>> right now on "showbiz tonight," the shocking brand-new balloon boy uproar. tonight the family of the boy thought to be on a run away balloon all over tv today. the "today" show, gma, cnn. should they be dragging their young kids in front of the cameras? plus the explosive revelation from the balloon boy himself. was all this a reality show stunt? >> we did this for a show. >> tonight, "showbiz tonight" investigates the family's puzzling connection. the brand-new jon and kate war.

today, tlc sues jon. why is the network that airs jon and kate plus eight going after him? the jon and kate hack attack? startling new claims that jon hacked into kate's certainly computer file. and jon gosselin, jessica simpson, the balloon boy. who is the most outrageous, most controversial and provocative celebrity of the week. tv's first most provocative entertainment news show starts right now. i'm aj hammer. >> i'm brooke anderson and aj, i will tell you, i couldn't care my eyes away from the tv when the balloon flew through the sky

with a little boy on board. >> you were not alone. there is a new uproar behind the family. as we know the boy who everyone was searching for was save and hiding out in his home, but today there explosive questions bubbling over. why did the 6-year-old say it was all for a show? was it a high altitude show. we are getting new details about this family's reality show ties. what's the real story behind their path to fame? there is no doubt this balloon uproar made for big news breaking today. >> we were at the edges of our seat when is a 6-year-old boy was swept up in a balloon. this is ending. >> we breathed a sigh of relief

when he was at home the whole time and now we are scratching our heads. what did falcon mean when he said it was all for a show. >> they said we did this for a show. >> what's with falcon's family of scientists, storm chasers and reality show veterans. >> i was in contact with aliens and this is identical to what i have seen. >> the most unthinkable question. could it be that some or all of this amazing balloon story was a hoax? >> there a lot of people now questioning how it happened. >> the moment this moon was set off. >> the father was upset because

he thought his invention was ruined. he had no idea that falcon may have been inside until his older son told him. we hear the frantic 911 call and this recording obtained earlier today. >> on "larry king live," the boy who caused the chaos was about to cause mer. >> they said we did this for a show. >> richard said his son misspoke. >> he is 6 and you can't take everything he says at face value. people have to wonder. >> this morning on "good morning america," young falcon got sick

when diane sawyer asked him about this we did this for a show comment. when the subject was on the "today" show this morning, little falcon got sick on the air. the family is no stranger to the spotlight. they posted rap videos on you tube. >> we are in the middle of hurricane gustav. >> they are storm chasers who contribute to cnn's i report. the family was featured on the show wife swap. >> tlc, the network that airs jon and kate plus eight, they pitched a show to them and the network passed. >> he lashed out at suggestions this may all be a hoax. >> to have people say that i think is pathetic. >> even though the police plan to reinterview the family, they believe the balloon story is on the up and up. >> we believe at this time it's

a really event. one thing they agree on is this family earned instant fame and the secret me crutiny has come . they have not been able to shake it. did they try to pull one over on america or do we need to cut them some slack? we have a celebrity editor and megan alexander who is a correspondent for inside edition. the father denies it was a hoax and late today he held a conference and said based on the family's reaction, he seriously doesn't think it was a stunt. listen to this. when he came out, the family went nuts, hugging and kissing and crying and they asked permission to interview him and

gave the parents the opportunity to be present and they said no, go ahead and do it. it doesn't sound like a family rying to cover their tracks. >> i think jon and kate are thanking their lucky stars because they have new villains. i don't buy it for a second. with great respect, i think they pulled one over. we know they have taken acting lessons and have been desperate for a reality show and trying reality television. most sane people don't put their family relationship on reality tv. this family wants the spotlight and i think this screams set up. >> i hear you, but i have to tell you when i heard the call to 911, she call and sounded like i think any other terrified mother would be. let's listen to that.

>> i realize it's hard to get past a 911 operator saying it's a flying saucer. >> you hear the terror if her voice, but the acting lessons, i don't have confirmation, but does it dampen accusations in your mind? >> i have to you, it seems that all the signs point to a type of a hoax. i hope it isn't because whenever

children are involved, we feel bad for the boy when he got sick. it's taking a hole on them. what about the boy who cried wolf. think of the thousands of missing children's cases that would love to have had the three hours of media coverage this family got. if it wasn't a hoax, i hope they would come out and say it. otherwise it doesn't seem fair. >> no kidding. i have to say maybe it is a mix of a few things going on. a lot of people say the family wants fame. they were not only on wife swap, but they pitched a reality show about themselves to tlc. look at this interview with the heene family on wife swap. >> we actually believe we are ourselves a decentent of an alien. >> i passed out and hit my head

and the experience i went through, i felt as though i was in contact with aliens and this is identical to what i have seen. i asked who they were and they said we are your parents. >> you can't make it up. very quickly, beyond all of this and the idea that they are trotting them out in front of the media, i feel bad for the 6-year-old. >> sure and it's telling that when wolf wanted to clarify the remarks, they said we were promised this would be the last interview and then they were on ghma and the "today" show. >> their credibility is in question because of that. here's our showbiz question of the day. balloon family. do they deserve their own reality show? you can vote at cnn.com or e-mail showbiz tonight at cnn.com. >> i don't think jon and kate deserve a reality show or any show for that matter. tonight there is a brand-new war

between jon and the reality show that made him famous. tlc is suing jon. why are they going after him? the jon and kate hack attack? claims that jon hacked into kate's personal computer files. is jon the most provocative celebrity of the week or jessica simpson over her weight or balloon boy heene. the unbelievable run away stroller with a baby caught on tape. there is a good out come here. >> it is now time for the news ticker that are making news right now.

. >> welcome back to "showbiz tonight."

caught on tape, the run away stroller. i need to warn you this is unbelievable. it is a little difficult to watch. a mother waiting on a train platform got distract and a baby fell on to the tracks. a train hit it and dragged the stroller more than 100 feet. miraculously the baby survived with only a minor bump on the head. wow! >> miraculous. from remarkable video to a picture of megan mccain that has everybody talking. did you see this? her sexy photo flap. a little extra cleavage gives the web a twitter over a photo posted. the daughter of john mccain is raising eyebrows with her lower neck line. here's "showbiz tonight." >> normally john mccain's 24-year-old daughter megan -- >> that's what i feel like. kiss my fat -- >> she is known for getting things off her chest, but her chest is making news thanks to

this twit pick? >> she was spending a quiet night when she let her twitter forward in on what they were doing. >> it wasn't the biography of andy warhol, but the pictures of herself in the mirror. holy bobs suls it up. it prompted downright mean responses. this is a woman who is no prude. it's about being pro sex. >> my father is going to watch that. >> she found herself depending her outfit. when i'm alone i wear tank tops and sweat pants. i had no idea. i can't tell you how hurt i am. mccain got so upset, she was threatening to dropout of twitter. considering deleting my twitter account. >> the humors are true. i deleted my twitter.

>> the rap explanation. >> people were split. mccain range friday all i know is i suddenly want to vote for megan mccain to oh, please. those puppies are pushed up. we have the porn smirk too. the photo was so racy, the one web advertiser paired it up with an extreme sex video. not since arnold schwarzenegger waved a knife to illustrate budget cutting has it caused such a stir. megan mccain apologized saying she made a huge mistake. she decided not to delete her account and said she would be more careful in the future. while we hate to nit pick, it's easy to look like a nit wit.

>> just today in a new column on the website, megan mccain had this to say about the response to her twitter pick. >> good for her. i know for a fact our operators have no provocative pictures of themselves on the web. the on call department is not so high tech. >> no, it's not. we are getting tons of calls and e-mails and facebook comments about the jessica simpson weight debate and the fox video making fun of her. josh thinks targeting jessica's looks is not off limits. >> i think she is fair game for tabloids and to kind of be made fun of because she is famous and she didn't get famous by being a sex symbol, but that doesn't mean we have to like the people that make fun of her or the

people that sponsor people that make fun of her. >> thank you, josh. >> jail fre ohio said jessica is beautiful. >> it's ticking me off that anybody could even think she is even overweight. i believe she should be applauded for being at a healthy weight and even most american standards probably still underweight. >> sound off on this or anything else on your mind. >> please do. the phone lines are always open. give us a ring. 888-sbt-buzz. simply leave a voice mail. we will play your calls right here on "showbiz tonight" and your calls are also now online at cnn.com/showbiztonight. >> jessica simpson had a controversial few days, but is

she the most provocative of the week? even falcon heene the balloon boy. the only entertainment news show is tonight. we name the most provocative celebrity of the week. speaking of jon gosselin, he is in a brand-new war with the show that made him a big star. what in the world is tlc suing jon? did jon really break into kate's computer and big news s one of hollywood's bachelors ready to settle down and have a couple of kids? i am talking about clooney here. this is "showbiz tonight" on hln. more stories from the "showbiz tonight" newsroom making news right now.

ever had sex in a car? >> no, never. >> try it after this. >> i don't know how that would work out. a pretty small car. matt lauer has another run in with a deer and it happens in the middle of the jay leno show. you remember when he had his deer accident? >> the deer jumped out in front of them and instead of flying off the bike -- >> he separated his shoulder and matt did pull through that and he seems to keep bumping into bambi. you have to see what happened when he stopped by the jay leno

show for the green card challenge. >> he can make up the time. going through the stream. watch out for the deer! oh! >> jay penalized matt, but matt tried to butter him up. >> i'm sorry. you are not good with animals. >> i would have taken that second off. you know, i stopped. i'm sorry. skim latte? >> here's the joke. you know what kind of coffee deer like to drink? deer caffe. >> facebook is not downing

decaf. they are riled up about the jessica simpson weight debate and the fox cartoon making fun of her weight. misty is disgusted. what is wrong with society. she is one of the healthiest women in hollywood and she is normal. people need to leave her alone. she doesn't even come close to being fat. monica said this is the price of fame. when you are famous, you are going to get made fun of. i don't feel sorry for her bit. it comes with the territory. i want to hear from you on facebook and follow us on twitter for breaking entertainment news alert. sign up for facebook and twitter pages. >> now the show bis lineup and here's what's coming um. jon and kate plus a lawsuit and the network that put jon and on the air is suing jon. did jon break into kate's personal computer files. is jon the most provocative celebrity of the week or could it be jessica simpson? how about balloon boy?

falcon heene? stay tuned. it's coming up. lindsay lohan back in court. is she going to be tossed in jail. this is "showbiz tonight" on hln. now the "showbiz news ticker." more stories from the newsroom and they are making news right now.

>> are now on showbiz tonight, jon gosselin plus lawsuit. what jon is say being being sued by the network that airs jon and kate plus eight. shocking claims from the former baby-sitter about jon allegedly stealing money from kate. tonight "showbiz tonight" names the most provocative celebrity of the week. how about jessica simple and what about falcon heene, the balloon boy. is george clooney ready for kids? wait until you hear what hollywood's famous bachelor is say being starting a family. more stories breaking from the

"showbiz news ticker." tv's first most provocative news show continues right now. welcome back to "showbiz tonight." it's 30 minutes past the hour and i'm broadcasting tonight and every night from new york city. >> i'm brooke anderson. jon is fighting a bombshell battle and this time it's not with his estranged wife, kate. the network that made jon and his family famous is suing jon for a breech of contract after jon pulled the plug on the family reality show. when jon claimed to larry kick he had an epiphany about all of this. >> i had an epiphany and i looked in the mirror and said i don't want to be this person anymore. i made mistakes. >> apparently that may not be

the only mistake jon made. in an interview his baby-sitter is claiming jon bragged to her about taking $100,000 from kate. this girl is even claiming jon joked about going after for alimony. >> nothing surprises me about jon and kate. carlos diaz in new york is megan alexander for inside edition. i have right here in my hands the lawsuit. i want to share the bombshells that are in here. jon breached his contract and they are citing specific examples is here's some of what they say. gosselin about to capitalize on his notoriety for selling his service to other media. he entered a lucrative arrangement to appear on other shows to discuss his family and the problems he was having with

mrs. gosselin and sold rights to various media outlets. i begin with you. given the path we are on, are you surprised that tlc is the network that made jon famous is now actually suing him. >> it is the definition of biting the hand that feets you. he was making $75,000 a week. you guys can't get along, you can't get along. find a way to continue to make money off of that with tlc because obviously there is an insatiable first for you and kate. you get counselling and turn that into a show and jon has done everything wrong. >> everything wrong. biting the hand that feeds you. he started speaking out against them.

jon threatened them and the network claims jon and his attorney said let jon out of his contract or he will start saying the show is not good for his kids. jon and his attorney gave them a deadline to put out a press release letting jon go and how this went down in the lawsuit. here's what they say. it's a little bit of legal ease, but if it was not forth coming. he would reverse his public comments to the contrary and publicly object to further filming on the grounds that it is purportedly detrimental to his children. it seems like tlc is trying to blow the lid off of i want my kids off tv story. there was a time when he wanted them on tv. >> it doesn't seem like either situation is good for jon. it should be off completely, but this is his business and a deal is a deal. this is showing the public that

reality television is scripted when the cameras are on or off. a deal was in place and he needs to honor commitments he made and i don't think it would be a good thing to continue anyway. this shows you business is business. i want you to watch with larry king. >> since january, i started getting calls from the executives which is so rare. you don't really hear from them. >> what were they saying? >> i'm in breech of contract and i can't go out and they put me on house arrest and give me a body guard for three weeks. >> house arrest? >> yeah, it's house arrest. >> even if that's true t sounds

like they warned jon more than once he would be in breech of contract with them. carlos, i hear them and i think he doesn't have a leg to stand on in this lawsuit with them. >> he doesn't, matt. house arrest? are you serious? come on. that's so far-fetched. they gave you a body guard. that's not a bad thing. you are ripping on tlc when they were providing you with all this money and here's the thing. jon is getting all these promises from different people. we will take care of you. the grass is always greener on the other side and jon is not going to know what he had until it's gone. it is this close to being adios. >> you have to wonder how he feels about getting sued by tlc. we heard from his attorney who responded to the lawsuit in this e-mail to "showbiz tonight" where he said tlc treated jon gosselin like a dog by attempting to keep him on a leash and muzzle him and deny

the father of eight opportunity to earn a livelihood to support his family. they say this. clearly this litigation is heralded in the battle of david against goliath and he intends to stand firm and defend against tlc. let me bring you back and get your take on this. you have been watching in the sidelines and it seems to me they are entitled to uphold his contract. tlc even though they want to sue him, they probably could have avoided this whole mess if they let him out of the deal and said you know what, let you out, just don't talk about us. that would have been that. >> i don't know if it would have been that easy. as we know it by hearing the statement, his middle name is drama. whether he is locked into a contract or not, i don't think he is going to make it smooth or easy. would it make things less difficult if he could make a clean break? possibly. >> i'm waiting for people to say

you need to shut up, but they have done that and it's not working. let's move on to the explosive claims that jon's former baby-sitter is making today in a new interview with radar online. she claims jon told her he took $100,000 from a family account. take a look at this. >> he told me that he took $100,000 either out of kate's account or the kids's account to open the foundation and she did not know about it. he said he was going to do anything he could to make sure he made her a living hell. >> i need to point out that jon said this woman, the baby-sitter made these claims for money. for a payday. the truth is let's face it. his credibility is long in the toilet. what do you think? would you be surprised if this proves to be true? >> unfortunately i would not. this man got quite a bit of money very quickly.

this shows you that when you get that much money that quickly, if you don't have people to help you manage it, psychologically this has become sad. america loved this family when they started out. it's so sad that we got to the point where he is stealing from his ex-wife and you wonder where are the kids? are they getting money for their school supplies and their health? >> thanks, guys. i appreciate it. >> it's that time. as we do every friday, "showbiz tonight" is naming the most provocative celebrity of the week. plenty to choose from. will it be jon gosselin, jessica simpson or falcon heene, the balloon kid. mike tyson and evander holyfield together again since the infamous ear biting. they sat down together at length on oprah. did they pull any punches? any biting remarks?

is george clooney ready to have kids? wait until you hear what the most famous bachelor is ready to start a family. this is "showbiz tonight" on hln. >> time for the "showbiz news ticker" making news right now.

i decided to go back to my roots. my acting roots. i'm returning to the role as haley von santos in all my children. >> a big announcement on regis and kelly today with cnn's anderson cooper filling in. kelly ripa announced she is returning to all my children temporarily for the 40th anniversary. her husband is returning and it's all going to happen in january. this book by the way, the first time they have been back to the soap since they left in 2002. welcome back to "showbiz tonight." i'm aj hammer. >> i'm brooke anderson. who will "showbiz tonight" name as the most provocative

celebrity of the week? will it be jon gosselin? he has been a nominee three weeks in a row. then jessica simpson's weight outrage and a mean skit on folks's nfl sunday poking fun at her weight and she slams them right back. or balloon boy, the little boy at the center of the runway balloon drop that has the nation buzzing. today there all kinds of questions about his family ties to reality tv. who this family really is. it's a tough choice, but we will make that call when "showbiz tonight" names the most provocative celebrity of the week. joining me now is a celebrity editor for style.com and rachel is a contributing editor for live and style weekly. ben and rachel, provocative contenders. who do you think should be named the "showbiz tonight" most provocative celebrity of the

week. >> the biggest star of the week hands down is balloon boy. he is star quality and the story has legs and will divide the country. some people believe the family and some don't. i think the show will run and run and the kids are stuck. >> this poor child didn't ask for all of this and it is making him sick or maybe he did. this balloon boy story has exploded into something we never imagined with new controversial questions about whether the incident was actually a stunt. let's be real here. jessica's weight slam has been sparking debate all week long and a day has not gone by without jon gosselin creating scandal. rachel, your vote for the most provocative celebrity of the week. >> any other week he is the mvp, but i have to go with balloon boy. he is trying to teach science fiction and he got the fiction part true. that story is about as real as a flying saucer.

come on. >> you are not buying the story. before we reveal the winner of the most provocative celebrity of the week, i want to show you write in nominees from the facebook wall. stacy o said i'm voting for jessica simple and then britney with the threesome song, she's so funny. amanda c writes jon and kate, i love the celebrity scandal and rarely get annoyed by them, but this is ridiculous. the wild card in there, you have a wild card of your own? >> absolutely, hands down megan mccain. did you see that snapshot he put on twitter? i think she is writing for the daily beast and not the daily breast. now once again. >> maybe she should start a website of her own that you talked about. i have to tell you that there

was a fired up debate in the newsroom about all of this. the moment is here. who is "showbiz tonight's" most provocative celebrity of the week. the nominees are jon gosselin, jessica simpson or balloon boy and the winner in a close vote, jessica simpson. yes, caught up in the scandal about her weight. she hasn't even been seen in public in quite a while. the scandal erupts and she did not hesitate to stand up for herself and women everywhere cheered when she did that. we know you love your balloon boy. you have to give jessica credit. >> it's outrageous. we shouldn't mock jessica simpson because of her weight. we should mock her because she is stupid and sucks as a singer. >> that's so mean. she is trying to overcome the perspective that people have on her. you are a mess. the showbiz on call phone lines are jammed up with callers, furious over the video calling

jessica fat. beck fre georgia said enough with the double standard. >> people are so critical. men are so critical over how a woman looks, but we are supposed to be so perfect and look like we stepped out of a magazine, but it's okay for them to look like crap. big old pot bellies and hair thinning on their head. we have to be so perfect. that makes me sick. >> becky, could not agree with you more. thank you for your call. she is really standing up for jessica here and so many women out there. rachel, do you think that people will ever stop taking the cheap shots at jessica or other stars? when it comes to their weight. >> i wish they would stop. the press is crazy about this. she is not fat. the average woman in america is about a size 12, 14. let's get real. she didn't dignify it at all. she said everyone should own their beauty.

i applaud her for that comment. >> do you think people will ever stop in the double standard and it will go away? >> never. especially for stars like jessica whose look is her career. people will scrutinize her until the day she dies. >> today a judge warned lindsay lohan that she is going to go to jail if she doesn't go to her alcohol counseling program. lindsay was in court and got another year to complete the program which was part of the probation for a drunk driving conviction. lindsay a lawyers said she made it to half the segs and her career made her miss the rest. the judge said she wants lindsay to have a career and she can't thumb her nose at the court. could it be true? is george clooney ready for kids? wait until you hear what hol wood's most famous bachelor is saying whether he wants to start a family. it is time now for the "showbiz news ticker."

more stories making news right now. it is time now for making it work. this is how we look at how famous couples make their relationship work in hollywood and beyond. in the film royalty, peter and m magie have been together about sechew years thachl have been married since may and have a daughter. both are in high demand as actors. we had to ask them how they make their family work with such busy careers. >> it is all compromise, right?

it is a balance. and you -- i have had to pass on movies that recently i passed on a movie that i fought to get. i had been fighting to get this part, i got the part and i had to tell them i kocouldn't do it. >> the new movie getting rave review reviews. >> making it work.

could there be kids in george clooney's future? the subject did come up at the new family movie premier. and a reporter asked him if that gave him any ideas about becoming a father himself. take a look. >> that is a word that americans don't understand. that means do you want to have kids? >> does it make you want to start a family? >> i am learning all of these

phrases this week. just having jason here next to me, i feel like a father. and he just got married by the way. so i am almost a grandfather. yes, i am jumping right into it. exactly. >> clooney joked that he is going to adopt some of brad pitt's kids. mike tyson and evander holyfield face to face today. the first time since the infamous boxing match. the two sat down today for an interview. on monday oprah interviewed tyson alone and he said when he apologized he was not sincere. he stopped short of apologizing but had this to say. >> i want the world to know

that, you know, people who love me, they think evander is this guy. this is a beautiful guy. we come from the sewage and we watched each other grow to become established and esteemed fighters. and i want him to know that it has been a pleasure passing through life and being acquainted with you. [ applause ] . hollyfield said he already forgiven tyson and always had respect for him. he wanted to show that peace is always possible. we asked you to vote on our question of the day. i was just handed the final results. jessica simpson fat jokes, is making fun of her weight fair game. 24% of you said yes, but 76% of you agree with me and say no.

here are some of the e-mails we receive received. we got an e-mail from liz as well. that is it for "showbiz tonight." might i say one more time, brooke, it is so good to have you back. >> sit good to be back. good to see all of you. you can catch "showbiz tonight" on the 11s and in the morning on hln.

if you thought jon and kate's marriage was over, wait until you see the divorce. we are joined to juss his new book, i am not a psychic. and the actress and author will be on with me in the studio. she is fun, thin, and she speaks her mind. all this and more tonight.

welcome to friday. well, i don't know about you, but i have a long week and i want it to end. lucky for all of us, our long national nightmare is also at an end, i'm talking about jon and kate. sources say the tlc show is being put on hold until the ex-couple work out their differences. this is really crushing me. joining me to discuss this and more, is sarah bernard. danny bonaduce, actor and radio talk show host of 94.1 wysp and comedian judy gold comedian extraordinary. welcome to the show. is that show finish. >> it very well might be finished, jon has put a stop to filming. they have a couple of shows but they have already taped them. i think the reason why he's trying to stop them is because he really wants to star in a show of his own. and believe it or not, he's

teaming up with michael lohan, which is lindsay lohan's father, to do a show called "the divorced dad's club". >> that's going to be a hit, don't you think? >> do you pay attention to the story of jon and kate? >> i have paid attention to the story of jon and kate, and i find it fascinating that somebody would want to lay out their dirty laundry like that. >> i do it for a living. >> but he wants to bar the tlc cameras from filming his kids. >> when he was on the show, he didn't want to bar them from filming his kids. it's kate plus no one now. >> not when he was on the show. now that it is kate -- >> >> i did a reality show with my family at the end of which i ended up getting a divorce and they said we're going to put it on hold until these two work out their differences. so i will be dead ten years before you see that woman on television with me ever again. >> they're both kind of problematic, let's put it that

way. he's a bad guy in many ways, he's cheated on her, and he took money from her. she was a shrew on the show, so who do you like better? >> it's really hard know who to like better. but they're not going away. she's taped a pilot for a talk show already. and i believe -- what else do we know? >> are you in the pilot too? >> perhaps, a little. but you don't know what it is? >> i have no idea what it is. >> i could make an educated guess, no matter what move she's making today, they're both gone. >> you think they're a thing of the past? >> they're already a thing of the past. >> i read that jon loves jewish people now and he might be converting to judaism. >> they said the same thing about mel gibson and it just

didn't work out. >> i want to turn now to the first lady of california. tmz snapped some photos of maria shriver talking on the cell phone which has been illegal since her husband governor arnold schwarzenegger passed a last banning it last year. >> the guy passes a law and she's sitting on the phone. who's she talking to? i just think it's hilarious, it's her getting back at him for being a fake republican. >> who is she talking to? i just think it's funny. >> do you think he's really a democrat? >> i think he's really a democrat. >> don't tell him that. >> i think it's completely overblown, i was caught at one of those red light cameras, talking on the phone with a drink in my hand and my mistress in the passenger seat, it's not that big of a deal. to be honest with you, governor arnold schwarzenegger was pulled

over driving a motorcycle without a motorcycle license. he was quoted in the papers saying there will be swift action at home tonight. she's younger than i am. >> by the way, she's donating the phone. so charity. >> maybe she's not going to get another phone. >> i think she needs a phone. i don't know how that's going to work. >> maybe the $70 is needed to bail out the state of california. >> she's actually donating it to m.a.d.d., mothers against drives. >> i happened to be reading one of these magazines. >> virgins into their 20s. >> old virgins. >> it says her you, tina fey, 20 -- >> we don't have to read that. >> 24 there's nothing wrong with that, is there? >> no. >> and -- >> couldn't give it away. >> you know, she had been working for letterman, she probably would have had it done before. >> is letterman going to come up this creepy every time this topic of sex comes up? how long is this going to go on, do you think? >> i think a long time. he looks like a creepy old guy, don't you think? >> do you really think that?

>> do you really think that? >> i do, i'm sorry, it's just the elephant in the middle of the room. at least he acknowledges it. >> it's a difference of opinion, i think possibly between genders because i'm saying i can't believe the creepy old guy still gets laid. he's a hero. >> he's a hero to you? is he a hero to you, sarah? >> first of all, before this whole thing, two weeks ago he was killing everybody else and he was number one. i think this is only when we get over it a little bit, it's only going to help him. cbs is definitely going to renew

his contract and i don't think this is the end of letterman. >> what's the point of having your own show if you're not sleeping with the staff? >> that is so retro. we can't even go there. >> i want a deli tray and i want to sleep with one of the producers. it's in my rider. >> i just think he's not a politician, he's a comic, that's what happens on these shows. >> gloria allred is talking about, she's saying it's about favoritism more than harassment. there's these other girls on the show and they're not getting any. >> she actually turns the screws. she's just bitter about the whole thing. >> practically every man that's discussed it on the show this week, they think it's just fine. women have issues. >> i have noticed that, women have issues. i don't have that much of an issue, but it's true, they're really pissed off at him. >> i have had three television

shows in the last three years and i have slept with a member of every single staff and i don't think any of them wouldn't say it was a pretty good time. >> this other guy, i don't know if he could have actually cashed that check for $2 million? >> i think he believed he could. that's the best part of the whole story. >> he seemed to be just in pain because his girlfriend was cheating on him and everything. >> with letterman. >> isn't this guy a respected producer of a respected news show? who walks into a bank with a check for $2 million, by the way, can i have a million back in cash, please. >> on the other hand, he's a single father. richard belzer, when we come back. thanks, everybody.

jaycee dugards amazing survivor story and jessica simpson's weight slam. and i'm back with my fabulous panel. so let's talk about the magazine "teen vogue." they're in hot water for putting an unmarried pregnant 19-year-old on the cover. sarah, you're in the magazine industry, is somebody like really losing it over there? >> probably. but i have to say i sympathize with "teen vogue" in this situation. they booked this model.

she actually was the first african-american model to walk the prada runway since naomi campbell. it ended up that after this photo shoot they found out that she was actually pregnant, she's due in december. that was a tricky situation, because if they actually had canceled it, they would have also gotten a lot of coverage due to the fact that they canned this pregnant unwed mom. >> due to the stretch marks. >> she's 19 years old, and that's not as young as jamie lynn spears who starred in a nickelodeon show. >> she's in two protected classes, three, she's an african-american, pregnant, woman. it depends on how you look at those things, if you're rush limbaugh, you're screaming that the liberal democrats, the decline of western civilization. if you're like i am, the father of a teenaged daughter, you

don't mind showing them that, look, you really do end up pregnant, you should be careful. >> it's okay to end up pregnant if you're unfair. -- married. >> or that you're beautiful. >> their reader ship is not 19, their readership is 14, 15. but it's gotten the conversation going, so that might be okay. >> is it okay to be pregnant and not married? am i behind the times? >> it is. >> if you're republican and your mother -- >> there's a new study that it's pretty much jumped about 30% since the '70s, unmarried, pregnant women. it's not necessarily the greatest thing financially. >> i don't think it's immoral, it's impractical. >> it's impact kl, but a lot of women just want to have their baby. it's evolution. >> i think it's annoying. >> i know. you know now. you warned me, joy. you were right. >> and you're a lesbian, you didn't even have to do it.

>> i went way out of my way, oh, god. >> let's go to another story, across the atlantic, "french vogue" is in hot water. they did a photo of mara stone in black face. >> black face is coming up. i asked the makeup people to do black face on me but they didn't have enough time? what is the point, it's black face with white lips, isn't it? >> it's very insulting to black americans. >> if it is not insulting to african-americans, then

everybody owes ted dancin a huge apology. >> it's never been okay, but in those days they were giving it away because they were that dumb. it's really inexcusable today. >> the first event will cover you unless you're trying to incite insurrection, i think they were trying to incite an erection. >> the jackson jive? a turkish news report er was in black face while he was reporting on obama. >> and there was actually mad men, one of the characters was in black face. but that was in the context of the time and trying to point out that that was offensive and wrong. i think what's bizarre about this "french vogue" is that what's the point? is it supposed to be funny or dumb? >> they want us to be talking about it and here we are. >> one more story, the obama administration is in the middle of a heated fuse with fox news, predictably glenn beck brought the feud to a whole new and ridiculous level, listen to this. >> when they're done with fox,

and you decide to speak out on something. the old "first they came for the jews, and i wasn't jewish" when they're done with fox and talk radio, do you really think they're going to leave you alone if you want to ask a tough question? >> okay, before we discuss this, can i just point out that calling the president a racist isn't a tough question. it's not even a question, you idiot, it's a declarative. okay, i'm back with my panel. >> he's a mental patient, this guy. he's out of his mind. >> isn't he trivializing the holocaust a little bit? >> you don't want to be involved. >> i don't need to be involved with glenn beck. >> we always get wrapped into everything, i'm sick of it. >> it shouldn't be taken that lightly, he says when they're done with fox news, and he compares it with the holocaust, the holocaust is just a word.

6 million people were gassed to death, how dare he say that? >> let's just try to see what the point is, at least. let's forget about the jewish part. >> he can say whatever he wants about whomever and there's no sensorship, but the minute someone says something in retaliation, then he brings up the holocaust. >> then he's a victim. >> he is a victim. >> but he's rooting for the first amendment in a certain way. >> but i think he blurs that line because it's after a while you blur the line between the news and entertainment and there are a few things, in a big recession, there are only a few things that are recession proof in my opinion, drugs, prostitution and entertainment and i'm for all three. you know? >> i think what's interesting is what is the white house going to do about this? the more attention they pay, the more ratings he gets. so it's a tricky situation that they're in. >> is he a ratings idol for you? >> he is an idol of mine because he is in recovery for alcoholism because the second he started

talking and i have been in recovery for years, i immediately started drinking again. i need to thank him for that. >> do you see a trend? rush limbaugh oxycontin. glenn beck alcoholic, danny bonaduce, alcoholic. george w. bush ex-alcohol. >> isn't he literally on the wagon? i jumped off. >> when you're an alcoholic or a drug addict and you quit, you really do have that addictive personality. where did you put your addiction, what are you addicted to now? talking on the radio? >> talking inses a lot. >> insent sent talking. >> and glenn beck's addiction may be getting more and more pub publicity. >> why do they align themselves with zealots like glenn bek and rush limbaugh. >> the republicans.

>> they don't say anything. because they know they have a base. just like sarah palin, they knew she was dumb, but she has a tremendous base in the republican party. >> i think that is exactly the right analogy, they handled her so well because they didn't attack her as much as they could because they knew it was just going to add fuel to the fire. if they keep attacking him, he's just going to gain and they're going to lose. >> i thought it was interesting that rush limbaugh who was such a conservative of course took so much oxycontin that he went deaf, but that's just god blessing him so he doesn't have to hear his show. >> that's funny, danny, you ought to be a comedian. thanks all of you, did you have fun? thanks to my entire panel, stephen baldwin joins me next. don't go away. what a night.

my next guest is from hollywood royalty. and he and his family play a big role in the breast cancer fight through the carol m. baldwin breast cancer research fund. joining me is actor stephen baldwin. welcome to the show. >> thank you. >> if you're hollywood royalty, before we get to the cancer conversation, who's the king of the family, alec?

come on. >> without question. i just got to ask the question, if i ever seriously needed a large a lot of money, who would i go to? i said, alec, he's got the most and it would probably be bail money and it would be at least $5 million so i would have to right to alec. >> now your family is very close, we're talking about your mother's illness, though she survived breast cancer? >> survivor. >> it must have been difficult for all those boys to have a mother with cancer. >> it was a year before my wedding and i had been married for 19 years and in typical baldwin fashion, she didn't want to ruin the wedding. but it was pretty far along, she eventually had a double mastectomy and has been a tremendous crusader ever since. >> when was the carolyn baldwin fund started? >> ten years ago? >> what's your part in the organization? >> there's two chapters, there's an upstate organization and a long island organization. we do a lot of events and black tie galas and they have a motorcycle ride that mom puts on

the old pink helmet and rides in a side car of a harley davidson. >> a whacky group, but they're fun. do you get along with them all? >> yep. >> do you get along politically? he doesn't agree with you on politics. >> we were hanging out a few months back. he said who would have ever thought. i said what, little stephen, born again, conservative and a republican. i said i'm an independent. he said we all know you're a republican sympathizer. >> and you're a born again christian too, correct? >> correct. >> do you think that god has helped your mother to get better? >> absolutely. >> you do? >> i think god is sovereign and doesn't allow for things to happen. so if she's still here, i would say it's his will. >> i don't understand that when people say that, there's a lot of bad things to happen, so does

-- is god responsible for the bad as well as the good? >> god allows the bad. >> what do you mean? >> god allows to devil to do what he does. >> the devil? >> yes. >> what does he look like? >> do you have any children? >> yes. >> did you ever discipline them? >> no, she never needed it. she was a perfect child. >> you asked me before the program if i was scared of you, when you do that, i get scared of you. >> what do you get scared of? >> you're quite ferocious. >> i am? >> alec is not afraid of me. >> alec is alec. >> in fact i wish he would come on the show more often. >> has he not been on yet? >> he hasn't been on this show. he was on with me on larry king. and he'll be on with you if you want him to. >> he will say nothing about how much he loves me and how much fun we have. >> i hope i didn't scare you too much. i am really a very nice person.

i just have questions i ask all the time. ddddddddddd

you probably know my next guest as detective munch, the longest running character on prime time. what you may not know is that the actor richard belzer is also a comic and an author. his latest work is called "i am not a psychic." >> i hope people knew i was a comic, maybe not an author. >> time marches on. >> i know. i am 73 now. >> let's talk about those days. do you miss them? >> you know what? i remember when i first started out, you know in the comedy

clubs, the improv, sleeping on the subway, eating yogurt because it was only 50 cents. that was the only thing i was doing at that point. even though i was cynical and bitter and all that, i still had this sense of magic and romanticism about it? >> about comedy? >> you asked me about the early days. they were hard. but i am glad. >> like being a stand snup? you had a fantasy about how great it would be. >> just being in a nightclub and it's filling up and the bands playing and there's smoke in the air. that's to me, was what i wanted to be, i wanted to be in that world. >> i have had a few comedians on the show already. some of us had difficult childhoods, mine was pretty good. larry said the childhood was fine, it was the adult hood that was bad.

>> people say comics have suffered, and you're a good example. you weren't abused as a kid. >> i was adored, that was my issue. >> you were incredibly fine and you were able to do that. my feeling is this, whether i was abused or not and i was whacked around as a kid, a little bit more than average. but i was funny anyway. and maybe the pain and all that stuff brought it out more. you don't become brilliantly funny because somebody abused you, it has to be indigenous to your being. if i wasn't funny, i may have found another way to defend myself. >> there's a new study that came out a couple of weeks ago that says that kids that are spanked have a lower iq. >> and many other things about

spankings. i saw this book years ago, i wish i could remember the name of it. someone went around to visit people who hid jews during the war. >> yeah. >> in different countries. people who hid jews, they went and they interviewed them and they found that two or three similarities between them. the first one was, none of them thought of themselves as heroes. >> right. >> you know, it's another person. and some of them were really emperilled their lives and families and hid jews. the other thing was virtually every single person who hid jews was not hit as a child. >> they were not hit? >> which means they weren't afraid. >> that's interesting. >> isn't that fascinating? because if you're hit as a kid, it's wired into your head, your brain, even as an adult that you're going to get hit. i mean i have had problems for years sleeping at night because i'm -- you know, i'm 105 years old. but i mean up until i don't want to say recently, i had trouble sleeping because on some level i thought she's going to come in any minute and beat the [ bleep ] out of me. >> really? >> it was not logical what she did. >> the mother hit you, not your father. my father, begrudgingly hit me. she would say go beat him. >> and your brother, too?

>> we were both whacked around. >> the comedy might have been a way of survival. even in school i used to be funny in class because the teachers would scare me. >> and you were bored. >> and i was bored a lot so i would start trouble and talk to people and start little talk conversations, which they pay me now to do. the same thing i was do then. >> now i get paid for what i got thrown out of school for. >> you're a big conspiracy theory person, right? >> yes. >> hillary clinton brought up the big vast right wing conspiracy that has been conspiring against my husband since the day he was announced as president. but today bill clinton said it's still alive. he said it's not as strong as it was. because america's changed demographically but it's as veer lent as it was. is there a right wing conspiracy in this country?

>> i think it is an open conspiracy. sit common knowledge that think tanks and publishers on the right, they'll public books that say bill and hillary killed vincent foster. they'll get in bed so to peek with the religious right and demonize the left. it's clear. from day one they hated clinton and they tried everything they could do to destroy him. if it's a conspiracy, it's an open conspiracy. >> do you believe there's a conspiracy against obama now. >> it's not a conspiracy, it's on television every day. this is semantics. the right wing has a common interest, which is to destroy obama and put their party before their country. that's what they have chosen to do.

and i think the cat's out of the bag now, we see, you know, they're cheering, we don't get the olympics and demeaning the nobel prize. >> right, which is so un-american. >> and questioning where he was born. and if every single republican in the senate does not vote for health care reform, then, you know, it's like they shouldn't exist as a political party. it's the most callous, heartless, mean political expediency playing on the worst fears of the elderly and the poor. they're the most despicable pieces of human trash ever. >> do you think the american electorate is catching on to that or not.

>> no, american people always have been and always will be moderate to left, not moderate to right as people like to believe. ever since the '60s, would you pay a little bit more for clean air, a little bit more for health care, yes? what are you going to do give the firemen a bill? is that a socialist fire department? you're not going to go to a public park, highways, this whole thing of socialism which was a good thing. that's why hitler named his party socialism because the connotation is that everybody shares in the success of a nation. >> not everybody, not the jews in his case. >> i mean he used socialism. >> yes, i know. >> i'm not saying the way he used it, i'm saying the way it was known but he used it, it was an all inclusive thing. and in france you have social democracy, but you also fake care of the disenfranchised. >> what about the racism question on obama. you said i'm concerned there's still serious issues of race -- we need to better address and be brutally honest about. people do skirt the racist

issue, i think, quite a bit. they like to think it's not still a racist country, but in a way, it is, isn't it? >> in a big way it is, they're still red lining in banks, you still see health problems among the blacks and hispanics and poor people that people of means don't have the same health problems. we put pollution next to poor neighborhoods, there's so much discrimination that's put into the fabric of the nation. and there's 400 million people that voted for president obama. >> will it hold, do you think, that's what i worry about. his approval rating weren't down. >> that's because he's president, not because he's black. i think the fact that he became president will -- first of all i think every black kid in america is one inch taller now. for that alone it's a great thing. i think symbolically is a great thing, what he represents. >> bush did so many wrong things, that it's nice to take a

break to too much negative action. >> i disagree. roosevelt was fighting a war and rebuilding the country and doing 50 million things. you can either do the war or the economy. the health care is the economy. >> i have hope that he will speed this up a little bit. >> he has a team of rivals that argue with him. >> i have to go, richard, the book is called "i am not a psychic" and it's in stories now. the beautiful valerie bertinelli stops by. stay right there. ñoñoo

earlier this week the beautiful and talented valerie

bertinelli stopped by to discuss her new book "finding it" and my question is what did you find? >> i'm still finding it. >> what's it? >> exactly. that whole weird thing about maintenance and finding what caused me to put the weight on, what i'm going to find to help me keep it off, just finding it in my weird, bizarre life which isn't probably so weird because i think a lot of people have the same stories going on in their lives. >> also you talk about your marriage to eddie van hallen who was a great rock star and a cute guy. how long were you married? >> i think we were married for 20 years, but we were separated for some of it. i have known him for almost 30 years. >> i can't believe that it was that long. >> well, august of 1980 we met. >> time goes by so fast. it was just yesterday monica

lewinsky was just a little girl under the desk. >> i just want to know why she didn't clean the frickin' dress, are you disgusting or what? clean the dress. i send my clothes in to be cleaned if they get dirty. >> because she's looney tunes. >> disgusting. >> there's a little discussion about extramarital affairs, which is usually why people break up. what happened there? >> i think by the time you start having affairs, something is obviously quite broken in the marriage. obviously something was quite broken in our marriage early on, but we kept up the good fight and we didn't quite make it? >> who was cheating on who? >> do you have to know, when, where, why? we have a little thing going, i think he did first and he thinks i did first. but we don't know the timing. >> it's the thing about why we eat. people stray in an emotional relationship for one reason or another.

>> because you are not being emotionally fulfilled. >> or you're just a horny dog. i want to refer you to governor spitzer or some of these other dogs we keep reading about. they're out there just hounding it out. with women, it seems like -- >> we hound it up once in a while too. >> but we usually have a reason. >> so we're given a get out of jail free card? no, no, no. >> you think women cheat in the same way that men cheat? >> i think cheating is cheating and it's wrong, period. i can speak from experience of having been cheated on and cheating. i think it feels worse for me to have cheated on, because that feeling, of the pain that i inflicted on somebody, i don't ever want to do it again. the good thing is that i'm in a relationship that i know i never want to hurt that man ever like that. >> so you have learned your

lesson? >> monogamy is in my life. and if i feel that i don't want to be faithful to this guy -- was i'm not going to be. i'm not going to go there. what time is this show on? oh, my god, my parents are watching this. i'm sorry, pop, i love you. hi mom. i'm still a virgin, right? >> you're like a virgin. let's put it that way. >> i had a child 18 years ago. >> what was i saying about extramarital affairs? >> the thing about monogamy when you other younger is that it's boring. >> it depends who you're being monogamous with. >> it is difficult to be monogamous when you are younger. >> you're still finding it. >> yes, whatever that it may be. >> that's the real reason. >> that's why i think getting married at 20 was really stupid. and i don't suggest anybody do that. more mature love that i'm going

through right now, i'm with my buddy, i really -- i enjoy his company, he's my best friend, i don't want to hurt him. >> first of all you named your son wolfgang -- >> william van halen. you really named him after motzart. >> i loved the movie amedeaus. and trying to come up with a name that goes with van halen. it was not easy. his father's name is january, which is spelled j-a-n. >> how about robert? that works. >> no. >> what about tom van halen. >> frank? >> what about sabatore.

>> i think wolfgang really determines that the kid had to be in the business with your husband, though. >> yes, he got his dad's gift, he's very lucky that he got his dad's gift and not mine. >> what instrument does he play? >> he started on the drums when he was 9 and then he picked up the guitar when he was 12 or 11 and his dad asked him to start playing the base so he started playing the bass. >> he's talented? >> and he's got a beautiful singing voice. there's my boy. >> he's very cute. >> and he is now teaching himself the piano. and he kicks ass in rock band. >> does he sing too? >> yeah, he sings very -- >> and what was this whole thing about him being a virgin? you think he's a virgin. >> you want to talk about that? i just got a text from my son, we're watching the view now. i said, oh, are you still

speaking to me? >> you were teasing about it. >> he's 18 years old. >> he's 18 years old so he's a virgin, right? >> but that's none of your business, is it? >> it's none of my business. i don't want to talk about it. >> is it in the book. >> i talk about the sex talk that ed had with wolfie. i was listening in the dressing room. if you have ever met my ex-husband, he has this gravelly voice, all of a sudden he's in the mafia.

he just has this gravelly voice, he's saying be careful with what you do with your heart, but once you fall in love, don't protect it so much that you don't let anybody in, and treat her with kindness. and i thought that's what i would say. and he said be careful of the whores and skan ks that are going to be after you because you're in a rock band. >> so you're happy with the way he spoke to your son? >> i am. i may joke around, but he's a really good dad. >> are you now? you are friends. >> we're friendly. i don't know if i would call him my friend or buddy the way that tom is my buddy, but i like him again, and i fell out of like with him for a long time. i've always loved him and i like him again, i like his new wife. they're good people. >> he got married again too. >> i was at the wedding. >> oh that's so nice. >> so was tom. tom was with me. >> once you have a child you never separate 100% from your husband. >> no. >> it's impossible. >> i sow must treat each other with kind ofness and love your children more than you hate your ex. >> oop not letting you go yet. this woman isn't going anywhere. more with valerie bertinelli when i return.

valerie bertinelli and her boyfriend tom are sitting across from me. welcome to the show, tom. >> thank you. >> we've dragged you in here from the greeting room. now, you two are an item for now how long? >> five years. >> so dating for five years. there are wedding plans. i know me too for 27 years. >> i love that you're my spousal equivalent, honey. i don't want do the seating chart. >> you don't want to get married. >> i don't want to do the seating chart. everyone gets mad at you because nobody wants to sit at table 17 i don't know why. >> how about you, tom? >> i don't know she hasn't asked

me yet. >> if she asked you, would you say yes. >> i don't know, i might. >> when dutwo meet. >> at my broter's house in scottsdale, arizona. my brother patrick and his wife stacy. we were going to a wine event and i keep my wine, my -- in the freezer especially in scottsdale when it's hot as all get out? >> suck on ice cubes. >> no you get it out before it gets too cold. he was in front freezer and i saw this guy in a tuxthat was -- looked like that and i was like, oh, baby. >> it was a black-tie event, we had a good time. >> i said, oh, hello. i'm valerie, and you are? >> and he's like, tom. >> so what did you think about a big star like her coming onto you tom. >> it was difficult. i had to get used to it. >> did you -- >> i just plowed her with champagne. >> he did.

>> at the event, he kept -- every time my champagne would go down to here i would have another one in the hand. i was like what the -- that was before jenny craig. >> he met you and fell in love you before -- i love that. >> he's a keeper. >> that's a keep sir. >> was big too i was 220. >> he's lost a lot on the program. >> they criticize the women. >> do you remember how big your belly was, look it's not big anymore. >> the old bones -- >> they don't have anymore. >> i know. >> that's good. >> it's really something. >> we have a couple e-mails for you. >> what? >> questions for you. >> all right. >> from e-mail. >> sure. >> there was a question from -- >> you can read that without glasses? how old you are? >> i'm older than you, believe me. >> how come your eyes are. >> check with "people" magazine, they print it every month. that is. >> but if they didn't put your birthday wouldn't you be offended? >> no, why? they do, like, glassy 12. i mean, they're ridiculous. >> which lassie?

>> i know, so this woman, janice. >> italian name. >> right. she writes i'm on a very low calorie program now. you are still on jenny craig? >> yes, i'm still on jenny craig and this is the whole thing. she has to turn her head around because if it's a super low ago, i don't know how much weight she has to lose but maybe she's on too low of a program but in jenny as you start to incorporate other need your program and get into a maintenance program with you up your calorie point but don't up it to a point to go back to your bad behavior. no, i still eat it. >> but not 100%? >> no. >> okay. well that was -- >> sometimes i do eat it 100%. i will just do jenny and my two snacks all day. >> valerie, i just love you. i think you're adorable. you're my kind of girl. >> yes, you're my kind of gal. thanks to valerie, tom, and all

of my guests tonight. and thank you for watching. good night, everybody.

breaking news tonight in the case of a 5-year-old florida girl reportedly snatched from her own bed in the middle of the night. little haleigh cummings vanishing without a trace. major developments as we go to air. are the how was cards finally falling down around her? a florida judge signs off on the divorce of haley's dad. and the last person to see the little girl alive. ronald cummings and misty croslin's brief seven-month marriage is officially over. with the divorce final will cummings finally break his silence about the holes in misty's story. the mother bonds out of a florida jail on forgery charges.

what did she tell investigators about haleigh's disappearance. >> just a divorce. >> just a divorce. i mean, i don't want a divorce, but that's what he wants so it's whatever. >> the last person to see haleigh alive is also the last person to finally sign divorce papers. will it boost the investigation into what happened to 5-year-old haleigh? >> the whole relationship right from the very beginning has been tumultuous from the time the police report was taken so maybe now that ronald's not there to protect her, if you will, maybe show up. but instead going to the morning show with cbs, she should have been going to the putnam county sheriffs talking about where haleigh is. >> now that misty croslin's mom is transferred out of a tennessee jail, will she be questioned by the police?

>> you have mom that's in jail and she's gite $100,000 bond, and i clearly think, that hey will approach her and say, okay, do you want to get out of jail. you need to tell us something. >> i think what we are dealing with mist and her mom are pretty shallow people who don't really think much before they speak and they pretty much blurt out anything that comes to mind. they are focused on each other. nobody seems to be focused on the little girl. >> as over 4,000 tips continue to pour in, including possible haleigh sightings caught on video. >> we would love to have a break in this case and we really wouldn't care who is implicates as long as it brings haleigh back to us. >> this is such a travesty and such a circus that i'm waiting for the acrobats to come in. it's one ridiculous story on top of another. it's ludicrous. what about haleigh, isn't she supposed to be the focus? >> good evening, i'm mike brooks in for nancy grace. are the house of cards finally falling down?

a florida judge signs off on the divorce of haleigh's dad and the last person to see the little girl alive. will ronald cummings finally break his silbents holes in misty's story? >> ronald, do you feel that misty is a key to this investigation? >> no, i don't. i think that they're barking up the wrong tree. >> i don't believe you. i think you do suspect your ex-wife, soon-to-be ex-wife's story. i think i don't want to discuss it in the midst of a divorce. >> reporter: so are you saying that you didn't fail the pole graph like people and law enforcement are kind of claiming that you did? >> no, i did not. >> reporter: okay, so bottom line you don't know where haleigh is? >> bottom line. >> misty is digging herself into a deeper hole, to the point where her attorney has now dropped her. >> if this girl keeps doing what she's doing it's only a question of time before she's charged with something having do with this kid's disappearance. she just repeatedly, repeatedly

contradicts herself. >> she was the last one to see our daughter and her stories just don't add up. everything she says is crazy. >> tips flooding in from across the nation. possible haleigh sightings caught on tape, this as misty croslin's mom transferred out of a tennessee jail. will she be questioned by florida police? >> something's going on and mom may just have this heartfelt sympathy for this poor child that's now disappeared. >> this family is willing to betray each other by something like a get-out-of-jail free card. this family is willing to betray what's it say about her and who she's willing to betray? is she betraying ron or haleigh? >> i'm mike brooks in for nancy grace. well, the bottom line is here, folks, it's been a seven-month marriage between ronald and misty. but the question remains, where is that little, beautiful baby girl haleigh?

i want to go out to nancy grace producer marlaina schiavo who has been on this case from the very beginning. mar lane awhat's the very latest that's going on in satsuma, florida, right now? >> reporter: well, mike, the divorce between misty an ronald is finalized and what does this mean? well, it means a few things. will ronald finally come clean and tell us what he really feels about what misty's been saying all along? will he admit the doubts that he has about misty? but also, mike, we learned today, right before we go to air that misty is now being represented, again, by her attorney. >> now wait a minute. this is the same guy that she just dropped after her appearance on one of the morning shows, and he says, hey, i don't want you anymore. you're on your own because you won't do what i tell you to do. same guy? >> same guy.

he sent an e-mail today to ronald's attorney saying he does not want ronald speaking to misty without the attorneys involved. all communication now has to go through the lawyers. >> hm, that's very anding. joininguts tonight is brandon beardsley. mr. beardsly, thank you for being with us. >> it's my pleasure, sir. >> what is this memo? >> it wasn't really a memo. he just -- you know, we communicate through e-mail it's a lot easier and he sent me an e-mail and requested that all communication between ronald and misty be cut off and that everything needs to go through them. >> what does ronald think of this? >> ronald's fine with it. if that's what her attorney wantancy if what mistients he has no problem with it. they're divorced. their marriage is over. it's fine with him. >> now, you know, they had been talking all, up until now, from what we understand and things very fairly amicable, even though there are irreconcilable differences in this looking at the certificate of marriage. but has ronald told you what he really thinks misty is holding out?

>> he's never come out -- first of all you've got to understand, if ronald knew anything or had anything she told him, he would 100% go tell authorities. has he ever came out and told me that he thinks she's hiding something, hings that there is disclosures she's not made to the police department, the sheriff's department of putnam county, no, he's not come out and said that. but i truly believe that he has concerns. you can see her inconsistencies you always see her on the news and everyone pointing out her inconsistenties p it's almost impossible to not question if she's telling the truth. >> they were together not very long. how long totally have they known each other? >> to be honest, i don't know the answer to that. >> from what i understand, it wasn't that long before haleigh disappeared that they actually started dating and after she disappeared they got married and seven months later, they're divorced.

so we were calling her misty croslin, misty croslin-cummings and seven months she should shouldn't have too hard to -- and got her name back, petition for misty croslin. mr. beardsley, what is ronald's state of mind right now? >> ronald's state of mind is the way it always has. his main concern is finding his daughter. he don't care who it implicates, who's responsible. his goal is to find his daughter. his state of mind is, i think he's more relieved now from the day-to-day pressures of being with misty and the media hype that surrounded their marriage and their relationship. i think he's a little more calm and relaxed. he's still very anxious and wants to find his daughter. >> in the marital settlement

agreement, it says, in one the lines, in consequence of disputes and irreconcilable differences that the partnerships intend to separate or live apart. >> correct. >> now, they are divorced. what were the main disputes they were having? >> first of all, that's standard agreement that i have used in any draft. >> there were disputes, correct? >> every married couple has disputes. their main falling out, i guess you could say -- they needed to go their separate ways because of all ofs pressures that they receive day to day. ronald, in my opinion, he does question if she had anything to do with it. now, you know, keep your friends close, your enemy's closer. >> i think that's a quote from ronald, as a matter of fact. >> yeah, and i don't know if he stayed with her hoping if she stayed anything or slipped that she dold it around the person that she's around every day,

he's never said that but common sense would tell you that that's an option. >> yeah. i want to go out to art harris, investigative journalist and he has the website, artharris.com. art, thanks for joining us. >> sure, mike. >> you have spent a lot of time down there and talked to a lot of folks in satsuma and done a lot of your own investigating yourself. what is the pulse right now down in satsuma surrounding this case and the search for haleigh right now, that you in your opinion? >> well, there's a collective sigh of relief, mike that this tension, this flashpoint between misty and ronald is not what it was. misty is off with friends in an undisclosed location. and she's isolated. but i'm told that she has reached out to her family. and there may be a reconciliation, mike. i understand, there may be -- something in the works where she may be willing to drop her objection to tommy being in touch with her, if she removed and drops that permanent restraining order, then she could go back to her family or he could have the leave. house. >> why does she have a restraining order against her brother? >> there was violence with ronald. he would come home from the

father/mother to, quote rescue her. she changes her mind. a fight ensues. she gets punched, accidentally and files the papers for a restraining order against her brother, tommy. so, anyways -- >> tommy was in jail. i'm going to go to elie jostad, producer of "nancy grace." tommy was in jail? >> yes. >> for what? >> tommy croslin and lisa were involved in the same incident. they apparently went over to a neighbor's house. they went over to his house to use his phone. while they were there, lisa croslin, the mother, allegedly stole checks from the neighbor. and the brother, tommy, allegedly took a gun from him. >> so, he took a gun. they stole some checks. she wrote some bad paper of this -- of this old guy. and then she runs to tennessee, gets locked up in tennessee. gets a warrant against her. now she's back in florida. what will -- come back, we're going to talk

about what tommy told police and did misty's mom talk to police and what did she tell them?

ronald cummings, did it ever disturb you that misty cummings' story actually changed? >> yes, ma'am, it did. >> this couple had been in the media spotlight for months. they can't go to the grocery store together. they can't go out to the

supermarket and eat. anytime they go out they get scrutinized. i don't know of any married couple that their marriage could last. >> no offense, you have a wonderful reputation, but nobody gets divorced because somebody looks at them in the check out line. i'm not buying that for a minute what i am buying is you guys don't want to tell me why the divorce or if cummings wants to admit he does not believe croslin's story, that's his business. >> i can't really recall the exact changes and they're real small. she pretty much tells meet same thing each time i ask her about it. so there might be a difference in the way that it's worded. >> there's a lot of tension. it's very tough for -- strain on a relationship when there is something that you think maybe needs to be told and you're not getting that information. you know it puts a very big strain on the relationship. >> i'm mike brooks in for nancy grace. right before we went to break we were talking about misty. this dysfunctional family, to

say the least. misty, her brother tommy, her mother who tommy and the mother went over to the neighbor's house to use the phone. and took a gun. took some checks. momma got locked up. she got transferred to a prison down in florida. she just bonded out. and now, misty's going to reconcile with her brother, tommy. isn't that just a heartfelt story? but here's what misty had to say about tommy. take a listen. >> the last time you had seen her before then was when? >> 10:00 when i laid down for bed. >> you had put her to bed? >> uh-huh, she went to bed at 8:00. >> but your brother told police that when he went to the trailer that night when you were supposedly putting haleigh to bed you weren't there. dugo somewhere that night? >> no, i did not. >> why did he tell the police you weren't there? >> trying to get out of jail, i think. >> so your brother was in jail? >> yeah, he was in jail. >> your own brother would betray you like that?

>> that's how my family is. >> that's misty croslin on cbs's "the early show." boy, does she look different. it looks like she had a little bit of a makeover. maybe some mine a salon. we will see if this little reconciliation between the family really comes to fruition. okay, i want to go back out to art harris. art, now we see misty and she's -- looks a lot different than we see her right here. now tell -- there is this whole little undercover sting operation that tim miller in equusearch had -- and because we had heard about misty running off to orlando twice with this mystery friend. we find out this mystery friend is actually a woman by the name of donna brock, who is working for tim miller. >> that's right, mike. this is someone who she met when she was down there taking the polygraph that she quote flunked

miserably, according to tim miller. and came up with the idea that, because they bonded and she offered, hey, misty, you know, give me a call. do you want to go to the mall, i will take you to get your hair done, nails done and suddenly out of blue, misty calls her. so she calls tim miller and says, tim, what do i do? tim says, this could be an opportunity to find out what happened to haleigh. >> but, art, how did he -- how did she inject -- how did donna inject herself into this whole equation? >> mike, she was part of the texas equusearch crowd that was baby-sitting misty when she went to orlando to take the polygraph. and for some reason they hit it off. she was -- she's a 43-year-old mother of four. has kind of an aura of caulkness to her. misty saw her as the, quote, mother she never had. that's what tim tells me, and suddenly they were bonded. >> okay, so she knew that this woman donna brock actually did work for tim miller? >> she did, but you know, just assume that because they were

going out together and she could call her anytime and spend time with her, she took her out of town, spent money on her, and she told her a lot of very personal thing. donna there was every time misty talked to ronald on the phone that week and we reported they were fighting tooth and nail. and misty got the news as we reported it on "nancy grace." she watched the show every time, i'm told. and was infuriated. >> joining us from florida, i want to go straight out to mark. attorney for tim miller texas, equusearch. good to have you with us again. >> nice to be back, thank you. >> did tim kind of run this plan, this undercover you know, operation of misty, if you will. by you. before to put money into this. >> no, really two parts to it. the first time misty wanted to take a polygraph so we arranged it in my offices and she did fail miserably.

i love her like she's my own and i'll do going to get her back. >> being married it can be stressful and there could be challenges. and on top of that, everything that they went through during their marriage, i think it would be virtually impossible for any couple to survive that. >> ms. neves, i don't mean to grill you but it just doesn't all fit together. >> to me it's a very dysfunctional family and that's the best way that i can describe that. >> if they could look for the right person they would have the answers but they're trying to

get all of the answers from me that i don't have. >> i'm mike brooks in for nancy grace. well, you heard ronald's mother teresa neves saying a dysfunctional family i think that's putting it mildly. but keep in mind teresa neves' always been behind the story that misty's saying and believe she was telling the truth. we'll see if she really believes that anymore. out to mark nejame, attorney for tim miller, texas equusearch. mark, you was getting into -- telling us about the operation misty before we went to break. >> right. >> so he did run this by you before he went ahead and did this? >> well, no. what happened is that misty wanted to take a polygraph. >> okay. >> teresa contacted me and i told her that i would only assist if we had led to finding out whatever happened to the child so she agreed. so we were -- whether that led to misty or to anybody on the face of the earth, too bad. we were looking for the child. and we then got some new

national publicity brought -- some new attention brought to the case. they came in. misty agreed to take a polygraph. told us she didn't have an attorney. it was scheduled in my offices. we found the top polygraphers that we could in the central florida area. and i left for the evening. she failed miserably. and then from there, as your previous individual had indicated that was pretty much correct. tim went on his own and set it up because at that point misty started coming out saying, tim was a liar. i was a liar. nothing to lie about she failed the polygraph. >> exactly. straight out to our attorney, sue moss. and noted defense attorney elizabeth kelly from new york. sue, anything -- anything that she told donna brock, can it be used in court. >> oh, absolutely. just ask joran van der sloot. not a big shock that they got divorced. only helen keller saw this coming. they didn't evennent on trailer where they would reside. an easy case, the divorce and

now we can get back to looking for this little girl. >> dan do you have any issues with it? i don't. >> i do. tim miller has no credibility. i heard what he said about marc klaas, that childish outrage that he unleashed and how does he believe that anyone in his camper associated with him? they are all media hounds and he has no credibility. dddddd%

i did take a polygraph. >> and you passed it? >> i mean, my understanding is that i passed it. >> i pulled up into the yard. the front door was wide open. she was standing in it. i asked her what she was doing up? she told meet back door was wide open and that haleigh was gone. >> misty's brother was taken from his jail cell to be questioned by police. that's when deputies say croslin's brother told them it looked like no one was home that night. >> he tells police that he banged on the door.

and he got no answer. he looked inside through the windows, saw no lights, no television. did not hear a sound. >> this statement by tommy croslin, to me, is -- doesn't hold any water. >> why? >> i'm sorry, but, why wait seven months? why say, you know, if he went down there, my personal opinion if i went there and knocked and everything was off i would think they were sleeping. >> she says she woke up and she noticed -- she was going to go to the bathroom but she noticed that the kitchen light was on and she said she made it around the corner and she noticed that the back door was open and that's when she ran back to the bedroom and haleigh wasn't in there. >> i'm mike brooks in for nancy grace. did tom croslin really go over to the trailer that night and pound on the door? didn't hear the tv or see anybody? we're not talking about a mansion here, folks. we're talking about a trailer -- he probably would have heard something standing outside if

the tv was on like misty says it was. i want to go back out to marlaina schiavo. she's been in that trailer, she's been down there since the very beginning. marlaina, has law enforcement talked about giving tommy a polygraph, possibly, to see if he really was being forthcoming? >> you know that's interesting, mike. they haven't talked about giving him a polygraph at all. you know they took his statement. they put out there. and that was that. i'm not saying that they won't be doing it in the future but you know, law enforcement hasn't exactly been forthcoming with, you know, many details of this investigation. >> yeah. >> so who knows, it might, in the works. but, no, they haven't said it publicly. >> yeah, as an investigator, i would -- i would want to get them on the box, myself. and you know what, i don't blame him. as a former investigator i wouldn't be telling everybody

anything either. i would be holding things close to my vest and as you make -- get your leads and go and do your investigation, do your interviews and that's how you build your case and make somebody a good cake for going to trial. i want to go back to tim miller, talking about tim miller. we heard dan horowitz, our defense attorney said that he thought that tim's credibility was shot. i want to go back out to our attorneys. elizabeth kelly, defense attorney from new york. do you agree with dan that tim miller, who orchestrated this operation misty, as i call it, do you think that he's lost his credibility because of this. >> well, you know, mike, i feel as if i'm hearing all about linda tripp all over again. i'd like to stick up for misty in large part because no one else is. first of all, i don't read anything into the divorce between her and mr. cummings. these are two very young people who made a hasty decision to get married during a very emotionally rot time if their lives. >> elizabeth, you know what, instead of getting married you

know they should had been focusing their attention on finding the little girl. i think it distract a lot of attention away. i want to go back out to art harris, investigative journalist, artharris delegate. art, you were down there and you talked to tim miller about all of this. now, let's talk a little bit about what tim miller told you about ronald cummings and his state of mind. >> yeah, mike, he was very concerned. because after the polygraph, he went over to the trailer with ronald and says that ronald went in to the closet, pulled out an assault rifle with two banana clips -- >> whoa, whoa. >> 32 rounds. >> what kind of assault rifle did he have. >> you know he didn't make the makep i am assuming something like an ar-15 semiautomatic. two clips and he said, i'm going to blow her teeth through the back of my head and kill others and take others houtwith me if it turns out she had anything to do with this, mike. he was really worried. he'd seen cases that were loss

wht witnesses had been killed, had died. he wanted to get misty out of there, he told me. and that is why he used donna brock as a vehicle to keep her away from ronald. that was his motivation according to tim miller. >> i want to go back out to brandon beardsley, the attorney for ronald cummings, joining us from jacksonville, florida. mr. beardsley -- >> yes, sir. >> -- does he in fact have a weapon in his house? >> he does not have an assault rifle. that statement is absolutely ludicrous. you know, no, he does not have an assault rifle. does he have a pistol, i believe he does. i don't know, i have never searched his house. but i know he doesn't have an assault rifle. >> have you talked to him about this? >> yes. >> you have? >> yes, sir. >> and have you been out to his house and asked him -- >> i have not been to where haleigh was taken from when we started representing him, he'd already relocated residences. >> do you think that ronald cummings is a danger to himself

or others from what we're hearing from art harris? >> absolutely -- now from what you're hearing from art harris, if that was true, well, then of course. but i have many, many clients that i am concerned over their emotional and mental state. and i always refer them to therapy. if i believed ronald cummings was emotionally or mentally unstable i would have him in therapy and there is no doubt in my mind that he is emotionally and mant mentally as stabile as he can be for the circumstances that he's in, he not a threat to himself or anyone that's around him. >> i want to go straight out to pat brown, criminal profiler. pat, you've seen cases like this before and as mr. beardsley said, a lot of people, because he's going through a lot of stress, have become very emotional. what do you make of all of this? >> well, i think that we should go back and take a look at a lot of circumstances. i have an interesting viewpoint on this marriage and divorce, i'm not saying that it's accurate but it's interesting in the police department will be

looking at it. ron marries someone as to who is questionable to his child. may be raped and tortured and says oh this is the time to get married. my daughter would like this. that's ridiculous. i guess his daughter would like the divorce too. he marries this woman. and one of the questions is, did he miry her because he thought it would keep from testifying against him. in other words, if he was involved in something, they could be testifying. secondly, if he gets divorced now, maybe he can now say, if he was involved, that she's just -- and she goes to the police, she's just ranting and raving and she's gist getting back at him for the divorce. so it might had been a goodu know, strategy on his part, both ways. >> i want to go out to clinical psychologist patricia saunders. pat, weigh in on this. we definitely need you right now. >> well, i see a family that has these unstable attachments to everyone. so it would not be out of consideration that misty is someone who doesn't attach to anybody in any substantial kind of way. i do want to agree with part of

what pat brown is saying. that i think we've had a tendency to kind of whitewash ronald cummings as a victim in this. i am sure the man is suffering because of the loss of his daughter. but misty is such an obvious target. and makes herself even more so. i think we have to -- >> well, yeah, she's going to be a target. i mean as the police said, the only thing consistent about what she's told them are her inconsistencies. >> well, that's true, mike. but there's a lot that we don't know that the police have withheld. i don't know that ronald cummings is capable of making the kind of decision to keep her close to his side. but i do question his stance as a victim too. >> but why, pat, would they decide to go ahead and in the midst of all that's going on, decide to get married? it just doesn't make any sense to me. >> well, they're two highly immature people who act on

impulse. and she might be his idea of the child, bride woman who he can mold and shape and not give him any problems. why won't she come and sit

why won't she come and sit down with police and talk to them? >> that, ms. nancy, i can't answer for you. i'm sure that maybe her attorney can answer it for you and hopefully that she will. >> huh-uh. no. you have had to have talked to her about talking to the police. what does she say? >> we have talked to her about talking to the police. >> what does she say? >> she says -- she's talked to them. >> they want to talk to her again. why won't she do it? >> i have no knowledge of them wanting to talk to her why where she wouldn't do it. >> after the divorce, do you believe, ronald cummings will have norsay to police? >> i don't -- i don't believe so. i know that in all of the times that we've met with law enforcement, i know that he's been very forthright in the

number of times when he called her. what the conversations were all about. so i don't think that he's really going to come out with any bombshell as to well, i was holding this back. >> we've all encouraged her to speak with the police. >> i'm mike brooks in for nancy grace. we just want to find -- where is haleigh cummings? i want to go back out to mark nejame he's the attorney for tim miller of texas equusearch. marks you have heard what dan horowitz, our defense attorney from san francisco said, that tim miller's credibility is shot. what's your response. >> quite the opposite. tim's found 102nd victim yesterday. this man's life is dedicated to finding the lost and the deceased when nobody else will do it. he didn't care, he was doing something unorthodox without question. he was looking to find this child and as far as the publicity seeking, nobody knew he was doing it. where is the publicity?

he did it for one reason and one reason only, cause he wanted to help find this child. so anybody who claims otherwise, they really don't know what they're talking about. >> now, has -- has tim talked to you about ronald and possibility, you know, him having the gun? >> sure. in fact, we were with ronald and we've spent time. one thing i can tell you i genuinely believe that ronald absolutely does not know what has happened to his child and is absolutely dedicated to finding that child. >> yeah, i do too. >> his manners and the way he acts a lot of people might not accept it but i believe he's totally committed. and the issue as it relates to misty as to refer as to what was being discussed. ron believes in my opinion in the time they have spent that misty might have known something about it and if she ended up going elsewhere with other family and she was gone he believes he would have loss that singular opportunity or the best opportunity to best find out what happened to this child. so all of the psychological jibber jabber that i have heard. it's not that complicated. he knew his best chance of

finding his child was keeping her close by. because he's got questions like everybody else does about her continued discrepancies. >> i want to go out to mar lano schiavo who has been on the case since day one. marlaina, going out to misty's mom. she was just bonded out. number one, who bond her out? and has she spoken with police? >> okay, first of all, police did not say who bond her out, mike. and she has spoken to police. they interviewed her before she left the jail. and they'd questioned her about the night haleigh went missing and honestly, mike, she -- all she said was that she still thinks that misty is holding something back. she's sticking to that story. you know misty, as you know as we talked about last night, you know said that her mother only said that because she was mad at her and apparently that's not case because she reirrated that to police last night before she

bonded out. >> what did she come up with the money to get out of jail? >> that's a good question, mike. the family obviously has some extended resource. a family outside of satsuma that might be helping them but where that money is coming exactly -- >> is hank croslin in the picture? >> hank crosslin is in the picture. left tennessee, came back to florida once lisa got transferred. now do they have plans to trourch return to tennessee, that remains to be seen in boy as we talked about a dysfunctional family, but maybe, maybe she knows a little bit of something that will help law enforcement find haleigh cummings. i want to go out to dr. levine joining us from new york, pediatrician. all right, you know, we hold out hope, doctor, that haleigh is still alive somewhere. you know there's been speculation that maybe some friends of misty's had taken her

that night. when tommy went over, didn't hear anybody. we don't know what the real story is. but if she is alive, doctor, she has turner syndrome, as we've talked about before. what -- does she need medication on a daily basis to sustain -- to sustain her? because it's been -- it's been a long time. >> you right, it really depends on her own turner syndrome. there's a wide variety of symptoms and some of them can be mild and some them can be more severe including involvement of the heart, including involve of the kidneys. if she has a more severe form, absolutely she would need medication for that but it's hard know to specifically in her case about knowing her exact medical history. >> i want to go back out to brandon beardsly, attorney for ronald cummings. mr. beardsley, do we know how serious of turner syndrome that haleigh has? >> my understanding is that it wasn't that severe. that at the time that she went missing that she actually didn't

even have to take medication for her -- the turner syndrome. >> so she was not taking daily medication? >> correct. >> okay. i want to go back out to elie jostad, producer for nancy grace. elie, now there's been talk of the night that haleigh disappeared, that ronald was trying to get -- was trying to call misty a number of times on the cell phone. do we know for sure from cell phone records if this was in fact true? >> yes, we do actually. police say that they do have ronald cummings' cell phone records. that they have evidence that he tried to call her over 20 times that night between about 8:00, 8:30 and when he got home from work a little after 3:00. so we do know that he was trying to call her and apparently wasn't able to get through. whether because her phone was off or she wasn't answering. >> mr. beardsley, what has ronald told you about during that time frame when he tried on get in touch with misty? >> he just couldn't get ahold of

her. that he'd called several times because he couldn't get ahold of her. it was typical for him when he was at work, like that, to call her cell phone throughout -- >> 23 times? 23 times? >> well, i don't been that many times. but i mean, i know that every night that he was at work, he would call to check in to make sure she was okay, the kids were okay. and on that particular evening, he was not able to get her on the phone. >> elie, other night, how many times does he usually call, did they say? >> no, we didn't know that. we didn't know what was a typical night how many times he would call. >> you know to me as an investigator, 23 times is a lot -- is quite a few times to call somebody in just a few hours, period. i just -- something's not right here. and we still have not heard the true story from the one person who knows, that i think knows and that's misty croslin. but tonight, "cnn heroes." >> hi, i'mlyoni.

as one of blue-ribbon panelists in 2007 i helped recognize the extraordinary work of everyday people who are changing the world. as both the board member and goodwill ambassador for the u.s. fund for unicef i advocate for the world's children and work to increase awareness and funding for their needs. as a good will ambassador for unicef, i see how clearly how much the world needs heroes. now i am thrilled to help cnn introduce one of this year's top ten honorees. >> they're really the forgotten ones in this war. >> i came to iraq as a civilian contractor. there were a lot of children that either dragged themselves on the ground or they had to be carried. there were so many people who wanted to reach out and touch the lives of these kids. >> my name is david jacobs. i bring wheelchairs to children in need.

i bring them and help fit them into the wheelchairs. there's no paycheck. it's not really safe here, but i have made a difference in the lives of these families. definitely the sacrifice has been worth it.

now a look back at the stories making the headlines this week. >> the two of us have agreed to go separate ways. >> they are splitting up. >> with the family problems and everything else, it's just too much on the relationship. we can't go anywhere without being questioned or people staring at us or anything like that. >> i don't want a divorce, but hey, that's what he wants. so whatever. not going to fight him. >> cummings threatens to shoot croslin dead if she is responsible. >> he threatened to blow misty's

teeth to the back of her head and kill himself and take others out with him. >> 3-year-old xavier nelson was left by an unidentified woman in a los angeles bus stop after midnight on friday. >> lapd released this video in the hopes someone would recognize this toddler and someone did. angela thomas said her mother called her and saw her grandson on tv. >> i was about to cry not just because i saw him, but the story they were telling. >> police are desperate to find 31-year-old stephanie fisher last seen with her new husband who is armed and dangerous. shotgun in her mouth and said he wanted to use the biggest shells possible so she would die a slow and painful death. >> the judges said unless you come to an agreement, you will be back. >> you are clinching your jaw. >> it's cold out.

>> for her to call me a criminal and she thinks i stole? it's gotten so ridiculous. >> i think she was being incredibly dramatic. she only has $1,000 left and couldn't mail the bills in her purse? give me a break. you have many accounts and you said so. don't me you don't have the money somewhere. it made great tv, department it? >> let's stop to remember third class james layton. 22 years old from california. lost his life giving medical care to a wounded marine, he loved traveling and heavy metal music and dreamed of being a radiology tech. three others, two sisters. james layton, a true american hero. thank you to our guests and for you for being with us. see you tomorrow night 8:00 p.m. eastern. stay safe.

i'm brooke anderson and this is a "showbiz tonight" news break. here's what's coming up. the family of the boy thought to be on a runway balloon all over tv. should they be doing so many interviews? the network that has jon and plus eight is sheing jon and claims that jon hacked into kate's computer. that's your "showbiz tonight" news break.

the show starts at the top of the hour here on hln. ddddd%