heartbreak for a florida mother as the body of her missing 7-year-old daughter is found in a georgia landfill. now authorities are searching for the person they say killed somer thompson. lean times mean leaner paychecks for the top executives of some wall street firms. the obama administration has moved to slash executive pay and what you're saying about this new plan. even though she's battling brain cancer, one little girl is doing everything she can to help another cancer victim. we're getting you just the very latest from hln "news and views" on this thursday. what is it thursday? good grief. i'm brooke baldwin. a long day already. first up here investigators confirm the worst here. the body found in a georgia landfill is that of missing

florida 7-year-old somer thompson. they say they made a positive i.d. through her clothing and the distinctive birth park on her lower body. the sheriff then had to call -- a horrific phone call somer's mother diena calling it the hardest phone call i ever made in my life. she was absolutely devastated. he also said if they hadn't found the body as quickly as they did, it may never have been found. >> if we had not done this tactic, that body would have been buried under hundreds of tons of debris and probably would have gone undiscovered forever. the key piece of evidence in this case, which is the body itself, would have been lost. or at the very best would have had made the evidentiary value

limited. this is the break in the case we needed. we need one more break and getting our hands on the people responsible for do this. >> the search is now on for somer's killer or killers. an autopsy is being performed right now to determine how this little girl died. somer's mother and hundreds of supporters held this vigil last night and at that point all they knews was swas a child's body had been found in that landfill. they hoped it wasn't somer. diena tomphompson consumed with worry and grief and thanked everyone for their support. >> i don't know what to say. i don't know how i can ever repay any of you for helping me, for looking for my baby. thank you. thank everybody. i mean that sincerely. if i have anything to repay any of you with, i would do it.

>> cannot imagine. the end of the vigil diena thompson was overcome with emotion that she just collapsed. friends had to help pick her up and carry her home. somer was last seen alive monday walking home from school. an hln law enforcement analysis mike brooks is here to talk about how officials can now hopefully catch somer's killer or killers. you're familiar with this whole story. it's horrific. i want to ask, when it comes to this landfill she was in florida monday. they found her in this landfill yesterday. the fact that they found her so quickly is huge. >> i tell you what, it's a great thing what investigators did. so sad. we saw the mother's plea the other day. you see her at the vigil last night. investigators really in clay county really did their job. they went out because right from the beginning they really didn't have much to go on, brooke. they said you know what? we'll check the landfills.

they decided to follow the trash trucks to this landfill in folkston, georgia, a little bit north of where she was in jacksonville just a suburb this orange park area. that's where they take the trash. they decided to go there as trucks dumped trash they went through and it and that's when they discovered the lower extremities of a small child. they stopped and called and said we'll let the fbi evidence response team come in and work this screen. >> we're talking about georgia and florida and fbi involved. >> also a kidnapping. >> kidnapping as well. part of the story is the investigation. the other part i think about the parents in that orange park neighborhood. you think 10 days prior to this abduction there was an attempted abduction. what do you tell parents in this area? there are people on the loose taking kids possibly. >> that happened october 10th. they had a description. they spoke to the people that they thought were there at the scene that might have been involved in this.

it's still open. i think they cleared those particular people. so is this connected to that? we don't know. we're waiting for cause of death from the autopsy. and the evidence. they're still at the landfill today gathering more evidence. after they discover the body the fbi's team came in and started gathering any kind of evidence around the body. you bag it up. they will send this evidence to the fbi lab in quantico. once you get to the body you bag the hands. we don't know cause of death yet. we don't know. >> as we go from finding the body doing that to the body to somer thompson, we have another missing person's case in virginia. virginia tech junior morgan harrington. we heard from her parents. i listened to that police press yesterday where the officer was saying we found her cell phone. battery wasn't in it. what's your take on the latest here? >> heard that yesterday too.

the lieutenant said that there was no battery. he said it didn't seem too moved by that. >> too concerned. >> did the battery fall out of the phone already? was the battery taken out on purpose? they found her purse and her cell phone with no battery in a small parking lot outside of the center where they were having the metallica cancer on the campus of the university of virginia. it was a missing persons case. they now say that they are handling it as a criminal investigation but they don't know if a crime was committed. instead of reporting this person missing waiting to see if she shows up somewhere, they're now pursuing as in a criminal investigation where you can probably go get warrants, check her computer, all this as part of a criminal investigation as opposed to a missing persons case. >> hopefully get some more information maybe from inside john paul jones arena. you've been all over "prime news." i want to promote that. thank you very much. the parents missing virginia tech student will talk to mike galanos tonight at 5:00 p.m.

eastern time. stick around for that you can get the latest with mike. "prime news" coming up today at 5:00 p.m. eastern time. mike brooks, you are the best. thank you very much. also, breaking news tonight on nancy grace as the search for somer thompson becomes now as mike said a search for a murder suspect. you can watch nancy grace at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern time right here on hln "news and views." and it looks like rapper erper lil' wayne is going to jail. he pleaded guilty to a reduced weapons charge. formal sentencing is scheduled for february. new york city police pulled over his tour bus back in 2007 and they say it reeked of pot smoke and they found a loaded gun with lil' wayne's dna in a bag. the grammy winner faces felony drug and weapons charges in arizona. former guantanamo detainees claim they were tortured with

extremely loud music. some musicians want to know if their songs were involved in those interrogations. they joined in a series of freedom of information act requests and this move is backed by organizations pushing to close down that prison camp down in cuba at guantanamo bay. the band r.e.m. says the idea of using their music to torture detainees is downright anti-american. sex drugs and bernie madoff. insiders say there's so much cocaine in the ponzi schemers office that they called it the north pole. topless parties sexual escapade escapades and even more shocking allegations coming out.

bernie madoff is accused of using massive amounts of cocaine and sexual deviance in the

workplace. it claims he used money for escorts and company parties included topless dancers. the suit allegation as late as 2006 madoff transferred stolen money to his london office to buy extravagant items like yachts. his attorney is not commenting. pay cuts. we're talking big pay cuts is what's happening to top executives at seven companies that got big government bailouts last year. this hour the treasury department is expected to announce its ordering those companies to cut the base salaries of top executives by as much as 90%. and total compensation could be cut in half. the seven companies we're talking about here bank of america, aig citigroup and chrysler financial. companies that have repaid the so-called t.a.r.p. loans are

exempt from these cuts. the question is do you think the government should get involved here in setting salaries at private companies that took some of this bailout money? we are also getting a ton of e-mails on the subject. we'll read you some of those. we're getting an e-mail from stacy in california writing -- christi in l.a. says this -- and let's go to this e-mail out of nevada --

thank you for those e-mails. we want to hear your views. we want to talk to you on the phone as well. should the government tell companies that took t.a.r.p. money how much they can pay their executives or is that none of the government's business? give us a call. 877-tell-hln or shoot us an e-mail at cnn.com/hln. grab your cell phone. you can send us a text message. text the word views include your comments and name to hlntv. just remember that standard text rates apply. coming up next hour how about this, cnnmoney.com's poppy harlow will join us to take some of your questions. the next time you pick up a copy of national geographic you might see robert clark's work. he travels all over the world year-round and has great tips for staying sane and healthy on the road. we snapped him in his brooklyn studio for this week's "road warriors."

>> my name is robert clark. i'm a photographer based in brooklyn new york. i travel around the world and shoot pictures for different magazines. i'm gone at some point during each month. i've been to 50 countries now. i also try to find literature that's written about where you're going that was written by somebody that lives there. it makes a big difference written in their voice. i always travel with a few medications. i'm going into places like cambodia and vietnam so i always travel with a bunch of different kind of antibiotics just to keep myself safe. my wife is a foodie. i end up shooting pictures of the food i eat on my cell phone and e-mailing her pictures of food. i can't do without my cell phone. it's just important for me because you are staying in touch with not only people who have hired you who are e-mailing you and family members but also my separate business which is this studio. it's a way of just having your office on the road. my name is robert clark. keep shooting pictures.

president obama is scheduled to be in a new jersey court at this hour. we're talking about 55-year-old john brek arrested tuesday to making threatening comments one day before the president flew to newark airport. brek's father says he's not surprised by the allegations. >> it was coming. he did plenty of rotten stuff to me. my son takes advantage of everyone because he owes the government a lot of money. he was making 2.5 million a year

blowing it up his nose. he's not my son. >> here's what we know about brek. he works for a private security form that screens airport employees. authorities say a search of his home turned up at least 30 firearms that appear to go legally owned. doctors say a 15-year-old florida boy who was set on fire ten days ago is doing as well as can be expected. michael brewer is listed in critical condition. doctors say his burns are covered with skin for now but that is only temporary. >> ultimately those areas will mostly require graphs. some areas may heal on their own. that remains to be seen. he's still heavily sedated. he's responsive but not in a way that you can say you can have a conversation but he can be aroused from his sedation. >> total of five teenagers, one as young as 13 are charged with aggravated battery for the attack in deerfield beach,

florida. the teen accused of flicking the lighter at brewer after he was doused with rubbing alcohol is also charged with attempted second-degree murder. authorities believe it was retaliation for him stopping someone for stealing a bicycle. and a mistrial has now been declared in the case against two people trying to extort john travolta. a paramedic and a lawyer both accused of demanding $25 million after the death of the actor's son, jett. the 16 year old died of a seizure at the family's home in the bahamas back in january. the judge reluctantly declared the mistrial because of a leak from the juryroom. the accused lawyer a former senator. while the jury was deliberating, another lawmaker at a political rally said she was now the not guilty. travolta says he's disappointed but will continue to cooperate with prosecutors. the number of people filing

first-time jobless benefits has jumped more than expected last week. the labor department says new jobless claims rose to 531,000. from 520,000 the week before. the number of people continuing to claim jobless benefits fell by 10,000. the government not the only one offering up stimulus money here. scammers offering it up too. hln money expert clark howard tells you how to stay away from false promises. >> do you know according to the federal trade commission an agency of the federal government, that over a quarter million americans have already been ripped off in stimulus scams? what's a stimulus scam? that's where an organization pretends that they have access to money from the federal stimulus law that could benefit you or your business. the ftc reports that they already have taken action at over 400 phony scheme terster

organizations out there. who knows how many hundreds of thousands more there are out there. know that you can't respond to an ad or a posting on the web and suddenly somehow some way have stimulus money fattening your wallet. that's really a fool's game. i don't want you to get taken. whenever you get a pitch from somebody that says they are your access to stimulus money run away. i'm clark howard. for more ways to stay out of trouble, go to my website, cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> you can get more great consumer advice from clark howard every saturday and sunday at noon and 4:00 p.m. eastern time right here on hln "news and views." as always, clark will help you save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. i love this story coming up. a 9-year-old cancer survivor in colorado decided to help other kids just like her. how selling homemade dog

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and yes, it's glade. s.c. johnson a family company. investigators confirm the worst. the body found in that georgia landfill is in fact that of missing 7-year-old somer thompson. they say they have made a positive i.d. through her clothing and a distinctive birth mark on her lower body. the sheriff in clay county florida, said if they hadn't found the body as quickly as they did they may never have found it. once somer was positively i.d.'d he had to call somer's mother diena. >> i met with her at 7:00 and told her to prepare herself for the worst that we feared that the worst was coming. about 9:00 i did get that confirmation from my detective that the birth mark did match and clothing matched and i called diena from my home and

spoke with her and made that notification. needless to say, she was absolutely devastated. it was the hardest phone call that i've ever had to make in my life and i hope i never have to make another one like that. >> right now the search is on for somer's killer or possibly killers. an autopsy is being performed right now to determine exactly how this little florida girl died and there's a $30,000 reward offered for information leading to whoever did this and a conviction. deputy sheriff says he came up with the idea to search the landfill in georgia. a state away. just on a hunch. >> i woke up early on tuesday morning to go to work and i observed that they had not located her. at that time i realized that this is probably not going to turn out good. the next thing we need to do is move into another phase. not only a search phase but we need to start looking at other avenues. once again, that's why i brought it to the sheriff's attention.

>> last time somer was seen alive was monday. she was walking home from school. and breaking news tonight as the search for somer thompson becomes the search for a murder suspect. nancy grace will have the late breaking developments. you can watch her at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern right here on hln "news and views." and the parents of missing virginia tech student morgan harrington will be talking to mike galanos live 5:00 p.m. eastern time on "prime news." you can always get the latest information breaking stories with mike. 5:00 p.m. "prime news." it is looking like rapper erper lil' wayne is going to jail. a judge accepted a jail sentence after he pleaded guilty to reduced weapons charges. formal sentencing is scheduled for february. what happened was that new york city police pulled over his tour bus back in 2007 and they say they stepped inside and it reeked of pot smoke. they found a loaded gun with

lil' wayne's dna. he faces weapons charges in arizona. doctors say a 15-year-old florida boy set on fire ten days ago is doing as well as can be expected. michael brewer is still in critical condition. doctors say his burns are now covered with cadaver skin but they say that's just temporary. >> ultimately those areas will mostly require graphs. some areas may heal on their own. that remains to be seen. he's still heavily sedated. he is responsive but not in a way that you can say you could have a conversation but he can be aroused from his sedation. >> five teenagers one as young as 13 years of age are charged with aggravated battery for the attack on deerfield beach, florida, and the teen accused of flicking a lighter at brewer after doused with rubbing alcohol is charged with attempted second-degree murder. authorities believe it was retaliation for him stopping someone from stealing a bicycle. an iraqi immigrant is

accused of running over his own daughter on purpose. listen to police in arizona explain the shocking reason he might have done this. >> talking to the family is he's been extremely mad at her of late because she was not conforming to the traditional iraqi values. she had become to westernized. he didn't like that. he had been making threats to harm her and in fact yesterday carried that threat out. >> the man's 20-year-old daughter has life threatening injuries now. he also allegedly hit her roommate. she's in the hospital as well. her injuries they say are not quite as serious. police are still looking for the dad. the fbi trying to track down a russian mobster so powerful he can affect the global economy with a single phone call. he's accused of arms trafficking, prostitution, extortion and murder for hire. his alleged scheme stretch throughout europe the south pacific and even into the u.s.

and canada. and according to authorities in one scam investors were duped out of $150 million for a magnet manufacturing firm based in newton, pennsylvania. the business turned out to be a sham but the scariest part experts say that he's a new breed of mobster because he uses economic and finance specialists to carry out his crimes. a frightening ten-hour hostage situation ended peacefully in canada. a man armed with a rifle barricaded himself in a building yesterday. the man said he had a score to settle at the workers compensation building. he surrendered and fortunately no one was hurt. convicted ponzi schemer bernie madoff is accused of using money for cocaine and sexual deviance at the workplace. a lawsuit filed on behalf of former investors alleges back in

the 1970s madoff sent employees to buy drugs for company use. it also claims he used money for escorts and company parties included topless dancers. the suit allegation as late as 2006 that madoff transferred stolen money to his london office to buy items like yachts. wall street executives hold their breath over treasury department news conference that should be going on right now. tv cameras are not allowed inside but we should get some more information for you as soon as the obama administration's plan to cut the salaries of top executives at companies that got federal bailout money. so far we've heard that the treasury department is ordering those companies to cut the base salaries of top executives by as much as 90% and total compensation could be cut in half. seven companies we're talking about are huge. bank of america, aig citigroup

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i'm jane velez-mitchell. the war on women is out of control. two new cases of females minding their own business now appear to be victims of abduction. one in college. one 7 years old. just walking home from school. these attacks are not isolated. it's an epidemic. it's domestic terrorism in my opinion. think about it. millions of women's now fear for their lives while parents are

terrified to let their daughters out of their sight. it's oppression. we feel sorry for women on the other side of the world because they're forced to wear berkas. our society forces women to wear psychological berkas. how is that any different? i'm jane velez-mitchell and that's my issue. >> you can find out what else jane has on her mind. watch "issues with jane velez-mitchell" each and every night here on hln. former guantanamo detainees claim they were tortured with extremely loud music and now some of the musicians want to know if their songs were used in those interrogations. groups include r.e.m. and pearl jam joined a series of freedom of information act requests and the move is backed by organizations that are pushing to close down the prison camp at guantanamo bay. the band r.e.m. says ideas of using their music to torture detainees is anti-american.

listen to this scene. this is london. angry protesters and riot police are facing off outside of the bbc headquarters. at issue tonight's prime time appearance of a controversial far right politician on the tv network. nick griffin is accused of stirring racial hatred and critics say he's anti-islam once referred to it as a wicked vicious faith. he's also campaigned against immigration. a small number of protesters managed to get into the building before being escorted out. bbc has defended its decision by saying it's obliged to be impartial. both facebook and google have plans that could make it easier for you to get music. facebook will be soon letting users send downloadable songs to your friends. "the wall street journal" reports that google will let

users buy songs right from the site page. and fans of the rock group, kiss know peter criss as the original drummer with the cat makeup. now he's also a breast cancer survivor and proud of it. he sat down with cnn to talk about his fight against the disease and his own self-doubts about telling anyone he had it. >> did you ever try

they make up 9% of the market but in the world of computers, apple hogs all of the buzz and have built a reputation. today we're talking about windows. windows hopes to win back with a sharp and user's hope efficient way to operate the system. this one getting a lot of clicks on cnn.com. melissa long has more. we're talking about windows 7. is it worth it? >> we have to reflect on the last version that was unveiled a few years ago. some windows users were not too pleased. it helped microsoft's image for some and boosted apples. is it worth the investment? will it be different?

earlier reviews for people testing it for months say the new system is more user friendly but it doesn't mean you have to run out today and buy it. many reviewers say not yet. some bugs may still be discovered in the weeks following today's launch. perhaps you're waiting until you need a new pc and buying a machine with windows 7 already installed. that's another option. what is new in case you are intrigued? performance boost the most appealing feature. you can run windows xp so if you have problems you can go back to the previous operating system. 120 bucks for the new version. >> not bad. i was just on vacation in london and didn't see gold bars but i realize they're on sale. >> i'm not sure if you have $462,000 laying around? >> sure. >> do you? maybe you should go back and buy a bar of gold. sounds simple enough? it really is.

here's a gentleman to explain. >> can i just walk in with a pile of cash or even a credit card and say i would like a few of those and walk out with them? >> yes. that's the idea. the idea is that we have a simple service for customers. they're able to come in and purchase gold over the counter. provided they meet our i.d. requirements and they can come in and purchase in the usual way. >> i.d. requirements and cash on hand. $463,000 each bar weighing 27 pounds. too much to lug around you can buy solid gold coins that comes from a swiss gold refinery. like most retail purchases there's even a return policy on the bar of gold. bring it back and you can exchange it at the current market value. if you don't have $462,000 in liquid assets you have the $15 gold bar option that's chocolate. >> that's more my speed. that i can afford. thank you.

the original drummer for kiss might sound like an unlikely spokesman for breast cancer awareness but wait until you hear his story. you'll know why peter criss is telling men to be aware of this disease. >> you were the baddest meanest, rocker dude. what did you think when you heard those words, breast cancer? >> i was petrified. this is not happening to me. this can't be happening to me. i went into total shock. i thought it just don't happen to men. >> what were you doing feeling your nipple? >> i played in spandex for a long time in my life so i know what it is like to be half naked and what you got and don't got. >> were you ever embarrassed? did you try to keep it from people that you had breast cancer? >> my wife and i discussed it a lot. we can't let anybody know this. tabloids are vicious. it's not a joke. it's really really serious. >> if you have been diagnosed with prostate cancer, would you have been embarrassed about it?

>> there's no literateure for a guy with breast cancer. it's all for women. i would like to say something about it. i have never seen -- don't know about you guys -- i have never seen a man ever on television saying i had breast cancer and i beat it. i never seen a man say that. >> what made you decide to be the first? >> somebody should. i prayed hard about this with god. i believe in god. you should open your big mouth and say something even if one or two or three or four guys get this or wives say there's something wrong you should check that out. it's more than a people's choice or gold record or being in a band. >> if you were to ever write a song about your breast cancer, what would you call it? >> hard rock knockers. >> chris discovered the lump after a workout in 2007 and he had his surgery last year. since it was caught early, he

did not need any breast reconstruction or chemotherapy thank goodness for him and chris is now cancer free. a man wrongfully convicted of killing a boston girl won a $14 million lawsuit. he sued the detective and a jury found that the detective hid a fact he put a key witness at a hotel and fed him. that witness later recanted and the conviction was tossed out in 2003. this is what he said when he was awarded the 14 million yesterday. >> can't replace the memories and everything that we experienced that we lost. >> the jury sent a message to the boston police department and sent a message that shawn was wrongfully convicted. detective callahan was at fault. >> callahan's attorney argued the prosecution knew he was helping the witness and it was their responsibility to tell the

defense. a separate trial will determine if the a growing number of people believe illegal immigrants in the u.s. should be kicked out of the country. a new cnn poll shows more than one-third of those polls believe all illegal immigrants should be deported, up more than 10% from last year. nearly 3 out of 4 say the number of illegal immigrants in the u.s. should be reduced. kids they are especially vulnerable to the h1n1 flu, but the u.s. may be running out of the liquid drug the kids need to fight the virus. liquid tamiflu is now in short supply. the cdc is encouraging pharmacy to stretch the tamiflu. kids can't take the tamiflu pills. the number of people filing

first-time jobless benefits jumped more than expected last week. the labor department says new jobless claims rose to 531,000 last year from 520,000 the week before and the number of people continuing to claim jobless benefits did fall by about 100,000. we have a little bit of good news here in a bad economy. the conference board says the forecast of leading economic indicators rose 1% last month. it's a prediction of what the economy is expected to do in the coming months. and sailors away from home for five months had a touching reunion with their families. the u.s.s. ronald reagan and three warships returned home to san diego yesterday. they coordinated air strikes in afghanistan and operations against somali pirates. you've probably heard the phrase, they don't make them like they used to. but an oklahoma family is hoping it doesn't turn out to be true

for them. the incredible amount of time they owned this washer and dryer and what they've tide decided to do with both of them.

somer thompson's mother gets the news she never wanted to hear -- that the body found in a georgia landfill is that of her missing 7-year-old daughter. investigators say they positively id'd somer through her clothing and through a distinctive birthmark on her lower body. then the sheriff in clay county, florida, said he had to call somer's mother with this news. he said it was the hardest phone call i've ever had to make in my life. he says she was absolutely devastated. he also said if they hadn't found somer's body as quickly as they did, they may never have found it. >> had we not done this tactic, i believe that that body would have been buried under hundreds of tons of debris, probably

would have gone undiscovered forever. and the key piece of evidence in this case, which is the body itself, would have been lost or at the very best would have had a degradation over time that would have made the evidentiary value limited. we need one more break on getting our hands on the people responsible for doing this. >> now the search is on for somer's killer or killers. there's an autopsy being performed now to determine exactly how she died. somer's mother along with hundreds of supporters held a vigil last night. at that point, they knew someone's child had been found. of course, they were hoping it wasn't somer. diena thompson was clearly consumed, overwhelmed with grief. but she was somehow able to thank her supporters. >> i don't know what to say.

i don't know how i can ever repay any of you for helping me for looking for my baby. thank you. i thank everybody. i mean that sincerely if i have anything to repay any of you with -- i would do it. >> and then at the end of the vigil, it was tough for her she became overwhelmed overcome with emotion. she collapsed. her friends had to pick her up and literally carry her home. somer was last seen alive monday as she was walking home from school. breaking news tonight on "nancy grace" the search for somer thompson becomes a search for a murder suspect. a reward is now being offered for information on the whereabouts of morgan harrington a 20-year-old virginia tech student.

she's been missing since saturday. that's when she and her friends went to a metallica concert at the university of virginia. her purse and cell phone were found outside the arena. police are treating the search now as a criminal investigation. today on "prime news," morgan's parents will be talking to mike galanos. that's at 5:00 p.m. eastern. doctors say a 15-year-old florida boy who was set on fire ten days ago was doing as well as can be expected. michael brewer is still in critical condition. doctors say his burns are covered with cadaver skin for now. they say this is just temporary. >> ultimately those areas will mostly require grafts. some areas may heal on their own and that remains to be seen. he's still heavily sedated. he is responsive but not in a way that you could say he could have a conversation. but he can be aroused from his sedation. >> a total of five teenagers, one as young as 13, are charged

with aggravated battery for the attack. this happened in deerfield beach, florida. the teen accused of flicking a lighter at michael brewer after he was doused with rubbing alcohol is also charged with attempted second-degree murder. authorities believe it was retaliation for him stopping someone from stealing a bike. an iraqi immigrant is accused of running over his own daughter on purpose. listen to police in arizona as they explain the shocking reason they think he did this. >> talking to the family is he has been extremely mad at her of late because she was not conforming to the traditional iraqi values. she had become too westernized. he didn't like that. he had been making threats to harm her. and in fact, yesterday, carried that threat out. >> now the man's 20-year-old daughter has life-threatening injuries. he also allegedly hit her roommate. she is in the hospital as well. her injuries are said to be not as serious. police are still looking for this dad.

the top executives of companies that got massive government bailouts, they're not getting pink slips. they're also not getting fas bonus checks either. how much the obama administration wants to cut their pay.

the outrage about executive pay has reached a tipping point, especially when it comes to companies that get huge bailouts from taxpayers. and now the government is doing something about it. the obama administration will have the final say on pay yes the government. cnnmoney.com's poppy harlow joins us from new york with more. some of your questions on this story, because, wow, people are upset, poppy. >> reporter: yeah. you look at richelle, unemployment approaching 10%, a lot more folks not making enough to barely get by. there's a lot of outrage. but there's a lot of confusion over compensation. so let's set the record straight. you've got seven companies in total that are going to be affected. together they have received $350 billion in government bailout money. you see them in front of you, citigroup citigroup, aig, the automakers

and gmac and chrysler financial. these new pay rules will affect the 25 top-paid executives at those companies. that's 175 people in total. the result here, is specific compensation rules expected to be announced in just a little bit, later this afternoon. but here's what we do know so far. the annual salaries for those folks will fall 90% on average. that's going to vary company by company, expected to be the hardest hit would be at aig. here's an example, someone making $2 million before could have their salary fall to $200,000. total compensation including stock, bonuses perk that will fall about 50% on average. including, according to multiple report, some of the perks for executives like country club members, corporate cars, private planes, anything over $25,000 in the perks will have to be approved by the government. and report that is we're going to be more of the splitting of

the ceo and chairman roles to provide more checks and balances. but people have a lot of questions about this. >> it was tough because there were so many questions but we whittled it down to a few for you. here's one from joe -- >> that's kind of a loaded question, but what do you think? >> reporter: i think it's a good question, you have boards that are compensated to look out for things like this. they're paid to do their job and look at it, things like compensation for executives. what is being considered is that there's a law being considered right now for companies -- even companies that didn't take any t.a.r.p. money that didn't get a government bailout, lawmakers are looking into ways to regulate pay so that the shareholders of the company and also the board members that are shareholders would have a so-called say on pay. they'd get to weigh in. some companies already do this. the house actually in august passed a measure to do this. it's expected to hit the

president's desk in a few months. boards are thinking about this now perhaps more than ever. we may even see a law enacted that would give shareholders a say on pay when it comes to exec execs . >> i'm not sure where he's going with that. but some people think that these people make too much money when their companies aren't doing well regardless or whether or not these companies got a bailout or not. >> reporter: richelle i think it's a totally understandable question. you look at some of the companies that are around today solely because the government, the taxpayers us with our taxpayer dollars came to their rescue. it's understandable why people have these questions. and there's news just breaking on this front about how the pay

culture may really be affected. what we've just learned out today is that ben bernanke the head of the federal reserve, has said the fed is working to monitor pay, make sure it's long-term, based on -- not what you do one year but how your moves perform and affect the company over a number of years. also he said he wants to make sure -- it's a great point -- that these employees aren't rewarded for excessive risk-taking. the fed is proposing to monitor 28 big banks, also some regional and community banks saying the problem with incentive pay practices is a lot of what that risk-taking could help create the bubble that burst and created the crisis that led to it. what they're trying to do is mitigate all of that. the feds proposed oversight is going to watch out for that. that just came out from the fed this afternoon. that should help answer his question just a little bit. but i understand the outrage on it. there are some good explanations on the website.

this story is great, pay czar getting ready to drop the hammer. and we're following it for you. >> that excessive risk-taking may have great reward for them but not necessarily for the rest of us and when it doesn't pay off, it could affect us pretty badly, too. poppy, thank you so much. good stuff. we want to continue to hear your views on this. should the government tell companies that took t.a.r.p. money how much they can pay their executives or is that none of the government's business under any circumstances? you can tell, there are interesting questions out there. keep calling us. e-mail us, cnn.com/hln. grab a phone, text the word "views" plus your comments and name to hlntv. standard text rates apply. the fbi is trying to track down a russian mobster so powerful he can affect the global economy with a phone call.

similar i don't know mogilevich is accused of arms trafficking, prostitution extortion and murder for hire. his schemes stretched throughout europe and canada and the u.s. in one scam, investors were duped out of $150 million for a magnet manufacturing firm based in pennsylvania. and the business turned out to be a sham. and the scariest part, experts say he's a new breed of mobster because he uses economic and finance specialists to carry out his crimes. the late michael jackson's movie comes out next week. but you can see some more of these never-before

an airport guard accused of threatening president obama was just formally charged in a new jersey court.

john brek's lawyer entered a not guilty plea on his behalf. he was arrested for allegedly making threatening comments at newark's airport one day before the president flew there. the secret service says he denies making any threats. his father though says he is not surprised by the allegations. >> it was coming, okay? he did plenty to me, plenty of rotten stuff. my son takes advantage of everybody because he owes the government a lot of money. he had a business big, he was making $2.5 million a year and blowing it up his nose. he's not my son. >> brek works for a private security firm which screens airport employees. a search of his home turned up at least 40 firearms. the frightening 10-hour hostage situation in canada did end peacefully. a man armed with a rifle barricaded himself inside a workers' compensation building.

the man said he had a score to settle there, he said. he's described as a disgruntled client. he let his hostages go one by one. he eventually surrendered and no one was hurt. former guantanamo detainees claim they were tortured with extremely loud music. now some musicians want to know if their songs were used in interrogation. groups have joined in a series of freedom of information act request. it's the band r.e.m. says the idea of using their music to torture detainees is anti--american. . we're getting a sneak peek at more images from the late king of pop's movie, "this is it." brooke anderson of "showbiz tonight" is with us. >> i'm really excited about this. every time i see more footage from the film, i get completely jazzed.

a lot of people are asking, was michael jackson really ready for 50 performances with his comeback tour? and i think he was. sure he looked bone-thin and frail. but he had looked like that for years. he was still crisp, hitting those dance moves and he seems energized. let's take a look at a clip. >> do you like this, first of all? >> that cool move -- spreads out too much at the end. ♪ i like living this way ♪ ♪ i like living this way ♪ ♪ >> his mother katherine jackson, has spoken out about the film. she says she cannot bear to watch it right now. it's just too much for her, too difficult. but that in time, she will see it. it opens officially on wednesday. but it's rolling out late tuesday night in theaters, limited engagement, only two weeks. some experts estimate it could

rake in $100 million np its first week. speaking of money, 90% of the revenue goes to the jackson family estate. so the family really will gain -- benefit tremendously from this. i'm looking forward to it although i know it was bittersweet for the family. >> anyone can understand that. and there are other people that think this seems a bit soon. how's the movie's director responding to that? >> renowned choreographer and director said they were concerned about that, that it was too soon after michael jackson's death. but that now they are pleased with it that it's wall-to-wall music, shows jackson at his best and it's entertaining. there have been a lot of people who say, wait a minute this excludes a lot of behind-the-scenes when jackson looked ill or looked tired. the director says they only turned on the camera a few times

if that is what's shown. he said he left out the part where the cast was told that michael jackson was sick and when he passed away. he said it is a celebration of michael jackson, the artist. >> i'm looking forward to it as well, brooke. >> me too. and we're going to have more on this on "showbiz tonight" tonight. plus singer chris brown in an explosive new interview. he's speaking out to those who haven't forgiven him for beating rihanna and why he says that he is still mad at oprah. the new chris brown drama tonight. we'll have it on tv's first most provocative entertainment news show "showbiz tonight," 11:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. we hope you join us then. >> mad at oprah. how's that working for him? whatever. >> i know. >> thanks, brooke. it looks like rapper lil wayne is going to jail. the judge accept add one-year sentence after he pleaded guilty

to a reduced weapons charge. formal sentencing is sedged for february. new york city police pulled over his tour bus in 2007. they say it wreaked of pot smoke and they found a gun with lil wayne's dna and grammy bag. he faces felony drug and weapons charges in arizona too. >> how did susie essman get her job? she tells joy behar last night. >> he was casting the part of jeff's wife who he wanted to have a certain facility with language. and he saw me on "the roast" and he called me up and gave me the part. but the interesting thing about that is, i almost wasn't on "the roast" because comedy tsh friars club which i had made my bones at the friars club with all the events -- >> it's not easy because you're dealing with very heavy-duty comics over there and they don't really love women. >> legends. >> legendary.

of course, they're all drooling but -- >> they were still legends. >> catch "the joy behar show" 9:00 p.m. eastern time right here on hln.

the worst turned out to be true. investigators confirmed it. a body found in a landfill in georgia is that of this child right here, 7-year-old somer thompson. investigators made a positive id through her clothes and a distinctive birthmark on her lower body. the sheriff in clay county florida, said if they hadn't found her body as quickly as they did, they may never have found it. once somer was positively id'd, he had to make that phone call to somer's mother, diena. >> i had met with her just before the prayer vigil around 7:00 and told her to prepare herself for the worst, that we feared the worst was coming. about 9:00, i did get that

confirmation from my detectives that the birthmark and the clothing matched. i called diena from my home and spoke with her and made that notification. needless to say, she was absolutely devastated. it was the hardest phone call that i've ever had to make in my life and i hope i never have to make another one like that. >> so now this turns to to a search for somer's killer or killers. an autopsy is being performed right now to figure out exactly how she died. and a $30,000 reward is being offered for information leading to whoever did this. the deputy sheriff says he came up with the idea to search the land landfill basically on a hunch. >> i woke up early on tuesday morning to go to work and then i observed that they had not located her. at that time i realized that this is probably not going to turn out good. and the next thing we need to do is move into another phase, not only a search phase but we need to start looking at other

avenues. and once again, that's why i brought it to the sheriff's attention. >> somer was last seen alive monday. she was just walking home from school. breaking news tonight as the search for somer thompson becomes a search for a murder suspect. "nancy grace" with all the late-breaking developments right here on hln. an iraqi immigrant is accused of running over his own daughter on purpose. police in arizona explain the shocking reason he might have done this. >> talking to the family is he has been extremely mad at her of late because she was not conforming to the traditional iraqi values. she had become too westernized. he didn't like that. he had been making threats to harm her. and in fact yesterday carried that threat out. >> the man's 20-year-old daughter has life-threatening injuries. he also allegedly hit her roommate. she's in the hospital, too. her injuries are not as serious.

police are still looking for the dad. doctors say that 15-year-old boy in florida, the one who was set on fire ten days ago, is doing as well as can be expected. michael brewer is still in critical condition. doctors say his burns are covered with cadaver skins for now. but they say this is just temporary. >> ultimately, those areas will mostly require grafts some areas may heal on their own. and that remains to be seen. he's still heavily sedated. he is responsive but not in a way that you could say he could have a conversation. but he can be aroused from his sedation. >> a total of five teenagers one as young as 13, are charged with aggravated battery for this attack. it happened in deerfield beach, florida. the teen accused of flicking the lighter at brewer after he was doused with rubbing alcohol is also attempt also charged with attempted second-degree murder.

a new jersey judge has increased the bail for an airport guard accused of threatening president obama. john brek's lawyer entered a not guilty plea on his behalf in court today. the judge raised brek's bail to $200,000. brek was arrested tuesday for allegedly making threatening comments in newark's airport one day before the president flew there. the secret service says he's denying making these threats. brek's father, listen to this, he says he is not surprised by the allegations. >> it was coming, okay? he did plenty to me, plenty of rotten stuff. my son takes advantage of everybody because he owes the government a lot of money. he had a business big, he was making $2.5 million a year and blowing it up his nose. i don't want to know. he's not my son. >> brek works for a private security firm which screens airport employees. authorities say that they searched his home and they turned up at least 40 firearms all of which appear to be legally owned.

the fbi is trying to track down a russian mobster so powerful he can affect the global economy with a phone call. semion mogilevich is accused of arms trafficking, prostitution, extortion and murder for hire. his alleged schemes stretched throughout europe, the south pacific, even into the u.s. and canada. according to authorities, in one cam, investors were duped out of $150 million for a magnet manufacturing firm based in new town, pennsylvania. the problem? authorities say this business was a sham. and the scariest part, experts say he's a new breed of mobster because he uses economic and finance specialists to carry out his crimes. the frightening 10-hour hostage situation in canada did end peacefully. a man armed with a rifle barricaded himself inside a workers' compensation building yesterday. according to a neighbor, the man said he had a score to settle there.

e ended up taking eight people hostage. police described him as a disgruntled client. he let his hostages go one by one. he eventually surrendered and no one was hurt. a mistrial has been declared in the case against two people accused of trying to extort john travolta. jett travolta died of a seizure in the home of the family in the bahamas in january. the judge declared a mistrial because of a leak from the jury room. while the jury was deliberating another lawmaker at a political rally told the crowd she had been found not guilty. travolta says he is disappointed. a representative for the family says they will continue to cooperate with prosecutors. gold ring, gold necklace, who needs it? why pie pieces of gold when you can buy an entire bar of it right off the shelf? and there's even a return policy.

where this retail gold rush is taking place.

health experts say everyone needs to exercise. you know this. but as susan hendricks tells us in today's health minute, one family's decided to combine exercise with family time. it's kind of a way to bring them closer together. >> reporter: when dena's concerned doctors prescribed exercise to strengthen her bone, she decided to join her children at the martial arts studio. now fit assistance a family affair.

she and her three children work out together burning calories and learning the discipline of tae kwon do. she's noticed changes in her son and daughters. >> i believe that it helped them tremendously physically and it helped with their self-confidence. >> reporter: and it's a time to bond with her children. >> several times i get teamed up with my children and we get a chance to laugh together and to sweat together. >> reporter: what do the children think about working out with mom? >> it's special because my mom's doing the class with me. >> they're always there to motivate me. >> we've helped each other throughout the journey to become black belts. >> reporter: and it's intense exercise. >> they do crunches, kick, jump kicks. >> reporter: and dinah is reaping the benefits. >> i have more energy.

>> reporter: her doctor say the family workouts have done what they're supposed to do, improved her bone density. for today's health minute, i'm susan hendricks. they make up just 9% of the market. but in the computer world apple hogs all the buzz and has built unbelievable reputation. today windows hopes to unback their cred with a sharp and users hope efficient operating system. so will they -- this is getting a lot of attention at cnn.com. let's check in with reggie aqui. apple, it's almost like a cult-like thing. windows is trying to replicate that. >> reporter: it's funny, talking about street cred and computer nerds, right? but computer nerds rejoice. because windows 7.0 is finally out and it's getting a whole lot of -- it's getting better

reviews than the previous incarnation, the vista operating system. the question, should you run out and get it immediately? critics are saying, maybe. they like it but they're saying you might not need it right now. you might just wait until you get a new computer where it already has this new version of windows installed automatically. what do you get when you buy this? there's a new toolbar which is lot like the dock that apple has. it's faster and not as buggy as vista was. some xaens hated vista so much they went back to the xp operating system which is seven years old. one reviewer writes the best thing about windows 7.0 is that it's not vista. there you go. anything has to be better than that. i should add one more thing, the company, microsoft tested this thing for a long time.

got input from computer makers to make sure they wouldn't have another disaster on their hands. >> i put this question on my facebook page. the mac people all say, don't bother, come get mac. it's crazy. it's like a cult. >> reporter: i'm a mac, too. so i can't really talk. >> let's talk about gold. you see all those commercials with everyone saying sell me your gold. what's going on? is this really the place to invest now? >> reporter: richelle, you got $462,000 for me? >> oh, no. >> reporter: if you do, you could travel to london, go to the harrod's department store and buy a bar of gold. this is the new option being offered by the store. listen to one of the representatives from the store explain all this. >> walk in with a pile of cash or even a credit card and say

i'd like a few of those and walk out with them? >> yes that's the idea. the idea is we have a simple service for customers. they're able to come in and purchase gold over the counter, provided they meet our id requirements. they can come in and purchase in the usual way. walk straight out. >> reporter: that's all there is to it a simple transaction. each bar weighs about 27 pounds. if it's too heavy for you to lug around, you can buy it in the form of solid gold coins. it all comes from a swiss gold refinery. you can return it. if you bring the gold back you can exchange it at its current market price. here's the better option for both of us -- a $15 version of it is not made out of gold. it's made out of chocolate. sold right down the hallway from the real gold. >> you know me so well, reggie. our viewers will love that option. >> reporter: i also know my bank account very well.

>> isn't that the truth? have a good one, reg. facebook and google have plans that could make it easier for you to get music. facebook will soon let users send streaming or downloadable songs to friend. and "the wall street journal" will let user sample. sex, drugs and bernie madoff. [ insiders says there was so much cocaine in the ponzi schemer's office they called it the north pole. topless parties, sexual escapades and more shocking allegations.

the gay rights issue is in the spotlight on capitol hill. the senate could vote as early as today on a bill expanding the federal hate crimes law. it would make it a federal crime to assault someone over their sexual orientation or their gender. it's already passed the house. a crackdown on street gangs in los angeles. police and fbi agents started banging on doors across town before the crack of dawn looking for 75 people wanted on state

and federal charges. these raids are targeting suspected members of the rolling 40s street gang accused of violent crimes, drug and gun sales. president obama had some harsh words for wall street executives today. we've been talking about this. at a bill-signing ceremony that ended just a few minutes ago he said excessive executive pay packages -- listen to these exact words -- offend our values. the treasury department is set to lay out more details on a plan to cut the salaries of top executives at companies that got federal bailout money. so far we've heard the plan includes cutting the base salaries of top executives by as much as 90% and their total compensation could be cut in half. companies like these seven companies here, bank of america, aig, citigroup, gm, gmac, chrysler and chrysler financial. offends our values.

do you feel the same way? what are your views? should the government tell companies that took t.a.r.p. money how much they can pay executives, or maybe you think this is none of the government's business under any circumstances. call us. e-mail us, cnn.com/hln. text the word "views," your name and comment to hlntv. standard text rates apply. we'll continue to talk about this throughout the day. the government isn't the only one offering stimulus money. scammers offer it, too. hln money expert clark howard tells you how to stay away from false promises. >> do you know that according to the federal trade commission, that's an agency of the federal government, that over 250,000 americans are already been ripped off in stimulus scams? what's a stimulus scam? that's where an organization pretends that they have access

to money from the the federal stimulus law that could benefit you or your business. well the ftc reports they have already taken action against over 400 phony scheme ster organizations and who knows how many hundreds or thousands more are out there. know this. you just can't respond to an ad or posting on the web and suddenly somehow, some way have stimulus money fattening your wallet. that is really a fool's game. i don't want you to get taken. whenever you get a pitch from somebody that says they are your access to stimulus money. run away. i'm clark howard. for more ways for you to stay out of trouble go to my website cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> get more great consumer advice every saturday and sunday noon and 4:00 eastern time on hln knews and views.

clark helps you save more spend less and avoid getting ripped off. some live pictures. this is a high-speed chase. it just ended. this is in north harris county that encompasses houston, texas. at least ten police cars were involved at one point. these are the pictures of tape that came to us from our affiliate khou. it doesn't look like what highway they are. it might be a tollway. they are on a street. there is one of the police cars one of ten that ended up on this chase. the guy seems to gave up. not that dramatic. gave up. laid it down on the street. the sheriff's cars coming up to wrap this chase up. north harris county, texas. not that dramatic of an ending. it was a high-speed chase for

quite some time. more hln news and views to come.

heartbreak for a florida mother as the body of her missing 7-year-old daughter is found in a georgia land fill. authorities are searching for the person they say killed somer thompson. one chicago high school the astounding number of students who are pregnant or already have

children. authorities in oklahoma were investigating the disappearance of an entire family of three. the only clue so far their abandoned pickup truck. what was found inside. a lot going on. hi there. i'm brooke baldwin. let's get two stories. first, this high-speed mischase in north harris county, texas ended 15 minutes ago without incident there is the car. at least ten police cars were on its tail. the suspect pulled over on a major boulevard and gave up. the suspect was driving a silver kia suv with arizona plates. no word on any injuries there. authorities say an f-16 fighter jet made a hard landing at a small airport near phoenix today. there is the jet. the operations official with

wickenberg municipal airport says the pilots were not injured. they are headed to the scene to figure out what happened. to the story we have been staying on top here. somer thompson and her mother. she gets the news no parent wants to hear. that the body found in a georgia land fill is, in fact, that of her missing 7-year-old daughter. investigators say they positively i.d.'d somer through her clothing and a birthmark on her lower body. the sheriff said he had to call somer's mother dina, with the grim news. he called it "the hardest phone call i have ever had to make in my life." he said she was absolutely devastated. he said if they hadn't had found the body as quickly as they did, they may never had found it at all. >> had we not done this tactic i believe that body would have been buried under hundreds of

tons of debris and gone undiscovered forever. the key piece of evidence in this case the body itself, would have been lost. or at the very best would have had a break. >> richelle carey spoke with mike brooks how these investigators might piece together what happened to somer. they talked about the possibility that a convicted sex offender could have been involved. >> one of the other things they are looking at is registered sex offenders. >> there is a lot. >> 84 in orange park alone. 14 of those predators. one of the things i find encouraging, if one of these people is involved normally

something like this happens, we don't know the cause of death. we don't know if the poor girl was sexually assaulted but there is usually a transfer of something. trace evidence. dna. all sex offenders are in a national database. exactly. if one of these people are involved and they find dna when they are trying to determine cause of death that will help in the investigation. >> so the search is on now for the killer or killers of little somer thompson. an autopsy is being performed to determine how the little girl died. as for her mother and hundreds of supporters, there they are from last night. they held this vigil. at that point all they knew is a child's body had been found. dina thompson, the mother, clearly consumed with worry and grief she thanked everyone for their support. >> i don't know what to say.

i don't know how i can ever repay any of you for helping me for looking for my baby. thank you. thank you, everybody. i mean that sincerely. if i have anything to repay any of you with -- i would do it. >> at the end of that vigil diena thompson was so overwhelmed with emotion she collapsed. friends had to pick her up and carry her home. breaking news as the search for somer thompson because a search for a murder suspect. nancy grace 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern time on hln news and views. and a reward being offered for information of the whereabouts of this young lady. morgan harrington. the 20-year-old virginia tech student has been missing since saturday night when she and her friends attended a metallica

concert at the university of virginia. police are treating this search as a criminal investigation. coming up on "prime news," morgan harrington's parents are talking to mike galanos. in other news, doctors say a 15-year-old florida boy who was set on fire ten days ago is doing as well as he can be expected. he is listed in critical condition. michael brewer. doctors say his burns are covered with cadaver skin but that is temporary. >> ultimately those areas will mostly require grafts. some areas may heal on their own. that remains to be seen. he is still heavily sedated. he is responsive but not in a way that you could say you could have a conversation but he can be aroused from sedation. >> a total of five teenagers one as young as 13 are charged

with aggravated battery. the teen accused of flicking this lighter at brewer after he was doused with rubbing alcohol was charged with attempted second degree murder. authorities believe it was retaliation from him stopping someone from stealing a bicycle. a frightening ten-hour hostage situation has ended in canada. a man with a rifle barricaded himself in this workers compensation office in canada. he took eight people hostage. the gunman let the hostages go one by one before he surrendered. no one was hurt. we are learning more about this iraqi immigrant accused of running over his own daughter on purpose. take a listen to police in arizona about the shocking reason why he might have done this. >> talking to the family is he has been extremely mad at her of late because she was not conforming to the traditional

iraqi values she had become too westernized. he didn't like that. he had been making threats to harm her and carried that out. >> she has life-threatening injuries. he allegedly hit her roommate. she is in the hospital, too. her serious are not as serious. school administrators in chicago have a problem on their hand. one in seven girls at one public school are expecting or have children. co-founder of the women empowerment network spoke about these pregnancyies. >> i see a whole bunch of little girls affected by what our we we have allowed our culture to become, sex driven, sex obsessed. what do you think about for your future? what are your possibilities? what are your expectations of

yourself and your family's expectations of you? there are so many balls dropping in this situation we can't place it in one area. >> help they say is on the way. there are plans to turn a one-time crack house near that school into a day care so the girls can keep going to school. some former guantanamo detainees say they were tortured by extremely loud music. we are talking about rem pearl jam. they have joined in a freedom of information act request. this is backed by organizations pushing to close down the camp at guantanamo bay. rem says using their music to torture detainees is anti-american. a high school in california is eager to find a solution to this problem that does not seem to be ending. four teenagers have been killed

on train tracks there this year. what parents and teachers are trying to do to stop it from happening again.

it's firm a. mistrial has been declared in the case of two people trying to extort john travolta. the 16-year-old jett died of a seizure in january. this bahamian judge reluctantly declared a mistrial because of a leak from the jury room. the accused a former senator. another lawmaker told the crowd she had been found not guilty. travolta says he is disappointed by this. a lawyer for the family says they will continue to cooperate with prosecutors. this story is a tough one to read. the community of palo alto, california, is reeling after a ring of high school students committed suicide. three of the victims they

attended the same school. the fourth about to enroll there and all of the teenagers stepped in front of commuter trains at about the same spot in the past five months. last night the palo alto parent/teacher association held a forum on teen stress. to days after a 16-year-old boy was killed on those tracks. >> i'm concerned about that condition exists in the high school. the kids have to deal with it. i, as a parent, i couldn't imagine what it would be like for a family to have to go through this. we don't need it anymore. enough. >> it seems to just be happening here. that is a puzzle. i don't know why. i don't know why. it's more than a coincidence now, you know. i almost wonder if it is starting to become some sort of a siren call to kids who are in this area who are not feeling well. >> authorities are investigating

monday's death a. 13-year-old girl died in august, a 17-year-old boy killed in may and a 17-year-old girl was killed in june. it looks like rapper lil wayne headed to jail. a judge agreed to accept a one-year sentence after he pleaded guilty to a reduced weapons charge. what happened was new york city police pulled over his tour bus in 2007 and inside it rookied of pot smoke and they found a loaded gun with lil wayne's dna in a louis vitton bag. this mobster can apparently affect international law. semion mogilevich is suspected of manipulating international

energy markets. some were duped out of a magnet manufacturing firm. the business turned out to be a sham. the scariest part is ilevich is a new breed of mobster. h uses economic and finance specialists to carry out his crime. seoul is one of the most wired cities in the world. new south korean leaders are looking to make their country one of the greenest. 2% of the gross domestic product over the next five years will go to the green sector. it is planning a nationwide bike network and will turn to solar and wind energy to lower dependency on oil. the government also has plan for office lights. >> these lights don't look very different but they are. this entire office is lit by l.e.d.s. the government promises every governmental office in korea will be lit by l.e.d.s.

>> translator: the strategy is the most effective way to address global climate change and overcome the economic crisis. >> green is not a plan "b." it is a plan "a." we are going to contribute by action not talk. >> the country plans to embrace daylight savings time to allow workers to go home earlier and office buildings to go dark sooner.

an oklahoma mom, dad and 6-year-old daughter have not been seen in nearly two weeks. authorities are fearing the worse. they are looking for bobby jamison, his wife sherry lynn and their daughter madison. they were last seen looking to buy some land two weeks ago. hunters have found their truck eight days later. in it they found their small dog, malnourished i.d.s, wallets and a large amount of cash. >> it doesn't look like they got out and walked. it looks like they got out and that was it. they didn't take their coats. it was cold that day. they didn't take their cell phones. of course, they didn't take their dog. >> there are no obvious reasons why the jamisons disappeared. the search has been difficult but an expanded search is starting tomorrow. president obama has some pretty harsh words for wall street executives today and a bill signing ceremony the

president said excessive executive pay packages offend our values. the treasury department is planning to cut the salaries of top executives at companies that got federal bailout money. so far we have heard this could include cutting the base salaries of top executives by as much as 90% and their total compensation could be cut in half. bank of america, aig, citigroup, gm gmac chrysler and chrysler financial. we want to hear from you. should the federal government be telling companies that took t.a.r.p. money how much they can pay their executives? give us a call, 1-877-tell-hln or send us an e-mail. we will air some of your responses throughout the day and cnnmoney.com poppy harlow will join us shortly to answer some of those questions. >> the government not the only one offering up stimulus money.

scammers are offering up this money as well. clark howard tells you how to stay away from false promises. >> do you know that according to the federal trade commission, that's an agency of the federal government that over 250,000 americans have already been ripped off in stimulus scams. what is a stimulus scam? that is where an organization pretends that they have access to money from the federal stimulus law that could benefit you or your business. well the ftc reports they have already taken action against over 400 phony schemester organizations out there. who knows how many more hundreds or thousands are out there. you cannot respond to an ad or posting on the web and suddenly have stimulus money fattening your wallet. that is a fool's game. i don't want you to get taken.

whenever you get a pitch from somebody that says they are your access to stimulus money, run away. i'm clark howard. for more way for you to stay out of trouble go to my website cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> you can get more great advice saturday and sunday noon and 4:00 p.m. on hln. even though she is battling brain cancer, one little girl is doing what she can do to help another pint-size cancer victim. the gift she is giving to make the other girl's life brighter.

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an f-16 fighter jet made a hard landing today. the wickenberg municipal airport said two pilots were onboard but were not injured. the jet came in just shy of the runway. damage to the plane has not be determined. engine failure there. >> also a high-speed police chags in north harris county texas, ended 45 minutes ago. the suspect just pulled over on a major boulevard and gave up. the suspect was driving a silver kia suv with arizona plates. no word on any injuries there. to a story we have been staying on top of at hln. more than 100 tips have come into authorities in virginia. this is morgan harrington. a reward being offered for information about her whereabouts. she is 20 years old, a virginia

tech junior. she has been missing since saturday since she and her friends went to this metallica concert at the university of virginia. police are treating the search as a criminal investigation. coming up on "prime news" her parents are talking to mike galanos. that is at 5:00 p.m. eastern time on hln. investigators in florida confirming the worst here. the body found in a georgia land fill is that of missing 7-year-old somer thompson. they made this positive i.d. looking at her clothing and distinctive birthmark on her lower body. the sheriff said if they hadn't found the body as quickly as they did they may never have found her. once somer was positively i.d.'d. he had to call her mother diena. >> i met with her just before

the prayer vigil around 7:00 and told her to prepare herself for the worst. we feared the worst was coming. about 9:00 i got that confirmation from our detectives that the birthmark did match and the clothing matched. i called diena from my home and spoke with her and made that notification. needless to say, she was absolutely devastated. it is the hardest phone call i have had to make in my life and i hope i don't have to make another one like that. >> the search is on for somer's killer or killers. right now and autopsy is being performed to determine how she died and a $30,000 reward for information leading to whoever did this. a deputy sheriff says he came up with the idea to search this land fill in georgia based on a hunch. >> i woke up you know, early on tuesday morning to go to work and i observed they had not

located her. at that time i realized that this is probably not going to turn out good and the next thing we need to do is move into another phase, not only a search phase but we need to start looking at other avenues. that is why i brought it to the sheriff's attention. >> somer was last seen alive monday as she was walking home from school. coming up tonight, breaking news as the search for somer thompson becomes a search for a murder suspect. nancy grace will have the late-breaking developments. watch her at kl and 10:00 eastern time on hln. a lot of people in palo alto, california, asking what is going on. this community is reeling after a string of high school students apparently committed suicide. three victims attended the same school. the fourth about to enroll there. all of these teenagers stepped in front of commuter trains in about the same spot in the last five months.

last month the parent/teacher association held this forum on teen stress. this happened after a 16-year-old boy was killed on the same tracks. >> i'm concerned that condition has to exist in the high school. the kids have to deal with it. i, as a parent, couldn't imagine what it would be like for a family to go through this. we don't need it anymore. enough. >> it seems to just be happening here. that is a puzzle. i don't know why. i don't know why. but it is more than a coincidence now. i almost wonder if it is starting to become some sort of a siren call to kids in this area who are not feeling well. >> authorities are still investigating monday's death a. 13-year-old girl died in august. a 17-year-old boy killed in may and a 17-year-old girl was killed in june. doctors say this 15-year-old boy who was set on fire ten days ago is doing as well as can be

expected. michael brewer is listed in critical condition. doctors say his burns are covered with cadaver skin. they say that is temporary. >> ultimately those areas will mostly require grafts. some areas may heal on their own and that remains to be seen. he is still heavily sedated. he is responsive but not in a way you could have a conversation but he can be aroused from his sedation. >> five tamgers one as young as 13 are charged with aggravated battery for the attack that happens on deerfield beach in florida. the teen accused of flicking the lighter on the teen doused with alcohol is charged with attempted second degree murder. we are learning about an iraqi immigrant accused of running over his daughter on purpose. listen to police explain the shocking reason why this father might have done it. >> talking to the family he has

been extremely mad at her of late because she was not conforming to the traditional iraqi values she has become too westernized. he didn't like that. he had been making threats to harm her and yesterday carried that threat out. >> the 20-year-old daughter has life-threatening injuries. he allegedly hit her roommate. she is in the hospital, too. police are looking for that dad. >> one in seven girls at one public school in chicago are either pregnant or already have children. co-founder of the woman empowerment network spoke with mike galanos. >> what i see is a whole bunch of little girls that are affected by our culture what we've allowed our culture to become sex driven and sex obsessed. i feel like i look at young women and say what do you think

about for your future? what are your possibilities you think can happen for you? what are your expectations of yourselves and your family's expectations of you? there are so many balls dropping in this situation we can't just place it in one area. >> help is on the way for these girls. there are plans to turn a one-time crackhouse near the school into a day care so the girls can keep going to school. >> snich rapper lil wayne is going to jail. a judge agreed to accept a one-year sentence. formal sentencing is scheduled for february. new york city police pulled over his tour bus in 2007. inside they say it smelled like pot. they found a loaded gun with lil wayne's dna in a louis vitton bag. the fbi says tony soprano has nothing on this guy. the russian mobster whose syndicate is said to stretch all

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a frightening hostage situation has ended peacefully in canada. a man armed with a rifle barricaded himself in this workers compensation building yesterday. according to a neighbor the man said he had a score to settle there. he took eight people hostage. he let his hostages go before he surrendered. no one was hurt there. the fbi trying to track down a russian mobster so powerful he can affect the global economy with the single phone call. semionmogilevich's alleged schemes stretch through europe

the south pacific and the u.s. and canada. according to authorities in one scam, investors were duped out of $150 million for a magnet manufacturing firm in newtown, pennsylvania. that business turned out the be a sham. the scariest part according to experts, mogilevich using economists to carry out his crime. >> the senate could vote as early as today expanding the fwral hate crimes law. it would make it a federal crime to assault someone over their sexual orientation. it has passed the house. in los angeles a crack down on street gangs. police are looking for 75 people wanted on state and federal charges. the raids, they say, are targeting suspected member of the rolling 40 street gang. they are accused of violent

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tamiflu pills and mixing it with fluid. pharmacists are trained to do this. kids cannot take the pills. a new jersey judge has increased the bail for a man accused of threatening president obama. john brek entered a not guilty plea. he said he cut a hole in a fence at the airport so he could shoot the president. he is being held on $220,000 bail. you like your coffee in the morning i do. this jolt of java might help fight a certain type of liver disease. a new study says drinking three cups a day may slow the progress of liver disease in people with chronic hepatitis c. they had a decreased risk in liver disease progression compared with people who don't drink coffee. the national cancer institute did that study. we are learning the obama

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the outrage about executive pay has reached a tipping point especially when it comes to companies that received huge bailouts from you, the taxpayer. now the federal government doing something about it. cnnmoney.com poppy harlow joining us from new york with more on this story. >> interesting information that broke last night and confirmed this afternoon. president obama's pay czar, ken feinberg coming out with new

rules and regulations when it comes to pay at these firms who were bailed out by you the u.s. taxpayer. the current pay structure is inconsistent with public interest and that is why we are changing it. the new rules take effect next month affecting the top paid 25 executives at citigroup, aig bank of america, general motors and chrysler and the two finance arms gmac and chrysler financial. now all of those firms together, take a look have gotten $350 billion in bailout money. they will see annual salaries for those top execs falling 90% compared to a year ago. total composition stocks, bonuses, perks will fall 50%. we noticed on a release from the treasury department. there will be exceptions to this rule. those exceptions on pay where it may be higher will come in where

necessary to retain talent and protect taxpayer interest. potentially a loophole we are going to watch closely. people are calling in and asking questions. i understand we have calls. let's go on the line with brendan in pittsburgh. >> caller: the government or these executives have a plan for where this 90% of their payroll is going to go? maybe a mainstream bailout? >> that is a good question. a bailout for main street. that is what a lot of people have been asking. it is not clear yet. presumably the money that is not going out in compensation will remain at the firms to get the automakers or the financial firms back on solid footing the government trying to strike a balance so those firms can get on solid ground and no worries about failure then pay back the t.a.r.p. money. no clear answer on that but it does not look like it is going to into taxpayer pockets until the t.a.r.p. money is paid back

to the government. brendan, good question. aaron joining us from houston. what is your question? >> caller: we have companies that are having issues as well. in order to get our payback we automatically deduct the money out of their accounts on a monthly basis. i'm wondering why the government doesn't do the same thing instead of waiting on a check? >> it is a good question. the government doesn't want to take all the money too soon. the institutions need some of that money to get on solid ground. stay afloat. they are facing a lot of credit card delinquencies, citigroup and bank of america. they are facing real estate issues when you look at commercial real estate issues there. need to make sure those companies are on solid ground before they take the money back. that would be the short answer. they are watching closely. the companies have to pay

interest on t.a.r.p. loans. so the sooner they pay back, it is to the benefit of those companies. >> poppy let me get you to stick around for a couple more minutes. we're getting questions on facebook. joe asks, why aren't the boards looking out for the stockholders. poppy, what do you think? >> that's a good question. make boards are. some boards aren't as good as others. this should give you reinsurance. lawmakers are looking into this issue. they are talking about giving shareholders in companies and board members so-called say on pay. even at companies that didn't take t.a.r.p. money. looking forward, some companies have this. what we saw was the house passed a measure to do this give shareholders a non-binding vote to have say, so it is tied more to performance. this measure is expected to hit the president's desk i believe in the next few months. there is some action taken. >> okay. pony harlow thanks for sticking

around and answers questions. good to see you. thank you. you can always check out poppy cnn.com. facebook and google have plans to make it easier to get music. streaming or downloadable songs to friends. "wall street journal" reporting google let's user buy and sample songs from search book. both sights will use la la.com. if your baby uses a pass fire and sucks their thumb they may have speech problems. long-term pacifier, bottle use, sucked fingers were three times as likely to develop speech impediments. hln news and views will be right back.

. we've been telling you the body found is somer thompson. we'll take you to the county for an update. >> federal, state and local, we have had approximately 50 detectives and deputies working in our county as well as fullston, georgia at the landfill at chesser island where you know the bossidy our victim somer thompson was located last night night. the 50 detectives and deputies have been conducting interviews and completing canvases in the neighborhood here in orange park and working around the clock at the landfill. they have been through the neighborhoods repeatedly to in

sure anyone and everyone in the air at the time somer disappeared has been spoken to and interviewed thoroughly including their home searched when possible. regarding the landfill at chesser island a lot of you have had questions about that process. we would like for you to know we have had at any given time approximately 10 deputies and atmosphere who continue to go through the material in certainly what has become a mountain of trash and debris in which this victim's body was discovered. they will continue to do that over the course of the next several days. there were approximately nine large trucks' worth of trash that were transported during the time period in question from orange park to the rosemary landfill transfer center and up to the chesser island landfill. fortunately, as you all know, when our staff was beginning

their search yesterday afternoon, in a certain section of that mound, they quickly came across the body of this victim. and that is why we are here today. obviously we have moved onto the criminal investigation part of this case because our victim has been found and identified. as i mentioned, there are approximately -- not approximately, there were nine trucks that we monitored their entrance into the landfill supervised the dumping of those loads, of those nine trucks. each truck holds approximately 25 tons of garbage. so i'll certainly allow you all to do the math. nine trucks and 25 tons of garbage in each. it is a huge undertaking and we are committed to going through each and every part of that mound using gps technology, working as a grid with as much manpower and time as it takes to

make sure anything of evidentiary value has been found in that landfill before our staff returns home. we are committed to that. many of you have asked about how many leads have been coming into the leads office in the building behind us. that is part of the cart program, child abduction response team program. part of that is to set up not only a leads room staffed with individuals who are trained law enforcement, from that room where the tips coin they go to a leads room where they are processed and sent out to some of the 50 detectives and deputies that i discussed earlier. as of today, this afternoon at 3:00, we have received 651 leads interest our tip room. we have decided that 470 of

those leads are what we consider workable leads or relevant to this case. of the 470 workable leads, 239 of those leads have been checked and closed out. the remaining are still to be assigned to detectives and deputies who will continue day in and day out, overnight when necessary to follow up on those remaining leads. i can tell you our tip line is still open and we are still encorning members of the public to call into that tip line if they have any useful information regarding this investigation. as of today you have heard us talk about the three-mile radius and five mile radius when it comes to checking on and verifying the location of registered sex offenders and predators in our area. as of today there are only five remaining sex offenders and predators in that five-mile

radius that we have not completely closed out as far as checking on them. this doesn't mean that we haven't attempted to locate those five. we haven't seen them face-to-face, have only talked to them on the phone or been to their home and they weren't there. we are still finishing up on that portion of the investigation. but we do anticipate to have even those five completed very soon. i would like to speak to you all about funeral arrangements. it is my understand thanksgiving some information that gone out through the press that the family has already decided on a location and on certain funeral arrangements. i have been told there is a meeting tomorrow with the family and local funeral homeowners. so at this time there are no finalized funeral arrangements. but as soon as i have those, i will be more than happy to share them with you either in person or by e-mail. i will tell you this, the family

has had an outpouring of sympathy and generosity from many local businesses including funeral home businesses. there are more than one funeral home and cemetery company that has offered to assist this family in any way that they are able. so when i have that information, i will certainly share that with you. i would also like to share with you some information about an account that has been set up for the family and for the expenses they may incur not only in funeral arrangements but time lost at work and what it takes, as a family, to recover from a situation like this. the via star credit union has established an account in somer thompson's name and the account number is 0702794000. and that account number was contained in a press release

released earlier to you as well. now i would like to move along to some new information we have available this afternoon. i did just hear from the sheriff that he was contacted by the medical examiner's office in savannah, georgia. we can now say officially that the medical examiner there has positively identified the body that was located in the landfill yesterday as the missing child from orange park somer thompson. her family has been notified of these findings. as you can imagine due to the investigation, we are not in a position to discuss the cause or manner of death or any other details of the autopsy. but i will tell you that her i had it was verified through dental records. in addition to that update i will also let you know that we are currently working in the neighborhood with fdle. there is a home located at 1080,

that's 1080 gaino avenue. currently the florida department of law enforcement has set up their forensic mobile unit, basically a crime lab on wheels that is at the home. they will be processing that home throughout the night and possibly into tomorrow looking for evidence that could be related to this case. the reason that that location is relevant is that is the last known location where this missing child, now known to be somer thompson, was seen. that is the last location that we know anyone saw somer thompson at 1080 gainingo avenue. it is approximately 500 to 600 yards away from her school and does correspond with other witness information we have from people in the neighborhood and chirp from the school who also were in the area at the time

that somer disappeared. the home at 1080 gaino is the location is the location of a home that was vacant. there was a house fire a few months ago. the owners of the home do not live there. it was vacant. we do not know obviously how this ties into, you know the crime scene per se. burr since it is the last known area where somer was seen, we have obtained permission from the homeowner to go in and process it from fdle's crime lab. if anyone has any questions, i'll be happy to answer them. >> you're listening to a press conference from clay county florida from the public information officer. the first couple of things you probably want to know, no, they do not have a suspect in the killing of seven-year-old soerm thompson from florida. no, we do not have a cause of

death for this child. they did say the medical examiner in savannah, georgia where her body was found, did identify her through medical records. there's still a lot of information that came out of this, a lot of numbers. i'll try to boil it down for you. the first thing she said they are processing a home. they don't know if the crime happened there but there's a home that's 5 or 600 miles from the school. somer disappeared while walking home from school. it's a vacant home a home with a fire there before. they have set up for a unit there to do some sort of processing to figure out if they can get any clues. that's the last known place where somer was. also within a five-mile radius of somer's school, there's still five known sex offenders they are trying to make contact w they are also going to continue to go through the landfill where somer's body was found. no they do not have a suspect but they have a lot of leads

they will follow up on. as soon as they get more answers we'll pass them to you tonight on nancy grace as well ags the search for somer thompson becomes the search for a murder suspect. watch nancy grace right here on hln, news and views. a reward is offered for information on the whereabouts of this woman morgan harrington. 20-year-old virginia tech student missing since saturday. that's when she and her friend went to a metallica concert. her purse found outside the arena. they are treating the search as a criminal investigation now. stay tuned to hln. at the top of the hour her parents will talk to mike galanos.

top executives with bailouts

will start receiving smaller paychecks. earners at the company will be dropped. the seven companies affected by the treasury department's plan are bank of america, aig, citigroup, gm gmac, chrysler and chrysler financial. the treasury department says it won't make executives return pay earned before november. we've been asking for your views on this. do you think the government should be getting involved in setting salaries at private companies that did take bailout money? let's get to the phones. bob is cause us from florida. bob, let her rip. >> i think that the taxpayer, the president represents all the taxpayers and we should let him

take care of it and get back some of these billions that these people are taking. >> he said earlier today in fact that this offends our values. quick answer do you agree with that? >> i agree. >> okay, bob. thank you for your phone call. from new orleans, denard, do you think the government should be medaling in this because they took taxpayer money or do you think it's a slippery slope we shouldn't go down. >> i think the government does deserve -- the emphasis on the bonuses. you're supposed to be rewarded for doing a good job. it's obvious these guys didn't do a good job so why should they be rewarded. >> okay. >> i think the government should mandate they take pay cuts or whatever. >> okay. thank you for your input. i got a lot of comments on hln

facebook. how many current executives were with these companies before and during the failure and bailout? we should not punish the innocent when meeting these decisions. doesn't want an across the board sweeping generalization. no pay restrictions imposed when they accepted it, if so, they should stop whining. if not god help us auchl the power grab is only going to get worse. miss sherry thank you for your comment on the facebook page. thanks for your e-mails today as well. lots of those. can you keep calling, too because prime news starts at the top of the hour. more topics there that will stir the pot too. check them out at cnn.com/primenews. now, sex drugs bernie madoff. insiders say there was so much cocaine in the ponzi scammer's office, they called it the north pole.

an f-16 jet made a hard

landing this afternoon. that is in arizona. it sat in a dark strip between two runways between the wickenberg airport 60 miles northwest of phoenix. the two pilots on board were fine. they weren't hurt. there's an investigation under way to figure out what went wrong. pharmaceutical suicide. that's how a pharmacist described the list of prescriptions he refused to fill for anna nicole smith. smith's longtime pharmacist was on the stand in a trial that will decide if men will go to trial. including opiates and methadone it happened five months before smith died of an accidental overdose in 2007. the pharmacist said he wouldn't fill the prescriptions and no pharmacy in california would. convicted ponzi schemer bernard madoff accused of using investors money to pay for massive amounts of cocaine.

and exact words here, culture of sexual deviance in the workplace. alleges in the 1970s he sent employees to buy drugs for company use. it claims also he used the money for escorts and masseuses and company parties that included topless dancers. his attorney wouldn't comment. another big batch of earnings set the tone on wall street today. stephanie elam, the business desk in new york with the trading details and the latest on the government's efforts to limit executive pay packages. all right stephanie. uss mentioned that and people get all fired up don't they? >> kind of fodder for the watercooler chat around the offices. you're right. giving the market a nice boost. the biggest gainers on the dow, all three posted better than expected results. major averages all posted solid

gains, 131% to 10081, s&p up. barack obama pay czar for the administration kenneth fineberg confirms he's putting a cash on salaries at the seven firms that received bailout money. limited to $500,000 in salary. this translates into an average cut of 90% for firms like citigroup, aig and bank of america but it will only be effective for the final two months of this year. fineberg also says exceptions will be made or necessary in order to retain talent and protect taxpayer interest. that's an interesting one, richelle. >> isn't it though. thanks stephanie. authorities in clay county say the child killer plain and simple, is on the loose. next, jane velez-mitchell will tell us what they are saying

about the death of somer thompson.

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welcome to comcast local edition. i am donna richardson and my guest this hour is colonel george f. johnson iv superintendent of the maryland natural resources police. colonel, thank you for joining me. >> great to be here with you. >> in addition to being with the maryland natural resources you are president of the maryland police chief association and who in addition to chief are your members? and who is working with you? >> it is comprised mostly of chief of police from all over the state and state government and law enforcement chiefs and county and municipalities that exist in all of the state of maryland. >> i know as a group i know there are several initiatives taking place. there is a new one. checkpoint strike force. >> yes it is a research

based-multi-state situation where we pick and we go out there and we look for drivers that are impaired and work to get them off of the road and we do that through our sobriarity checkpoints and our saturation patrols. >> and so, which jerse - jurisdiction, one specific area or all of the jurisdictions now involved? >> all throughout maryland, the chiefs of police have signed on. every jurisdiction signed on in some way shape or form to participate in the checkpoint strike force. >> and so do you find that the checkpoints are helpful in hopefully lowering traffic fatalities? >> absolutely. fatalities have been reduced 20 percent in the areas where we are doing the checkpoints . it proves to be extremely beneficial to us in many

different ways. >> and do you find that the residents are supporting the checkpoints and do you have partner necessary this effort? >> yes we do. as you know, it is a powerful organization of mothers against drunk drivers. we work with them chosely in this endeavor and other organizations. their surveys indicate 85 to 90 percent of the people they talked to support the checkpoints. >> do you do these at specific times of year or are the checkpoints ongoing initiative. >> they are ongoing initiatives. they will be taking place every week and everywhere and where you think that it is the best possible opportunity to deploy the work force and effective use knowledge of our people in this endeavor. >> as you are having the checkpoints and i know initially

you are looking for impaired drivers but are you finding other things when you are pulling over the impaired drivers? >> oh, yes. people are very surprised what we run into on the checkpoints. the main focus is to get the impaired drivers that use alcohol off of the streets and identify them. but we are running into people who have warrants on them. their licenses are suspended some people have drugs in the vehicle this we were able to detect and find. there is a whole gamut of things and seat belt usage. it helps us with the seat belt initiatives and child safety seat. we are able to make different observations and of course, we put a lot of emphasis on the seat belt usage and child safety seat as well >> i know some jurisdiction or most of the them there is zero tolerance if you don't have your seat belt

on it is amazing that people are still driving without them. >> it is with the seat belt usage, if you are involved in an accident with the impaired drivers that use alcohol that gives you that much more of a chance to survive. >> how can citizens assist with the checkpoint strike force? >> we need them to be our eyes and ears out there. as with many thing necessary law enforcement and we ask citizens to do. if they see a person driving erratically or aggressively and feel they are under the influence of alcohol. pick up the cell phone and dial the number 911 or what ever it is that they feel comfortable in using. >> thank you colonel for joining me. >> donna thank you for helping us. >> thank you for watching comcast local edition. i am donna richason.

using dental records, the million examiner included it's the body of somer thompson and her mother identified. they identified using clothes and a birthmark. a short time ago police said

they followed nine garbage trucks to the landfill in folkston, georgia. each truck carried 20 tons of garbage. using technologies like gps in their search for evidence. they say there are five convicted sex offenders they still need to contact people in a five-mile radius of somer's school. they also said they received 470 workable leads and half of them have been checked and closed. we also learned about the last place somer was seen. it was a vacant home near her school. >> it is approximately 500 to 600 yards away from her school and does correspond with other witness information that we have from people in the neighborhood and children from the school who also were in the area at the time that somer disappeared. the home at 1080 is the location of a home that was vacant. there was a house fire there a few months ago.

the owners of the home do not live there. and it was vacant and we do not know obviously how this ties into, you know the crime scene per se. but since it is the last known area where somer was seen, we have obtained permission from the homeowner to go in and process it through fdle's crime lab. so clearly now this is a search for a killer killers, possibly somer's mother and hundreds of supporters that held a vigil last night. at that point all they knew was someone's child was found. there was a body found. they were hoping it wasn't somer. consumed with worry and grief, she was still able to thank people for their support. >> i don't know what to say. i don't know how i can ever repay any of you for helping me for looking for my baby. thank you.

thank you, everybody. i mean that sincerely. and if i have anything to repay any of you with i would do it. >> you can tell she was struggling. by the end of the vigil, she was so overcome with emotion she collapsed. her friends literally had to pick her up and carry her home. somer was last seen alive monday as she was just walking home from school. breaking news tonight on nancy grace. as the search for somer thompson becomes the search for a murder suspect, watch nancy grace at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern time right here on hln news and views. a reward for information on the whereabouts of morgan harrington. she's the 20-year-old virginia tech student who has been missing since saturday. that's when she and some friends went to a metallica concert at the university of virginia. her purse and her cell phone have been found outside the arena. police are treating the search

now as a criminal investigation. stay tuned to hln at the top of the hour morgan harrington's parents will be talking to mike galanos on prime news at 5:00 a.m. eastern time. the community of palo alto, california is reeling after a string of high school students committed suicide. three of the victims attended the same school, the fourth was about to enroll there. all the teenagers stepped in front of commuter trains at about the same spot. this is all in the last five month. last night the palo alto parent-teacher association held a forum on teen stress with extra on teen prevention two days after a 16-year-old boy was killed on the tracks. >> concerned about that that condition has to exist in the high school and the kids have to deal with it. i as a parent can't imagine what it would be like for a family to

go through this. we don't need it anymore. enough. >> it seems to be happening here. that's a puzzle. i don't know why. i don't know why. but it's more than a coincidence now, you know. i almost wonder if it's starting to become some sort of like a siren call to kids in this area who are not feeling well. >> authorities are still investigating monday's death. in august a 13-year-old girl died. in may a 17-year-old boy was killed. and a 17-year-old girl was killed in june. looks like rapper lil wayne is going to jail. the judge agreed to accept a one-year sentence today after he pleaded guilty to a reduced weapons charge. formal sentencing that's scheduled for february. new york city police pulled over his tour bus in 2007. they say at the time it reeked of pot smoke and they found a loaded gun with lil wayne's dna in the louis vuitton bag.

he faces drug and weapon charges in arizona. look at this picture. an f-16 jet had to make a hard landing in arizona. it sat on a dirt strip between two runways at the wickenberg airport. that's about 60 miles northwest of phoenix. the two pilots on board are fine. an investigation is under way to figure out what went wrong. top executives at companies that got big federal bailouts are going to start getting smaller paychecks starting next month. treasury department ordering salaries of 175 big earners at seven companies to be cut by a lot, as much as 90%. and it demanded their total compensation, that's when you put bonuses and all that stuff together, that's going to be cut in half. president obama is stressing the need for these pay cuts. >> we don't disparage wealth. we don't begrudge anybody for doing well. we believe in success. but it does offend our values

when executives of big financial firms, firms that are struggling, pay themselves huge bonuses even as they continue to rely on taxpayer assistance to stay afloat. >> so the seven companies affected we're talking about bank of america, aig, citigroup gm gmac, chrysler and chrysler financial. the company won't make executives return pay earned before november. we're just learning the obama white house is setting aside 200,000 square miles in alaska as a critical habitat for polar bears. assistant interior secretary is calling that a step in the right direction to help polar bears fight extinction. last year they were becoming endangered. a 6.1 earthquake felt in afghanistan and pakistan centered in the hindu kush

region. this is coming from the u.s. geological survey. again, 6.1 magnitude earthquake. gold ring gold necklace, who needs that? why buy pieces of gold when you can purchase an entire bar of it right off the shelf. if you don't like it you can return it. where this retail gold rush is taking place.

make up only 9% of the market that's it. in the computer world apple hogs all the buzz. they have an unbelievable reputation as the cool kids.

today windows hopes to win back some of their cred with the sharp new operating system. people that use it hope it's efficient, hope it works. so will this work? this is getting a lot of attention at cnn.com. we know apple really knows how to roll something out get people really really hyped up nicole. windows is trying to do the same thing, even bigger. >> absolutely. you remember when vista launched it had a lackluster performance and apple hogd a lot of that market share a few years back. will windows 7 be better this go around. folks are saying it's too early to jump on the windows 7 bandwagon. there are a couple of bugs that need ironing out. also people are perhaps waiting to get a new pc buying a new machine with windows 7 already installed. a couple of new things, not a whole lot of bells and whistles

out there, i've got to tell you, richelle. a performance boost is probably the most appealing feature means it's going to go a little faster. windows media player has a new feature that laos you to play music on any wireless device in your house. there you go. i know you love your tunes. windows xp can run off of it. if you have problems you just go back to the other operating system, whatever previous operating system you had. but i think it could be best assumed up by one reviewer. the best thing about windows 7 is that it's not vista. >> ouch. going to take a while for them to live that one down. >> absolutely. >> all right. so we'll have to see. let's talk about something us ladies like gold. >> yes. >> not necessarily jewelry. we're talking the kind -- well never mind -- i'm not a rapper i won't go there. gold bars. >> 462,000, do you have that

laying around, richelle? >> i can borrow it from reggie. >> yeah, all the bling down here at cnn.com. they are selling gold bars for that measley price tag at harrod's in london. i kid you not there's a man in charge of used gold bars. here is what he says. >> here are the coins. can i just walk in with a pile of cash or credit card and say i'd like a few of those and walk out with them? >> that's the idea. the idea is we have a simple service for customers. they are able to purchase gold over the counter, provided they meet our requirements. they come in and purchase in the usual way, walk straight out. >> just walk straight out. i've got to tell you rich i think there might be something in that store that may be better suited for our budgets. it's a $15 gold bar option and it's made out of chocolate. >> fantastic. >> you like that? >> i like that a lot better. i'm sure i meet his requirements

as he put it. >> i think we can afford that one. >> you got it girl. this is an interesting story. some former guantanamo detainees claim they were tortured with extremely loud music. now musicians want to know if their songs were used in interrogations. groups like r.e.m. and pearl jam joined in a freedom of information act request. these organizations are pushing to close down the prison camp at guantanamo bay. the idea of using the music to torture detainees is anti-american. the fbi says tony soprano has nothing on this guy. meet a russian mobster whose sinned cat is said to stretch around the globe

prime news coming up in just a few minutes. we're going to talk to mike. he's going to move the somer thompson investigation forward. we start at the top of the hour mike, with a fairly extensive press conference. the public information officer gave us a lot of information about a lot of different legs of

this investigation. it's really personal to moms and people like that. they look at her and say that could have been my child. >> walking home a mile from her house somer thompson that's what we're talking about here. we're going to hit it on that human level. we have to. to hear from a mom at a vigil. they sing," you are my sunshine" one of somer's favorite songs. that's what we're talking about here. we'll hit the investigative side. one of the headlines is they are looking at a house where somer was last seen walking ahead of her older sister twin brother, that's what we're talking about here. innocent details of life turn tragic. we'll take calls, comments or questions, 1-877-tell-hln. another story hoping and praying for a better ending missing college student morgan harrington goes to a metallica concert, gets separated from her friends. last she was seen, heard from, 50 minutes after she was separate freddie her friends. i'm going to have a chance to

talk to her mom and dad dan and jill harrington. police telling them how they get through this. we'll take calls 1-877-tell-hln. sweat lodge tragedy, james arthur ray co-wrote the book," the secret" running this sweat lodge retreat. three people ended up dead. we're all wondering what went on. we're hearing from the first time from a woman inside. >> it is gripping stuff. >> she takes us inside what was going on inside the sweat lodge also outside. literally people were dying around her. whether or not she could help we'll have all the details for you and take your phone calls. 1-877-tell-hln. e-mail us or text us prime news coming your way. got an update on this heartbreaking story, the 15-year-old boy in florida set on fire. doctors say he's doing as well

as can be expected. this happened ten days ago. now he's still in critical condition. doctors say his burns are covered with cadaver skin for now but that is only temporary. >> ultimately those areas will mostly require grafts. some areas may heal on their own. that remains to be seen. he's still heavily sedated. he's responsive but not in a way you could say you could have a conversation but he can be arouse freddie his sedation. a total of five tans, one as young as 13 are charged with aggravated battery for this attack. it happened in dearfield beach, florida. the teen accused of flicking the lighter at brewer after he was doused with rubbing alcohol is charged with second degree attempted murder. authorities believe this is retaliation from michael stopping someone from stealing a bike. fbi trying to track down a russian mobster said to be so powerful he could affect the global economy with a phone

call. he's accused of arms trafficking, prostitution extortion, murder for higher. his schemes stretched through europe south pacific, u.s. and canada. according to authorities, in one scam investors were duped out of $150 million for some sort of magnet manufacturing firm in newtown, pennsylvania. this turned out to be a sham according sham according to authorities. the scariest part he uses economic and finance specialists to carry out his crimes. a new jersey judge increased the bail for an airport guard accused of threatening president obama. his lawyer entered a not guilty plea on his behalf during a video arraignment today. the judge raised brek's bail to $200,000. he wasn't actually in court. again you can see they did this by video. arrested tuesday for allegedly making threatening comments at newark airport allegedly one day

before the president was there. the cdc says a lot of people have come down with swine flu this month. in fact one in five children in the u.s. has had flu-like symptoms, most of the cases may have been the h1n1 strain. the cdc called 14,000 households to put together this survey. it found 7% of adults reported having had flu-like symptoms. there's been more flu-like illnesses than officials usually see an entire season. the good news, most of the cases have been pretty mild. kids though, are especially vulnerable to this flu but the u.s. may be running out of the liquid drug kids need to fight the virus. the cdc is encouraging pharmacies to stretch the supply by breaking open the pills and mixing with fluids to use it. pharmacists are trained to do this. kids cannot take tamiflu pills because the medication is too

strong for them. you probably heard the phrase they don't make them like they used to but in oklahoma a family shoeping it doesn't turn out to be true for them. the incredible amount of time they owned this pink washer and dryer and what they decided to do with them.