentleman ended up with serious injuries. he's now in the hospital. don't believe the injuries are life threatening but she in the hospital because he came in contact way siberian tiger. wanted to get thaw information. move on with the rest of the day's news. today the swine flu vaccine is a reality. we'll let you know who's first in line for inoculations on hln "news and views."

some people will start getting the new swine flu vaccine today. the first 600,000 doses are going to health departments in 21 states and 4 large cities. the plan is to start vaccinating health care workers, because they're the most likely to come

in contact with the h1n1 virus. some states have other ideas. alaska will give its first doses to preschoolers. pennsylvania's going to target grade school students. the first batch of the vaccine are in the form of a nasal spray, and in a week or so, swine flu shots will be ready. okay. time for your views on this vaccine. let's take some callers starting with sheri calling us from indiana. all right, sheri, do you have any concerns about it? are you going to get the xwlot tell us what your thoughts are. >> caller: well i have a grab d granddaughter that lives in cincinnati, 13, just diagnosed on sunday with the swine flu. >> okay. all right. how's she doing now? >> caller: well, she's very sick. she's at home, and one of the strange things is, she broke out in a rash with hers. >> okay. >> caller: would i get the vaccine? absolutely. >> all right. >> caller: i'd rather be safe than sorry. >> appreciate that, and i hope

she gets well very, very quickly. thank you for calling. appreciate it. >> caller: you're welcome. >> randy is calling from new york. you have concerns about this shot? >> caller: well, i do. i'm concerned that, of side effects. vaccine that's rushed out. at the rick of sounding paranoid, i don't think i want to be a guinea pig for this first round of vaccines. i may wait a little while, or, and just see what happens with the first vaccinated subjects. >> are you the type of person whose concerned with vaccines in general, or are you concerned because of what were you saying, how quickly this one came out? >> caller: it's because how quickly this came out. it would have been nice to see a little more testing to just kind of get the feel of what's going to go on or what may lap wihapph the subjects. >> are you going to wash hands

and take all the other precautions? >> caller: definitely. >> randy, take care. appreciate your phone call. and from atlanta. are you going to get the shot? are you concerned about getting the swine flu? >> caller: i'm not concerned with the swine flu but absolutely not. i'm not taking the h1n1, because i was listening to a public radio station, and they stated a lot of the people, a lot of the -- like whoever created the h1n1 stated they would let their friends and family know not to take it, because it's not enough research. >> the person who actually graded it, or are you saying in general you've heard some medical professionals are a little wary as well? >> caller: no. actually on a public radio station. the warren beatty show, and saying you have to -- that they're not going to let them take it. he's recommending they not take it, and he's not going to take it. it's not enough research.

>> you're still a little concerned about it. shirr sherry, hope you stay well. >> caller: thank you. we want to know, are you planning on getting the h1n1 vaccine? are you concerned about the shot? are you concerned about the flu? continue to call in and you can comment on my facebook page at richelle carey hln and call us, 1-877-tell-hln and we're taking e-mails at cnn.com/hln. we'll keep talking about this. a 74-year-old florida woman is recovering from a brutal attack by a pack of wild animals. we don't mean bears, wolves. we're talking about some raccoons. and neighbors say the attack was actually pretty vicious.

the mother of a chicago teen seen beaten to death on video says she can't bear to watch the tape. understandably, but says she does want it shown. derrion albert was laid to rest saturday. city officials and officials and leaders all attended that funeral. talking about her child's vicious beating. she joined cnn i. can't watch it, but i want them to see. i want them to know what they're doing. i want them to see what they did to my son, because they need to

pay for this. you know, it's unfortunate that these are kids doing this, but something's got to be done. somebody's got to step in. >> so this, right here, is the amateur video that she's talking about, caught on cell phone. police say derrion albert was an innocent bystander when two gangs got into a fight. two suspects charged with first-degree murder and police are still looking for more suspects. the former fiance of a housewife killed in a fight. a.j. jewel seen with candy burress who joined this season. he suffer add severe blow outside a strip club. they arrested and charged a man in his death. new details tonight in another missing persons case. haleigh cummings baby-sitter slash stepmom misty koss

croslin. tension between her and haleigh's dad is heating up. will pressure from police and intense scrutiny lead misty to tell about the night the little girl vanished? waup for the late breaking developments right here on "hln's" "news and views." a woman killed when her pet bear turned on her. authorities in pennsylvania say the 37-year-old woman stepped into the black bear's steel cage and was attacked by this 350 pound animal. a neighbor shot and killed the bear. the woman also had a permit to keep a bengal tiger and an african lion on her property. the 74-year-old woman is in a hospital after being attacked by five raccoons. this is what happened. she says she heard noises in her backyard. opens up the door and these raccoons started to bite and scratch her legs. it sounds funny. it's not, because it was actually pretty violent. and some people were kind of scared.

>> they viciously attacked her. i mean, she has large, gaping wounds on her legs. >> there was blood everywhere. and she -- had a gash on the back of her head. her legs were just -- open, exposed. i have three little children, and you know, it's nothing to walk at night, at 5:00. >> frankly, we are frightened that if they're comfortable with this conduct, what's to stop them from attacking again? >> a neighbor heard her screaming, and went to help her. yikes. three americans sharing the nobel prize in medicine. the institute that hands out the award says they won for their work on chromosome research. which has pretty big implications for understanding aging and cancer. the prize includes $1.4 million. congratulations to them. did you know that car rental companies have cut back on their

fleets? but not their rates. hln money expert clark howard tells you thousand beat high prices and recession. >> do you know that car renteral companies being on the financial road have been in the best position of anybody in the travel business to do something about the country being in a recession. they've simply reduced the number of car rentals that they have in their fleets. if you think about hotels, they don't suddenly shut all the hotel. airlines, what do they do? they park a lot of planes in the desert, but they're expensive. the car renteral company can simply say, we're not going to buy as many new cars for this next cycle. that's what they've done, reducing the number of cars on hand by very, very large numbers. meaning, car renteral prices are going up, not down, in a down economy. how should you beat it? well, shop multiple companies, and try hotwire and priceline for big savings on car rentals. i'm clark howard. for more ways for you to save a

dollar, go to cnn.com/clarkhoward.

mild winds, cold temperatures, that's what you want to hear, if you're on the crews working this fast-moving wildfire in southern california. the sheet fire burn more than 7,000 acres and is threatening dozens of homes in san bernardino county. fire officials say between 4,000 and 6,000 people have been told to leave. the resort town of wrightwood is under a mandatory evacuation order. residents quickly gathered what they could and threw it in their vehicles and got out. >> got everything we could think of. clothe, computers, pictures. albums. >> mostly just clothes and

valuables. this is stuff from my wife's family. >> we evacuated 40 head from my ranch last night. >> california governor arnold schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency for the county. also ten area schools are closed because of this fire. the man accused of secretly taping espn reporter erin andrews in the nude will go before a chicago judge today. michael david barrett is charged with interstate stalking. he's accused of recording the videos way cell phone camera through ultra peepholes in hotel room doors. just creepy. prosecutors say barrett tried to sell the videos to the celebrity website tmz.com. the judge is expected to decide whether he should be sent as a federal prisoner to face charges or release on bail. tmz is based in los angeles. the attorney for the cbs news producer charged with trying to extort $2 million from david letterman says we've only heard one side of the story. joe halderman pleaded not guilty friday to attempted first-degree

grand larceny and now is out on bond. earlier today his attorney made the round on the morning shows. on an interview on nbc's "today" show accused the late-night talk show host of manipulating the story. >> david letterman didn't give his side of the story. he gave when he wanted the public to know. he wanted to get out ahead of the story. that's exactly what he did. he's a master of manipulating audiences. that's what he did. to think he gave the entire story and there's nothing more to be said is simply wrong. >> halderman's attorney is looking forward to getting a chance to cross-examine david letterman in court. a 19-year-old accused of trying to blow up a dallas skyscraper returns to court today. a judge is holding a hearing on whether there's enough evidence to actually prosecute him. hosam maher smadi is charged with trying to detton whait he believed was a truck bomb beneath the 60-story building. his former landlord says he

didn't think there was anything suspicious about him. >> some of the people have told me that he was more of a party animal. >> a couple weeks before his arrest, smadi was pulled over for a string of traffic violations and there's a dash cam video of him asking about the legal process. investigators have several people under round-the-clock surveillance in connection with a plot to explode bombs in new york. that's from a source close to this investigation. they say some traveled to pakistan with notch moola zazi and are now back in the u.s. he faces conspiracy charges relatesed to this bomb plot. he pleaded not guilty last week. the grand jury is considering more charges in this case. nearly 1 in 100 kids in the u.s. has some type of autism disorder. those are the stunning results of two new government studies. the finding is a pretty big increase over other studies in the past. this is based on a survey of

more than 78,000 parents and a cdc review of health records. researchers caution that greater awareness and more accurate diagnostic techniques explain some of this pretty significant increase. a newborn baby who was kidnapped from his mother in nashville then briefly reunited with her, the baby is now in state custody. authorities also removed the baby's three siblings from her home for what they are calling safety concerns. police say a woman posing as an immigration worker went to her home tuesday, stabbed her eight times, and took her 4 day old baby. investigators found yair carillo friday night in a home in alabama three days after being abducted and arrested tammy renee silas and charged her with kidnapping. carillo got to see her baby saturday before authorities put him and three other children in foster care. state officials say the children were taken for safety reasons. they're not giving anymore information besides that.

they say foster care is generally temporary. a 3-year-old is physically okay after something horrible. she was found in a house where her father was shot twice. and two other people were killed. authorities think the shooting was drug related. they say a group of men tortured the girl's father, a roommate and a woman visiting. they found this 3-year-old under the woman's body. >> they tortured him and said if you're going to sell drugs, you're going to sell our drugs, and, by the way, where's the $5,000? >> like i said, she's physically okay. the girl's father is in serious condition. police are still looking for the suspects. president obama is bringing in reinforcements to help him push for health care reform. doctors and nurses, the president says, they support plans to overhaul the system because they're the ones who know the system best. >> these doctors know what needs

to be fixed about our health care system, and they know what health insurance reform will do. that it will go a long way towards making parents healthier and doctors and nurses be able to perform that, those tasks that are so important to them and led them into medicine in the first place. >> the president is telling congress, the country has heard all the arguments about health care reform. now he says it's time to get the job done. this weekend there was the deadliest attack on u.s. forces in afghanistan, and more than a year. hundreds of militants attacked it their outpost in the newer stans province. the military says after a 12-hour battle the militants were finally pushed back. today, two nato service members were killed in southern afghanistan. one of them was american. last week the top u.s. commander in afghanistan, general stanley mcchrystal, made a public plea for more troops. he has asked president obama for

as many as 40,000 additional troops. >> ideally, it's better for military advice to come up through the chain of command, and i think that general mcchrystal and the others in the chain of command will present the president with not just one option, which does, in fact, tend to have you know, forcing function, but a range of options that the president can consider. >> the obama administration says it's reviewing u.s. strategy in afghanistan. doctors face a potentially deadly dilemma in treating pashgts that contract the swine flu. find out what happened to one mother when she was stricken.

swine flu continues to march across the united states, even though it regularly pa lly make headlines. our affiliate introduces us to one patient. >> reporter: heather lost her battle against h1n1 and now her 8-year-old son will grow up without her. >> i'd give anything to hold her and tell her how much i love her. >> reporter: deborah took her sick daughter to a local hospital on september 22nd. she had a high fever and a cough. she says doctors suspected swine flu, but they didn't give them a prescription for tamiflu. >> he said it was being used for hieb bris patients and felt my daughter would be okay to take tylenol. had sleep apnea, breathing difficulties and obese.

three things that puts somebody at high risk. >> reporter: they went home, two days later she called her primary doctor. her daughter wasn't getting better. she says he prescribed an antibiotic, still no tamiflu. that night she dialed 911. >> didn't know where she was. her lips were turning purple. >> on a ventilator eight days but didn't make it. now her family wonders if tamiflu could have saved her life. they hope their loss sends a message to other doctors and to hospitals. >> i think she would have had a better chance of fighting. you know? whether the outcome would be the same, god knows, i don't. but it would have given her a chance to fight. >> that report from our affiliate wfaa. heather was the sixth person to die of swine flu in dallas county. and some people will start getting the swine flu vaccine today. the first 600,000 doses are going to health departments in 21 states and 4 large cities. the very first batch will be

sent to a children's medical center in memphis. the plan is to start vaccinating health care workers, because they're the most likely to come in contact with the h1n1 virus. some states, though, their plan of attack is different alaska will give their first to preschoolers and pennsylvania will target grade school students. the first batch is in the form of a nasal spray. in a week or so, swine flu shots will be ready, and we want to know, are you planning to get the vaccine? are you worried about the vaccine? worried about the shot? are you more worried about the flu itself? reach out to us. comment on my facebook page. go to richelle carey hln, where you can search in facebook and e-mail us at cnn.com/hln. we'll be talking about this throughout the day. we also have new video to show you. florida fish and wildlife officials are trying to figure out how a dead whale made it into tampa bay.

it was found floating in the bay sunday morning. a marine towing company removed it to do an autopsy. once done, the animal will be buried at sea. checked out the new addition to our primetile lineup? joy behar jb airs right here on hln. friday she shatted with comedian kathy griffin. >> i want to be jennifer aniston. >> why? >> because then my life would be better and i'd be happy and have everything figured out. >> she doesn't have a boyfriend half the time i. want to be somebody from the hills. i want to be one of the kardashians. >> no, you don't. >> yes. i want to be chloe. >> but -- >> there. you didn't see that coming. you thought i'd say kim. >> i don't even know who they are. >> catch the joy behar show, 9:00 eastern time right here on hln. a woman was attacked and killed by a 350-pound bear. and police have a few questions for her husband.

indonesia called off the search for survivors after last week's earthquakes saying no one could have survived under rubble this long. emergency workers are now clearing all of this debris. the u.n. says it's focusing on relief for the survivorsurvivor. devastating quakes hit indonesia last week. more than 600 people died and more than 300 are missing. the mother of a chicago teen, the one who was beaten to death on video, the one we have seen, says she cannot bear to watch the tape, but she does want it shown. talking about derrion albert. he was laid to rest saturday. family member, city officials, community leaders all showed up for his funeral and jeanette albert sat down with our sister station cnn and talked about the krishs beating of her child. >> i can't watch it, but i want them to see. i want them to know what they're doing. i want them to see what they did to my son, because they need to

pay for this. you know, it's unfortunate that these are kids doing this, but something's got to be done. somebody's got to step in. >> so this is the amateur video, all on cell phone, that she is talking about. police say derrion was just an innocent bystander and two gangs got into a fight. four suspects are charged with first-degree murder and police are still looking for more suspects. the former fiance of a cast member on "the real housewives" was killed sunday. he suffered a severe blow in a fight outside a strip club. they have arrested and charged a man in his death. two setbacks for drew peterson, the chicago area cop accused of killing his third wife kath reen saabio. not only did a judge reject his request to move the murder trial also would allow hearsay

evidence nap could include savio's request for orders of protection and letters wrote where she said peterson would kill her to shut her up. peterson's lawyer says it's not fair, because there's no chance for the defense to cross-examine and challenge all this evidence. peterson pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the savio case and is also a suspect in his fourth wife's stacy peterson's disappearance. he has denied any wrongdoing in all of this. well, new details tonight, in another missile person's case. haleigh cummings baby-sitter/stepmom misty croslin returns from vacation and tension between her and may lee's dad said to be heating up. pressure from police plus intense scrutiny get her to tell? watch nancy grace for it latest breaking developments at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern time right here on hln "news and views." a woman was killed when her

pet bear turned on her. authorities in pennsylvania say the 37-year-old woman stepped into the black bear's steel cage and was attacked by the 350-pound animal. a neighbor stepped in and shot and killed this bear. authorities say the woman's husband is a dealer in exotic pets and was operating with a license that expired more than a year ago. a 74-year-old woman is in the hospital after being attacked. not by a bear, tiger, nothing like that. by five raccoons. she said she'd heard noises in her backyard. goes to the door, see what's going on. opens the door. anybody would. then raccoons began to bite and scratch her legs. it was very violent. now people in the neighborhood are scared. >> they viciously attack her. i meep, she has large, gaping wounds on her legs. >> there was blood everywhere. and she had a cash on the back

of her head. her legs were just open, exposed. i have three little children, and it's nothing to walk at night at 5:00. >> quite frankly, we're frightened that if they're comfortable with this conduct, what's to stop them from attacking again? tops stop them from attacking again? >> a neighbor heard the woman scream and then went to help her. a colorado cabbie who rescued a woman from a fire will be named the dwrax driver of the year. in february, was picking up a customer when noticed the neighboring apartment in flames so he rushed in to get a wheelchair-bound woman and carried her out. >> i was there for part of the good day for a drive. >> they wanted me to be there not just to collect $40 but to save a precious life. >> his mother flew in from senegal to get his award. how nice. when it comes to leaving product feedback online, people

tend to play nice. product information back online, feedback, that's what review tracking websites are reporting. review average grade is said to be 4.3 out of 5. why are people so nicy-nice? it's like gambling, people tend to remember the times they win online retailers like ebay and amazon are overhauling the review system hoping to make them more meaningful. if you bought a powerball tick net orlando you might have won $189 million. the ticket sold at a chevron food mart there. the owner is a big winner because he gets $80,000 just for selling the ticket. going to spread the wealth. >> i'm going to give some money to my cashier. >> that's pretty nice. jackpot winner hasn't come forward yet. this is the first jackpot ticket

sold there. a man rushing his pregnant wife to the hospital ran out of time. a dramatic incident that happened in a minivan.

very first shipments of the h1n1 vaccine are on their way. would you get vaccinated? your view on a new vaccine. the man accused of stalking erin andrews and secretly videotaping her in the buff stay in jail? we're expecting a decision on bail. just-released report shows autism cases are on the rise. what's behind these vastly higher numbers? the latest news from hln "news and views." hi, everybody, on monday, i'm chuck roberts. some people begin getting the new swine flu vaccine today. the first 600,000 doses are going to health departments in 21 states and 4 large cities. hospitals in memphis and indianapolis begin inoculations today. the plan is to start vaccinating

health care workers because they're the most likely to come in contact with h1n1 virus. some states have other ideas, alaska will give its first doses to preschoolers. pennsylvania will target grade school students. the first batches of the vaccine are in the form of nasal spray, and a week or so swine flu shots will be ready. a 19-year-old accused of trying to blow up a dallas skyscraper returns to court. a judge is holding a hearing whether there's enough evidence to prosecute him. hosam maher smadi charged with trying to detonate what he believed was a truck bomb beneath a 60-story building. the former landlord said there was nothing suspicious about him. >> some of the people have told me that he was more of a party animal than a philosopher. >> two weeks before his arrest, he was pulled over for traffic violations. a dash cam video shows him asking about the legal process. investigators have several people under round the clock

surveillance in connection with a suspected plot to explode bombs in new york from sources close to the investigation who say some travelled to pakistan with najibullah zazi and are now back in the u.s. zazi's facing conspiracy charges related to the bomb plot. a grand jury is considering whether more charges are warranted. mild winds and cooler temperatures expected to help the crews on the fast-moving wildfire in southern california, the sheep fire. it's burned more than 7,000 acres and is threatening dozens of homes in san bernardino county, east of los angeles. fire officials say between 4,000 and 6,000 people were told to leave. resort town of wrightwood remains under a mandatory evacuation order. residents quickly gathered what they could and packed it in their vehicles. >> got everything we could think of. clothes, computers, pictures, family albums. >> mostly just clothes and valuables. this is stuff from my wife's family. >> we evacuated 40 head from my

ranch last night. >> california governor schwarzenegger's declared a state of emergency for san bernardino county. the man allegationly secretly taping erin andrews in the nude will go before a judge in an hour, charged with interstate stalking, accused of recording videos with a cell phone camera through altered peepholes in hotel room doors. prosecutors say barrett tried to sell videos to tmz.com. the judge is expected to decide whether barrett should be sent to los angeles where tmz is based as a federal prison. he could also allow barrett to post bail. trying to export $2 million from funny man david letterman says we've only heard one side of the story. joe halderman pleaded not guilty friday to attempted first-degree larceny and is out on bail. earlier today his attorney made the morning show rounds and in ain't view on the "today" show

host accused him of manipulating the story. >> david letterman gave what he wanted the public to know. he wanted to get out ahead of the story that's what he did. he's a mat master of manipulati the audience for a living. >> he looks forward to cross-examining letterman in court. a newborn baby kidnapped from her mother in nashville and briefly reunited with her is now in state custody. authorities removed the baby's three siblings from her home for what they call safety concerns. a judge will review this case and may decide when, and if, the kids can go back home. a woman posing as an immigration worker went to the house tuesday, stabbed her eight times and took her 4-day-old baby. they found the woman three days after. they arrested the tammy renee

silas and charged with her kidnapping. she got to see the baby saturday before authorities put him and three others into foster care. officials won't elaborate on the safety concerns they had. foster care is generally temporary. a 3-year-old girls okay after found in a house where her father was shot twice and two other people were killed. florida authorities think the shooting was drug related. they say a group of mentor tured the girl's father, his roommate and a woman who was visiting. deputies found the 3-year-old under the woman's body. >> they tortured him and said, if you're going to sell drugs, you're going to sell our drugs and, by the way, where's the $5,000? >> the girl's father is in serious condition. police are looking for suspects. president obama is bringing in reinforcements to help him push for health care reform, doctors and nurses. the president says they support plans to overhaul the system because they're the ones who know the system best. >> i want to thank every single

doctor who is here and i especially want to thank you for agreeing to fan out across the country and make the case about why this reform effort is so desperately needed. you are the people who know this system best. you are the experts. nobody has more credibility with the american people on this issue than you do. so, if you're willing to speak out strongly on behalf of the things you care about and what you see each and every day, as you're serving patients across the country, i'm confident we're going to get health reform passed this year. >> the president is telling congress the country's heard all of the arguments and now it's time to get the job done. this weekend u.s. forces in afghanistan suffered their deadliest attack in more than a year. at least eight americans were killed saturday when hundreds of militants attacked their outpost in the nuristan province. the military says after a 12-hour battle the militants were finally pushed back.

today, two nato service members were killed in southern afghanistan, one of them was american. last week the top u.s. commander in afghanistan, general stanley mcchrystal, made a public plea for more troops. he's asked the president for as many as 40,000 additional forces. >> ideally, it's better for military advice to come up through the chain of command and i think that general mcchrystal and the others in the chain of command will present the president with not just one option, which does, in fact, tend to have a forcing function but a range of options that the president can consider. >> the obama administration says it's reviewing u.s. strategy in afghanistan. ex-cop drew peterson will fight charges that he killed his third wife but a judge says his murder trial will include her testimony. we'll explain now and why his attorney says it's unfair.

new video to show you. a dead whale, while life trying to figure out how it made it into that water it was found 0 floating. a necropsy had to be performed and determine cause of death. a sizable animal. it will be buried at sea. nearly 1 in 100 kids in the u.s. have autism disorder stunning results of two new studies. an increase over previous stud y-based on a survey of more than 78,000 parents and cdc review of health records. researchers caution greater awareness and greater diagnostic techniques can explain the increase. some people are getting the first round of swine flu vaccines but others say no way. we've been asking your thoughts. would you get it wright away? debbie's on the line in kansas

city. you're not going to get a shot? >> caller: no, sir. >> how come? >>. >> caller: 61 years old, never had the flu shot, never had the flu and everybody i've known that has gotten thrflu shot has always gotten ill. there's a hype each year on flu and getting flu shots, and it just seems like it's hyped up more than it is or should be. >> has your doctor weighed in on this? what's he telling you, he or she? >> caller: it's my decision. >> thank ---y. lee ann is in willton, new hampshire, right? >> caller: yes, that's correct. >> lee ann, what are your thoughts? >> i am a diabetic and i am getting the shot. i also have two teenagers who are also going to get the shot. we've already had confirmed cases at the high school. we've also lost a 22-year-old young lady in this county. i'm not taking chances with my

life or my kids. i've talked to my doctor and he suggests i get it because i'm a diabetic. people who are out there who say they're not getting it, they're crazy. you know, this swine flu is so quick and so fast, it's targeting everybody. you take your own life and children's lives in your hands. >> terry's in boon county, west virginia. hi, are you going to get a shot? >> caller: yes, i am. i have chronic health conditions, rare blood disorder, immune system is shot. i'm one of the millions of americans without health insurance, i'm scared of the shot but scared not to take it. i take a seasonal flu shot every year. i have to take it. my doctor agrees. i don't have a choice. >> all of the best. ever have side effects from the flu shots you've had before? >> caller: a sore arm. >> that's it. >> caller: that's about it. >> thanks. comments from my facebook page. thanks, everybody, for weighing

in. i personally won't be getting the shot but look into for my children. wash your hands, everyone! patricia says no, not going to bother. it's already hit our house. all of us have been exposed to it. hospital lab worker elizabeth sent an e-mail in saying the vaccine is no different from regular flu shots. the h1n1 vaccine is no different than seasonal flu shots. the key is obtaining medical care as soon as possible and taking precautions from trying to prevent contracting it in the first place. what do you say? are you worried about the shot itself? what about the flu? what's the greater risk? 877-83 877-835-5456. if you have a question for a medical professional, here's the time and the address. we have an expert on in the next hour, right now go to cnn.com/hln and pose your question.

indonesia called off the sent for survivors who may under buildings topped by earthquakes. emergency workers are now clearing the rubble. the u.n. says it's focused on relief for survivors. devastating quakes hit indonesia last week, more than 600 people died and one official says more than 300 missing down significantly from earlier estimates that said the number could be in the thousands. terrible flooding forced a million people to flee their homes. torrential rains blamed for the high waters in india.

the death toll now has reached 271. ind india's air force has been dropping food packeted in parts of the country under water. hundreds of thousands are in relief camps. a washington state highway is reopened now that dust storm has finally lifted. one point, you couldn't see more than five feet ahead on i-90 in the eastern part of the state. the blowing dust caused a number of multiple car pileups. eight people were hurt in one wreck involve two semi trailer rigs and three other vehicles. a power boat slammed into a long island marsh killing three people on board. marine rescue team found the boat 150 feet from the water. the captain was thrown from the craft and is one of the people killed. detective told local media the boat had to be going pretty fast to wind up that far into the marsh. foreothers were seriously hurt. the mother of a chicago teen seen beaten to death on video can't bear to watch the tape but

wants it shown. derrion albert laid to rest saturday. family member, officials and community leader s attended the funeral. jeanette albert talked about that vicious beating. >> i can't watch it, but i want them to see it. i want them to know what they're doing. i want them to see what they did to my son because they need to pay for this, you know? it's unfortunate that these are kids doing this, but something's got to be done. somebody's got to step in. >> again, amateur video caught on cell phone. police say derrion albert was an innocent bye stander when two gangs got into it. four suspects charged with first-degree murder. and police are still looking for more suspects. two setbacks for drew peterson, accused of killing his third wife. not only did a judge reject a request to move his murder trial he also said he would allow hearsay evidence. that could include savio's

request for orders of protection and letters she wrote where she said peterson would kill her to shut her up. peterson's lawyer say it's not fair because the defense can't challenge the evidence. peterson pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the save yo case and is a suspect in the death of his fourth wife. he has denied wrong doing. another missing person's case. haley coupling's baby-sitter/stepmom returns from vacation and tension between her and haley's dad is said to be heating up. will pressure from police, plus intense scrutiny get misty to tell all about the night the girl vanished? nancy great, 8:00 and 10:00 eastern here on hln. a whop was killed when her pet bear turned on her. the 37-year-old woman stepped into the steel cage and was attacked by the 350-pound animal. the woman's husband is a dealer in exotic pets and was operating

with a license that expired more than a year ago. a 74-year-old woman's in the hospital after being attacked by five raccoons. she heard noises in the backyard and when opened the door the raccoons began to bite and scratch her legs. some people are scared nearby. >> they viciously attacked her. i mean she has large, gaping wounds on her legs. >> there was blood everywhere and she had a gash on the back of her head. her legs were just open, explosioned. i have three little children and we've -- it's nothing to walk at night at 5:00. >> quite frankly, we're frightened that if they're comfortable with this conduct, what tops stop them from attacking again? >> neighbor heard the woman scream and came to help. when it comes to leaving product feedback online, people tend to play nice. that's what review software providers and a review tracking website are reporting. . average grade is said to be a

4.3 out of 5. so why are people so upbeat? review softwaremaker says it's like gambling. people tend to remember the times they win. online retailers are overhauling their review system more meanin. did you know that car rental companies have cut back on their fleet but was not their rates? clark howard tells you how to beat high prices in a recession. >> do you know that car rental companies being on the financial ropes have been in the best position of anybody in the travel business to do something about the country being in a recession? they've simply reduced the number of car rentals that they have in their fleets. you think about hotels they don't suddenly shut all of the hotels. airlines, what do they do? they park planes in the desert but they're expensive. car rental companies can simply say we're not going to buy as many new cars for the next cycle

and that's what they've done, reducing the number of cars on hand by large numbers meaning car rental prices are going up, not down, in a down economy. how should you beat it? well, shop multiple companies and try hot wire and priceline for big savings on car rentals. i'm clark howard. for more way for you to save a dollar, go to cnn.com/clark howard. great consumer advise from clark on weekends saturday and sundays. clark howard here noon and 4:00 eastern. he'll help you save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. if you bought a powerball tick net orlando you could be $189 million richer. the winning ticket sold at a chevron food mark. the oowner's a big winner, too, he'll get 80 grand for selling the ticket. >> i'm going to give some money to my cashier. >> florida joined powerball in january. it's the first jackpot ticket

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the flu season is at hand and people a lot of people, begin getting a new swine flu vaccine today h1n1 is the appropriate name. the first 600,000 doses will go to health departments in 21 states and four large cities. hospitals in memphis and indianapolis begin inoculations today. the plan being start vaccinating health care workers because they're likely to come in early contact with surfers of the virus. ak will give its first doses to preschoolers. pennsylvania will target grade school students. first batches of the vaccine in the form of nasal spray. in a week or so, shots will be ready. we've been asking what you plan

to do. what's the fear factor for you? h1n1 or the shot? what are you worried about, the flu or the shot? 877-835-5456. taking e-mails at cnn.com/hln. a 19-year-old accused of trying to blow up a dallas skyscraper returns to court. a judge is holding a hearing whether there's enough evidence to prosecute. hosam maher smadi charged with trying to detonate what he believed was a truck bomb beneath a 60-story building. smadi's former landlord said there was nothing suspicious about him. >> some of the people have told me that nate, he was more of a party animal than a philosopher. >> two weeks before his arrest he was pulled over for a string of traffic violation. he apparently's asking about the legal proceedings during this tape. investigators have several people around round the clock surveillance in connection with a suspected plot to explode bombs in new york from sources

close to the investigation. they say some of them travelled to pakistan with najibullah zazi and are back in the u.s. zazi's facing conspiracy charges related to the bomb plot. he pleaded not guilty last week. a grand jury is considering more charges. the man accused of secretly taping erin andrews in the nude will go before a chicago judge in a half hour now. michael david barrett is charged with inter state stalking accused of recording the videos with a cell phone camera peering through peepholes in hotel room doors. he tried to sell the video to tmz.com. the judge is expected to decide whether barrett should be sent to los angeles where tmz is based as a federal prisoner. he could also allow the defendant, barrett to post bail. the attorney for the cbs news producer charged with trying to extort $2 million from david letterman says we've heard one side of the story. halderman pleaded not guilty to attempted first degree grand

larceny and is on board. earlier his attorney made the morning show rounds and on nbc's today show accused the late show host of manipulating the story. >> david letterman didn't give his side of the story. letterman gave what he wanted the public to know, he wanted to get out ahead of the store whyy and that's what he did. he's a mast of manipulating audiences, that's what he does for an living. to think he gave the story and there's nothing more to be said is simply wrong. >> halderman's attorney looks forward to cross-examining letterman on the witness stand. indonesia's called off the search for survives who may be under buildings toppled by earthquakes. nobody could have survived this long. emergency works are clearing rubble. u.n. is foe cutting on relief for survivors. the devastating quakes hit indonesia last week. more than 600 people died and one official says more than 300 are missing. that number is down significantly from earlier estimates that were suggesting

the number of missing could be in the thousands. terrible flooding forced a million people to flee their homes. torrential rains are blamed for high waters in india. the death toll has risen to at least 271. india's air force has been dropping food packets in parts of the country under water and 450,000 people are being housed in relief camps. well, mild winds and cooler temperatures are helping crews on the scene of a wildfire in southern california. the sheep fire has burned more than 7,000 acres and threatening dozens of homes in san bernardino county east of los angeles. officials say between 4,000 and 6,000 people were told to leave. wri weight wood remains under an evacuation order. residents gathered whatever they could and packed it in their vehicles. >> got everything we could think of, clothes, computers, pictures, family albums. >> mostly just clothes and valuables.

this is stuff from my wife's family. >> we evacuated 40 head from my ranch last night. >> california governor schwarzenegger's declared a state of emergency in the county. ten area schools are closed because of the fire. a different situation involving mother nature in washington state where a major highway, i-90, has reopened now that a severe dust storm has lifted. one point drivers are could only see five feet ahead of them on a 40 mile stretch of the interstate in the eastern part of the state. blowing dust caused a number of multicar pileups. eight people were hurt in a wreck involve two rigs and three cars. heavy rains in texas caused major flooding in power out ages in the central part of state, thinking about san antonio and that area, around behar county. russell mancuso took these image flooding near one of the subdivisions near his house. rained for ten hours straight

and the rainfall was so heavy, his own pool overflowed. you can see some of the photos that the roads were washed out and flood control channels are certainly at their plmax. rain came between saturday night and sunday morning. according to the national weather service, the airport recorded up to 5 1/2 inches of rain in 8 hours. that breaks the previous record set in 1942. many thanks, russell mancuso, for an i-report. if you've got pictures, video of breaking news or kschool storie go to ireport.com. a deputy is wrongly identified as a murder suspect now the police dog messed up.

new video to show you. there it is, florida fish and wildlife trying to figure out how the dead whale made it into tampa bay. 50-foot whale floating in the bay and a hazard to navigation. this was sunday morning. it took all this to tow the beast to the shore. necropsy will determine cause of death. once finished the animal will be buried at sea. we know police dogs k. be used to sniff out drugs during any investigation because of the scent. in some counties they're gefrn a larger and more controversial role in crime fighting sniffing out suspects in police lineups. sometimes the dogs get it wrong. a story generating a lot of buzz at cnn.com. d dot.com live's catherine

callaway. >> interesting how they're using canines. how accurate it is is the controversial about they're using bloodhounds to actually go through a lineup and sniff to see if evidence matches. the innocent project of texas says that an unknown number of people have been wrongly accused or convicted of dog scent lineup. it use the dogs to match the scent from evidence to the scent of a suspect. here's how it works. the dogs walk along a row of aluminum tin and each contains the scent of a different suspect and sniff to see which matches evidence. in 2006 a texas sheriff's deputy found himself a murder suspect because of the practice. his neighborhood been strangled to death with a rope and he repeatedly denied involvement to his police colleagues but the investigators sided with the dogs that made a connection.

and dna evidence actually implicated another man later on, after five months of difficult months for him. the deputy was finally cleared. >> i've cried myself to sleep enough times and had enough nightmares about it to finally be able to stand here and talk to you about it. >> obviously a very emotional time for him. month when he was accused. on the other side the dogs have cracked many cases and held in high regard by the forces that use him. we've talked with some people who say, dog trainer who say, there's no regulating the handlers of the required certification in this case so there's no way to say which dogs are good at it, which ones aren't. >> get two dogs, get a second opinion from a second dog maybe. supreme court term agains a case arguing church and state are not separated on a certain piece of federal land. >> this is the mojave desert an

eight-foot cross. what's controversial about this the cross was put out there in the 1930s, actually a war memorial. it's part of the mojave national preserve. it's so remote that the person that's responsible for care taking the cross lives 160 miles away. it sits on federal land. a journalist ordered the religious symbol covered up. as you can see, after a park ranger filed suit and the ranger himself is a veteran and a catholic. now, a proposed land transfer to make the acreage around the cross public land was denied by an appeals court. the case will be heard wednesday by the high court. it's going to be interesting to see how this turns out, whether or not they'll be able to uncover the cross, like it is now or leave it like it was for years. >> katharine, good to see you. thanks. cnn.com, it's all there. if you have checked out the new addition on "the joy behar show" every week night at 9:00 eastern here. friday she chatted with kathy

griffin. >> i want to be jennifer aniston. >> why? >> my life would be bet. >> you think she's happy? she doesn't have a boyfriend. >> pick somebody else, somebody from the hills. i want to be a kardashian, i want to be kloe, there, you didn't see that coming. you thought i'd say kim. >> i don't know who they are. >> don't miss "the joy behar show" week nights 9:00 eastern right here on hln. a 74-year-old florida woman recovering from a brutal attack from a pack of wild animal. not talking wolves or bears. these are raccoons and neighbors say the attack was vicious.

an oklahoma highway patrol trooper suspend for fighting with a pair are medic in may has been accused of excessive force again. martin is on paid administrative leave, suspend after video surfaces of him choking a paramedic. the latest scuffle involves a man who said he was at a friend's house during renovations, not far from where martin and another trooper were giving a driver a ticket.

christopher douglas said martin told him to come to the street, and when he refused the officer began beating him. a newborn baby kidnapped from his mother in nashville and then briefly reunited with her is now in state custody. authorities also removed the baby's three siblings from the home for safety concerns. a woman posing as an immigration worker went to the home on tuesday, stabbed her eight times and took her 4-day-old baby. investigators found the woman friday eight home in alabama 80 miles south of nashville three days after he had been abducted. they arrested the 39-year-old and charged her with kidnapping. carillo got to see her baby saturday before authorities put him and three other kids in foster care. they would not elaborate, they say foster care is generally temporary. >> a 3-year-old girl's okay after found in a house where her father was shot twice and two other people killed.

florida authorities think the shooting was drug related. a group of mentor tortured the girl's father. deputies found the 3-year-old under the woman's body. >> they tortured him and said, if you're going to sell drugs, you're going to sell our drugs, and by the way, where's $5,000? >> the girl's father's in serious condition. police are looking for the suspects. a power boat, underline power boat, slammed into a long island marsh killing three people on board. marine rescue team found the boat 150 feet from the water. the captain was thrown from the craft, one of the persons killed. a detective told local media the boat had to be going pretty fast to land up on the marsh. a the mother of a chicago teen seen beaten to death on video cannot bear to watch the

tape but want shown. the funeral drew family members, city officials and community leaders. jeanette albert sat with don lemon and talked about the vishts beating. >> i can't watch it, but i want them to see it. i want them to know what they're doing. i want them to see what they did to my son because they need to pay for this, you know? it's unfortunate that these are kids doing this, but something's got to be done. somebody's got to step in. >> again, the amateur video caught on cell phone. police say derrion albert was an innocent bystander when two gangs got into a fight. two setbacks for drew peterson, the chicago area cop accused of killing his third wife kathleen savio. not only did a judge reject a request to move the trial, he would allow so-called hearsay evidence. that could include savio's

request for orders of protections and letters savio wrote that peterson would kill her to shutter up. peterson pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the savio case and is also a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife, stacy peterson. he has denied any wrong doing. new detayes in another missing person's case. haley cummings baby-sitter/stepmom returns from vacation and tension between her and haley's dad are heating up. will pressure from police plus the other intense scrutiny get misty to tell all about the night the girl vanished? nancy grace tonight, late-breaking developments 8:00 and 10:00 herein on hln. authorities in pennsylvania say a 37-year-old woman stepped into the black bear's steel cage and attacked by 350-pound animal. the woman's husbands a dealer in exotic pets.

he was operating with a license that expired more than a year ago. a 74-year-old woman's in a hospital after being attacked by five raccoon. she heard noises in the backyard when when she opened the raccooe and scratch her legs. and it was pretty violent, as people nearby tell us. >> they viciously attacked her. i mean, she has large, gaping wounds on her legs. >> there was blood everywhere. and she had a gash on the back of her head. her legs were just open, exposed. i have three little children, and, you know, it's nothing to walk at night, at 5:00! >> quite frankly, we are frightened that if they're comfortable with this conduct, what's to stop them from attacking again. >> a neighbor heard the woman scream and helped her. the raccoons are still on the loose. nearly 1 in 100 kids in the united states has a type of autism disorder.

the finding is an increase in previous studies based on a survey of 78,000 parents and a cdc review of health records. researchers caution greater awareness and accurate diagnostic techniques can explain some of the increase. president obama is bringing in reinforcements to push for health care reform. they support plans to overhaul the system, because they're the ones who know the system best. >> i want to thank every single doctor who is here, and i especially want to thank you for agreeing to fan out across the country and make the case about why this reform effort is so desperately needed. you are the people who know this system best. you are the experts. nobody has more credibility with the american people on this issue than you do. and so if you're willing to speak out strongly on behalf of the things you care about and what you see each and every day as you're serving patients all across the country, i'm confident we are going to get

health reform passed this year. >> the president is telling congress, the country has heard all of the arguments about health care reform. now it's time to get the job done. a cat came to the rescue when a newborn pup needed a mom. now the orphan chihuahua is being nursed back to health.

thousands of people are told to pack their things and go. a fast-moving wild fire burning through the san bernadino national forest. is nature slowing down the flames? finally, in southern california. just released government reports shows autism cases are on the rise. what's behind these higher numbers? and will the man accused of stalking espn reporter erin andrews and secretly videotaping her in the nude stay in jail? we're expecting a decision on bail. welcome to hln "news and views," i'm richelle carey. hope we're having a great day. mild winds and cooler temperatures are expected to help crews on the scene of a

fast moving wild fire, so-called sheet fire, burning 7,000 acres already, threatening dozens of homes in san bernadino county. officials say between 4 and 6,000 people were told to leave. can you imagine? the resort town of wrightwood is under a mandatory evacuation order still. residents quickly gathered what they could, threw it in their cars, and just got out. >> about everything we could think of. clothes, computers, pictures, family albums. >> mostly just clothes and valuables. this is stuff from my wife's family. >> we evacuated from my ranch last night. >> the governor, arnold schwarzenegger, has declared a state of emergency for that county. again, we'll continue to keep you posted. a 19-year-old accused of trying to blow up a dallas skyscraper returns to court at this hour. the judge is holding a hearing on whether there is enough evidence to prosecute him.

he is charged with threatening to detonate a truck bomb. his landlord says to him, there was nothing suspicious about him. >> some of the people told me that he was more of a party animal than a philosophy. >> two becomes before his arrest, he was pulled over for a string of traffic violations. and there's dash cam video that shows him asking about the legal process. investigators have several people under round-the-clock surveillance suspected of a plot. they say some traveled to pakistan with najibullah zazi. he is facing conspiracy charges to the bomb plot and completed not guilty last week. a jury is considering more charges in this case. this weekend, there was the deadliest attack on u.s. forces in afghanistan in more than a year. at least eight americans were killed saturday when hundreds of

militants attacked their outpost on the province. after a 12-hour battle, the militants were finally pushed back, and today two nato service members were killed in southern afghanistan, one american. last week, the top u.s. commander in afghanistan, general stanley mcchrystal, made a public plea for more troops. he has asked president obama for as many as 40,000 additional troops. >> ideally, it's better for military advice to come up through the chain of command. and i think that general mcchrystal and the others in the chain of command will present the president with not just one option, which does, in fact, tend to have a -- you know, forcing function, but a range of options that the president could consider. >> the obama administration says it's reviewing u.s. strategy in afghanistan. president obama is bringing in reinforcements to help him push for health care reform. doctors and nurses.

the president says they support plans to overhaul the system, because they're the ones who know the system best. >> i want to thank every single doctor who is here, and i especially want to thank you for agreeing to fan out across the country and make the case about why this reform effort is so desperately needed. you are the people who know this system best. you are the experts. nobody has more credibility with the american people on this issue than you do. and so if you're willing to speak out strongly on behalf of the things you care about and what you see each and every day as you're serving patients all across the country, i'm confident we are going to get health reform passed this year. >> the president is telling congress the country has heard all the arguments about health care reform. now he says it's time to get the job done. nearly 1 in 100 kids in the u.s. has some type of autism disorder. those are the stunning results of two new government studies.

the finding is an increase, pretty big increase, in fact, over previous studies. this is based on a survey of more than 78,000 parents, and the cdc review of health records. researchers caution that greater awareness and more accurate diagnostic techniques explain some of this increase. some people are getting the new swine flu vaccine today. the first 600,000 doses are going to health departments in 21 states. and four large cities. hospitals in memphis and indianapolis begin inno, ma'am legislations today. the plan is to start vaccinating health care workers, because they're most likely to come in contact with the h1n1 virus. some other states, though, are handling it differently. alaska will give its first doses to preschoolers. and pennsylvania will target grade school students. the first batches are in the form of a nasal spray. in a week or so, swine flu shots will be ready. so we've been asking, are you planning to get the h1n1 vaccine yourself?

or maybe you're worried about the shot. are you worried about the flu? swine flu at all? you can comment on my facebook page. if you're in facebook, sear search ery shell carrie, or call 1-877-tel 1-877-tell-hln, or e-mail us. and at the bottom of the hour, we're going to ask a medical expert to answer some of your questions. you have a lot of questions. three americans are sharing this year's nobel prize in madison, the institute that hands out the award says they won for their work on chromosome research, which has pretty big implications for understanding aging and cancer. the prize includes $1.4 million. congratulations to them. a missing newborn has been found, but he is not back home with his mother. the latest on this case from tennessee.

a newborn who was kidnapped from his mother in nashville and then briefly reunited with her, the baby is now in state custody. authorities also removed the baby's three siblings from carillo's home from what they are calling safety concerns. that's all they are saying. a judge will review the case this week. police say a woman posing as an immigration worker went to carillo's home tuesday, stabbed her eight times and took her four-day-old baby. investigators found carillo friday night in a home in alabama three days after he had been abducted. they arrested 39-year-old tammy rene silus and arrested her with kidnapping. carillo got to see her baby before the children were put into foster care. authorities say the children were taken for safety reasons and are not elaborating and say it's generally temporary. a 3-year-old is okay

physically after her father was found shot twice and killed. authorities say it was drug-related. they say a group of mentor toured the girl's father, his roommate and a woman visiting. deputies found this 3-year-old child under a woman's body. >> they tortured him, and said if you're going to sell drugs, you're going to sell our drugs, and by the way, where's the $5,000? >> the girl's father is in serious condition. police are still looking for the suspects. it's been one year since president bush signed off on the $700 billion federal bailout, known as t.a.r.p. now the program's top cop says not everything we heard at the time was true. cnnmoney.com's poppy harlow is in new york with more on that. poppy, what did we not know? >> well, richelle, it's an interesting report out just this morning from cig t.a.r.p., they oversee the bailout program. the inspector general of

t.a.r.p., kneel barofsky, saying the feds were not entirely honest with the public a year ago when the plan took under way. now, the report finds that of the nine biggest u.s. banks that were lent $125 billion, they were not as held knalthy as offs indicated. hank paulson was concerned that one of those banks might even, quote, outright fail. of course, when we look back, we know the driving force behind t.a.r.p. was get the banks lending again, stabilize the financial system. but barofsky says what happened was that the treasury painted an overly rosy picture. >> it raised unrealistic expectations by saying these are healthy banks, this money is going to help them lend. look, one of the main points which we describe in detail was to prevent a systemic collapse, to provide stability, to provide competence to the market. and the t.a.r.p. did help assist in doing all of those things. but restoring lending, it was just not a realistic expectation. and i think that the t.a.r.p. --

the credibility of the program has suffered significantly because of those mis -- those rch representations, and because of the sense that expectations were so high that this was going to be a fix-all to restore lending. >> of course, it was not a fix-all to restore lending to the level that many would have liked to see it. in response to this report out this morning, the treasury said, i'll quote here, while people may differ today on how the announcement should have been phrased, any review must be considered in light of unprecedented circumstances in which they were made. richelle? >> all right. this was a loan, though, poppy. this is how it was pitched. it was pitched as a loan. it's been a year. are we the taxpayers ever going to get any of this money back? >> we'll get some of it. we've already gotten. but probably not all of it. $450 billion, that's how much has gone out from the government to these businesses. the government has gotten back about $80 billion of that. but billions are still outstanding. to name a few, aig, general motors, chrysler, citigroup, bank of america. those are just a few. and financial experts tell

cnnmoney.com that taxpayers could ultimately stand to lose, get, this between 100 and $200 billion when all is said and done with t.a.r.p. many more details on that. an interesting story. and great reporting by david goldman on this story on cnnmoney.com. and take a look right there, testimonies on the hook, for richelle, about $2 billion. details right there. >> a billion with a b. poppy, appreciate it. the jon and kate drama gets stranger. there are charges that jon emptied one of their bank accounts and now kate says she is worried about paying the bills. all of this sets off an explosive new battle. "showbiz tonight"'s a.j. hammer gets the real story.

the man accused of secretly taping espn reporter erin andrews in the nude is expected to appear before a chicago judge this hour. michael david baird is charging with interstate stalking. remember what he is accused of? he is accused of recording the videos with a cell phone camera through altered peep holes in hotel room doors. prosecutors say barrett tried to sell the videos through tmz.com. a judge is expected to decide whether barrett should be sent to los angeles where tmz is based, or a judge could allow barrett to post bail. the attorney for the cbs news producer charged with trying to extort $2 million from david letterman says we have

only heard one side of the story. halderman pleaded not guilty to attempted first degree grand larceny. today his attorney gave an interview to the "today" show, and accused the late show host of manipulating the story. >> david letterman didn't give his side of the story. david letterman gave what he wanted the public to know. he wanted to get out ahead of the story, and that's exactly what he did. he is a master at manipulated audiences. that's what he does for a living. so to think that david letterman gave the entire story and there is nothing more to be said is simply wrong. >> halderman's attorney says he looks forward to cross examining letterman in court. the former fiance of a cast member on the "real housewives in atlanta" was killed in a fight over the weekend. he was seen here with candy burris. atlanta police say he suffered a severe blow in a fight outside a strip club. they have arrested and charged a

man in his death. did jon gosselin really unload more than $200,000 from a bank account he shared with kate? "showbiz tonight"'s a.j. hammer is in new york with this story and divorce that is getting nastier and nastier. so is this latest allegation true, a.j.? >> according to kate it is, and according to kate, richelle, she can't pay the bills and support kids, because production on their show, jon and kate plus 8 has stopped. and she claims that jon has taken all of this money out of their joint banking account. kate gosselin appearing on the "today" show this morning, and she got really emotional when she explained her claims to meredith vieira, including why she doesn't trust jon with money. take a look at that. >> i'm sorry. the last thing i wanted was to do this show and end up not being able to pay my bills, so i put money aside, willingly brought it forward and split it with him when we had our meeting. so he took the 50,000 and did whatever with it. i paid bills with my $50,000.

and once the court arbitrator stepped in, i felt like the money -- i had to put it back. i didn't feel like it would be safe, to be honest. and he took $230,000 of the $231,000 that we have liquid. and i have a stack of bills in my purse i can't drop in the mail. >> now, jon for his part is saying that he didn't take the money. that the claims are a complete fabrication. he tells "the insider" that he has taken about $177,000 bucks over the last year. that essentially is his paycheck and that kate is basically making all this up. i have to say, i think it's so sad, richelle, that they're communicating through the media, and apparently, and according to kate, they're not really talking much to each other. jon says, by the way, that -- and this is through "the insider," that they have 11 bank accounts and kate is hiding money. it's news nuts this is going on so publicly. >> it seems to me maybe this isn't unusual for how divorces end up becoming.

but the fact that it's playing out so publicly like this is just gross. and then they have kids, too. all right. when the show -- when jon decided he wanted the show to be shut down, he said that it wasn't about his pitching a fit. he said that's because he didn't think it was good for the kids, and the kids didn't want to do it anymore. but kate says that's not true. >> that's exactly right. watch what she tells meredith vieira on the "today" show about how emotional the kids got when they heard the cameras weren't going to be around. take a look. >> the kids have over the weekend -- i told them we're not filming at this point, and actually times eight, there was wailing and sobbing. they love our crew. they love the interaction. they love the events. and there is nothing harmful about it. they are angry. >> so when he says the kids have said to him they want the filming to stop, your response to that is? >> i'm sorry. i'm not present all the time. but it has never happened. not the response i saw this weekend. >> so that may very well refute jon's claims that the kids don't want the show to be there, but

that raises a huge red flag when you hear the kids got so upset and how dependent they have become of having these cameras around as they grew up. they're used to them there, and now they're wailing because the cameras aren't there? that's scary to me. >> i felt the exact same thing, a.j., and the kids aren't the ones who should decide whether or not they're going to have a camera in their face. that's what parents are for. >> and the show has always said, if the kids did complain, they would shut it down, and that's why jon said they don't want the cameras around. obviously a lot to dig into in "showbiz tonight." many new bombshells in the whole jon and kate saga that will not seem to end. see you back here 8:00 and 11:00 p.m. pacific. "showbiz tonight." >> and i know you're talking with this tonight, meredith also said have you ever thought it was time to pull the plug and kate danced around that. >> she said she needs to pay the bills, but now doesn't have the money to pay the bills. >> this is so out of hand.

i know you're going to have a provocative show tonight, as always. thank you so much. >> you got it. . let's continue can the day's knews. a couple set backs for drew peterson, the chicago area cop accused of killing his third wife. not only did the judge reject a request to move his murder trial, he also said he would allow so called hearsay evidence, including orders for protection and letters she wrote where she said peterson would kill her to shut her up. peterson's lawyer says it's not fair because there is no chance for the defense to cross examine. he is also a suspect in his fourth wife stacy peterson's disappearance. police leave the case of a missing kansas teen. authorities have found her car, but no trace of keyly ann halai.

a man rushing his wife to the hospital ended up at a restaurant. the dramatic delivery that happened in a minivan.

president obama is bringing in reinforcements to help him push for health care reform. doctors and nurses -- that's why they're wearing the lab coats there. the president says they support plans to overhaul the system, because they're the ones who know the system best. >> so these doctors know what needs to be fixed about our health care system. and they know what health insurance reform will do. that it will go a long way towards making patients healthier and doctors and nurses be able to perform that -- those tasks that are so important to them, and led them into medicine in the first place. >> the president is telling congress the country has heard

all of the arguments, lots of arguments about health care reform. he says now is the time just to get the job done. some people are getting the new swine flu vaccine today. the first 600,000 doses are going to health departments in 21 states and four large cities. hospitals in memphis and indianapolis begin inokay legislations today. the plan is to start vaccinating health care workers. they're most likely to come into contact with the h1n1 virus. some states, though, have a different plan of attack. alaska will give its first dose to say preschoolers, and in pennsylvania, to grade school students. the first doses are in the form of a nasal spray. in a week or so, there will be swine flu shots of. those shots will be ready very soon. we want your views. let's take a couple calls right now. less starts with les calling us from arlington, texas. all right, les, you're going to get the shot?

no? >> caller: yes, yes. yes, les. i just saw my va doctor friday, and he advised me against getting a shot. he also is not going to get the shot, because he said there has not been enough research done on this whether or not this swine flu shot is going to be effective or not. and basically was cautioning against it. because there has not been enough research done in if a timely manner to prove whether or not this is going to be an effective vaccine or not. >> and you're going to follow that advice? >> caller: well, it's from my doctor, so he should know -- i've known him for five years. >> okay, les, there are a lot of questions and a lot of concerns. we're going to tackle that in a minute. thank you for sharing what your personal experience has been. we appreciate that. >> caller: you're welcome. thank you. >> hattie is calling us from indiana end. are you going to stand in line and get one? >> caller: most likely. my doctor will require me to get one. i have diabetes, and my husband also will receive it. he has asthma.

but our concern, of course, is for our daughter. she has had a liver transplant, and we've had her for 22 years since her transplant, and so we certainly don't want to take chances with her. >> meaning you don't want to be sick around her. you don't want to get the swine flu and be sick around her? >> caller: right. we don't want to be sick around her, and she is a nurse now. of course her illness inspired her to become a nurse. and we're concerned, you know, if other folks don't get this vaccine, that it's going to turn into something that gets out of hand and, of course, her life is in jeopardy. >> so miss haptie, you're hoping everybody gets the shot. >> caller: yes, i guess i am. >> okay. you want everybody to be inoculated and to take precautions. haptie, thank you for calling and glad that transplant went well for your daughter. that's fantastic.

thank you. we know a lot of you have questions and concerns about h1n1, the vaccine, as well. so what we're going to do right now, because we've got so many questions and e-mails and we formed some questions from that. so we're going to try to get some of these questions answered for you. joining us from emory university is doctor carlos del rio, an infectious disease specialist. the point is, he knows how to answer these questions. so we're going to pose some of these questions to him right now. doctor, thank you so much for your time. we have narrowed some of the questions down. we're not going to be able to get to everyone's questions, but these are some of the most common questions. ready to get started? >> sure. pleasure to be with you. >> thank you so much. many viewers were concerned about this. if it someone already has a preexisting condition, either heart disease, cancer, something like this, if they were to want to get the h1n1 vaccine, would they be at any type of risk at all if they're already sick from something else? >> they should be okay. the people that need most the vaccine are, in fact, people like that who already have an underlying condition.

they would be at increased risk of morbidity and mortality if they were to get the disease. so the vaccine hopefully will prevent them from getting the disease. >> all right. we hopefully put someone's fears to bed with that one. charlotte in michigan wants to know this, once you get the h1n1 virus, is it possible to get it again, or do you build up an immunity once you already had it? >> you probably build up an immunity to the virus. the answer is not totally certain, but you probably whether an immunity to the virus, enough that if you get it again, it will be mild. that's a little of what the vaccine is doing for you. >> all right. got that one knocked out. we have another question. all right, this is one that keeps coming up. if someone is going to get the regular seasonal flu shot, does that give you any type of defense against -- against swine flu or -- excuse me, h1n1, let me get that right at all? or do you need to get both shots? what do you do? >> you need to get both shots if you want to be protected against both. there's not going to be protection from the seasonal vaccine against the h1n1 strain.

and i think it's important that people that have indications for both receive both. >> okay. you're mowing right through these. let's hop down to joanne's question from florida. and this was what joanne says. and we had a lot of people that had this concern. she says, since i'm allergic to eggs, can i still get the shot or the nasal spray and she wanted to make sure we really understood. she says, this can be a live or death situation for some. and make sure, doctor, the people understand why she brought up the point about the eggs. >> the vaccine is produced by culturing the virus inside of eggs, and no, if you are allergic to eggs, you should not get the vaccine that has been produced in had eggs. >> what else can she do? just the precautions? >> everybody needs to practice normal precaution to say protect yourself from this infection, which is covering your cough, covering your sneeze, be sure to wash your hands frequently, stay home if you're sick. so the most common precautions would be in place and i would encourage people to take them

regardless of whether they get the vaccine or not. >> okay, joanne, asked a very important question, and the answer is, if it you're allergic to eggs, you should not be doing it. and this question, is it a live or dead virus that is used in the h1n1 virus immunization that is being distributed now. so she is asking kind of a scientific question there. >> the nasal aerosol is a live, attenuated virus. the shots are with a dead virus that takes longer to develop the vaccine. so there are both types of viruses available. >> all right. and doctor carlos del rio answering some very important questions from emory university. doctor, we're about out of time, but one of the questions that came up earlier -- we are out of time, but i wanted to get this out. some people were concerned that it seemed to be rushed to market. do you think that's kind of overblown? >> i think it's actually amazing what has been done by the industry, by government, by researchers, to get this vaccine developed and distributed and getting the appropriate studies of safety ready for this vaccine

to be available for this season. so i would say it's been rushed, but that rush has been the product of an incredible coordinated effort. so i'm not concerned about that. in fact, i'm proud we were able to accomplish that. >> okay. thank you so much for your information and time today. we appreciate it. >> you're welcome. glad to be with you. >> you bet. we still want to know, are you planning on getting its h1n1 vaccine? are you still worried about it, regardless of the questions we've tried to have answers? you're entitled to still be worried. you're worried about the flu? you can comment on my facebook page at richelle carey at hln. 1-877-tell-hln or e-mail us at cnn.com hln. nearly 1 in 100 kids in the u.s. has some type of autism disorder. those are pretty stunning results of two new government studies. the finding is an increase over previous studies. this one is based on a survey of more than 78,000 parents and a cdc review of health records.

researchers caution greater awareness and more accurate diagnostic techniques explain some of this pretty huge increase. mild winds and cooler temperatures are expected to help crews on the scene of a fast-moving wild fire in southern california. the so-called sheet fire has already burned 7,000 acres and is threatening dozens of homes in san bernadino county. fire officials say between 4 and 6,000 people have been told to leave. the resort town of wrightwood is under a mandatory evacuation orders so residents are gathering what they can, throwing it in their vehicles and getting out. >> everything we could think of. clothes, computers, pictures, family albums. >> it's mostly just clothes and valuables. this is stuff from my wife's family. >> we evacuated 40 from my rank last night. >> the governor has declared a state of emergency for that county. we'll continue to follow that for you. a sheriff's deputy is identified as a murder suspect, because a police dog messed up. now the entire practice of using

dogs to sniff suspects out of a line-up is being called into question.

the man accused of secretly taping espn reporter erin andrews in the nude is expected to appear before chicago judge this hour. michael barrett is charged with internet stalking. he is accused of recording videos with a cell phone camera through altered peepholes in hotel room doors. he tried to sell the videos to the celebrity website tmz.com. a judge will decide whether he will be sent to los angeles, or the judge could allow barrett to post bail.

we know police dogs can be used to sniff out drugs or track a scent. but in some counties, they're given an even larger and kind of controversial role in crime-fighting. sniffing out suspects. and police line-ups. problem is, dogs can be wrong sometimes. this is getting a lot of attention at cnn.com today, and with more, we turn to .com live's nicole fapin. this is a fascinating story. >> absolutely. because the innocence project of texas has come out and said, an unknown number of people have been wrongly accused, because of these identifications by these dogs that they use. basically, it works in a line-up type situation where they sniff an aluminum tin can and get the scent of a suspect they're looking for. and then they sniff out the evidence, and they try and make a match. but in 2006, a texas sheriff's

deputy -- the deputy -- michael buchanek found himself as the suspect because of a dog who found him as the person involved. his neighbor, we should note, had been strangled to death by a rope. he repeatedly denied involvement to police colleagues, but investigators actually in this case sided with the dogs. however, dna evidenc implicated another man after five difficult months, the deputy was finally cleared. >> i've cried myself tomes, and nightmes about it. to aoit. richelle, sa tre is actually dog handlers, dthers nos, o the dog trainer, ecial rticn that is need you can see likehe ther

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a 19-year-old accused of trying to blow up a dallas skyscraper returns to court today. a judge is holding a hearing on whether there's enough evidence to prosecute him. hosam somati is charged with trying to detonate what he believed was a truck bomb beneath a 60-story building. his former landlord says to him there wasn't really anything suspicious about him. >> some of the people have told me that he was more of a party animal than a philosopher. >> a couple weeks before his arrest, smadi was pulled over for a string of traffic violations. he was asking questions about the legal process. investigators have several people under round the clock surveillance in a alleged plot

to detonate bombs. some traveled to pakistan with zazi and are now back in the u.s. zazi pleaded not guilty last week. a grand jury can considering more charges in the case. a newborn who was kidnapped from his mother in nashville and briefly reunited with her is now in state custody. authorities also removed the three siblings. police say a woman posing assen immigration official went to her house on tuesday, stabbed her eight times, and took her 4-day-old baby. they found the baby friday night, three days after he was abducted. carillo did get to see her baby on saturday, before authorities put him and three other children into foster care. two setbacks for drew peterson,ing the chicago area cop accused of killing his third

wife kathleen savio. a judge said he would allow so called hearsay evidence. that could include savio's requests for orders of protection and letters she wrote that peter son said he would kill her to shut her up. they say that's no fair because there's no way for the defense to challenge that evidence. peterson is also a suspect in his fourth wife stacey peterson's disappearance. details of a dramatic delivery.           

late breaking news from tampa. that's an arrest just coming into us. this is the university of south florida campus in tampa. police have somebody in custody according to wfla. an arrest made at the university button depot. that's where the search centered.

it all started at the library on campus. a call came in from off campus to the sheriff's department about an armed man with a bomb and a gun. next to the library. a text message alert went out to all employees. all emergency sirens wailing on the campus. everybody took normal precautionary positions. an arrest has just been effected. we're not sure if this was a legitimate threat or something just phoned in. but again an arrest has been made on a bomb and gun scare at the university of south florida in tampa. we'll keep you updated on late, breaking developments. right now some people are getting a new swine flu vaccine. the first 600,000 zodoses are going out today. the plan is to begin vaccinating health care workers because they're the most likely to come into early contact with h1n1 sufferers. some states have other protoc s

protocols. pennsylvania will target grade school students. the swine flu shots will be ready. >> a 19-year-old accused of trying to blow up a dallas sky grapeer. hosam szmadi. an fbi agent testified the young man researched ways to detonate a bok with a cell phone. the former landlord said there was nothing suspicious about him. >> some of the people who told me that nate was more of a party animal than a philosopher. he was pulled over on a string of traffic violations. this is sheriff's department video showing him asking about the legal process. investigators have several people under round the clock

surveillance connected with a suspected plot to detonate bombs in new york. they say some of them traveled to pakistan with zazi and are now back in the u.s. zazi is facing conspiracy charges. he pleaded not guilty last week. a grand jr. is considering more charges in the case. mild winds and cooler temperatures are helping crews at the scene of the fast moving wildfire in southern california, east of los angeles. the so-called sheet fire has burned miranda warning 7,000 acres. it's threatening dozens of homes. between 4,000 and 6,000 people were told to leave. the resort town remains under mandatory evacuation orders. >> we got clothes, computers, pictures, family albums. >> mostly clothes and valuables.

>> we evacuated 40 heads from my ranch last night. as of this morning the blaze was only 20% contained. the man accused of secretly taping an espn reporter aaron andrews is in the nude is in a chicago courtroom appearing before a federal judge. michael david barrett is a charged with interstate stalking. he use ad cell phone camera to peer through peepholes in hotel room doors. he tried to sell the videos to t tmz.com. the attorney for the cbs news producer charged with trying to extort $2 million from david letterman says we've only heard one side of the story. he's now out on bond. halderman's attorney made the morning show round. in an interview on nbc's today show he accused the late show

host of manipulating his side of the story. >> david letterman is a master at manipulating audiences chls. to think he gave the entire story an there's nothing more to be said is wrong. >> halderman's attorney looks forward to cross examing david letterman on the witness stand. a newborn baby kidnapped from nashville and briefly reunited with her is now in state custody. authorities also removed the three siblings. a judge will remove the case this week and may decide when the kids can go back home. a woman posing assen immigration worker went to carillo's house on tuesday, stabbed her eight times, and took her 4-day-old baby. investigators found her friday at a home in alabama three days after the abduction. they arrested a 39-year-old

woman and charged her with kidnapping. carillo got to see her baby briefly before authority put him and three other kids in foster care. they say foster care is generally temporary. florida authorities are sorting out a gruesome murder scene where a 3-year-old girl was found safe but covered in blood. the father was a drug dealer. a group of six men attacked the home shot and killed the room meat and a woman visiting. she was tortured and shot twice but was somehow able to crawl to a closet and call 911. deputies found the 3-year-old under the woman's body. >> they tortured him and said if you're going to sell drugs, you're going to sell our drugs. and by the way, where's the $5,000? >> he is hospitalized in serious condition. police are still looking for the suspects.

a lot of them wearing their lab coats and smocks. they support plans to overhaul the system because they're the ones who know the system the best. >> i want to thank every single doctor who is here, and especially agreeing to fan out over the country and make the case about why the reform effort is so desperately needed. nobody has more credibility with the american people on this issue than you do. if you're willing to speak out strongly on the things you care about and what you see every day serving patients all across the country, i'm confident we'll get health care reform passd this year. >> the country has hard all the arguments now about health care reform, he says and it's time to get the job done. this is the deadliest attack in more than a year.

at least eight americans were killed on saturday. the military says after a 12-hour battle the militants were finally rebuffed. today two nato service members were killed in southern afghanistan. one of them was american. last week the top u.s. commander made a public plea for more troops. he's asked the president for as many as 40,000 additional troops. the obama administration is reviewing u.s. strategy in afghanistan. a 74-year-old florida woman is recovering from an attack by a pack of wild animals. these are raccoons. and neighbors say the attack was vicious.

the man accused of secretly taping espn reporter aaron andrews in the nude has been released with restrictions. michael david barrett has to wear an ankle bracelet and

observed a nightly curfew. he's barred from using the internet. he's charged with internet stalking and used a camera to look through altered peepholes in hotel room doors. he tried to sell the videos to tmz.com. a woman was killed when her pet bear turned on her. authorities in pennsylvania say the 37-year-old woman stepped into the black bear's steel cage and she had done before and was attacked by the 350-pound animal. a neighbor shot and killed the bear. the woman's husband is a dealer in exotic pets but was operating with a license that expired more than a year ago. a 74-year-old woman is lucky to be alive. she's in a hospital after being attacked by five raccoons. she heard noises in the backyard. when she opened the door the raccoons began to fight and scratch her legs. it was fairly violent as people

nearby can testify. >> they viciously attacked her. she has large gaping wounds on her legs. >> there was blood everywhere. and she had a gash on the back of her head. her legs were open and exposed. i have three little children. it's nothing to walk at night at 5:00. >> we're frightened if they're comfortable with the conduct, what's to stop them from attacking again. did you know the car rental companies have cut back on their fleets, but not their race. how to beat high prices in a recession. here's clark howard. do you know car rental companies being on the financial road have been in the best position of anybody in the travel business to do something about the country being in a recession? they've simply reduced the number of car fleets.

hotels don't suddenly shut the hotels. airlines park a lot of planes in the dez ertd. car rental companies can say we're not going to buy as many new cars for the next cycle. that's what they've done, reducing the number of cars they have on hand by very, very large numbers. meaning, car rental prices are going up, not down. how should you beat it? shop multiple companies and try hotwire and priceline. big savings on car rentals. i'm clark howard. for more ways for you to save a dollar go to cnn.com/clarkhoward. don't miss clark's weekend show. right here at noon and 4:00 p.m. eastern. three americans are sharing this year's nobel prize in medicine. the institute says they won for their work on chromosome research, which has implications for understanding aging and

cancer. the prize includes $1.4 million. ex-cop drew peterson will fight charges that he killed his third wife. a judge now says his murder trial can include her testimony. we'll explain how and why his attorney says it's unfair.

indonesia called off the search for survivors. no one could have survived this long. emergency workers are clearing rubble now. the u.n. says it's focusing on

relief for survivors. devastating quakes hit indonesia last week. more than 600 people died. one official says more than 300 are missing. that's down significantly from earlier estimates. terrible flooding has forced millions to leave their homes. the death toll in india has risen to 271. the air force has been dropping food pacts in parts f o the country still underwater. hundreds of thousands of people are now in relief camps. a washington state highway is open now that a severe dust storm has passed by. at one point drivers could see only five feet ahead of them on a 40-mile stretch of i-90. it caused a number of multicar pi pileups. nearly 1 in 100 kids in the u.s. has some type of autism disorder. stunning numbers from a new

government study. it finds an increase over previous studies. this based on a survey of more than 78,000 parents and a review of health records. researchers say greater awareness explains some of the increase. two setbacks for drew peterson, the chicago area former cop accused of killing his third wife, kathleen savio. not only did a judge stop the request to move the trial. also he would allow hearsay evidence. that includes letters she wrote where she said drew peterson would kill her to shut her up. peterson is also a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife stacey peterson. he's denied any wrong doing. tonight on hln nancy grace

is on for the missing kansas teenager who may be in danger. authorities have found her car, but no trace of 18-year-old kaylie ann. watch tonight on hln. the first monday in october. the beginning of a new term for the nine justices taking the bench, including the first latina. she heard her first case last month at a special hearing on campaign finance laws. the justices today heard a case on the right to have an attorney. they also issued orders rejecting about 2,000 cases, including one from a florida high school student who didn't want to say the pledge of allegian allegiance. a lot of people are saying no to the swine flu vaccine. they fear the shot worse than the disease. we've been asking your thoughts.

we're going to some e-mails if we can scroll them up. i don't have a copy in front of me. here's one from sue. jimmy writes this: kristin writes from oregon: we got a chance for you to weigh in as well. you going to get a swine flu shot? what are your thoughts? the mother of a chicago teen seen being beaten to death says she can't bear to watch the tape, but she wants it shown. derrion albert was laid to rest

on saturday. janette sat down and talked about the vicious beating. >> i can want watch it. but i want them to see it. i want them to know what they're doing. i want them to see what they did to my son. they need to pay for this. it's unfortunate that these are kids doing this, but something's got to be done. somebody has to step in. >> this is the amateur video caught on a cell phone camera. police say derrion albert was an innocent bystander when two gangs got into a fight. police are looking for more suspects. when it comes to leaving product feedback online people tend to play nice. that's what review software providers are both reporting. the average grade is said to be 4.3 out of five. why are people so upbeat and positive? so forgiving? a review software maker says

it's like gambling. people remember the times they win. a power boat slammed and killed three people on board. the captain was thrown from the crash and was one of the people killed. a local media said the boat had to be going fast to wind up that far on the marsh. four other people were hurt. possible gunman on the university of south florida there. they have somebody in custody. not clear what the charge might be. they are asked to check the belongings of the person in custody. this arrest was made at the bus depot by the campus. the search was centered on the campus because a call came in to the sheriff's department of an armed man with a bomb and gun in the vicinity of the library.

a text message alert went out, a routine message to all employees. an arrest was made a few minutes later. if you bought a powerball ticket in orlando, you could be $180 million richer. the store's owner getses $8,000 for selling the ticket. he says he's going to spread the wealth. >> i'm going to give some many to my cashier. >> the jackpot winner hasn't come forward. it's the first jackpot ticket sold there.

want to take you to tampa. a suspect is in custody. police are trying to find out if reports of a possible gunman with a bomb at the university of south florida campus in tampa was indeed a real threat. again, a man is in custody. campus police asked the tampa police department's bomb squad

to check the belongings of the person. this arrest was made at the bus depot just beside the campus. it started actually offcampus. somebody called from off campus to the sheriff's department about an armed man with a bomb and a kbgun in the area of the library. then a text message was sounded to all employees. emergency sirens went off on campus. again, several minutes later an arrest was made at the bus depot not far from campus. some people are getting the swine flu vaccine already. the first 6,000 doses are going to health departments in 24 states. hospitals in memphis are starting with employees today. they say health care workers are the most likely to come in contact with the h1n1 virus. other states have different protocols. pennsylvania will target grade schools. alaska will target preschoolers. the first batches of the vaccine are in the form of a nasal spray. in a week or so the swine flu

shots should be ready. nearly 1 in 100 kids in the u.s. has some type of autism disorder. the finding is an increase over previous studies. this is based on a survey of more than 78,000 parents. researchers caution greater awareness and more accurate techniques. michael david barrett is now under home confinement, has too wear an electronic monitoring bracelet. he has a 9:00 p.m. curfew. barrett is facing interstate stalking charges. he's accused of recording the videos of andrews with a cell phone camera, arranged to look through a reverse peephole through row tell room doors. he tried to sell the videos to celebrity website tmz.com. he's due in a los angeles court later this month. the attorney for the cbs

news producer charged with trying to extort $2 million from david letterman says we've only heard one side of the story. halderman pleaded not guilty to first-degree grand larceny and is now out on bond. earlier today his attorney made the morning show rounds. he accused the late show host of manipulating the story. >> david letterman didn't give his side of the story. david letterman gave what he wanted the public to know. he wanted to get out ahead of the story. that's what he did. he's a master of manipulation. that's what he does for a living. to think he gave the entire story and there's nothing more to be said is simply wrong. >> halderman's attorney says he looks forward to cross examing david letterman on the witness stand. federal prosecutors can take the case of a 19-year-old accused of trying to blow up a dallas skyscraper to a grand jury. hosam smadi is now in custody.

an fbi agent testified the young man researched ways to detonate a bomb with a cell phone, and made a video he thought would go to osama bin laden. smadi's former landlord said there was nothing suspicious about him. >> some of the people told me that he was more of a party animal than a philosopher. >> two weeks before his arrest on monday he was pulled over south of dallas for a string of traffic violations. this is sheriff's department video showing the arrest. he's asking about the legal process on the video. investigators have several people under round the clock surveillance in connection with a suspected plot to explode bombs in new york. that's all from sources close to the investigation. they say some of them traveled to pakistan with zazi and are now back in the u.s. zazi is facing conspiracy charges related to the bomb plot. he pleaded not guilty last week. a grand jury is considering more charges in the case. this past weekend u.s. forces in afghanistan suffered

their deadliest attack in more than a year. at least eight americans were killed saturday when hundreds of militants attacked their outpost, just overran it in the nuristan province. after a 12-hour battle the militants were finally pushed back. today two nato service members killed in southern afghanistan. one of them was american. last week the top u.s. commander in afghanistan made a public plea for more troops. he's asked the president for as many as 40,000. >> ideally it's better to come up through the chain of commands. and i think that the general and others in the chain of command will present the president with not just one option, which tends to have a forcing function, but a range of options that the president can consider. >> the obama administration is reviewing u.s. strategy in afghanistan. an oklahoma highway patrol

trooper suspended for fighting with a paramedic in may is being accused of excessive force again. daniel martin was sus penned earlier this year after video surfaced of him choking a paramedic. the latest scuffle involving a man saying he was in a friend's house doing renovations. martin told him to come to the street, when he refused, the officer began beating him. douglas says he's considering lawsuit. central florida authorities are sorting out a gruesome murder scene where a 3-year-old girl was found safe but covered in blood. deputies say the child's father is a drug dealer. a group of six men attacked the home, shooting and killing his roommate and a woman who was visiting. mer lin was tortured and shot twice buzz was able to crawl to a closet and call 911. deputies found the 3-year-old under the woman's body. >> they tortured him and said if you're going to sell drugs,

you're going to sell our drugs. and by the way, where's the $5,000? >> merlin is hospitalized in serious conditions. police are still looking for suspects. the mother of the chicago teen seen being beaten to death on video says she can't watch the tape, but she wants it shown. derrion albert was laid to rest on saturday. family members, city officials and community leaders all attended the funeral. >> i can't watch it. i want them to see it. i want them to know what they're doing. i want them to see what they did to my son. they need to pay for this. it's unfortunate that these are kids doing this, but something has got to be done. somebody's got to step in. >> here's again that amateur video caught on cell phone camera. police say derrion albert was an

innocent bystander when two gangs got in a fight. no arrest for california firefighters. a wildfire at san bernardino national forest has burned 75,000 acres and is only 20% contained. why firefighters are expecting to make major headway today.

mild winds and cooler temperatures are expected to help crews on the scene of a fast moving wildfire east of los angeles in southern california. it's burned more than 7,000 acres. it threatened dozens of homes in san bernardino county. 4,000 to 6,000 people were told to leave. the resort town of brightwood still under mandatory evacuation orders. residents gathered whatever they

could and packed it in their vehicles. >> got everything we could think of. clothes, computers, pictures, family albums. >> mostly clothes and valuables. stuff from my wife's family. >> we evacuated 40 heads from my ranch last night. >> california governor schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency for the county. as of this morning the blaze was 20% contained. conditions have become more favorable. a washington state highway has reopened now that a severe dust storm has listed. at one point drivers could only see 5 feet ahead of them. it caused a number of car pileups as you can imagine. eight people were hurt in a wreck involving two semitrailer rigs and three cars. heavy rains in texas caused may jr. flooding and power outages. i-reporter lives in a tiny town outside san antonio.

he took these images of flooding in one of the subdivisions near him. it rained for ten hours straight and the rainfall was so heavy his pool overflowed. you can see the roads have been washed out. the flood control canals are at the max. the rain fell saturday night into sunday morning. san antonio international airport recorded 5 1/2 inches of rain in five hours. many thanks to russell for a great i-report. he was right there when we needed him. if you've got breaking news, great pictures, wherever you are, go to ireport.com. have you checked out the new edition to the prime time lineup? "the joy behar show" airs every night here. on friday she chatted with cheed comedian kathy griffin. >> i want to be jennifer aniston. >> you think she's so happy? >> then i want to be somebody

from the hills. i want to be one of the kardashians. how is that? >> no, you don't. >> yes, i do. i want to be khloe. you didn't see that coming. you thought i would say kim. >> i don't know who they are. >> tonight at 9:00 eastern here on hln. excop drew peterson will fight charges that he killed his third wife, but a judge says his murder trial will include her testimony. we'll explain how and why his attorney says it's unfair.

president obama is bringing in reinforcements to help him push for health care reform. doctors and nurses. they support plans to overhaul the systems because they're the ones who know the system the best. >> these doctors know what needs to be if i canned about our health care system. they know what health insurance reform will do, that it will go a long way towards making patients healthier and doctors and nurses be able to perform that -- those tasks that are so important to them and led them into medicine in the first

place. >> the president says the country has heard all the arguments about health care reform and now it's time to get the job down. the house gop doctor's caucus reported to the photo op. they said of the president while he's managed to gather a few like minded doctors for the publicity stunt today, there's no question most health care professionals recognize that inserting the bureaucrats is not the prescription for what ails our health care system. republicans stand ready to share our ideas with the president, but he's not responded to any of our requests for a peting to discuss health care reform. congressman phil gingrey of georgia, a physician. two setbacks for drew peterson. not only did a judge reject the request to move the murder trial. he also said he would allow so-called hearsay evidence. that could include savio's request for orders of protection and letters savio wrote where

she said peterson would kill her to shutter up. peterson's lawyer says that's not fair. there's no chance to challenge the evidence. he's also a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife stacey peterson. he's denied any wrong doing. tonight on hln news and views nancy grace covers breaking news as police lead the desperate search for a missing kansas city area teenager. an 18-year-old who may be in danger. they have found her car but no trace of keiqhley ann alyea. the former fiancee of a cast member on "the real housewives of atlanta" was killed over the weekend. a.j. is seen here with kandi over. they've arrested and charged a man in his death. a woman was killed when her

pet bear turned on her. authorities say the 37-year-old woman stepped into the black bear's still cage, she's done it before, and was attacked by the 350-pound animal. a neighbor shot and killed the bear. he was operating with a license that expired more than a year ago. a 74-year-old woman in the hospital after being attacked by five raccoons. she says she heard noises in her backyard, and when she opened the door the raccoons began to bite and scratch her legs. it was pretty violence. some people, in fact, many people are a little scared. >> there was blood everywhere. she had a gash on the back of her head. her legs were just open, exposed. i have three little children. it's nothing to walk at night at 5:00. >> we're frightened that if they're comfortable with the

conduct, what's to stop them from attacking again? >> a neighbor heard the woman's scream and ran to help. the raccoons are still on the loose, as we can imagine. it's been one year since president bush signed off of the $700 billion bailout. now he says not everything we heard at the time was true. cnn money.com's poppy harlow is here with the report. >> it's according to a new report out this morning detailing the t.a.r.p. program. saying the feds were not exactly honest with the public when we saw that t.a.r.p. program kick into action about a year ago. remember the first big pus banks to get the loans? apparently they weren't as healthy as officials indicated at the time. treasury secretary paulson was concerned one of the banks might

fail. we remember the driving force behind t.a.r.p. at the time. get the banks to lend again to businesses, to consumers to stabilize the financial system. what he is saying in the report is that the treasury department painted an overly rosy picture of the situation. >> they raised unrealistic expectations. one of the main points is to prevent a systemic collapse. to provide stability and in fact confidence to the market. the t.a.r.p. did help assist in doing all those things. but restoring was just not a realistic expectation and i think the t.a.r.p., the credibility of the program had suffered significantly because of the misrepresentations and because of the sense that expectations were so high this was going to be a fix all to restore lending. >> to be fair the treasury gave us this statement in response to the report out today. i'll quote here. while people may differ on how the announcement should have been phrased any review must be

considered in light of unprecedented circumstances in which they were made, certainly unprecedented times last fall right after -- >> the fear factor was evident. it's supposed to be a loan. it's one year on. are taxpayers going to get their money back? >> some of it. $450 billion in loans went out. the government has gotten about $80 billion back. there are still billions outstanding, aig, general motors, chrysler, citigroup, bank of america. what financial experts tell cnn money.com is that taxpayers could ultimately stand to lose between $100 billion and $200 billion on t.a.r.p. when all is said and done. more details in this great story, reporting by our david goldman right there. >> you get a lot of great reporting on that site. thank you, poppy. appreciate it. it's all on cnn money.com. check it out. investors are generally in an upbeat mood today and have been since the opening bell apparently because of a report that shows the service sector of the economy is growing for the first time in more than a year. the market looking to break a

seven-session losing streak. you can see the dow well over a hundred points, 112 or so, with ten minutes left. if you bought a powerball ticket in orlando you could be $189 million richer. the winning ticket was sold at a chevron food mart there and the store's owner is a winner, too. he gets 80 grand for selling the ticket. he says he's going to spread the wealth. >> i'm going to give some money to my cashier. >> the jackpot winner hasn't come forward. florida joined the powerball in january. this is the first jackpot ticket sold there.

a florida university locks down. police respond to reports of a man with a gun and bomb. we'll show you what they've found so far. police are getting people -- people that is are getting the very first swine flu vaccination today. would you be one of them? share your views on the new

vaccine. the man accused of making secret videos of sportscaster erin andrews is out of jail but a long way from being free. find out the condition of his release. hln "news and views." i'm richelle carey. i hope you're having a great, productive day so far. let's get you to the news. police are searching for a gunman at the university of south florida and now have two people in custody. the tampa school issued a lockdown this afternoon. someone called in a report of seeing a man armed with a gun and a bomb near the library. then a little while later a passenger on a bus said he was the suspect they were looking for. the bomb squad went through his belongings and police later said this admission was actually a hoax but after the first man was arrested, university issued a warning about another suspect wearing a black tank top and cowboy hat, seen on campus carrying a puppy and a large hunting knife. a very unusual description. yes, he was arrested about 30 minutes ago.

police are asking the students and staff to stay indoors. the school's transit system is also shut down and has been told there is actually an all clear and that hasn't happened yet. we'll keep an eye on it. right now some people are getting the new swine flu vaccine. the first doses are going to health departments in 21 states in four large cities. hospitals in memphis and indianapolis are planning to start vaccinating health care workers because they're the most likely to come in contact with the h1n1 virus. other states are dealing with this a little differently. alaska is going to get their first doses to preschoolers and pennsylvania will target grade school students. the first batch of the vaccine is going to be in a nasal spray form and then in about a week or so swine flu shots will be ready. a federal judge has released, with restrictions, the man accused of secretly taping espn reporter erin andrews in the nude. michael david barrett is under home confinement.

he has to wear an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet. he cannot use the internet. he has a 9:00 p.m. curfew. he is facing internet interstate stalking charges. he is accused of recording the videos of andrews with a cell phone camera through altered peepholes in hotel room doors. prosecutors say barrett tried to sell the videos of the celebrity to the website tmz.com and he is due in a los angeles court later this month. the attorney for the cbs news producer charged with trying to extort $2 million from david letterman says we've only heard one side of the story. joe halderman pleaded not guilty friday to attempted first-degree grand larceny. he is out on bond. earlier today his attorney made the morning show rounds, gave an interview on the "today" show. that's of course on nbc. and he accused the late show host of manipulating the story. >> david letterman didn't give his side of the story. david letterman gave what he wanted the public to know. he wanted to get out ahead of

the story and that's exactly what he did. he's a master at manipulating audiences. that's what he does for a living. to think that david letterman gave the entire story and there's nothing more to be said is simply wrong. >> halderman's attorney said he's looking forward to getting a chance to cross examine david letterman in court. a baby who was kidnapped from his mother in nashville was briefly reunited with her but now the baby's in state custody. authorities also removed the baby's three siblings from maria's home for what they're simply calling safety concerns. a judge is going to review the case this week and then may decide when the kids can go back home. police say a woman posing as an immigration worker went to the mother's home tuesday, stabbed her eight times, and took her 4-day-old baby. investigators found the baby friday night in a home in alabama, three days after he had been abducted. they arrested 39-year-old tammy renee silas and charged her with

kidnapping. now they want to know whether she was working alone. the mother got to see her baby-sat before authorities put him and three other children into foster care. state officials wouldn't elaborate on what the safety concerns are but they say foster care is generally temporary. central florida authorities are sorting out a gruesome murder scene where a 3-year-old girl was found safe but covered in blood. police say the child's father is a drug dealer. a group of about six men attacked the home shooting and killing the father's room mate and a woman who was visiting. the father was tortured and shot but was able to call into a closet and call 911. deputies found the 3-year-old under the woman's body. >> they tortured him and said if you're going to sell drugs, you're going to sell our drugs, and by the way, where's the $5,000? >> the father is in the hospital

in serious condition. police are still looking for the suspects. federal prosecutors can take the case of a 19-year-old accused of trying to blow up a dallas skyscraper to a grand jury. hosam smadi is accused of taking a truck bomb to a 60 story building. a federal judge says there is enough evidence to continue with the prosecution. the plan was to detonate the bomb with a cell phone and make a video that he thought would go to osama bin laden. smadi's former landlord said he didn't think there was anything suspicious about him. some people told me he was more of a party animal than a philosopher. >> reporter: a couple weeks before his arrest smadi was pulled over south of dallas for a string of traffic violations. the sheriff's department shows a video that shows him asking questions about the legal process. investigators have several

people under around-the-clock surveillance in connection with a suspected plot to explode bombs in new york from a source close to this investigation. they say some of them traveled to pakistan with najibullah zazi and are now back in the u.s. zazi is facing conspiracy charges related to the bomb plot and pleaded not guilty last week. a grand jury is considering more charges in the case. president obama is bringing in reinforcements to help him push for health care reform. the reinforcements? doctors and nurses. the president says they support plans foroverhaul the system because they're the ones whon the system best. >> i want to thank every single doctor who is here and i especially want to thank you for agreeing to fan out across the country and make the case about why this reform effort is so desperately needed. you are the people who know the system best. you are the experts. nobody has more credibility with the american people on this issue than you do.

and so if you're willing to speak out strongly on behalf of the things you care about and what you see each and every day as you serve patients all across the country i'm confident we are going to get health reform passed this year. >> the president is telling congress the country has heard all the arguments about health care reform. the pretty heated arguments. now he says it's time to get the job done. the house gop doctors caucus responded to today's health care event at the white house. caucus cochair dr. bill gingery of georgia said of president obama, well, he has managed to gather a few like-minded doctors for this publicity stunt today. there is no question that most health care professionals recognize that inserting government bureaucrats into the doctor-patient relationship is not the prescription for what ails our health care system. the republicans stand ready to share our ideas with the president but despite a public statement he has not responded to any of our requests for a

meeting to discuss health care reform. the death of 14-year-old emmett till helped fuel the civil rights movement. now the smithsonian is planning to preserve a piece of that history.

the black woman's health study just got a big financial boost that's making news in our new segment called "what matters," our partnership with "essence" magazine where we take a look at news making headlines in the african-american community that affects all of us. the national cancer institute has awarded boston university school of medicine $9.1 million to extend this study. this is what it does. the study followed 59,000 women from around the country since 2005 to see how breast cancer and other diseases like diabetes and lupus affect black women. the smithsonian is planning to preserve a piece of civil rights history, the casket that once held the body of emmett

till will be donated to be displayed at the national museum of african-american history and culture expected to open in washington, d.c. in 2015. emmett till was 14 years old when he was lynched and mutilated in 1955 for allegedly whistling at a white woman in mississippi. his body was exhumed in 2005 and later reburied in a new casket outside of chicago. the original was found rusting in a shed at burr oak cemetery during an investigation of an alleged grave reselling scheme. certainly remember that. for more of what matters check out the october issue of "essence" magazine or log on to cnn.com/what matters. nearly 1 in 100 kids in the u.s. has some type of autism disorder. this was the stunning result of two new government studies. the finding is a pretty big increase over previous studies based on a survey of more than 78,000 parents and the cdc review of health records. researchers caution that greater awareness and more accurate

diagnostic techniques explain some of this pretty big increase. the first round of the h1n1 vaccine got under way today. we've been getting your views on that and i want to share some of the posts that i found on my facebook page. your responses are all over the place. michael says, yes, i will be getting the vaccine. i have no reason to believe it's unsafe other than the word of some paranoid conspiracy theorists. that's michael's take on it. loren feels this way. recently i became ill with h1n1. it's no fun. i would get the shot. joe disagrees, saying, i've had the swine flu but even if i hadn't i still wouldn't get the vaccine. i think the government is taking advantage of fear and trying to capitalize with an unnecessary medical procedure. joe's not doing it under any circumstances. mike has some advice for people like him not getting the vaccine. he says avoid sick people at best and wash, wash, wash your

hands and use germ killing antibacterial hand gel. good luck to everyone. you don't always know when people are sick at first but pretty good advice, nonetheless. thanks for everyone for your e-mails and phone calls and facebook comments. how about this? another interactive show, they always want to know what you think about hot topics coming up at the top of the hour that you can comment on. check them out at cnn.com/prime news. how about this? three americans are sharing this year's nobel prize in medicine. the institute that hands out the award says they won for their work on chromosome research which has big implications for understanding aging and cancer and the prize includes $1.4 million. congratulations to some incredibly gifted and talented and smart people. a 74-year-old florida woman is recovering from an attack by a pack of wild animals -- not bears, not wolves -- raccoons. neighbors say the attack was actually pretty vicious.

indonesia has called off the search for survivors who may be still buried under all the rubble. buildings were toppled during the earthquake. rescue agencies are saying no one could have survived this long. workers are clearing the rubble now and the u.n. says it is focusing on relief for survivors.

devastating quakes hit indonesia last week. more than 600 people died and one official says more than 300 are missing. that is down, though, significantly from earlier estimates that said the number of missing could be in the thousands. terrible flooding has forced about a million people to have to leave their homes. torrential rains are blamed for high waters in india. the death toll there is about 271. india's air force has been dropping food packets in part of the country that is under water. hundreds of thousands of people are having to stay in relief camps. mild winds and cooler temperatures are expected to help crews on the scene of a fast moving wildfire in southern california. they just can't seem to catch a break. the show called sheep fire has already burned more than 7,000 acres and is threatening dozens of homes in san bernadino county. fire officials say between 4,000 and 6,000 people are being told they got to leave. the resort town of wrightwood is under a mandatory evacuation

order. residents are grabbing what they can, throwing it in their cars and getting out. >> about everything we can think of. computers, pictures. >> mostly just clothes and valuables, stuff from my wife's family. >> we evacuated 40 head from my ranch last night. the governor has declared a state of emergency for that county as you can imagine. an interstate in washington state is open again after severe dust storms lifted. at one point drivers could see maybe five feet in front of them. we're talking about a 40-mile stretch of i-90 in the eastern part of the state. the blowing dust caused a number of multicar pileups. eight people were hurt. one wreck involving two semitrucks and three other vehicles. a power boat slammed into a long island marsh last night killing three people onboard. the marine rescue team says they

found the boat 150 feet from the water. the captain was thrown. some of the people were killed. a detective told local media the boat had to be going pretty fast to wind up that far on the marsh. four other passengers were seriously hurt. a couple pretty big setbacks for drew peterson, the chicago area cop accused of killing his third wife kathleen savio. not only did a judge reject a request to move his murder trial, he also said he would allow so-called hearsay evidence that could include savio's request for orders of protection and letters she wrote where she said peterson would kill her to shut her up. peterson's lawyer says this is not fair because there was no chance for the defense to cross examine and challenge the evidence. peterson pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the savio case. he is also a suspect in his fourth wife stacy's disappearance. he has denied any wrongdoing. tonight on hln "news and

views" nancy grace covers breaking news as police lead the desperate search for a missing kansas teen who may be in danger. authorities have found her car but no trace of keighley ann alea. nancy grace at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern here on hln news and views. a strange story that at first you want to laugh at but it's serious. a 74-year-old woman is in the hospital after being attacked by five raccoons. she said that she heard noises in the back yard. she goes to the door like anybody would, opens the door. then the raccoons began biting and scratching her legs. >> they viciously attacked her. i mean, she had large, gaping wounds on her legs. >> there was blood everywhere. she had a gash on the back of her head. her legs were open and exposed. i have three little children. >> quite frankly, we're

frightened that if they're comfortable with this conduct what's to stop them from attacking again? >> can you imagine? a neighbor heard her screaming and went and helped her. stocks bounced back today after a two-week slump. we go to the business desk in new york with the trading details of the day. >> hi, richelle. after a nearly seven-month rally stocks tumbled during the last two weeks of the third quarter and lost about 5% during that time but bounced back big today though trading volume was light. the dow rallied 112 points to 9599. nasdaq gained about 1%. the s&p 500 jumped 1.5%. stocks were pushed higher after a better than expected reading on the service sector. bank stocks led the rally, jp morgan, wells fargo, and bank of america shares all up more than 3%. in corporate news, condi nast announced it is holding four magazines. after 70 years of publication

gourmet magazine will close by the end of the year despite having more than a million subscribers. "modern bride" and elegant bride" will be bumped though "bride" will bump up to a monthly magazine. the parenting magazine "cookie" will also fold. >> who knew there were so many bride magazines? >> there are a ton. you get married and you find that out. i did find that out. >> you did. thanks. >> sure. a man rushing his pregnant wife to the hospital runs out of time and stops at a restaurant. the dramatic delivery. it happened in a minivan.  not long ago, this man had limited mobility.

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near the library. a little while after that a passenger on a bus said i'm the suspect they're looking for. the bomb squad went through his belongings and police later said that admission was a hoax, a lie. after the first man was arrested the university issued a warning about another suspect wearing a black tank top and cowboy hat. he was seen on campus carrying a puppy and a large hunting knife. the school transit system was also shut down until the all clear was given and again, all clear has been given. a judge says there's enough evidence to continue the case against a 19-year-old accused of trying to blow up a dallas skyscraper. hosam smadi is charged with trying to detonate what he believed was a truck bomb beneath a 60-story building. smadi's former landlord said he never found anything suspicious about him. >> some people have told me that he was more a party animal than a philosopher. >> a couple weeks before his arrest smadi was pulled over for his string of traffic

violations. the dash cam video shows he was asking about the legal process. investigators have several people under around-the-clock surveillance in connection with a suspected plot to explode bombs in new york. that's when sources close to the investigation say some of them traveled to pakistan with najibullah zazi and are back in the u.s. now. zazi is facing conspiracy charges related to the bomb plot. he pleaded not guilty last week. a grand jury is considering more charges in the case. this weekend insurgents carried out the deadliest attack on u.s. forces in afghanistan in more than a year. at least eight americans were killed saturday when hundreds of militants attacked their outpost in the nuristan province. the military says after a 12-hour battle the militants were finally pushed back and today two nato service members were killed in southern afghanistan. one of them was american. last week the top u.s. commander in afghanistan, general stanley mcchrystal, made a public plea

for more troops. he has asked president obama for as many as 40,000 additional troops. >> ideally it's better for military advice to come up through the chain of command and i think that general mcchrystal and the others in the chain of command will present the president with not just one option which does in fact tend to have a function but a range of options the president can consider. the obama administration says it is reviewing u.s. strategy in afghanistan. miles winds, cooler temperatures, that is what the crews want to hear and what is going to happen at the scene of the fast moving wildfires in southern california, the so-called sheep fire has already burned more than 7,000 acres. it is threatening dozens of homes in san bernadino county. fire officials say between 4,000 and 6,000 people have been told they have to leave the resort town of wrightwood which is under a mandatory evacuation

order. residents are just gathering their things as fast as they can and throwing them in the car and just getting out. >> everything we can think of -- clothes, computers, pictures, animals. >> mostly just clothes and valuables, stuff from my wife's family. >> we evacuated 40 head from my ranch last night. >> california governor arnold schwarzenegger has declared a state of emergency for that county. as of this morning the fire is about 20% contained. president obama is bringing in reinforcements to help his push for health care reform. some doctors and nurses. the president says they support plans to overhaul the system because they're the ones who know the system best. >> these doctors know what needs to be fixed about our health care system and they know what health insurance reform will do, that it will go a long way towards making patients healthier and doctors and nurses be able to perform those tasks

that are so important to them and led them into medicine in the first place. >> the president is telling congress the country has heard all the arguments about health care reform and he says now is the time to get the job done. in response to the president's health care event the cochair of the house gop doctors caucus dr. fill gingrey issued a statement saying president obama should stop trying new pr tactics each week to try and convince the american people and instead actually listen to what they are saying. some people are getting the new swine flu vaccine today. the first 600,000 doses are going to health departments in 21 states and four large cities. hospitals in memphis and indianapolis are inoculating employees today. the plan for most departments is to start inoculating health care workers because they are most likely to come in contact with the h1n1 virus. a few states are taking a

different plan. alaska will give the first doses to preschoolers. pennsylvania will target grade school students. the first batches of the vaccine are in the form of a nasal spray and in about a week or so swine flu shots will be ready. we've been asking for your views on the vaccine. i put this question on my facebook page. got a lot of response, a little bit of debate. some of you are weary of this. thought about getting it because honestly i do not have insurance and i cannot afford to get sick, literally. i think i am more worried about the flu itself than i am about the vaccine. this one says, no, don't trust it. too early to be able to make a vaccine that works. they aren't even sure if the regular flu vaccine is the right one. it's always an educated guess. ashley feels this way. as a student pharmacist i will definitely be getting the vaccine and i encourage as many people as possible to get it as well. so she has no concerns about the vaccine at all. mandy feels this way. me and my family will pass. there are better ways to protect yourself. i plan to use common sense like

hand washing and building a strong immune system. just a little sampling of some of the responses that i got from my facebook page. thanks for answering the question. we appreciate it. did you hear this yet? nearly 1 in 100 kids in the u.s. has some type of autism disorder. those are the stunning results of two new government studies. the findings are pretty large increases over other studies in the past. this is based on a survey of more than 78,000 parents and a cdc review of health records. researchers caution greater awareness and diagnostic techniques explain some of the large increase. three americans are sharing this year's nobel prize in medicine. the institute that hands out the awards says they won for their work on chromosome research, which has pretty big implications for understanding aging and cancer. the prize includes $1.4 million. a sheriff's deputy is wrongly identified as a murder

suspect because a police dog messed up. now the entire practice of using dogs to sniff suspects out of a lineup is being called into question.

you can pass on some information that's coming into the newsroom. executions are now on hold in the state of ohio. a federal appeals court blocked them today, three days before the scheduled execution of the convicted murderer. his name is lawrence reynolds jurn junior. he was going to die by lethal injection and the governor says the state needs more time to thoroughly conduct a comprehensive review of the execution procedures regarding lethal injection. they brought up a case we

actually told you about, a case where an executioner had a problem accessing the veins of a different ohio death row inmate last month. technicians tried for a couple hours to find suitable veins to carry out the lethal injection. so the state's next two executions have been put off until next year. lethal injections on hold in the state of ohio. well, a federal judge has released with restrictions the man accused of secretly taping espn reporter erin andrews in the nude. michael david barrett is under home confinement and has to wear an electronic monitoring ankle bracelet. he cannot use the internet and he has a 9:00 p.m. curfew. he is facing interstate stalking charges accused of recording andrews with a cell phone camera through altered peepholes in hotel room doors. prosecutors say barrett tried to sell the videos to the celebrity

website tmz.com. barrett is due in a courtroom later this month. andrews may not be the only person he is accused of doing this to. prosecutors say he uploaded video of other women to the internet as well. we know police dogs can be used to sniff out drugs, track scents, but in some counties they are given a much larger and controversial role in crime fighting -- sniffing out suspects in police line-ups. the problem is, they can be wrong sometimes. this is getting a lot of attention at cnn.com today. let's turn to dot com live anchor virginia cha for more on this story. this is very interesting. >> it really is. very high emotions. a lot of buttons pushed here, richelle. the innocence project of texas says it's not clear how many people have been wrongly accused or convicted by these so-called scent lineups but they call it junk science.

now, basically the practice uses blood hounds to match the scent from evidence to the scent of a possible suspect. it's a dog scent lineup. they use dogs to walk along a row of ten cans containing the scent of individuals and the dogs try to sniff out which may match evidence from a crime scene. here's one reason why it's so controversial. in 2006 a texas sheriff's deputy found himself to be a murder suspect at that time because of a dog scent lineup. now, his neighbor had been strangled to death with a rope. he repeatedly denied involvement in his neighbor's death but investigators sided with the dog who picked his scent out. but then dna evidence implicated another man who pleaded guilty after five difficult months the deputy was finally cleared. >> i've cried myself to sleep enough times and had enough nightmares about it.

to finally be able to stand here and talk to you about it. >> reporter: to tell you the dogs are credited with cracking a lot of cases, they're held in high regard by the forces that use them, but there are calls for the practice to be banned or at least regulated better. in fact, one police dog trainer says that the accuracy of the dogs should be tracked. he also says that it's very lacking in terms of standards and he calls it, quote, pathetic. to learn more about how this works go to cnn.com/crime. >> you would think there would -- the accuracy would be of utmost importance when it comes to something like this. i'm sure people will check it out. okay. the supreme court, back in session. new term. they're still going to be grappling with separation of church and state? >> yeah, absolutely. here's where this begins. there is an eight-foot cross planted in the rocks below the mohave desert. that cross was put there back in the 1930s as a war memorial to honor veterans. it is on the mohave national

preserve. it's an area very remote. even the cross's caretakers are 160 miles away, but because it sits on federal land, this is the problem. a park ranger or retired park ranger filed suit and a federal judge ordered the religious symbol be covered up. the ranger himself is actually a veteran and a catholic but he says that it violates separation of church and state. a proposed land transfer to make the acre around the cross public land was denied by an appeals court. the case is going to be heard wednesday by the high court. as for the obama administration, apparently they are going to be arguing in favor of the cross and they're going to be arguing in favor of the land transfer to go through and of course we'll keep following it and keep everyone posted. >> an interesting case for sure. all right. virginia, appreciate it. >> you bet. ex-cop drew peterson will fight charges that he killed his third wife but a judge now says his murder trial will include

her testimony. we'll explain how and why his attorney says it's all unfair.

prime news is coming up in just a little bit. let's check in with mike galanos to see what he's got. mike, you're going to do some more digging on a story that we did touch on today but you're going to dig a lot deeper. >> let's celebrate the good news. a little baby was taken from its mom, ripped from her arms last week. we followed the story. he's been found and is okay. the suspect has been arrested. we'll talk about this. was it a long-time plan, was he targeted? one twist, richelle, that has people baffled is not only the baby but three other children are not with the mother. they've been taken and put in foster care. we want to find out what's going on. we'll take your calls. we continue to follow the david letterman saga, the sex scandal if you will. we know that joe halderman, a producer for "48 hours" allegedly came to david letterman attempting to blackmail him saying give me $2 million or i'll let everybody know you have sex with people

that work for you. letterman goes on his show and admits that has happened. now his attorney goes on and says this isn't the whole story. we're going to hit on that and also will anybody turn away, will you turn away from this, especially female viewers? a lot of his audience female viewers, 58% of one nielsen poll. call in on that. 1-877-tell-hln is the number. also this topic. american girl dolls. they've come out with a homeless doll. the goal is to teach kids about homelessness. a couple things at least i think they've missed, richelle. how do you have a doll and you want to teach homelessness and at least from what we know so far none of the proceeds are going to help the homeless. so i think that's a swing and a miss right out of the gate. if you write a little story about what this doll is all about, the doll story, why the doll is homeless and you tell a child, part of the money to pay for this is going to help the homeless, maybe you have a teaching moment. without that i think it falls flat especially when luke you lt the doll's price tag, 95 bucks. >> that's a zinger. >> the curveball at the end.

cnn.com/prime news if you want to e-mail or text us at hln tv coming your way about ten minutes from now. teach the kids about the homeless but let's not make money and give some money to the homeless might be the followup. >> lots to talk about there. thank you, mike. got an update here. a couple setbacks in the drew peterson case, setbacks for him. he's the chicago area cop accused of killing his third wife kathleen savio. a judge rejected a request to move his murder trial and also said he would allow so-called m murder trial and said he would allow so-called hearsay evidence, that could include savio's orders of protections and letters she wrote that peterson would kill her to shut her up. peterson pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the savio case. he is a suspect in his fourth wife stacy peterson's

disappearance. he denied any wrongdoing. police lead the desperate search of a missing kansas teen who may be in danger. authorities have found her car. watch "nancy grace" for the developments on 8:00 and 10:00 eastern time. farmers got the rock star treatment this weekend. the farmaid concert, willie nelson, neil young, john mellencamp and dave matthews. >> help america. help the family farm. >> we have this fight we all have to support changes to stop the government supporting this big agricultural corporate culture of overproducing. >> thousands of people came to rock out, chow down on locally grown produce and support family-owned farms. they have raised $35 million to

help family farms. a washington state interstate is open after a severe dust storm lifted. drivers could see five feet ahead on i-90 in the eastern part of the state. it caused a number of multicar pileups. eight people were hurt in an accident that involved two semi trucks and three cars. a man trying to rush his pregnant wife to the hospital end up at a restaurant because they are not going to make it. the dramatic delivery and adorable thing their little boy said. you've got to hear it.