a health emergency becomes a national emergency as president obama steps up the response to the h1n1 outbreak. health officials get their latest assessment on the efforts to get enough vaccinations to the public. and one of the pilots is speaking out. what he is saying didn't happen during the flight. what does the number 350 mean to you? if demonstrators have their way it will mean changes to offset global warming. how much you could end up paying. thank you for joanining us. the swine flu outbreak is now a national emergency. president obama signed that declaration at the white house houselast night. that means medical officials can

bypass certain federal requirements to fight the pandemic. 46 states are snou facing widespread flu outbreaks. more than 1,000 people have died in the u.s. the cdc admits they do not have enough vaccines. >> we share the frustration who have waited online or called the number or checked the welcome back site. the technology is not well suited for pandemics. >> the cdc says the government has spent more than $2 million trying to develop a new method of vaccine production. president obama signed a declaration of national emergency last night. medical officials can bypass requirements to fight the

pandemic. more than 1,000 people have died in the u.s. 16 million doses of h1n1 vaccine are now ready to ship. 11 million doses are now available to the public. the cdc admits that's not enough. >> we share the frustration of people who have waited online or called a number or checked a website and haven't been able to find a place to get vaccinated. our technology is well well suited to pandemics. what really happened on flight 188 when it overshot the airport where it was supposed to land. the answer to that question after the flight's co-pilot has spoken out. the jet flew past its minneapolis destination by more than 50 miles. along the way air traffic controllers lost contact with

the pilots for about an hour. by the time they responded, they were in wisconsin. here is what the flight's co-pilot told our affiliate. >> nobody was asleep in the cockpit. no arguments took place. but other than that i cannot tell you anything that wept on because we are having hearings this weekend and on tuesday. all the information will come out then. >> no arguments took place? that is the statement that is out there. >> there were no arguments at all in the cockpit. that was not an issue. absolutely not. >> the co-pilot does not know the pilot very well. he calls the entire episode a nightmare. passengers on flight 188 says there was no indication of any trouble. >> we were just completely under the impression that it was just air traffic and that minneapolis

airport was not giving us clearance to land and we would fly around until they allowed us to do so. if any of us had known that was going on we would have been in a complete state of panic. i am glad they were trying to look out for us because i don't think the pilots were. >> the military scrambled to launch four fully armed f-16 fighters. northwest flight 188 carried 148 passengers and a crew of five. 350 is a number you will be seeing a lot more of. the international group has made it their slogan. it would reduce car ban emissions to 350 parts per million and today they organized rallies around the world. thousands gathered to form a human chain to spell out the

number 350. last week the country's government backed down. cyclists chanted during a rally in the streets of beijing. and a dance performance on a glacier inty tyibett. 350 demonstrators got together on australia's great barrier reef. and we will be digging into our pockets to reduce greenhouse gases. the costs could be negligible. it would add about $150 a year to the cost of an average home energy bill but some studies warn the increase could be as much as $3,000. senate hearings on this bill begin neck week. is there really a solid case to be made that the earth is getting warmer?

most americans think so but those numbers are falling. only 57% of americans think there is solid evidence of global warming. that number is down. just two days after police and military scramble to look for a boy thought to be trapped in a balloon the boy's mother apparently told police that the whole theng was a hoax. she and her husband knew their 6-year-old son was hiding the entire time. the heenes told their children to lie. >> i really do hope that this does seem like the misdemeanor of making a false police report. i certainly think it is a bad thing to tell your children to lie to the authorities, to tell your children to lie to meredith and wolf. >> is that a crime? >> but it is a very big deal in this country to take children

away from their paperrents and this does not rise to that level. >> the heenes took about two weeks to put this thing together. they could be charged sometime next week. >> arneighbors held another vigil for the family of 7-year-old summer thompson. her neighbors and friends sang her favorite song. she had been missing since monday. police have not made any arrests yet but they ruled out all 161 sex offenders who lived within five miles of the little girl's home. investigators are not revealing how she died. a driver in a rush hour accident is lucky to be alive today. passing motorists stopped just in time to help him but one caught his truck exploding.

are. >> talk about getting there just in the nick of time. several drivers raced to pull the driver out just before the truck exploded. someone recorded that fire with a cell phone camera. the accident happened during rush hour yesterday. the driver got out without any major injuries. a raging fire that has been burning for more than 24 hours shows no signs of slowing down. shook a fuel storage complex with the force of a 2.8 earthquake. rain could mix with the smoke and cause acid rain. one person was hospitalized and at least 350 people evacuated. puerto rico has enough gas to last 24 days. the fbi is investigating gra graffiti that referred to a fire. >> and amazing pictures

september to us from an ireporter. this is an apartment complex on fire in edmund oklahoma. no one was living there yet. when paul heard about the blaze he weptnt to see the building. workers left the construction site about 5:00 p.m. and no one noticed the fire. you are probably about to ask what was he thinking? an assistant high school football coach was charged with pulling a knife on one of his

players and threatening him. and then christopher michael campbell told players don't try me today. campbell has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and exhibiting a weapon within 1000 feet of a school appropriate. no one was hurt. people are talking about the man who held up a loan office and then dropped to his knees. >> i am just trying to figure out what that reason is. >> the so-called praying robber is talking about what drove him to commit the crime.

police in new jersey say people need to be extra vigilant as authorities track to track down the killer of a catholic priest. his killing is the small town's first vie leapt death in 20 years. he was last seen alive thursday night after a safety seminar.

other than saying he was a victim of a homicide, authorities are saying very little about this crime. >> mainly focussed on the front part of his body. if there was a fight, it was in a localized area. there was blood spatter in various locations of the kitchen and different areas of the wall and floor inside the kitchen. >> there have been no arrests but police are questioning witnesses. there have some things you should never try to do and this is one of them. check out this surveillance video. two men armed with a shotgun try to rob a convenience store clerk clerk. >> the clerk had been robbed twice before and wupt going to be a vick again. the man known as a praying

robber is explaining how he ended up praying with the store's clerk. the whole scene was caught on surveillance video. we have more on the suspect who turned himself in. >> i was in there for a reason. i am just trying to figure out what that reason is. >> gregory smith has nothing but time to figure out why and how a woman he never met was anyone to bring him to his knees in pray. >> she prayed over me. >> he walked in to rob it. >> i felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders. >> this is something i would have never resorted to under any other circumstances. >> smith says he has been unemployed for more than a year. >> a lot of people have had the thought go through their head. i was dumb enough to react on it and actually try to do it. >> police say it was not smith's

first try. >> he was acting like he tried to get a loan and he pulled a gun. >> smith admitted to robbing the loan office. >> if you talk to anybody know me, they will tell youis not me at all. >> but smith's criminal record says something else. he was already on probation for auto theft and receiving stolen property. >> do you think you deserve forgiveness? >> at this point, i don't know. >> but smith is ready to face the consequences of his actions. >> are you a changed man? >> honestly, yeah. i just got to figure out a way to do what i need to do to get myself back on track. >> this moment on his knees was the first step. channel 13 eyewitness news.

now to some of the stories we will be covering for you in the week ahead. lit be jon and kate plus a divorce judge monday. if you text eat, or chat behind the wheel you might be interested on what is said on friday. and drew peterson is accused of killing his third wife and his fourth wife is missing. more than 100 american banks have failed this year. seven new bank close sures brings the total to 106 banks. the top 12 eptntries are from this month alone. those are all regional banks that did not receive help from the federal government. thissee's closures are the

highest tally since 1992. it is take a a lot onger for recyclers to dispose of the trade-ins from the cash for clunkers program. when the program was expanded, congress didn't extend the deadline. they say it takes time to drain the fluids and remove spare parts thachl are asking for another six months to s tos to get the job done. >> this year's wet weather is making for a late harvest. the second largest corn harvest on record and much of that will come from iowa. the ground is too wet for the heavy combines used to har vet and many crops are too wet to safely store.

farmers are weeks behind schedule. watch out for wet weather for today and tonight and with playoff baseball in the mix the concern is for rain tonight in the bronx. we koul see light ning strikes in the region. when you look at what the computer models are showing, a lot of rain is sweeping across the northeast. you can see our forecast areas in yellow indicate the higher amounts. we saw heavy rain yesterday. so that is good news. and as we check out forecasts across the country temperatures are nice and warm. if you are looking for mild weather, head to phoenix. some cooler spots but not really that cold. some of the colder areas are in maine where temperatures have been in the 20s. really when you look at the

nation as a whole, it is very, very mild for one of the locations in october. that sounds really nice. seattle at 57. once you start going into the higher elevations temperatures are colder and wu run the risk for rain and snow. cooler weather for minneapolis 38 for a high and 44 for kansas city. >> what one told an ireporter about that passion.

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d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d d a health emergency becomes a national emergency. health officials get their latest assess m on efforts to get enough vaccines to the public.

and a co-pilot is speaking out. what he is saying didn't happen. what does the number 350 mean to you? if demonstrators have their way it will mean changes to offset global warming but some of them will come at a price. how much you could end up paying. hey there, thanks for joining us. the swine flu outbreak is now a national emergency. president obama signed that declaration at the white house last night. the cdc said 46 states are facing widespread flu outbreaks. 16 million doses of h1n1 vaccine are now ready to ship. 11 million doses are available to the public but the cdc admits that's not enough. we share the frustration of people who have waltited online or called a number and have not

been able. so what really happened on northwest airlines flight 188 when it othershot the airport? the answer to the question is murkier today after the flight's co-pilot has spoken out. the jet left san diego but flew past its destination by over 150 miles. here is what the flight's co-pie lot told our affiliate. >> nobody was asleep in the cockpit and no arguments took place. other than that i cannot tell you anything that weptnt on. we are having hearings this

weekend and on tuesday. all that information will come out there. >> no arguments took place? that's the statement that is out fl there. >> there were no arguments. that was not an issue. absolutely not. >> the co-pilot says he dupt really know the pilot that well. he says passengers were never in any danger. passengers say there were no indication of any trouble. we were just you know completely turned lyly under the impression that it was just air traffic and we did not have clearance to land and we would fly around until they allowed us to do so. that's what we all believed. if anything of us knew what was going on i am sure the entire flight would have been in a complete state of panic. i am glad they were trying to look out for us because i don't think the pilots were. >> the military scrambled to

launch four fully armed f-16 fighters but before they could get off the ground, contact was made with the plane. 350 is a number you will probably be seeing a lot more of in the future. this is now the slogan of a group that supports climate legislation that would reduce carbon emissions to 350 parts per million. in sydney australia, thousands gathered to form a human chain to spell out the number 350678 demonstrators in taipei also gathered to make the number. the country's government backed down from a proposal on a carbon tax. and a mass bike ride to beijing. and a dance performance on a glacier in tibett. not all events took place on

solid ground. 350 demonstrators got together to send their message out. experts agree we will be digging into our pockets to pay for legislation to reduce greenhouse gases. the cost could be negligible. a bill would add about $100 a year. but some studies warn the inkees could bed a much as $3,000. senate hearings begin next week. is there really a solid case to be made that the earth is getting warmer. those numbers are now falling. only 57% of americans there is solid evidence of global warming. that number is down 20 points from just three years ago. just two days after police and military scramble to look for a boy thought to be trapped in a balloon the boy's mother told authorities the whole thing was a hoax. court documents released show

that she and her husband richard knew that her son was hiding the entire time. the heenes told their children to lie to the authorities and media ability this. >> i hope that cooler heads prevail. this seems like a misdemeanor of making a false police report. i certainly think it is a bad thing to tell your children to lie to the authorities, to tell your children to lie to meredith and wolf. >> is that a crime? >> but i also think, you know it is a very big deal in this country to take children away if their parents. and based on what i have seen, this does not rise to that level. >> the heenes supposedly took about two weeks. they could be charged sometime next week. a grieving florida community is not forgetting the little girl whose body was found in a georgia landfill.

>> investigators found summer's body on wednesday. she had been missing since monday. police have not made any arrests yet but they ruled out all 161 sex offenders who live within five miles of the little girl's jacksonville home. investigators are not revealing how she died. a driver in a rush hour accident is lucky to be alive. passing motorists stopped just in time to help him but one caught his truck exploded on camera camera.

several drivers who saw a truck hit a guardrail raced to pull the driver out just before the truck exploded. someone recorded that fire with a cell phone camera.

the driver got out without any major injuries. a raging fire shows know signs of slowing down in puerto rico. it shook with the force of a 2.8 earthquake. that could mix with smoke and causes a sitd s aacid rain. at least 350 people were evacuated. the governor says they have enough gas to last 24 days. officials don't know what caused the explosion but the fbi is investigating graffiti it found. we want to share amazing pictures september to us by a cnnireporter. what you are looking at is an apartment complex on fire in edmund, oklahoma. the brand new building was still under construction. paul happens to be a free-lance

photographer. when he heard about the building and wept to see the blaze. folks across the city could see it for miles. workers lef the construction site about 5:00 p.m. and no one noticed the fire. you can upload picture and videos and tell us what's happening. all registered sex offenders now have plans for halloween because the city is hosting a mandatory meeting for them on halloween between 5:30 and 9:00 p.m. the meeting is slated to take place whn mosten most kids are trick or treating. the paper goes on to say the

meeting is mept to encourage acountability acountability. christopher michael campbells told players, "don't try me today. ." he has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and exhibiting a web on school property. no one was hurt. atkins, south kbeech beach, the zone. but to go beyond the surface we turn to terry glassman on how to lose weight. >> people are tempted by a fad diet but what i tell people if a diet sounds too good to be true it absolutely. >> avoid this common mistake.

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police in chatham new jersey say people need to be extra vigilant as authorities try to track down the killer of a catholic priest. his kill something the small town's first violent death in 20

years. he was last seen alive thursday night right after a safety seminar. authorities are saying very little about this crime. >> mainly focussed to the front part of his body and some on the back. there was a fight. there is blood spatter in various locations of the kitchen and different areas of the wall and floor inside the location. >> there have been no arrests but police are questioning witnesses. there are some things you should never try to do and police in new york say this is one of them. check out the surveillance video from a gas station in new york. two men try to rob a clerk only to have him grab the gun away from him. >> i get the gun and i say you know, i shoot you now. you shoot me, i shoot you now and he running. >> he had been robbed twice before and wupt going to be a victim again.

the indianapolis man known as the praying robber is explaining how he ended up praying with the store's clerk he was accused of trying to rob. wthr has more on the suspect who turned himself in. >> me and her were in the situation for a reason. i am just trying to figure out what that reason is. >> reporter: gregory smith has nothing but time to try to figure out why and how a woman he had never met was able to bring him to his knees in prayer. >> she prayed over me. >> he walked in with a gun to rob it. >> i felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders. >> reporter: he was desperate to keep his family from being evicked from their home. >> this is something i would have never resorted to. >> smith had been unable to find a job. >> a lot of people have had the thought go through their head and i was dumb enough to react

on it and actually try to do it. >> police say it wasn't smith's first time. >> you are listening to a 911 call made last thursday from a loan office. >> he was acting like he was trying to get a loan. >> police say smith has admitted to robbing a loan office on his birthday. >> this is not me at all. >> reporter: but smith's criminal record said something else. he was already on probation for receiving stolen property. >> i am asking for forgiveness at this point. >> do you think you deserve forgiveness? >> i don't know. >> smith is ready to face the consequences for his actions. >> are you a changed man? >> yeah. i just got to figure out a way to do what i need to do to get myself back on track. >> reporter: smith says this moment on his knees was the

first step. channel 13 eyewitness news. now to some of the stories we will be covering for you in the week ahead. jon and kate and a divorce judge at a hearing in pennsylvania. now if you text or eat or chat on the phone behind the wheel you might be interested in what is being said wednesday when congress holds a hearing on distracted driving. and thnen former cop drew peelterson who is accused of killing his third wife more than 100 american banks have failed this year. regulators announced seven new bank closers just yesterday including a bank in naples florida. that brings the totals to 106 banks. the top 12 entries are from this month alone. $346 million, those are all

regional banks that did not receive help from the federal government. it is taking a lot longer for auto recyclers to dispose of those trade ins in the popular cash for clunkers program. recyclers say when the program was expanded to sell more cars congress didn't extend the deadline to get rid of the clunkers. they're asking for another six months to get the job done. first lady michelle obama was on "the jaleny leno show" last she. jay peppered her about her husband. there was a question about his beloved baseball team t chicago white sox. >> question number six your husband just won the nobel peace prize, would he rather have

world peace or have the white sox win the world series. >> that's a tough one. and i think if you would ask him, he would say he probably would prefer world peace but he wouldn't mind the world series bid too. but i think he would choose world peace. >> the first lady also refused to divulge her daughter's halloween costume saying leno would see a security clearance for that. would you be willing to put your all into a project that lasted only a day? artists do it all the time for chalk art.

♪ ♪ 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.

a health emergency becomes a national emergency as president obama steps up the response to the h1n1 outbreak. meantime health officials give their latest assessment on efforts to get enough vaccine to the public. one of the pilots of the flight that overshot its destination by 1,500 miles is speaking out. what does the number 350 mean to you? if demonstrators have it their way, it will be to offset global warming. but some say it will be at a price. how much you could end up paying. hey there, thank you for joining us. you're watching hln "news and views". the swine flu outbreak is now a national emergency. medical officials can now bypass

certain federal requirements to fight the pandemic. 46 states are now facing widespread flu outbreaks. more than 1,000 people have died in the u.s. 16 million doses of h1n1 vaccine are now ready to ship. 11 million doses are available to the public now. but the cdc admits that's not enough. >> we share the frustration of people who have waited online or have called the website or have gotten online and not found a place to get vaccinated. the system which is not well. >> the government has spent over $2 million trying to develop a new method for vaccine production. president obama signed that declaration at the white house last night that. means medical officials can now bypass certain federal requirements to fight the pandemic. 46 states are now facing widespread flu outbreaks.

more than 1,000 people have died in the u.s. 16 million doses of h1n1 are now ready to ship. the cdc admits that's not enough. >> we share the frustration of people who have waited online or called the number or checked the website and haven't been able to find a place to get vaccinated. the technology that we're using although it's tried and true is not well suited for pandemics. >> the cdc says the government has spent more than $2 million trying to develop a new method for vaccine production. what happened wen the flight -- the answer to that question is even murkier today after the flight's co-pilot has spoken out. the jet left san diego wednesday night but ended up flying past its minneapolis destination by 150 miles. denver air traffic control lost contact with the flight for

about an hour. investigators are looking into whether the pilots were distracted or maybe fell asleep. here's what the flight's co-pilot told our affiliate kgw. >> nobody was asleep in the cockpit, no arguments took place, but other than that i cannot tell you anything that went on because we're having hearings this weekend, we're having hearings on tuesday, all that information will come out then. >> no arguments took place? that's the information that's out there all over the place. >> there's no arguments at all in the cockpit, that wasn't even an issue. absolutely not. >> co-pilot richard cole says he doesn't really know the other pilot that well. he calls the entire episode a nightmare. but since passengers were never in any danger. passengers say there was no indication of any trouble. >> we were completely under the impression that it was just air traffic and that minneapolis airport was not giving us clearance to land and that basically we were just going to

fly around until they allowed us to do so and that's what we all believed. if any of us would have known what was going on i'm sure the entire flight would have been in a complete state of panic. i'm glad we didn't know. >> at one point the military scrambled to launch four f-16 military fighterings but before they could get off the ground, contact was restored with that plane. 350 is the number you'll probably be seeing a lot more of in the future the international environmental group 350.org has made it their slogan. it would reduce carbon emissions to 350 parts per million and today they organized rallies across the world. they formed a human chain to spell out the number 350. demonstrators in taipei taiwan

also gathered together to make the word 350. cycleist cyclist's chanted environmental -- other dmen sfragss ss featured a rally on a gabe cher in tibet. but not all events took place on solid ground. 350 glendemonstrators got together on a barrier reef. turns out the cost of reducing greenhouse gasses could be negligible. it would add about 100 a year to the average home's energy bill. senate hearings on this bill begin next week. so is there really a solid case to be made that the earth is getting warmer? most americans think so, but those numbers are falling. a new study from the pugh

research center finds only 67% of americans think there's solid evidence of global warming. that number is down 20 points from just three years ago. just two days after police and the military scramble to find a boy trapped in a balloon. court documents told -- my mayumi said she and her husband knew that their 6-year-old son falcon was hiding the entire time. the hennes told their children to lie to authorities and the media about this. >> i really do hope that cooler heads prevail this really does seem like a misdemeanor of filing a false police report. i think it's wrong to tell your children to lie to police investigators and to meredithher.

>> the hennes supposedly took two weeks too put the plan together. a grieving florida community is not forgetting the little girl whose body was found in a georgia landfill. the neighbors sang a favorite song, you are any sunshine. investigators found her body on wednesday. she's been missing since monday. police have not made any arrests yet, but they have ruled out all 361 sex offenders who live within five miles of the little girl's jacksonville home. police are not revealing how she died. a strong mideastern earthquake hit indonesia today. it had a preliminary magnitude of 7.0. the nearest land is about 140 miles, it's an island to the

south. no tsunami warning was issued. indonesia has been rock bid a series of strong quakes since last month. including a powerful quake that killed 1,000 people on the island of sumatra. a nuclear facility in iran goes under the microscope today. international inspectors are on a three-day mission to make sure that the site in iran is used only for peaceful purposes. a new deal would have iran send all the low enriched uranium produced in iran to other countries for further enrichment enrichment. local officials in pakistan say two missiles hit a village near pakistan's border with afghanistan killing 25 people. it is not clear if those people were militants or civilians. pakistani military officials say

a military hideout was hit. the u.s. doesn't comment on strikes this like. the attacks have caused friction with pakistan's government, a driver in a rush hour accident is lucky to be alive today. passing motorists not only stopped in the nick of time to save him but also caught his truck exploding on camera.

several drivers who saw a truck hit a guardrail on a highway onramp stopped to help just as the car exploded. the accident happened just outside st. louis during rush hour yesterday. the driver got out without any major injuries. a raging fire in puerto rico that's been burning for more than 24 hours shows no signs of slowing down. a powerful explosion shook a fuel storage complex yesterday

with the force of a 2.8 earthquake. that could mix with the smoke and cause acid rain. one person was hospitalized, at least 350 people evacuated. the governor says puerto rico has enough gas to last 24 days. officials don't know yet what caused the explosion, but the fbi is investigating graffiti it found that referred to a fire. we want to share some amazing pictures sent to us by a cnn i-reporter this week. this comes to us from paul farmer and what you're looking at is a fire inside an apartment complex. paul happens to be a freelance photographer. when he went to see the blaze about a mile from his home. the fire was so big folks across the city could see it for miles. paul reports that workers left the construction site about 5 p.m. and no one noticed the fire. about an hour later fire crews arrived and the building was

engulfed. crews worked through the early morning to put that fire out. now if you see news happening around you, we invite you to share it with cnn. but as always, please never put yourself in harm's way. all registered sex offenders in the city of huntsville alabama now have plans for halloween. a meeting is planned for them between 5:00 and 9:00 p.m. the educational program will review both state and federal sex offender laws. the paper goes on to say the meeting is meant to encourage accountability and behavior changes in sex offenders. you're probably about to ask what was he thinking? an assistant high school football coach is charged with pulling a knife on one of his team's players at practice and threatening him and then, investigators say, christopher

michael campbell told players, don't try me today. it happened at a high school in lakeland florida according to authorities. he has been. people are still talking about the man who held up a loan office, then dropped to his knees and prayed with his victim. >> the so-called praying are robber is now talking about what drove him to commit the crime.

police in chat ham, new jersey say people need to be extra vigilant as authorities try to track down the killer of a catholic priest. his killing is the small town's first violent death in 20 years. the priest was last seen alive thursday night, right after a safety seminar at that church. other than saying he was the victim of a homicide authorities are saying very little about this crime.

mainly focused in the front part of his body and some wounds on the back. if there was a fight that preceded it but it was in a very localized area. it was in the location of the kitchen and different areas of the floor and the wall inside the location. >> there have been no arrests but police are questioning witnesses. there are some things you should never try to do and police in new york say this is one of them. check out the surveillance video from a gas station in new york. two men armed with a gun try to rob a convenience store clerk only to have him grab the gun away from him. >> i shoot you now and he's running. and i'm running too. >> the clerk says he had been robbed twice before and wasn't going to be a victim again. the indianapolis man known as the praying robber is explaining just how he ended up praying with the store's clerk. the clerk he's accused of trying

to rob. the whole thing was caught on surveillance video. emily longnecker has more on the suspect who turned himself in. >> me and her was in that situation for a reason and i'm just trying to figure out what that reason is. >> reporter: and why he sits behind bars, gregory smith has nothing but time to try and figure out why and how a woman he had never met was able to bring him to his knees in prayer. >> she prayed over me. >> reporter: smith walked into this loan office monday afternoon to rob it. >> i felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulder at that point. >> this is something i would have never resorted to under any circumstances. >> reporter: smith says he had been unemployed for over a year unable to find a job. >> a lot of other people have to go through it too, but i was dumb enough to react to it and actually try to do it. >> reporter: but police say it wasn't smith's first try.

>> 911 what is your emergency? >> reporter: you're listening to a 911 call from a loan office last week. police say smith has admitted to robbing the loan office. it was his 23rd birthday. >> if you talk to anybody who knows me they'll tell you that this is not me at all. >> reporter: but smith's criminal record says something else. according to court documents he was already on probation for auto theft and receiving stolen property in bartholomew last september. >> reporter: do you think you deserve forgiveness? >> i don't know. >> reporter: are you a changed man? >> i'm thinking yeah i just got to figure out a way to do what i need to do to get myself back to church. >> reporter: smith says this moment on his knees with angie montez was the first step. . now see some of the stories

we'll be covering for you in the week ahead. it will be jon and kate plus a divorce judge on monday. now if you text or eat or chat on the phone behind the wheel you might be interested in what's said in a hearing in congress on monday. drew peterson will be in court in illinois. he's accused of killing his third wife, his fourth wife is missing. more than 100 banks have failed this year. the total to 106 banks. you're looking at the list on the fdic's website. the stop 12 entries from this month alone. yesterday's shutdowns is expected to cost theexpect ed to this year's bank closure is the highest tally since 1992. it is taking a lot longer

for auto recyclers to dispose of trade ins from the cash for clunkers program. the cars are supposed to be crushed or shredded within six months of the date the vehicles leave the dealership. congress didn't extend the deadline to get rid of the gas guzzlers. they say it takes time to drain the flueids and remove spare parts. they're asking for another six months to get the job done. would you be willing to put your all, your hearth into an art project that lasts for a day?

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home prices are bottoming out, right? well, maybe not. according to a new forecast, home prices are expected to get a whole lot more affordable. in fact, they're predicted to plunge in 342 out of 381 markets during the next year. overall the national median home price is forecast to drop 11.3% by june 2010. for the following year that's 2011, pfizer anticipates some stabilization with prices rising 3.6%. the weakest cities, they're miami, orlando, las vegas, and the most stable you might be surprised, kennewick, washington, fairbanks and anchorage, alaska. the fall and winter months are usually considered an off-peak time for home buying but as you just heard with home prices dipping and mortgage rates at all-time lows, what are the secrets you need to know to get the best deal in the market? here with some advice is rick neuman, chief business correspondent for "u.s. world and news report." rick, great to see you. >> hi, gerri. >> we talk about how hard it is to get the mortgage, you have to

put 20% down now, have a great credit score, 720, 740. you think there's more to think about. >> right, we know about the home buyer tax credit the $8,000 credit supposed to expire in december, it's looking like there's a lot of chatter in washington maybe this is going to be extended. this has a big impact whether you qualify for the credit or not because that credit has driven up demand for houses in a lot of markets, which raises prices a little bit. so people just need to be paying attention to that. there's some other things going on in washington sort of behind the scenes that affect the availability of mortgages and mortgage rates which is going to affect the market for houses going into the winter. >> the bottom line there, of course, there's no guarantee this low mortgage rate also continue. >> right, but i think for sure, the government is not going to let things go spiraling out of control, so i think the rationale in washington for sure is at some point yes, the government needs to stop subsidizing the housing market but it will be a gradual pullback, probably likely we'll

see some extension of that credit, and mortgage rates are probably going to stay low for a long time. all of the economists say -- >> that's good news. >> the housing market has to get better before the overall economy gets better. >> one of the things you say and it's interesting before you go out and buy, make sure the job is stable. >> right, so companies for the most part have stopped these big mass layoffs we've heard about but unemployment is still getting worse, so your job might be stable, you might feel like it is but if something happens the chance you'll be able to get another job quickly are not great. >> right. >> you've really got to do all this homework and really make sure you're in a place to buy a house if that's what you're going to do. as you pointed out it really is a buyer's market and it's going to stay that way for some time. >> i want to talk to you about foreclosures. a lot of people think that's a great way to get in the market if you're having a hard time affording a house. would do you it now? >> it's not as simple as it sounds. it's not like buying a pair of jeans off of the clearance rack getting 50% off.

it sounds like a great detail, but foreclosed properties there can be lots of problems. there can be liens on the properties, other legal issues and foreclosed homes tend to be in neighborhoods with other foreclosed homes, so you're going to have to -- you want to go to that neighborhood, look around decide if it looks like are there shabby, unkept homes, if you can get into some of the local real estate records, find out what other foreclosures have happened and get a feel for the neighborhood, is it a stable neighborhood, homes well taken care of or feel like it's marginal? foreclosures are still going up so the house next to yours could end up in foreclosure, too. more than ever, get into the community you're interested in, do your homework, ask around, knock on doors. >> right. >> canvas realtors and do your own intelligence gathering really. >> do your homework. great advice, rick thanks for that. >> as always, thank you. as we mentioned mortgage rates are at record lows. take a look at these rates, 30-year fixed, 5.07%, a 15-year fixed 4.51. so you want a piece of this action? you'll find a re-fi makes sense

if the rate you can lock in is half a percent the 3/4 of a percent lower than your current mortgage. shop around to get the best rate. some lenders are more willing to be flexible than others and refinancing is not free. you can expect to pay 3% to 6% of the mortgage amount in fees. and don't refi if you're planning to move in a couple of years unless you're worried your adjustable rate mortgage will reset to unaffordable levels. up next the battle of the sexes, men, women, and the different ways they can and should handle their money.

time now to pitd the women against the men or in our case, our woman co-author of "get financially naked" now to talk about money with your honey, up against ryan mac, the president of optimum capital management and a frequent participant in our show. good to see you both. there's going to be some fireworks here. so i invite you to talk to each other but a lot of people are finding out their employers are cutting their 401(k) match, they're not happy, saying times are hard, i'm going to stop investing. is that the right thing? >> to me it's like when a woman is 30 pounds overweight and she's sitting there agonizing over romain main over red leaf lettuce, just eat lettuce. a lot of women aren't saving for retirement. we tend to spend 12 years out of paid workforce as compared to men, that difference is massive,

over a life cycle, because we spend it in the early years and it means you'll get half as much in your nest egg so you need to keep contributing. >> you can't disagree with that can you? >> i agree with it and the bottom line is, sometimes men get a little bit overconfident and they tend to trade a little bit more frequently than women do, a study by the university of california that studied 35,000 couples and found that men turn over their portfolios 77% 3% annually for women. 401(k) strategy the best way to use the buy and hold dollar cost investment strategy. the people who bailed out in 2001 or 2007 and '08 when the market returned they know about locking in your losses and selling on the loan. >> good luck. i want to ask you about investing money, a lot of people invest beyond their retirement, typically a great idea because most of us even if we do the 401(k) we still will need more money in retirement. where do you put that dough? >> with someone you trust.

i highlight this because in the news we have patricia cornwall, famous detective novelist, who now is looking for $40 million of her hard earned dollars because she assumed the money would be taken care of. i see this mistake by women a lot. i really feel you want to take control of your finances. a simple formula you can use, 110 minus your age as a woman, maximum amount you put in stox, remainder in bonds and cash. >> manisha you're saying get an adviser. do you have to get an adviser, ryan? >> the days of going to an adviser without adequate knowledge are over. if i steal a car and i'll get arrested, i don't have to be to a lawyer or be a jd to have that knowledge. the blem men is that sometimes we might have a little bit too much pride to say we need assistance for something. >> i'm making the list, pride, you don't stay in your investments long enough. >> ants in the pants.

>> most of the couples that i work with are those individuals the woman is always the one who comes for the assistance, they're always the one who takes the initiative and says look we need assistance, the mankind of sits back and i don't need help, i can do it all by myself but sometimes it's okay to be humble and say i could need assistance. but make sure you help yourself first. >> the metaphor for life, ask for directions every time. >> exactly. >> let's get on to emergency funds, i don't know the difference between the sexes on this one but you have money that you may need at any time in this market where interest rates are so low, where do you put it? >> if you look at bankrate.com they show the highest rates and online bank accounts have great yields, i'm actually telling individuals look at your local credit unions, they have low yields. look at maria shooifr had "the women's nation" out right now saying women are starting more

businesses and a lot of the growth in different sectors are coming from women- odom natured markets. >> one thing i highlight is option rate securities don't forget about that. >> the what? what are you talking about? >> a couple years ago there was this fancy shmancy product that a lot of firms offered their clients, you could put your money in cash and get a higher than average interest rate. >> they offered you more and you were a little greedy you would step out and buy that. >> exactly, then you got your fingers chopped because the whole market froze up so what i like to tell women is don't get greedy. if it sounds too good to be true with personal finance usually it is. >> i have to get you to this question about asking for a raise because this is where women fall short. men will ask for the money, women not so much. manisha what is your advice? >> i really feel you need to ask for it. in fact there's a new book out called that title and i suggest women read it. 80% of men identify with this statement, "i set my value in the office place." only 20% of women believe that

and it's really hard, all of these articles with things like 11 powerful women that make men squirm. we need to encourage each other to do it. >> ryan, you probably have good advice for us when it comes to asking for more money. >> most individuals if they like their job they can be on the brink of being fired for laziness and still say i deserve to get a raise but what are you doing to deserve getting a raise? do you log and write down all of the things, do you get to work early, write down the proposals and projects you pro pose and let me get that done to an increased value to the company more so than the person to the next of you. >> thanks for your help today, manisha and ryan, great information, good conversation and it's good to know that we can re-enforce both of the sexes. we all have to worry about money but for latinos the relationship with money can be different from other folks. some latinos, a community leader explains, have never, never trusted banks. >> the community was basically

under attack, people were being robbed because there wasn't a safe place where to keep their money. >> a little later in the show we'll speak with the author of "the latino journey to financial greatness." we like to go green and save green at the same time but can you believe the hype surrounding the eco products? we're separating fact from fiction.

remember that rebate program for appliances that was announced right after cash for clunkers? customers were encouraged to trade in their old energy burning washers, dryers, refrigerators for new ones with energy star efficiency. there's something you may not know about our energy stars and our mary snow found out what you don't know could cost you. >> you see the energy star labels they become so common they're put there by manufacturers on a voluntary basis. but a government report found some holes in claims made by appliance makers and so did "consoumer reports." the energy star label is intended to guarantee consumers a product is energy efficient, but a "consumer" reports labs mark connelley found this freezer that should not have the energy star logo.

>> it used a lot more energy in our labs. >> reporter: can a manufacturer put on an energy star sticker? >> well, they're supposed to have these products tested and they do, but they themselves test it. >> reporter: if you had not run this test people would buy this thinking i'm saving on energy and money. >> correct. >> reporter: but in reality? >> the reality is it's using twice as much energy than it claims. >> reporter: and an appliance like this, claiming an energy bill of $60 a year could actually be double. of hundreds of products he tests every year, he estimates 5% to 10% should not be labeled energy star. >> for the most part the products we test that claim to be energy star are telling the truth but there is enough products out there that give us some concern. >> r energy's inspector general who in an audit found the department had not implemented planned improvements in the energy star program. the report concludes those delays could reduce consumer confidence in the integrity of the energy star label. we asked the department of energy's kathy zoy about the criticisms.

>> inspector general identified a number of improvements to the program and frankly we agree with those improvements and we have put a plan in place to get all of those all of those improvements implemented. >> reporter: but is the department of energy, as it works on those improvements it's the in the process of planning a rebate program for consumers buying energy saw it products, $300 million of stimulus money is being used. can consumers be confident the products are as energy efficient as they claim to be? >> there have been examples that are very rare, where a manufacturer has misused or misappropriated, misapplied the energy star logo and when the department of energy or when the epa has found out about that, they've taken steps, taken action and those manufacturers have had to recompence people who have bought those appliances. >> unbelievable. mary i thought the energy star label meant something. what are these people saying about the label and about these independent audits of energy efficiency? >> policing is the big issue here. and we asked the department of

energy about that. they say they have started third party testing on some of those products. they plan to expand it to others. no set timetable. they are hoping in the meantime some of these punitive actions that they mentioned are going to get manufacturers in line. >> wow, that's just an amazing story, thank you very much for bringing it to us. >> saving energy not only helps your wallet but also the environment. it's hard to know what's really worth it and what's just hype. pat is an associate editor with kiplinger financial finance and she's joining us to talk about it. let's start with the first of these. my mom always told me i had to turn out the light bulb every time i walked out of the room but you say that's not necessarily true now? >> it depends on what kind of light bulbs you have in the room. if they are tradition p incandescent bulbs then your mom

is right you should turn them out every time you leave the room. with compact flouruorescents, the more times life. what the department of energy recommends as a rule of thumb is that if you're going to leave a room for more than 15 minutes you should turn the cfls off. >> that's great advice. i have to ask you about the labels, though. eco-friendly, green, earth smart. does this mean anything? >> those really fall -- those kinds of vague marketing claims really fall into the category of greenwashing. the federal trade commission has begun to crack down on these sort of green labels to ensure that they meet their regulatory smell test if you will. meanwhile, maybe because of the ftc's concern, some manufacturers have begun to

clarify their labeling and put more information and advice for consumers on their web sites. >> that's a great idea. let me ask you about hybrids, though. i know people think i'm going to pay more for the hybrid, but you know what, i'll make it up as i save money on gas. true or false? >> well, it's sort of true. with a hybrid, the degree to which you recoup that up-front premium, which is usually about $3,000 plus depends on how often and how far you drive, how long you expect to keep the car. generally you need to keep it five years or longer to recoup that premium. and also if depends on the price of gas. the higher the price of gas, the more quickly you'll recoup the premium. when gas prices are low as they are right now, then if you buy a hybrid, you're buying it sort of

as an insurance policy against future higher prices. >> pat, great information. thanks so much for your help today. we certainly appreciate it. >> you're welcome. fewer than 50% of latinos in america carry a credit card. our latino finance expert is here to tell us why and what the implications may be.

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howard. >> the new stats on the money market were absolutely atrocious. for the fourth time this year, foreclosures hit an all-time record. but wait it gets worse. if you look in the pipeline for what's coming for people already delinquent on their homes wow. we're going to have a really, really rough time in the housing market in 2010 and it's really democratizing because it's homes of all price levels. there is a good side to this. do you know what that is? there is great, great, great opportunity for you as a buyer and it's only going to get better especially through the winter. so i'm loongking forward to seeing this first one. it looks really nice from the curb. wow. these people beat the daltsylights

out of this place. like right here where this formica is damaged. it makes a bad impression. it looks awful, but this would be so inexpensive to repair. small dining room, small living room but we build so much more than most of us really need. so what do you think is going on here? people were taking containers of grease and just pouring them on the carpets? >> the carpets will probably need to be replaced. >> oh, i think we've got some water damage. sheetrock not well repaired but i think an inspection would be really important. >> absolutely. >> i give this one an "a." how would grade it? >> it's a great place for a first-time home buyer, get moved in, not have to do a lot of work. and the work that needs to be done is user-friendly. >> right. this is not a real handyman special. >> this one is a goodbye buy.

this is a nice house. i can tell right from the curb and in this case the bank is doing a good job of taking care of the property. i bet the family that was here spent all their time right in this area right here. i'd be right here with my big-screen tv sitting right there watching the nfl. you know when i lived in the north, i had a bedroom that was the size of this closet here. this house is in great shape. if you look at other distressed sales in the neighborhood it's priced about right. but compared to non-distressed sales, this one is a deal. good things can happen to bad neighborhoods. this neighborhood behind me very

well maintained. this foreclosure, on the other hand, well it's not looking so hot. you look right here, it looks like termite damage here. over here this bay window look at this. this is either ter mitsmitetermites, water damage or a combination of the two. well actually, it's not as bad inside so far as it was outside. that play set's not looking so good back there. wow. i don't think you have a better representation of the heartbreak that mortgage meltdown has than seeing that. ewww, that bath room is not looking so good. let's go up stairs, see what we

got. uh-oh, uh-oh, we got some serious water damage here. let me see. yeah there's been real water damage here and the tiles are just trying to cover it up, and then more water damage up above my head. this would be one that you would want to watch and wait for and you have to be willing to use a lot of elbow grease to get this house in shape. this was somebody's self-help job doing this. if this was smellavision what you would be experiencing right now is the absolute mold smell. in fact, my nose is itching from the mold of the dampness down here. hide the children. no! no! no! what were they doing?

what in the world is this? oh look at the mold. see, i was telling the truth. this is something that would tell me this house is more trouble than i could handle. so as you've seen on my video tour, there is both tricks and treats. you really got to think through, when is something a real deal versus fair market value in a neighborhood and the cost it will take you to do the repairs that that house requires? and are you up to those repairs? i can tell you, i'm not. >> next on clark howard -- >> i like to learn a lot of things from the money coach, but the bottom line is responsibility. i want to learn how to be smart for my money how to make it work for me. >> the best cd rate i can find is 2.2. i'm considering buying $300,000

worth of gold. >> wow. that's a huge amount of gold to own.

bob is with us. bob, how you doing? >> caller: i'm doing fine clark. how about yourself? >> fine thank you. i understand you want to buy some gold. >> i'm thinking about it. to give you a brief outline, i'm 78 years old. i own five pieces of real estate, three of them are rental houses and i have eight cds at $100,000 each. i'm considering the best cd rate

i can find is 2.2. identical considering buying $300,000 worth of gold. >> wow! that's a huge amount of gold to own. generally when people want to own gold or precious metals owning somewhere 5 to 10% of your assets in gold is fine. but, i mean, like at a max based on what you just told me owning somewhere like 80,000 in gold would be appropriate. but owning $300,000 in gold would be too much of your assets tied up in something that's very volatile and has significant risk over time. >> all right. >> but if you're going to buy gold, i would like you to buy something that's kind of like a mutual fund of gold known as an etf, exchange-traded fund is

the kind of gold you should buy. research this term: gold etf fund. a gold etf allows you to own the underlying gold without you having to handle it store it or without you paying big fees to buy and sell it. but i would be careful taking too much of that low-earning cd money and throwing it into gold because that would ultimately prove to be very risky. michael is with us. hello, michael. >> caller: hi, clark. how are you? >> fine thank you. i understand that you were ill recently. are you okay now? >> much better. thanks for asking. last month i had to go to an emergency room locally for flu symptoms. and saw the doctor for a few moments, paid the bill, left everything was fine.

then i get -- about a month later, i receive another bill for doctor services. is this normal? because i asked when i left the hospital what my total was, and they gave me a total amount i paid it, and now i've received another bill. i didn't have any labwork or anything like that, it was basically just a doctor visit. >> so you will have -- in your case they didn't do any culture or anything to try to confirm that you have this that or the other? >> no they just asked me for symptoms, she wrote a prescription and i left. >> so if you got a bill from the hospital and a bill from the doctor your surprises should be over. do you have insurance? >> i didn't at the time because i just started a new job. >> all right. so when the hospital bills you, initially they bill you at full retail and then the attending physician bills you at full retail as well. did you know those charges are

negotiable? >> no, i didn't. >> give me a for instance. like, what is this doctor's bill that you were charged? >> $245, and initially i paid $200 at the hospital. >> the $245 is a full retail list price. and nobody pays full retail list. what you should do is you should contact the doctor and see -- you have insurance now. say, what would my doctor charge have been under your plan? and whatever that is, that would be a reasonable amount for you to pay. by now i hope everybody in america who has a toyota or lexus made between 2004 and 2010 has checked to see if your vehicle is one of the ones affected by one of the oddest

recalls of all time. 4 million vehicles, approximately, were recalled because the driver floor mat could cause you to be in an accident and possibly even cause a fatal wreck? it's weird, isn't it? and the remedy, so simple. you pull out the floor mat on the driver's side and you let your carpet get dirty in the car. but most recalls aren't so simple as that. the shocker, though, is that most of the time, even when there is a recall involving serious safety stuff, people don't respond, don't take their cars or trucks to the dealer. i want you to take care of it, especially if it's steering braking, something like that. there is a web site you can learn what's going on with your car, autosafety.org. check it out. >> next on clark howard -- >> is it a credit card that you already had or is it a brand-new one out of the blue that you heard from that somebody was pretending to be you?

>> it's about ten of them so far. >> no! really? >> really. >> catch that and a lot more this sunday at 4:00 p.m. on "clark howard."

do you have a question for me? it's so easy to ask. just go to my web site cnn.com/clarkhoward and click to do a video submission of your question. and who knows, you could be like ashley asking your question of me. >> hi, i'm ashley, and i need a money coach. my biggest concern relating to finances would be that i am ill-prepared for the future and the future meaning tomorrow and the next day. and i'm just afraid i'll keep making mistakes and keep continuing on this cycle of destruction as far as finances go. i want to start saving for retirement and saving for other

big expenses. i've got a retirement account now. it only exists because i worked for a big company in my last job, and i automatically contributed, so since then, which was about five years ago i haven't contributed anything. my question is as a single 30-year-old, how do i start preparing for the future for things like family and retirement? >> ashley, ashley, ashley. five years you haven't been saving any money? don't break my heart that way. you got to get cooking with this. now, because you're self-employed, you have available to you a wonderful retirement plan very simple to set up known as a sep. very easy to do. you can do it with many companies that are no-commission companies and that will take care of one half that you need to do. the other thing was more ill-defined. saving for a family. well for that simple savings will do.

every month i want you to automatically deposit money into a savings account to start building up a cushion for whatever near-term needs you might have for dough. now, as for you, it's always a juggling act. trying to figure out what to do with limited resources, where your money should go. your first dollar of savings should go into tax advantage plans. you work at an employer with a 401(k) or something equivalent, that's where you start saving. next thing you do the roth account. and then after that, you save for other things like, well, a kid's college education. danielle danielle, how are you doing? >> caller: i'm good, how are you? >> good. now, danielle, when did you get this duplicate personality? >> caller: i found out about it this week. >> what we're talking about here is somebody has flattered you in a way nobody wants to be

flattered. >> caller: that is correct. >> they have become your clone. >> caller: they have. >> is it a credit card you already had, or is it a brand-new one out of the blue that you heard from that somebody was pretending to be you? >> caller: it's about ten of them so far. >> no! really? >> caller: they've got my social security number and birth and all that and they've opened up credit cards under my person. >> so this individual has been a human wrecking crew in that they have already -- think about all the effects here. they've opened ten credit cards as if they're you, they have trashed your credit score because suddenly you have all these new lines of credit that have been opened everywhere that you had nothing to do with. what solves the problem, and you're even allowed to do this up front in all auto50 states to prevent what happened to you is

to freeze your credit files. the second you freeze your credit, which you can go on line and you can freeze all three of your credit files, bam. >> caller: uh-huh. >> from that second forward, nobody will be able to apply for credit as if they're you. you stop them cold 100% in their tracks. you have as an identity theft victim, you have access to copies of your credit reports for free where normally people would be allowed only a single free copy of each report a year. so you have extra rights because you've already been wronged. and in most states, when you actually need legitimate access to credit, you'll be able to temporarily thaw your credit for free as well. >> caller: okay. >> so it gives you the peace of mind that you are not going to have right now until you do freeze your credit. >> next on clark howard -- >> have you ever been to australia before? >> caller: i have not, no. >> it's a fun fun fun trip.

are you going to drive? i don't mean to there, i mean once you get there. are you going to drive?

today on the "clark howard" show, you're going to learn how to stay out of the way of identity theft. but that's only one way to learn how to fatten your wallet. stay with me the next half hour, and i'm going to show you how to be your own boss. as long as i can remember, i've been fascinated by money making it, saving it, studying it. by the time i was 31 i made enough to retire. so i'm embarking on a new mission, helping you take care of your money so you can save more, spend less and avoid

getting ripped off. >> now from his radio studio, your money expert clark howard. >> i'm not from the fbi, but i'm here to help you. there is a new warning from the fbi about a hot hot scam working where you get an e-mail that pretends to be either from the fbi or the department of homeland security with a claim that there is information there that you might be interested in. what kind of information? well there are several versions. one of them says that it's a confidential fbi report on new patterns in al qaeda financing. another one says weapons of mass destruction directory. just to give you an example of what kind of things are floating out there, and what happens if you open one of these e-mails? will you end uploading viruses on your computer? and what are the criminals going to do with that? they're going to try to take over your bank accounts. they'll have access to all your

pass words passwords and all the rest. these are known as trojan and key maker programs and the key thing to you to note is the fbi are not sending you these you have to be smart about any e-mail you receive and ever opening any attachment. now, how can i help you stay out of harm's way? what's your question for me? erin is with us. erin, hi, how are you? >> caller: hey. i'm hoping you can help me keep my sanity clark, and then i'll be okay. >> tell me how i can be of service. >> caller: my husband and i are the unfortunate people that are upside down on their home now and through listening to your show and advice through friends, we learned earlier in the year through possibly refinancing through our mortgage company or doing a loan modifications through our mortgage company. so in april we started a process with our then-insurance company, we got approved and two days

later, a new mortgage company called and said, we bought your loan. we thought okay it's coincidence. so we started the process over, faxed in thousands of pieces of paperwork. we got approved and literally the next day, the mortgage company called and said we can't continue the loan modification even though you've been approved because we're selling your loan as of november 1st. >> is your loan owned by fannie mae or freddie mac? >> no. >> so your loan as a modification is done or a refi is done it's up to the individual bank not fannie or freddie, to say whether they'll do it or not and amazingly twice -- this is an amazing story you're telling me -- twice you've been approved and each time the rug gets pulled out from under you. >> caller: yes, sir.

>> here's what you do. i want to you go to the web site nfcc.org. you're going to put in your zip code and then it will take you to the closest national foundation for credit counseling office where you will be able to make an appointment with a housing counselor. and with their help, hopefully you'll be able to get this thing moving for you and your family so that you can keep your home. steve, you are headed to retirement. congratulations to you! >> caller: well i had things go right, clark. i appreciate that. i'm just laying it out right now. i guess my question is i've been -- let me back up. i don't know if it's once a year or twice a year, you know, the social security sends you a statement saying you have so many credits and shows your income over the years and shows

if you retire at 62, it's possibly this or at 65 full retirement. i want to know if you have any idea how accurate those numbers are. >> very. >> caller: okay. >> those are very accurate, because especially as you get very close to retirement, they are almost right on the money. >> caller: that's good. i'm pleasantly surprised. >> so that's not something to worry about. by the way, your social security check is going to be fine if you're getting close to that stage. >> caller: in february i turn 62. >> you're going to be fine. >> i'm trying to figure out, of that check, if i keep working versus if a take something part-time. my wife works part-time, i could get by on part-time -- >> do it. do it. i talk and sometimes i talk in absolutes and sometimes i hem and haw. i will tell you that you will

smile so long through your retirement years if you defer taking that social security check at 62 keep working part-time, build up more credit, and then ultimately take your social security benefit. you're perfectly capable of working now. it will generate a much larger check from social security the longer you wait to take it, and you will have earned money when you're capable rather than what happens to so many people that get older and they won't be able to work but they need the money. >> next on clark howard -- >> caller: when i logged in the web site asked for my bank name first, my routing number, and then my user i.d. and password to my bank account. and that's where i immediately stopped. >> if she knows about the money and she turns out not to be responsible -- >> caller: i hope not.

>> -- you can't keep her from taking the money and blowing it. so kind of keep it quiet this money is there.

do you have a question for me? it's so easy to ask a question. just go to cnn.com/clarkhoward and post your on-line video question for me. if you do so you could be right here with me on "money coach" where you get to ask your question about your wallet. we're going to meet somebody right now who has a question for

me about whether or not something i've talked about is really safe to do. it's time to meet tasha. >> hi, i'm tasha and i need a money coach. i want to do it on a budget because i want to know where mon money is going. there's nothing extra, and when we do need extra it's on a credit card. that's what i want to get away from. i heard about mint.com in the paper. mint.com is a site you can go to to make a personal budget. you use your i.d. and when i logged in it asked for my name my bank my routing number and then it asked for my user i.d. and password to my bank account. that's where i immediately stopped and said i can't do this. is mint.com a safe web site to

use when creating a personal budget? >> tasha you're on to something. i use mint.com but there is a risk because you are coughing up your passwords. if you read their security briefing, they'll tell you all the things they do to try to make your information safe. but nowhere there does it say if they have a breach that they're going to cough up your dough if there is a problem. but they do in fact, give you alerts that let you know later, hey, there is a big transaction going on in your account. is this okay? so that you are able over time to monitor what's going on. and speaking of monitoring for you, if you were trying to track your dough i want you to know i love mint.com. i love their competitor wesabi.com because with these sites, you can track all your income all your outgoing, all your assets so you're able to see where you can trim expenses,

where you need to beef up your savings and your retirement dough. >> collette is with us. i want to welcome you. how are you doing? >> caller: fine. thank you, clark. thanks so much for taking my call. >> you're welcome. how can i be of service? >> caller: i was calling to get your advice. my nine-year-old daughter had an accident in 2006. >> is she okay? >> caller: yes, she is. thank you. we just had a court settlement and just wanted to ask the best way to save this money for her. >> did the court specify a purpose for the money for your daughter? >> caller: no. it's just that it has to be for her. >> and how old is she now? >> caller: she's nine. >> nine. what would you like the purpose of this money to be? >> caller: to save it for her in

an account toe use it for school or maybe an account for a wedding, something for her. >> so pretty far down the road. >> caller: yes. >> and the total before taxes? >> 200, $200, 7$200,719. >> what i prefer instead is because your daughter is only nine and the goal is longer term in nature that you look into putting the money into a mutual fund for your daughter. in her case there is one in particular that i would like you to look at that is what's known as a tax-managed portfolio. what that will do is put this money into a mix of stocks and bonds, and there will be no tax

that she will owe in the years up till the point that she's an adult and only at the time that she would sell would she owe tax, but the way it's set up, the tax that she would owe is tiny tiny tiny if any, at the time she would need access to the money. >> caller: okay. >> next on clark howard -- >> caller: we're looking at these self-directed iras that supposedly you can put real estate in them. >> that is something that just freaks me out. that is such a smart way to handle car buying because it means that you will never owe more on the car than what it's worth. and it means you will own it free and clear without any monthly payment for years and years and years.

ed is with us. ed how are you? daurl >> caller: very good. and you? >> very good thank you.

>> caller: my wife and i have accumulated a little bit of money in regular iras not roths. we've had them in cds, and as you know they're not paying much right now. >> the money in the iras, are they money you'll need in the next few years or never? >> caller: we want to live off the iras. >> how soon? >> we've started eating into it because of the interest rates. we're looking at these self-directed iras that you can supposedly put real estate in them. >> that is something that just freaks me out. >> caller: they are scary. >> what are you thinking of doing in terms of real estate? are you thinking of owning real estate inside that ira? >> caller: yeah, buy a condo in a resort area that you can rent

out. >> owning real estate inside an ira really costs you in so many ways because real estate is best owned in a taxable way because there are so many tax advantages to owning it. you know in an ira, and if you have somebody handle the self-directed aspect of you actually owning actively-managed real estate in one, you pay a lot of fees for that. i mean there is a way for you to diversify into real estate without having to actually own and manage and that is in your self-directed ira, you can own a real estate mutual fund. if you look at the tax advantages to owning that as a taxable asset you won't consider any further at all owning that inside an ira. and ron da is with us. how are you? >> caller: very good clark. how are you? >> wonderful.

>> caller: thank you for taking my call. i love your show. >> thank you very much. >> caller: i do have a question. my husband and i are looking into buying a new car, and the manufacturer has incentives going on right now. either you get cash back or you get 0% for 36 months. i'm trying to hear from you what is the better way to go. >> well there is no one right answer on that because if you were to get the 0% financing versus what you might be able to get at a credit union -- are you a credit union member? >> caller: i'm not. but i got pre approved for a loan under 4%. >> you're already in the right territory. if you compare, and you have to run the numbers on this you do an amortization schedule where you figure out which is actually going to be the cheaper for you. some of the easiest calculators,

you'll find some available for cars on edmonds.com, and then you'll be able to see exactly which of the two alternatives would be cheaper. normally on a short loan cycle like that with you getting such that you getting such a cheap, cheap rate under 4% you'll usually do better taking the $2,000 off and taking out the low cost loan. and did you know you are a genius? >> caller: i am? >> yes. for taking out a three-year loan. >> caller: oh, thank you. >> if you went back 30 years ago the only loans people took out is three year loans. that is such a smart way to handle car buying because it means you will never owe more on the car than what it's worth. you will own it free and clear

without any monthly payment for years and years and years. good for you. i've had so many calls from people who are just absolutely fit to be tied by the notices they are getting from their credit card companies. the credit card companies are racing new legislation that takes full effect in february of next year that restricting when a credit card company can raise interest rates on you and when they can change terms and conditions on you as well. now, they have to give you longer notices. that is already happening. what kind of things are credit card companies doing in advance? number one, they're switching how your interest rate is calculated on your credit card, moving from fixed rate offerings to variable rates. why is that significant? here is the deal. the rate that the variables work off of is the prime rate. prime rate is extra low right now. when the prime rate rises your interest rate will rise on your credit card as well.

how do you fight back against the changing interest rate? pay off your balances. then they can't charge you. >> next on clark howard -- >> even if it means you have to delay finishing school until you saved money pay with cash do not under any conditions take out private student loans because they are the most miserable experience.

a health emergency becomes a national emergency. as president obama steps the response to the h1n1 outbreak. meantime health officials give their assessment of how to get enough to the public. one of the pilots who missed his destination by 150 miles is speaking out. what does the number 350 mean to you? if demonstrators have their way it would mean changes to offset global warming. how much will you end up paying? hey there. i'm virginia cha. the swine flu outbreak is a national emergency. president obama signed the declaration at the white house last night. that means medical official cans by pass certain federal requirements to fight the

pandemic. the cdc said 46 states are facing widespread flu outbreaks. more than 1,000 people have died in the u.s. 16 million doses of the h1n1 vaccine are ready to ship. the cdc says that is not enough. >> we share the frustration of people who haven't been able to find a place to get vaccinated. the technology we are using is not well suited for pandemics. >> the government has spent $2 billion to try to develop a new method of vaccine production. what about on northwest airlines 188 where it overshot the airport where it was supposed to land? the answer is murkier after the co-pilot has spoken out. the jet left san diego but flew past its minneapolis destination by 150 miles.

air traffic controllers lost contact with the pilots for over an hour. investigators are looking at whether the pilots were distracted or maybe fell asleep. here is what the flight's co-pilot told our affiliate. >> nobody was asleep in the cockpit. no arguments took place but other than that i cannot tell you anything that went on. we are having hearings this weekend. hears on tuesday. all that information will come out then. >> reporter: no arguments took place that is the story that is out there. >> there were no arguments in the cockpit. that wasn't an issue. >> the co pilot said he doesn't know the pilot very well. he calls the entire episode a nightmare but passengers were never in any danger. passengers say there was no indication of any trouble. >> we were just completely under

the impression that it was just air traffic and minneapolis airport was not giving us clearance to land and basically we were going to fly around until they allowed us to do so. if any of us had known that was going on the entire flight would have been in a complete state of panic. i think it is better we didn't know. i'm glad they were trying to look out for us. i don't think the pilots were. >> the military scrambled to launch four fully armed f-16 fighters but before they got off the ground contact was made with the plane. 144 passengers and a crew of five were on the plane. the international environmental group 350.org has made it their slogan. the group supports climate legislation that would reduce carbon emissions to 350 parts per million. today they organized rallies

across the world. in sydney, australia, thousands gathered at the sydney opera house to spell out the number 350. cyclist chants environmentalist slogans in beijing. a dance performance on a glacier in tibet. but not all of the events took place on solid ground. 350 demonstrators fot together at australia's great barrier reef. the cost could be negligible. a bill in congress would add about $100 a year to the average home energy bill. some studies the energy industry warn the increase could be $3,000. senate hearings on this bill begin next week. so is there a solid case to

be made that the earth is getting warmer? most americans think so but the numbers are falling. r57% of americans think there is solid evidence of global warming. that number is down 20 points from three years ago. just two days after police and military scramble to look for a boy in a balloon the mother told authorities it was a hoax. mayumi said she and her husband richard knew falcon was hiding the entire time. h hennes told their children to lie to authorities and the media about this. >> i really do hope that cooler heads prevail. this does seem like the misdemeanor of making a false police report. i certainly think it is a bad thing to tell your children to lie to the authorities to tell your children to lie to meredith veiera and wolf blitzer.

>> is that a crime? >> it is a big deal to take children away from their parents. based on what i've seen this does not rise to that level. >> the hennes supposedly took about two weeks to put the plan together. they could be charged sometime next week. a grieving florida community is not forgetting the little girl whose body was found in a georgia land fill. neighbors held another vigil last night. they sang her favorite son "you are my sunshine." she had been missing since monday. police have not made any arrests yet but they ruled out all 161 sex offenders who live within five miles of the little girl's suburban jacksonville home. investors are not revealing how she died. a strong mid ocean earthquake hit near indonesia, centered 86 miles below the ocean floor. there was a preliminary

magnitude of 7.0. the nearest land is about 140 miles, an island to the south. no tsunami warning was issued. indonesia has been rocked by a series of strong quakes including a powerful quake that killed more than 1,000 people on the island of sumatra. >> a nuclear facility in iran goes under the microscope starting today. this is coming after iranian officials said they needed more time to decide if they will agree to a new deal offered by the united nations. the deal would have iran send the low enriched uranium to other countries for more enrichment and could go back to iran for medical uses. we are getting word of a suspected u.s. drone attack in pack tan. two missiles hit a village near

the border with afghanistan. killed 20 people. a militant hideout was hit. the u.s. doesn't comment on strikes like this but it is the only country with a presence that is known to fire missiles from remote-controlled drones. the attacks have caused friction with pakistan's government. a driver in a rush hour accident is lucky to be alive. passing motorists stopped just in time to help him but one caught his truck exploding on camera.

talk about getting there just in the nick of time. several drivers who saw a truck hit a guardrail raced to pull the driver out just before the

truck exploded. someone recorded that fire with a cell phone camera. the accident happened outside of st. louis during rush hour yesterday. the driver got out without any major injuries. a raging fire in puerto rico that has been burning for more than 24 hours shows no signs of slowing down. a powerful explosion shook a fuel storage complex with a force of a 2.8 earthquake. rain is expected but that could mix with the smoke and cause acid rain. one person was hospitalized. at least 350 people evacuated. the governor says puerto rico has enough gas to last 24 days. officials don't know what caused the explosion but the fbi is investigating graffiti it found that referred to a fire. we want to share some amazing pictures sent to us by a cnn i reporter. paul farmer. an apartment complex on fire in edmond, oklahoma. the fire happened earlier this

month the brand new building was under construction. paul happens to be a freelance photographer. he heard about the blaze and went to see it. he said it was so big folks across the city could see it for miles. workers left the construction site at 5:00 p.m. and no one noticed the fire. he said crews worked through the morning to put that fire out. investigators trying to find out what started the blaze. if you see news happening around you, we invite you to share it with cnn at ireport.com. you can upload picture and videos and tell us what is happening. please, never put yourself in harm's way. all registered sex offenders in the city of huntsville alabama, have plans for halloween because the city is hosting a mandatory meeting for them on halloween evening between 5:30 and 9:00 p.m. slated to take place when most of the kids will be trick or

treating. they will review state and federal sex offender laws and encourage accountability and behavior changes in sex offenders. you are probably about to ask what was he think something an assistant high school football coach is charged with pulling a knife on one of his players at practice and threatening him christopher michael campbell told players don't try me today. it happened in lakeland florida. campbell has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and exhibiting a weapon within 1,000 feet of a school property. people are talking about a man who held up a loan office and dropped to his knees and prayed with his victim. >> i was in that situation for a reason. i'm trying to figure out what that reason is. >> the so-called praying robber is talking about what drove him to commit the crime.

police in chatham, new jersey, say people need to be extra individual atlanta and police try to track down the killer of a priest. his killing was the first violent death in 20 years. he was seen after a safety seminar thursday night at the church. authorities are saying very little about this crime. >> mainly focus to the front part of his body. there was a fight in a localized area. there is blood spatter in various locations. the wall and floor inside the location. >> there have been no arrests but police are questioning witnesses. there are some things you should never try to do. police in new york say this is one of them. check out a surveillance video. two men try to rob a convenience

store clerk only to have him grab the gun away. >> i get the gun and they are shocked. i say i shoot you now you don't shoot me, i shoot you now. >> the clerk says he had been robbed twice before and wasn't going to be a victim again. the indianapolis man known as the praying robber is explaining how he ended up praying with the store's clerk he is accused trying to rob. it is caught on surveillance video. >> i was in that situation for a reason. i'm just trying to figure out what that reason is. >> reporter: while he sits behind bars gregory smith has nothing but time trying to figure out why a woman he never met brought him to his knees in prayer. smith walked into this loan office monday to rob it. >> i felt like the weight of the

world was on my shoulders. >> reporter: smith says he was desperate to keep his family from being evicted from his home. >> this is something i would have never resorted to under any other circumstances. >> reporter: smith says he has been unployed for more than a year unable to find a job. >> i was dumb enough to react and tried to do it. >> reporter: police say it wasn't his first try. >> 911, what is your emergency? >> i just got robbed. >> he was acting like he was trying to get a loan and he pulled a gun. >> reporter: he admitted to robbing the loan office. it was his 23rd birthday. >> if you talk to people who know me this is not me. >> reporter: according to court documents he was on probation for auto theft and receiving stolen property. >> just asking for forgiveness

at this point. >> reporter: do you think you deserve forgiveness? >> at this point, i don't know. >> reporter: smith says he is ready to face the consequences of his actions. are you a changed man? >> i have to figure out what to do to get back on track. >> reporter: he says this moment on his knees with angie montez was the first step. >> now to some of the stories we'll be covering for you in the week ahead. it will be jon and kate plus a divorce judge. the reality show stars are scheduled to appear at a hearing in pennsylvania. if you text or eat or chat on the phone behind the wheel you might be interested in what is being said when congress holds a hearing on distracted driving. and on thursday drew peterson is in court. he is accused of killing his third wife. his fourth wife is missing. more than 100 american bank have failed this year.

regulators announced seven new bank closures. there is 107 bank. yesterday's bank shutdowns are expected to cost the fdic $356 million. this year's bank closures are the highest since 1992. it is taking a lot longer for auto recyclers to dispose of those trade ins for the popular cash for clunkers program. the cars are supposed to be crushed or shredded within six months. recyclers say when the program was expanded to sell more cars congress didn't extend the deadline to get rid of the gas guzzlers. they say it takes time to drain the fluid and remove spare parts. they are asking for another six months to get the job done. first lady michelle obama was on "the jay leno" show.

she appeared via satellite from the white house. leno peppered her about questions about her husband. there were questions about the chicago white sox. >> question number six. your husband just won the nobel peace prize. would he rather have world peace or have the white sox win the world series? >> that's a tough one. i think if you would ask him he head'd probably prefer world peace but wouldn't mind a world series bid, too. >> the first lady refused to diverse her daughters' halloween costumes. would you be willing to put your heart, your all in a project that might last no longer than a day. chalk painters do it street

art, what an i reporter told us about that passion.

outbreak. meantime health officials give their latest assessment on giving enough vaccines to the public. one of the pilots that overshot its destination by 150 miles is speaking out.

what he is saying didn't happen. what does the number 350 mean to you? if demonstrators around the world have their way it will mean changes to offset global warming. how much you could end up paying. hey, there thanks for joining us. you are watching hln news and views. i'm virginia cha. president obama signed a national emergency declaration last night. medical officials can by pass certain medical requirements to fight the pandemic. the cdc says 46 states are facing wide spret flu outbreaks. more than 1,000 people have died. 11 million doses of the vaccine are available to the public. the cdc admits that is not enough. >> we share the frustration of people who have waited online, checked the website and haven't been able to find a place to get vaccinated. the tech we are using although

it is tried and true is not well situationed for pandemics. so what really happened on northwest airlines flight 188 when it overshot the airport where it was supposed to land? the answer is murkier after the flight's co-pilot has spoken out. the jet left san diego but overshot its destination by 150 miles. air traffic controllers lost contact by about an hour. when they responded the flight was over wisconsin. here is what the flight's co-pilot told our affiliate. >> nobody was asleep in the cockpit. no arguments took place but other than that i cannot tell you anything that went on because we're having hear thgs weekend. we're having hearings on tu. all that information will come out then.

>> reporter: no arguments took place? i mean, that is the statement that is out there all over the place. >> there were no arguments at all in the cockpit. that wasn't even an issue. >> richard cole says he doesn't know the other pilot that well. he calls the entire episode a nightmare but passengers were never in any danger. passengers on flight 188 say there was no indication of any trouble. >> we were just completely under the impression it was just air traffic and that minneapolis airport was not giving us clearance to land and that basically we were going to fly around until they allowed us to do so. and that's what we all believed. if any of us had known that was going on i'm sure the entire flight would have been in a complete state of panic. i think it is better we didn't know. i'm glad they were trying to look out for us because i don't think the pilots were. >> at one point the milt tear

scrambled to launch four f-16 fighters but before they got off the ground contact was made with the plane. 350 is a number you'll probably be seeing a lot more of in the future. 350.org has mad it their slogan. the group supports climate legislation that would reduce carbon emissions to 350 parts per million. today they organized rallies across the world. in sydney australia, thousands gathered to form a human chain to spell out 350. in taipei taiwan, demonstrators made the number 350. last week the country backed down from proposals for a new carbon tax. there was mass bike ride in the streets of beijing, there was a dance performance on a glacier in tibet. not all the performances took place on solid ground. 350 demonstrators got together

at australia's great barrier reef. turns out the cost to reduce greenhouse gases could be negligible. a new study by the epa estimates an added cost of $100 a year. the energy industry warns it could be as much as $3,000. senate hearings begin next week. so is there a solid case to be made the earth is getting warmer? most americans think so but the numbers are falling. a new study from the pugh research center says 57% of americans think there is solid evidence of floebl warmglobal warming. two days after police scrambled to find a boy trapped in a balloon, the boy's mother told authorities it was a hoax. she said she and her husband

richard knew their 6-year-old falcon was hiding the entire time. the hennes told their children to lie to authorities and the media about this. >> i really do hope that cooler heads prevail. this really does seem like the misdemeanor of making a false police report. i certainly think it is bad thing to tell your children to lie to the authorities, to tell your children to lie to meredith vieira and wolf blitzer. >> is that a crime? >> i also think it is a very big deal in this culture country, to take children away from their parents. based on what i've seen this does not rise to that level. >> the hennes supposedly took two weeks to put the plan together. they could be charged sometime next week. a grieving florida community is not forgetting the little girl whose body was found in a georgia landfill. neighbors found another vigil for somer thompson last night. her mother and neighbors sang

her favorite song "you are my sunshine." they found her body on wednesday. she was missing since monday. police ruled out all 161 sex offenders who live within five miles of the suburban jacksonville home. investigators are not revealing how she died. a strong mid ocean earthquake hit near indonesia today, centered 86 miles below the ocean floor in the banda sea. it had a preliminary magnitude of 7.0. the nearest land is 140 miles. it is an island to the south. no tsunami warning was issued. indonesia has been rocked by a series of strong quakes including a powerful quake that killed more than 1,000 people on the island of sumatra. a newly discovered nuclear facility in iran goes under the mib scope today. international inspectors are making sure the site is being

used for peaceful purposes after iranian officials said they need more time to agree to a new deal by the united nations, to have iran send all the low enriched uranium produced in iran to other countries and could go back to iran for medical uses. >> we are getting word about a suspected u.s. drone attack in pakistan. two missiles hit a village near the border of afghanistan. killing 25 people. pakistani military and political officials say a militant hideout was hit. the u.s. doesn't comment on strikes like this but it is the only country with a presence in the region that is known to be able to fire missiles from remote control drones. a driver in a rush hour accident is lucky to be alive. passing motorists stopped not only just in time to help him

but one caught his truck exploding on camera.

talk about getting there just in the nick of time. several drivers who saw a truck hid a guardrail on a highway ramp raced to pull the driver out just before the truck exploded. someone recorded that fire with a cell phone camera. the accident happened outside of st. louis during rush hour yesterday. the driver got out without any major injuries. a raging fire in puerto rico that has been burning for more than 24 hours shows no signs of slowing down. a powerful explosion shook a fuel storage complex with a force of a 2.8 earthquake. rain is expected but that could mix with the smoke and cause acid rain. officials are urging people to stay home. one person was hospitalized. at least 350 people evacuated. the governor says puerto rico has enough gas to last 24 days. officials don't know what caused the explosion but the fbi is investigating graffiti it found that referred to a fire. we want to share some amazing pictures sent to us by a

cnn i reporter. these come to us from paul farmer. what you are looking at is an apartment complex on fire in edmond, oklahoma. the fire happened earlier this month. the brand new building was still under construction. no one was living there yet. paul happens to be a freelance photographer. he heard about the blaze and went to see it. he said it was so big folks across the city could see it for miles. workers left the construction site at 5:00 p.m. and no one noticed the fire. about an hour later fire crews arrived and the building was engulfed. he said crews worked through the morning to put that fire out. investigators trying to find out what started the blaze. if you see news happening around you, we invite you to share it with cnn at ireport.com. you can upload picture and videos and tell us what is happening. but as always, please, never put yourself in harm's way. this year's wet weather is making for a late harvest in parts of corn belt.

the agriculture department predicts a record soybean harvest and second largest corn harvest on record. here is the catch. the ground is too wet for the heavy combines used to harvest the grain. it is making the corn and soybeans too wet to store saflly after the harvest. in some areas farmers are weeks behind schedule. all registered sex offenders in the city of huntsville, alabama, have plans for halloween because the city is hosting a mandatory meeting for them on halloween evening between 5:30 and 9:00 p.m., slated to take place when most of the kids will be trick or treating. the "huntsville times" reports that the program will review state and federal sex offender laws and encourage accountability and behavior changes in sex offenders. you are probably about to ask what was he think something an assistant high school football coach is charged with pulling a knife on one of his players at practice and

threatening him christopher michael campbell told players don't try me today. it happened at a high school in lakeland, florida. campbell has been charged with assault with a deadly weapon without intent to kill and exhibiting a weapon within 1,000 feet of a school property. no one was hurt. people are talking about a man who held up a loan office and dropped to his knees and prayed with his victim. >> i was in that situation for a reason. i'm trying to figure out what that reason is. >> the so-called praying robber is talking about what drove him to commit the crime.

police in chatham, new jersey, say people need to be extra vigilant as authorities try to track down the killer of a catholic priest. the reverend ed hines was found dead in his rectory. his killing was the first violent death in 20 years. he was seen after a safety seminar thursday night at the church. other than saying he was the victim of homicide authorities are saying very little about this crime. >> mainly focus to the front part of his body. some wounds on the back. there was a fight in a localized area.

there is blood spatter in various locations. different areas of the wall and floor inside the location. >> there have been no arrests but police are questioning witnesses. there are some things you should never try to do. police in new york say this is one of them. check out the surveillance video from a gas station in new york. two men armed with a shotgun try to rob a convenience story clerk only to have him grab the gun away from him. >> i get the gun and they are shocked. i say i shoot you now, you don't shoot me, i shoot you now. and he's running, both and i'm running, too. >> the clerk says he had been robbed twice before and wasn't going to be a victim again. the indianapolis man known as the praying robber is explaining how he ended up praying with the store's clerk he is accused trying to rob. the whole scene was caught on surveillance video. emily longnecker with wthr has

more on the suspect who turned himself in. >> i was in that situation for a reason. i'm just trying to figure out what that reason is. >> reporter: while he sits behind bars gregory smith has nothing but time trying to figure out why a woman he never met was able to bring him to his knees in prayer. >> she prayed over me. >> reporter: smith walked into this loan office monday to rob it. >> i felt like the weight of the world was on my shoulders. >> reporter: smith says he was desperate to keep his family from being evicted from his home. >> this is something i would have never resorted to under any other circumstances. >> reporter: smith says he has been unemployed for more than a year, unable to find a job. >> i was dumb enough to react and tried to do it. >> reporter: police say it wasn't his first try. >> 911, what is your emergency? >> i just got robbed. >> reporter: you are listening to a 911 call made last thursday from a loan office on 38th street. >> he was acting like he was

trying to get a loan and he pulled a gun. told me to go to the back. >> reporter: police say smith admitted to robbing the loan office. it was his 23rd birthday. >> if you talk to people who know me this is not me. >> reporter: according to court documents he was on probation for auto theft and receiving stolen property in bartholomew county. >> just asking for forgiveness at this point. >> reporter: do you think you deserve forgiveness? >> at this point, i don't know. >> reporter: smith says he is ready to face the consequences for his actions. are you a changed man? >> yeah. i just got to figure out a way to do what i need to do to get myself back on track. >> reporter: he says this moment on his knees with angie montez was the first step. emily longnecker channel 13, eyewitness news. >> now to some of the stories we'll be covering for you in the week ahead. it will be jon and kate plus a divorce judge. monday the reality show stars

are scheduled to appear at a hearing in pennsylvania. if you text or eat or chat on the phone behind the wheel you might be interested in what is being said wednesday when congress holds a hearing on distracted driving. and on thursday drew peterson is in court. he is accused of killing his third wife. his fourth wife is missing. more than 100 american banks have failed this year. regulators announced seven new bank closures just yesterday. that brings the total to 106 banks. looking at the list on the fdic's website. the top 12 entries from this month alone. yesterday's bank shutdowns are expected to cost the federal deposit insurance pund more than $356 million. those are all regional banks that did not receive help from the federal government. this year's bank closures are the highest tally since 1992. it is taking a lot longer for auto recyclers to dispose of those trade-ins from the popular cash for clunkers program. the cars are supposed to be

crushed or shredded within six months of the date the vehicle leaves the dealership. but recyclers say when the program was expanded to sell more cars, congress didn't extend the deadline to get rid of the gas guzzlers. they say it takes time to drain the fluids remove spare parts such as transmission and alternators. they're asking for another six months to get the job done. first lady michelle obama was on the jay leno show last night. she appeared via satellite from the white house. leno peppered her with questions about her husband. specifically what she finds most annoying about him. her answer, that he's always beating her in tennis. there was also a question about his beloved baseball team the chicago white sox. >> question number six, your husband just won the nobel peace prize. would he rather have world peace, or have the white sox win the world series? >> that's a tough one. and i think if you would ask him, he'd say he'd probably prefer world peace.

but he wouldn't mind world series bid, too. but i think he'd choose world peace. >> the first lady also refused to divulge her daughters' halloween costumes saying leno would need a security clearance for that. would you be willing to put your heart, your all, into a project that might last no longer than a day? well, chalk painters do it for the love of art. street art. what one of them told an i-report beurre that passion.

the frantic search for the monster who killed 7-year-old summer thomas. the crime scene tape and investigators all over her route home from school. and in the cross hairs an abandon home now guarded by cops 24/7. are we any closer to finding out who killed summer? and vile threats popping up online for anyone who goes to cops and tells of what they saw in the death of this uconn football player. jazz par howard murdered in a crowd of 300 people. but no one's talking. someone so bold they post threats on this guy's million oriole page website. rest in peace, jazz par howard.

by the way, at the snitches you will be snabed, shot mugged or beaten. that's where we are here. we're trying to find justice for jasper howard. love to hear from you, 1-877-tell-hln. e-mail us cnn.com/primenews. text us at hlntv. it's your chance to be heard. >> controversy, opinion, your point of view. this is "prime news." welcome, this is "prime news" i'm mike galanos. right now a quiet street torn apart in the search for a child killer. investigators in florida are retracing every step 7-year-old sommer thomas took walking home from school on monday. again get that picture. she ends up dead in a garbage heap. the center of this major investigation, a vacant house roped off and under 24-hour guard. guys digging through a dumpster in hazmat suits. neighbors say it is pandemonium. just in to us those 161 registered sex offenders living nearby. knot one is being called the suspect at this point.

somer's mom so brave. we heard her this morning. dina thomas, she is resolute wanting to find who killed her daughter. >> we heard you say that you hope the killer pays. what are your feelings towards this person? >> i hate him. i hate him. >> when you say you hope he pays what do you think would be adequate payment for this? >> oh, that he gets the death penalty. and i hope they put him in a cell with someone who absolutely can't stand a child predator and let them have fun with him. >> the little girl's autopsy is done. police know the cause of death. they're not letting it out, though. we'll ask why are they keeping that under wraps. we'll take your calls, 1-877-tell-hln.

bring in our experts. on the ground, tisha lance, producer from the nancy grace show. also with us hln law enforcement analyst. any new leads on this or is everything still centering around that home? >> everything right now is still centering around that home. i was out there last night until about midnight. they were in those full white jumpsuits, those hazmat suits and they are doing all types of investigation. there was a bulldozer out there late last night. they said there was some heavy debris they needed help moving. there's also a construction dumpster right by this house. they said that dumpster has not been emptied from the time somer went missing up until now. they went thoroughly through that dumpster. also through the house. they were doing sensitive light testing. if you looked inside the house you could see some bright blue lights going off. also bright green lights going off. and they're saying that this is standard procedure for an investigation such as this. they're not saying of any such physical evidence led them back to this house. but multiple witnesses placed

somer in front of this house at the last point of her being seen. >> do we know how many people saw her? because if this is a residential area and this walk home, right? somewhat populated. so somebody probably saw something, right? >> absolutely, mike. you would think so. it's a purely residential area. and for around around this area it's just a neighborhood. just houses. you would think that somebody had seen something. what they're saying there's multiple witnesses, not giving a specific number. but they're saying that that includes adults as well as children. now there's also a park directly across the street. and they also collected some evidence from that park. they were inside a men's room at that park that is connected to the park for about six minutes last night. we don't know what evidence was collected from there. >> okay. let's bring in mike brooks. mike, let's hit on both of those, this first time i've heard of this park. and a men's room. let's start there. what would take authorities there, some sort of physical evidence some trace that somer was there at one point?

>> a good possibility. if they were only in there for six minutes as she was saying they probably were in there to make sure they crossed all the "ts" and dotted all the "is." natasha was saying she was there until midnight last night, saw blew lights, green lights. we call it alternate light sources working a crime scene. you can also use luminol. you spray that around the house, looks for the presence of blood. even little tiny specks of blood spatter. use alternate light sources for looking for fibers. certain kind of fibers will glow under a certain alternate light source. you also look for the presence of semen other bodily fluids to see if possibly they were in that house. mike, you and i talked about it right before we went on. there's something that led them to that house. yes, i understand that that's the last vicinity she was seen. but, did they find something in that landfill around here that led them back to there that may be connected with that house?

or was there something we talked about yesterday? was there something on her clothes that may have led back to there? but there are in the white tyvek suits. they have those on to make sure they don't transfer evidence from their clothing onto a possible crime scene. >> more with mike and natasha coming up. we've got phone calls. facebook comments as we try again to come to grips with the brutal tragic death of 7-year-old somer thompson.

♪ sunshine you make me happy ♪ when skies are gray ♪ ♪ you'll never know dear

how much i love you ♪ ♪ please don't take my sunshine away ♪ >> heartbreaking. that is one of somer's favorite songs, "you are my sunshine." mom, dianane deena thompson singing with the crowd last night. she will well up with tears for the rest of her life and thinks of her little girl, tragically taken so soon. want to read a couple of comments. e-mail from tracy in pennsylvania writing this -- again, we bring it back to that. this is 7-year-old girl walking home from school with her twin brother and an older sister, who they will have scars the rest of their lives through all this. let's take a call. geena is with us in connecticut.

your thoughts here? geena? not there. okay again, we take your calls at 1-877-tell-hln. mike, do you think investigators have spoken to the kids? because we heard from diena thompson yesterday saying the kids have pretty much been taken away from all the media that have been around the home. but the kids were also, you know, two of the last people to see little somer. are you talking to them at this point? >> i think they probably had. that's probably how they were able to get the proximity of where they were and where she was last seen in front of this vacant house that they've been concentrating on. so most likely they have, mike. it's very, very difficult. they may go back later on, after after you know after they've had some time to think about things and ask additional questions as the case develops. but i'd say, you know today, we know the autopsy was done. law ebb forcement is holding their cards extremely, extremely close to the vest in this one.

not telling what the cause of death is. now he what? i don't have a problem with that. do we need to know? absolutely not. is it paramount to the investigation that none of this gets out? it is. absolutely. >> yeah. real quick i want to go back to natisha. what is the number of sex offenders interviewed in that area? and are they all in the clear at this point? or just for now? >> mike they have all been interviewed. i'm not going to say that they're all in the clear because nobody has been cleared in this case. but they have all been interviewed. there were five who were outstanding. they did get those interviews face-to-face as well as searching their homes, as well as speaking to their family members. they were able to locate those five people, so all of them have been spoken to and located. they were saying that it's 90-plus sex offenders in a five-mile radius in this area. >> okay. any -- what are the funeral arrangements, public memorial? is there going to be a public memorial? >> funeral arrangements were made today. it is being donated to the family.

and as far as a public memorial don't think it's going to be a public memorial. however there is going to be a procession with the family. the wake is going to be on monday 5:00 to 8:00 p.m. and the funeral tuesday morning at 11:00 a.m. >> we appreciate it. we'll continue to follow this as we try and find out who killed little somer thompson. coming up this the sweat lodge situation. we're hearing from another woman who survived this horrifying incident. three people have ended up dead. she was between two people that died. we're going to hear her story through her lawyer, and we'll take your calls on this at 1-877-tell-hln.