a student was gang raped for 2 1/2 hours from 9:30 to midnight. i'm certain of that, that there was no surveillance done. >> authorities try to explain a horrific gang rape of a teen girl. we're hearing at least ten people watched and did not call 911. we have new details this hour. and while she said her good-byes, sarah palin also knew she had a million dollar book deal. how that's being explained. plus a new poll that looks at what people think of palin now and whether she'd make a good president. and wives and girl friends listen to this, because your significant other is going to quote it. there are studies bona fide studies, that say playing video games is good for your health.

all new this hour, at dawn, taliban militants tacked a guest house in kabul where u.n. workers were saying. six were killed and one was a u.s. citizen. it's a brutal situation there right now and president obama is trying to decide would more troops make afghanistan safer or just create more targets for the taliban? cnn's chris lawrence was not far from this morning's attack. >> we were sound asleep when we started hearing -- well we started hearing that. now there's black smoke rising about -- man, no more than about two blocks away. >> october has been the deadliest month for u.s. forces since the war started shortly after 9/11. the latest attack comes after two straight days of heavy losses for the u.s. and afghanistan. just look at the attack locations here, marked by red stars on the map. yesterday eight u.s. soldiers were killed by two u.s. roadside bombs there and on monday 14 u.s. troops and civilians died

in a pair of helicopter crashes. we're learning more about the personal lives that are affected by this story that we have been telling you about. some of the marines killed in afghanistan this week. in about 15 minutes you will hear what they were like from the people that they left behind. police now think as many as ten people raped and beat a girl for 2 1/2 hours. they also think at least ten others watched and did nothing about it. it happened during a homecoming dance in richmond, california, on saturday. one school board member says procedures were not followed. >> the dually elected officials, i'm going to share in the responsibility and say that well, we probably could have done better. >> the girl is recovering in a hospital right now. two teenagers were arrested but not charged. there is a $20,000 reward for information leading to more arrests in that. right now the bay area could be on its way to becoming one massive traffic jam. a lot of pictures, beautiful sunrise. however, although it is 7:02 a.m. local time there the

bridge linking san francisco and oakland closed indefinitely. a lot of folks who cross that bridge are now thinking, how am i going to get to work? a piece of steel and cable fell off and onto the road last night. no one was hurt but the falling debris did cause a minor car accident. transportation officials say about 280,000 vehicles cross that bridge every day, and now, as i was saying they've got to find a different way. tennis legend andre agassi made a stunning confession that he once did crystal meth during his playing days. and rafer weigel i was a big fan of andre agassi, still am but this is somewhat shocking. >> yeah. richard, agassi was known for his long hair his rebel image. but since then he's had a relatively unblemished image when you talk about this charity work and his family. that can change now that a new auto autobiography came out portions are coming out, rather. portions of which are in "the times" of london. in it agassi confessed in '97 he

and his assistant did crystal meth in his home. his publicist later confirm td to cnn. agassi said he was concerned about the upcoming wedding to brooke shields and his declining game and that's why he did it. he later failed a drug test because of it. wait until you hear the excuse he gave to tennis officials not to trivialize it but the fact that they bought it it also a little bit shocking in my opinion. that's going to be in about 40 minutes. richard? >> can't wait for that. thanks a lot, rafer. now a live picture latest surprise and breaking news of the day, maybe not surprising for some. nasa rocket test launched pushed back again. we are hearing 10:30 eastern is a possibility. 25 minutes or so. the brand-new ares rocket was supposed to launch yesterday but the weather keeps forcing them to delay lift joftoff. this rocket in the middle supposedly has technology to get man to the moon and mars as well. we're waiting for that. bob van dillen joins us right now. weather, it looks kind of nice in those pictures, though. >> it does. >> not bad. >> you can see the clouds in the

background. >> but deceiving. >> it's slowing them down. >> it's the same deal as yesterday. you can see right there, those are low-level clouds. you're looking at 1,000, 2,000 feet. they will be in and out. 10:30, that's what they are going for now. we'll see if they get it. >> and there's remnants of the big storm you were telling us. >> across the east coast. we'll get more on that in a bit. the other story richard is the huge low pressure center beginning to develop and strengthen across northern new mexico in towards lower colorado. that's the guy we're watching that's doing a lot of wind off the rockies mountains and that's condenseing out in the snow. it's heavy times now specifically around denver metro. going back towards western colorado and parts of northern new mexico. let me zoom on in a little farther and you can see what it looks like near denver. here's the metro radar as it swings around. all the blue is saul snow. you see darker shade of blue specifically western side of the denver suburbs. that's who's getting the heaviest snow right now. over the span of the next 24 to 48 hours, it's going to pile up. the purple shade of color

that's about a foot or more of snow in the next few days. clearly that is why you have winter storm warnings and that snow will move into the northern part of the plains. western nebraska, lower parts of south dakota, be prepared for about a foolt of snow also and now we'll develop an essence tomorrow morning and last through tomorrow afternoon, tomorrow evening. salt lake city, you're drying out now. get down across southern parts of utah, more snow. severe, we have weather right there. that's what it looks like all of those are winter warnings. >> you said remnants of strong storm. i'm thinking of your lingo velocity soon and air mass. >> 500 millibar level. we know. >> yeah, whatever that is. thanks, bob. fans and celebs got their first glimpse at a movie showing michael jackson's final months. "this is it" debuted at simultaneous showings around the world last night, including a star-studded premiere in los angeles. the film showed jackson's exhausting rehearsals for his comeback concert series that never happened, as you know. his brother jermaine spoke from the red carpet. take a listen. >> i think he would have loved

it, only because it showed that there is a person in him throughout all of the rehearsals and everything you see when he's focused and he's concentrating on the band the dancers. you see that there is a humane side to him as opposed to him being on stage all the time and the glitz and the glamour. >> this was the scene outside of the premiere in london. some fans who saw the movie say they cannot believe how jackson kept up with backup dancers half his age. ♪ you can tell by the writing behind them, that's in beijing impersonator show casing the moves that made jackson a legend. government censors actually had to approve the movie there before they showed it. people are lining up to get the flu shots, but did you know the vaccination situation can cause problems for people using the internet? also, get ready for airline tickets as low as $25 smackers.

we have good news in a bad economy for you. who has outrageous travel deals and how can you get them. jennifer westhoven tells us.

independent joe lieberman is threatening to block the health care bill and without him, they do not have enough votes to pass it. lieberman said he will impose any plan that's includes government-run health insurance. he said it's just too expensive and too risky. >> we ought to wait three or four years to see how the tremendous forms that we have a chance to put into effect work. and then if we need a publicly owned health insurance company, we'll come back and discuss that. >> lieberman typically votes with the democrats. they need him to muster those 60 votes that are also important to overcome a republican filibuster. a former writer for david letterman said she quit his show in part because she considered it to be a hostile work

environment. in "vanity fair" she accused high-level employees of having sexual relationships with female staffers. she also says women benefited professionally from those relationships. scavell says she's not taking legal action but wants to call attention to the complete lack of women writers on late-night talk shows. ♪ >> that's new music. what is that? >> that is for you, jen. >> that is awesome. >> that is for jen westhoven. today we're talking about extension of unemployment benefits. so important because folks are living check to check. >> they really are. and in some cases you know, people are keeping their homes just because they have this little bit of help out there. there are millions of families right now who are counting on these benefits that the government is supporting. and many of them may see their benefits run out. 7,000 people lose their benefits every day according to the national employment law project. and we've got a very tough job market out there. nearly 10% unemployment.

so many republicans joining with democrats in the senate to support legislation that would mean 14 more weeks of unemployment checks and six more on top of that in states with high unemployment. look, this isn't law yet. you can't call your unemployment office yet and try to file for an extension or something like that. but it means this is taking a big step forward, bringing it closer to reality. it should come to a physical senate vote, and then it will be reconciled with the house version. we will see what happens but keeping track of these. i know there are light ofa lot of people counting on them. airlines are looking to fill seats and coming up with cheap airfare, the kind you haven't seen in years. southwest is having a airfare sale $25 for a one-way ticket. you know you never pay that fare. that's the marketing number. you do the math and taxes and fare, round trip about $90. still very cheap not for the holidays of the some of the other airlines are coming up with some of their own sales or these little pop-up sales.

jetblue had one i think about a week ago. airtran is having one now, $39. basically if you can get a ticket for hundred $100 that's a good deal. >> it deserve that's jen westhoven music again whatever it was. >> southwest, by the way, only tomorrow night until midnight. do you have to take action. >> have you to get rocking and rolling. thanks jen. your internet connection could go down if the h1n1 flu becomes an epidemic. that's from "the washington post" citing the government accountability office. it says people would be using the web so much more, that it could overwhelm internet networks. gao saying more people would telecommute and people use computers more. it's unclear whether the government is prepared for this because of h1n1. how many times have you heard this one? people spend too much time playing video games. guess what researchers are finding a lot of ways those games make you healthier.

president obama is expected to decide in the next few weeks whether he will send 40,000 more troops to fight in afghanistan. just this week 24 families learned they had lost a loved one to the war. one of those brave marines was captain eric jones. the 29-year-old was in the helicopter that crashed in southern afghanistan on monday. his best friend says jones' parents are devastated by the loss of their only child. >> i can't even imagine what it's like for them. they loved him so much and he loved them. he died doing something so much more honorable than most of us will ever get to do. >> captain jones was on his third tour of duty and was scheduled to come home in just a few weeks.

we're also learning more about another marine killed in that same chopper crash, captain kyle van de giesen played quarterback in new hampshire. bun one of his friends remembered him as just a man remembered to service. >> every once in a while someone really truly does stand out in terms of their ability to really lead other people and to really inspire other people and i think that's what i will remember most about him. >> he was supposed to come home in the next few days to see the birth of his second child. we've heard about people using video games like the nintendo wii to lose weight. but you have got to hear some of the other ways they might be good for you. researchers at iowa state found some surgeons who played video games at least three hours a week made fewer mistakes during surgeries. researchers also found action games can help sharpen vision and even treat a condition called lazy eye. parkinson's patients also showed improved balance and the classic tetris game boosted brain

efficiency. but rafer weigel we knew this, right? >> exactly. >> this was always going to work. >> tell my wife now. >> now you go home to your 11-month pregnant wife. you have an excuse. she's well on her way. today, a new development in the murder of a connecticut football player jasper howard. this has affected not only the town but people across the country. >> richard, this is not something you expect on a college campus, a murder like this. well, police say they've got the ones responsibility for this heinous crime and they are not university of connecticut students. they say this man 21-year-old joe william lomax iii, is -- they are charging him, rather with murder and they are holding him on a $2 million bond. his lawyer said he was only trying to break up a fight and was not involved in the stabbing. you may remember howard, jasper howard was stabbed in the stomach outside the student union during a dance. police arrested two others in the case. all three are expected in court today. in other news, do you like jewelry? the lakers got their championship rings, and boy, are

those things pretty and big. their 15th championship. there's kobe bryant. he's a big man, so how big is that on him already? and there's ron artest sporting his new hairstyle. the newest laker. we're told that's the chinese symbol for hero along with a laker l on the back. kobe's team clipped the clippers. they looked good. and this divorce looks nastier. after being fired as the ceo she is headed to court to try to get her job back. documents show if she's not rehired, she wants almost $500,000 a month in living expenses, a month. that includes money for business lunch, dinners five days a week private jet and ever-important hair and makeup for every dodger game. you have to look good, richard. >> half a million dollars a month? >> a month. and if that wasn't outrageous enough, police in woman say a woman in philadelphia posted an ad on craigslist allegedly

offering sex for tickets. the ad said desperate blond needs world series tics followed by i'm the creative type. maybe we can help each other. two undercover agents say they met her in a bar where she offered to quote, take care of both of them. she was charged with a misdemeanor count of prostitution. "take care" richard? maybe she was going to run errands for them. >> as you told us rafer that puts the fan in fanatic. >> that puts something in there. >> as bob said i wouldn't have kept the tickets. back with more news stuff in about 15. halloween is this saturday. for some parents that means lots of candy and very excitable kids. we will go beyond the surface and let you know some exciting facts about sugar. >> the more sugar that my child has, the more hyper. >> they bounce off the walls. >> anything with sugar sets him off. >> it is absolutely untrue. that sugar makes kids hyper. there have been 12 well-designed, randomized,

placebo-controlled trials looking at all kinds of factors. all of these studies show there's no relationship between sugar and a kid's hyper activity. there's truth to the active that i that sugar is glucose and it gives you energy. but it doesn't make you hyper. kids get schucher at other times they may be very excited. you may render a problem as kids try to eat as much halloween candy as possible. yes, they may be very excited and even hyper about the holiday, but it's not because of the candy. a guy is accused of trying to smuggle in two dozen snakes and geckos under his clothes. look at this, officials say he put the snakes and geckos in stockings and duct taped them to himself. they say he also had a traa ranch la in tarantula in his bag. he was arrested in norway. boy, did he look silly in that picture. experts are looking for a bank robbery suspect. investigators say he carries a gun and sometimes an oxygen tank. a family puts his house on the market and three years went

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we're seeing some of the worst violence in afghanistan since the war started eight years ago. at least six u.n. workers including a u.s. citizen were killed today by taliban militants. also rockets were fired at the presidential palace and a luxury hotel. no one was hurt in those attacks. two dozen u.s. citizens have died in afghanistan since sunday. the michael jackson documentary "this is it" premiered at simultaneous showings around the world last night. the film shows jackson's exhausting rehearsals for a comeback concert series that was supposed to start in london last july. "this is it" will only be in theaters for two weeks. so if you want to see it you better get on going. and live pictures coming out of the west coast, the bay area dealing with a huge traffic mess today. you do not want to be in oakland or san francisco and trying to get to the other side. the bridge linking those two that's been closed indeaf niltly. hundreds of thousands of people

rely on it each and every day but we do see some cars moving not quickly. the reason why it shut down, a piece of steel and cable fell off and onto the road last night. no one was hurt but the falling debris did cause a minor car accident. we will be watching live pictures for you. 7:30. don't want to be there. those are some of the stories we're watching for you. i'm richard lui. this story just in to hln. police say they now have five people in custody in the gang rape of a california teen girl. this is a horrific case. police say as many as ten people beat and raped the girl for hours and at least ten others watched and did nothing. they did not call 911. it happened during a homecoming dance in richmond, california, on saturday which is just outside of san francisco. the girl is recovering in a hospital right now. there is a $20,000 reward for information leading to more arrests. again, that just in to us. there have been five people identified in this case. we have new video of the three u.s. hikers meanwhile,

would have been in custody in iran for almost three months. their friend shot it two days before they were detained. it shows them goofing around visiting in kurdistan. one mom said this video should prove to iran they are just kids hanging around dancing. iran charged them with illegally crossing the border from iraq. their families say they did it by mistake. president obama going to sign a law today making it a federal crime to assault someone for their sexual orientation, disability, or gender identity. the family of a gay teenager who committed suicide after being bullied helped promote the bill and will be there today. >> he had the guts and the courage to come out and proclaim to the world i'm a gay person from central pennsylvania. i'm proud of who i am. i want you to respect me. >> all right. the measure is named for matthew shepard, a gay wyoming teenager who died after being beaten in

1998. it isless named after james byrd jr., an african-american man who was dragged to his death in texas that very same year. new this morning for you d.c. sniper john allen muhammad will be executed on november 10th. virginia officials made that announcement yesterday. they say they gave him a choice about how he died but he did not choose so he will be given a lethal injection. muhammad's lawyers are asking for clemency because they say he has a severe mental illness. bob van dillen joins us right now, meteorologist. what do we got today? i know we have some stuff that was left on the lower southern parts of the country but now is a nor'easter we're worried about? >> it's moved up. we looked at the snowmaker across the rockies. i want to show you the northeast now. many travel delays out there. if you're at the airport scratching your head, here's the reason why. a a couple low pressure centers at the surface. this is just off basically the

delaware coast. that should form into one storm just offshore from long island. something we're watching in the next couple of days. heaviest rain this morning pulling into central new york in towards new york city t will get into boston, too. let me show you the new york city metro radar. can you see the rain over the northern part of new jersey back towards long island. also when you get into the city itself, yankee game against the phillies. i think you will see the low clouds out there, drizzle. i don't think the heavy rain will be there. i think they will get this rain in. a little bit on the breezy side too. broken scattered showers but low clouds in there. ground stop at logan until 11:00. because of those low clouds and here comes our next weather maker, huge snowmaker when you get in towards central parts of colorado, towards new mexico, too. winds blowing up the slopes of the rockies. look at the denver metro radar, all of the blue is snow. temperatures around 30 degrees to 31 prime snowmaking temperatures. all of the deep shaded purple is a foot or more of snow and that

will continue to move all the way over towards the east. we will be looking at that for the next couple of days as it moves into the northern plains. we have strong winds on the back side of this. strong winds even took a toll on late-night tv. check this out. >> now i would like to bid you good night. what's that noise i heard? is there someone in your house? >> that's "the late late show's" craig ferguson, finishing the job last night in the dark after the wind blew down power lines and knocked out power in central l.a. yeah, even when things go back, still going on strong. >> it looks huge, that thing behind you in the west. >> that's the snow maker for the central plains fwoim. >> more stories for sure. tennis star andre agassi has a story for you. he's talking about the drugs. shocking for many. >> this guy had a squeaky clean image lately anyway.

in a new book agassi admits to doing crystal meth during his playing days. why he says he did the drug.

welcome back. the brothers of afghanistan's president is denying he has been on the cia payroll. "the new york times" said yesterday the agency's been paying ahmed ali karzai for about eight years. it's said he helped them operate a paramilitary group used in raids against insurgents. he told the associated press, that is ridiculous. he also denies accusations of having connections with the drug trade there. the cia will not comment on this right now. a family in indiana is trying to sell their house on

facebook. it's a big change of pace but after three years on the market they're willing to try anything no doubt. >> i think that social networking is really revamping a lot of the things we do. we had about 200 and it looks like 264 fans of selling our house so all of our friends are trying to help us out. >> that's pretty funny. a local real estate broker says the facebook listing is a good idea, but he also said sellers also need to list their homes with an agent because they have the resources to help sell the property. ♪ take a look ♪ ♪ take a look at the kids on the street ♪ >> that's right. take a look. there's a new phishing scam to watch out for. scammers are trying to get you to give up sensitive info. our money expert jen westhoven is looking out for you. we better look at this. >> this is one of those things that look innocuous. people try to steal your money. be careful. there have been a lot of headlines about failing banks. criminals know you may be

worried about that. they want to take advantage. so the fdic is warning, watch out for an e-mail that says this -- check your bank deposit insurance coverage. if you see that do not -- do not -- don't you dare open that up, delete it right away. it is a fake. the e-mail says just type in your information here, tell us your bank account number, we'll make sure your money is safe. yeah, safe with them. don't ever type in your bank account number through an e-mail. those are phishing scams, right. don't fall for it. no reputable group, no company worth its salt is going to send you an e-mail and say, tell us your sensitive financial information. >> and if you do it, jen westhoven's going to come after you. she's going to be right there. >> with a stick! but i want your money to be safe. and people really do fall for these things. that's the real sad part. >> i joke. but, yes, you care. >> yeah. thanks. you're right. the next story actually is -- tells us that the recession still on. a lot of companies still cutting

jobs. italian designer versace cutting one out of every four jobs at the fashion house. that means 350 people around the world who work for versace are going to lose their jobs in the next six months. a lot of luxury companies have been very hard hit by the recession. "the wall street journal" says it is losing money this year, that company, about $44 million that fell into the red. back to you. >> so that means they're going to have, i guess 25% fewer models. you will have to walk around the circled quickly. >> they can't eat less. >> good line. thanks, jen. time to tell you about the afternoon "your views" we. home depot fired an employee for wearing a button on his uniform. chuck roberts is here to tell us about what that button said and why the company says they did that to him. >> interesting story. >> it is a story. he has a big button. he's a cashier and it says one nation under god, indivisible, pledge of allegiance after all. he did this for a year.

they didn't complain until he showed up with a bible and read the bible during his break. he's going to sue. and here's a lot of reasons he's going to sue but here's one of them in his voice. >> as a christian and as a citizen of america you know, it's time we stand up for our country and quit being pushed around by everybody else. >> what do you think? we want to know what everybody thinks. are you on the side of home depot? do they have the right to tell policy like this? what you can wear. should a company's dress code be allowed to fringe on your religious beliefs? toll free 1-877-tell-hln. e-mail us cnn.com/hln. or look at the facebook page. we both had them, richelle and i. chuck roberts, hln. become a fan. it's generating a lot of controversy. >> and it's always fun to talk to chuck and richelle on top of that. >> thanks, richard. >> it is. i have listened to those conversations. they're always fun to listen to. thank you so much. >> thank you. do you spank your child? critics say it is never acceptable. supporters believe spanking is okay because it can be be an

fektsive tool, especially if your kid is defined. but if you do it where do you draw the line? check out hln's joe behar. >> you don't know how far a person's going to go. >> but most parents don't -- >> the ones who are sadistic you're giving them permission in a certain way by saying, give them an inch, they take the whole hand. remember when your mother used to say that to you? >> in fact, sometimes it's more abusive. children can be more abused verbally when the parent is so frustrated -- >> that's just as bad. there are alternatives to treating children like they're slaves. >> right. catch "the joy bay hair show" at 9:00 p.m. eastern here on hln. be sure to catch that. we go to these live pictures. we're waiting for a police update on the missing virginia tech student. investigators are expected to release a time line of events leading to the disappearance of morgan harrington. this is just about to start. the 20-year-old has now been missing since october 17th after missing after a metallica concert in charlottesville.

her parents acknowledge she's probably the victim of foul play. that means it's been about ten days that she has been missing. her parents are acknowledging, again, they probably think that it's a victim of foul play. we will listen in to what authorities are saying and we'll get you the details in just a little bit. now, orders from sarah palin's new book, they are pouring in. hear about what people are saying about her future chances of gaining big political power.

straight to virginia. state police says they have an update now on a missing virginia tech student. ten days missing. let's take a listen. >> it makes it difficult. i will do my best to be clear. i will give you a time line. please remember that this time line has been updated as of the last 30 minutes. and most likely it will change again. but this is what we want to convey to folks, especially folks who were at the concert, who were outside of the john paul jones arena and who are in this community as well as the university campus community.

first off, we are confident that between the hours of 8:20 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. on october 17th that someone matching the description of morgan harrington was on the exterior of the john paul jones arena at several locations. most likely you would have seen her in the area of where you would enter or tried to re-enter where the ticket booths are. it's also very possible you would have seen her in the area of john paul jones arena -- >> he's giving a time line. we will listen to that time line, take it down. get you the highlights of what he's saying. again, virginia state police giving you a time line of what they believe happened on october 17th 10 days ago when the virginia tech student went

missing. we're going to listen to that. her parents think she's a victim of foul play. however, they're devoting all of their energies to the thought that she will have a safe return. and also they are hoping that somebody at that concert saw what happened and are able to help out. $150,000 is the reward right now to help finding that missing virginia tech student morgan harrington. tennis legend andre agassi makes a stunning confession by admitting for the first time he did crystal meth. he was kind of a wild guy, rafer weigel, back in the day. he had commercials with the camera company. >> the rebel specifically. >> yeah. >> long hair. but since then, he's been a family man. he's been involved in charity work. so it's a little bit stunning. now, portions of this auto autobiography that have already been released in "the times" number of london, in this auto autobiography, agassi said it was 1997 and he was having doubts about his upcoming

marriage to brooke shields, he and his producer did crystal meth in his home. he later failed a drug test and was terrified he would lose everything so he told tennis officials he accidentally ingested the drug by drinking a soda laced with it and they bought it. do hard hits in the nfl lead to brain injuries? congress hopes to find that out. here are some of the big hits just from this weekend alone. but rye right now take you to live pictures on capitol hill. former players, the head of the league, and that man right there, nfl commissioner roger goodell meeting with congressional leaders. their proposal is to introduce a bill to do more for player safety on all levels, high school, college and the pro ranks. it would mandate things like recovery times for players who suffer concussions. again, roger goodell and former players meeting with congressional leaders this after a study by the nfl that said some players, former players, have higher rates of alzheimer's disease. in other other news, larry johnson

issued an apology and told to stay away while they investigate his use of gay slurs two of them. the gay rights advocacy group is pleased with the apology but wants more disciplinary action. the kansas city star says he used slurs attacking a twitter follower and with the media on monday. >> lots to watch today. gregory green is dedicated to stopping repeat criminals. our leaders with the heart. gregory green is helping ex-cons stay out of jail. >> our goal is to try to help individuals become productive citizens and create a change. >> a change green knows about first-hand. >> before i came into a 12-step program i was homeless, an addict, alcoholic. >> but with help he turned his life around and started harmony house, a 60-day program that provides housing and support for

men reentering society. >> it's created a foundation for me to start a new life and learn a new way to live with all of the classes that they offer and the structure it has given me in my life. >> and the best reward for green -- >> >> trying to be an example to individuals hoping that will encourage them to change. those are the things that motivate me and make me continue to do what i do. >> leaders with a heart. a girl dying of cancer wanted to let her mom and dad know she loved them. >> it was her way of letting us know that everything would be okay. >> her gift to them could some day help other cancer victims.

what is the most provocative entertainment news on television? it is "showbiz tonight." it's next so stay tuned. and then tomorrow morning watch morning express with me, robin meade. right now on "showbiz tonight," brand new explosive star confessions. tonight, rosie o'donnell's shocking confessions, caught on tape. rosie's revelations about oprah

rosie's startling claims of childhood abuse. >> the doctor would look and say to me do you touch yourself? >> tonight, it's rosie totally unplugged. hulk hogan's new suicide confessions. today, for the first time on camera hulk's emotional revelations how and why he almost killed himself. >> sick and tired of being sick and tired. >> hulk's emotional words and why his marriage failed. kate gosselin's new confessions why she says no one may ever want to marry her again. and her unbelievable claim that she could see herself as a movie star. tonight a block buster night of explosive star confessions, as tv's first most provocative entertainment news show starts right now.

hello. i'm a.j. hammer broadcasting tonight and every night from new york city. tonight, rosie's shocking confessions. rosie o'donnell is never one to hold back. tonight i can tell you she is revealing explosive details about her life we have never heard before. tonight, rosie is sharing the horrifying details of abuse she allegedly suffered as a child. details that are so tough to hear she avoided talking about it until now. that's just the start of her truly amazing new tell-all interview. rosie gets real about her split from her wife kelli. rosie confession would not be complete without a new slam against donald trump. i can tell you without a doubt rosie's shocking revelations are making for big news. rosie o'donnell is making shocking confessions about molestation in her family. >> there were varying levels of abuse. >> she is setting the record straight about her troubled relationship. >> kel ri and i have a lot of

issues. sech wasn't one of them. >> best of all she is settling old scores. rosie was unplugged in her interview on howard stern's show. >> we haven't heard from rosie but now she's coming back with a vengeance and being so reveal revealing. >> rosie's most shocking revelations were about childhood abuse which she's only hinted about in the past. >> she alluded to something in a book she had written but this is the first time we've heard her be very open about abuse that was going on in her family. >> now rosie's speaking out like never before about abuse. even though she's still somewhat vague about it. >> you alluded to molestation that wasn't between you and your dad, was it? >> there was serious issues that were going on in the house at that point. you know there were five children and there were varying levels of abuse. >> rosie tells howard stern she wasn't able to talk about the abuse when she was a child but she described suspicious

infections in graphic detail. >> it was like 6 7, 8, kindergarten, first, second grade. when i would go to the doctor the doctor would look and say to me do you touch yourself? i don't know if you know, you have children, but that doesn't start for a child at that age. something has been introduced in a child if that's happening at that age. and it was not me that was causing the infections, you know. so it's a very heavy thing. >> she's being so incredibly open about these things that happened to her as a child. on the other hand you still have questions about exactly what happened. rosie also addresses tabloid headlines that she and her long time partner kelli carpenter are splitting up. >> we've been together 12 years. we're a family and we'll stay a family. you know. and kelli and i are working through a lot of the stuff that we have and the children are the priority. i don't know that we're going to be together. i think we're working through what's going to work best. >> but rosie being rosie

couldn't help but take a few shots at her sparring partners like her former boss on "the view" barbara walters. >> i assumed because she was the first to break these barriers she was supportive of women that she was very much a sister right. i got on the show only to realize my god, that's not the case. i did find her to be inaccessible in a way that startled me and i did find her to be sort of a non-supportive in another way with the trump thing. >> oh the trump thing. remember rosie's fwud donald trump where the two spent almost a year trading public insults. yes. rosie's not over that. >> i said the truth about him and he went ballistic. what he did to me personally is just an example of how he feels about all women. >> don't count on the donald ever appearing on rosie's upcoming radio show. >> donald trump doesn't interest me in any capacity. i don't know what i would say to him except i think you're an

[ bleep ]. >> it seems she hasn't let a lot of these feuds go. >> rosie's willingness to bare all is showing us that she's still one of the most fascinating celebrities out there. >> one thing that you take from this interview is that rosie is definitely a complicated person and just when you think you know her, you realize you don't know anything about her. there was so much more to rosie's interview including her accounts of an emotional phone call to oprah winfrey of all people. why was she calling oprah? we'll have the dramatic details of rosie's frantic call to oprah later in the show. tonight brand new bombshell kate gosselin confessions. kate answered burning questions from fans in a special episode of "jon & kate plus 8" monday night. here are the breaking developments. kate reveals whether or not she'll ever get married again. this answer may surprise you. and in more big news breaking kate admits her kids are having trouble understanding why she and jon renewed their vows last

year but now getting divorced. plus, kate's future in hollywood. is kate really setting her sights on a movie career? joining me in hollywood is leslie marshall, a radio talk show host, also in hollywood ken baker for "e." a viewer wrote in and asked kate what she would like to do once "jon & kate plus 8" goes kaput. >> my career goals believe it or not, somewhere in here i discovered that i've done enough years of tv that i feel like it's a normal comfortable natural place for me to be. i would love to be in a movie at some point. i would love to be the voice of a cartoon character in a movie for my kids. i think that would be fun. >> okay. fun. all right. so i did hear that correctly kate said she wants to be in the movies. ken baker, let me begin with you. are you with me that perhaps those goals are a bit lofty for

kate gosselin? >> well she said she wanted to be a cartoon character. well, she is already a cartoon character. let's face it. you know the other thing is the i jotted this down. she said that she thinks being on tv is a normal, comfortable, natural place to be. i'm on tv now. it's fun, it's cool this is not natural. it's not even comfortable to be honest. right. it's like tv. if i had my kids on here it's really uncomfortable. i think she is really a magnetic tv personality. that's great. clearly "jon & kate plus 8" and what might be kate plus 8 has not turned into what it was meant to be. that's the sad part. >> particularly why she got into it. she said the john and kate thing started because and she pointed this out last night she wanted to capture memories on tape for the kids. i'm thinking she should have bought a camcorder. leslie, don't you think this movie career goal she has proves she got a little taste of fame, saw hey i can make money just

being on camera and she liked it perhaps a little too much not that there is anything wrong with that. >> oh, absolutely a.j. like now give me the meat and potatoes. what i'm seeing around kate when she's talking cha-ching. cha-ching. because it's all for her. it would be so much fun for her kids for her to be on a cartoon. they're not on it. she's on it. when she talks about it being part of her life of course it's part of her life. they put cameras in on her life, her marriage is falling apart her kids are messed up. this is not just lofty. this shows in my opinion how she's not caring about the kids and put them first and how shallow she is and greedy >> but she'll make money and support the kids which is all she says that she wants to do. that is goal number one for kate. i want to move to this next new bombshell from kate gosselin. a jon and kate viewer asked if she would get married again. >> i really don't want to be

married again. can you blame me? but i don't want to be alone. i just know it's going to have to be someone with a lot of patience character strength, and wow. and wisdom to take us on. i don't know if that's possible. we shall see. maybe when i'm 73 1/2. >> that was kind of refreshing to hear. can you blame her for thinking that way coming off all of the drama? >> she comes across relatable in that clip. she seems like a single mom with a lot of kids. you got to say what guy is going to go into that. but i can't help because of what has transpired how nasty this divorce battle has been. that's a veiled attack on jon. someone with courage patience, all of that stuff. all that stuff that jon didn't have. so i think that this nastiness continues but in that clip she was relatable. >> a new bombshell confession kate made was about the show where she and jon renewed

wedding vows for the world to see. it was just a year ago and now kate's having a tough time making sense of this to the kids. watch this. >> my kids will say to me when we were at your wedding this wedding, you said you would be married forever. and those are one of the hard -- that's really a hard one. that's a hard thing to have to answer because you can't quite explain it. i have trouble explaining it to myself. >> even though she maintains the vows being renewed wasn't staged i think that plays into the public's perception that the show perhaps not really reality got to end it there. i appreciate you both being here tonight. kate gosselin is not the only star with shocking new confessions. tonight, hulk hogan's unbelievable new suicide confessions, and how muhammad ali's daughter saved him. >> you think if she hadn't you would have pulled that trigger? >> i don't know. in a way it snapped me out of

it. >> for the first time on camera hulk's revelations how and why he almost killed himself. also a stunning development in the steve phillips sex scandal. tonight, the fired espn anchor who slept with a younger co-worker says he needs to go to sex addiction rehab. we've got to ask, sex rehab? is it a legitimate excuse or is it an excuse to behave badly? and jay leno is taking on well us. why jay has a problem with something we did in fact he's got such beef he talked about it on his show. this is "showbiz tonight" on hln.

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michael jackson's "this is it" movie hits theaters worldwide. there is a new controversy involving michael's dad joe. is he trying to cash in on the movie? welcome back to "showbiz tonight." i'm a.j. hammer in new york. tonight the great debate over making money off dead celebrities, and it's not just joe jackson who made for big news today. the michael jackson documentary "this is it" is expected to be a hit in its limited two-week run. it begins tonight. joe jackson is reportedly set to make as much as are you ready for this, $250,000 per appearance just to introduce the film at certain locations in england. hey, is there anything wrong with that? and tonight chris farley back from the dead. in a new directv commercial david spade stars with his late friend. a lot of people saying wow, is this tasteless or what. joining me in new york is a celebrity publicist, and

journalist from 5 dollar prep.com. jackson is reportedly getting this six-figure amount to introduce "this is it" and tell stories about michael. we know that joe has taken heat for trying to cash in on michael so soon after his death. let me ask you, is there anything wrong with him making a few bucks off of his late son's legacy? >> undoubtedly people grieve differently. i think the biggest issue with joe jackson is his choices. you know a lot of folks look at joe jackson's behavior and think he's a bit opportunistic. the way he's going about what he's doing is the biggest issue. so no i don't think we're upset that he's cashing in. i think it's the manner from which he's doing it. >> a lot of celebrities make public appearances all the time and get paid gobs of money for it. how would joe jackson showing up be different than that in your mind? >> it's a huge difference.

it's because you have to look at the relationship that joe jackson had with michael jackson. if michael jackson left anything for his dad in the will his dad wouldn't have to do these appearances. obviously there was a non-relationship there and for his dad to go in and cash in on his death behind his back is absolutely wrong. he should not be doing this. he could have been rich if he had a good relationship with his son. >> no question about that. joe jackson to david spade. there was this raging debate over whether spade is helping to exploit his late friend chris farley and now a brand new directv commercial shows them together using footage from "tommy boy." >> richard, is this your coat? >> don't do it. fat guy in little coat. >> i'm here with tons of fun when i could be home watching directtv. it's in sweet beautiful hd. but no i'm stuck with either cable or that.

>> what's happening? >> never gets old. >> "showbiz tonight" reached out to spade today. he tells us the commercial should be seen as a tribute to his friend saying when directv came to me and the farley family we talked and thought it would be a cool way to remind people of how funny chris was. if david spade and farley's family were okay with the making of this, should we be okay with it? >> i think we should. i think clearly david spade was doing this commercial as a reminder to the legacy, the brilliance and the clever comedic timing of his friend. so i think we should be okay with it if his family is. >> they are getting the statements out. thank you. late today "showbiz tonight" did receive this from directv about the commercial. we should look to chris's family and friends for the ultimate opinion on the subject. they were on board with the concept from the very beginning and throughout the entire process and felt the spot was a great tribute to chris. tonight rosie o'donnell

dropping bombshell, new confessions you won't believe what she's saying about oprah. >> i called oprah winfrey one night. which was an error in judgment. i don't know that i was even cohartsfield international airport. >> rosie has this new radio show but is she really going after oprah winfrey? you will hear this coming up. also, a stunning development in the steve phillips sex scandal. the fired espn anchor, who slept with a younger co-worker says he needs sex addiction rehab. we got to ask, is it legit or an excuse to behave badly? and would you watch jennifer aniston talk show? your unbelievable response to the question. do you think jen has what it takes to host her own show? this is "showbiz tonight" on hln. time for the showbiz news ticker.

now on "showbiz tonight," hulk hogan's suicide confessions. hulk talks about muhammad ali's daughter calling him while he was holding a gun thinking about taking his life. >> you think if she hadn't would have pulled the trigger? >> um i don't know. you know in a way it snapped me out of it. >> for the frs time today hulk opens up on camera why he seriously considered killing himself and what changed his mind.

rosie o'donnell's explosive confessions, from her painful childhood abuse claims to a shocking revelation about oprah. and steve phillips, sex addict? the sportscaster fired from espn for having an affair with a younger co-worker heads to rehab. is he really a sex addict? the great debate. plus more stories breaking from the "showbiz news ticker." welcome back to "showbiz tonight." it's 30 minutes past the hour. i'm a.j. hammer broadcasting tonight and every night from new york city. tonight, hulk's confessions. the brand new explosive details today about how hulk hogan almost tried to kill himself. for the first time on camera today, hulk opened up about how layila ali the daughter of mo ma

mohammed ali. why he says their marriage ended in divorce. a new bombshell confession from rosie o'donnell caught on tape. rosie's revelations about being sexually abused and wait until you hear about rosie's frantic phone call to oprah winfrey. joining me from hollywood leslie marshall host of the leslie marshall radio show and ken baker who is an executive news editor. hulk hogan promoting his book, really opened up about how close he was to killing himself. after his long marriage to ex-wife linda unravelled. hulk describes a moment, he had a bottle of xanax and rum holding a gun. then the phone rang. >> the phone rang. and it was laila. she called with no agenda.

she called just to say hi and check on me. >> you think if she hadn't you would have pulled the trigger? >> i don't know. in a way it snapped me out of it to hear her voice. at that moment i switched gears. i got sick and tired of being sick and tired. you know she kind of, her voice saved my life. it really did. >> hulk says laila ali's voice saved his life. obviously this is very shocking considering hulk never really let on how bad things had gotten for him personally. wow, not like that. >> we all know that divorce is wretched. around that time his son was serving time in jail, was facing serious charges. and it was a public messy divorce. it must have been hard. at the same time i got to say here, a warning, i'm going to be a little cynical. hulk is the ultimate showman, he's promoting a book and it

seems like when celebrities have i reached the bottom and i climbed back to the top to happiness there is always a gun and some alcohol and pills involved. i'm not saying he's making it up. i'm saying it dramatic and fits that formula. look, i love hulk hogan but at the same time he says this book is called "my life outside the rink." we saw that. it was a reality show. >> you make a great point. i have to say i have become cynical. i liked hulk hogan and all of the drama. what i see now on the "today" show when he starts getting emotional i sit back and wonder like i never did before is it real or not. in this bombshell interview hulk claimed his ex-wife's alcoholism and abusive language were the main reasons the marriage ended. take a look. >> it was tough. it was constant chaos. i was madly in love with linda, old school married to her for life no matter what happened for better or worse doing what i could to keep the family

together. i used to brag i was the only world champion never divorced. i figured no matter how bad it got we'd get through it. it got to the point where everything was so negative. we couldn't be friends with the neighbors, i couldn't have people over, it got to the point where i got sick and tired of being sick and tired. a few years before the divorce i started praying to be happy. it got to the point where it couldn't go on any more. >> hulk almost sounds like he is still heart broken. leslie, there hasn't been a lot of sympathy for him. are you having any for him about now? >> i don't know. i went from being cynical to feeling sappy because yes i do feel for him. i really do. marriage is a lot of work, especially if you have cameras in your household. especially if you're a celebrity. you know i think the neat thing about hogan being so open and yes, a book deal does coincide or book selling with this, is that he's a big tough guy, a big strong guy, and even you know

rich people, celebrities have problems in relationship, the same problems that we non-celeb non-rich people do. and big strong guys can feel like not the lions but like mice and made to feel that way by women. >> let me ask you this ken. you think the sympathy factor as i mentioned has waned for hulk hogan with all of the drama when his wife and son and all of that. you think speaking out like this he's going to get people back? >> yeah i think hulk has been in the public eye for about 30 years now. he's actually extremely popular very loyal fans. i think he's playing to that fan base with this book, with this interview. he's a very emotional guy. he's an excellent showman and knows how to sell product and is doing it now. >> i want to move on to rosie o'donnell and her bombshell confessions in a new brilliant interview with howard stern on his radio show. rosie confessed her own mother didn't believe that her father was molesting her from the age of 6. now, in the interview rosie says

she had proof even back then and it's really painful to listen and hear rosie admitting this stuff. take a listen. >> well although i had a tremendous amount of urinary tract infections i constantly needed to be on sulphur medication as a child. when i would go to the doctor the doctor would look and say to me do you touch yourself? i don't know if you know you have children, but that doesn't start for a child at that age. >> she also told howard she never got into much detail before because it was painful for her siblings to hear this stuff. as a radio host you know how brilliant howard is, creates the safe space for celebrities to say things in the studio. separate from that why do you think she is saying all of this right now? >> i think she feels safe to say it. not just with howard. she's at a point in her life she can talk about it and i think she realizes as a parent herself and as she ages as a woman it's

something she has to do. there are so many children that are abused and molested by family members and you know it's so sad, a.j., how many parents don't believe them when the perpetrator is in the family. i hear from people like this on my radio show all the time. and one parent won't believe them. >> i always say, hearing people like rosie speaking out, can certainly help other people who may deal with it and don't want to confront it. hopefully it will do some good. i'm sure she'll do that with her radio show. she confessed to calling oprah winfrey in a panic after the whole tragic scene happened at columbine high school. >> at the height of my columbine insanity i called oprah winfrey. it was an error in judgment. she was kind i'll give you that. i don't know that i was coherent. and i was just saying we can do it together -- >> we can change the world. >> right. she's home in chicago going who is this girl and why the hell did she -- how did she get my

number? >> i love her for being candid. at the time rosie had her talk show. two of the most influential women on tv we hear rosie admitting she doesn't always have it together. is that why people continue to love rosie? she shows you rosie warts and all. >> i think it's an attraction. her blog has been one of the most read celebrity blogs because she is so honest. i think at the end of the day what we're seeing is rosie o'donnell, 47 years old, she has children going through what she call as crossroads in her relationship with kelli carpenter, saying you know what i'm going to be myself. i'm sick of hiding, trying to be perfect for everyone and letting it hang out and it's refreshing. >> going to make for great radio when her show begins. i thank you. as we move on tonight, is steve phillips a sex addict? the sportscaster was fired for having an affair with a much younger co-worker now headed to he hab. is he a sex addict or hiding out

from the bad publicity. why jay leno has a bone to pick with "showbiz tonight." why jay talked about us on his show. also this. >> dead celebrities making a living on their iconic images. there is a market worth hundreds of millions a year. >> a showbiz special report, how much money dead celebrities are making. michael jackson is the latest to be profitable after his death. it's big business. this is "showbiz tonight" on hln. here comes the showbiz news ticker.

welcome back to "showbiz tonight." i'm a.j. hammer. tonight, guess who's watching our show? jay leno. yeah jay was interviewing dr. phil talking about richard heene. jay talked about how on friday we named heene the most provocative celebrity of the

week. >> you know what bothered me. i was watching i think it was showbiz today. they had who's whatever notorious celebrity of the week. is it hulk hogan for his breakup with the family and they had this guy as the celebrity. and he's not a celebrity, he's a guy who broke the law. he's not even -- you don't have to be on, you only have to think about a reality show to be a celebrity now. >> we appreciate your watching. one thing it's obviously called "showbiz tonight." provocative celebrity too, jay. steve phillips confesses he is a sex addict. the fired espn sportscaster is heading to rehab for his sex addiction. these bombshells came one day after we learned espn fired phillips for his scandalous affair with a 22-year-old co-worker and his wife is also giving him the boot. but does steve phillips need a trip to sex rehab? or is this just the latest celebrity excuse to behave

badly? with me in new york, marvet british, also in new york is hila an entertainment journalist. steve phillips' agent confirms he is in rehab. he said it got to the point where he needs help and this was the best way to do it. he also says this to the associated press. steve phillips is not a sleazebag. he's a good guy who just fell off the wagon. all right. plenty of people cheat get caught, face the music. i get that. when a celebrity somebody like steve phillips cheats and more do it and they blame it on sex addiction. dafbd duchovny, am i missing anything or is steve part of a new sex addiction ep dem diddic. >> sex rehab works if you check in before you get caught. so no, this is not a strategy that we're going to buy.

he got caught having sex with someone other than his wife. that doesn't make him a sex addict. it makes him a cheater. >> this may surprise you but i'm no medical expert. you got to hear about steve phillips making this sex addiction claim. >> one of the questions here is when is someone a womanizer and when is someone a sex addict? i don't think we should trivialize sex addiction. i get asked almost every day am i a sex addict. most of the time i say no, you're just a jerk a guy acting out. >> the doctor says sex addiction is pretty rare. steve phillips could be one of the rare cases. i wish him luck in treatment but from what i've seen i have to wonder, if steve might suffer from being both a jerk and an addict? >> he could possibly be afflicted with both of those situations. i mean, he has a history, so it may be a chronic problem that he has. i don't know. i mean, if you're an addict, the

first thing any doctor will tell you is stay away from temptation. he obviously didn't make an effort if the p.a. he has to work with is a hot little chick like that. i'm not giving him credit yet. >> back to the theory about the whole pr strategy. my good friends at "the view" did have plenltty to say. is this more about saving his soul or saving his butt? watch this. >> let me ask you you think he'd be going in there if he hadn't been fired? >> not at all. nobody goes into anything unless they have to. >> marvet you agree with joy. celebrities don't go to rehab unless they have to because it is part of the formula to rehab not only themselves but their careers. >> i agree. if he was taking a proactive approach and decided to check in before he got caught and this became an explosive story we might buy it. he's doing it as reactive to try to save his marriage and his job

and reputation. >> he didn't save the job. i guess he's looking out for the next situation to come along. another story, the victim of the roman polanski sex assault says leave him alone. and leave her alone. it's samantha geimer, who was 13 when polanski drugged her and had sex with her, 31 years ago. she's gone ahead and filed legal papers to try to stop polanski from being extradited and wants the thing dropped. in the legal filing she says that having to relive this nightmare is making her physically ill and she could lose her job because of all of the attention she's getting. don't you think that what she wants should carry some weight here? >> i think it should carry most of the weight. laws are in place to protect victims, and right now she's not being protected. she wants it to go away. this seems like more of an ego thing for the authorities to try and get this guy after 30 some years. >> what do you think, marvet.

almost like she's victimized twice. >> i agree. she wants to not open old wounds, she wants to move past this. she wants -- no one wants their past to haunt their future. and that's clearly what this is doing. she's the victim so i think her voice should be heard. >> it will be interesting to see if they are sensitive to that. i'm no legal expert but the experts will say this is a federal situation and not up to her. thank you guys. appreciate it. it looks like there are going to be plenty of kates for this halloween. yeah sorry to report the kate gosselin wig is a huge seller. kate says that she even thinks it's funny even though she's not going to see money from it. >> tlcp.r. e-mailed me there was one of the hottest wigs of the halloween season was going to be the kate wig. but they don't call it the kate wig because then they would have to give me some of the proceeds so there's nowhere on the package that says my name which

i find very interesting and no i do not benefit from the proceeds. i hear it's back ordered from now till the end of time. somehow i managed to get my hands on one and i'm just hanging onto it for -- i don't know. my reaction, i laughed my head off. that is plain ridiculous. and i hear everywhere there's going to be all of these jon and kates for halloween and there have been in the past. now there is a wig for the there is a wig, like they line up their eight kids in strollers and whatever. i think it is funny. you know it's humorous. i think that it's great that people with laugh at us and with us. >> back ordered until the end of time. i'm laughing right now. you better get your kate wig or order it while it is hot because kate is already thinking what her next hair style will be. michael jackson's movie "this is it" is about to open. it looks like it's going to rake in some big, big bucks. dead celebrities making a living on their iconic images. there is a market worth hundreds of millions a year. >> it is a "showbiz" special

report not to be missed. "showbiz tonight" uncovers how much money the dead celebrities are making. michael jackson just the latest celebrity to be profitable after his death. this is a huge business. this is "showbiz tonight" on hln. now time for the "showbiz" news ticker. more stories from the "showbiz" newsroom making news right now.

there is new details in the gang rape of a 15-year-old california girl. how many more people now have been taken into custody? andre agassi was once the number one ranked tennis player in the world. but in his upcoming book agassi

making a shocking con fix about a little something he did after he first lost the top ranking. coming up in your views segment today, should a man have lost his job for wearing a religious button to work? we will be hearing from you coming up in a few minutes here. but first, hi there i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for checking in on a wednesday. a lot going on. first, the new details coming out of california here. cops have arrested three more people in the gang rape and beating of a 15-year-old california girl just outside of her homecoming dance. here's the latest we know. these are arrests included 21-year-old man and two teenagers. five people are now in custody from saturday's attack in the high crime area of richmond. investigators say the victim was drinking with others in the school courtyard when she was attacked. they say as many as ten people assaulted the girl for 2 1/2 hours in the dimly lit area. a school board member says the school should have been more diligent when it came to

security. >> i haven't been told that yet. i mean this just happened over the weekend. i have to look into that and find out. i can't speak to what the no 2i6motive motives and rationales but from what i'm hearing, the dance was going well people were having fun, that everybody who was there was in the building and they had closed the doors. the situation to be contained. this girl had left so they didn't know that she had returned or came back. we have anticipated it yes. i believe that you have to anticipate any potential problem. and that's something that should have been discussed. >> in addition here 19-year-old former student was arrested trying to flee the scene. as many as two dozen people witnessed the rape and didn't say a thing to police. 21-year-old man accused of killing university of kentucky football player howard is set to be arraigned today on murder and conspiracy charges. john william lomax iii is being

held on $2 million bail. four people have been arrested for their different roles in howard's murder. not a single one of them is a student at the university of connecticut. howard stabbed to death october 18th during a fight just outside of a dance on campus. the entire uconn football team of course, attended his funeral monday in miami. after several delays of low-hanging clouds nasa finally launched its first ares 1-x rocket. it took off from kennedy space center just about 30 minutes ago. here are those pictures. nasa is hoping this rocket will eventually replace its shuttle fleet and help a future missions to the the international space station. the ares is also part of nasa's plan to return to the moon and possibly even mars. tennis legend andre agassi making a stunning confession. he once used crystal meth during the heyday of his career and lied about it. confession coming in a new auto biography.

agassi details in 1997 incident this way. he says his game was declining, having doubts about his impending marriage to brooke shields so he and his assistn't did crystal meth at his home. when he failed a drug test he told tennis officials he unknowingly drank a soda laced with the stuff. u.s. and international tennis organizations, they are not commenting on agassi's confession. four months now after michael jackson's death his fans getting to see the spectacle that never made it to the concert stage. behind the scenes film "this is it" opened at midnight to long lines. this is video in a detroit suburb, people waiting a long time. kareen wynter probably got to go right through the crowds. she is live for us in los angeles with more. it's all quiet. no one behind you now. i imagine it was almost like a concert-like atmosphere last night. >> that's a perfect perfect way to describe it. brooke, last night was it, the world premier of jackson fans

really all over the country waiting for this documentary to come out. there was so much hype surrounding it. let's talk first about the festivities here in los angeles. we were downtown outside of the nokia theater where it really looked like an award show. i mean, there were chandeliers. you had the fans in the middle, all cheering. many of them had on the glove, the jeweled gloves. people like will smith, jennifer lopez, jennifer love hewitt. they all made their way down the red carpet. everyone wanting a piece of michael jackson on the last footage really his last piece of work, his final days, he was gearing up for the 50 concerts in europe and, you know he never ever made it on to the stage. so to speak. but again, he wowed fans and family and friends alike yesterday. here's a little bit of what we heard from some jackson family members as well as supporters regarding this late superstar. >> it's going to show the humane side to him and to show people

what he was prepared to do. >> it's an important movie to see because even though michael would never want anybody to see him like halfway rehearse but he gave out full out even during rehearsals. >> absolutely nobody downles and it's all michael and unguarded and raw and real and he's beautiful. >> and you know, brooke director and producer addressed some of the criticism that's been levelled at the film, saying that there were possibly body doubles used, some other people saying including family members that this isn't something that michael wouldn't have wanted to world to see, him not at his best rehearsing in fact. but again, last night that really seemed to matter. people really embraced the superstar, the true talent that michael jackson was. and the reviews raved rave all across the board. >> just one quick follow-up since i know you and your producer had the coveted tickets last night. what were your impressions? you really got to see michael jackson kind of raw, right? >> we couldn't stop rocking the

entire time. every jackson song was really a favorite. you would hear "smooth criminal" and say, wow that's my favorite or "billie jean," oh my god, that takes me back. that was pretty amazing. but i think something that my producer and i also spoke about is how candid, how you saw michael jackson in a light you never seen him before. dressed down in sweats. sucking on a lollipop making mistakes. there are parts in this documentary where he says, let me redo that that was my fault. he's such a perfectionist. again, you can see some of the criticism where people are saying maybe michael wouldn't have wanted this out but i think people really appreciate it know that he had a human side as well. >> the film officially out to everyone starting today. >> absolutely. it's going to be shown at cinemas across the country, like this one where we. the screening begins in a couple hours from now. >> good deal kareen wynter live for news l.a. thank you. still to come here. hardware store worker got canned over a button.

why he's now talking to a lawyer.

baseball fans and then there are baseball fans. listen to this. pennsylvania police say a woman posted an ad on criagslist offering sex for tickets to the world series. the ad described her as desperate blond who is the creative type. undercover police officers met her in a bar when she offered to take care of them. she was charged with soliciting prostitution. the officers misunderstood what she was saying. he insists she is innocent. he says she is a diehard phillies fan and still looking for the tickets. a man fired by home depot, ready to sue the company over one single button. it says "run nation under god, indivisible." he said he wore it all the time and nobody said a thing until he brought a bible to work to read during breaks. home depot has a policy against wearing any non-company button '. last week he said he was fired

when he wouldn't take the button off. >> as a christian and as a citizen of america you know it's time that we stand up for our country and quit being pushed around by everybody else. >> the pretense that they use to fire him was, oh by the way, your button isn't home depot issued, so therefore, we're going to fire you because it was, you know it's not as easy to say we don't like the fact that you have a bible with you. >> attorney calls it religious discrimination. home depot say it's not company policy, button policy is a way to respect everyone's beliefs and this is our your views question today. i've got a lot of callers on the phone. let's get going. first up dave in nebraska. dave, what do you think first amendment rights or no? >> caller: first amendment rights, yes. this company has pushed it too far. the young man wasn't admonished until he started bringing the bible to work. this company and their beliefs and the way they're acting now,

do not deserve our money or our support. this young man is definitely, should be -- it's not derogatory. >> dave, you say yes he should be allowed to wear it. got to go. rick, rick calling in from florida. do you agree with dave? >> caller: not at work, no. he's on the job. if you're clocked in it's your you know, job to do whatever the policy states. he's not working at t.i.g. fridays, he's not required to wear flare. i'm pretty sure they don't even let you wear a button like that. frankly, if a jewish person comes in or a muslim person comes in or any other person that doesn't have the exact same opinions or views as that one person it may offend them. when you're at work, you have no right to offend other people. >> it is under company policy, no non-home depot buttons. e-mail from randy says i believe home depot is well

within their rights to fire him. we live in a secular society and an individual's personal religious beliefs should remain personal. it's always interesting to me regarding persons who belong to conservative christian faiths how they want to be able to put it in your face in the workplace, shopping centers, or any other place they may find themselves. however, when someone who is a wiccan, for example wish toes do the same thing, they are all up in arms. peggy in san diego. peggy, what are your thoughts? >> caller: blatant form of prenlg his and religious discrimination. if they ban that button they have to take off their crosses, cover any tattoos, take off their lanyards that say wwjd, what would jesus do. if you go into home depot, anybody with a digital camera can take pictures of anyone with their aprons they all have buttons all over it. it was a simple form of discrimination because he was reading the bible. and if you're going to ban the bible again, then ban all books.

>> yes, discrimination. nancy in north carolina nancy do you think he should have been fired? >> caller: no, it's a shame that this man lost his job over what he believed in. this world is kor rupt. christian s do need to take a stand. i'll be pray for this person who fired him. they were wrong. home depot just lost two customers here. >> wow, a lot of people talking about this. again, the question we're asking, should a company's dress code be allowed to infringe with your religious beliefs? call us 1-877-tell. hln. send us an e-mail, cnn.com/hln. or text us, your words and name to hlntv. standard text rates do apply. sarah palin getting money for her upcoming book? nothing necessarily unusual about that. but she's got big bucks even before resigning as governor of alaska.

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judiciary committee, its hearing on brian injuries in pro football. this hearing was prompted by a study commissioned by the nfl and what it did was it found that retired pro football players, they may have a higher than normal rate of alzheimer's disease or other memory problems. today's hearing is focusing on the lasting impact of head injuries and how to limit them. commissioner roger goodall says the nfl will provide up to $88,000 a year to ex-players suffering from dementia alzheimer's, or parkinson's disease. remember the two northwest airline pilots who overshot the minneapolis airport by 150 miles last week? they have now had their licenses revoked. in a harsh letter the faa said the pilots endangered the public while they were on a personal frolic in the cockpit. captain timothy cheney and richard cole say they lost track of time while working on laptop computers. the pilots have ten days to appeal. investigators are hoping a time line will jog someone's

memory and lead them to the missing virginia tech student morgan harrington. at a news conference, they say harrington was spotted outside of the university of virginia arena sometime between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m. local time on october 17th. she left this arena during a metallica concert and was denied re-entry re-entry. harrington was last seen at 9:30 p.m. on a bridge. she had to walk across two parking areas to get there. last night her parents appeared on nancy grace. >> what do you know about her telling her friends inside that she might get a ride home? >> i know that she did tell them that she could get a ride home is what we believe. i don't know what that means. i can't think that morgan would leave with someone she did not know. >> exactly. exactly. >> but kids think everyone is their friend. >> they do ms. harrington.

they do. they think -- they're so trusting. >> $150,000 reward is being offered in that case. and breaking news tonight on "nancy grace," shocking new video allegedly showing the balloon boy's father trying to shoving a cigar in his son's mouth while poeszing with a beer bottle. plus, the family comes out swinging in a new battle against the sheriff. nancy grace got all the new developments right here on hln. former alaska governor got a quarter -- wanted a quarter million dollars for her upcoming memoir "going rogue." the retainer was given before she left office this summer. also before leaving palin got $4,000 worth of yankees tickets for rudy giuliani. other gifts listed a $550 knife set made with snowmobile parts. women's hunting gear and lodging to a couple of locations.

and it has been less than a year since president obama's election. in 2012 that presidential election, the new poll by cnn and opinion research corporation found in a hypothetical match-up for the gop nomination former governor sarah palin not the top choice. former arkansas governor mike huckabee is, as you can see, by the numbers. seven in ten americans polled do not think palin is qualified to be president. if some research in the uk is any indication here using twitter or facebook may be costing your boss big time. a survey by british i.t. company found social networking is costing businesses close to $2.25 billion a year in lost productivity. 56% of the people surveyed said they use social networking sites during the workday for personal use and spent an average of 40 minutes a week on them. a mega store here giving you a mega deal this holiday season. hln money expert clark howard

tells you who is offering some deep discounting on toys. >> how about santa coming with his sleigh ultraearly and having the thing packed with deals? i had already told you that this was going to be the most promotional christmas we could ever remember promotional is retailese meaning everything is going to be cheap. walmart stores is responding to the competitive threat that toys "r" us is posing with all its new pop-up stores. those are temporary retail stores that they're going to offer low, low prices on toys. walmart's response? 100 popular toys these are brand name toys, for ten bucks. now, i'll tell you. i would push up your christmas shopping for kids and get it done before october's over. because these toys are so affordable compared to what they would be otherwise. and there are so many people who want to buy for kids for

christmas, i would buy early now! i'm clark howard. for more money-saving advice go to my website cnn.com/clarkhoward. fbi agents are looking for an unusual bank robbery suspect, you could say. he's carrying a gun and sometimes an oxygen tank.

new developments in a brutal attack of a 15-year-old california girl. police say they have arrested three more people in the gang rape and beating of this 15-year-old outside of her homecoming dance. now, five people are in custody. our affiliate ktvu has more on

the shocking reaction among some of the students. >> well, this has really outraged the community here. let me tell you what's going on at the school campus. we were there yesterday and you know, while students are outraged, the talk among some of these students, they're saying that some people are actually blaming the victim saying that she was drunk and that, you know she shouldn't have done that. some people are saying that people used to make fun of her for other various reasons. other students are hearing that and saying, you know how can you blame her. so it's this back and forth. school district officials are really upset that students are reacting like this and actually tonight, there is going to be a community meeting at richmond high school. they're inviting parents to come. they're inviting students to come. and discuss safety. they feel that a school assembly is also needed to address the fact that there were so many witnesses, maybe up to 12 people, who actually stood there and did nothing about it.

that's very bothersome to the administrators here at richmond high school. so that maybe gives you a sense of, you know, people are laying blame, some on the victim, some saying of course not. of course it's not her fault. how can you say that. so i think, though, for the majority of people they are saying this is definitely a heinous crime. they're encouraged that police have been making arrests. and you know this is positive news that police seem to be gaining good leads. >> >>. new information here out of connecticut. the 21-year-old man accused of killing university of connecticut football player jasper howard is set to be arraigned today on murder and con spir vas si charges. john william lomax iii is being held on 2$2 million bail. four men have been arrested in the role of howard's murder. none of them is a student at uconn. howard was stabbed to ded

october 18th, saturday night, during a fight outside the dance on campus. the entire football team attended his funeral monday in miami. did you get a chance to check this out? nasa's new experimental rocket has taken it first test flight after several delays caused by bad weather. john knows all about those delays. he's live with us on more on today's successful launch. john, finally got it under the gun, with 30 minutes to go. huge day for nasa. >> reporter: yeah no question about it. and you know, you couldn't have scripted this any better, drama going on yesterday with the weather and then today the same thing. high clouds, concerns over those. and just realtime call very fluid situation. they were getting updates from the weather officers, telling them well we think you have a hole in these clouds in about ten minutes, so they would reset the clock and then reset it again nape would get 30 minutes left in the launch window. the first test though nasa's new rocket 327 feet tall, the

ares 1-x vehicle lifted off at the kennedy space center here just about 11:30 eastern time. now, the entire flight only lasted just a little over two minutes. the vehicle climbing to 130,000 feet before the first and the second stage separated. it reached nearly mock v, five times the speed of sound. i got to tell you broorkke, it got out of here in a hurry. you can see it in a longer distance as it moved up into the sky. but from everything that they looked at, first blush, it looked like it went perfectly. now, they have 711 sensors on board that vehicle, so now it's up to the science team, the engineering teams from nasa and from atk, the rocket builders go back and look at that data and really see how the vehicle performed.

just looking at it it seemed to go perfectly. separation at about two minutes in. again, at 130,000 feet. the upper stage flying off and then falling into the ocean. the lower stage falling back as well. but on parachutes. that stage will be recovered and can be reused just as the shuttle solid rocket boosters fall back on parachutes and are reused. so a big day for nasa. brooke quickly. one of the reasons why is because the president and his science team have yet to go ahead and give the final stamp of approval on whether the ares rocket is the way they want the u.s. space program to proceed down the road. this really validates the rocket maker and nasa's approach to the future of spaceflight by getting this first launch off so successfully. brooke? >> nasa hoping to prove this technology will work. john zarrella for us at kennedy space center. thank you. fans and celebrities have gotten their first glimpse here at a movie showing of mike gel

jackson's final months, "this is it." it debuted last night including the star-studded premier in los angeles. the film shows jackson's exhausting rehearsals for his comeback concert series, that never happened. his brother jermaine jackson spoke from the red carpet. >> i think he would have loved it only because it shows that there's a person in him throughout all the rehearsals and everything, you see when he's focused and he's concentrating on the band the dancers. you see that there's a humane side to him as opposed to him being on stage all the time and the glitz and the glamour. >> that was l.a. let's go to london, look at the pictures outside of that premier. some fans who saw the movie say they can't believe how jackson just actually kept up with the backup dancers half of his age. take a look. ♪ that is some toe-tapping music.

let's go to beijing. impersonators show casing the moves that made jackson a legend. government sensors actually had to approve the movie there. and incredible, amazing, you name the adjective, out of this world world, that is what some of the i-reporters are saying today. he watched the film in spring dale, ohio. he says people were singing, clapping, going crazy listening to the king of pop. he says he has never seen anything quite like this. >> i just got out of watching michael jackson's "this is it" at the showcase springdale, in springdale, ohio. i must say this was not a movie. this was an experience. as you can see from the crowd here, it was pretty much standing room only. wow! what can you say? we got to spend two hours plus with michael jackson.

you actually felt like you were at a concert. >> one of our i-reporters in california got a group of women together after the big l.a. premier. take a look at that. >> i loved all of it. it wasn't one part i liked better than the other. >> roberta from reno valley. >> i'd liked the whole movie. >> from start to finish. >> the best part i liked was all about love, all about her. >> the movie is out for all of us to see startding today. if you want to share your cool pictures or video, go to irs report.com and click on the up load now link and you will fooind complete instructions on how to submit your stories. again, stories from all around the world. what would you do to score world series tickets? after making a very desperate plea, dye hard phillies fan got ticketed for soliciting and is

still looking for tickets to any of the games.

all right. new moms, this is not exactly breaking news. calming down a crying baby can stress you out. the doctor says five ss can help you soothe baby. >> reporter: soothing a crying baby can be daunting for a new mom. >> it's the worst feeling in the whole wide world to not know exactly what he wants. you're going to be okay. >> reporter: but kelly is

learning how to calm her 2-week-old son by using a technique developed by pediatrician. >> one of the biggest misunderstandings is that babies need peace and cry it. >> reporter: karp says newborns miss the sounds and movement of her womb. he tries to recreate the comforting sensations with what he calls the five ss. >> swaddling, arms down at the side. second "s" is the side of stomach position. the third is switching. and the fourth is a slight jiggle motion. the last "s" is sucking and that's the icing on the cake. >> reporter: just what kelly wants to hear. >> crying tends to peak at 6 or 8 weeks. it just gets started at 2 weeks. >> that makes me nervous. >> reporter: when it comes to babies and parents, it's one day and one night at a time. for today's "health minute," i'm melissa long. tennis he jend andre agassi making a shocking new. he says said he used crystal meth during the heyday of his

career and lied about it. in his auto pigbiography, he said he had doubts about his impending marriage to brooke shield, so what he did he? he and his assistant used crystal meth at his home. he told tennis officials he unknowingly drank soda lace with the stuff. the tennis organization is not commenting on agassi's confession. pennsylvania police say a woman posted an ad on criagslist, why? allegedly offering sex for tickets to the world series. the ad described her as a desperate blond who is the creative type. undercover officers met her at a bar when she offered to take care of them. she was charged with soliciting prostitution that is a misdemeanor. her lawyer says the officers misunderstood what she was saying. he insists she was innocent. he says she is a diehard phillies fan and still looking for those tickets. can you believe halloween coming up this saturday? parents, that means candy and excitable kids. today, we are going beyond the

surface and letting you know some surprising facts about sugar. >> the more sugar that my child has, the more hyper -- >> they bounce off the walls. >> anything with sugar sets them off. >> it is absolutely untrue that sugar makes kids hyper. there have been 12 well-designed randomized placebo controlled trials looking at all kinds of factors. all of these studies show there is no relationship between sugar and kids hyper activity. there's truth to the idea that sugar is glucose and glucose is one of the things that gives the body energy but it doesn't make you hyper. kids often get sugar at times when they would otherwise be excited. this weekend you may run into this problem as kids try to eat as much halloween candy as possible. they may be excited and hyper about the holiday but it's not because of the candy. >> yum. sarah palin getting a lot of money for her upcoming book. nothing necessarily unusual

about that. but find out about the big bucks she got even before resigning as governor of alaska.

weren't we just talking about this last month here? in san francisco hundreds of thousand of drivers will have to find a new way to work. authorities shut down the bay bridge after a piece of steel and cable fell off the bridge and on to the road there last night. you can see the mess. fortunately no one was hurt. it did cause one minor car accident. the northwest airline pilots who over shot the minneapolis airport last week remember them? they have both had their licenses revoked. in a harsh letter faa said the pilots endangerered the public while they were on a personal frolic in the cockpit. they said they lost track of time while working on their laptop computers. the decision is effective immediately, but the pilots have

ten days to appeal. investigators are hoping a time line will help jog someone's memory and lead them to missing virginia tech student morgan harrington. at news conference this morning virginia state police say harrington was spotted outside of this university of virginia arena between 8:30 and 9:00 p.m. local time back on october 17th. that was a saturday. she left this arena during a metallica concert and denied re-entry. she was last seen at 9:30 p.m. local time on a bridge. she had to walk across two parking areas we're told, to get there. last night both of her parents appeared on "nancy grace." >> well, i think, you know charlottesville and central virginia is an area that is generally considered safe and of course, the metallica concert drew people from all over the east coast. but this kind of thing occurs all over the country, and it's usually someone who knows the area, someone who is comfortable with the roads and it's not

general li going to be someone who is just out of the blue you know driving through town and -- >> that's an excellent analysis. >> there is a reward being offered here $150,000 being offered in the case. coming up tonight breaking news on "nancy grace," shocking new video of allegedly showing the balloon boy's father trying to shove the cigar in the mouth of his then infant son bradford while having the boy pose with an empty beer bottle. will charges for the balloon hoax come down soon? plus, the family comes out swinging and a new battle against the sheriff. nancy grace has the latest breaking developments at 8:00 and 10:00 eastern time right here on hln. the parents of the little girl who died never intended to actually write a book about their daughter. after she passed away from brain cancer, they started finding these notes, these love notes all around their house. >> we started to you know, collect the letters. they would all say i love you

mom, dad, and grace. and we kept finding them. and you know, still to this day we keep finding them. and literally there's hundreds of notes that we found. >> what a gift. the parents decided a book containing the notes would be a great way to raise money for cancer. it is out now and it's called "notes left behind." a man fired by home depot is ready to sue the company over one single button. you see the button says one nation under god indivisible. he says he woefr it allre it all the thyme. no one said during his breaks. now, home depot has a policy gets wearing any noncompany buttons and last week he was fired when he wouldn't take off the button. >> as a christian and as a citizen of america, you know it's time that we stand up for our country. and quit being pushed around by everybody else. >> i think that was the pretense they used to fire him was by the

way, your button isn't home depot issued so therefore we're going to fire you because it was, you know it's not as easy to say we don't like the fact that you have a bible with you. >> his attorney is calling this religious discrimination. home depot says the nonbutton company policy is a way to respect everyone's beliefs. should a company's dress code be allowed to infringe with your religious beliefs? pick up the phone. call us at 877-tell-hln. grab your cell phone. text your word views plus comments to cnn.com/hln and text us to hlntv. a public document shows sarah palin got $1.25 million for her upcoming memoir. a retainer was given before she left office as governor of alaska. also before leaving palin got $4,000 worth of yankee tickets

from rudy giuliani. other gifts included a $550 knife set made with snowmobile parts, women's hunting gear and lodging to a number of locations. the disclosure statement only includes the months palin was in office this year. a texas grandma marks a major milestone with style. >> how does it feel to be 105? >> okay. >> the festivities included cake, ice cream, a little bit more.