later this year. megyn: that is hysterical. this is the mating ritual? gregg: i had a couple of girlfriends like that. megyn: we have to run. it has been a pleasure having you in this week. "happening now" starts now. jane: the morning, everybody. jon: in boston, a solemn tribute, and massive crowd bidding farewell to senator edward kennedy. tens of thousands of well- wishers lining up to pay respects at the tape -- jfk presidential library. senator kennedy's body lies in repose their. his family holding a vigil as members of the public filed silently past the senate is closed casket. the library was kept open until 2:00 this morning to accommodate all the people waiting to mourn an american icon. president obama, who will deliver the eulogy at tomorrow's funeral mass, summed up his

feelings, same, "this extraordinary life on this earth has come to an end. the extraordinary good that he did lives on." senator kennedy was a towering symbol of america's ideological divide between liberals and conservatives. a legendary dealmaker in the u.s. senate, so now that he is gone, who will become that dealmaker? major garrett is live on martha's vineyard where the president and his family are on vacation. that is the question of washington is asking, right? >> it is true. the fact of the matter is there are still some dealmakers in united states senate and congress generally. there are just far fewer deals. i spent almost 20 years covering congress. it is just a much more polarized institution that was when ted kennedy arrived on 1962. the fact is the filibuster is used much more aggressively as a procedural tool to block any action of any kind from

happening, and there are fewer legislators who want to cut deals. that is just the way the senate has begun to operate. many longtime staff and senators will tell you the senate as an institution in the last few years has become more and more like the house, quarrelsome and polarized, even though it was designed by the framers to be just the opposite, so that kind of personal interaction that leads the deal -- leads to deals just as much as common as it used to be. ted kennedy is an exemplar of that old approach, and there are fewer and fewer in his wake who will be allowed to make those deals or even have the inclination to pursue them. that is just a reality. jon: we continue to look live at the pictures of jfk at the presidential library in boston where edward kennedy lies in a pose. -- repose.

jane: tropical storm danny right now struggling to maintain winds of 40 miles per hour. it is off the coast of north carolina, likely heading up to the northeast this weekend. where is it right now? >> if we could take the weather maps, and there they are. this is tropical storm danny. the good news, struggle to get its act together. this time yesterday, we were talking about possibly a hurricane. now, struggling to even get past a tropical storm. really disorganized, although we are threatening to see a flare- up. the center of the storm is well to the west of the storm, so really cannot get its act together, but we are still going to monitor the system because there is still a bit of uncertainty with some of the computer models, a lot of them still pressing me coast of massachusetts, new england, and up towards canada and several models kicking out to sea, which would be great news.

there are the computer models. of course, the computer models make up our cone of uncertainty, and that is why it gets a little bit wider, but we are fairly certain this will remain a tropical storm in the next several days. brushing coastal new england tomorrow and then of towards canada, but we do have funeral services tomorrow for ted kennedy, and that will mean the potential for more rain on top of incredible amounts of rain from a double barrelled system across the great lakes and mid- atlantic regions. a couple of low pressure systems, a trough in place, and all of the tropical moisture feeding in. we are going to get quite a deluge across the northeast. in some cases, we could see upwards of three, four, even 6 inches of rain. that is something we look at amateur when it comes to storms strengthening. we certainly have the water temperatures there, but this storm is very disorganized.

upper level winds are not conducive to anymore strengthening in just a 45-mile per hour storm. 69 in minneapolis. 70 in chicago. 71 in new york city, and i want to mention that we have very cold air invading the midwest over the weekend into next week. an overnight lows in parts of the midwest -- freezing. 30's. jane: that is music to my years. i can't wait. >> i'm glad you see a silver lining because nobody likes the weather machine today. jane: we want to get to the store that has people talking all across the country. for the first time in 18 years, a kidnap victim named jaycee lee dugard is free from the clutches of her kidnapper. we also learned about the story yesterday morning. we are learning some pretty sick new details. jaycee was 11.

she was snatched as she headed to the school bus. police say she spent years hidden away in a backyard, in california. they say she was raped by her kidnapper, and it of having two children with him. he lived with his wife. the first child she had when she was just about 14. today, the suspect and his wife -- you see them here -- they are behind bars. jaycee has been reignited with her mom. claudia is in california at the home where this took place. they found her basically because it turned out the suspect was acting strangely, and that set off this whole pattern? >> that is right. earlier this week, he had his two little children with him on the campus of uc-berkeley, where according to people who knew him, he had plans to teach religion, and his behavior with these two children sparked the curiosity of campus police, who realized that here was, a convicted sex offenders on parole, what was he doing with

these children? they notified his parole officer who began an investigation that led to the discovery of this young woman's identity. just a few hours ago, federal agents and local police wrapped up their extensive search of the property here in antioch carrying away bags of evidence not only from this case, but four other open kidnap cases. it may look like an ordinary home from the front, but it is emerging as a house of horrors as we learn more details about how jaycee lee dugard was kept here as a sex slave, kept in isolation in what is being described as a backyard with in a backyard, hidden under those tall trees back there so well that when parole officers came here to visit the house, they reportedly saw no sign that any children ever lived here. alyssa, as she was known, and her two young children, live in a series of tense and sheds that were strategically arranged to keep them shielded from view.

no electricity, no running water or anything like that. these three young women never left the property. they never went to school, never saw a doctor. as you mentioned, it is so heartbreaking to think that this is the home where jaycee lee dugard was repeatedly sexually abused and when she gave birth to her first daughter when she was just 14, and she had another daughter four years later. to say that neighbors who are learning about all of this happening just down the street are shocked would be quite an understatement. jane: it is so disturbing and so hard braking on so many levels. what do we know this morning about how jaycee is doing, how her girls are doing, and where they all are? >> by the way, she does retain custody of her children. we do not know what she looks like after all this time, but we're told she is in good shape and has been reunited with her mother, who is now also become acquainted with her two young

granddaughters, who again were born in his home less than 200 miles away from where jaycee was kidnapped 18 years ago. an incredible story, but now, we are hearing from the man who claims responsibility for all of this. he granted a jailhouse telephone interview to a sacramento tv station in which he says that the public has got him all wrong. here is a quotation from this interview that he gave. it is hard to imagine that anything heart warming could come out of this tragic ordeal beyond the fact that jaycee is alive, but later today, garrido and his wife, who stood by her husband all these years, will be

arraigned on multiple charges of sexual assault, kidnapping, and conspiracy. jane: thank you. coming up in a couple of minutes, we will be talking with one of the initial lead investigators on this case when she was first taken 18 years ago and get his reaction to how this could have happened and how nobody could have noticed in all those years that something was amiss. jaycee is not the first kidnap victim to turn of months or years after vanishing. you may remember the story of shawn hornbeck, which made news in to the seven. he had been kidnapped four years earlier but had been found in missouri when his abductor kidnapped another boy. he's getting ready to finish high school. we're told the maintains a 3.5 gpa and is open to go to college. then there is a girl from idaho, who was found weeks after being snatched by a convicted sex offender who also murdered her family. the jury is currently deliberating whether her kidnapper is competent to stand

trial in another case. of course, the story of elizabeth smart is the one that came to mind. that 14, she was taken right from her bedroom in salt lake city. nine months later, she was found alive. her kidnappers have been ruled unfit to stand trial. today, she is 21, a political activist. she has been studying music at brigham young. jon: let's take a look of the big board right now. you can see the dow industrials down about 30 points on this friday. that as new economic data shows that despite some positive news recently about the economy, we are not all feeling very optimistic. jenna lee is an optimist, though. >> you have to try to be. it looks like the data is showing us that consumer sentiment is at its lowest level in four years. we are really drifting into the back-to-school shopping season, and then, the holiday season -- give shopping, that is -- and those are the two most important

times for retail. consumer spending really feels grows, so that his concern to investors. we have more data we got today about last month about personal spending and income. it looks like we were spending a little bit more than the previous month, which is usually a good sign, but it is really not significant. it is right in line with expectations. as far as incomes, that did not change at all. with the job market being what it is, we're not seeing raises any time soon, it is easy to see why consumer sentiment is not as positive. that is what wall street is absorbing today. a little bit of a slow simmer friday. the markets are down 37 points after eight straight days of gains. jon: thank you. jane: today, an american soldier died in afghanistan, which makes august the deadliest month for america there. our top military man in afghanistan says today we need to make some big changes if we want to win this war. jon: also, it was a terrible

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jane: some pretty incredible video has just been released. it shows the very moment that a passenger train collided with a car in michigan. this collision left five young people dead, who were inside this car. this video is a little bit scary. jane: we are going to show it to you again in slow motion. the video proves that the driver had driven around the crossing gate. we can't hear the an engineer some illegals. it more than 40 seconds to bring it to a halt -- you can hear the

engineer sunday -- sounding the horn. everyone 9 car 21 or younger, all of them killed instantly. none of them tested positive for alcohol, but police suspected two of them had marijuana on them. we are waiting to hear whether they were using. jon: the top u.s. commander in afghanistan taken the wraps off a new counterinsurgency strategy as of this has just become the deadliest month for american troops in afghanistan since the war began eight years ago. the general says the war against the taliban cannot be won by attrition. he cites what he says is an endless supply of militants. he is telling troops to change how they think, act, and operate, place the safety of villagers above the killing of terrorists. the approach coincides with a sharp critique of american

efforts in the muslim world from the chairman of the joint chiefs. he says no big pr campaign will do the job. rather, actions, not words, are needed to erase what he calls the arrogant american label held in many parts of the world. let's talk about with our foxes military analyst -- let's talk about it with our fox news military analyst. when they say there is basically an endless supply of militants, what does he mean? >> he does not mean that the taliban is growing by leaps and bounds. he means that taliban sympathizers, mostly young men, who are dissatisfied with the regime, or perhaps taken aback by the actions of coalition forces, tend to support the taliban. it is not that the ranks of the enemy is growing. it is just that the atmospherics within the country are beginning to shift in the wrong direction. part of that is also due to the distrust of the government, and occasionally, it has got to do with an improper reading of the

actions of the coalition. so what mike mullen is trying to do is turn that around. he is trying to and what is called the battle for the narrative, the battle to win back from the taliban the perceptions of the people and to gain the support of the people. by the way, this is don necessarily a strategic issue so much as it is a tactical issue. it is the performance of young men and women every day in scotts and platoons who go out on patrol that will really help shape the narrative and turn this war back in favor of the allies. jon: in many respects, it seems to be the same kind of strategy that general petraeus was practicing in iraq. addressing the needs of the local population, keeping them safe, and letting that dictate the tempo of the war. >> a little bit, but afghanistan is not iraq. the theaters of war are so different. this war is being fought at a much lower level, the inkatha against insurgent who is far

more skillful. it is fought against a tribal culture that is far more fragmented than in iraq where local chiefs how far more control of the local population and as the population in iraq. remember, 90% of the young man in afghanistan are illiterate, and they look to their tribal leaders for guidance. the influence of the tribe and the influence of the insurgents is potentially much greater in afghanistan and it was in iraq. jon: general, thank you. jane: we continue to get more on this kidnapped little girl who turned up alive 18 years later at the age of 29. what happened during that time was certainly horrified and bizarre. we are waiting for the arraignment of her alleged kidnapper. show and tell you weren't always my favorite day. with all the pet hair in the air, i'd spend class preoccupied, bothered by itchy eyes.

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jon: a fox news alert. get ready for the newest united states senator. he is being picked by florida's governor to replace retiring republican senator mel martinez. lemieux has never held office, but he is said to be in lockstep with florida's governor, who intends to run for that seat himself when it becomes open in november 2010 is. he served under that attorney general chris as deputy attorney general. he ran christ -- crist's successful gubernatorial campaign. com george lynn knew -- george lemieux the next senator from florida.

jane: where to get back to this story about jaycee dugard. she had not been seen by her family and 18 years until this week. willard and she was held in virtual isolation in a backyard compound by a convict -- convicted sex offender who police say fathered two children with her, who are now 11 and 15. her disappearance, as you can imagine, destroyed her family for years. her stepfather was considered the main suspect. the situation provincially broke up his marriage to jaycee pose a mother. earlier today, he was on "good morning america." >> it is pretty sick. i feel sorry for jaycee going through this. he has had her locked up in the backyard for 18 years. a school, no doctor, the dentist. the children have never been to a doctor or dentist. this could be a long road to change things around.

jane: the suspect and his wife are now in custody. we are waiting today for their arraignments. we're told we should expect those in the next few hours. on the phone with us is a lieutenant from the el dorado county sheriff's office in the lake tahoe area. he was one of the original investigators on this case was jaycee -- lend jaycee was taken at just 11 years old. >> i have never had a case that ended just this way. jane: we should close out that we're jaycee -- where jaycee was taken was 200 miles from this place. >> in any type of child disappearance, family members are historical a suspect to begin life, but as this case let

on, leads evaporated for us. we really ran out of a direction to go. jane: do you ever had and the indication that this couple might be involved? >> they were never on our radar, to my knowledge, whatsoever. we have looked at this case for 18 years. we recently turned it over to our cold case squad for a fresh set of eyes, and these two were just never in focus for us. jane: we should point out also that he is a registered sex offender and a convicted rapist. he was out on parole. there will be a lot of second- guessing about what authorities could have done in these interim years, these 18 years. did they do enough? they were at his home. one of the webers said they called share studies in the war over there, and nobody seemed to see that there was a child who has grown into a woman and two strong children. >> this compound was more

readily -- was not readily seen this. unfortunately, it was missed. jane: did you ever think it would be solved? >> we always hoped it would be. this is what of the things that creates a scar on a community. the community will be ever scarred with this. parents did not let their kids what to the bus stop at war. they take to school, but picked up at the bus stop. we teach in school district how to escape from strangers. this is a small town where things like this just were not on our radar. jane: there was a report that the car that was used to kidnap jaycee so many years ago was found on this property. does that surprise you that that

also was not seen? >> it is just amazing how this case has evolves. it is my understanding the car that was used in this deduction was located at the property. in a stand it was covered over at the top -- with a tarp. jane: what is your understanding -- we're told the jaycee has heard two daughters. will they come back to your area and settle there? >> the family has returned to southern california. i do not know what the psychological impact of this event will have on them in the future. i'm sure it will be devastating and for the life of jaycee and her family, but we would hope they would come back and at least a visit with us. the community is really -- has really come together over this case. jane: one of the original investigators on this case, joining us from the lake tahoe area. thanks for your time. >> thank you very much. jon: good to have jaycee, but so

much work ahead. jane: heartbreak dollar around, thinking about her and her mother and that step father talking about how that broke up his marriage. how his wife would take a week of work every year and saw about the time she was adopted. jon: just awful. tens of thousands of mourners right now still waiting for their chance to pay final respects to senator edward kennedy. live pictures from the jfk library in boston right now, as you can see. mourners filing past where his body lies in repose ahead of his wake and funeral.

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jane: we want to take you back live to boston with thousands of people from all walks of life have been waiting for hours to get into the jfk presidential library. the mourners are saying farewell to senator edward kennedy. they are slowly filed past his casket, which is trade with the american flag. a small list learnings visitors, the rev. jesse jackson said senator kennedy helped change the country through his work for minorities, the disabled. this is dorchester, massachusetts. i'm sorry if i misspoke saying it was directly in boston. is that right? >> dorchester is part of boston, so it is part of the city. one of the most fascinating

things about what is happening is this really is bringing people together. a lot of these folks have very personal stories about senator kennedy. joining me now is one of those folks that has a very personal story about senator kennedy. if you could just share that with us. >> my personal story is for two years -- 2006 and 2007 -- senator kennedy asked our choir to go over to his house and sit at christmas time. we were invited to his house to sing for his grandson -- i believe it was his holy communion celebration. he invited us to one of his favorite seafood restaurants, allowed us to go there and order whatever we wanted. we were then escorted to the kennedy compound where we went dancing christmas songs for hours. it was a lovely time. >> you mentioned the senator is usually very stored but not that day. >> that is right. we sang songs and when we finished, he stood up and said, "we have had many things down in

his basement. we have watched films of our parents, brothers, sisters, but never have we had such a beautiful gospel music." and he began to cry. at that point, he invited as upstairs. if we got to see the lovely pictures in his house of his brothers, his sisters, his mother and father, and it was just a lovely time. >> you came today to pay your respects. what was it like inside? >> actually, i was here last night with my sons. we came late in the evening, and we will hear from 10:00 to 2:00. it was a very long time, but it was a history moment for my son and my nephew and myself. we spent a lot of time with people we did not know, and we shared lots of stories, and we just had a good time. we signed the book. we went in, and as we walked in, there were pictures of senator kennedy and his family. as we got a chance to take some pictures. last night, so much because it

was the end of the morning and may have to close, but today, i was able to stop and take pictures. as you get up to the door, you have to turn off your camera. from the door, you could see a glimpse of the casket, and then it becomes real. that is when the stalinist -- solemnness takes over. at first, you tell yourself what kind of feelings you're going to have. this senator is gone, and then you start to feel sad. he is gone. this is the last time you are going to see him, and i got a glimpse of the casket with the flag on a. that is only person in front of me turned and saluted, so i followed him. i turned and i saluted. a tear came down my eye. i have never been in the service, but it caused me to salute in honor of a wonderful man. then i turned again and blew a kiss to the casket. >> take you so much for sharing your story. there are so many stories from

people with senator kennedy has reached out to them. we thank you for sharing your today. jane: well said. thanks. we will check back with you in a bit. jon: the spotlight is on detainee interrogations', bringing to light the major turf war going on between the cia and president obama's justice department. the battle pits attorney general holder against ci director -- cia director panetta. the battle broke out when holder decided to press ahead with a criminal investigation of alleged detainee abuse. the complicated behind-the- scenes balancing act between civil rights and security. joining us, the political editor for the "washington examiner." it would seem that attorney- general eric holder seems to have the upper hand. >> i say there are many people who would say there's not much balancing going on. we saw in the "washington post"

a story about how the attorney general with the white house know what he wanted to know, even though it contravenes what the president had said, that he did not want to go backwards and creates the potential rivalry and a conflict between two key intelligence agencies, but he got the green light from the white house anyway. it seems like the attorney- general has soared as free rein to go where he wants to, and there are a lot of people are concerned that this could go a very long way. jon: in the wake of the 9/11 attacks, lord of the criticisms leveled at our intelligence agencies was that they were not talking to each other. the fbi and cia were going in different directions. now, you have an issue where the fbi will be in charge of -- what? investigating cia again? >> it is exactly the kind of situation that when we saw the report from the 9/11 commission and we saw the after action reports falling september 11 that the lack of communication

and cooperation between cia and fbi, the cia knowing about threats, the fbi knowing about threats, that they did not communicate to one another helped create a situation that put the country at risk. people on both sides of the aisle agree that it was important for the agencies to be able to cooperate. now, there is considerable concern that as a result of the fbi investigating the cia that the folks at the cia are called to do two things -- money, be more cautious about doing their jobs -- one, the more cautious about doing their jobs, and two, be more secretive with the fbi. jon: is the cia director getting steamrolled? >> leon panetta is one of the graybeards of the democratic party. he was considered to be a loyal trustworthy person the president could put in a charge of the cia. he was a controversial topic.

now, there are people, retired agency books. it is time for him to demonstrate that he has the best interests of the country at heart by protesting more forcefully or even resigning, and the pressure is mounting from inside his agency and from without. jon: thanks. jane: we have some developing news on the libyan leader's visit to the united states next month. in new jersey, people are making a loud and clear they do not want him there. it is said that he wants to pitch a tent on some property that the country on there. we are now getting reports courtesy of the ap that the mayor of the town in the wood, new jersey, says he is going to go to court to try to toqaddafi -- try to stop qaddafi from coming. these bitter feelings stem from

scott and deciding to set free the man convicted of the lockerbie bombing. 270 people killed. 38 from new jersey. we are also learning that the white house knew about the deal to spring the bomber. when did they know about it, i guess the question. >> good afternoon. sources tell fox news that the obama administration new months in advance that the british and scottish were considering releasing the man on humanitarian grounds to live out his mounts at home in libya while he faced terminal prostate cancer. national security council officials told fox news at the state department, attorney general eric holder, and the white house advisor all tried to persuade the scots to reverse the decision to no avail. it is worth pointing out that while scotland is part of the u.k., the country does run its own justice system. jane: i misspoke, earlier, the pan am flight that exploded over lockerbie. tell me more about what

residents of new jersey are saying and what they can actually do about the arrival of the libyan leader there? >> this might now be headed for court. the libyan government purchases of property in englewood, new jersey, not far from manhattan as a kind of sick and residents for the libyan ambassador to the united states. throughout the tributes -- turbulence in the relationships between the countries, the property remained libyan. because he likes to pitch a tent or a beach towels, and because he has been denied permission to do that when he comes to new york, he pitches in inglewood. citizens of new jersey are repulsed. we have been told there was no legal resources. the mayor of in what seems to think otherwise. jon: federal investigators say it did not have to happen. nine people killed in that crash earlier this month in mid-air between a small plane and a helicopter over the hudson river

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>> i have just gotten off the phone with montgomery county sheriff's lt. brian right. they are looking for information about two virginia tech students that were found yesterday morning in the jefferson national park shot to death. the two close friends have visited the park may believe overnight on wednesday evening, and a passerby found thursday morning. autopsies are pending, but both were shot, and police are considering this a double homicide. right now, the 1992 toyota camry is being evaluated for signs of weapons or evidence or fingerprints. they have no suspects in custody

right now, but the lead tenant tells me they need your help. if you have information on about the car or the students or where they might have been wednesday afternoon, they would appreciate it if you call the number at the bottom of your screen. the investigation is ongoing. virginia tech, as you know, no stranger to violence of students. right now, the community just trying to come to grips with what could have happened. these two students found dead, shot to death in jefferson part. roy information as i continue to talk to authorities. jane: thanks very much. the ntsb has delivered what you might call a blistering assessment of that deadly crash we saw over the hudson river. nine people were killed back on august 8. you're most likely remember these pictures. a small plane collided with a sightseeing helicopter. investigators are blaming air traffic controllers. the agency is not even waiting until the investigation is complete to speak out about what they think happened. what does this letter say?

>> it is a pretty scathing letter. there are two parts to it. tsb chairman asked the faa to establish flight rules and set of procedures that require planes and choppers to fly at different altitudes in this area, and she was extremely critical of the unprofessional actions of the comptroller and the tower supervisor. jane: what exactly were they doing? >> it is pretty amazing. the ntsb details how the controller was on the phone for more than two minutes before the crash, and the supervisor had left the tower of a personal errand. he could not be found immediately after the crash. the ntsb believes the conversation would not have occurred if the supervisor had been on site supervisor.

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jane: now to illinois where a

community is rallying around a pretty amazing 11-year-old boy. he saved his family from an early-morning fire. he woke up, spotted the fire in the kitchen. he welcomed his mother, carried this little girl out of the house. -- he woke up his mother, carried this little girl out of the house. he went back into the building to get his aunt. the family unfortunately lost everything when the house went up inflames, but a neighbor is stepping in and giving the family a new home. the blare of riverdale, ill., joins us today -- the mayor of riverdale, ill., joins us today along with the boy. why are you so moved? this is not even a family from yorktown. >> on move because of his actions. i had an opportunity to read the newspaper, and it just moved me to look at how this young man did something that most of us probably would not do.

in reading the article, i noticed that his family have relocated to my community in riverdale, and i just learned to reach out and do something special for his actions to let you know that when you do things -- when you do good things, good things come back to you in turn. jane: how did you even know what to do when the fire broke out? >> when we were in school, a fireman came, and he said that if there is a burning building, do not grab anything, just get yourself and everybody out, so that is what i did. jane: that is pretty amazing. what do you think of getting a new house? >> i'm glad about it. i'm just so proud about it. jane: i understand the house is going to need a fair amount of rehab. who pays for that? >> with the support of the house

program, they are going to provide us with the funds needed to do the remodeling and the home. we are very happy, and we thank the president for his support. jane: you are talking about the board president in your county, but no mortgage. they will have to pay taxes on a going forward? >> correct. jane: what do you have to say to everyone who calls you a hero? >> i really -- i know when they call me a hero, i just did what i was taught to do. jane: you were taught well. i know the mayor has a plaque that he wants to present to you. if you could do that as well. we thank you both for being here. >> thank you. this plaque is for saving lives and making a difference. this is a young man we must keep our arms wrapped around because he is going to do some great things. this is for you some the village of riverdale for your heroic act

in saving your family. jane: he is going to do great things and already has. thanks to you both. good work. congratulations. jon: there is a new sign that al qaeda is under heavy pressure. with the terror group's deputy leader has to say in his latest tape and why counter-terrorism experts say it is a clear sign of distress. ♪ bicycle, what are we waiting for? the flowers are blooming. the air is sweet.

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library. -- martha is live outside the library. >> it is like walking through history, being part of this over the next couple of days. just moments ago, the senator's wife came in just moments ago. i think we have some pictures of her. before that, we saw the last surviving of the nine kennedy siblings. she came on and just moments ago as well. it is interesting to talk to all the people here whose lives the senator touched. they feel so intimately connected with him and with his family. one of them as a woman who talked a little bit about how she got into the air force after some great difficulty. >> i came here to thank senator kennedy because when i was a young woman, i wanted to join me air force, and the air force told me i was too short. so i went to representative

kennedy's office at the time, and he made a phone call to the air force, and lo and behold, i made a career out of it. >> it is a great story. you hear that a lot, that he sort of would pick up the phone and make a phone call and make things happen for people who either showed up at his office or wrote him a letter and asked him to do something. jon: we understand you spoke to rev. jesse jackson. what did he have to say? >> all around me, i keep seeing faces that you have seen for years connected with the kennedy family. this is not just for the public today. they are very much part of the ceremony. i spoke to rev. jackson, and it occurred to me that he was central to that 2008 election when teddy kennedy made a huge decision -- very friendly with the clintons, very friendly with barack obama and had a lot of faith in him. he had to make a decision about who he was the will to put his

backing behind, and there was that monumental moment in south carolina when bill clinton made a comment about how jesse jackson won south carolina, as if it was no big deal, and it was said that the kennedys took some umbrage, and that was one of the things that drove the support of barack obama by the kennedy family, which was huge in this campaign. here is what jesse jackson had to say. president clinton made, south carolina that had to do with you and your winning south carolina in a previous election. some felt that the kennedy family was upset about those racial comments, they felt, and that that was what sort of threw his support closer to barack obama. >> he said that was a turning point for him, but president barack obama and senator clinton were very well respected, credible people. that was splitting households between the two of them, and he had gained the respect of both the clintons and the obamas, and

he made a tough decision, and his decision ultimately prevailed. it is a most fitting cap on his work from selma to the white house, that he embraced president barack obama. >> that was a very big moment. barack obama came on the campaign bus and said, "this is big. we got teddy." it was a very emotional moment for in him. behind me is william kennedy smith, the son of the last surviving member of teddy's siblings. william kennedy smith is behind me greeting people. we have seen that throughout the day as the kennedy family is all taking turns standing by the casket, sitting by the casket inside, and each family member has their shift and their time to come out here and meet with the public. we remember the story surrounding william kennedy smith and the rape allegations pitted against him. his uncle was one of those that

testified at the trial. he was exonerated, and he is obviously part of the family and part of the ceremony that is ongoing today. there he is behind us as we continue to see family members, people so thrilled to have the chance to meet them and shake their hand. jon: we will be there for "live desk" coming up. jane: people longley carolina coast are bracing for the arrival of this tropical storm named danny. it seems to have lost some of its strength over the atlantic, but dangerous surf, life- threatening recurrence expected to surface there. i then we are looking at some live pictures -- is that right? some of carolina. how much of a punch will this have when it lands? what is coming? >> looks can be deceiving. people need to be cautious if they are heading into the water. this is not as powerful as

hurricane bill, but we are still dealing with recurrence, and that can be a pretty scary thing if you are not a season swimmer. looking at danny, exposed center of the storm. most of the shower and thunderstorm activity to the eastern side of the storm. very disorganized, but we still need to watch over danny as we had throughout time, scraping the outer banks of the carolinas to that, and then towards boston. we have a lot of problems with the northeast. we have a couple of low pressure systems, a trough in place, and if they comes very close, we could see more tropical moisture. this is going to be quite a problem for the northeast, and of course, funeral processions for ted kennedy tomorrow, and that could lead to incredible amounts of flooding unfortunately for the boston area. some computer models are saying anywhere from 3 to even 6 inches of rain. there are the computer models that make that: of uncertainty, as we like to talk about, but

the good news we are talking about a tropical storm, not a hurricane, and it looks like most of the computer models have the storm curled back to sea. a lot of tropical moisture making its way up to the gulf. i can't lot of people are going to confuse whether this is danny's moisture or the trough. one thing is for certain -- it is going to be a very wet, nasty weekend for much of the northeast. jane: enjoy the beach while you can. thanks. jon: a new al qaeda video released today. the timing reason questions about what might be happening behind enemy lines. al qaeda's second in command says the u.s. is leading a crusade to turn pakistan into a divided nation. he is calling on pakistanis to join a jihad against the u.s.. the new video comes after the pakistani taliban leader was killed in the u.s. military attack earlier this month. we have the latest on this from

islamabad. >> the very latest of that video, many of the themes in that are very similar to one that they released -- al qaeda released earlier in the month, but there was line in there about an offensive, a pakistani military offensive in a stronghold for the talent in the tribal areas. it said that of the pakistani military goes into a full force, it will lead to a backfire. i spoke with a retired general of the pakistani military, and he told me that it is less with the content of the message and more the timing. the same week we heard from the taliban for the first time that they admitted that their former leader was killed in that u.s. drove strike back on august 5, so this general believes that right now what al qaeda is trying to do is rally support around the taliban as well as throw their support behind the taliban, mainly because their fate is interconnected because the safe havens that al qaeda

enjoys in the tribal areas is because of the taliban control down there. if the pakistani military and the more accurate u.s. strikes are starting to get that, that is why they came out with this message today. jon: this is the second video out this month. is he saying anything much different in this new video? >> not that much. it is right now -- the people that i have been speaking with on the ground in pakistan are really focusing on the fact that it is the timing. there has been a lot of reporting that the taliban as very fractured at the moment. in the late of the killing, there are two camps. there is one behind the man who is now the leader and a couple of other attractions. there are even rumors that the current leader was killed, so there is a lot of back-and- forth. the thought is this video was released to solidify that there is taliban leadership, and the concern now on the ground here in pakistan is that there might

be high-profile attacks from the corners of the taliban can prove that they are operational. we saw an attack last night near the main border between pakistan and afghanistan were 22 border guards were killed. tiled and claimed responsibility, and they said it was direct reprisal -- taliban claimed responsibility. jane: those tea party tax protest gave voice to the people who wanted to reduce the size of the government and a federal bailout. now, what is called the key party express is revving up for a new tour -- what is called the tea party express. what exactly do they want? >> they will and in washington with a rally on the capitol steps. they are united by their discontent, really, of government. smaller taxes, less government, less regulation, but everyone has their own reason. one of the issues in california

-- you can see the bus behind me -- no water, no future, no jobs. what brought you out? >> primarily, the dysfunctional government -- both state and federal -- that are intent on overregulation, over taxation and to give away programs that are bankrupting our state. but personally, tony and i, the water situation. they have cut off our water, and that is devastating our family and our local community. >> unemployment in some towns, 40%. >> 30% around here on area. we farm southeast of there. >> you want regulators to release the water. you take a different view, a little wider view. what is the point of this. what do you guys want to do with this message? >> really, it is an overall

message of less environmental tyranny. there is a small group of radical environmentalists that have taken over our state, affecting farmers, truck drivers, lumber guys, truckdrivers, and we are saying enough is enough. >> like i said, people have different issues. as they go across the country, 16 days, your goal of your lot of different things. in michigan mib unemployment or manufacturing. here, it is environment. jon: disturbing new details coming to light in the case of jaycee dugard, the little girl held captive for nearly two decades, just yesterday found alive. we will talk with her role rivera who has been covering for years. announcer: you could buy 750 bottles of water

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the cia director says the agency will cover fees for agents under investigation by the justice department's newly appointed special prosecutor. our national correspondent is looking into this. what do we know about this investigation and what the cia -- how the cia plans to respond? >> the u.s. intelligence official confirms the agency will be covering legal fees associated with attorney general eric holder's preliminary review of the interrogation program, which is considering whether some officers and contractors will ultimately face criminal prosecution. leon panetta -- this is seen as more resistance to the attorney general's decision. for some context, there was a review of the enhanced interrogation program by career prosecutors and the previous administration, so for this agency, it will be a second go round. jon: in a case like this, what

are we talking about in terms of legal fees? >> it is not uncommon for cia employees to carry insurance because legal fees in these cases can often run to a couple hundred thousand dollars. what is key is in effect there are two investigations going on. the one announced this week, and there is a second investigation almost two years old and to the destruction of cia videotapes that documented some of these enhanced interrogations'. jon: thanks. jane: we are getting some pretty stunning new details about the case of the little girl who was held captive for 18 years. at 11 years old, she was kidnapped go into the bus stop, and she has just been found this week. we are learning about how she lived all those years, about her accused kidnappers. we expect to see them in court today. we will talk with geraldo rivera, who has been covering his case for years. if you've had a heart attack

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where, and by whom. if you have information about where the students might have been earlier on wednesday -- they were killed sometime between wednesday night and thursday morning. david was driving in 1992 and for your best or toyota camry. if you saw the car, saw them, or have any other information, please call the number on your screen. autopsy results will be given to the state sheriff's office, and we hope to have more information about this tragic case. two virginia tech students killed in the park on wednesday night or thursday morning. help if you can. jon: thank you. after nearly two decades, a kidnap victim jaycee dugard has been reunited with her family. today, we learn some horrifying and details about her time in captivity. jane: she was just 11 years old. she was walking up to the school bus. this all happened in the lake tahoe area.

she spent 18 years, police tell us, had an ally in the backyard just hours away from her childhood home. police say jaycee was raped by her kidnapper, who learned was the father of her two children. he lived in the main house on this property with his wife. she and her children were held in an area in the back that was not seen by law enforcement when they showed up. geraldo rivera is with us. you have been looking at this thing for years, and you had said, along with those of everyone else, you suspected that stepfather, who was the winter reporter when she ran to a bus stop, and he sought a car pull up, and he saw somebody take her away. >> that is what aggravates this tragedy. a situation where this child's entire life has been spent virtually as a sex prisoner in this bizarre, filthy backyard, but you also have the inevitable side consequence that everyone thought the step that

-- step father had done it. for years. it's split their marriage up. everyone said that from the story got on his mountain bike and chased these perpetrators -- it sounded so bizarre. even in the elizabeth smart case, it was suspected the father might have been involved here. but to really understand the passage of years -- you have to understand i interviewed the step father and mother way back in 1993. here is the story they told at that time. >> so i'd jump my bike, and i was trying to get to her. i saw the whole thing happen, but i could not get to her. i have no car keys. i had and mountain bike next to me. when this first happened, and arrests came through my body like a whole energy was sapped over me. i made a pass up to the hilt, i get to the top of the hill, they were gone. i came down the hill, screaming to a neighbor to call my hundred 11. within two minutes, the police were called.

-- screaming to a neighbor to call 911. >> before we get into the circumstances of this tragic of ducks and, i wonder, what kind of stress must that put on a marriage? -- before we get into the circumstances of this tragic abduction. >> it could destroy us if we let it. the focus is to stay together and bond and work together to keep the hope alive. it is important. we have a 2 1/2 year-old, and that is important to us also. land -- when jaycee comes home, she will need that family home. >> and yet, they did split up. the inevitable pressures did -- she used to take christmas vacation to spend a week just alone, alone, just to cry. and again on the anniversary of the child's adoption --

abduction. and the couple split, and ancillary penalty that they paid. jon: so interesting, too, there are not a lot of roads leading in and out of there. they had a pretty good description of the car. the police were called within two minutes, and they were not able to stop this guy. >> this is definitely not law enforcement's shining moment. in a sense that he called 911, the cops have to have a much more prompt response. which is amber alert and the rest of it now, you do have a more disciplined and professional response. it seemed very haphazard. also, you have the fact that this property had been searched at least two or three times by various law enforcement because they knew that a registered sex offender lived there. jane: just last hour, we have one of the original investigators on, was said that it was his understanding that the getaway car is sitting on this property in california

where they found her. >> absolutely correct, and it is not a vast property. it just seems to be the kind of inattention and bureaucratic semi-attention to detail that really allows some of these tragic cases to fall between the cracks. jane: i the question people ask is why did she not run away, but when we look back in other cases, that is easier said than done. >> it is different than the austrian case in that there there was no physical ability to run. here, you did have it, but a lot like elizabeth smart, she got so totally inculcated with the bizarre religious fanaticism of her captor, the stockholm syndrome israel. at some point, particularly when the victim is only 11 when you begin, and he starts having sex with her shortly thereafter, she has a child by him at 14, and another later -- the child was so brainwashed by the perpetrator, that is another crime to me.

the fact that he destroyed her free will, this awful person. jane: now, they will try to attend some sort of recovery with the family. they say her daughters will stay with her. jon: those girls, 14 and 11, never been to school and never seen a doctor. unbelievable. jane: thank you. jon: be sure to watch "geraldo at large" and be sure to check out his new book. thanks. jane: really a sea of sadness we are watching at the jfk library in boston. we have live pictures we have been watching. thousands of people have been lining up to remember senator kennedy and his political dynasty that he was part of. one of the most effective legislators in the nation's history, that coming from both sides of the aisle. who will be the next liberal line? is pain, you could end up taking 4 times the number...

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jane: a roadside bomb in afghanistan took the life of another american soldier this morning, making august the deadliest for american forces in afghanistan since the start of the war. our men and women are pushing deeper into taliban strongholds, being forced under nato will to turn over detainees to afghan authorities, even if it means some aren't just being released right back onto the battlefield.

what are the rules regarding the detainees? >> these are rules inherited by the commanders and u.s. troops out there now. they are longstanding rules for operating there, and basically, the troops have to hand over any afghan detainee after 96 hours. they either have to charge them and put them into detention facility, or they have to hand them over to the afghan authorities. what is happening is that is a very short amount of time. it is not enough time to interrogate them, and they are handling over, and the afghans are simply releasing him, and it is becoming a revolving door for these prisoners. jane: how do the marines feel about that? >> they are very frustrated. they are sometimes operating so far out in the field and logistics' are so tough in terms of helicopters, bringing the back, that it is difficult to comply, so they are having to let them go, and they are not getting the wealth of interrogation material that you would get if you were able to sit down and talk to them before

releasing him. listen to what the marine spokesman told us in an e-mail. he said -- we have talked to marines out there, and i are extremely frustrated by these very narrow rules. jane: thanks very much. jon: it isn't often heard phrase in the health-care debate -- unnecessary tests. supporters of health care reform is a cutting back on these unnecessary medical test could help save enough money to pay for part of the overhaul. how do you know which test is a necessary and which one might save your life? all right, unnecessary tests. the president talks about them a lot when he talks about shifting the focus of health care reform to preventive medicine. what is wrong with that? >> the idea of preventive medicine sounds like a very

noble thing, getting out-of the list before it could be life threatening, but we talked to one expert, and here is what he had to say. >> when you talk about prevention that involves visiting a doctor and stumbling onto a high cholesterol that you did not know about or high blood pressure, that kind of medical prevention almost inevitably leads to more things being done, more prescriptions being prescribed. >> his thought is that you find something that may not kill you, but then it has to be monitored with expensive medication, so it is still a very costly thing. the other issue is unnecessary tests. if you need an mri, and summonses that is unnecessary, you might need an issue -- you might have an issue with that. jon: that's right. another aspect is that permit a medicine is going to lower costs. is that true? >> the congressional budget office, which has challenged some of the cost estimates, is also skeptical of some of the benefits of preventive medicine. one director says researchers

generally find that the added cost of widespread use of preventive services tend to exceed the savings from averted illness, which seems to fly in the face of what may be conventional wisdom. jon: thank you. thousands remembering senator edward kennedy today. they are filing past the casket of jfk library in boston at this hour. for the first time in more than 60 years, america is without a kennedy in the united states senate, and without their champion for liberals. who, if anyone, can fill the giant issues left behind by the senator? let's talk about it with a former presidential campaign manager, and former adviser to bill richardson. the question is -- and i'm just going to throw this out -- who is the next liberal laurean in the senate? >> there is none.

he cannot be replaced. no single person can replace that. >> i totally agree that ted kennedy is completely unique and irreplaceable in the history of the senate. somebody has got to pick up the mantle right now. we have been badly missing him on health care. that is absolutely true. and in the durban -- i think dick durbin would be best placed to do that. jon: would he enjoys the same kind of clout that ted kennedy did? >> that is the kind of thing you earn overtime, but he has served in the house for quite awhile. he has the respect of conservatives as well as liberals, and that was the magic of ted kennedy. you work with republicans to pass no child left behind. past a host of legislation, including the chip legislation. passed legislation on use of medicaid to help special needs kids. it goes on and on.

that is what it takes to replace ted kennedy if anybody could ever approached doing it. it is moving the ball forward, gradually. as aggressively as we possibly can to help the middle class and the poor. what progress is care about, but you get what you can and do not let the perfect the enemy of the good. jon: earlier in the hour, we have the political editor of the "washington examiner" on. here is something that he wrote regarding ted kennedy. he said that liberals love ted kennedy because he did not apologize for his liberalism or tried to hide it under euphemisms. he made them feel good about their views, which he said were not as necessary but right. we're talking about the left side of the spectrum. is it true that most americans are somewhere in the middle? >> they are in the middle, and i would say even lean and little but right, but kennedy had the position of being from a state where he never had to campaign. he represented a family that everybody in the country knew. he was not part of the democratic leadership, so he

never had to worry about what they wanted. he got his run for president out fairly early, which allowed him to focus on the issues that were important to him. i think senate durbin could replace his issues, but he has not run for president yet, so he will be forced to do some deals to move towards the middle if he wants to further his agenda and his career as opposed to attack on the liberal agenda, which is what ted kennedy did so well for so long -- as opposed to take on the liberal agenda. jon: i still do not understand how the place works, and i do not understand how a liberal -- >> it does not work very well very often. jon: i do not understand how a left-wing liberal could call among his greatest friends in the senate foreign hatch, one of the most conservative senators. >> absolutely. as i said, this is what was special about ted kennedy. he was an unabashed progressive. he was for a single parent healthcare system and has been

for a long time, but the extensions of cobra through kennedy, the chip program, extensions of medicaid mental health parity -- he always took the approach of he would work with republicans across the aisle and take what we can get in furthering that goal of making health care available at an affordable cost for every single american. he was not shy about saying where he stood, and not shy about being partisan in political campaigns, but in the united states senate, he was an old-style senator who would work with whoever would take his outstretched hand. jon: thank you both. jane: are you worried about this h1n1, the swine flu virus we have been hearing so much about? there is a vaccine coming. before you get injected coming get informed. f and you get half. ( chirp ) team three, boathouse? ( chirp ) oh yeah-- his and hers.

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>> it might be a little bit too late, but this is a virus that is to everybody. there's really no natural immunity. it is affecting especially children, pregnant women, health care workers. at the end of the day, as soon as the vaccine becomes available, everybody should be getting it. this is the time when you need to ask your primary-care physician if he or she is going to get it, where you can get it in your community because i think there is soil to be a rush. remember, it is going to take two shots for you to get some sort of immunity. jane: i did not know that you had to do it twice. >> if you took at october, it would not be until thanksgiving that you have full immunity. the first window possible, you have to get that shot and then get it subsequently to that. jane: and if you are the regular shot, you do that as well, so 3 in all? >> three or four. it depends on what kind of

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dr. has his own web show -- dr. manny has his own web show. the address is right there on your screen. jon: senator edward kennedy is to be reunited in debt with his brothers john and robert. preparations underway right now for burial tomorrow at arlington national cemetery. live report there as the crowds continue to stream past his casket.

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jon: hundreds of mourners continue to file past senator kennedy's coffin. he is lying in repose at the jfk library in boston. live pictures there as you see

the crowds continuing to stream past. tomorrow, he is to be laid to rest where his brothers john and robert at arlington national cemetery. preparations for the burial are under way right now. molly is at arlington right now. what can you tell us about the burial site for senator kennedy? >> let me tell you you may see people leaving the visitor center right behind me. we just had a lot of a pretty bad rainstorm we have been having. some people in the visitor center may be pouring out behind me. senator kennedy will be buried here tomorrow at about 5:30. this site has been selected. it has been marked today and likely will be prepared tomorrow. could get messy and slippery because it has been pulling for quite a bit today and will continue to. this is where the site is. it is on the hill below the arlington house. that is the form of -- former home of general robert e. lee. if you are standing at the bottom of the hill looking up at

the house, that is where senator kennedy's burial site will be. to the right, that is where the robert kennedy grave still will be. if you continue looking further to the right, that is where the john kennedy eternal flame will be. senator kennedy said he wanted his final resting place near his brothers, and tomorrow, it will be. jon: order the taurus same today, the people you are talking to? -- what are the tourists saying? >> we talked to a boston couple who got a little choked up. other people say they are here today not to honor one particular person, but to honor our nation's fallen heroes in general. >> it is a really special place. so many people have been buried there, and it is just a place in history to go. >> we're going to come tomorrow, but being as ted kennedy was getting very, we decided to come today because we thought it would be kind of crowded. >> arlington national cemetery

will be open tomorrow to the public except for the areas around the grave sites of the three kennedy brothers. jon: thank you. fox news will have live coverage tonight starting at 7:00 p.m. eastern time. the jfk library in boston for the celebration of light memorial service of senator kennedy. we will also have extensive coverage of his funeral mass and burial tomorrow at arlington national cemetery, beginning at 10:00 a.m. eastern. we will be joining you after the service. jane: turn into a little bit of business news -- do you cringe when you look to your credit card statements? was there was a way to cut down on those interest payments? dr. debt is here with an easy way to do that. a lot of people do not know about it. . .

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long as they are not co-signers. jon: thank you very much. , thank you. if you have a question, you can e-mail it to us and get answers. jane: we continue to watch as senator kennedy paused body lies in reposed. we live continuing coverage as we look forward to a memorial service tonight, the funeral tomorrow. we will see you after the service tomorrow for full coverage. jon: it is the end of an era of american politics. some of the most hallowed grounds in this country. he will be steps away from the graves of his brother, former president john f. kennedy, as well as jackie kennedy, and his brother robert f. kennedy, the former attorney general who was tragically assassinated.