a pregnant woman's killed. her baby stolen. now police have tracked down the killer, accused killer, and that baby who's alive. breaking news. the michael jackson custody case is over. we're going to tell who you will care for the singer's three kids. and busted! a 7-year-old skips out of church for a joyride. he didn't stand a prayer getting away with it either. we'll show you more of the video. thank you so much for being with us. happy friday eve to you as we like to call thursdays around here, i'm christi paul. love sharing your company. thanks for being with us. i do want to share with you, too, some of the chilling new details we're getting in regarding this case of a baby cut from her mother's womb. police say the baby girl is in good condition at a new

hampshire hospital, if you can believe it. a woman being held in this case was arraigned this morning. it's julie corey. she's being held on $2 million bail. and police say she was arrested in plymouth as she tried to leave a homeless shelter with that baby. the baby's mother, darlene hanes, was found dead in her massachusetts apartment monday. the landlord says a horrifying smell prompted him to go inside. and hanes was eight months pregnant and had three other children. >> she's so kind-hearted, though, that she would let anybody into her home, anybody. she was very lonely, very depressed, and anybody that was willing to come sit and talk with her, she let into her home. >> public records show the suspect lived in the same apartment building as hanes in the past. she was arrested after police say they got tips from acquaintances who became suspicious had she turned up with a newborn girl. we'll keep on top of that story for you. also a story that brought the issue of race in america into the spotlight takes a new turn this evening, around a

picnic table, in fact. har shard professor henry gates and the police officer who arrested him in his own home will be at the white house. president obama invited gates and came brimg police sergeant james crowley to meet over a beer outside the oval office. the white house has given this one pre-meeting tidbit, that gates will be drinking red stripe, crowley, blue moon and president obama will toss back some bud light. that's all we know at this point. president obama called this situation a teachable moment. the question is, have we learned anything from it? what is your view on that? call us at 1-877-tell-hln or e-mail us by heading to cnn.com/hln and click under your views. you can text us as well. views, your comments and your name to hlntv. standard text rates do apply. but this is your segment. we're going to be airing it and some of the responses throughout the day. and thank you so much for being part of it. a boston police officer may likely lose his job because of something that he said about

professor gates' arrest. justin barret sent out a mass e-mail apparently in which he used a racial slur to reference the professor. now, he sent the e-mail to fellow members of the national guard and to "the boston globe oich ." yesterday he apologized but denied he's a racist. his lawyer explicitly referenced the slur when he said barret's comments were taken out of context. here's what they said. we want to caution you. you may find some of this language offensive. >> i am sorry that i wrote that. i'm sorry that my family has to deal with the selfish motivation and feelings that i had. i regret that i used such words as -- i have so many friends of every type of culture and race you can name, and i am not a racist. >> justin barret didn't call henry gates a jungle monkey, to malign him racially.

his behavior was like that, and it was a characterization of the actions of that man. >> i am sorry for the content of the e-mail. i'm sorry for how people are reacting to it, especially my fellow police officers. i am not a racist. i never have been, never will be. i treat people with dignity and respect every time. >> now, barret's been suspended and faces a termination hearing in the next week. boston's police commissioner, meanwhile, says he's talked to professor gates to personally apologize for the officer's e-mail. edward davis said the department's worked too hard to earn the community's trust, and he won't tolerate anything that damages it. >> the boston police department has a top-to-bottom commitment to community police. community policing is based on trust. this type of venomous rhetoric is severely damaging. maintaining our community relationships is paramount to our mission to serve the citizens of boston. we all work with the community and have made great strides to earn their trust.

we must not allow this action to affect the relationships that have been forged and the progress we have made over the years. >> now, boston mayor also condemned barret and told "the boston globe" there's no place in the city's police department for him. i have some break news i want to show with you in the legal battle over michael jackson's kids seen obviously here at his memorial. a jackson family attorney is expected to make an announcement any time now. we've learned a tentative agreement has reportedly been reached between jackson's ex-wife, debbie rowe, and his mother, katherine. lawndell mcmilan says that rowe, the mother of the pop star's two oldest children, has agreed not to challenge katherine jackson's custody. now, he appeared on the cbs "early show" this morning. >> it's an agreement, an agreement for the best interests of the children. this is not a money deal. this is not about money. there is no situation better for these children than for them to be raised and reared under loving care of mrs. katherine jackson.

>> a custody hearing is scheduled this monday in los angeles, in fact. and we're learning today, too, that michael jackson's cardiologist is the only person police are investigating. a federal law enforcement official told cnn dr. conrad murray is their sole focus right now. murray's consistently denied that he prescribed or administered anything that could have killed jackson. and his lawyer says he does not think an arrest is imminent, but some are questioning murray's judgment because of his history of financial problems. >> he declared bankruptcy in 1992. so what? he had a domestic violence issue which he was cleared. so what? i just -- you know, he took this job which they're etically paid $150,000 a month because he wanted the money. well, most of us get jobs because we want the money. >> i think there are going to be real questions about the quality of care. already there are questions about the quality of care that he provided for michael jackson. whether it's accident, negligence, nothing at all, but

i don't think it's irrelevant that the man from almost the very beginning of his career as a practicing physician could not manage his financial affairs. >> now, also, we have some brand-new details regarding what happened inside jackson's house the day he died. jackson's personal chef described how she realized that something was wrong. >> his chef, ky chase, told cnn dr. murray usually came down to the kitchen around, say, 10:00 a.m. or so to get mr. jackson something to eat or drink. but on june 25th, the day that he died, the doctor did not come downstairs according to the chef until noon. the chef said that at that point dr. murray came running halfway down the stairs that led to the kitchen, screaming, these are the chef's words, "hurry, get prince, get security." she said the house became chaotic. security guards rushing around. housekeepers crying. and that paris, michael jackson's daughter, was screaming, "daddy! daddy!" >> the jacksons' father also

dropping hints about jackson's rumored love child. you've heard about that one. cnn's been unable to confirm whether the report is true. we want to point that out. but we'll have more on what joe jackson is saying in the next 30 minutes. so stick around for that. meanwhile, the wife of a north carolina terror suspect says the fbi tricked her. daniel boyd's wife, sabrina, is blasting the way that she was told about the arrest of her husband and her two sons this week. boyd says federal authorities sent a person that the family knew to her home. she says the person was wearing a shirt that appeared to be covered in blood and told her her husband and sons had been in a bad car wreck. sabrina boyd says when she and other family members got to the hospital, they were handcuffed and told, quote, they are not dying. they are detained. the boyds' 16-year-old son was killed in a car accident two years ago. here's the thing, the fbi declined to comment on boyd's account. daniel boyd, a drywall contractor, his two sons and four others were arrested on monday accused of plotting

terror attacks overseas. a detention hearing's been rescheduled for tuesday. the man accused of killing a holocaust museum police officer has been indicted by a federal grand jury in washington. 89-year-old james von brunn faces seven counts. gun charges and hate crimes. von brunn who was shot and wounded by officers returning fire has been hospitalized since the june 10th attack. and the hearing is scheduled for later this afternoon. but von brunn is a well-known holocaust denier. he spent six years in prison for trying to kidnap members of the federal reserve board back in 1981. and this time around von brunn could face the death penalty in four of the charges against him. former enron chief jeffrey skilling scheduled to be resentenced today. skilling originally got 24 years in prison, remember? well, that sentence was vacated by a federal appeals court. the judge has ruled the trial court had imposed a harsher sentence than skilling deserved.

he was convicted, remember, of fraud in connection with the class of enron which put 5,000 people out of work and wiped out $1 billion in employee retirement funds. a man got fired for chasing a purse snatcher. but he's getting lots of attention. >> it's been like wildfire. i mean, from newspapers to radio stations. >> why his former employer is standing by his decision.

we feel for all of you in the northwest suffering these recordbreaking temperatures. you know already that seattle hit an all-time high of 103 degrees yesterday. and in portland, oregon, it was a degree short of breaking the record. police are at this point just trying to get through it. >> i'm used to hot grills, but hot weather in seattle? come on. we got the dog in the cloud. we use the clouds, not sun.

>> during the heat wave, we have opened extended hours, so 8:00 in the evening as a place for people to find respite from the extreme heat. >> now, heat warnings are in effect until tomorrow but our meteorologist, bob van dillen, says things will get better later today and tomorrow. hopefully good news for you there. the astronauts on the space shuttle "endeavour" have a little less than 24 hours to enjoy the view from space at this point. "endeavour's" scheduled to land tomorrow morning just before 11:00 a.m. eastern. they're getting in last-minute work. aside from prepping for the landing, they're launching two small experiments. one will focus on navigation and rendezvous of spacecraft. the other will study the earth's upper atmosphere. a 7-year-old drove off with his dad's car because he didn't want to go to church. and it's all on video, folks. what's scary is he actually did pretty well driving.

police in northern utah got reports of a kid driving around town. they caught up with him, and look at this. the boy wouldn't even stop for cops. the boy, did he bolt when he got into his own driveway. mi police say the boy is too young to prosecute. they did talk to his dad and suggested keep his car keys out of reach from now on. you know the dad's going to be doing some punishing there. a supermarket produce manager instinctively answered a woman's screams for help. he ran down a purse snatcher. what does he get in return? fired. boston affiliate explains how a complete stranger is asking for help. >> reporter: drive time. >> this story has everybody, like, really up in arms. >> reporter: turned into an afternoon driven by passionate conversation. >> they should also be flexible and randall's, they're just not bending on this. >> reporter: many people called in about randall's and the company's decision to fire

produce manager troy schafer from this round rock store for chasing down a purse snatcher. >> it's been like wildfire. i mean, from newspapers to radio stations. >> well, thank you so much for calling. >> reporter: mix 94.7 did not just take complaints. dj nickey knight also connected troy with future employees tuesday afternoon. >> i look for a good person first before i worry about the position i'm hiring for. >> reporter: while the job connections continue, randall's continues to stick by its policy not to chase suspects. a spokeswoman said, quote, the policy exists for the safety of our employees, customers and others who may be seriously injured in a chase. meanwhile, the story has gained national traction on cnn and is all the buzz on local stations. >> i didn't expect this to happen. and the people of boston have been awesome. >> reporter: but all he wants now is a job. >> i just want to go back to work and be able to support my family. >> again, our thanks to matt plainer of kxan. job offers are apparently still pouring in, but there's no

indication that randall's might actually consider rehiring him. a passenger claims he saw a child driving a new york subway train. you're going to hear his story, find out how the transit system is responding.

it's been 40 days since this woman was shot and killed during iran's post-election violence. i'm sure you remember that. well, today thousands of people tried to gather at her gravesite

to remember and mourn the woman who's really become an iconic symbol for the opposition. well, they didn't get far. witnesses say clashes broke out when riot police used batons and tear gas to break up the crowd. this is the first major episode of violence we've seen in tehran in recent weeks. opposition leader mir mousavi was among those revented from reaching the grave site. and police in gaza say a 27-year-old mother of five was bludgeoned to death with an iron chain by her own father. human rights groups are calling this an honor killing. now, the woman was divorced and police say her father overheard her talking on the phone to a man he believed she was having a relationship with. investigators for gaza-based human rights group say the father and his three sons were taken into police custody. human rights groups say the so-called honor killings are on the rise in gaza and show women's rights are deteriorating under the hamas-controlled government. okay.

mosquitos that give people malaria may help protect people as well. scientists are using needles to inject live malaria parasites into a small group of test subjects. they also received a drug that killed the parasite before it became dangerous. over time everyone bitten became immune to malaria. the method isn't practiced for large-scale immunizations, but scientists say the experiment shows the malaria parasite is a critical element for any vaccine. a dutch teenager got a major pat on the back from the u.s. military. sebastian looks after the graves of american soldiers who died fighting in europe during world war ii. army officials invited the 16-year-old to ft. knox last week to thank him personally. he explained what prompts him to volunteer. >> i thought it would be respectful to do this. i read about it on the internet. and i thought, well, this is a

respectful way to thank the soldiers for what they have done for our freedom. they liberated us. >> now, here's what he does. he places flowers on the graves a few times a year and even runs a website that encourages others to help as well. some terrifying moments for people on an american airlines flight. think about this. minutes after the plane took off for los angeles from st. louis, a bird got sucked into one of the engines. well, the pilot was able to turn around and land. but you know people on board were nervous. >> i was holding on to my husband telling him i loved him, and he has had pilot's training, and he stayed very calm. that was helpful. >> i told her, listen, these guys know what they're doing. they've been through this drill 100 times before. you can fly these things on one engine. and i think everything's going to be okay. so secretly, i was thinking, god, i hope i'm right. >> good for him. there were 140 passengers on that flight.

they were transferred to another plane for their flight to l.a., by the way. well, six teens who disappeared after innertubing in a river in washington state have been found now safe and sound. authorities say all of them seemed to be in good condition, thankfully. they went rafting yesterday and relatives had been searching for them overnight. they were finally spotted on the river this morning. so, obviously, a huge sigh of relief for their families. glad everybody's okay. two new york mass transit employees are suspended for letting an unauthorized person operate a subway train. transit officials aren't saying who the unauthorized person was, but a passenger claims he saw a child in the cab of a subway train earlier this month. >> eventually the train stopped at union square. and the train was delayed a little bit. and all of a sudden a -- the young boy came out, popped the door open, and announced why the train was delayed. everybody -- and the train kind

of nervously looked around and giggled, like, did that really just happen? >> and an operator and a conductor are on suspension while the transit authority investigates that incident. stay with us. we're back in just a moment.

meeting up over a couple beers, sounds fairly ordinary, right? make no mistake. the reason behind tonight's meeting between president obama, professor henry gates, sergeant james crowley, that's going to be something to talk about. ed henry is in washington. he's talking about it. you have a look at what we might expect. we assume. i'm going to be so interested to learn how the president starts ÷ this conversation. >> reporter: yeah, it's a difficult conversation to start. maybe that's why they're going to have some beer there. they're calling it the beer summit, the suds summit, however you want to put it. it's going to happen on the south lawn of the white house. apparently at the picnic table that the president purchased that's next to the swing set that he got for his daughters, sasha and malia. we're told, in fact, that both

officer crowley as well as professor gates will be bringing members of their family. so that suggests it's going to be more of a personal meeting. and white house aides are trying to sort of downplay any suggestion that this is going to be some big, new agenda item the president will roll out, some new policy pronouncement, some initiative against racial profiling. instead they want to make this a very casual situation, try to, more than anything, bring down the temperature on what has been a pretty volatile situation, the president acknowledging last week that he didn't necessarily help matters by commenting on this at a news conference last week. and he acknowledged he didn't have all the facts at the time. he called the cambridge police. he said they acted stupidly in the matter. he later took that back essentially. what he's trying to do, after a couple of weeks of tension, is to really dial all this back. and in the words of top white house aides, start a dialogue, not just among these two men and himself, but also among the nation as it tries to move forward on race relations. >> okay. and it will be interesting, too, to see, you know, how all three

men come out of this and what we learned from it. i understand, and i can't believe this one, that there's a new controversy regarding the beer that's being served. i know one of them is blue moon, and the other one is red something. >> reporter: red stripe. >> red stripe, okay. are we showing political allegiances? is that the controversy? >> reporter: well, what's going on is you're right that professor gates wants red stripe, one of his favorite, blue moon is a favorite of sergeant crowley, kind of an exotic beer. and the president's going to have bud light. he had that at the all-star game a couple weeks back, politically correct in missouri, but companies like sam adams are raising fact that anheuser-busch is owned by inbev. they're saying all the players @ are from massachusetts. you should have a boston beer like sam adams, now the largest u.s. brewer. i think "the wall street journal" put it best when they said that some companies are hopping mad about this. i think what it moves more than anything, christi, no matter

what the president, any president does, there's going to be controversy made about just about anything. >> clearly very well put. all right. ed henry, thank you so much. we appreciate it. good to see you, as always. and speaking of controversy, there's still more to this situation. a boston police officer may likely lose his job because of something he said about professor gates' arrest. justin barrett sent out a mass e-mail in which he used a racial slur to reference the professor. now, he sent the e-mail to fellow members of the national guard and to "the boston globe." yesterday he apologized for the language he used but denies that he's a racist. his daughter explicitly referenced the slur when he said barrett's comments were taken out of context. here's what they said. and we want to caution you, though, that some of you might certainly find this language offensive. >> i am sorry that i wrote that. i'm sorry that my family has to deal with the selfish motivation and feelings that i had. i regret that i used such words

as -- i have so many friends of every type of culture and race you can name, and i am not a racist. >> justin barrett didn't call henry gates a jungle monkey to malign him racially. he stated his behavior was like that of one. and it was a characterization of the actions of that man. >> now, barrett's been suspended and faces a termination hearing in the next week. boston's police commissioner, meanwhile, says he's talked to professor gates to personally apologize for the officer's e-mail. edward davis says the department has worked too hard to earn the community's trust and he won't tolerate anything that damages it. >> barrett's e-mail was racist and inflammatory. his racist opinions and feelings have no place in this department or in our society and will not be tolerated. barr

barrett's comments were directed at harvard university professor henry gates. i regret the direct insult to professor gates, and i personally reached out to him to apologize for this offense and to inform him of the department's immediate efforts to make this officer accountable. >> and the boston mayor also condemned barrett and told "the boston globe" that there's no place in the city's police department for him. we have some breaking news in the legal battle over michael jackson's kids, seen here at his memorial. a jackson family attorney is expected to make an announcement any time now. but we've learned a tentative agreement has been reportedly reached between jackson's ex-wife, debbie rowe, and his mother, katherine. londell mcmilan says that rowe, the mother of the two oldest children, has agreed not to challenge katherine jackson for custody. now, a custody hearing is scheduled this monday in los angeles. and michael jackson's father may be dropping hints about jackson's possible love child. i know you've heard this rumor, but you have to hear joe

jackson's stunning comments with newsone.com. listen to this. >> michael may have had another child. omar is his name. everyone said, he was sitting right there next to ribi, and everyone is trying to connect from that. do you know that as michael's other son? >> yes, i knew he had another son. yes, i did. >> he looks like a jackson. >> oh, yes. he looks like a jackson. he acts like a jackson. he can dance like a jackson. >> now, some people, though, are talking about what joe jackson did not say. listen to "in session" host jami floyd who is on our sister network, cnn. >> joe jackson, very cagey there, he doesn't say that this boy is that other son suspect he says sure, i knew there was a son. and yeah, this boy kind of looks like a jackson. and yeah, he can dance, but he never says this is that boy i knew to be the other son. >> cnn's been unable to confirm any relationship between michael

jackson and the person in request as omar badi. according to news reports, badi says he is not the love child of the king of pop, but cnn is attempting to reach out to badi. so far efforts have been unsuccessful. chilling details of a baby cut from a mother's womb. police say the baby girl's in good condition, at a new hampshire hospital right now, in fact. a woman being held in the case, though, was arraigned this morning. her name's julie corey. she's being held on $2 million bail. police say she was arrested in plymouth as she tried to leave a homeless shelter with the baby. now, the baby's mother, darlene hanes, was found dead in her massachusetts apartment on monday. the landlord says a horrifying smell prompted him to go inside. hanes was eight months pregnant, and she had three other children. >> she's so kind-hearted, though, that she would let anybody into her home, anybody. she was very lonely, very depress d, and anybody that was willing to come sit and talk

with her she'd let into her home. >> public records show the suspect lived in the same apartment building as hanes in the past. she was arrested after police say they also got tips from acquaintances who became suspicious had she turned up with a newborn girl. well, a little boy leads cops on a wild police chase. you are not going to believe what a 7-year-old told police he took the car.

i'm jane velez-mitchell, and here's my issue. suspected killer drew peterson says he can't get a fair trial because of the media. so his lawyers are trying to change the venue. the ex-cop is charged with murdering his third wife and suspected in the sudden and

mysterious disappearance of wife number four, citing a whole bunch of articles and google searches. his attorneys say their client is portrayed as a slimy, sleazy, buffoon. well, maybe that's because peterson keeps doing things that a slimy, sleazy buffoon would do like making jokes about his murder charges on morning radio stations or downplaying the fact that he's lost two wives or showing complete disregard to their tortured families. peterson's lawyers should be more worried about what their client is saying and less worried about how the media reports it. i'm jane velez-mitchell, and that's my issue. >> find out what else jane has on her mind, what issues. watch every night at 7:00 eastern here on "hln." so we were talking about the 7-year-old who drove off with his dad's car because he didn't want to go to church. it's all on video. police in northern utah got reports of a kid driving around town. and look at him. he's actually not doing too bad,

which is scary. they caught up with him, but they couldn't make him stop. and look at this. he finally pulled into his driveway and bolted. kept running. police say the boy's too young to prosecute. they did talk to his dad apparently and suggested, i want to keep the car keys out of reach from now on. they might not be able to prosecute him, but i bet the dad had something to say to him. well, two new york mass transit employees are suspended for letting an unauthorized person operate a subway train. transit officials aren't saying who the unauthorized person was, but a passenger claims he saw a child in the cab of a subway train earlier this month. >> eventually the train stopped at union square. and the train was delayed a little bit. and all of a sudden the young boy came out, popped the door open, and announced why the train was delayed. everybody, you know, on the train kind of nervously looked around like -- and giggled like,

did that really just happen? >> an operator and a conductor are on suspension while the transit authority investigates that incident, by the way. i know we're struggling in these tough economic times, it's not easy to run a business. well, a charlotte couple who risked everything to pursue their dream says their business isn't onsurviving but thriving. reynolds wolf has more in our "money & main street" segment. >> reporter: scott and julie hamilton took their life savings, borrowed money from family and the bank to invest in their dream. these parents of three boys opened a kid-friendly franchise in charlotte, north carolina, last year. an entrepreneurial-strong city. and then the economy took a nosedive. >> we knew we were going to have to get creative and proactive. >> reporter: that meant coming up with a marketing strategy to get customers in the door. they focused on children's birthdays and smaller, less expensive parties and even some weeknight activities. >> we now have party packs that start at $150.

and we have all different kinds of sizes, all different budgets, and that seems to really help a lot. >> it's not just a weekend business which is originally what we bought into it for. now it's something that we have parties on the weeknights. we have summer camp during the day. we'll have open bounce as well. >> reporter: they're seeing a payoff. the business has increased by 20% with zero layoffs. this common story in charlotte, according to the chamber of commerce, more than 7,300 jobs have been created by new business so far this year. mostly small business. the hamiltons say tv and direct mail ads, online marketing, and fund-raising partnerships have all helped. >> we have called every school and every church and every youth group and every scouting group, and we're talking to them about our different programs. >> reporter: all part of the plan to get people through their doors and keep them coming back. >> it's really easy to get on the inflatables and play with the kids and see them laugh.

but at the end of the day it's mom and dad that you want to go home feeling they've gotten a good value for what they paid for. >> reporter: building their business with every bounce. reynolds wolf, cnn, charlotte, north carolina. >> obviously people are doing it. hopefully that helps you get a little inspiration. for more of "money & main street," watch our sister network, cnn, tonight at 8:00 eastern.

it has been 40 days since this woman, neda, was shot and killed during iran's post-election violence. well, today thousands of people tried to gather at her gravesite to remember and mourn the woman who really has become an iconic symbol for the opposition. well, they didn't get very far. witnesses say clashes broke out when riot police used batons and tear gas to break up the crowds. it's the first major episode of violence, in fact, we've seen in

tehran in recent weeks. opposition leader mir mousavi was among those prevented from reaching the gravesite apparently. the wife of a north carolina terror suspect says the fbi tricked her, daniel boyd's wife, sabrina, is blasting the way she was told about the arrest of her husband and her two sons this week. now, boyd says federal authorities sent a person the family knew to her home. she says the person was wearing a shirt that appeared to be covered in blood and told her her husband and sons had been in a car wreck. sabrina boyd says when she and other family members got to the hospital, they were handcuffed and told, quote, they're not dying, they're detained, unquote. now, here's the thing. the boyds' 16-year-old son was killed in a car accident two years ago. the fbi declined to comment on sabrina boyd's account of what happened, but daniel boyd, his two sons and four others were arrested on monday. they're accused of plotting terror attacks overseas. a detention hearing's been scheduled for tuesday.

and the man accused of killing a holocaust museum police officer has been indicted by a federal grand jury in washington now. 89-year-old james von brunn faces seven counts in connection with the murder of officer tyrone john. von brunn who was shot and wounded by officers returning fire has been hospitalized since the june 10th attack. but a hearing scheduled for later this afternoon and von brunn is apparently well known as a holocaust denier. he spent six years in prison for trying to kidnap members of the federal reserve board in 1981. this time around von brunn could face the death penalty in four of the charges against him. six teens who disappeared after innertubing on a river in washington state have been found safe and sound now. authorities say all of them seemed to be in good condition, thankfully. but they went rafting yesterday, and relatives had been searching for them overnight. they were finally spotted on a gravel bar this morning which was a huge relief, obviously, for their families. just glad they're okay there. but oh, we feel for all of

you in the northwest who are suffering through these record-breaking temperatures. seattle hit an all-time high of 103 degrees yesterday. portland, oregon, was just one degree short of breaking that record. of breaking that record and people are just trying to get through it at this point. >> i'm used to hot grills, but in seattle? come on. we are used to clouds, not sun. >> during the heat wave, we have opened extended hours until 8:00 in the evening for people from the extreme heat. >> heat warnings are in effect until tomorrow. but meteorologist bob van dillen says it will get better after that for you. state workers are thinking of selling off state buildings. it could raise $735 million by selling dozens of buildings and leasing them back. now, this includes a state

hospital, state police headquarters and the capital building where they meet. a technique being used across the country by many states to help balance their budget. a mechanism that we had no disagreement with on the democratic side of the aisle. >> the down side of it is that you have a $60 million or $70 million ongoing payment for the next dozen years. >> losing money on the lease is better than laying people off. u.s. senator kay bailey hutchinson says she's going to step down this fall so she can run for governor of texas. now, she says she'll stay long enough to campaign against the president's health care proposal and the white house energy plan. which she says would eliminate too many american jobs. texas governor rick perry's office says hutchinson is breaking a promise by not finishing her term.

you know, just when you thought you heard it all, a company announces that you may soon be able to wear michael jackson's hair on your finger. what?

we have breaking news. we now know who will raise michael jackson's three children. the terms of debbie rowe and michael jackson's agreement. a boston cop sends out an e-mail that includes a racial slur. what the officer wrote and how he and his attorney are responding. a baby cut from her own mother's womb is found alive and the woman suspected of killing the baby's mother makes a court appearance. hln news and views on a thursday a lot going on. i'm chuck roberts, welcome. breaking news in the legal battle over michael jackson's kids. a tentative agreement has been struck between jackson's ex-wife debbie rowe and his mother,

katherine. randi kaye joins us live from los angeles. hi, what is the latest on the custody bat snl. >> we know that jackson's ex-wife never said she would seek custody of these children, but a couple of court dates for custody that have already been canceled so everybody has been wondering what is going to happen here. i can tell you at this point there is an agreement reach and source with knowledge of the agreement tells me that katherine jackson will have custody of michael jackson's three children. this is how michael jackson apparently wanted it to go. this is what he said in his will. he wanted his mother to serve as the guardian of these children. debbie rowe is the mother of the two oldest children. apparently through this agreement she will have visitation rights but not custody of these children. it's important to point out here, there will be no money involved, i'm being told, for debbie rowe in this custody agreement. when she and michael jackson divorced back in the '90s she had a divorce settlement with hill and it was agreed she would

receive $8.5 million. that is the money she is still receiving from the estate to this day. no extra money going to debbie rowe. >> this is pretty much keeping with his wishes, apparently. what is the latest with the investigation into death? what have we learned today? >> we spoke with a federal law enforcement official yesterday who told us "dr. murray is the only one they're looking at." important to point out here that dr. murray, as you know, michael jackson's personal physician, dr. conrad murray and he was at the house the day michael jackson suffered cardiac arrest and from his attorney, he is a witness only, not a suspect. we can tell you that other doctor's records have been subpoenaed and that's important to point out and now a federal source telling us dr. murray is the only one we're looking at. we also know from a source telling cnn that he gave michael jackson prpofol within 24 hours of his death and we're told by

authorities that that is the drug that they believe led to the death of michael jackson. we don't have the official autopsy report or the toxicology reports. those aren't due out now until next week but that is where the investigation stands. we know his properties have been searched and three search warrants served on his properties. one, his house in las vegas, his clinic in las vegas and, also, his storage unit in houston, texas, and his clinic in houston, texas. they took copies of hard drives and they took e-mails and correspondence. he has not been named as a suspect, but certainly being closely looked at. >> that home they searched in vegas may be close to foreclosure, right? i only have ten seconds. is that what your understanding is. >> that is true. he owes 15$,000 on it. michael jackson's father, joe jackson, may be dropping hints about a possible love

child. you have to hear joe jackson's stunning comments with newsone.com. take a listen. >> michael may have had another child. if oomar is his name, oh, he was sitting right there next and everyone was trying to connect the dots. is that michael's other son. >> yes, he had another son. yes, he did. >> he looks like a jackson. >> oh, yes. he looks like a jackson and acts like a jackson and can dance like a jackson. >> some people talking about what joe jackson didn't say. take a listen to jami floyd. >> joe jackson doesn't say that this boy is that other son, he said, sure, i knew there was another son. he never says this is the boy i knew to be the other son. >> cnn has been unable to

confirm any relationship between michael jackson and the person in question. according to numerous news accounts he said he is not the love child of the king of pop. cnn is trying to contact him, so far unsuccessfully. a story that brought the issue of race around the dinner table and picnic table. harvard professor harry louis gates jr. and the officer that arrested him at his house. the white house has given us one premeeting tidbit. gates drinking red stripe and crowley blue moon and the president will toss back some bud light. a boston police officer may likely lose his job because of something he said about professor gates and the arrest. justin barrett sent out a mass e-mail in which he used a racial slur to refer to the professor. he sent the e-mail to some fellow members of the national guard and to the boston globe. yesterday he apologized for the

language he used, but he denied he is a racist. his lawyer explicitly referenced the slur when he said barrett's comments were taken out of context. we have to caution you, you might find the language offensive. >> i am sorry that i wrote that. i'm sorry that my family has to deal with this selfish motivation and feelings that i had. i regret that i used such words, i have so many friends of every type of culture and race you can name and i am not a racist. >> justin barrett didn't call henry gates a jungle monkey to malign him racially. he stated his behavior was like that of one and it was a characterization of the actions of that man. >> i am sorry for the content of the e-mail. i'm sorry for how people are

reacting to it, especially my fellow police officers. i am not a racist. i never have been, never will be and i treat people with dignity and respect every time. >> barrett has been suspended and he faces a termination hearing next week. boston police commissioner said he spoke to professor gates to apologize for the officer's e-mail. the department has worked too hard to earn the community's trust and he won't tolerate anything that damages it. >> the boston police department has a top to bottom commitment to community policing. community policing is based on trust. this type of venomous rhetoric severely damaging and maintaining our community relationships is paramount to our mission to serve the citizens of boston. we all work with the community and have made great strides to earn their trust. we must not allow this action to affect the relationships that have been forged and the progress we have made over the years. >> boston mayor thomas manino told "the boston globe" no place in the city's police department

for him. have we learned anything from all this? all this dialogue? well, we'd love to hear your views on this. what's the teachable moment? call us toll free 877-835-5456.ú e-mail at cnn.com/hln. just click under your views. we're also taking text views. just text views plus your comment and name to hlntv. we'll put your responses on the air shortly. it's not unusual for us here at hln to bring you car chases as they're occurring, but this one was not your typical police pursuit. the video shows a guy running from the law, he's 7. wait till you hear why he took off in dad's car.

thousands of mourners converged on the terrain grave site of neda agha-soltan.

pro-government militia members beat people with batons trying to break up the crowd. this is the 40th day since her death. two opposition leaders, the candidates of the defeated candidate mir hossein mousavi arrived to pay their respects. they were not allowed at the grave. former enron chief jeff skilling scheduled to be resentenced today. a sentence vacated by a federal appeals court. imposed a harsher sentence than skilling deserved. he was convicted of fraud in connection with the collapse of enron which put 5,000 people out of work and wiped out $5 billion in employee retirement funds. the record-breaking temperatures may end soon. seattle hit 103 yesterday, that breaks an all-time record. in portland it was only one degree short of breaking an all-time record. people are just trying to get through it.

>> i'm used to hot grills, but hot weather in seattle? come on. we are used to clouds, not sun. >> during the heat wave, we have open extended hours until 8:00 in the evening as a place for people to find respite from the extreme heat. >> heat warnings are in effect until tomorrow. that's when it all changes. some terrifying moments for people aboard an american airlines flight. just after takeoff for los angeles from st. louis. a bird got sucked into one of the engines and the pilot was able to turn around and land right there again in st. louis at lambert international but people onboard admit being nervous. >> just holding on to my husband and tell him i love him and he had pilot's training and he stayed very calm. >> i told her, listen, these guys know what they're doing. they've been through these things 100 times before and you

can fly these things on one engine, so, secretly, i was thinking, gosh, i hope i'm right. >> but outwardly calm. 140 passengers aboard the flight and they were transferred to another plane for their continuing flight to l.a. sebastian vonk looks after the graves of american soldiers who died fighting in europe in world war ii. army official os invited the teen to ft. knox so they could thank him in person. he explains why he volunteered. >> i thought it would be respectful to do this. i read about it on the internet and i thought for a while this is a respectful way to thank the soldiers for what they have done for our freedom. they've liberated us. >> vonk places flowers on the graves a few times every year and runs a website to encourage others to help, as well.

hundreds of people attended services today as england's oldest world war one veteran was laid to rest. henry allingham lived to be 113. after the funeral bells rang for each year of his life. he was one of the founding members of the royal air force and flew in some of the first fighter planes ever built. the doctor admitted he operated on the wrong knee of his patient, but not the first time he made the mistake.

chilling new details in the case of the baby cut from her mother's womb in new england. the baby girl taken from the home in massachusetts is in good condition at a new hampshire hospital. a woman being held charged in the case was arraigned today. julie corey is being held on $2 million bail. she was arrested in plymouth, new hampshire, as she tried to leave a homeless shelter with the baby. the baby's mother, darlene haynes, was found dead in her massachusetts apartment on monday. a horrifying smell made him go inside. haynes was eight months pregnant and had three other children. >> she's so kind hearted, though, that she would let anybody into her home. anybody. she was very lonely, very depressed and anybody that was willing to come and sit and talk with her, she'd let into her home. >> public records show the

suspect lived in the same building as haynes in the past. she was arrested after police got tips from acquaintances who got suspish whs she turned up with a newborn girl. a woman was arrested in south carolina after stealing a horse and riding it right down main street. the woman was riding the horse in between cars and stopped traffic. she even stopped to give the horse a bath. >> she even stopped in, the cub scouts were having a car wash. >> she should have stole a car or something because with a horse you can't get away very fast. >> she's been charged for disorderly conduct. the owner of the horse will not press charges for theft. a new york doctor performed surgery on the wrong knee of a patientant and according to state records the second time in seven years he's done it. he was reprimanded but he still has his medical license and he did agree to take part in an education program as part of his

penalty. a california businessman has come up with his own plan to help fight the recession. he calls it the $2 cure for the economy for the past few months he has been giving an envelope with 25 $2 bill. it is encouraged to be spent at small businesses where they live. >> one of the principals of our business is to give to our legal communities and i think this is a great way to do it, very quickly. >> acxhael have been tracking some of it and i've seen the money go from one store to the next and then the next. >> so far he has given out $20,000. arizona lawmakers are thinking about selling off state buildings to make ends meet. it could raise more than $700 million just selling dozens of buildings and then leasing them back. that includes a state hospital, state police headquarters and the capital building where the legislature meets. >> it is a technique that is being used all across the country by many, many states to

help balance their budgets. it is also a mechanism that we had no disagreement with on the democratic side of the aisle. >> the downside of it is that you have a $60 million or $70 million ongoing payment for the next 20 years. >> some lawmakers say losing money on the lease is better than laying off employees of the state. they have not made a final decision on this. a california vendor who got paid with an iou is going to court. the woman ordered embroidered shirts and uniforms to the youth camp owed by the state. she got an iou for $28,000 last week. paying vendors that way is unconstitutional and violates contract law. the state treasurer said he believes ious like that are legal. california governor arnold schwarzenegger's popularity has plunged to new lows. in a new poll out, 28% of californians surveyed approve of the job the governorator is doing because of the massive fight over the deficit.

californians are not happy with lawmakers either. the policy institute of california finds only 17% approve of the jobs they're doing. schwarzenegger signed a new budget into law this week. starting today, new rules take effect if you're shopping for a mortgage. that's good news in a bad economy. hln money expert clark howard explains how the rules will protect you. >> now, this may be a little late in the game after everything that has gone really crazy with the mortgage market and foreclosures and all the rest and people saying, i never knew my loan was like that. but there are new rules that protect you when you either refi a loan or take out a loan to buy a home. under the new rules and i know this sounds crazy, that this is just a new requirement. a lender has actually to tell you when you apply for a loan what it is you're going to be getting. what fees you're going to pay and what interest rate you're going to be charged and, listen to this, they're not going to be

allowed to charge you any fees up front so you've been given disclosure about what your loan is about. what rates you're goingu?ñ to and what fees you're going to pay and only then do you give them any money to start the process of applying for the loan. but, wait, there's even more that's better. if they try to change the terms at the end, they have to give you more time to think about it. a week. i'm clark howard, for more ways for you to be smart with your wallet, check out cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> in case you had any doubt, clark knows how to save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. don't miss clark howard on weekends noon eastern saturday and sunday right here on hln. a 7-year-old drove off with his dad's car because he didn't want to go to church and it's all on video. police in northern utah got reports of the kid driving around town. they caught up with him, but they couldn't make him stop. finally, he pulled into a driveway and bolted. police say the boy's too young to prosecute. they talked to his dad and suggested he keep his car keys

out of reach from now on. the president called the arrest of a friend harvard professor henry louis gates a teachable moment, but what have we learned so far? we'll get your views on this ongoing dialogue.

we got breaking news in the custody batinal volving michael jackson's kids, seen here at his memorial in los angeles. it's official, we've learned the agreement has been reached between jackson's ex-wife debbie rowe and jackson's mom catherine. attorneys from both sides made the announcement in a statement. debbie rowe is the mother of the two oldest children and she has agreed not to challenge kalth rn jackson for custody. under terms of the agreement,+1 katherine jackson will be the guardian for the minor children. debbie rowe will exercise visitation rights with the two oldest children. no money, no compensation was part of the deal. we're also learning michael

jackson's cardiologist is the only person peolice are investigating in his death. dr. conrad murray is their sole focus. he has denied he has prescribed or administered anything that could have killed jackson and his lawyer doesn't think an arrest is imminent but some are judging because of his financial problems. >> he declared bankruptcy in 1992, he had a domestic violence issue which was cleared. he took this job, which theoretically paid $150,000 a month because he wanted the money. well, most of us get jobs because we want the money. questions about the quality of care. already are real questions about the quality of care he provided for michael jackson whether it's accident, negligence, nothing at all. but i don't think it's irrelevant that the man from almost the very beginning of his career as a practicing physic n physician, could not manage his financial affairs.

>> michaeló@ jackson's father, joe, made droppings of hints of a possible love child. you have to hear joe jackson's comments with newsone.com. here are they are. >> michael may have had another child. oomar is his name. oh, he was sitting right there next to rebbi and then trying to connect some dots. do you know if that is michael's other son? >> yes. he had another son. yes, i did. >> and he looks like a jackson. >> oh, yes. he looks like a jackson. he acts like a jackson, he can dance like a jackson. >> some people talking about what joe jack didn't say. if you were very careful you could listen to insession host jami floyd on our sister network, cnn, as she parched the statement. >> joe jackson very cagey there. he doesn't say that this boy is that other son. he just says, sure, i knew there was a son and this boy kind of looks like a jackson and, yeah, he can dance.

but he never says this is the boy that i knew to be the other son. >> cnn has been unable to confirm any relationship between michael jackson and the person in question, omar bhatti. he said he isn't the love child of the king of pop. cnn attempted to contact him, so far unsuccessfully. ring you any new updates. a boston police officer will likely lose his job after sending out a mass e-mail, which included a racial slur. it was in response to the furor over the arrest of harvard professor henry gates by a white police officer, but the officer that he's not a racist. >> i am sorry that i wrote that and i'm sorry that my family has to deal with the selfish motivation and feelings that i had. >> justin barrett admits to writing this e-mail to colleagues in the national guard last week. he told newscenter 5, he's filled with regret. >> i regret that i used such

words. i have so many friends of every type of culture and race you can name and i'm not a racist. >> 36-year-old barrett is a boston cop and a captain in the national guard. barrett sent out what many would consider an offensive and racist e-mail about harvard professor henry louis gates jr. but his attorney says it's all taken out of context. >> justin barrett didn't call henry gates a jungle monkey. to malign him racially. he stated his behavior was like that of one. it was a characterization of the actions of that man. >> barrett says all he was doing was venting his frustrations and used a poor choice of words. >> i am sorry for the content of the e-mail. i'm sorry for how people are reacting to it, especially my fellow police officers. i am not a racist. i never have been, never will be. i treat people with dignity and

respect every time. >> our thanks to cheryl for that report. boston's police commissioner said he talked to professor gates and personally apologized for the e-mail. eduard davis said the department worked too hard to earn the community's trust and won't tolerate anything that damages it. >>bg he was racist and inflammatory. these racist opinions and feelings have no place in this department or in our society and will not be tolerated. barrett comments were directed at harvard professor henry gates. i personally reached out to mr. gates to apologize for his offense and inform him of this. >> he told the "boston globe" there's no place in the police department for him. president obama called it a teachable moment. what did we learn from all this ten days on?

what are your views? e-mail at cnn.com/hln. click under your views. or text views plus your comment and name to hlntv. we'll airzy your responses all day. standard text rates apply. today thousands of mourners in tehran emerged on the grave site of neda soltan. witnesses say government militia today marks the 40th day since her death, which, in turn, marks the last day of mourning for shiite muslims. two opposition leaders mir hossein mousavi arrived to pay their respects. the former enron chief jeffrey skilling, the cfo of enron is scheduled to be resentenced today. skilling got 24 years in prison, a sentence vacated by a federal appeals court.

the trial court had imposed a harsher sentence than skilling deserved. he was convicted of fraud in connection with the collapse of enron, which put 5,000 people out of work and wiped out $1 billion in employer retirement funds. it used to be white glove service and the friendly skies and more like latex gloves and corralling drunk business travelers. we'll take a look inside the life of a flight attendant.

we have a story just in from the baseball world, yes, it involves steroids or illegal substances, again. two of the biggest sluggers in the game. red sox slugger david ortiz is

among 100 major leaguers who tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003. the next year the red sox won their first world championship since 1918. ortiz hasn't been previously linked to any performance enhancing substances. he declined comment on the paper's allegation. also testing positive that year was his teammate manny ramirez. ramirez now plays for the dodgers, as you can plainly see. earlier this year he served a 50-game suspension. 14-hour shifts, few chances to grab a bite. performing the role of a cop, referee, nurse or waitress all in the everyday life of a flight attendant. a look at how they try to stay sane at 30,000 feet. virginia cha is here with more. how are you doing? >> doing well. good to see you. it was once considered glamorous, but thanks in part to cranky passengers, packed flights and a staff that has

been stretched thin, it's lost some of its luster. even so, all of the flight attendants we spoke to said they all enjoy their jobs, one flight attendant, though, put it this way. when her mom was a flight attendant she wore white gloves and learned how to serve lobster seatside. today the daughter says she wears rubber gloves and puts handcuffs on passengers. many attendants to take large pay cuts and work longer hours and, get this, they're only paid for time when the engines are running. that means they are technically not on the clock during the entire boarding process, which many of them consider to be one of the hardest parts of their job. the emphasis on fast turn around times that gates means that a lot of attendants don't have breaks and don't even have a chance to run off and get food. a lot of flights don't serve food and the flight attendants don't get food either. you're not the only one leaving the plane hungry. they have amazing stories,

including one where a woman took off all her clothes and started running up and down the aisles. you can read about how they dealt with that and you can also get some more really great stories and plus a great interactive feature that show smofz the biggest passenger pet peeves that flight attendants say they have. just go to cnn.com/travel. >> you mean running up and down the aisle nude is not one of the pet peeves? i bet it is. >> i don't know if it is and i don't know what the problem is. but, apparently, you're not supposed to do that. also a lot of attention on dotcom. old saying no good deed goes unpunished. >> austin, texas, where a supermarket produce manager chased down a purse snatcher, got him and then he was fired. troy schaefer said that he heard a woman scream that her purse was taken. he spotted the teenage suspect and chased her through a parking

lot into the field where police later arrested the team. it's apparently against store policy so two days later schaefer got there ax. his firing has been a huge topic in austin. the victim said she will never shop there again if he doesn't get his job back. members of the community have called tine offer schaefer a job. now, randall's the supermarket chain, by the way, outside of texas know better as safeway. you can find out why and you can hear from troy himself by going to cnn.com/video. >> i can hear people clicking right there to go there. thank you. >> you bet. not unusual for us here at hln to bring us car chases as they occur, but this one is not your typical police pursuit. the video shows a guy running from the law, he's 7. wait till you hear why he took off in dad's car.

i'm jane velez-mitchal and here is my issue. drew peterson said he can't get a fair trial because of the media. so his lawyers are trying to change the venue. the ex-cop is charged with

murdering his third wife and suspected in the sudden and mysterious disappearance of wife number four, citing a whole bunch of articles and google searches his attorneys say their client is portrayed as a slimy, sleazy buffoon maybe because peterson keeps doing things that a slimy, sleazy would do. like making jokes of his murder charges or downplaying the fact that he lost two wives or showing complete disregard to their tortured families. peterson's lawyers should be more worried about what their client is saying and less worried about how the media reports it. i'm jane velez-mitchell and that's my issue. >> find out what else jane has on her mind. don't miss issues every week night like tonight. 7:00 and 9:00 eastern right here on hln. chilling new details on the baby cut from her mother's womb. the baby girl is in good condition at a hospital in new hampshire. a woman charged in the case was arraigned this morning.

julie corey is being held on $2 million bail. police say she was arrested in plymouth, new hampshire. the, as she tried to leave the homeless shelter with the baby. the baby's mom was found dead in her apartment on monday. the landlord says a horrifying smell made him go inside. haynes was eight months pregnant and had three other children. >> she's so kind hearted, though, that she would let anybody enter her home. she was very lonely, very depressed and anybody that was willing to come sit and talk with her she'd let into her home. suspect lived in the apartment building with haynes in the past. she was arrested after police got tips from acquaintances who became suspicious when she turned up with a newborn girl. 15 people were shot in one city in one violent night. shots rang out in several different incident before dawn yesterday. a teen bound for college and a basketball scholarship scholarship was shot and in critical condition.

a mother holding a baby also got hit. police say no one has been arrested yet. the wife of a north carolina terror suspect says the fbi tricked her. daniel boyd's wife, sabrina, is blasting the way she was told about the arrest of her husband and two sons this week. federal authorities sent a person the family knew to her front door. the person was wearing a shirt that appeared to be covered in blood and told her that her husband and sons had been in a terrible car wreck. sabrina boyd said when she and the other family members got to the hospital they were handcuffed and told "they're not dying. they're detained." the boyd's 16-year-old son was killed in a car accident two years ago. the fbi declined to comment on sabrina boyd's account of what happened.ru daniel boyd a drywall contractor and his two sons, as well as four others were arrested monday accused of plotting terror attacks overseas. a detention hearing has been rescheduled for tuesday. people aboard an american

airlines flight from st. louis bound for los angeles. a bird got sucked into one of the engines. the pilot was able it turn around and land. people onboard admit being nervous. >> just holding on to my husband telling him i loved him and he has had pilot's training and he stayed very calm. that was helpful. >> i told her, listen, these guys know what they're doing and they've been through this drill 100 times before. you can fly these things on one engine and i think everybody's going to be okay. so, secretly i was thinking, gosh, i hope i'm right. >> there were 140 passengers onboard the flight and everybody is okay. they were transferred to another plane bound for los angeles. a california businessman has come up with his own plan to help fight the recession. dave theabold calls it the $2/t cure for the economy. for the past few months he has been giving employees anxz envelope with 25 $2 bills and a note inside that encourages them

to spend it at small business wheres they live. >> one of the principals of our business has been to give to our local communities and i think this is a grit way to do it very quickly. >> we actually have been tracking some of it and i've seen the money go from one store to the next. that includes a state hospital, state headquarters and a capital build wrg the legislature meets. >> it is a technique that is being used all across the country by many, many states to help balance their budgets. it is also a mechanism that we had no disagreement with on the democratic side of the aisle. >> the downside of it is you have a 60 o$60 or $70 million ongoing payment for the next 20 years. >> some lawmakers say losing money on the lease is better

than laying off state employees. they have not made a final decision on this proposal. a california vendor who got paid with an iou is going to court. the women provided 1,200 embroidered shirts and uniforms for the youth camp and got an iou for $20,000 last week. her lawsuit claims paying vendors that way is unconstitutional and violates contract law. the state treasurer says he thinks the ious are legal. governor arnold schwarzenegger's popularity has plunged to a new low. in a brand-new poll 28% of the californians approved of the job he's doing partly because of the bitter fight over the state's massive budget deficit. californians are not happy with lawmakers either. the policy institute of california poll finds 17% approval of the job they're doing. schwarzenegger assigned a new budget into law this week. nascar drivers are arguably some of the best car operators anywhere, but even they have problems when it comes to texting behind the wheel.

we now know who will raise michael jackson's children. an agreement between debbie rowe and katherine jackson is official. first the cambridge police controversy, now a boston cop sends out an e-mail that includes a racial slur. and a baby that was cut from her own mother's womb is found alive. i'm richelle carey. thank you for your time. breaking news in the legal battle over michael jackson's kids seen here at his memorial. we've just learned an agreement has been reached between debbie rowe and michael jackson's mother, katherine. a.j. hammer is in new york with all the details. they started to trickle out and then they became official. tell us what you know.

>> i can tell you that everybody i think is breathing a sigh of relief today over this agreement being reached, not just the people around michael jackson's kids, but i think everybody, including you and i who have been watching this worrying about these three kids who have just lost their father. this is really what i consider to be some of the first good news that we've had in the whole michael jackson saga. michael made it perfectly clear in his will should he die he wanted his mother, katherine jackson, to be the custodian, to be the guardian of his three kids. well, almost since the moment michael passed away, speculation was rampant, even though debbie rowe, the mother of his two oldest kids, never came out and said publicly she was going to challenge custody or would seek custody, people were saying right away she was going to go after it and get involved and sort of get in the way of whole thing. on so many levels that would have been a bad idea. katherine jackson is already close with these kids and was close with her son, michael. debbie had made it clear he

didn't have an interest in involvement in their day to day lives. she had the kids because of michael. we're talking about the two oldest kids. the third child was carried by an unnamed surrogate. it could have potentially broken up the family. this really looks like a good thing. so no challenge from debbie rowe for custody. full custody going to go to katherine jackson once this is all officially approved by the court. that's supposed to happen on monday, and, of course, katherine jackson has had temporary guardianship almost since michael passed away. this is just good news today. >> i would agree. a.j., do we know if money, any type of past settlement, in anything to do with greasing the wheels to make this happen? >> we do know, and the answer is. no i for one say thank goodness. wow, that would have just been ugly, woont it hauldn't it have? that was another thing a lot of people were speculating. she's had some financial troubles and maybe she wanted some money. here is what debbie rowe's

lawyer is telling us. he tells us the parties have not sought or agreed to any compensation apart from spousal compensation previously agreed to. apparently this whole thing was pretty amicable. everybody was speculating that it was contentious, that debbie rowe was going to go after katherine jackson, but the lawyer said the sole consideration between the parties was the best interests of the children. i am proud to have worked with such professionals who represented miss jackson, and i am proud particularly of debra for her integrity and selflessness. she will have visitation rights, but debra will have a part in the kids' lives. what that means, we don't know, and there's nothing wrong with that, she is the biological mother. >> this is just the beginning of a long process of what this family has to go through in helping these children deal with the loss of their father. >> there are a lot of other legal issues still at hand, and obviously those will be gotten to, but at least this is out of the way and finally and i think we've all been concerned for

these three kids, finally things can move on. coming up tonight on "showbiz tonight," we will have much more on this breaking news of the custody agreement. debbie rowe not seeking custody, but also michael's mystery child revealed. reports that the king of pop had another prince. we'll tell what you joe jackson said about this mystery child on "showbiz tonight" at 11:00 p.m. eastern and pacific. >> and you do have to see that to digest it, don't you, a.j.? wow. thank you, a.j. appreciate it. we are learning today that michael jackson's cardiologist is the only person police are investigating in his mysterious death. a federal law enforcement official told cnn dr. conrad murray is their sole focus. murray has consistently denied he prescribed or administered anything that should have killed jackson, and his lawyer says he doesn't think an arrest of any type is imminent, but some are questioning murray's judgment because of his history of financial problems.

>> he declared bankruptcy in 1992. so what? he had a domestic violence issue which he was cleared. so what? i just -- you know, he took this job, which theoretically paid $150,000 a month because he wanted the money. well, most of us get jobs because we want the money. >> i think there are going to be real questions about the quality of care. already are real questions about the quality of care that he provided for michael jackson. whether it's accident, negligence, nothing at all, but i don't think it's irrelevant that the man from almost the very beginning of his career as a practicing physician could not manage his financial affairs. a story that brought the issue of race in america into the spotlight takes a new turn. this evening around the picnic table harvard professor henry gates and the cop who arrested him will be at the white house. president obama invited gates and sergeant james crowley to meet over a beer outside the oval office.

the white house has given us one premeeting tidbit. gates will be drinking red stripe. crowley is going to have a blue moon and the president will toss back some bud light. well, a boston police officer will likely lose his job because of something he said about the arrest of professor gates. justin sent out a mass e-mail in which he used a racial slur to refer to the professor. he sent the e-mail to some fellow members of the national guard and also to "the boston globe." yesterday he did apologize for the language he used but denied he's a racest. his lawyer explicitly referenced the slur when he said barrett's comments were taken out of context. here is what was said. we will caution you, you might find some of this language offensive. now, listen. >> i am sorry that i wrote that. i'm sorry that my family has to deal with this selfish motivation and feelings that i had. i regret that i used such words

as -- i have so many friends of every type of culture and race you can name and i am not a racist. >> justin barrett didn't call henry gates a jungle monkey to malign him racially. he stated his behavior was like that of one, and it was a characterization of the actions of that man. >> i am sorry for the content of the e-mail. i'm sorry for how people are reacting to it, especially my fellow police officers. i am not a racist. i never have been, never will be. i treat people with dignity and respect every time. >> barrett has been suspended and is facing a termination hearing in the next week. boston police commissioner says he has talked to professor gates to personally apologize for the officer's e-mail. edward davis says the department has worked too hard to earn the

community's trust and he won't tolerate anything that damages it. >> the boston police department has a top to bottom commitment to community policing. it's based on trust. this type of venomous rhetoric is severely damaging. maintaining our community relationships is paramount to our mission to serve the citizens of boston. we all work with the community and have made great strides to earn their trust. we must not allow this action to affect the relationships that have been forged and the progress we've made over the years. >> and the mayor of boston also condemned barrett and told "the boston globe" there's no place in the city's police department for him. president obama called the flap over the arrest of gates a teachable moment, but have we learned anything from it? we want to hear your views. so you can call us at 1-877-tell-hln. you can also e-mail us by heading to cnn.com/hln and clicking under "your views." there's also a link to comment

on my facebook page. we're also taking your text messages. text "views" plus your comments and name to hlntv. standard text rates apply. police say they found this woman with a baby stolen from another woman's womb. the mom-to-be found dead in a closet. the chilling details from this horrific crime.

i'll come back to austin. choices that are better for the environment are also much more expensive. building a green home on a budget means plenty of planning and having to make some tough choices. morgan neil has one couple's story in this edition of "ecosolutions." >> we can have light here.

>> reporter: when this couple built their house, they planned every detail. environmental impact was a priority, but money and time were limited. >> because both of us are working, so we have only short time to be here in house, and so it is very difficult to keep ecofriendly when it requires long time. >> reporter: so they opted for some low maintenance ways to be green. faucets that use less water, double-paned glass, and solar panels. living in one of japan's big cities, one of the main challenges is how to deal with limited space. they found a way to deal with the challenge that's both ingenious, and, well, green. the rooftop garden keeps the house cooler, meaning they use less air conditioning. >> water is warmed up by the solar energy. >> solar panels heat nearly all the water they need in summer,

though they have to use a boiler in winter when there's less light. she says she'd like to reduce the carbon emissions to zero but had to balance that with other needs. what if cost were no object? panasonic set up this model home to showcase its latest ideas on eliminating carbon emissions. >> it gives you some light. >> reporter: inside an energy management network reduces consumption. >> oxygen and hydrogen and goes in and reacts here. >> reporter: while fuel cells combine with solar power to provide what power is needed. it's an elegant vision of the future, but in the present this family says building an ecofriendly house means making hard decisions. >> i have to decide which i want to introduce and which i cannot introduce. i have to decide every time. >> she says the important thing is the house is not just

ecofriendly, it's also comfortable, and that's not easy to plan. morgan neil, kawasaki, japan. for some working in the auto industry is a family affair. but that custom may be in danger. cnnmoney.com's poppy harlow met one family trying to ensure ford's future is as bright as its past. >> reporter: lena worked as an engineer at ford from 1960 until the early '90s following his father's work at the automaker during the great depression. >> for me it's provided a great living, provided an opportunity to send all my kids to college. it's provided satisfactory income in my retirement. >> reporter: it was his first and only job out of college. three decades later his son carl followed in his footsteps.

>> probably the first thing that interested me about it is we have like a family day, and i always remember as a kid just the sheer breadth of what was there, and then even then as a kid is the engineering or the intuition of all the interesting parts and stuff like that. >> reporter: carl has been an engineer at ford since 1991. in fact, all three of lino's sons have worked at ford. >> i think it's the most defining element of this company, it's a family company. i can't tell you the number of places i can go in our company where people come up to me and say, you know, i'm fourth generation also. or my aunt and uncle knew your father and your grandfather. >> reporter: but times have changed and layoffs have mounted. when lino worked at ford in the 1960s, the automaker had more than 219% of u.s. market share. today that number has fall ton 15%. >> what has happened to the industry? people have found a great desire

to buy foreign cars i guess. we want to become a country that assembles parts, that's one thing f we want to be a country that not only assembles, but designed and innovates the parties, that's another story. >> let's talk to poppy now about the other story. poppy, how is the widman family feeling about the future of lord and the u.s. auto industry because they have seen everything. i trust their judgment. >> you know, they have been there, again, for generations, and they're very hopeful for what's ahead at ford, and the industry as a whole. the father there, you heard him warning do we want to be a country that just assembles cars or where we innovate them. his son is working on the new ford taurus. this is coming out in 2010. this is ford's real push to create new cool cars that americans want to buy. we saw a model of it when we were in detroit right there, so very interesting to see that, and for ford a bit of a brighter

story, it hasn't filed for bankruptcy or crap ter 11 li-- chapter 11. staggering unemployment numbers. the state of michigan, out this week, they are dealing with more than 17% unemployment just in the metro area. statewide the highest unemployment rate, over 15%. you see some bright stories. some families working generation after generation at the automaker. we can't forget the others that have lost their job that they relied on so much. part of our full detroit coverage right there on cnnmoney, richelle. >> poppy, appreciate it. that is a nice looking car. >> i drove it. it was pretty good. >> that's good to hear. definitely good to hear. thank you, poppy. you can get much more of today's business news at cnnmoney.com. check it out.

thousands of mourners converged in the tehran -- on the tehran grave site of neda, the woman whose death became a symbol of the post election protest. riot police and pro government milli militia members beat people. two opposition leaders arrived to pay their respects. according to witnesses they were not allowed at the grave.

chilling new details in the case of a baby cut from her mother's womb. police say the baby girl is actually in good condition at a hospital in new hampshire. a woman being held, charged in the case -- was formally charged this morning. julie corey is being held on $2 million bail. police say she was arrested in plymouth as she tried to leave a homeless shelter with this baby. the baby's mother, darlene haines, was found dead in her apartment in massachusetts monday. the landlord said a horrifying smell made him go inside. haines was eight months pregnant and had three other children. >> she's so kind-hearted though that she had let anybody into her home, anybody. she was very lonely, very depressed, and anybody that was willing to come sit and talk with her, she'd let into her home. >> public records show the suspect lived in the same apartment building as haines in the past. she was arrested after police got tips from acquaintances who became suspicious when she turned up with a newborn girl.

people in the pacific northwest are suffering record-breaking temperatures. in seattle it hit an all-time high of 103 degrees yesterday. in portland, oregon, it was just one degree short of breaking the record. people are just trying to get through it. >> i'm used to hot grills, but hot weather in seattle? come on. we got the dog in the cloud. we're used to clouds, not sun. >> during the heat wave we have opened extended hours until 8:00 in the evening as a police for people to find respite from the extreme heat. >> heat warnings are in effect until tomorrow. so hang in there. former enron chief jeffrey skilling won't be resentenced today after all. it has been postponed. skilling originally got 24 years in prison. that sentence was vacated by a federal appeals court. the judges ruled the trial court had imposed a harsher sentence

than he deserved. he was convicted of fraud. president obama called the arrest of henry louis gates a teachable moment, but what, if anything, have we learned so far? we'll get your views.

breaking news in the legal battle over michael jackson's kids. you can see them right here at the memorial. it's official, we've just learned an agreement has been reached between jackson's ex-wife, debbie rowe, and his mother, katherine. attorneys from both sides made the announcement in a statement. of course, rowe is the mother of michael jackson's two oldest children. she agreed to not challenge katherine jackson for custody. this deal will be presented in court for approval next week. it's not really official until then. under the terms of the parties' agreement, katherine jackson will be the guardian for the minor children. debbie rowe will have visitation rights with the two oldest children. also, both sides say no money or compensation was part of this deal. a federal law enforcement

official tells cnn michael jackson's cardiologist is the only person police are investigating in his mysterious death. dr. conrad murray is consistently denied he prescribed or administered anything that could have killed jackson, and his lawyer says he doesn't think an arrest is imminent. president obama said the arrest of an african-american professor by a white police officer provided a teachable moment. a boston cop said something else about it, and now he may likely lose his job. officer justin barrett sent out a mass e-mail in which he used a racial slur to describe professor henry gates. he sent this e-mail to some fellow members of the national guard and also to "the boston globe." he apologized yesterday for the la language he used and said he's not a racist. his lawyer explicitly referenced the slur when he said barrett's comments were taken out of context. we'll caution you, you might find some of this language offensive.

>> i am sorry that i wrote that. i'm sorry that my family has to deal with this selfish motivation and feelings that i had. i regret that i used such words. i have so many friends of every type of culture and race you can name, and i am not a racist. >> justin barrett didn't call henry gates a jungle monkey to malign him racially. he stated his behavior was like that of one, and it was a characterization of the actions of that man. >> barrett has been suspended and faces a termination hearing in the next week, and boston's police commissioner says he has talked to professor gates to personally apologize for the officer's e-mail. he says the department has worked too hard to earn the community's trust and he won't tolerate anything that damages it. >> the e-mail was racist and

inflammatory. these racist opinions and feelings have no place in this department or in our society and will not be tolerated. barrett's comments were directed at harvard university professor henry louis gates. i regret the direct insult towards professor gates and i reached out to him to apologize for this offense and inform him of the department's immediate efforts to make this officer accountable. >> the boston mayor also condemned barrett and told "the boston globe" there's no place in the city's police department for him. last night through his attorney gates had no comment on barrett's suspension, but the professor may address the entire controversy tonight at the white house in a private meeting with president obama and james crowley. ed henry is inform washington with a preview of what's being called the beer summit. how often do we get to say beer

summit? >> reporter: almost never. i have covered economic summits, war and peace. beer may be a little less serious, but a very serious conversation at the heart of the conversation, which is race in america. this kicked up once again this controversy from a couple weeks ago. sergeant crowley feeling like he was not getting a fair shake. the president acknowledging maybe he misspoke a bit when he weighed in on all of this last week at a news conference at the white house. the real point, according to top white house aides. the president wanted to bring these two men together with him over a can of beer, a bottle of beer, you name it. to just kind of get a conversation going, open a dialogue. not just among these three men, but across the country. they're really trying to dial back expectations there's going to be some dramatic change just because they sat down over a beer. robert gibbs saying race in america a very complicated issue for decades now. it's not all going to change overnight, but the president

hopes, especially as the first african-american president, to start a dialogue here that turns a somewhat ugly episode into a positive episode moving forward and that maybe it will have a positive impact beyond just this one conversation, richelle. >> what does the president hope to accomplish specifically with these two gentlemen, you know? >> well, robert gibbs has made clear the president is not going to bring together and say, okay, what really happened? were you, professor gates, being impolite to the police officer? and, mr. police officer, were you racially profiling professor gates? bottom line is robert gibbs said this is not an after action report. we'll leave that to the cambridge police back in massachusetts to deal with that. instead, this is the president of the united states with the unique platform obviously given his position but also given his race to say, look, fellows, let's take a step back and try to calm things down and turn the temperature down. not just among these men, but all across the country because just the story you were talking about with this boston police officer, everyone thought the

situation had calmed down a bit, now it's flaring up again. the president is clearly hoping to send a signal beyond this incident to say it's time to really turn the page. >> please tell me this isn't true, that there's already a controversy about the beer? there was even someone on my facebook page who was even put off about the idea they were úó having beer, but there's a controversy about the beer, ed? >> reporter: you know, the wall street surge sajournal said the some companies that were hopping mad. even sam adams.úó the president was going to have a bud light and that was appropriate in st. louis. in the last year anhueser-busch was bought out. sam adams is saying, look, first of all, the key players are from m and this beer is brewed in boston, largest u.s. brewer. go with a u.s. company, mr. president, at the table here inó the rose garden instead of some foreign company. i think what it proves more than

anything, no matter what, people will still find controversy no matter what. >> you're absolutely right, ed. thanks. great report. >> reporter: thanks, richelle. so what have we learned, if anything, from the gates arrest? we want your views on this, and no beer suggestions. that's not what we're talking about. call us at 1-877-tell-hln or e-mail us at at cnn.com/hln, clic views." we're taking text messages as well. text views plus your comments and name to hlntv. standard text rates apply, and we will air some of your responses throughout the day. well, chilling new details in the case of a baby cut from her mother's womb. police say this baby girl is in good condition in a new hampshire hospital. a woman has been formally charged. this happened this morning. julie corey is being held on $2 million bail. police say she was arrested in

plymouth as she tried to leave a homeless shelter with the baby. the baby's mother, darlene haines, was found dead in her massachusetts apartment money. the landlord said a horrifying smell made him go inside. haines was eight months pregnant and has three other children. >> she's so kind-hearted though that she would let anybody into her home, anybody. she was very lonely, very depressed. anybody that was willing to come sit and talk with her, she'd let into her home. >> the suspect lived in the same apartment building as haines in the past. acquaintances became suspicious when she turned up with a newborn girl. a man got fired when he was chasing a purse snatcher. find out why he was let go.

14 hour shifts, few chances to grab a bite to eat, performing the role of cop, nurse, referee, or waitress depending on the moment. it's all in the day for a flight attendant. we have an inside look at how they try to stay sane at 30,000 feet. reggie aqui is here with more on that. reggie, you may also have to deal with rude people. i'm not saying you or i, but some rude people. >> that is definitely true. anyone who thinks this is a glam job needs to walk in their shoes for a day because they've experienced a lot of changes over the years. i will say the flight attendants that were interviewed in our story, they all say they like their jobs. but there's a lot of things not to like. they have gone through a lot of pay cuts and furloughs over the past few years, as the airline

industry has really struggled. as a lot of industries are struggling right now. there's one flight attendant we interviewed who said my mom, when she was a flight attendant, she remembers the days where she was trained to serve lobster next to the seats, and now i'm learning how to put handcuffs on passengers. so, you know, that kind of sums up what the difference is for these professionals. another thing, richelle, is that the turnaround times are so tight on these flights, and there's really very few airlines that serve any sort of meals, at least domestically, they don't have a lot of times for breaks. the time they need to turn around that plane kind of he's up when they would be able to go out and get a meal. there's nothing to eat on the plane. they complain they often go a full shift without eating anything. as you mentioned, passengers complain. one flight attendant told us there are times she doesn't really know what to do because passengers complain she's not smiling enough, and then when she does smile when they coming on the plane, she gets a frown

in return or people who just ignore her. so you can see some of these stories from flight attendants right there. one of my favorites comes from personal experience. a friend of mine is a flight attendant for a major airline. he tells me people complain about really kindergarten stuff like a passenger who told him, that woman's music is bothering me. can you do something about it? so he tapped her on the shoulder and said he says your music is bothering him. >> oh, no, that's just horrible. that should not be the job of any adult. that's crazy. >> handle yourself. the exits are located here and here, in case you were wondering. >> very nice, reggie. that's a good story. i hope people check that out and i hope they give someone a break the next time they're on a plane. also getting a lot of clicks, the ultimate story for anyone who has ever doubted the old saying that no good deed goes unpunished. this story will have you shaking your head. >> the two of us know this grocery chain. it's called randall's. prevalent in texas and austin.

that's where this happened. you have an employee who works inside the store. he notices a customer who is getting her purse snatched, and he sees the person who did it. she screams. he runs after the person who did it, and that takes him outside the store. as he is continuing to follow this person, he leads him to a field, and that's where eventually police, thanks to this employee, capture the suspect. you see the employee right there. his name is troy schaefer. get this. two days later randall's fires him because they say that he violated company policy by chasing a suspect. as you might imagine, that's caused a huge stir in the austin community. we are showing a picture there -- there you go, right there, of a radio station because people have been talking about it on the local radio station so much so, richelle, that they are actually calling in and offering him jobs, and the woman whose purse was snatched, she says she's not going to shop at that grocery chain this will they come out and say you can have your job back and we're sorry for firing you.

>> oh, no. i don't know that randall's can be bullied like that, but i admire her gumption as they say. >> imagine though you're getting your purse snatched and people are standing around going, sorry, can't help. against company policy. >> i do admire that guy. i guess rules are rules, but i do really admire that guy. i'd like him around if something like that happened to me. i'd like you around if something like that happened to me or would you say company policy? >> you know twha? i would use my own human moral code and say i think i'm going p to help somebody. >>@p reggie, reggie, reggie. thanks, reg. >> you're welcome. during these tough economic times, it's not easy to run a business, but a charlotte couple who risked everything to pursue their dream says their business is not only surviving, it is thriving. reynolds wolf has more in our "money and main street" segment. >> reporter: scott and julie hamilton took their life savings, borrowed money from family, and the bank to invest

in their dream. these parents of three boys opened a kid-friendly franchise in charlotte, north carolina, last year. an entrepreneurial strong city. and then the economy took a nose dive. >> we knew we were going to have to get creative and pro active. >> reporter: that meant coming up with a marketing strategy to get customers in the door. they focused on children's birthdays and smaller, less expensive parties, and even some weeknight activities. >> we now have party packages that start at $150. and we have from all different sizes, all different budgets. that seems to have really helped. >> it's not just the weekend business which was originally what we bought into it for. now it's something we have parties on the week nights. we have summer camp during the day. we'll have open bounce as well. >> reporter: they're seeing a payoff. business has increased by 20% with zero layoffs. it's a common story in charlotte. according to the chamber of customers, more than 7,300 jobs

have been created by new business so far this year. mostly small business. the hamiltons say tv and direct mail ads, online marketing, and fund-raising partnerships have all helped. >> we have called every school and every church and every youth group and every scouting group and we're talking to them about our different programs. >> reporter: all part of the plan to get people through their doors and keep them coming back. >> it's real easy to get on the inflatables and play with the kids and see them laugh, but at the end of the day it's mom and dad you want to go home feeling like they've gotten a good value for what they've paid for. >> reporter: building your business with every bounce. reynolds wolf, cnn, charlotte, north carolina. >> how to thrive in a tough economy. people are doing t you saw it there. if more of our series, watch our sister network cnn at 8:00 eastern.

new protests around clashes in iran. thousands of mourners marched to remember neda. witnesses say the riot police in tehran beat people with batons and fired tear gas to break up the crowd which was trying to gather at her grave. this is the 40th day since neda's death, considered the last day of mourning for shiite muslims. two opposition leaders arrived to pay their respects. they were stopped from going to neda's grave. people on the pacific northwest are suffering record-breaking temperatures. seattle hit an all-time high of 103 degrees yesterday. and in portland, oregon, it was just one degree short of breaking the record. people are just trying their best to get through it. >> i'm used to hot grills, but hot weather in seattle? come on. we got the dog in the cloud. we used to clouds, not sun.

>> during the heat wave, we have opened extended hours until 8:00 in the evening as a place for people to find respite from the extreme heat. >> heat warnings are in effect until tomorrow. former enron chief jeffrey skilling won't be resentenced today after all. the hearing at a federal court in houston has been postponed. he originally got 24 years in prison. that sentence was vacated by a federal appeals court. the judges ruled the trial court had imposed a harsher sentence than skilling deserved. he was convicted of fraud in connection with the collapse of enron. a new date for the hearing has not been set. we're all feeling the pinch with the shaky economy. hln money expert clark howard is here to help you. logon to cnn.com/clark. when you do that you can submit your i-report and you might be selected to be profiled on our network and then you can get

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in the aftermath of the cambridge police controversy in massachusetts, a boston cop sends out an e-mail that includes a racial slur. what the officer wrote and how he and his attorney are responding. a baby cut from her mother's womb is found alive. and the woman suspected of killing her has been arrested. the terms 69 custody deal for michael jackson's kids. and the possibility that michael had a love child. hi, everybody, and welcome. i'm chuck roberts. breaking news in the legal battle over michael jackson's three kids. there is an agreement now between jackson's ex-wife debbie rowe and his mother katherine.

attorneys from both sides made the announcement in a statement. randi kaye joins us live from los angeles. randi, what's the latest? >> reporter: hi, chuck. it seems as though katherine jackson, michael jackson's mother, is going to raise these children. that's who he named as guardian of the children in his will. there was some question as to whether or not his ex-wife debbie rowe would try to seek custody, possibly full custody of these children, and it turns out she has not. we know there's an agreement on the table which will be presented to the judge for full approval on monday. the agreement, as it stands, is that katherine jackson will raise the children, and debbie rowe will have some visitation rights. the timing and frequency of the visitation still yet to be determined by a child psychologist who will be paid for by both sides on this agreement. also, want to mention we're told that no money was exchanged as part of this agreement. as we know, debbie rowe got an $8.5 million settlement when she divorced michael jackson. he got full custody of the kids. we are being told no money was exchanged.

she will just be receiving the money as part of her spousal agreement. >> anything new into the investigation into jackson's death? i guess we don't know the toxicology results for at least, what, another week. >> reporter: right. those results were supposed to come out this week. but now we're told they won't come out until midweek next week. but a federal law enforcement official is telling us that dr. conrad murray, michael jackson's personal physician at the center of this investigation, federal source telling us that dr. conrad murray is the only oneer we're looking at. we know that other doctors have been subpoenaed and other records taken, but he is certainly the central focus at this point. we know that search warrants were executed on his properties in both las vegas and houston. they took bottles of pills, copies of hard drives. they took correspondence, e-mails. his lawyer is still elling us he's a witness, not a suspect. there was supposed to be a third interview with him by authorities, but i'm told that still has yet to be scheduled. >> could dr. murray lose that house in las vegas? how deeply in debt is he?

>> reporter: apparently, he can. he lives in a country club community in las vegas, very private community. we understand that documents that he took out a $1.65 million loan for that home, and in january he missed his $15,000 mortgage payment. he's been racking up debt ever since. he had about 30 days notice for foreclosure proceedings. his lawyer's office told me that indeed he did get some notice and preforeclosure notification. if he doesn't get paid in full by mid-august, those foreclosure proceedings will move forward. >> all right. a lot's going to happen soon. thanks so much. randi kaye in los angeles. appreciate the update. we have a story we want to bring you out of charlotte. charlotte douglas international has been evacuated after investigators saw a suspicious image in a person's bag. they're investigating the bag room where the luggage is screened, and an area above it have been evacuated and a checkpoint has been closed. that is a busy airport.

we're told it has been disrupted flights in or out of the charlotte airport. a story that brought the issue of race in america to the spotlight takes a new turn this evening. a little history is going to be made. harvard professor henry louis gates and the police officer, the police sergeant who arrested him in his own home will be at the white house. professor obama invited gates and cambridge police sergeant crowley invited them to meet for a beer at a picnic table outside the oval office. the white house has given us one premeeting tidbit. gates will drink red stripe. sergeant crowley will have blue moon. and the president will sip bud light. the photo opportunity should last 20 seconds. a boston police officer will likely lose his job because of something he said about professor gates' arrest. justin barrett sent out a mass e-mail in which he used a racial slur to reference the professor. he sent the e-mail to fellow members of the national guard and to the "boston globe." yesterday he apologized for the language he used but denied he's

a racist. his lawyer explicitly referenced the slur when he says barrett's comments were taken out of context. here's what they said. we have to warn you many will find the language offensive. >> i am sorry that i wrote that. i'm sorry that my family has to deal with this selfish motivation and feelings that i had. i regret that i used such words. as i have so many friends of every type of culture and race you can name, and i am not a racist. >> justin barrett didn't call henry gates a jungle monkey to malign him racially. he stated his behavior was like that of one, and it was a characterization of the actions of that man. >> i am sorry for the content of the e-mail. i'm sorry for how people are reacting to it, especially my fellow police officers. i am not a racist.

i never have been, never will be. i treat people with dignity and respect every time. >> barrett has already been suspended. he faces a termination hearing next week. the police commissioner says he's talked to professor gates and personally apologized for the officer's e-mail. he says the police department has worked too hard to earn the community's trust, and he won't tolerate anything that damages it. >> the boston police department has a top to bottom commitment to community policing. community policing is based on trust. this time of venomous rhetoric is severely damaging. maintaining our community relationship ss paramount to our mission to serve the citizens of boston. we all work with the community and have made great strides to earn their trust. we must not allow this action to affect the relationships that have been forged and the progress we have made over the years. >> boston mayor thomas menino also condemned officer barrett and told "the boston globe" there's no place on the

department for him. we want to hear your views on race in america. what have we learned the last ten days? there's our e-mail, cnn.com/hln. and there's a link to comment on facebook. plus we're taking text messages to hlntv. standard text messaging rates apply. chilling new details in the case of a baby cut from her mother's womb. police say the baby girl is in good condition at a new hampshire hospital. a woman in the case was formally charged this morning. she was charged by videotape from the lockup. there is that proceeding. that's julie corey being held on $2 million bail. police say she was arrested in plymouth, new hampshire, as she tried to leave a homeless shelter with the baby. the mother darlene hanes was found dead in her worcester, massachusetts, apartment on monday. the horrifying smell made the landlord go inside. hanes was 8 months pregnant and

had three other children. >> she was so kind hearted, she would let anybody into her home. she was very lonely, very depressed, and anybody that was willing to come talk to her, she'd let into her home. >> public records show the suspect lived in the same apartment building as hanes in the past. she was arrested after police got tips from observers who got suspicious when she turned up with a newborn girl. house speaker nancy pelosi has preliminarily okayed a deal on healthcare. she says it includes a government-run option and makes reimbursement for doctors and hospitals negotiable. it would not only create a federal program, it would also allow states to put together health co-opes to compete with the federal plan. a full house vote on healthcare will on kur until after the august recess. a man got fired for chasing a purse snatcher, but he's getting a lot of attention.

>> it's been like wildfire. i mean, from newspapers to radio stations. >> why his former employee is standing by his decision.

we have breaking news out of the charlotte area. we talked about it just a moment ago. the part of charlotte douglas international airport has been evacuated. screeners saw a suspicious image in a passenger's bag. officials have blocked off part of checkpoint a and the baggage screening area. the tsa told one of our affiliates that the owner has been located and is being interviewed, but the tsa wouldn't comment on what caused the bag to be flagged. again, partial evacuate. we don't know ofny fght disruptions.

if there are any, they are thought to be minimal as they figure out what was in that bag and what the intention of the owner might have been. with the flu season right around the corner, trial studies have begun on the h1n1, or swine flu vaccine. who should get it first? here's melissa long with the answer. >> reporter: as scientists begin trial studies on a new h1n1, or swine flu vaccine, new guidelines on who should get the i knocklation first have just come out. pregnant women, healthcare, and emergency services personnel. people who live with or care for children younger than 6 months. everyone between the ages of 6 months and 24 years. and adults 24 to 65 with certain health problems go to the top of the list. unlike the regular flu shot, americans over the age of 65 aren't on the priority list because they're believed to have built up immunities that will protect them against the h1n1 virus strain. the recommendations come out just days after the national institutes of health is to begin human trials on the h1n1 virus

vaccine. federal officials say the recommendations could be crucial if the pandemic strain, which emerged this spring, spreads before enough of the new vaccine can be produced to protect everyone. nih officials are hoping a vaccine will be available by the middle of october. for today's "health minute," i'm melissa long. same story, different day. people in the northwest are still suffering report-breaking temperatures. 103 in seattle yesterday. a little down south in portland, it was only one degree short of breaking the record. people are just trying to get through this. >> i'm used to hot grills, but hot weather in seattle? come on. we've got the dark and the clouds. we use the clouds, not sun. >> during the heat wave, we have opened extended hours until 8:00 in the evening as a place for people to find respite from the extreme heat.

>> heat warnings are in effect until tomorrow. hopefully, that marine layer will resume its normal position and cool things down. a supermarket produce manager instinctively answered a woman's screams for help. he ran down a purse snatcher. what did he get in return? fired. matt flaner of affiliate kxas in austin, are now explaining how it answered his calls for help. >> reporter: afternoon drive time turned into an afternoon of passionate conversation. >> they should also be flexible, and randall's, they're just not bending on this. >> reporter: many people called in about randall's and the company's decision to fire produce manager troy schaffer from this round rock store for chasing down a purse snatcher. >> it's been like wildfire from newspapers to radio stations. >> reporter: mix 94.7 did not just take complaints.

dj nicky knight also connected troy with future employees wednesday afternoon. >> i look for a good person first before i worry about the position i'm hiring for. >> reporter: randall's continues to stick to its policy not to chase down suspects. said an executive, "the policy exists for the safety of our employees, customers, and others who may be seriously injured in a chase." meanwhile, the story has gained traction on cnn and is on many stations. >> i did not expect to to happen. austin has been wonderful. i just want to go back to work and support my family. >> job offers are pouring in for schaffer. still no indication if the grocery store might reconsider rehiring him. a doctor admits he operated on the wrong knee of his patient, but get this, it's not the first time he's made the mistake.

new protests and flashes in iran. thousands of supporters march to remember ne da agha-soltan. witnesses say riot police beat people with batons and tear gas to break up the crowd which was trying to gather at her grave. this was the 40th day since neda's death, considered the last day of mourning for shiite muslims. two opposition leaders, the defeated candidate measure hossein mousavi, and mehdi karrubi were also stopped from going to neda's grave.

two georgia police officers were suspended after the secret service found out they may have tried to run a background check on president obama. dekalb county officers have been placed on administrative leave as the department's internal affairs division investigates. the officers were accused of using a patrol car's computer to run obama's name through the national crime information center, the ncic. one of the officers has denied any involvement. both have been with the department less than five years. michael jackson's father may be dropping hints about jackson's possible love child. you've got to hear joe jackson's stunning comments with newsone.com. take a listen. >> michael may have had another child, omar is his name. and everyone thought, oh, he was sitting right there next to rebbie, and everyone is trying to connect some dots. do you know that as michael's other son? >> yes, i knew he had another son. yes, i did. >> and he looks like a jackson?

>> oh, yes. he looks like a jackson. he acts like a jackson. he can dance like a jackson. >> cnn has been unable to confirm any relationship between michael jackson and the other person in question, omer betti. according to numerous news reports, he's said betti is not the love child of the king of pop. we'll let you know. we have new details about what happened inside the jackson house the day he died. jackson's personal chef describes how the children reacted when they realized something is wrong. >> paris is screaming and crying, daddy, daddy, daddy. the kids want to know what's going on with their father. >> they're being kept downstairs with you and the housekeeper and the nanny, i believe? >> and the nanny. >> what are you all doing? >> we're wondering what's going on. we come together in unity and stand in a circle and start holding hands, and we start praying. we're praying, dear god, please

let mr. jackson be okay. we're sitting downstairs wondering, and an hour goes by. and security comes to us and asks us, you know, at this point, we're asking that you leave the house, leave the premises. we asked, is mr. jackson going to be okay? we're taking him to the hospital. >> so at this point you don't know anything beyond that? >> we still didn't know. we leave. i'm driving in my car, and i hear on knx that mr. jackson was pronounced dead. >> kai chase also called michael jackson a sensational father and a wonderful man. a doctor performed surgery on the wrong knee, and that's the second time in seven years he's done it. dr. bruce klein admitted negligence and was properly censured. he didn't lose his medical license but agreed to take part in a program as part of his settlement. the new york health board says they could raise $700 million selling dozens of buildings and leasing them back.

that includes a state hospital, state police headquarters, even the capitol building where they meet. some say losing money on the lease is better than laying off people. they have yet to make a final decision. a spat among sorority sisters is getting down right nasty. supporters of the oldest sorority in the u.s., alpha, kappa alpha is suing to get the president out. they say the president spent hundreds of dollars of the club's money on jewelry and lingerie, all allegedly on the sorority credit card and then redeemed credit card points from the purchases to buy a big screen tv and gym equipment. but this is probably the ultimate and most unusual claim. mckinzie spent $900,000 on a couple of waxed statues, including one of herself. mckinzie is on the left. the statue is on the right. in a statement, she denied the allegations. president obama called the arrest of his har regard friend, professor henry louis gates a teachable moment. what, if anything, have we

learned in the last 10 or 12 days if we'll get your thoughts on that.

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breaking news in the legal battle over michael jackson's kids seen here at his memorial at the staples center. we have learned today a deal has been struck between jackson's ex-wife debbie rowe and his mother katherine. attorneys from both sides made the announcement in a 125i789. roe the mother of the two older challenge. she has agreed not to challenge katherine jackson for custody. the deal will be presented to a judge for his approval, or her approval, next week. under terms of the agreement, katherine jackson will be the guardian of the minor children. debbie rowe will have visitation rights with the two oldest children. both sides say there will be no money or compensation changing hands in this deal. we've also learned michael jackson's cardiologist is the only person police are

investigating in connection with his sudden death. a federal law enforcement source tells cnn dr. conrad murray is their sole focus. murray has consistently denied that he prescribed or administered anything that could have killed jackson. his lawyer says he doesn't think an arrest is imminent, but some are questioning murray's judgment because of his history of financial problems. a story we brought you earlier today. right now part of the airport at charlotte, north carolina, has been evacuated after screeners saw a suspicious image in a passenger's bag. that was apparently luggage the passenger had checked to be put on the plane. one affiliate has now reported the passenger has been located and is being interviewed by tsa agents. the charlotte bomb squad is on the scene and investigating. we don't know what it was inside the bag. but the bag room, where luggage is screened and the area above it have been evacuated and the checkpoint, checkpoint a, has been closed. so far, no reports of any flight disruptions coming into and out of charlotte douglas international. new video we have just in.

this is professor henry gates getting ready to leave martha's vineyard. there he is. he's going to be meeting with a police officer who arrested him on a sunday a week ago. it's going to take place at the white house around 6:00 local time at the invitation of president obama. the arrest sparked a furor because gates is a very famous african-american professor, and the officer, sergeant james crowley, is white. the president wanted the two to discuss the incident over some beers at a picnic table outside the oval office. meanwhile, a boston police officer will likely lose his job because of something he said about the gates arrest. officer justin barrett sent out a mass e-mail that included a racial slur in reference to the professor. he sent the e-mail to fellow members of the national guard and to the "boston globe." yesterday he apologized for the language he used but denied he's a racist. his lawyer explicitly referred to the slur when he was barrett's comments were taken out of context. here's what they said. we caution you some may find the language offensive.

>> i am sorry that i wrote that. i'm sorry my family has to deal with the self irg motivation and feelings that i had. i regret that i used such words. i have so many friends of every type of culture and race you can name, and i am not a racist. >> justin barrett didn't call henry gates a jungle money to malign him racially. he stated his behavior was like that of one, and it was a characterization of the actions of that man. >> i am sorry for the content of the e-mail. i'm sorry for how people are reacting to it, especially my fellow police officers. i am not a racist. i never have been, never will be. i treat people with dignity and respect every time. >> barrett has been suspended and faces a termination hearing in the next week. the police commissioner says he's already talked to professor

gates and has personally apologized for the officer's e-mail. edward davis says the department has worked too hard to earn the community's trust and respect and will not tolerate anything that damages it. >> the boston police department has a top to bottom commitment to community policing. community policing is based on trust. this type of venomous rhetoric is severely damaging. maintaining our community relationship ss paramount to our mission to serve the citizens of boston. we all work with the community and have made great strides to earn their trust. we must not allow this action to affect the relationship that's have been forged and the progress we've made over the years. >> the boston mayor thomas menino has condemned barrett and told the boston globe has no place in the police department for him. we've been asking for your help on this. we've been at this for 12 days now. what do you think? what's the teachable moment here? what have we learned? call us at 877-835-5456. the e-mail address, cnn.com/hln.

or text views and your name and comment to hlntv. standard text rates apply. chilling new details about the baby cut from her mother's womb as police say the baby girl is in good condition at a hospital in new hampshire. a woman was formally charged in the case. julie corey is being held on $2 million bail. police say she was arrested in plymouth, new hampshire, as she tried to leave a homeless shelter with the baby. the baby's mother darlene haynes was found dead in her worcester, massachusetts, apartment on wednesday. haynes was 8 months pregnant and had three other children. >> she was so kind hearted, though, she would let anybody into her home, anybody. she was very lonely, very depressed. anybody that was willing to come sit and talk with her, she'd let into her home. >> public records show the suspect lived in the same apartment building as haynes in the past. she was arrested after police got tips from acquaintances who

grew suspicious when she turned up with a newborn girl. house speaker nancy pelosi is okay to deal with in healthcare with fiscally conservative blue dog democrats in the house. the agreement includes a government-run option and makes reimbursement for doctors and hospitals negotiable. it would not only create a federal program, it would also allow states to put together health insuranceco opes to complement the federal insurance plan. the conservatives worried the not for profit plan would have an unfair advantage over private insurers, eventually driving some of them out of business. a house vote on healthcare will on kur until after the congressional recess. president obama has been making the rounds lately trying to push healthcare reform. this is video from a town hall meeting en route to same. he was headed to raleigh, north carolina. how are his approval numbers? are they taking a hit? deputy political director paul steinhauser has the details.

>> reporter: it is hot and humid in washington, no doubt about it. when you take a look at the president's approval rating, it appears things are cooling off. our cnn poll of polls. this is an average of the most recent national surveys. seven of them done over the last nine days. 54% of americans giving the thumbs up to barack obama, how he's handling his duties as president, and 37% disapprove. take a look at the trend. you can see there's been a dip since june. 61% in late june, dropping seven points now, chuck, to 54%. >> seven points in a month, what's behind it? >> reporter: you were alluding to it right off the top. part of it is healthcare and the economy. take a look at these numbers in the cnn poll of polls, and you can see when asked specifically how the president is handling the economy, americans appear to be divided. 48% giving the thumbs up. 45% disapprove. that's a drop for the president on the economy. same thing with healthcare. here's our average 69 most recent national polls that ask

specifically how do you think the president is doing when it comes to healthcare? 53% approval. 45% disapprove. >> do his declining numbers mean the republican numbers are improving? >> reporter: that does not mean the republican numbers are on the rise. there's basically little or no change in the public view of how the republicans are doing overall and how they're handling the economy and healthcare. so on most of these issues, the republicans still lag behind barack obama. >> paul steinhauser, thank you so much. we have an update on the story we're talking about in charlotte. an all clear at charlotte douglas international. screeners, as we told you, saw a suspicious image in a passenger's bag. apparently, that passenger was located and interviewed, and whatever it was apparently poses no imminent threat or threat at all. the bomb squad was on the scene. one checkpoint, checkpoint a, was said to be closed off. it's now been reopened. operations are resuming.

they'll get back to normal pretty soon. we're told the incident did not disrupt flights coming in and out of charlotte international airport. a 7-year-old skips out of church for a joyride. why he didn't have a prayer of getting away with it.

people in the northwest are still suffering record-breaking temperatures. the end is in sight. seattle hit 103 yesterday, and a little bit south, just south on i-5, portland was one degree short of an all time record. people are just trying to get through it. >> i'm used to hot grills, but hot weather in seattle? come on.

we've got the dark and the clouds. we used to clouds, not sun. >> during the heat wave, we have opened extended hours until 8:00 in the evening as a place for people to find respite from the extreme heat. >> it is extreme. heat warnings in effect until tomorrow in the northwest. some terrifying moments for people on board an american airlines flight. just after takeoff from st. louis bound for los angeles, a bird got sucked into one of the engines. the pilot, though, was able to declare an emergency, turn around, and land at lambert st. louis. people on board admit being nervous. >> i was holding on to my husband, telling him i loved him. he has had some pilot's train. he stayed very calm. that was helpful. >> i told her, i said, listen, these guys know what they're doing. they've been through this drill 100 times before. you can fly these things on one engine, and i think everything is going to be okay. secretly, i was thinking, god, i

sure hope i'm right. >> 134 people on board that flight. they were all transferred to another plane for their destination, l.a. starting today, new rules take effect if you are shopping for a mortgage. well, that's good news in a bad economy. hln money expert clark howard explains how the rules will protect you. >> this may be a little late in the game after everything that's gone really crazy with the mortgage market and foreclosures and all the rest. and people say, i never knew my loan was like that. but there are new rules that protect you when you either re-fi a loan or take out a loan to buy a home. under the new rules -- and i know this sounds crazy this is just a new requirement -- a lender has to tell you, when you apply for a loan, what fees you're going to be getting. what fees you're going to pay, what interest rate you're going to be charged. and they're not going to be allowed any fees up front until you've been given disclosure

about what your loan is about, what rates you're going to pay, what fees you're going to pay. and only then do you give them any money to start the process of applying for the loan. wait, there's even more that's better. if they try to change the terms at the end, they have to give you more time to think about it, a week. i'm clark howard. for more ways for you to be smart with your wallet, check out cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> it's all about you. clark will help you save more, spend less, and avoid getting ripped off. a 7-year-old drove off with his dad's car because he didn't want to go to church. it's all on video. police in northern utah got reports of a kid driving around town. they caught up with him, but they couldn't make him pull over until finally he went into a driveway and bolted. police say the kid's too young to prosecute. they did talk to dad and suggested he keep his car keys out of reach from now on. a passenger claims he saw a child driving a new york subway train. hear his story and find out how

the transit system is responding.

astronauts on the space shuttle "endeavour" have a little less than 24 hours to enenjoy the view from space. the space shuttle is set to land at kennedy space center, florida, just before 11:00 a.m. eastern on friday. aside from prepping for the landing, they're launching two small experiments. one will focus on navigation and rendezvous of spacecraft preponderate a new york doctor performed surgery on the wrong knee of a patient, and it's the second time in seven years he's done it. dr. bruce klein admitted negligence. efts publicly seine toured and reprimanded. he did agree to take part in an education as part of his penalty. governor arnold schwarzenegger's popularity has plunged to new lows. just 28% of californians approve of the job he's doing, mainly over the fight of the state

budget. 17% approve of the job the state's legislature are doing. they signed a new budget into law last week. the california vendor who got paid with an iou is going to court. the woman provided 1,200 embroidered shirts and uniforms to a youth camp run by the state. she said she got an iou worth nearly $28,000 last week. her lawsuit claims paying vendors that way is unconstitutional and violates contract law. the state treasurer says he believes the ious are legal. for some americans, working in the auto industry is a family affair. that tradition may be in danger as thousands of auto workers have lost their jobs. but for others it continues. cnnmoney.com's poppy harlow met one family trying to ensure ford's future is as bright as its past. >> reporter: lena widman worked as an engineer at ford from 1960 until the early '90s.

following his father's work at the automaker during the great depression. >> for me, it provides a great living. it's provided an opportunity to send all my kids to college. it's provided satisfactory income in my retirement. >> reporter: it was lino's first and only job out of college. three decades later, his son carl followed in his footsteps. >> probably the first thing that interests me about it is we have like a family day. i always remember it as a kid, just the shear breadth of what was there, and even then as a kid, the engineering or the intuition of all the interesting parts and stuff like that. >> reporter: carl has been an engineer at ford since 1991. in fact, all three of lino's sons have worked at ford, something you see a lot of here. >> i think it's the most defining element of this company is the family company. i can't tell you the number of places i can go in our company where people come up to me and

say, i'm fourth generation also. my aunt and uncle knew your father and your grandfather. >> reporter: but times have changed and layoffs have mounted. when lino worked at ford in the late 1960s. the automaker had more than 29% of u.s. marketshare. today that number has fallen to 15%. >> what has happened to the industry? people have found a great desire to buy foreign cars, i guess. we want to become a country that assembles parts. that's one thing. if we become a country that not only assembles but designs and innovates the parts, that's another story. >> let's talk about the other story, poppy. how's the widmann family feeling about the future of ford and the auto industry in general? >> reporter: they've been there for three generations, from the grandfather on down. they're very hopeful, the father and son, for what is ahead. they have concerns as well because ford hasn't gone through the bankruptcies that gm or

chrysler has, but there have been thousands of layoffs at ford. they're trying to change that. the son is one of the head engineers on the new ford taurus they're putting out, hoping to make this a cooler car to most people, trying to revamp the traditional brand at ford. we will see. they're hopeful for what's ahead. carl still makes his living at ford, and the father still gets his pension. it's a positive story amidst the sad stories in the auto industry. imagine riding a subway in manhattan and learning there's a kid at the controls. that's what some passengers say happened to them. >> eventually, the train stopped at union square, and the train was delayed a little bit. all of a sudden, the young boy came out, popped the door open, and announced why the train was delayed. everybody kind of -- and the train kind of nervously looked around and giggled like did that really just happen? >> officials confirm an

unauthorized boy was at the control of that train. it really did happen in new york. some discipline obviously will be meted out. we'll be back.

breaking news, we now know who raid michael jackson's children. the terms of debbie rowe and katherine jackson's agreement. first, the cambridge police controversy. now a boston cop sends out an e-mail that includes a racial slur. what he has to say for himself. and a baby who was cut from her mother's comb is found alive. the suspect makes her first court appearance. "hln news & views." i'm richelle carey. very busy day. breaking news in the legal battle over michael jackson's kids. and you can see them right there. this was his memorial. we've learned this afternoon that an agreement has been reached between jackson's ex-wife, debbie rowe, and his mother cathryn. attorneys from both sides made

the announcement in a statement. this is what it says, first of all, of course rowe is the mother of pop star's two oldest children. she has agreed to not challenge katherine jackson for custody. this deal will be presented in court for legal agreement next week. debbie rowe will have visitation rights with the two oldest children, both sides say there was not any money, any type of compensation involved in this deal. we're learning today that michael jackson's cardiology is the only person, police are investigating in this mysterious death. federal law enforcement official tells cnn, dr. conrad murray, is their sole focus. murray has consistently denied he prescribed or administered anything that could have killed jackson, but some are questioning murray's judgment because of his history of financial problems. >> he declared bankruptcy in 1992. so what, he had a domestic violent issue, which he was cleared. so what, he took had thjob which

theoretically paid $350,000 a month because he wanted the money. well, most of us get jobs because we want the money. >> i think there are going to be real questions about the quality of care. already are real questions about the quality of care that he provided for michael jackson. whether it's accident, negligence. nothing at all. but i don't think it's irrelevant that the man from almost the very beginning of his career as a practicing physician could not manage his financial affairs. >> his lawyer says he doesn't think an arrest is imminent. a boston police officer will likely end up losing his job because of something he said did the arrest to professor gates, professor henry gates. justin barrett sent out a mass e-mail in which he used a racial sflur which to refer to the professor. sent to members of the national guard and all "the boston globe." well, he apologized in which the language he used but he says he's not a racist.

when he said barrett's comments were taken out of context. you're wondering what he said? this is what he said, we want to caution you, you might find some of the language offensive. >> i am sorry they wrote that. i'm sorry that my family has to deal with this selfish motivation and feelings that i had. >> i regret that i used such words as -- i have so many friends -- every type of culture and race that you can name and i am not a racist. >> justin barrett didn'tka -- didn't call a jungle monkey. he stated his behavior was like that of one and it was a characterization of the actions of that man. >> i am sorry for the content of the e-mail. i'm sorry for how people are reacting to it especially my fellow police officers. i am not a racist.

i never have been, never will be. i treat people with dignity and respect every time. >> he has since been suspended and facing a termination hearing in the next week. he has talked to professorgitis personally apologize for that e-mail. davis says the defendant has worked too hard to work for the community's trust and will not tolerate anything to damage it. >> the boston police department has a top-to anytime commitment of community policing. is based on trust. this time venomous relrick is dangerousing. is paramount to our citizens of boston. we all work with the community and have made great strides to earn their trust. we must not allow this action to affect the relationship tachave been forged and the progress we've made over the years. >> and the mayor, as well, thomas menino also told "the boston globe" no place in the city's police department for him. and of course the story that brought the issue of race into

america into the spotlight, it's taking a new turn in just a couple of hours around a table in the rose garden. harvard professor henry gates and the cop who arrested him in his own home, they're going to be at the white house. president obama invited gates and cambridge police sergeant james crowley to meet over a beer just outside of the oval office. the white house has given us a premeeting tidbit. the president will be drinking but light. crowley will be having a blue moon and professor gates will be drinking to import red stripe. president obama called the situation a teachable moment, but have we laernds anything? we'll be asking your views on this topic and we'll be sharing them with you in just a few minutes. so do stick around for that. new protests and clashes in iran. thousands of mourners marched to remember neda sultan. the young woman who's death became the symbol of iran's post-election protest. beat people with batons and

fired tear gas to break up the crowd which was trying to gather at her grave. this is the 40th day since neda's death. consider it the last day of mourning for shiite muslim. two opposition leaders mir mousavi and karoubi arrived to pay their respects. former enron chief, jeffrey skilling, not going to be resentenced today, after all. supposed to be a hearing in federal court in houston, it was postponed. skilling originally got 40 years in prison but that was sentence was vacated by a federal appeals court. the judge's ruled that imposed a harsher sentence than skilling deserved. he was convicted fraud in connection in clashes in enron and a new hearing has not been set yet. and this right here is the first video we've gotten of michael vick since the nfl commissioner decided to reinstate him monday. vick was at a hearing at his bankruptcy case. this is in newport, virginia

today. vick said he's getting close to signing with a professional football team. didn't give us any details, though. the atlanta falcons let the quarterback go after he pleaded guilty to federal dog-fighting charges. his condition reinstatement, what reinstatement means, he's allowed to napt many nfl activities including two preseason games if he can find a team to sign him and again he says he is close to finding a team. it's not unusual for us here at hln to bring you car chases as they're happening. but this one not at all your typical police chase. the video shows a guy running from the law. he's 7 years old. wait until you hear why he took off in his dad's car.

talking about it all day today, tonight president obama, professor gates and cambridge police sergeant james crowley are set to meet at the white

house in -- less than two hours. okay, have we learned anything of what the president called a "teachable moment." hln callers are lighting up the phones. rhonda calling us from virginia. teach us a lesson, rhonda. >> caller: hello, how are you? >> great, how are you doing? >> caller: good. the jungle monkey comment made by mr. barrett, it was derogatory towards all of us as human beings. god made us all equal. this thing's bad enough without input like that especially from a police officer. it's people like that that makes it bad for those who aren't racist and some people expect racism because of those that display it, just like professor gates. he expected racism. so we all need to change. >> all right, rhonda, thank you for your comment. steve is calling us from my home state, if not my home town exactly, frigt, tt. worth, texa. have we learned anything? >> caller: if you disregard the

emotion actions and rely strictly on the facts this is clearly a case of racism but it's professor gates conduct and verbal attacks that were without question of inflammatory racist and president obama was nothing less than a second dose of the same so what we have learned is for some reason the media seems to avoiding the issue. and at president obama's own cost. >> did you say, lying? >> caller: i believe that his statement, president obama's statement was as racist as was professor gates'. >> okay, thank you for your comment, steve. and vivian is our last caller, calling us from orlando. vivian, do you think this is a teachable moment? >> caller: it depends on what is a teaching moment for what reasons, what outcome. you have it -- i'm neutral on this. i don't vey bone in this. i'm hispanic and i am not blind, i say it as if is and i think that professor gates and president obama since they're university graduates they should use their knowledge and position

to achieve their goals and not impose their views. they're imposing racial views, preferences. if they really believe in the american way, they should repeat -- they should respect the police and the american people and not continue to use their supposed teaching experience to use it as a backlash in retaliation against white america. instead -- >> so they're -- >> caller: not teaching and trying to bullying and indoctrinate. teach. indoctrinate just like the black panthers who -- >> whoa, whoa, whoa, vivian, i have to challenge you a little bit. you're comparing president obama and professor gates to the black panthers? okay, we lost vivian because i had to -- i had to ask her a few questions on that. thanks, vivian. all right, we had ln viewers who are also commenting on my facebook page and eric wrote this, "nothing has been learned from this. they will have their beer and everything will go back to how it's been and how it will

remain." and taisha wrote this -- thanks for all of your e-mails, your phone calls and probably still want to get some comments and don't you, because this is "hln news & views." "primenews" starts at the to the hour and several topics, check them out. cnn.com/primenews and see how you can get your views heard. and also president obama commented a while ago on this evening's so-called beer summit at the white house. listen to this. >> with respect to tonight, you know, i have to say fascinated with the fascination about this evening. as you know this idea was prompted when i was talking to sergeant crowley and he said, well maybe i'll have a beer in the white house some day. and i said, well, you know, i'm sure that can be arranged. i know this has been called the

beer summit. it's a clever term, but this is not a summit, guys. this is three folks having a drink at the end of the day. and hopefully giving people an opportunity to listen to each other. and that's really all it is. this is not a -- this is not a university seminar. it is not a summit. it's an attempt to have some personal interaction when an issue has become so hyped and so symbolic that you lose sight of just the fact that these are people involved including myself and all are imperfect. instead of gemming up anger and

hyperbole, you know, everybody can spend a little bit of time with some self-reflection and recognizing that other people have different points of view and that's all it is, and so, i will be prized if you guys all make this the lead as oposed to a very important meeting that we just had with one of our very most important partners in the world. but the press has surprised me before. thank you. thank you very much. >> so there you have the president. basically lowering expectations. telling everybody to calm down. just getting two guys together so we can talk because they're people. probably have more in common than they doan is in common. basically saying, i'm not a professor. this is not a summit. i'm not going to be lecturing

anybody. everybody just calm down. stop calling it a summit. take a chill pill, for the most part. we'll have more on the other side of the break.

chilling new details in the case of the baby cut from her mother's womb. police say the baby is in good done in a hospital in new hampshire. the woman held in the case was formally charged this morning. julie cory is hold $2 million

bail. police said she was arrested in the plymouth. the baby's mother darlene haines was found dead in her massachusetts apartment monday. the landlord says a horrifying smell made him go inside. haines was eight months' pregnant and had three other children. >> she's so kind-hearted though that she would let anybody into her home, anybody. she was very lonely, depressed, and anybody who was willing to come and sit and talk with her she would let into her home. >> public records say the suspect lived in the same apartment building as haines in the past. she got tips from acquaintances who became suspicious is when when she just turned up with a newborn girl. a new york doctor performed surgery on the wrong knee of a patient according to state records, it's second time he's done it in seven years. dr. bruce klein admitted negligence and publicly centered and reprimand but he still has

his medical license. he did agree to take part in an education program as part of his penalty. california vendor who got paid with one of those ious is going to court. the woman provided 1,200 embr d embroidered shirts and uniforms to a youth camp run by the state. she said she got an iou for nearly $28,000 last week. her lawsuit claims paying vendor tacway is unconstitutional. and violates contract laws. the state treasurer said he believes the ious are legal. and california governor, arnold schwarzenegger's popularity has plunged to new lows in a new poll just 28% of the california survey to prove of the job that he's doing partly because of the bitter fight over the state massive budget deficit. californians aren't happy with lawmakers either. the policy institute of california poll finds just 17% approve of the jobs they're doing. schwarzenegger signed a new budget into law this week. a 7-year-old, 7, drove off with his dad's car because he didn't want to go to church and

we have the video. police in northern utah, got reports of a kid driving around town. they did catch up with him. but the kid wouldn't stop. until he finally pulled into a driveway and just bolted. look at this. he's so tiny. police say he's too tiny, too young to prosecute, so they talked to dad and suggested that he keep his car keys out of reach out of little one. stocks rallied today on a number of better than expected quarterly earnings an a positive new report on jobless claims. stephanie eelam is at our newsdesk. hello, stephanie. >> major averages to their highest levels in almost nine months. the dow ended at 9154. nasdaq tacked on 60 points and the broader s&p 500 looking over 1%. and just for note, the nasdaq and s&p are both closing in on key levels, 2,000 for nasdaq and 1,000 for the s&p. the markets got a boost from the latest look at labor market.

the number of americans filing for first-time unemployment benefits rose last week by 25,000. much of that was due to temporary auto industry layoffs. and looking at the bigger picture, the number of americans receiving jobless benefits for one week or more fell by 54,000 to its lowest level since early april. it was the third weekly decline in a row. the market also received a boost from several important corporate earnings today. tech giant, sony, reported another quarterly loss, but still managed to beat low expectations. sony shares jumped nearly 10%. and then there is motorola, gaining more than 9%. the cell phonemaker posted a surprise profit even though shipments of its handsets fell by nearly a half comfared a year ago. so some good news, bad news. you know how it is richelle. that's what we do. >> that's what we do, thank you, stephanie the astronauts on the space shuttle "endeavour" have a little less than 24 hours. is scheduled to land at the kennedy space shuttle tomorrow before 11:00 a.m. eastern time. getting in last-minute work today aside from prepping for tomorrow's landing they are

launching two small experiments. one will focus on navigation and rendezvous aircraft and the other will center around the earth's atmosphere. we now know who will take care of michael jackson's children. break down the agreement between jackson's mother and debbie rowe.

have some breaking news in the legal battle over michael jackson's kids. these are his kids right there you can see them at the memel on. we learned this afternoon an agreement has been reached between jackson's ex-wife, debbie rowe and his mother, katherine. attorneys from both sides released a statement and this is basically what it says "debbie rowe who is the mother of michael jackson's two oldest children agreed not challenge katherine jackson for custody. the deal will be presented in court next week for final legal approval." because it's legally not official until then. under the term of the agreement katherine jackson will be the guardian of the minor children. debbie rowe will have visitation rights for the two oldest rights

and both sides have to say no money had to do with this. cardiology is the only person that police are investigating that is into his mysterious death. a federal law enforcement official is telling cnn dr. conrad murvetheir sole focus. murray has consistently denied he prescribed or administered that should have killed jackson and his lawyer says he doesn't think an arrest is going to happen anytime soon but some are questioning murray's judgment because of his history of financial problems. >> he declared bankruptcy in 1992. so what? he had a domestic violence issue, which he was cleared. >> right. >> so what? i just -- you know, he took this job, which theoretically, paid $150,000 a month because he wanted the money. well, most of us get jobs because we want the money. >> i think there are going to be real questions about the quality of care. already are real questions about the quality of care that he provided for michael jackson. whether it's accident, negligence, nothing at all.

but i don't think it's irrelevant that the man from almost the very beginning of his career as a practicing physician could not manage his financial affairs. >> his lawyers again says he does not think an arrest is imminent. this is the first video, right here that we've gotten of michael vick since the nfl commissioner decided to condition a reinstate him monday. this is at a hearing that vick had in his bankruptcy case in newport news, virginia today. the associated press reports vick says he is close to signing with a professional football team. wouldn't give anymore details than that. the atlanta falcons let the quarterback go after he pleaded guilty to federal dog-fighting charges. his condition reinstatement allows him to participate in many nfl activities. he can play in the last two preseason games if he can find a team to sign him. and again, according to the a.p., he says he's close to doing that. president obama said the arrest of an african-american

professor by a white police officer. provide a teachable moment. boston cop said something entirely different about it. and now he's likely to lose his job. officer justin barrett sent out a mass e-mail in which he used a racial stlour reference professor gates. he sent this e-mail to some fellow members of the national guard and also to "the boston globe." yesterday he did apologize for the language he used that insisted he's not a racist. his lawyer explicitly referenced the slur when he said barrett's comments were taken out of context. so we are going to play for you what he said. we want to caution you. you might find some of this language offensive. >> i am sorry that i wrote that. i'm sorry that my family has to deal with this selfish motivation and feelings that i had. i regret that i used such words as -- i have so many friends of -- every type of culture and

race that you can name and i'mnate racist. >> justin barrett didn't call henry gates a jungle monkey to malign him racially. he stated his behavior was like that of one and it was a characterization of the actions of that man. >> barrett has been suspended and is facing a termination hearing in the next week. and boston's police commissioner says he's talked to professor gates to personally apologize for this e-mail. edward davis says his partner has worked hard to earn the community's trust and will not tolerate anything that damages it. >> e-mail was racist and inflammatory. these racist opinions and feelings have no place in this department or in our society and will not be tolerated. barrett's comments were directed at harvard university professor, henry louis gates. i regret the direct insult

towards professor gates and i personally reached out to him to apologize for this offense and to inform him of the department's immediate efforts to make this officer accountable. >> the mayor as well. the mayor boston thomas menino also thursday is no place in the city's police department for him. the story that brought the issue of race in america and into the spotlight, the story that we've been talking about, well, it takes a new turn in about an hour and a half in the white house rose garden. harvard professor, henry gates, and the cop who arrested him in his own home, they're going to be at the white house. president obama invited gates and cambridge police sergeant james crowley to meet over a beer outside of the oval office. he just spoke to reporters about what he expects from all of this. >> i noticed this has been called the beer summit. it's a -- it's a clever term but this is not a summit, guys. this is three folks having -- having a drink at the end of the day. and hopefully giving people an

opportunity to listen to each other. >> a beer summit sounds so clever. we can't call it that? the white house has given us the beer lineup for this evening. the president will be drinking bud light. officer crowley drinks colorado blue moon. and professor gates will be drinking the jamaican import red stripe. amanda from murphiesboro tennessee. says, gates and the officer need to work it out privately. and the president needs to find his own business. sandy from georgetown illinois, wrote this. it's a great idea, but why beer? couldn't they have a cup of coffee, tea, or cookies. isn't there a designated driver? sandy, i like that a lot. commenting on my facebook page as well. getting really feisty. i have to tell everyone to calm down. mike says what does three beers on the white house lawn cost? reggie wrote this, president obama is doing the right thing

by inviting gates and crowley to the white house because it will calm things down. so you've been sharing your opinions, e-mails, facebook, phone calls, thank you very much for that. you can keep commenting. we want your comment here on hln "news & views." you can comment at cnn.com/primenews. all right, police say they found this woman with a baby, stolen from another woman's womb. the mom to be was dead in a closet. the chilling details from this horrific crime.

14-hour shifts. a few chances to grab a bite to

eat before waitress, depending on the moment. no, that is not what i do for mike galanos at all. it's a day and the life of a flight attendant. and cnn.com has an inside look at of how they try to stay sane at 30,000 feet. nicole lassen is here with more on that. nicole, it does take a lot to keep mike galanos on his feet. >> reporter: really, that's top of your job description. >> flight attendants do have it rough, they do. >> reporter: they do. and this one flight attendant we interviewed, i call this confessions of a flight attendant. this is fascinating. because we all fly these days and see these past flights and we wonder how do these flight attendants deal with it. she said when her mom was a flight attendant, her mom was serving how to serve lobster seatside and now learning how to put hand cuffs on a passenger. richelle, times are changing p it's not as glamorous in the skies as it was. the cash-strapped industry also

required a lot of flight attendants, as you know, to take big paycuts. and i got to tell you, richelle, speaking of dealing with mike galan galanos, this is not in their job description to help with the boarding process. their paycheck actually starts when the engines start. so you know how they deal with baggage and check fliers in. they're not actually supposed to do that. and they usually don't get any breaks. they don't get time to go out into the terminal to get some food or to get any downtime. so it's rough up there. we have a great feature on cnn.com. that's getting a lot of attention right now. about some of the things that flight attendants do. these anecdotes about, for example, one guy who was caught smoking in the bathroom offered a flight attendant $5 to keep quiet about it. >> $5, that's all? >> reporter: yeah, one of many things of how they deal with preemie babies and drunk passengers and a lot of crazy stuff goes on up there.

>> man, if the only thing that people get out of reading these stories is they're much more polite when they get on the flight >> reporter: i hope so. >> maybe they think twice about it. all right, this next story is from my neck of the woods. and i tell you no good deed goes unpunished. the story's getting a lot of attention. and when people listen, they'll understand why. >> reporter: yeah, that's austin, texas. the randall supermarket, in the rest of the country, it's known as safeway. but there was a guy who was working there. and he heard a woman crying out because her purse was stolen. so he chased after the bad guy. all the way through the parking lot into a field until police arrested him. great, right? great, got the purse. everything was okay. but richelle, he actually got fired. he got fired because pursuing criminals is against the store policy. so two days later, troy shaffer was axed. >> wow. >> this firing has been a big hot topic around the austin area.

he's been on radio shows. that one woman whose purse was stolen. she said she's not going back to this supermarket and is generating a lot of discussion but know what the supermarket stands by its policy right now. it says that you know this is in place to protect customers. it's in place to protect employees. and they're standing by the firing. >> well, i guess in the long run, maybe he will end up with a better job. i'm sure he probably doesn't have any regrets and he's probably getting a lot of attention, but still, i'm sure at first he didn't know it would end up that way. he probably -- now he has to find a job. >> reporter: no. and he just wanted to help this woman and now apparently he's getting offer from the radio show. but, yeah, i mean, it's generating a lot of controversy. and i would help you out, richelle. i don't know if it's in my contract. mike galanos, not so sure. but you, my friend.

>> i'm not just saying that because he's two feet from me and i'm teasing him. >> reporter: he can take it. >> thanks, nicole. i hope that people check out the stories. it's good stuff, nicole. >> reporter: thank you. durk these tough economic times, it is not easy to run a business, but a charlotte couple who risked everything to pursue their dreams says their business is not only surviving, it's thriving. reynolds wolf has more in our "money & main street" segment. >> reporter: scott and julie hamilton took their life savings and borrowed money from families and the bank to invest in their dream. these parents of three boys opened up a kid-friendly franchise. in charlotte, north carolina, last year. an entrepreneurial strong city. and then, the economy took a nosedive. >> we knew we were going to have to get creative and proactive. >> reporter: that meant coming up with a marketing strategy to get customers in the door. they focused on children's birthdays and, less expensive parties and even some weeknight

activities. >> we now have party packages that now start at $150. and there, we have from all kinds of different size, all different kinds of projects and that sometimes have helped a lot. >> it's not just a weekend business, which is originally what we bought into it for. now it's something that we have parties on the weeknights. we have summer camp during the day. we'll have open bounce as well. >> reporter: they're seeing a payoff. his business has increased by 20% with zero layoffs. it's a common story in charlotte. according to the chamber of commerce, more than 7,300 jobs have been created by new business so far this year. mostly small business. the hamiltons say tv, ad, online marketing and fund-raising partnerships have all helped. >> we have called every school and every church and every youth group and every scouting group and we're talking to them about our different programs. >> reporter: all part of the plan to get people through their doors and keep them from coming back. >> it's real easy to get on the

inflatables and play with the kids and see them laugh, but at the end of the day, it's mom and dad, and you want to go home and feel like they've gotten a good value for what they have paid for. >> reporter: building their business with every bounce. reynolds wolf, cnn, charlotte, north carolina. >> how to thrive in a tough economy? people are clearly doing. from our story "money & main street" watch our sister network cnn at 8:00 eastern time. px

"primenews" is coming up in just a few minutes. mike is right here to my right with a rundown for us, some of the highlights, and jackson custody deal is -- >> done deal, right? >> it's pretty much. got to go to court next week, but, yeah, it seems like it's done. >> yeah, we know the particulars. you've been talking about it. let you know that this is what we'll be talking about with our experts. what we have, as expected, cattle rin jackson, michael

jackson's mom, she is your full garden. she gets custody. we want to know offshoot of that, what role will janet, other family's role-play? we'll talk about that. debbie rowe will get visitation. has she had visitation in the past? and is this good or bad for the kids? your dad die and now here comes mom that you've never know. coming up. and no money exchange? really 1-877-tell-hln, taking your calls. the anthony case. about 1,400 pages of documents to go over. we'll tell you what highlights are out there. and also casey's brother, lee anthony, grilled by state attorneys today. we'll get all of that for you. again, we'll take your calls, comments, via e-mail on that one. and another story i'm sure that you'll been talking about, a police chase with a 7-year-old. the kid can drive, can't he? sh >> he can drive and boy can he run when he gets in trouble too. >> he follows the script. so we'll lay that out for you. and as always, we love hearing

from you. call in, 1-877-tell-hln is the number. e-mail us. cnn.com/primenews or text us. richelle and i coming your comi in ten minutes. >> got to see the video when he goes running. got to see it. good stuff. all right, mike. we are hearing that authorities in bryan, texas, have ordered evacuations within a four-mile radius of a chemical plant there. there's a fire at a plant that is sending smoke into the air. local hospitals have been advised to prepare for the arrival of people with breathing difficulties because of the fumes from this fire. authorities say that anyone who can smell the fumes, if you can smell it, that means you're too close and you need to get out immediately. bryan, the bryan college state area, this is where texas a&m is. about an hour and a half outside of houston. so far, no serious injuries reported from the fire. but again, they're telling you, if you can smell it, you're too

close, you need to get out. the case of a baby cut from her baby's womb. the baby girl is actually in good condition at a hospital in new hampshire. a woman was formally charged with kidnapping in the case this morning. julie corey is being held on $2 million bail. police say she was arrested in plymouth as she tried to leave a homeless shelter with the baby. the baby's mother, darlene haynes was found dead monday. the horrifying smell is what made a man go inside. she was 8 months pregnant and she has three other children. >> she's so kind hearted, though, that she would let anybody into her home. anybody. she was very lonely, very depressed, and anybody that was willing to come and talk to her she would let into her home. >> public records show the suspect was in the same aurmt building. police got tips from an acquaintances who got suspicious

when she showed up with a baby girl. a hear this story and find out how the transit system is responding to this.