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hello. >> nice to be with you. >> nice to be with you. >> thank you for joining us. welcome it a brand-new hour of america's news headquarters. topping the news this saturday afternoon, thousands of taxpayers marching on the u.s. capitol to protest big government growth and spending. today's massive rally inspired by tea party protests held over the spring. a caravan of buss and speakers and entertainers converging on dc to bring their opinions straight to members of congress. >> and victims of bernie madoff, like they haven't suffered enough already. now reports they can't sell their home. not because there aren't any buyers, but because the banks are using them. wait until you hear why. >> and the f.b.i. and police in new haven, connecticut today say they have not located the missing yale graduate student annie lee. contradicting earlier reports
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that her body had been found. david lee miller joining us live from the fox news room. david, they're still not saying whether this is a criminal case or just still a missing persons case. >> indeed. this development is a stunning one. authorities just a few moments ago, as you mentioned, saying that categorically they have not found a body in the search for 24-year-old annie lee. they did say that a number of items have been seized. they would not elaborate. they say these items could be evidence. they are being analyzed, but that none of these items, they went on to say, have yet been associated with lee. there have been reports shortly before this news conference, a number of publications saying that a body had been found, there were reports that bloody clothing had been found in the building where she was last seen and there was also a number of reports suggesting that the motive here may have been robbery. now it appears that this investigation is essentially at ground one. authorities have videotape
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showing her entering this medical complex. they do not have videotape of her leaving that medical complex. the question now continues, where is annie lee? is it possible she is still inside that building? authorities have brought in sniffer dogs and used blueprints. they have used a number of means to try and determine where she might be. at this hour, the only thing the authorities have for certain, rick, are her purse, money, cell phone, and cash. as for her whereabouts, the question remains. rick. >> david, this is a young woman who was set to be married on long island tomorrow. that wedding has been called off. the authorities saying moments ago that they've interviewed a lot of people in regard to this investigation. you have to imagine they've been talking to her fiance and other people who would know about her feelings towards getting married. >> you're right. i think one reason the story is getting so much attention is because there is a great deal of speculation about whether or not she is a run away bride.
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all along the authorities have suggested otherwise. her friends and family have said she looked forward to getting married. on her facebook page she said she was lucky to have her love of her life as her best friend and authorities say they have talked to her fiance and that he is cooperating with investigators. so at this point, it looks like this is an investigation that has been going on since tuesday, rick, without any significant progress to report for the family, the torment continues on the eve of what would have been annie lee's wedding day. rick? >> what a horrible story. david lee miller, thanks so much. am. >> the f.b.i. and police in new haven, connecticut dispute ago report they found the body of annie lee. also in the news, tens of thousands of taxpayers marching on the u.s. capitol. protesting what they call government growth and spending. today's massive rally inspired
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by tea party protests held last spring. a caravan of buses, speakers and entertainers converging on washington bringing their opinions straight to congress. molly henneberg joins us live from the west front of the capitol. male? >> we're still waiting for the official numbers. but i can tell you they were jam packed in there on the grounds outside the capitol and all the way back toward the washington monument. some came out at 8:00 o'clock and met around the white house in an area near the white house and marched down pennsylvania avenue to the grounds right in front of the capitol building. they're calling it the taxpayers march on washington. they're protesting government spending and the expansion of government. they say enough is enough and they wanted to deliver that message in person to their elected leaders. there were some members of congress at the march today, as well as people from the tea party express. those are people who took buses, who made a trek across the united states, starting in california, ending up here at this march. take a listen.
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>> we have come from 34 cities, 17 states in 15 days to help restore america. >> i think what's turned out, this unexpected crowd, here at the march on washington is more than just frustration with the government takeover of health care. i think it's frankly frustration with the last several years where republican administrations and democrat administrations have been borrowing and spending and bailing this country into a mountain range of debt and these people have about had it. >> this all grew out of the april 15 tea parties that popped up around the nation. that movement kind of developed and culminated here with this march on washington. >> thank you, molly henneberg live in washington. later this week, president obama's health care reform campaign will take him to pittsburgh where he will address
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afl-cio union leaders who support he needs for the passage of his plan. he gave an interview to 60 minutes explaining why it's important that his plan succeed. >> i have no interest in having a bill get passed that fails, that doesn't work. i intend to be president for a while and once this bill passes, i own it. if people look and say, you know what, this hasn't reduced my costs, my premiums are still going up 25%, insurance companies are still jerking me around, i'm the one who is going to be held responsible. so i have every incentive to get this right. >> joining us now from our dc bureau with their thoughts on the health care reform drive. thanks, gentlemen, for being with us. >> thank you.
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>> brad, i'll start with you. he says that he owns it. is that a refreshing message to hear, that he's taking an honest approach or do you think it sounds arrogant? >> he's stating the obvious. he owns health care. he owns the economy. he owns everything that now comes before him as president. but the president sets the agenda. he owns the government. he has high majorities in the house and senate. he has the presidency, he has the executive branch and now he has court appointees. this president owns everything, blaming george bush is over and the american people expect him to deliver for them. and on health care, i'm not so sure even with his majorities he's going to be able to pass what he expected to when he ran for president. >> what if he doesn't, richard, what happens then? >> well, i mean, any number of things might happen, but the fact is, it looks like he will. i'll tell you why it looks like something is going to pass. think about the big issues, insurance reform, this whole notion of preexisting conditions or affordability or caps being done away with, the notion of
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preventive medicine, the notion of these exchanges so individuals and small businesses can compete against bigger groups for insurance rates. there is consensus among democrats, independents and republicans, on those issues. there is really no reason that he shouldn't be able to get a bill at this point. >> but what if he doesn't get it right? it's a big risk he's taking. >> of course. he campaigned on it. he has given numerous speeches on it. he gave that one to the joint session of congress the other night. of course he owns the health care issue. on health care, absolutely. if they don't get it right, they will be held responsible and they will be seen as saviors for many people if they do get it right. it's exactly why bill crystal in 1994 cautioned republicans, kill clinton health care because if it gets through, democrats will be rewarded for a decade or two to come. i think that's what's behind this foot dragging we're seeing
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from republican. >> brad, he says you heard the president on 60 minutes clip, he says that he's the one who will be held responsible if this doesn't work. he has a lot riding on his shoulders. is this the white house's new way of strategizing this plan that a lot of people say isn't working? >> if the president wants to be successful on health care, he would have led from the beginning and not seated his power to congress. this is where the whole thing got crazy. there are six bills running between the house and the senate. the president should have led from day one. he did not. now he's seeking late in the game to do that. richard is right. there is consensus by republicans and democrats, but republicans aren't holding it up. it's the democrats. it's the blue dogs fighting with the most liberal members of the party that are holding up health care. if the president wants to get a health care bill done, do the obvious. tort reform, port ability, we're for that. selling insurance across state lines, giving the ability of choice. we're for that. and we're also for saving areas in fraud, mismanagement and abuse which everybody believes happens in the health care
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that's provided in medicare and medicaid. get that done, mr. president, and you'll have done a lot. >> i appreciate the president's honesty here. i was glad to hear him say this clip on 60 minutes or this preclip we have 'cause the show airs tomorrow. but he's been talking about how the conservatives are using scare tactics, but when you hear that clip from him, he kind of sounds a little scared. >> oh, gosh, no. i mean, he's not scared at all. i think he's relishing the prospect of doing -- >> how can you say he's not scared? he's saying i'm the one held responsible. if this doesn't work, i'm not going to get reelected. >> he's inviting that. he sees that as a good thing and his point is, there is all these charges, the death panel, all these really screwy, frankly preposterous notions being put out there by opponents of this legislation. he's saying no, if that was going to happen, this wasn't going to work and the public would take it out against him. he's saying, look, i'm confident it will work.
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i'm so confident, i'll put my name on the ballot and let the voters decide whether or not this was a good thing or not. i don't think that's scared. i think that shows a sense of conviction, which i think is admirable and i think the -- >> the polls after the speech show they were rallying around him. >> the president is scared. this is his legacy. he put all his chips down on health care instead of concentrating on the economy. look, does it make any sense to concentrate on one sixth of the economy when the other five sixth is facing the worst crisis that's ever happened to our nation in modern times? he's focusing on the wrong area and he is desperate to pass any bill and that's where the people come in to make sure, desperate people do desperate thing. we've got to keep an eye on them to just not pass anything just to say they passed something. >> if you look at the economy, when the baton was pass to do barak obama, it's doing a lot better now than what people
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expected at this point in 2009. >> i think he's doing quite well on the economy. >> we'll have to leave it there. thank you for being with us tonight. >> thank you. >> folks who got cleaned out by bernie madoff are getting burned. for a california couple, it was bad enough they had to unload their $12 million malibu home to their bank. wells fargo. but the problem is not that they don't have potential buyers. it turns out one of the bank's senior executives is treating the big spread as her own party house, going so far, realtors say, as to turn away deep pockets buyers. joining us now is a real estate and business attorney, sherry owe laughson. we hear wells fargo is investigating these claims. they refused to comment for our story. let me name names here. this is the name of the wells fargo executive who has been identified by residents in the area of this house for basically using this house as her own personal party space, her name
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is sharongo da guyton. a senior vp and she happens to also be in charge of foreclosed commercial properties for wells fargo so she would presumably have information about this property, may even be involved in the transaction with the owners of the house. have you ever heard of anything like this? >> you know, it's crazy. rick, you said before, it really begs the question, how often does this happen when we're not aware that it's even going on? on so many levels, this is not a little dry cleaner where someone who works or borrows a pair of slacks. this is an industry highly regulated and it's supposed to have a lot of controls in place. so certainly if they can't control houses, what's going on with the money, this is a huge bank. one of the leaders in the industry, and this is a senior vp, someone who is supposed to embody the corporate culture and values. >> wells fargo says they have a very strict ethical policy that prohibits this kind of behavior and i'll bet they do. but at the same time, it's their employee, one of their execs who is alleged to have been doing
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this. is the bank in trouble at all here, sherry? >> well, you know, banks and some people might argue that the bank owns this property now, so they should be able to do whatever they want with it. but when banks own real estate after a foreclosure, they have some fiduciary obligations, one is to make sure they resell that property at the highest and best value for the neighborhood, for the homeowner, for their shareholders, and certainly not misuse this asset. i would imagine that the company does have rules against this type of behavior and i would imagine that this woman might have just thrown her going away party. >> probably. she might have some more serious problems than just losing her job, though, if the authorities determine that she was doing anything illegal. is it a possibility of any criminal charges here? >> well, certainly it may have been a trespass if it was without permission. the most obvious legal issues are two fold. one would be a misuse of the asset and liability to the
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homeowner. but in this case, and especially if they don't end up getting a highest and best price. but in this case, there was a special circumstance because allegedly the owner had an agreement with wells fargo and wells is not going to resell the property for several months, going to keep it off the market. there may have been some reasons behind that. not the least of which with people of this stature of these homeowners is privacy. there may have been some other litigation they were involved in. there may have been some other reasons that they didn't want the settlement disclosed and there may be some liability for making such a public spectacle of it at this point. >> we could be looking at perhaps a civil case on the part of the owners of this house who had to go into foreclosure because of -- because they were victims of bernie madoff. a final question, the fact that a real estate agent who was supposed to be showing the house was told that the house was not available to be seen and that there were lots of potential buyers who were lining up, one of whom i read was ready to buy it with cash. they were ready to make a deal and the fact that the bank said
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the house was not available to be seen, you know, i just have never heard about anything like that. >> no. you know what? in this day and age, we're looking at the excessiveness, we're looking at very poor judgment. my two teenage daughter this is morning said, mom, what would have happened if someone was hurt? it's so obvious. of course, the issue that you just raised, the oblige to be the care taker for that asset and eventually get the highest and best price for it, which is completely counter intuitive to not allowing realtors to show it. >> we'll continue to watch this story. i just can't believe these people who are victims of bernie madoff. it's like the hurt, there is no end to it. thanks so much for joining us today. we appreciate your time. >> thanks for having me, rick. >> two road side bomb attacks claiming the lives of five more soldiers in afghanistan. a threat not only to our troops, but to civilians and afghan security forces. but now the pentagon is stepping up the fight with a special
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squad of soldiers. their mission? to take down the taliban by cutting off its chief money supply, drugs. colonel oliver north has more from afghanistan. >> we just love after spending several deface a virtually unreported unit in this global war on terror. the d.e.a. foreign deployed advisory and support team, fast. this unit was brought here to rapidly exploit hard intelligence with direct action and that's just exactly what they do. last night we went on a raid with fast team a alpha, special operations command in afghan commandos on a capture kill mission to take down a kingpin in the taliban's opium support network. under cover of darkness, we loaded up, flew at low levels and landed at first light. the element of surprise was complete. while fast and troops around the
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compound, they conducted a methodical search of every structure, detaining military age males for questioning, gun fire from counter sniper team was more than effective. the opium, heroin precursor chemicals and materials for making i.e.d.s found during the raid were burned and blown up with an explosive charge before we left from the objective under the cover of a uh1 gunship. that's targeted operations aimed at cutting the link between the taliban and the opium trade are a force multiplier. this counter insurgency campaign, i think we should expect many more of them in the days ahead. in kabul, afghanistan, i'm oliver north for fox news. >> of course, our thanks to colonel oliver north for that report. >> absolutely. coming up, new developments in a gender scandal rocking the world of track and field. critics say that this south african running sensation is really a man.
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her backers insist she's a woman. her dad says she's a woman. who is right? there is new information on this gender bending mystery when we come right back. -d-d-d-d-d-d-d-d
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22 minutes after the hour on a saturday afternoon. here is a look at our top
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stories. the north north korean leader hs given the go ahead for a third nuclear blast. reports indicating it's a preemptive strike against possible new sanctions from the u.s. a noisy demonstration in our nation's capitol. protesters up in arms over what they say is out of control government spending. in keeping with the spirit of the boston tea party, many were dressed in colonial attire. in tehran, remain defiant over its nuclear policy. u.s. wants to meet iranian leaders in wide ranging talks with six world powers but iran says it won't back down, insisting its nuclear program is for peaceful purposes. >> track and field champion was in a no show at the race in south africa. and the questions regarding her gender. the 18-year-old dropped out following a report claiming the
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800-meter champ is a male. now more. >> # once again front page news in south africa. another public humiliation for the athlete that prompted ager and sympathy here. >> i think it's bad for her. i think it's not fair because she's just a child. >> she's a lady. people don't understand. >> i think she's great. i'm sorry for the girl. >> she's reported to be in hiding now. today she was the reluctant star of a harrowing homecoming, paraded in her village where her family insists she was born and raised a girl. the whole saga is politically charged with accusations of racism flying and the sports minister calling a news conference to express his disgust at the latest report.
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>> what is disconcerting that the person -- it's the same as the one used when -- >> this was the race that started it all. storming to victory in the women's 800-meters of the world championships in berlin. gender tests were ordered and one source close to the case claims they show she's a hermaphrodite, a complicated medical condition. >> we have individuals who may feel that they're male or female, their internal body may be male or female, the external characteristics may be male for female and you get mixes of these. that's why these conditions are complicated. there is probably 30 or 40 types of conditions that somebody can have. >> she was transformed into a cover girl by women's magazine here, it is all brutally public.
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the 18-year-old has tried to prove her femininity, but the very intimate speculation goes on. there is a growing rift between south africa athletic officials and the iwaf. privately they're at each other's throats. but publicly, they're both saying the same thing, that the results haven't been finalized and won't be released until november when the athlete also be informed first. none of the officials will come out of this well and the girl may never recover from it. she faces not only the loss of her medal and her career, but her whole identity as well. >> that was emma herd from sky news. >> what a tough story that is. it must be so difficult if she is, in fact a hermaphrodite and having to deal with that her whole life and now dealing with this. >> poor thing. >> when we come back, americans are slashing their debt in record numbers. but is that a good thing or bad thing for the u.s. economy?
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we've got an expert who will weigh in on that had we come back.
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new video just into fox news showing a frightening scene not too far from where air force one took off a few hours ago in minneapolis. an alert viewer called our affiliate noticing black smoke near the president's plane. a gas leak caused a house to
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explode less than two miles from the airport. five people in the home were injured. the president back in washington. he was there earlier today for a health care rally. bottom of the hour now, time for the top headlines this saturday. president obama taking his health care push on the road. the president launching a media blitz that included several appearances at rallies around the country and has an interview that will air on 60 minutes tomorrow night. also, results in last month's presidential election in afghanistan still up in the air. a u.n.-backed group looking into allegations of voter fraud. election commission claims president karzai leads with 54%. "wall street journal" saying russian prime minister putin is signaling he may want his old job back. he used to be the president. now the guy on the right is. putin telling reporters that he and the current president will
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decide together who will run in the year 2012. the clock is ticking on a vaccine for h1n1 to be available before scores of americans get sick from this virus. vanderbilt university is one of eight trial sites where they're testing that vaccine and they have apparently just found one that works. laura simmons from fox affiliate wztv in nashville has more. >> reporter: amy johnson knows more than she wants to know about swine flu. after her three kids all tested positive for h1n1, now she's sick. >> they said it was the a strain, the same cat grow as h1n1. >> it may come too late for her, but researchers at vanderbilt medical center have finally found a vaccine that works. >> we're very excite about the results. they're very robust. remember, these are early days, more results will come in. >> reporter: one thing doctors are excited about, initial
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results showed one inoculation protected over 90% of adult recipients, so there likely won't be a need for two shots, at least for now. >> that has put a smile on everyone's face because it means right away, everything will be so much easier for all the patients, who want to get protected, for all the providers, who are going to be delivering vaccines, and of course, it means we'll be able to protect more people completely much more quickly than had it taken two doses. >> reporter: this doctor can't wait to get his first allotment. >> it's increasing for sure. i know that some of my pediatric friends are pretty much overwhelmed with flu-like illnesses and my understanding is that virtually all of it is h1n1. >> the vaccine will be coming to a doctor's office near you and hopefully sooner than the projected date of october 15. >> now that we know that only
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one dose is necessary, at least in young adults, maybe the government could feel comfortable in releasing the vaccine earlier so we can start on our vaccination programs. >> reporter: johnson will be well by then, but the vaccine could be just in time for thousands of other would be swine flu sufferers. >> laura simmons from wztv in nashville and researchers at vanderbilt say they aren't sure yet whether one dose will be enough for young children. they expect it might take two vaccinations. not good for the kids. they're still looking for pregnant women to test the vaccine. >> i don't think if i were pregnant, i wouldn't want to test the vaccine. >> that's why they have a tough time testing things because you don't want to mess around when a woman is carrying a baby. >> let's talk about debt. americans cutting their debt in record amounts, according to the federal reserve, consumers slashing borrowing about $21.6 billion in july. the largest amount on record
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since 1943. demand for nonrevolving credit, used to finance things like cars and education, saw a record drop by more than $15 billion. americans curbing their appetite for credit cards as well. revolving credit down over $6 billion. what does this mean for the economy? president of qualitybomb and associates. i don't know whether this is good or bad. on one hand, it's good that people are sort of living within their means and not going out and spending like crazy on things they can't afford. but on the flip side, if people aren't spending money, then that means that businesses aren't doing well. so how do we look at this? >> how about both. it is bad news and it is good news longer term. bad news because people are no longer first things first, going out buying planes, trains, automobiles and taking vacations with money they don't have on a credit card that's tapped out. so that's fine. longer term, this is great news. our savings rate has gone up from 0%, believe it or not, 0%,
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i think we're up to 5 or 6%. so down the road people will feel much better about themselves. i think we have a cultural shift going on here, unfortunately, was forced because of the job losses we've had and also the crash in the stock market. so shorter term, not so great on the retail front. longer term, i think it's excellent. >> how about the banks and ha kind of role are they playing in all of this? i remember it wasn't too long ago we were talking about the credit freeze and how the banks were not loaning people money. could that be play ago part in all of this? >> a little bit. i measure things very carefully. about two years ago i don't think there was a day during the year that i didn't get an offer in the mail from a bank for another credit card and sometimes i get three and four. i have hardly seen any right now. i think banks have also pulled back. i think they know there is too many losses, they're tired of writing off people and their credit card losses. that is having an effect. they're looking at less people for credit cards also. >> i think there is irony going
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on here. just as the u.s. government is looking to spend about a trillion dollars on health care reform, it seems like the american people have finally come around to the idea that we can't spend money we don't have. >> well, there is a slight difference. when you're an individual, you can't just get money from anywhere. you can't create it, you can't print it. so you got to deal with what you actually have or what you actually make. the government, unfortunately, i don't know, they're on some sort of joy ride now and they're into hyper space as far as i'm concerned and they need to take a clue from the consumer and stop spending and start getting their house in order because it's getting insane and there is going to be some massive bad repercussions going forward whether it be inflation or higher interest rates if they don't get their act in shape. >> let me ask you one more question, gary, when we look toward the holidays which are now a few months away, hard to believe, but they're coming, and we know that people are spending less money what, are forecasters
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saying in terms of holiday spending and whether this sort of tightening of the belt that we're seeing right now will sort of loosen up a little bit so all those kids will have to get two swine flu shots are going to get christmas presents under the tree? >> right. back to school is not so good. pretty much tepid. i think you'll get the same thing around christmas. as i said, i think we really do have a cultural shift. people no longer are going to buy first. they're going to save first. i don't think that's going to change for a very long while. i think christmas is going to be okay. nothing great. i will give you one bit of good news. i am almost 100% sure that three is six months, you'll see the unemployment rate top out and jobs will start picking up and that's most definitely going to help for 2010. >> i like how he ended on a positive note. gary, always good to talk to you. good to see you. >> three to six months. that is good news. >> you're talking about christmas. halloween candy is already on
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the shelf. hard to believe. bring some in. >> okay. >> on a serious note, the f.b.i. is coming out just under an hour ago saying there are no leads -- i shouldn't say no leads. no leads are going uncovered in the case of the missing yale student, annie lee. what investigators are looking for at this point and could any of the images from the video cameras help find her?
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i'm sure you recognize that song, the man who helped create the series, mash, is dead. larry gelheart died electric cancer yesterday. he won a tony for a funny thing happened. nominated for two oscars. he will always be best known, however, for mash, a show that remains in tv's top ten for a decade until it went off the air in 1983. >> last episode of mash was the most watched episode of any television series ever, to this day. >> you watched the last one? >> yeah. i remember watching it with my parents in 1983. good stuff. >> let's turn our attention to a story we've been talking about all afternoon, the missing yale grad student. annie lee who left behind her cell phone, her purse, her credit cards when she vanished from a campus lab on tuesday. she was due to be married in new
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york tomorrow. was lee a victim of foul play, premarital cold feet? what exactly will investigators be looking into in order to figure out what happened to her. joining us is managing director at inside security, the f.b.i.'s lead international kidnapping negotiator at one time and we're glad you're here. let's talk about the surveillance video that shows annie walking into this laboratory, but we don't have any videotape, or investigators haven't been able to find any of her walking out. where is she? >> that's the million dollars question right now and the fact that they haven't shown any or said that they had any videotape of her walking out, they're being cautious about what they know at this point in time to make sure not only that they preserve all the evidence, but that they preserve all the option, even the possibility that she might still be alive. they're treating this very carefully. they're taking very calculated and cautious approaches to this
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case. >> i have to mention that there were reports earlier today that a body had been found. reports that bloody clothe hemoglobin been found. reports that some of the ceiling tiles inside that building on the yale campus were bloody and that perhaps there was some evidence there as well. then the police come out and we're expecting to get the awful news that they discovered a body and, in fact, they categorically denied that a body had been found. they shot down those reports. now, in their attempts to be careful, as you're suggesting that they are, could we just not be getting the full story from the authorities at this point? >> well, they are aware of the effects that what's being reported in the media has not only on the investigation, but also on the family. so they're making sure that things don't get out of controlment, the information begins to ricochet around too much and get too much out of control when it's inaccurate. i watched that press conference also and they didn't seem to be a lot of reason for that other
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than to say that they hadn't found the body. they were being very careful what they had. so it sounds like that they have evidence, but they just don't want to let the information get out ahead of the actual investigation and have people get started going down the wrong path. >> here is my question, and i don't want to sect guess the investigators. they have a very difficult job. my hats off to them. but do investigators ever step up to a bank of microphones the way that those did today in new haven and purposely give wrong information to the media so that they can preserve some sort of line of questioning in the work they're doing behind the scenes as they try to figure out exactly what happened to this young girl? >> well, that's an extremely risky thing to do and none of these law enforcement agencies are in the business of lying to the media. i don't think they would do that. that's extremely unlikely.
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they're definitely wrestling with what they have and the proper way to address it in the media. i think that was clear based on that press conference that they are making sure their coordination behind the scenes is as much as it can possibly be. >> another question we have to ask because this young woman was a working in a laboratory. she was a doctoral student, form psychology. i'm wondering about chemicals or materials that might be contained inside a laboratory that could perhaps help someone dispose of a body if that was their intention to do so, can you imagine or foresee anything inside of a lab on a university campus that might help annie's killer if there is one, to make her disappear? >> well, that's a possibility, but making a body disappear is a far more complicated, elaborate
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process than that. at the same time, many of the things you need in order to make that happen, you can get at a local garden store, you can buy at a home depot, a lot of places other than the lab. you still have some logcal issues of getting the possibility of a body out of that building, which is pretty complicated. i think it's significant that there are reports that the bureau has declared that building a crime scene. the f.b.i. has a very robust evidence response team that will do a really good job of going over that building in its entirety and finding any evidence of what there may be there. >> we wish the investigators all the luck in the world as they do that difficult job and we certainly continue to hope for the best, as long as annie lee remains missing, that she will show up safe and sound. christopher, managing director insight security. thank you so much for your time today. >> my pleasure, rick. thank you. >> it's getting colder outside as we head into flu season.
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experts recommend you put together an emergency kit just in case you or one of your family members gets the bug. what do you need in that kit and where can you find it? we'll get the down low from the experts, consumer reports coming up next.
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can you believe it? it's hard to believe we're halfway through september. that means we're heading into flu season, ready or not. you might want to make sure you are the former and not the latter. here to tell us the best tips for preventing and fighting the h1n1 virus is trisha from consumer reports. thanks for being with us. >> thank you. >> this is definitely a concern as we go into flu season, everyone is talking about view, a lot of people died from that last year. so it's something that always on
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our minds and we're fearing this year. what can we do as far as emergency kits are concerned? >> it's a good idea to keep an emergency kit. if you have one already, have a look at it. make sure everything is -- knock expired. if it is, get rid of it. medicines don't last forever. really as we kind of go into the season, into the flu season, there are a few extra things you might want to have. you want to make sure you have fever reducers like ibuprofen or acetaminophen, as well as cold and flu types of things to help you ease decon jest onif you're not feeling well. >> you take that when you start feeling the symptoms? >> that's right. >> anything you can take prethat? >> before hand, really the best defense is to wash your hands. if you are out in public, wash your hands really regularly and for a good long time. a long enough to sing happy birthday twice. >> sing the whole song twice? >> that's if you're unsure if you're doing it long enough.
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>> i will do that. >> if you can't wash your hands, something like purel is not a bad idea. put that in your emergency kit. >> you have the mask here. i see this video of people wearing the mask. i'm walking in the streets of new york, i don't see anyone wearing a mask. >> if you're taking care of someone who is sick, it's not a bad idea. if you're on a college campus with a big outbreak. it's not a bad idea. make sure that you are choosing an n95 mask. you can see there is a little mark. >> will it say it on there? >> it will say it boldly n95. make sure you have it high up and tight and that you really press down against your nose so it's really adjustable and you want to create a seal all around. if it's not sealed, it's not really going to give you a lot of benefit. >> why does it have to that have? that's the lettering?
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>> n 95. how much it filters through the air. because the flu virus is spread through the air we breathe out or if we sneeze, this really filters it through. if you're worried, it might not be a bad idea to have one in your bag someone in case is feeling ill or if you start feeling ill because you don't want to be spreading the flu. >> you have gatorade? >> it's not a bad idea having electrolyte drink to rehydrate yourself if you haven't been feeling well. >> are you hearing, should we get the vaccine? in the past, i have not gotten the flu vaccine. >> but should i get the swine flu vaccine? >> the key groups who are being recommended have it by the cdc are anyone under 24, pregnant women, if you're a health care worker. >> pregnant women, they're still testing that? >> that's where they're going with the recommendations. they are still waiting on results from the vaccine, early
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results are showing quite positive. >> definitely talk to your doctor. thank you so much. we appreciate you being here. rick, over to you. >> when we come back. he's won multiple awards for his work, his group genesis, even more as a solo vocalist. why is phil collins saying that he'll never, ever play the drums again? we'll tell you coming up.
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