this shootout by anti-terror forces had been hunting him down for six years. congressional leaders are getting more than an earful from some constituents about health care. but, is their outrage staged? what both sides are saying about the recent i did interruptions at town hall meetings across the country. you may need, you know, wilderness survival skills to stay at one luxury hotel, offering rooms for 19 bucks a night. 19. without a bed. and that's not the only thing

you'll be without. good saturday morning to you, i'm natasha curry for susan hendricks today. hope you are doing well. all your stories are just ahead on hln, the ones we just mentioned but start saturday with eunice kennedy shriver, sister of president john f. kennedy and senator ted kennedy, the 88-year-old reported in critical but stable condition yesterday and now her family is by her side the at a hospital in massachusetts. that includes her daughter, maria shriver and her husband governor arnold schwarzenegger. it is still unclear why she went to the hospital but shriver has had a series of strokes in recent years. she's best known as the founder of the special olympics, which helps millions of people with disabilities worldwide. a man suspected of planning several deadly bombings in indonesia is dead, killed in a dramatic shootout with police. he was allegedly in this house in a small town in java. the police raid lasted 18 hours.

once over authorities say top was dead. the fbi placed him on its top ten list of suspected terrorists here. he was wanted in connection with last month's bombings at two indonesia luxury hotels that killed nine people including the two bombers, top allegedly a bombmaker and recruiter for an indonesian terrorist group with suspected ties to al qaeda. this week congressional leaders face loud and sometimes violent crowds as they held town hall meetings to explain the current health care reform plan. democrats say the protests are staged by republican-backed mob. republicans say the disruptions are because the public doesn't support the legislation. a political analyst for our sister network cnn says the chaos at some of the meetings is a threat to democracy. >> the real question facing us as a people right now, are we a self-governing people or not. can we face the large challenges

we have as a country? and health care is clearly one of this. i think this is putting democracy to a real test and leadership on both sides, leaders on both sides need to step up and -- and put an end to these disruptive kind of brawling, physically violent sessions claire mccaskill had to cancel one next week because of fear of violence. >> president obama said the only way to build a stronger economy, reforming the health care system. judge sonia sotomayor officially becomes a supreme court justice today. she will take a private oath that the constitution requires of all federal employees then she'll take a public oath to pledge she will administer justice fairly and impartially. sotomayor is expected to hear her first arguments next months when the court take as key campaign finance case. your 401(k) probably got a boost from news fewer jobs than

expected were cut last month. the surprise drop in the unemployment rate jolted wall street. stocks rallied yesterday closing at the highest point in nine months. the improved jobless rate of 9.4% caught most financial experts off guard expecting it to be worse, the first drop in the unemployment rate in more than a year. the better-than-expected unemployment numbers brought welcome relief in this recession but a lot of people are still losing their paychecks. ed henry looks at how president obama is reacting. >> reporter: the upbeat jobs report is little comfort to greg tom son who just feels fortunate the unemployment benefits he collects at the one-stop career center in washington, d.c., were recently extended. >> no me, i'm just glad. but there's no jobs. i mean, you can't -- i go out every week and i get the same story. >> reporter: but a couple of

miles away at the white house, the president had a much rosier view of the impact of his stimulus plan. >> this morning, we received additional signs that the worst may be behind us. >> reporter: while 247,000 more people lost jobs in july, the president noted that's far better than what he inherited. >> we're losing jobs at less than half the rate we were when i took office. we've pulled the financial system back from the brink, while we've rescued our economy from catastrophe, we've also begun to build a new foundation for growth. >> reporter: republicans insist the stimulus may be working on the margins, but has not provided the jolt the president originally promised. >> you have to define working. they've set et bar that says we're going to have the second grade depression and we didn't so it has to be working. >> reporter: the president acknowledged there's a long way to go but struck a very optimistic tone. >> i'm convinced we can see a light at the end of the tunnel but now we're going to have to move forward with confidence and

conviction to reach the promise of a new day. >> reporter: but greg thompson, a heavy machinery operator suggests while some jobs may be coming back, wages are plummeting. >> some people say, well, look, i'll pay you so much. and i say, well, that's half what i've been getting and they say, well, if you don't want it, you know, we'll get somebody else to do it. >> reporter: the vice president's top economist jared bernstein was a bit less optimistic than the president during an a peerns on my radio show saying the white house is not entirely confident unemployment will keep trending downward and it's still entirely possible it will reach 10% by the end of the year. ed henry, cnn, the white house. connecticut police say the diagnosis is impersonating a nurse. the pro notices could be time behind bars. a woman was arrested this week on charges of pretending to be a nurse. authorities say the 56-year-old betty liechtenstein had worked in a doctor's office. the doctor she worked for

believed she was a registered nurse, you know, especially after a 2008 dinner honoring her as the connecticut nursing association's nurse of the year. but, that association doesn't even exist. prosecutors say liechtenstein spent more than $2,000 of her own money to stage the whole event. she could be sentenced to five years in prison if she's convicted. people in hawaii are getting ready for hurricane felicia. fortunately forecasters say the storm will likely be downgraded to a tropical storm or tropical depression by the time it reaches the island. at one point felicia had become a category 4 storm but has lost strength traveling over colder waters. meanwhile a tie even if dumping heavy rain on taiwan. this storm is blamed in the death of ten people in the philippines including three french tourists who were swept is away in floodwaters. can you believe it it is the

last weekend of summer for a lot of school kids and we're keeping track of our hurricane headed toward hawaii right now. meteorologist reynolds wolf joins us now. how is felicia doing? >> weakening. amazingly about 36 hours it was a category 4 storm and now category 1 with winds sustained 90 miles an hour and gusts up to 115 bringing it more to the west. as it does so it is expected to weaken interacting with cooler water and strong upper-level winds possibly making landfall on the big island. possibly heavy rainfall and surf, basically you can expect from the storm thankfully will be weakening. meantime, getting a bit stronger will be storms across parts of the midwest and western great lakes this area of low pressure and frontal boundary drifting east with your day time heating could give you strong storms possibly hail, damaging winds, maybe an isolated tornado even flash flooding especially back into parts of minnesota and into wisconsin. still very hot for you in texas. high temperatures in places like texas going up into the 90s for

many spots. very dry for the west coast and for parts of the northeast a mix of sunshine and clouds. in the northeast high temperatures going to the upper 70s in many spots. washington, d.c., 89 degrees, 91 in chicago, 95 in houston, 98 for dallas, 68 in san francisco. and for miami, 91 degrees the expected high. that is your forecast. i'm reynolds wolf. for hln. >> a pregnant mom of six who hit hard times decided to go for a really radical approach to make some cash. >> it just came to me to try something different. i did not expect any type of response. i thought this crazy, no one is going to even look at it. >> and what she's selling on ebay that has some saying she does not deserve to be a parent.

parents listen up especially for you a new study says too much time from front of the tv can actually raise your child's blood pressure. dr. sanjay gupta looks at why this information is so important in today's fit nation report. >> it's no secret i think to neighborhood sedentary habits are more commonly associated with being overweight or obesity and possibly associated with being hyper tensive or having high blood pressure as well. what is striking about this study nobody seemed immune. whether under weight, regular wailst or overweight, children who watch 30 minutes or more of television per day seem to have a higher likelihood of developing high blood pressure. now, what this study did specifically, looked at children between ages of 3 and 9 over 100

of them and what they found children who watch 30 minutes or more of television a day tend to have blood pressure that was three to seven points higher than normal. now, as you sort of drill down and try to figure out why, there were a couple of things that sort of emerge. one that children as well as a lot of people tend to make poor food choices watching television and tended to get less sleep, their sleep patterns more disrupted and seems linked to higher blood pressure. another thing, if you heard the blood pressure points being up three to seven points and thought to yourself, what's the big deal that, really doesn't make a big difference, the truth of the matter, is we have no idea how to really monitor blood pressure in children trying to figure out how much -- how high is a problem. we don't talk about hypertension in children that much. you think about this and the scary prospects of 8-year-olds with blood vessels in their bodies that look like 45-year-olds you want to try to keep these normals, all numbers as normal as possible as long as possible. this is another study giving

evidence of that dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. have you ever just agonized over what to name is baby that was on the way? well an arkansas woman kind of has a solution to that whole dilemma, she is giving someone else the right to name her unborn baby through an ebay auction. now, she says she desperately needs the money since she's pregnant with her seventh child and her husband suddenly left her. she turned to ebay on a whim. >> i really had no expectations. anything is a blessing. so, i am open for anything. >> it's cool because she needs the money. she probably needs the money for the baby. >> i think she ought to go ahead and give that baby for adoption if that's all the care she has for that child. >> some of the woman's relatives frown on the idea of the highest ebay bidder naming her child. the bidding started at dlurz 0 hu00 but is now over 3,000. when a luxury resort offers hotel rooms for 19 buck as night

you immediately think there's got to be a catch, right? well, take a look at what you get, an empty room, and i do mean empty. guests get to sleep in a tent, a tent, with no lights or air conditioning. and don't forget to bring your own toilet paper, either. the hotel staff came up with this discount idea during a brain-storming session. >> it started, you know, kind of easy stuff, towels and sheets and pillows and a little savings and tried to discount from there and get more and more carried away someone said what about the air conditioning, what about the water? eventually, we down to let's take everything out including the bed. >> love the leather chairs next to the tent. the san diego hotel ran this so-called survivor package deal in june and 100 people took them up on the offer. check out this mess here in san diego an elderly driver ran over a fire hydrant yesterday sending this fire straight up into the air and everywhere. officials say there was so much water it flooded the streets and

a nearby store. repair crews later fixed the problem. police say the driver maf have had a medical emergency when the accident happened. but, check that out. i'm larry smith. what a month for boxing legend mohammed ali. thursday night honored at yankee stadium later this month he will ves it his great grandfather's ancestral home in ireland. something that has never happened before. more than a century ago the rival between the yankees and red sox never scoreless through 14 innings thanks to plays like this. a duel of great pitching finally ended in the 15th inning when alex rodriguez hit the game-winning home run, 2-0, yankees comparing it to a heavyweight fight. watch this in pittsburgh last night a fan goes diving for a foul ball head first into the dirt. cardinals first baseman albert pujols running to his aid. the man who has down syndrome was celebrating his 21st

birthday. pujols gave him a ball his dad was trying to catch for him. a first clinch open crown a record-setting 15 grand slam titles and birth of twins, federer posting the first pictures of the baby girls on his facebook page calling their birth july 23rd, the best day of his life. expect issed to return to the court next week. can you include lawn care in a college scholarsnip appalachian state's star quartback accidentally mowed over his foot cutting the grass at his rented house and slipped going up the hill. he will miss two or four weeks but not expected to miss any playing time. that's sports.

a florida medical examiner says cocaine contributed to the heart disease that killed famed tv pitchman billy mays. the hillsboro county medical examiner's office says mays last used cocaine in the days before his death but he wasn't under the influence of the drug when he died. mays' family said they never knew he used cocaine or other drugs and may ask for an independent review of mays' official autopsy. his wife found him dead in their florida condo june 28th. we have been saying investigators think equipment failure may have played a role in the air france crash about two months ago but now we're hearing that some jetliners flying here in the u.s. may have the exact same problem. here's jean ma serve. >> reporter: as early as next week the federal aviation administration may issue an

order requiring airlines to change the speed sensors on airbus a330s. the flight that went down in the middle of the atlantic may 31st was an a-330. investigators have still not determined what caused that accident but automatic messages sent before the crash indicated there were inconsistent speed measurements focusing attention on external sensors call pitot tubes n. june investigators turned up two other speed sensor incidents with a-330s and now the associated press is reporting a review of data from recent flights has turned up at least a dozen other occasions where they malfunctioned all northwest a-330 flights. delta which merged with them would not confirm the incidents but says it is already in the process of replacing all pitot tubes on its fleet. exactly what remuneration the faa will recommend is worked out with european authorities with the goal of making all 625

airbus a330s around n service around the globe safe. could it call for the grounding of all, it would extremely unusual for authorities to do that since the speed sensors have not, at this point, been proven a factor in even one crash. but the time frame set out in the air worthiness directive will give a clue hour seriously authorities are taking this problem. if they call for the tubes to be changed sooner than the plane's next scheduled maintenance that, womb indicate authorities view this as a major safety issue. besides northwest u.s. air ways is the only other american carrier flying airbus a330s. both airlines say they are already replacing speed sensors on those planes. everybody wants to save more and spend less and we have just the guy to help you with that. join hln money expert clark howard at noon eastern with ways to save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. the "clark howard show" noon

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since leaving office she called president obama's plan to overhaul the health care system, quote, downright evil. that's a check of your saturday headlines on hln. i'm natasha curry in for susan hendricks. thanks for joining us. the debate over health care reform has gotten louder and in some cases violent. gary tuchman looks at whether the protests at recent town hall meetings were jen gin demonstrations or staged distractions. >> reporter: is it democracy? demagoguery? or both? congressional town hall meetings during august recess used to be rather sleepy affairs. not anymore. there are images of president obama with a moustache like hitler's or looking like the joker. and, also elected representatives hung in effigy. democratic senators like pennsylvania's arlen specter. >> medicare and social security -- >> reporter: and missouri's

claire mccaskill are hearing from extremely unhappy americans who don't like the idea of health care reform. people have been arrested. others have suffered minor injuries with pushing and shoving. democrats like florida's kathy cassor have been able to get in a world edgewise. at her meeting opponents were seething because hundreds of them were stuck outside the town hall because they couldn't fit in the room. protestors held signs on the other sign of the window. the congresswoman had to be hustled out n. texas congressman lloyd doggett tried to talk. he, too, was drowned out. one protestor used his artisanry to depict the congressman in a rather unsavory way. >> the crowd was rather angry. i suppose some might have had a negative reaction to the poster that said lloyd doggett traitor to texas, devil to all people. >> reporter: how did it come to this? it depends who you ask.

the democratic national committee says these confrontations are orchestrated by the republican party and the democrats have released this web video. >> they've lost the confidence of the american people. now desperate republicans and their well-funded allies are organizers angry mobs just like they did during the election. >> reporter: the word "mob" is greatly insulting to the folks on the other side of the argument. many of the participants in these demonstrations say they are simply exercising their rights. a pennsylvanian who attended a town hall hosted by arlen specter and the house and human services secretary kathleen sebelius. >> i feel like my rights are taken away from me right before my eyes. i don't like the direction we're going. they are taking away our freedom of speech and we're fed up with it. >> reporter: but moveon.org sent out an e-mail to supporters saying they have a plan, quote to fight back against these radical right-wingers ration hundreds of thousands in donations. it's not only the weather that's

hot in august. now the political temperature is boiling, too. gary tuchman, cnn, new york. a man suspected of planning several deadly bombings in indonesia is dead, killed in a dramatic shootout with police. noodan top allegedly in this house in a small town in java. the police raid lasted 18 hours and once it was over authorities say top was dead. the fbi had placed him on its top ten list of suspected terrorists here. he was wanted in connection with last month's bombings at two indonesian luxury hotels that killed nine people, including the two bombers. top was allegedly a bombmaker and a recruiter for an indonesian terrorist group with suspected ties to al qaeda. judge sonia sotomayor officially become as supreme court justice today. the first high court latina when sworn in this morning. she will take a private oath the stu requires of all federal

employees. then, she'll take a public oath to pledge that she'll administer justice fairly and impartially. sotomayor is expected to hear her first arguments next month when the court takes a key campaign finance case. your 401(k) probably got a boost from news fewer jobs than expected were cut last month. the surprise drop in the unemployment rate jolted the wall street. stocks rallied yesterday closing at the highest point in nine months. the improved job els rate of 9.4% caught most financial experts off guard. they had expected it to be worse. it's the first drop in the unemployment rate in more than a year. check out this video here an alleged robber is getting dragged by his own getaway car. police say that he led them on a three-mile chase after snatching someone's purse and, as you can see, he opened his door to ditch the ride and run but his leg got tangled up in his seat belt. the car kept rolling with most

of his body dragging underneath. >> believe it or not, that frequently happens, it frequently happens they do. generally, though, they stop the car before they get out and not let it keep rolling. he was doing maybe ten miles an hour but, still, he went off the curb and into a front yard while being dragged. >> the man ended up with an open leg and the door also smashed him in the head. he was later charged with armed robbery and fleeing police. connecticut police say the diagnosis is impercentnating a nurse. the prognosis could be time behind bars. a woman was arrested this week on charges of pretending to be a nurse. authorities in norwalk say the 56-year-old betty liechtenstein had worked in a doctor's office. the doctor she worked for believed she was a registered nurse, you know, especially after a 2008 dinner honoring her as the connecticut nursing association's nurse of the year. but that association doesn't even exist. prosecutors say liechtenstein

spent more than $2,000 of her own money to stage the whole event. she could be sentenced to five years in prison if she's convicted. people in hawaii are getting ready for hurricane felicia. fortunately, forecasters at the national hurricane center say the storm will likely be downgraded to a tropical storm or tropical depression by the time it reaches the islands. at one point felicia had become a category 4 storm but it's been losing strength as it began traveling over colder waters. meanwhile, a typhoon dumping heavy rain on the island of taiwan. this storm is blamed in the deaths of ten people in the philippines including three french tourists who were swept away in floodwaters. can you believe it is the last weekend of summer for a lot of school kids and we're keeping track of a hurricane headed toward hawaii right now. meteorologist reynolds wolf joins us now. how's felicia doing? >> she's weakening. amazingly about 37 hours ago it was a category 4 storm and now a

category 1 storm with winds sustained at 90 miles per hour and gusts up to 115. the forecast brings it a bit more west and as it does so it is expected to weaken interacting with cooler water and strong upper-level winds possibly making landfall on the big island. 2:00 a.m. tuesday with winds of 40 miles per hour, possibly heavy rainfall and heavy surf basically what you can expect very from the storm and thankfully weaken pg. meantime stronger storms across the midwest, western great lakes this area of low pressure drifting east. that with your daytime heating could give you strong storms possibly some hail damaging winds, maybe an isolated tornado. even some flash flooding back into parts of minnesota and into wisconsin. still very hot for you in texas. high temperatures in places like texas going up into the 90s for many spots. very die for the west coast and parts of the northeast a mix of sunshine and clouds. in the northeast high temperatures to upper 70s in many spots. washington, d.c., with 89. 91 in chicago, 95 in houston, 98 for dallas. 68 in san francisco.

and, for miami, 91 degrees the expected high. that is your forecast. i'm reynolds wolf for hln. a pregnant mom of six who hit hard times decided to go for a really radical approach to make some cash. >> it just came to me to try something different. i did not expect any type of response. i thought that this is crazy. no one's going to even look at it. >> and what she's selling on ebay that has some saying she does not deserve to be a parent.

have you ever just agonized over what to name is baby that was on the way? well an arkansas woman kind of has a solution to that whole dilemma. she is giving someone else the right to name her unborn baby

through an ebay auction. now, she says she desperately needs the money since she's pregnant with her seventh child and her husband suddenly left her. she turned to ebay on a whim. >> i really had no expectations. anything is a blessing. so, i am open for anything. >> it's cool because she needs the money. >> she probably needs the money for the baby. >> i think she ought to go ahead and give that baby up for adoption if that's all the care she has for that child. >> some of the woman's relatives are also frowning on the idea of the highest ebay bidder naming her child. the bidding started at a hundred dollars but now over $3,000. a luxury resort offering hotel rooms for 19 buck as night you immediately think, there's got to be a catch, right? take a look at what you get. an empty room and i do mean empty. guests get to sleep in a tent, a tent, with no lights or air conditioning. and don't forget to bring your

own toilet paper, either. the hotel staff came up with the discount idea during a whole brain-storming session. >> it started, you know, kind of easy stuff, towels and sheets and pillows and a little savings and tried to discount from there and we get more and more carried away. someone said what about the air conditioning and what about the water? and eventually we came down to let's take out everything including the bed. >> i love it, leather chairs next to the tents there. the san diego hotel ran the so-called survivor package deal last june and 100 people them up on the offer. i'm larry smith it has never happened before. 20 men served as president of the united states and five territories have become states while the yankees and red sox have played each other a rivalry dating back to 1901 and the two teams had never gone 14 scoreless innings before last night. the great defense by red sox outfielder j.d. drew, a gem alex rodriguez compared to a heavy weight fight before the knock-out a. two-run homer in

the bottom of the 15th with a 2-0 win by the yankees. speaking of heavyweights did you know muhammad ali's family was from ireland? the legend is planning to visit the home town of his great grandfather who immigrated to kentucky in the 1860s. was the woman accused pittsburgh steelers quarterback ben roethlisberger of rape telling the truth? reports say the alleged victim quote appeared happy and boastful end quote claiming she spent the night with roethlisberger an later wondered if she might be pregnant. the accuser, meanwhile has received dozens of harassing phone calls since starting this suit. how many british open champs took a sip when he took it to an atlanta restaurant to celebrate. he said he guzzled beer from it and later put a soft drink for

his kids to enjoy. he he says he has lost track what's been in it. here's an idea what should go in there next, disinfectant. that's sports. federal investigators reportedly checking whether some airliners have a mechanical issue. the crash of a french airplane exposed potential problems with jetliners in the u.s.

a florida medical examiner says cocaine contributed to the heart disease that killed famed tv pitchman billy mays. the hills borough county medical examiner's office says mays last used cocaine in the days before his death but wasn't under the influence of the drug when he died. mays' family says they never he used cocaine or other drugs and say they may ask for an independent review of mays' official autopsy. his wife found him dead in their florida condo on june 28th. check out this mess here in san diego. an elderly driver ran over a fire hydrant yesterday which sent this water just shooting straight up into the air and everywhere.

officials say that there was so much water that it flooded the street and a nearby store. repair crews later fixed the problem. police say the driver may have had a medical emergency when the accident happened. but, check that out. love him or hate him there's just no denying the colorful quirky crocs, since hitting the market the shoes with the holes have been quite popular with all ages but now our money expert tells us how the crocs craze may be coming to an end. >> you know, the people who make crocs, those cute little shoes that are so ugly that they're cute that really caught on with kids and kids of all ages, including adults? well, that company was hotter than it could possibly be just a couple years ago. selling them like mad. and, you know what, then they weren't hot anymore. but, in the meantime, the people who make crocs had expanded like

crazy taking on a whole lot of overhead and now that crocs went from hot to not, they're just clinging on trying to survive. key lesson for you, if you are in your own business and suddenly demand starts to rise, you want to grow gradually. no matter how much the order book looks tempting, be careful what overhead you take on. because, if you take on too much and sales suddenly aren't as strong, you could be on the ropes. i'm clark howard. for more advice from me go to cn nv.com/clarkhoward. >> in response to media reports about the company's future, the managing director of crocs europe says he is extremely confident it will survive adding crocs is here to stay and has continually invested in product development. as always get much more advice from clark today at noon and this time on the economy clark will help you save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped

off. believe it or not half the people in the world have a cell phone and a lot of them get a new one every, you know, year or two so that means a lot of phones getting tossed. a company in japan is turning old phones, old computers, and other ewaste literally into gold. here's today's eco solutions. >> reporter: how much gold will get out of this. >> wow, almost 20 kilograms of gold. >> reporter: if you are not aware of how much valuable is actually in your mobile phone, take a look. tell us what can be recycled in a mobile phone? >> mobile -- >> translator: in a mobile phone this bart of the battery is made of gold. this is gold, too. there's a lot of gold used in mobile phones. in there is a print circuit. this is also probably made of gold. >> reporter: the transformation from electronic scraps to

precious metals takes up to three months and while this plant is yet to fill the end product or other urban mining factories can produce the same output as a small gold mine. a profitable business, considering the high price of metals. >> translator: what's significant about our plant is that we recycle everything. we don't produce any garbage. >> reporter: so, the next time you decide to throw away your old mobile phone or any other electrical gadget, for that matter, think again. by recycling it you can play environment. know old electronic others and other environmental news go to cnn.com/ecosolutions. still charles manson has friends and followers even though he's been in jail for decades now. so, why are some people still drawn to him, even though he's been convicted of nine murders?

one of the most wanted men in the world is dead killed in this shootout. why antiterror forces have been hunting him down for six years. congressional leaders are getting more than an earful from some constituents about health care. but, is their outrage staged? what both sides are saying about the recent disruptions at town hall meetings across the country. and you may need a, you know, wilderness survival skills to stay at one luxury hotel. it is offering rooms for 19 bucks a night. 19. without a bed. and nose the only thing that

you'll be without. hey good saturday morning to you, i'm natasha curry in for susan hendricks today. hope you are doing well. all your stories are just ahead on hln the ones we just mentioned but starting this saturday with eunice kennedy shriver -- the 88-year-old reported in critical but stable condition yesterday and her family is by her side at a hospital in massachusetts, that includes her daughter maria shriver and maria's husband governor arnold schwarzenegger. it's still unclear why she went to the hospital but shriver has had a series of strokes in recent years. she's best known as the founder of the special olympics, which helps millions of people with disabilities worldwide. a man suspected of planning several deadly bombings in indonesia is dead. he was killed in a dramatic shootout with police. noordin top was allegedly in this house in a small town in java. the police raid lasted 18 hours

and once it was over, authorities say top was dead. the fbi had placed him on its top ten list of suspected terrorists here. he was wanted in connection with last month's bombings at two indonesian luxury hotels that killed nine people clulg the two bombers. he was allegedly a bombmaker and recruiter for indonesian terrorist group with suspected ties to al qaeda. the debate on health care may be actually hazardous to your health. this week congressional leaders faced loud and sometimes violent crowds as they held town hall meetings to explain the current kelt care reform plan. democrats say the protests are being staged by republican-backed mobs. while republicans say the disruptions show the public doesn't support the legislation. a political analyst for our sister network cnn says the chaos at the meetings is a threat to democracy. >> the real question facing us as a people, are we a self-governing people or not? can we face the large challenges

we have as a country and health care is clearly one of them. and i think this is putting democracy to a real test and leadership on both sides, leaders on both sides need to step up and -- and put an end to these disruptive kind of brawl ing physically violent sessions. claire mccaskill had to cancel one next week because of fear of violence. >> in his weekly address president obama saidotonly way to build a stronger economy is by reforming the health care system. judge sonia sotomayor officially become as supreme court justice today. she'll be the high court's first latina when sworn in later this morning. she will take a private oath that the constitution requires of all federal employees. then, she'll take a public oath to pledge that she'll administer justice fairly and impartially. sotomayor is expected to hear her first argument next month were when the court take as key campaign finance case. your 401(k) probably got a boost from news fewer jobs than

expected were cut last month. the surprise drop in the unemployment rate jolted wall street. stocks rallied yesterday closing at the highest point in nine months. the improved jobless rate of 9.4% caught most financial experts off guard. they expected it to be worse. it's the first drop in the unemployment rate in more than a year. connecticut police say the diagnosis is impersonating a nurse. the prognosis could be time behind bars. a woman was arrested this week on charges of pretending to be a nurse. authorities in norwolk say 56-year-old betty liechtenstein had been working in a doctor's office. the doctor she worked for believed that she was a registered nurse, you know, especially after a 2008 dinner honoring her as the connecticut nursing association's nurse of the year. but, that association doesn't even exist. prosecutors say liechtenstein spent more than $2,000 of her own money to stage the whole

event. she could be sentenced to five years in prison if she's convicted. check out this video here an alleged robber is getting dragged by his own getaway car. police say that he led them on a three-mile chase after snatching someone's purse. and as you can see he opened his door to ditch the ride and run, but his leg got tangled up in his seat belt. the car kept rolling with most of his body dragging underneath. >> believe it or not, that frequently happens. it frequently hans that they do. generally, though, they stop the car before they get out and not let it keep rolling. he was doing maybe 10 miles an hour but still he went off the curb into a front yard while he was being dragged. >> the man ended up with a broken leg and the own door also smashed him in the head. he was later charged with armed robbery and fleeing police. people in hawaii getting ready for hurricane felicia. fortunately forecasters say that the storm will likely be

downgraded to a tropical storm or a tropical depression by the time it reaches the islands. at one point felicia had become a category 4 storm but it's been losing strength as it began traveling over colder waters. meanwhile a typhoon is dumping heavy rain here on the island of taiwan. this storm is blamed in the death of ten people in the philippines, including three french tourists who were swept a away in floodwaters. can you believe it, it is the last weekend of summer for a lot of school kids and we're keeping track of a hurricane headed toward hawaii right now. meteorologist reynolds wolf joins us now. how is felicia doing? >> she's weakening. amazingly 36 hours ago it was category 4 and now category 1 storm. the forecast brings it a bit more to the west as it does so it is expected to weaken interacting with cooler water at the same time strong upper-level winds possibly making landfall on the big island at 2:00 a.m.

tuesday. heavy winds and basically heavy surf is what to expect and thankfully weakening. a bit stronger storms across the midwest and western great lakes. this frontal boundary towards the east with daytime heating could give you strong storms, possibly hail, damaging winds maybe an isolated tornado even flash flooding especially back into parts of minnesota and into wisconsin. still very hat for you in texas. high temperatures in places like texas going up into the 90s for many spots. very dry for the west coast and for parts of the northeast a mix of sunshine and clouds. now in the northeast high temperatures going to the upper 70s in many spots. washington, d.c., with 89 degrees, 91 in chicago. 95 in houston, 98 for dallas. 68 in san francisco. and for miami, 91 degrees the expected high. that is your forecast. i'm reynolds wolf. for hln. a pregnant mom of six who hit hard times decided to go for a really radical approach to make some cash. >> it just came to me to try

something different. i did not expect any type of response. i thought that this is crazy, no one's going to even look at it. >> and what she's selling on ebay that has some saying she does not deserve to be a parent.

have you ever just agonized over what to name is baby that was on the way? well an arkansas woman kind of has a solution to that whole dilemma. she is giving someone else the right to name her unborn baby through an ebay auction. now, she says she desperately needs the money since she's pregnant with her seventh child and her husband suddenly left her. she turned to ebay on a whim. >> i really had no expectations. anything is a blessing. so, i am open for anything. >>s it he does cool because she needs the money. she probably needs the money for the baby. >> i think she ought to go ahead and give that baby up for adpopgs if that's all the care she has for that child. >> some of the woman's relatives are also frowning on the idea of

the highest ebay bidder naming her child. the bidding started at a hundred dollars but is now over $3,000. so, a luks reresort offering hotel rooms for 19 bucks a night you immediately think, there's got to be a catch, right? well, take a look at what you get. an empty room and i do mean empty. guests get to sleep in a tent, a tent, with no lights or air conditioning. and don't forget to bring your own toilet paper, either. the staff came up with this whole idea during a whole brain-storming session. >> it started, you know, kind of easy stuff, towels and sheets and pillows and there was a little savings and tried to discount from there and we get more and more carried away. someone said what about the air conditioning and what about the water and eventually we came down to let's just take everything out including the bed. >> i love it leather chairs right next to the tent there. the san diego hotel ran this so-called survivor package deal last june and 100 people took them up on the offer.

i'm larry smith. what a month for boxing legend mohammed ali. later this month the champ plans to visit his great grandfather's ancestral home in ireland. something that has never happened before, more than a century of games between the bitter rivals yankees and red sox never before had they gone scoreless through 14 innings thanks to plays like. this a duel of great pitching finally entering the 15th inning when alex rodriguez hit the game-winning home run, 2-0 yankees. in pittsburgh last night a fan goes diving for a foul ball head first into the durt. cardinals first baseman albert pujols running to his aid and comforted his son who has down syndrome. pujols gave him a ball to replace the one his dad was trying to catch for him. the year of roger federer in tennis the first french open crowd a record-setting 15 grand slam titles and the birth of

twins. federer posting the first pictures of the baby girls on his facebook page calling their birth on july 23rd, the best day of his life. he's expected to return to the court next week. can you include lawn care in a college scholarship appalachian state star armanti edwards ran over his foot. he will sit out two to four weeks but not expected to miss any playing time. that's sports. are you looking for a great weekend getaway as summer starts to wind down here? well, you can't beat the area some call california riviera. >> reporter: california about an hour north of los angeles but seems a world away. >> santa barbara feels like a mediterranean village on the pacific. all the buildings there are white stucco with red-tiled

roofs, palm trees everywhere. beautiful beaches. >> reporter: completed in 1820, the santa barbara mission plays hosts to tourists and worshipers. another landmark is the county courthouse with free tours monday through saturday. >> it's amazing that this building is a fully functioning, daily courthouse. you walk in the front door and you think you stepped into a museum and into a different time frame. >> reporter: one block away are the shops and restaurants of historic state street. >> state street has beautifully landscaped paseos, a wonderful place to spend an afternoon. in fact, you could spend the whole day just window shopping on state street. >> weekend getaways is sponsored by:

a florida medical examiner says cocaine contributed to the heart disease that killed famed tv pitchman billy mays. the hills borough county medical examiner's office says mays last used cocaine in the days before his death but he wasn't under the influence of the drug when he died. mays' family says they never

knew he used cocaine or other drugs. they also say they may ask for an independent review of mays' official autopsy. his wife found him dead in their florida condo on june 28th. st. louis police can no longer sport their tattoos. a ban on visible body art took effect last week already causing problems for some cops sent home because their ink was showing. the police association says the ban is unfair and there should be some leeway. >> this would be an issue where folks could be grandfathered in. i mean, we have people who came on the police department and then had tattoos put on later on because the department didn't object to it. >> get this some officers are forced to wear makeup to cover their artwork. the tattoo ban also affects cities and civilian employees. we have been saying investigators think equipment failure may have played a role in that air france crash about two months ago but now we're hearing that some jetliners flying here in the u.s. may have the exact same problem.

here's jean maserve. >> reporter: as early as next week the federal aviation administration may issue an order requiring airliners to change the speed sensors on airbus 330s. the plane that went down in the middle of the lane tick was an a-330 and investigators have not determined what caused the accidents but automatic messages sentence before the crash indicated there were inconsistent speed measurements and that has focused extension on external speed sensors called pitot tubes. in june investigators turned up two other speed sensor incidents with a-330s and now the associated press is reporting that a review of data from recent flights has turned up at least a dozen other indications where speed sensors malfunctioned all northwest a-330 flights. delta, which merged with them, would not confirm but says it is in the process of replacing all

pitot tubes on its fleet. the goal is making all 625 airbus a330s in service around the globe safe. could they call for the grounding all a-330s? it could be extremely unusual for authorities to do that since the speed sensors have not at this point been proven a factor in even one crash but the time frame set out in the air worthiness directive will give us a clue how serious authorities are taking this problem. if they call for them to be changed sooner than the plane's next scheduled maintenance would indicate they view this as a major safety issue. besides northwest usair ways is the only other american carrier flying airbus a330s. both airlines say they are already replacing speed sensors on those planes. new orleans has the nation's highest murder rate and one of the highest crime rates, two murders this year involved kids

who were just 14 years old. this week's cnn hero is fighting to give the children of new orleans a safe place to go and he's doing it with music. >> music just always [ inaudible ] me. i love to play. i keep drumsticks in my hand. -- really dying fast. life after katrina is really hard for kids. you have violence, the drug life. i'm just tired of it. my aim is to get kids off the streets. my name is [ inaudible ] and i started a musician cal educational program for kids in new orleans. we do more than just teach music. we offer transportation, we offer instruments, i feed you so you're not hungry. give you tutoring. call it the no-excuse policy. you have no excuse why you're not here. we meet five days a week yee around, constantly learning

something new and that keeps the kids coming back every day. >> i was getting in trouble. now when i'm here i practice. when i'm at home, i practice. >> i love seeing kids happy, just having fun. [ background music ] >> keep teaching the kids this culture. i don't see it as saving lives, i see it as giving life, a whole different life of music. >> you can find out more about derrick or any of other heroes' work at cnn.com/heroes and now you can see exclusive heroes footage and get updates on facebook. just go to facebook.com/cnnheroes. still charles manson has friends and followers even though he's been in jail for decades now. so, why are some people still drawn to him, even though he's been convicted of nine murders?

the family of eunice kennedy shriver says the 88-year-old is in critical dmnd a massachusetts hospital. shriver a long-time advocate for the disabled is a sister of senator ted kennedy and the late president john f. kennedy. her family has not said why shriver is in the hospital. florida senator mel martinez is calling it quits. the republican announced yesterday he is stepping down more than a year before his term is up saying that it's time for him to move on. at a news conference yesterday, martinez said that he would resign as soon as florida's governor chooses his replacement. and former governor from alaska, sarah palin, is weighing in on the health care debate in her first online posting since

leaving office palin called president obama's plan to overhaul the health care system, quote, downright evil. that's a check of your saturday headlines on hln. i'm natasha curry in for susan hendric hendricks. thanks for joining us. the debate over health care reform getting louder and some cases violent. gary tuchman looks at whether the recent protests at a town hall meeting were with genuine or staged. >> reporter: is it democracy? demagoguery? or both? congressional town hall meetings during august recess used to be rather sleepy affairs. not anymore. there are images of president obama with a moustache like hitler's. or looking like the joker. and also elected representatives hung in effigy. democratic senators like pennsylvania's arlen specter -- >> -- medicare and social security -- >> reporter: and missouri's

claire mccaskill are hearing it from extremely unhappy americans who don't like the idea of health care reform. >> the same plan they're asking us to be on? >> reporter: people have been arrested. others have suffered minor injuries with the pushing and shoving. democrats like florida's kathy cas tore have barely been able to get in a word edgewise. as her meeting reform opponents were seething because hundreds of them were stuck outside the town hall because they couldn't fit in the room. protestors held signs on the other side of the windows. the congresswoman had to be hustled out n. texas congressman lloyd doggett tried to talk and he, too, was drowned out. >> the crowd certainly was angry. i suppose some might have had a negative reaction to the poster that said lloyd doggett, traitor to texas, devil to all people. >> reporter: so, how did it come to this? depends on who you ask. the democratic national

committee says these confrontations are orchestrated by the republican party. and the democrats have released this web video. >> they've lost the confidence of the american people. now, desperate republicans and their well-funded allies are organizing angry mobs just like they did during the election. >> reporter: the word "mob" is greatly insulting to the folks on the other side of the argument. many of the participants of these demonstrations say they are simply exercising their rights. attending a town hall held by arlen suspecter and house and human services secretary kathleen sebelius. >> i don't like the direction that we're going. they are taking away our freedom of speech and the silent majority's finally fed up with it. >> reporter: now lib racy advocacy group moveon.org sent an e-mail to supporters saying they have a plan, quote to fight back against these radical right-wingers. the group is raising hundreds of thousands of tlars in donations. it's not only the weather that's hot in august.

now, the political temperature is boiling, too. gary tuchman, cnn, new york. a man suspected of planning several deadly bombings in indonesia is dead. he was killed in a dramatic shootout with police. noordin top was allegedly in this house in a small town in java. the police raid lasted 18 hours. and once it was over, authorities say top was dead. the fbi had placed him on its top ten list of suspected terrorists here. he was wanted in connection with last month's bombings at two indonesian luxury hotels that killed nine people, including the two bombers. top was allegedly a bombmaker and a recruiter for an indonesian terrorist group with suspected ties to al qaeda. judge sonia sotomayor officially become as supreme court justice today. she'll be the high court's first latina when she's sworn in later this morning. sotomayor will take a private oath that the constitution requires of all federal

employees. then, she'll take a public oath to pledge that she'll administer justice fairly and impartially. sotomayor is expected to hear her first argument next months when the court take as key campaign finance case. your 401(k) probably got a boost from news fewer jobs than expected were cut last month. the surprise drop in the unemployment rate jolted wall street. stocks rallied yesterday closing at the highest point in nine months. the improved jobless rate of 9.4% caught most financial experts off guard. they had expected it to be worse. it's the first drop in the unemployment rate in more than a year. check out this video here an alleged robber is getting dragged by his own getaway car. police say that he led them on a three-mile chase after snatching someone's purse and, as you can see he opened his door to ditch the ride and run but his leg got tangled up in his seat belt. the car kept rolling with most

of his body dragging underneath. >> believe it or not that frequently happens. it frequently happens that they do. generally, though, they stop the car before they get out and not let it keep going. he was doing maybe ten miles an hour but still he went up the curb into a front yard while being dragged. >> the man ended up with a broken leg. the open door also smashed him in the head. he was later charged with armed robbery and fleeing police. connecticut police say the diagnosis is impersonating a nurse and the pro notices could be time behind bars. a woman was arrested this week on charges of pretending to be a nurse. authorities in norwolk say 56-year-old betty liechtenstein had been working in a doctor's office. now, the doctor she worked for believed that she was a registered nurse, you know, especially after a 2008 dinner honoring her as the connecticut nursing association's nurse of the year. but that association doesn't even exist. prosecutors say lick tshe spent

than 2,000 of her own money to stage the events. people in hawaii getting ready for hurricane felicia. fortunately forecasters at the national hurricane center say the storm will likely be downgraded to a tropical storm or a tropical depression by the time it reaches the island. at one point felicia had become a category 4 storm but it's been losing strength as it began traveling over colder waters. meanwhile, a typhoon is dumping heavy rain here on the island of taiwan. this storm is blamed in the deaths of ten people in the philippines, including three french tourists who were swept away in floodwaters. can you believe it is the last weekend of summer for a lot of school kids and we're keeping track of a hurricane headed toward hawaii right now? meteorologist reynolds wolf joins us now. how is felicia doing. >> she's weakening. amazingly about 37 hours ago it was a category 4 storm and now

category 1 with winds sustained at 90 miles per hour gusts up to 115. the forecast brings it a bit more west and as it does expected to weaken interacting with cooler water and at the same time strong upper-level winds possibly making landsfall on the big island as you get to 2:00 a.m. tuesday with winds of 40 miles per hour possibly heavy rainfall, heavy surf is basically what you can expect from this storm thankfully will be weakening. meantime something getting a bit stronger will be storms across parts of the midwest and western great lakes this area of low pressure this frontal bounds ree drifting towards the east with your daytime heating could give you some strong storms possibly some hail, damaging winds, maybe an isolated tornado, even flash flooding especially back into parts of minnesota and into wisconsin. still very hot for you in texas. high temperatures in places like texas going up into the 90s for many spots. very dry for the west coast and for parts of the northeast. a mix of sunshine and clouds. now, in the northeast high temperatures going to the upper 70s in many spots. washington, d.c. with 89 degrees, 91 in chicago. 95 in houston. 98 for dallas.

68 in san francisco and for miami, 91 degrees the expected high. that is your forecast. i'm reynolds wolf for hl in. a pregnant mom of six who hit hard times decided to go for a really radical approach to make some cash. >> it just came to me to try something different. i did not expect any type of response. i thought that this is crazy, no one's going to even look at it. >> and what she's selling on ebay has some saying she does not deserve to be a parent.

have you ever just agonized over what to name is baby that was on the way? well, an arkansas woman kind of has a solution to that whole dilemma. she is giving someone else the right to name her unborn baby

through an ebay auction. now, she says that she desperately needs the money since she's pregnant with her seventh child and her husband suddenly left her. she turned to ebay on a whim. >> i really had no expectations. anything is a blessing. so, i am open for anything. >> it's cool because she needs the money. she probably needs the money for the baby. >> i think she ought to go ahead and give that baby up for adoption if that's all the care she has for that child. >> now some of the woman's relatives are also frowning on the idea of the highest ebay bidder naming her child. the bidding started at a hundred dollars but is now over $3,000. so, a luxury resort offering hotel rooms for 19 bucks a night, you immediately think, there's got to be a catch, right? take a look at what you get. an empty room, and i do mean empty. guests get to sleep in a tent, a tent, with no lights or air conditioning. and don't forget to bring your

own toilet paper, either. the hotel staff came up with this whole discount idea during a whole brain-storming session. >> it started, you know, kind of easy stuff, towels and sheets and pillows and a little savings and we tried to discount from there and kind of get more and more carried away. someone said what about the air conditionsing, what about the water? eventually, we came down to let's take everything out. >> they ran the so-called survivor deal last june and 100 people took them up on the offer. one of those stories that makes you say what in the world?! texas police say this guy here managed to sneak a .9 millimeter pistol into jail by hiding it under his own flesh. the "houston chronicle" says george verra here is so obese, he kept the gun without anybody noticing. the 500-pound man was even searched by officers still missed the weapon. he later told them about it during a shower break.

i'm larry smith. it has never happened before. 20 men served as president of the united states and five territories have become state while the yankees and reds sox have played each other a rivalry dating back to 1901 and the two teams had never gone 14 scoreless innings before last night. the great defense by red sox outfielder j.d. drew, a gem alex rodriguez compared to a heavy weight fight before delivering the knockout. a two-run homer in the bottom of the 15th for a 2-0 win by the yankees. speaking of heavyweights did you know mohammed alley's family is from ireland? the boxing legend plans to visit the home town of his great granfather who immigrated to kentucky in the 1950 sms. the woman who accuse the ben roethlisberger of rape telling the truth? multiple reports find and affidavit by a co-worker said the alleged victim appeared happy and boastful in quotes

claiming she spent the night with roethlisberger and later wondered if she might be pregnant. accuser meanwhile has received dozens of harassing and threatening phone calls since filing suit. 25 people drinking in the same cup? yes, how many british open champs he estimates took from the jug when he took it to a restaurant to celebrate. cink said he guzzled his favorite beer from it and later put a soft drink in it for his kids to enjoy. he says he has lost track what's been in the cup since he won it. here's a thought what should go in next, disinfectant. that's sports. most of us cringe at the thought of getting a speeding ticket but some cops are actually writing tickets that put a smile on a driver's face. what?

a florida medical examiner says cocaine contributed to the heart disease that killed famed tv pitchman billy mays. the hills borough county medical examiner's office says mays last used cocaine in the days before his death but he wasn't under the influence of the drug when he died.

mays' family says they never knew he used cocaine or other drugs and also say they may ask for an independent review of mays' official autopsy. his wife found him dead in their florida condo on june 28th. the federal government is giving new advice to schools about how to deal with the swine flu. it's advising people who get sick to stay home and cover their nose and mouth when they're coughing or sneezing. the government is also telling administrators that they don't have to close schools if there is an outbreak. yesterday's guidelines came ahead of a new school year when officials fear that the virus could reemerge. the vaccine against it should be ready by october. the st. louis police can no longer sport tattoos. a ban on visible body art took effect last week and already caused problems for some cops sent home because their ink was showing. the police association says the whole ban is unfair and there should be some leeway. >> this would be an issue where folks could be grandfathered in. i mean, we had people who came

on the police department and then had tattoos put on later on because the department didn't object it. >> some officers are forced to wear makeup to cover their artwork. the ban affects city and civilian employees. we have been saying investigators think equipment failure may have played a role in the air frase crash about two months ago but no we're hearing some jetliners flying here in the u.s. may have the exact same problem. >> as early as next week, the federal aviation administration may issue an order requiring airlines to change the speed sensors on airbus a330s. the air france flight that went down in the middle of the atlantic on may 31st was an a-330. investigators have still not determined what caused that accident, but automatic messages sentence before the crash indicated there were inconsistent speed measurements and that has focused attention on external speed sensors call pitot tubes. in june investigators turned up two other speed sensor incidents

with a-330s and now the associated press is reporting that a review of data from recent flights has turned up at least a dozen other occasions where speed sensors malfunctioned all of them northwest a-330 flights. delta which merged with northwest would not confirm the incident but says it is already in the process of replacing all the pitot tubes on its fleet. exactly what kind of remediation the faa will recommend is being worked out in consort with european aviation authorities with the goal of making all 625 airbus a330s in service around the globe safe. now, could they call for the grounding of all a-330s? it would be extremely unusual for authorities to do that since they've not been proven a factor in even one crash but the time frame sent out in the air worthiness directive will give us a clue as to how seriously authorities are taking this problem. if they call for the tubes to be changed sooner than the plane's

next scheduledju that would indicate authorities major safety issue. >> that was jeanne meserve with that report. besides northwest, us airways is the only other american carrier flying airbus a-330s. both airlines say they're already replacing speed censors on those planes. police in a connecticut town are writing tickets for good behavior. some period citations are given to kids and teens that they catch oboying the law. like kids wearing helmets while riding their bikes. they're redeemable for cookies or ice cream at local shops. >> if he sees or comes across through investigation or observation a positive behavior from a youth within the community, he has the option of giving out a reward for that -- those actions so we can bring positive reinforcement. >> i think encouraging the kids to do the right thing is great. we're happy to be part of it. >> the campaign started last month. so far 60 positive tickets have

been written up. still, charles manson has friends and followers even though he's been in jail for decades now. why are some people still drawn to him even though he's been convicted of nine murders?

one of the most wanted men in the world is dead, killed in this shootout. why anti-terror forces have been hunting him down for six years. congressional leaders are getting more than an earful from some constituents about health care. is their outrage staged? what both sides are saying about the recent disruptions at town hall meetings across the country. you may need wilderness survival skills to stay at one luxury hotel. it is offering rooms for 19 bucks a night. 19, without a bed. that's not the only thing you'll be without.

good saturday morning to you. i'm natasha curry in. hope you're doing well. all of your stories are just ahead on hln. but we start this saturday with eunice kennedy shriver, a sister of senator ted kennedy. she was reported in critical but stable condition yesterday. her hospital is by her side at a hospital in massachusetts. that includes her daughter, maria shriver, and her husband, governor ar nald schwarzenegger. it's unclear why she went to the hospital. she has had a series of strokes in recent years. she's best known as the founder of the special olympics, which helps millions of people with disabilities worldwide. a man suspected of planning several deadly bombings in indonesia is dead. he was killed in a dramatic shootout with police. noordin top was in a small house

in this town. the police raid lasted 18 hours. once it was over, authorities say that top was dead. the fbi placed him on the top ten list of suspected terrorists here. he was wanted in connection with last month's bombings at two indonesian luxury hotels that killed nine people, including the two bombers. top was allegedly a bombmaker and recruiter for an indonesian terrorist group with suspected ties to al qaeda. the debate on health care may actually be hazardous to your health. this week, congressional leaders faced loud and sometimes violent crowds as they held town hall meetings to explain the current health care reform plan. democrats say the protests are being staged by republican-backed mobs. republicans say the disruptions show that the public doesn't support the legislation. a political analyst for sister network cnn said the chaos is a threat to democracy. >> the real question is are we a self-governing people are not?

can we face the large challenges we have as a country? health care is one of them. i think this is putting democracy to a real test. and leaders on both sides need to step up and put an end to the disruptive kind of brawling, physically violent sessions so that claire mccaskill had to cancel one next week. >> president obama said the only way to build a stronger economy is by rebuilding the health care system. judge sonia sotomayor officially becomes a supreme court justice today. she'll be the high court's first latina when sworn in this morning. she'll take a private oath that the constitution requires of all federal employees. then she'll take a public oath to pledge that she'll administer justice fairly and impartially. she is expected to hear her first arguments next month when the court takes a key campaign finance case. your 401(k) probably got a

boost that fewer jobs than expected were cut last month. the surprise drop in the unemployment rate jolted wall street. stocks rallied yesterday, closing at the highest point in nine months. it caught most financial experts offguard. they had expected it to be worse. the first drop in the unemployment rate in more than a year. the better than expected unemployment numbers brought relief to the resession. a lot of people are still losing their paychecks. >> reporter: the upbeat jobs report is little comfort to greg thompson who feels fortunate the unemployment benefits he collects were recently extended. >> for me, i'm just glad that it is. but there's no jobs. i mean, you can't -- i go out every week and i get the same story.

>> reporter: but a couple of miles away at the white house, the president had a much rosier view of the impact of his stimulus plan. >> this morning, we received additional signs that the worst may be behind us. >> reporter: while 247,000 more people lost jobs in july, the president noted that's far better than what he inherited. >> we're losing jobs at less than half the rate we were when i took office. we pulled the financial system back from the brink while we've rescued our economy from catastrophe and begun to build a new foundation for growth. >> reporter: republicans insist the stimulus may be working on the margin but has not provided the jolt the president originally promised. >> you have to define working. they've set the bar that says, we are going to have the secondest greatest dpregdepress. it has to be working. >> reporter: the president struck a very optimistic tone. >> i'm convinced we can see a light at the end of the tunnel but will will move forward with

confidence and conviction to reach the promise of a new day. >> reporter: but greg thompson, a heavy machinery operator suggests while some jobs may be coming back, wages are plummeting. >> some people say, look, i'll pay you so much. that's half what i've been getting. if you don't want it, you know, we'll get somebody else to do it. >> reporter: the vice president's top economist was a bit less optimistic than the president during an appearance on my radio show. bernstein said the white house is not entirely confident that unemployment will keep trending downward. he said it's still entirely possible it will reach 10% by the end of the year. ed henry, cnn, the white house. >> connecticut police say the diagnosis is impersonating a nurse. the prognosis could be time behind bars. a woman was arrested this week on charges of pretending to be a nurse. authorities say the 56-year-old

betty lichtenstein had been working as a nurse. especially after an association honored her as nurse of the year. authorities say she spent $2,000 of her own money to stage the event. she could spend time in prison if convicted. check out this video here. an alleged robber is getting dragged by his own getaway car. police say he led them on a three-mile chase after snatching someone's purse. he opened his door to ditch the ride and run, but his leg got tangled up in his seat belt. the car kept rolling with most of his body dragging underneath. >> believe it or not, that frequently happens. it frequently happens if they do -- generally, they stop the car before they get out and not let it keep rolling. he was doing maybe 10 miles per hour. still, he went up the curb and

into a front yard. >> the man ended up with a broken leg. the open door smashed him in the head. he was charged with armed robbery and fleeing police. people in hawaii are getting ready for hurricane felicia. fortunately forecasters say it will be downtograded to a tropil depression. it had been a category 1 storm but had been losing strength traveling over colder waters. meanwhile, a typhoon is dumping heavy rain on the island of taiwan. this storm is blamed for the death of ten people in the philippines, including three french tourists who were swept away in floodwaters. a pregnant mom of six who hit hard times decided to go to a radical approach to make some cash. >> it came to me to try something different. i did not expect any type of response. i thought that this is crazy. no one's going to even look at it. >> what she's selling on ebay

that has some saying she does not deserve to be a parent.

have you ever just agonized over what to name a baby on the way? an arkansas woman has a solution to that dilemma. she is giving someone else the right to name her unborn baby through an ebay auction. she says she desperately needs the money since she's pregnant with her seventh child. her husband suddenly left her. she turned to ebay on a whim. >> i really had no expectations. anything is a blessing. so i am open for anything. >> it is cool because she needs the money. she probably needs the money for the baby. >> i think she ought to give that baby up for adoption if that's all the care she has for that child. >> some of the woman's relatives are also frowning on the idea of the highest ebay bidder naming her child. the bidding started at $100 but is now over $3,000.

one luxury resort offers hotel rooms for 19 bucks a night. you immediately think, there has to be a catch, right, take a look at what you get. an empty room. i do mean empty. guests get to sleep in a tent, a tent, with no lights or air conditioning. and don't forget to bring your own toilet paper eager. the hotel staff came up with this discount idea during a brain-storming session. >> towels, sheets, pillows. a little savings and discount from there. we got more and more carried away. someone said what about the air conditioning and the water. eventually we came down to take everything out including the bed. >> the san diego hotel ran the so-called survivor package last june. 100 people took them up on the offer. check out this mess here in san diego. an elderly driver ran over a fire hydrant yesterday, which sent this water shooting straight up into the air and

everywhere. officials say there were so much water it flooded the street and a nearby store. repair crews later fixed the problem. police say the driver may have had a medical emergency when the accident happened. check that out. i'm larry smith. what a month for boxing legend mohammed ali. thursday night he was honored at yankee stadium. and he plans to visit his late grandfather's ancestral home in ireland. more than a century of games between the bitter rivals, yankees and red sox, never before have they gone scoreless through 14 innings, thanks to plays like this. a dual of great pitching ended in the 15th inning when rodriguez hit the game-winning home run. 2-0, yankees. a-rod compared it to a heavyweight fight. in pittsburgh last night, a fan goes diving for a foul ball, head first into the dirt.

pujols running to give comfort to the man. nice gesture there. it's the year of roger federer in tennis. a record-setting 15 grand slam titles and the birth of twins. posting the first picture of the baby girls on his facebook page, calling their birth on july 23rd, the best day of his life. can you include lawn care in a college application? a student accidentally mowed over his foot. he will sit out two to four weeks but is not expected to miss any playing time. that is sports. >> federal investigators are reportedly checking whether some ailers have a mechanical issue. how the crash of a french airplane exposed potential problems with jetliners in the u.s.

a florida medical examiner says that cocaine contributed to the heart disease that killed famed tv pitchman billy mays. the hillsboro medical examiner's office said that mays last used cocaine in the days before his death, but he wasn't under the

influence of the drug when he died. mays' family said they never knew he used cocaine or other drugs. they also say they may ask for an independent review of his official autopsy. his wife found him dead in their florida condo on june 28th. the federal government is giving new advice to schools about how to deal with the swine flu. it's advising people who get sick to stay home and cover their nose and mouth when coughing or sneezing. the government is also telling administrators they don't have to close schools if there is an outbreak. approximate yesterday's guidelines came ahead of the new school year, when officials fear the virus could re-emerge. the virus against it should be ready by october. the st. louis police can no longer sport their tattoos. a ban on visible body art took effect last week. it's already caused some problems for some cops sent home because their ink was showing. the police association says the whole ban is unfair and can there should be some leeway. >> this would be an issue where

folks could be grandfathered in. we have people who came in the police department and had tattoos put on later on because the department didn't object to it. >> some officers are forced to wear makeup to cover their artwork. the tattoo ban affects city and civilian employees. >> we have been saying investigators think that equipment failure may have played a role in the air france crash about two months ago. now we're hearing that some jetliners flying here in the u.s. may have the exact same problem. here's jeanne meserve. >> reporter: as early as next week, the federal aviation administration may issue an order requiring airlines to change the speed sensors on airbus a-330s. the air france flight that went down in the middle of the atlantic on may 31st was an a-330. investigators have still not determined what caused that accident, but automatic messages sent before the crash indicated there were inconsistent speed measurements and that has focused attention on external speed sensors.

in june, investigators turned up two other speed sensor incidents with a-330s. now the associated press is reporting that a review of data from recent flights turned up at least a dozen other occasions where speed sensors malfunctioned. all of them northwest a-330 flights. delta, which merged with northwest, would not confirm the incidents but said it is already in the process of replacing all the tubes on its fleet. exactly what kind of remediation the faa will recommend is being worked out in concert with european aviation authorities with the goal of making all 625 airbus a-330s in service around the globe safe. could they call for the grounding of all a-330s it would be extremely unusual for authorities to do that since the speed sensors have not at this point been proven a factor in even one crash. but the time frame set out in the airworthiness directive will give us as a clue as to how seriously authorities are taking this problem. if they have call for the tubes

to be changed sooner than the planes' next scheduled maintenance, that would mean that think this is a major safety issue. >> us airways is the only other american carrier flying airbus a-330s. both airlines sail they're already replacing speed sensors on the planes. >> police in a connecticut town are writing tickets for good behavior.positive citations aren to kids and teens obeying the law. the tickets are redeemable for cookies and ice cream at local shops. >> if he sees or comes across through investigation or observes a positive behavior from a youth in the community, he has the option of giving out a reward for those actions to bring positive reinforcement. >> encouraging the kids to do the right thing is great. we're happy to be part of it.

>> the campaign started last month. so far 60 positive tickets have been written up. still, charles manson has friends and followers even though he's been in jail for decades now. so why are some people still drawn to him, even though he's been convicted of nine murders? hi, there. i'm robin meade. we salute the troops every day. we're doing it on the weekend. our military salute is to a husband and father. his wife wants to wish sergeant robert kennedy a special day. >> i would live to give a absolute to my husband, sergeant kennedy. we have an anniversary coming up september 29th. i would like to wish him a happy anniversary. his son josh misses him very

much. anyway, i wanted you to know we miss you very much and can't wait for you to come home. we love you very much. >> shirley k, that is so sweet. you know somebody in the service? go to cnn.com/robin. watch every weekday from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. eastern.

the family of eunice kennedy shriver said the 88-year-old is in critical condition. shriver, a long-time advocate for the disabled is a center of senator ted kennedy. her family has not said why she is in the hospital. florida senator mel martinez is equaling it quits. he announced yesterday he is stepping down more than a year before his term is up, saying it's time for him to move on. he said he would resign as soon as florida's governor chooses his replacement. sarah palin is weighing in

on the health care debate. palin called president obama's plan to overhaul the health care system, quote, downright eve ill. that's a check of your saturday headlines. i'm natasha curry in for susan hendricks. the debate over health care reform has gotten louder. in some cases, violent. gary tuchman looks into whether the protests were genuine demonstrations or staged distractions. >> reporter: is it democracy, demagoguery, or both? congressional town hall meetings during august recess used to be rather sleepy affairs. not anymore. there are images of president obama with a mustache like hitler's or looking like the joker. also elect the representatives hung in effigy. democratic senators like pennsylvania's arlen specter -- >> medical and social security --

>> reporter: and missouri's claire mccaskill are hearing from extremely unhappy americans who don't like the idea of health care reform. people have been arrested. others suffered minor injuries with the pushing and shoving. democrats like florida's kathy castor have barely been able to get in a word edge wise. at her meeting, reform opponents were seething because they couldn't get inside the room. the congresswoman had to be hustled out. in texas, lloyd doggett tried to talk. he too was drowned out. one man tried to pick at the congressman in a rather unsavory way. >> the crowd was angry. i suppose some might have had a negle negative reaction to the poster

that said, devil to all being. >> reporter: how did it come to this? some said the protests were organized by republicans. >> desperate republicans and their well-funded allies are organizing angry mobs, just like they did during the election. >> reporter: the word mob is greatly insulting to those on the other side of the argument. they say they are simply organizing their rights. >> i feel like my constitutional rights are being taken away from me right before my eyes. i don't like the direction that we're going. they're taking away our freedom of speech. and the silent majority is finally fed up with. >> reporter: moveon.org said they have a plan to fight back against the radical right wingers. the group is raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations. it's not only the weather that's

hot in august. now the political temperature is boiling too. gary tuchman, cnn, new york. >> a man suspected of planning several deadly bombings in indonesia is dead. he was killed in a dramatic shootout with police. noordin top was allegedly in this house. the police raid lasted 18 hours and once it was over authorities say that top was dead. the fbi had placed him on its top ten list of suspected terrorists here. he was wanted in connection with last month's bombings at two indonesian luxury hotels that killed nine people, including the two bombers. top was allegedly a bombmaker and recruiter for an indonesian terrorist group with suspected ties to al qaeda. judge sotomayor officially becomes a supreme court justice today. she'll be the high court's first latina when she's sworn in later this morning. she will take a private oath that the constitution requires of all federal employees.

then she'll take a public oath to pledge that she'll administer justice fairly and impartially. sotomayor is expected to hear her first arguments next month when the court takes a key campaign case. your 401(k) probably got a boost from news that fewer jobs than expected were cut last month. the surprise crdrop in the unemployment rate jolted wall street. the improved jobless rate of 9.4% caught most financial experts offguard. they had expected it to be worst. it's the first drop in the unplamt rate u unemployment rate in more than a year. >> check out this video here. an alleged robber is getting dragged by his own getaway car. police say he led them on a three-mile chase after snatching someone's purse. as you can see, he opened his door to ditch the ride and run. but his leg got tangled up in his seat belt.

the car kept rolling with most of his body dragging underneath. >> believe it or not, that frequently happens. it frequently happens. generally they top the car before they get out and not let it keep rolling. he was doing maybe 10 miles per hour. still, he went up the curb and into a front yard while being dragged. >> the man ended up with a broken leg. the open door also smashed him in the head. he was later charged with armed robbery and fleeing police. >> connecticut police say the diagnosis is impersonating a nurse. the prognosis could be time behind bars. a woman was arrested this week on charges of pretending to be a nurse. authorities in norwalk say the 56-year-old had been working in a doctor's office. the doctor she worked for believed that she was a registered nurse. you know, especially after a 2008 dinner honoring her as the connecticut nursing association's nurse of the year. but that association doesn't even exist. prosecutors say the woman spent

more than $2,000 of her own money to stage the whole event. she could be sincentenced to fi years in prison. >> the last weekend of summer for a lot of school kids. we're keeping track of a hurricane headed toward hawaii right now. meteorologist reynolds wolf joins us now. how is felicia doing? >> she's weakening. 36 hours ago, this was a category 4 storm. it's now a category 1 with winds sustained at 90 miles per hour. the forecast brings it a bit more to the west. as it does so, it is expected to weaken. strong upper level winds expected to make landfall. winds at 40 miles per hour. possibly heavy rainfall is what you can expect from the storm. thankfully it will be weakening. meantime, some storms across parts of the midwest and western great lakes. this frontal boundary drifting off to the east. that with daytime heating could

given you strong storms, possibly hail and an isolated tornado, and flash flooding into parts of minnesota and wisconsin. still very hot for you in texas. texas into the 90s in many spots. dry for the west coast. northeast, a mix of sunshine and clouds. in the northeast, temperatures in the upper techbts 70s in man. 98 in dallas. 68 for san francisco. for miami, 91 degrees the expected high. that is your forecast. i'm reynolds wolf for hln. >> a pregnant mom of six who hit hard times decided to go to a radical approach to make some cash. >> it came to me to try something different. i did not expect a type of response. i thought, this is crazy. no one's going to look at it. >> what she's selling on ebay that has some saying she does not deserve to be a parent.

have you ever just agonized over what to name a baby that was on the way? an arkansas woman kind much has a solution to that whole dilemma. she is giving someone else the right to name her unborn baby through an ebay auction. she says she desperately needs the money since she's pregnant with her seventh child and her husband left her. she turned to ebay on a whim. >> i really had no expectations. anything is a blessing. so i am open for anything. >> it is cool because she needs the money. she probably needs the money for the baby. >> i think she ought to give that baby up for adoption if that's all the care she has for that child. >> some of the woman's relatives are also frowning on the idea of the highest ebay bidder naming

her child. the bidding started at $100 but it's now over $3,000. one luxury resort offers hotel rooms for 19 bucks a night. you immediately think, there's got to be a catch, right? take a look at what you get. an empty room, and i do mean empty. guests get to sleep in a tent, a tent, with no lights or air conditioning. and don't forget to bring your own toilet paper either. the hotel staff came up with this whole discount idea during a brain-storming session. >> it started kind of easy stuff, towels, sheets and pillows. little savings. try to discount from there. then we got more and more carried away. someone said, what about the air conditioning and the water? eventually we came down to take everything out, including the bed. >> i love it. the leather chair next to the tent. the san diego hotel ran the so-called survivor package last june and 100 people took them up on the offer. check out the mess in san

diego. officials say there was so much water it flooded the street and a nearby store. repair crews later fixed the problem. police say the driver may have had a medical memergency when te accident happened. >> texas police say this guy managed to sneak a 9-millimeter pistol into jail by hiding it under his own flesh. the houston chronicle says george vera is obese he kept the gun without anybody noticing. he was search but officers still missed the weapon. >> i'm larry smith. it has never happened before. 20 men have served as president of the united states and five territories have become states all while the yankees and red sox have been playing each

other, a rivalry that dates back to 1901. and the two teams had never gone 14 scoreless innings before last night. the great defense by red sox outfileder j.d. drew. this was a gem that rodriguez compared to a heavyweight fight. a-run homer for the 2-0 win for the yankees. did you know that mohammed ali's family is from ireland? he is planning to visit the home town of his great grandfather who immigrated to kentucky in the 1860s. was the woman who accused beth roethlisberger of rape telling the truth? a number of reports that the woman was boastful and happy after she spent the night with roethlisberger. she said she has received dozens of harassing and threatening phone calls since filing the

suit. 75 people drink from this same company? that's how many british open champs stewart cink estimates have drunk from the court. that's sports. >> most of us cringe at the thought of getting a speeding ticket. some cops are writing tickets that put a smile on the drivers' faces. what?

a florida medical examiner says that cocaine contributed to the heart disease that killed famed tv pitchman billy mays. the hillsboro county medical examiner's office says that mays last used cocaine in the days before his death, but he wasn't under the influence of the drug when he died. mays' family says they never knew he used cocaine or other drugs and say they may ask for an independent review of his official autopsy. his wife found him dead in their

florida condo. the federal government is giving new advice to schools about how to deal with the swine flu. it's advising people who get sick to stay home and cover their nose and mouth when they're coughing or sneezing. the government is also telling administrators they don't have to close schools if there is an outbreak. yesterday's guidelines came ahead of the new school year when officials fear that the virus could re-emerge. the vaccine against it should be ready by october. the st. louis police can no longer sport their tattoos. a ban on visible body art took effect last week. it's already caused some problems for some cops who have been sent home because their ink was showing. the police association says the whole ban is unfair and there should be some leeway. >> folks should be grandfathered in. we had folks who came on board and got tattoos because the department didn't object. >> the tattoo ban also affects

city and civilian employees. we have been saying investigators think that equipment failure may have played a parole in the air france crash about two months ago. now we're hearing that some jetliners flying here in the u.s. may have the exact same problem. here's jen meserve. >> reporter: as early as next week, the federal aviation administration may issue an order requiring airlines to change the speed sensors on airbus a-330s. the airbus france flight that went down in may was an a-330. investigators have still not determined what caused that accident. automatic messages sent before the crash indicated there were inconsistent speed measurements and that has focused attention on external speed sensors. in june, investigators turned up two other speed sensor noticeds with a-330s. now the associated press is reporting a review of data from recent flights turned up at least a dozen other occasions where speed sensors

malfunctioned. all of them northwest a-330 flights. delta, which merged with northwest, would not confirm the incidents but said it is in the process of replacing all tubes on its fleet. exactly what kind of remediation the faa will recommend is being worked out in concert with european aviation authorities with the goal of making all 625 airbus a-330s in service around the globe safe. could they call for the grounding of all a-330s? it would be extremely unusual since the speed sensors have not been proven to be a factor in one crash. but the time set out in the airworthiness directive will give us a clue k. if they call for the planes to be changed sooner than the next scheduled maintenance. that would indicate the authorities view this as a major safety issue.

one of the most-wanted men in the world is dead, killed in this shootout. why anti-terror forces have been hunting him down for six years. congressional leaders are getting more than an earful from some constituents about health care. is it staged? what they're saying about recent interruptions at town hall meetings across the country. and you may need wilderness skills to stay at one luxury hotel, offering rooms for 19 bucks a night. 19, without a bed. that's not the only thing you'll

be without. good saturday morning to you. i'm natasha curry, in for susan hendricks in today. hope you're doing well. all of your stories are ahead on hln. but we start this saturday with eunice kennedy shriver. the 88-year-old was reported in critical but stable condition yesterday and now her family is by her side at a hospital in massachusetts. that includes her daughter, maria shriver and maria's husband, governor arnold schwarzenegger. it's still unclear why she went to the hospital, but shriver has had serious strokes in recent years. she's best known as the founder of the special olympics which helps millions of people with disabilities worldwide. a man suspected of planning several deadly bombings in indonesia is dead. he was killed in a dramatic shootout with police. he was allegedly in this house in a small down, and the police

raid lasted 18 hours. once it was over, authorities say he was dead. the fbi placed him on the top ten list of suspected terrorists here. ef was wanted in connection with last month's bombings at two luxury hotels that killed nine people, including the two bombers. he was allegedly a bomb maker and recruiter for an indonesi indonesianen terrorist group with respected ties to al qaeda. this week, congressional leaders face loud and sometimes violent crowds as they held town hall meetings to explain the current health care reform plan. now, democrats say the protests are being staged by republican-backed mobs, while republicans say the disruption shows that the public doesn't support the legislation. a political analyst for cnn says the chaos at some of the meetings is a threat to democracy. >> the real question facing us is that people are -- are we a self-governing people or not?

can we face the large challenges we have as a country and health care is clearly one of them. i think this is putting democracy to a real test and leadership on both sides, leadership on both sides need to step up and put an end to these disruptive, kind of brawling, physically violent sessions. claire mccaskill had to cancel one last week because of fear of violence. >> president obama said the only way to build a stronger economy is by reforming the health care system. judge sonia sotomayor officially becomes a supreme court justice today. she'll be the high court's first latina when she's sworn in later this morning. sotomayor will take a private oath that the constitution requires of all federal employees. then she'll take a public oath to pledge she'll administer justice fairly and impartially. sotomayor is expected to hear her next arguments next month when they hear a finance case.

fewer jobs than expected were cut last month. the surprise drop in the unemployment rate jolted wall street, stocks rallied yesterday, closing at the highest point in nine months. the improved jobless rate of 9.4% caught most financial experts off guard. they had expected it to be worst. it's the first drop in the unemployment rate in more than a year. the better than expected unemployment numbers brought some welcome relief in this recession, but a lot of people are still losing their paychecks. ed henry looks at how president obama is reacting. >> reporter: the upbeat jobs report is little comfort to greg thompson who feels fortunate the benefits he collects in washington, d.c. were recently extended. >> for me, i'm just glad they did. but i -- there's no jobs. i mean, you can't -- i go out every week and i get the same stories.

>> reporter: but a couple of miles away at the white house, the president had a much rosier view of the impact of his stimulus plan. >> this morning, we received additional signs that the worst may be behind us. >> reporter: while 247,000 more people lost jobs in july, the president noted that's far better than what he inherited. >> we're losing jobs at less than half the rate we were when i took office. we've pulled the financial system back from the brink, while we've rescued our economy from catastrophe we've also begun to build a new foundation for growth. >> reporter: republicans insist the stimulus may be working on the margins but is not provided the jolt the president originally promised. >> you have to define working. they've set the bar that says we're going to have the second grade depression and we didn't so it has to be working. >> reporter: while the president acknowledged there's a long way to go, he struck an optimistic tone. >> i'm convinced we can see the light at the end of the tunnel

but now we have to move forward with confidence and conviction to reach the promise of a new day. >> but greg thompson suggests while some jobs may be coming back, wages are plummeting. >> i get some people to say, look, i'll pay you so much. and i say, well that's half what i've been getting. and they say, well, if you don't want it, you know, we'll get somebody else that do. >> reporter: the vice president's top economist, jared bernstein, was less optimistic than the president. he said the white house is not entirely confident that unemployment will keep trending downward. he said it's still entirely possible it will reach 10% by the end of the year. ed henry, cnn, the white house. connecticut police say the diagnosis is impersonating a nurse. and the prognosis could be time behind bars. a woman was arrested this week on charges of pretending to be a nurse. authorities in nor walk say that 56-year-old betty lichtenstein had been working in a doctor's

office. the doctor she worked for believed she was a registered nurse. especially after a 2008 dinner honoring her as the connecticut nursing association's nurse of the year. but that association doesn't even exist. prosecutors say lichtenstein spent more than $2,000 of her own money to stage the whole event. she could be sentenced to five years in prison if convicted. check out this video here. an alleged robber is getting dragged by his own getaway car. police say he led them on a three-mile chase after snatching someone's purse. he opened his door to ditch the ride and run but his leg got tangled up in his seat belt. the car kept rolling with most of his body dragging underneath. >> believe it or not, that frequently happens. that frequently happens. generally they stop the car before they get out and not let it keep rolling. he was doing maybe 10 miles an hour, but still, he went up the curb and into a front yard while

being dragged. >> the man ended up with a broken leg. the open door also smashed him in the head. he was later charged with armed robbery and fleeing police. people in hawaii are getting ready for hurricane felicia. forecasters at the national hurricane center say it will likely be downgraded to a tropical depression by the time it reached the island. at one point it had become a category 4 storm but it is losing strength as it began traveling over colder waters. meanwhile a typhoon is dumping heavy rain on the island of taiwan. this storm is blamed in the deaths of ten people, in the philippines, including three french tourists. a pregnant mom of six decided to go for a radical approach to make some cash. >> it just came to me to try something different. i did not expect any type of response. i thought, this is crazy, no one's even going to look at it.

>> what she's selling on ebay that have some saying she does not deserve to be a parent.

have you ever just agonized over what to name a baby that was on the way? well, an arkansas woman kind of has a solution to that whole dilemma. she is giving someone else the right to name her unborn baby through an ebay auction. she says she desperately needs the money since she's pregnant with her seventh child and her husband suddenly left her. she turned to ebay on a whim. >> i really in no expectations. anything is a blessing. so i am open for anything. >> it's cool because she needs the money. she probably needs the money for the baby. >> i think she ought to give that baby up for adoption if that's all the care she has for

that child. >> some of the woman's relatives are also frowning on the idea, the bidding started at $100 but it's now over $3,000. a luxury resort offers hotel rooms for 19 bucks a night, you immediately think there's got to be a catch, right? take a look at what you get. an empty room, and do i mean empty. guests get to sleep in a tent. a tent. with no lights or air-conditioning. and don't forget to bring your own toilet paper either. the hotel staff came up with the discount idea during a brainstorming session. >> it started with towels, sheets, pillows, we started to discount from there. we got more carried away. someone said what about the air-conditioning? what about the water? eventually it came down to let's take away the bed. >> i love the leather chair right next to the tent. they ran it last june and 100

people took them up on the offer. 67 years old, muhammad ali is as busy as ever. he was honored at the yankees stadium and later this month the champ plans to visit his great grandfather's ansays tral home in ireland. here is something that has never happened before. more than a century of games between bitter rivals, the yankees and red sox and never before have they gone scoreless through 14 innings. it was a duel of great pitching that ended in the bottom of the 15th when alex rodriguez hit the home run, a-rod compared it to a heavy weight fight. a fan diving for a foul ball goes head first into the dirt. a couple of players came to his aid. albert pujols comforted his son.

he gave him a ball to replace the one his dad was trying to catch for him. and roger federer, a record-setting 15 grand slam championship and the birth of twins, federer posting the pictures of his baby girls on his facebook page, calming their bigger the best day of his life. he returns to the court next week. can you include lawn care in a college scholarship? he accidentally mowed over his foot, cutting the grass at his rented foot when he slipped going up a hill. he is not expected to miss any playing time. be careful. that's sports. . federal investigators are reportedly checking whether some airliners have a mechanical issue, how the crash of a french airplane exposed problems with jetliners in the u.s.

a florida medical examiner says cocaine contributed to the heart disease that killed famed tv pitchman billy bays. the medical examiner's office says mays last used cocaine in the days before his death but he

wasn't under the influence of the drug when he died. mays' family says he never knew he used cocaine or other drugs. they also say they may ask for an independent review of mays' official autopsy. his wife found him dead in their florida condo june 28th. the federal government is giving new advice to schools on how to deal with the swine flu. it's advising people who get sick to stay home and cover their mouth and nose when coughing or sneezing. the government is also telling administrators that they don't have to close schools if there is an outbreak. yesterday's guidelines came ahead of the new school year when officials fear that the virus could re-emerge. the vaccine against it should be ready by october. st. louis police can no longer sport tattoo. the ban on artwork has caused problems for some cops who have been sent home because their ink was showing. the police association says the whole ban is unfair and there should be some leeway. >> this would be an issue where

folks could be grandfathered in. we have people who came on the police department and then had tattoos put on later on because the department didn't object to it. >> and get this, some officers are forced to wear makeup to cover their artwork. the ban also affects city and civilian employees. we have been saying investigators think equipment failure may have played a role in the air france crash two months ago. now we're hearing some jetliners flying here in the u.s. may have the exact same problem. here's jeanne meserve. >> reporter: as early as next week, the federal aviation administration may issue an order requiring airlines to change the speed sensors on airbus a 330s. the airbus flight that went down on may 31st, was an a-330. investigators have still not determined what caused that accident, but automatic messages sent before the crash indicated there were inconsistent speed measurements. that has focused attention on external speed sensors called

peto tubes. in june, investigators turned up two other speed sensor incidents with a 330s and now the associated press is reporting that a review of data has turned up at least a dozen other occasions where speed sensors malfunctioned, all of them northwest a 330 flights. delta would not confirm the incident but says it is in the process of replacing all peto tubes on its fleet. exactly what kind of remediation is being worked out in concert with european authorities with the goal of making all 625 airbus a330s in service around the globe safe. could that call for the grounding of a330s, it would be extremely unusual for authorities to do that since the speed sensors have not been proven a factor in one crash, but the air worthiness directive will give clues as to how seriously authorities are giving this problem. if they call for the tubes to be

replaced sooner than the plane's next scheduled maintenance, that would indicate authorities view this as a major safety issue. >> that was jeanne meserve with that report. besides northwest, us airways is the only other american carrier flying airbus a-330s. both airlines say they're already replacing speed sensors on those planes. police in a connecticut town are writing tickets for good behavior. the positive citations are given to kids and teens that they catch obeying the law. like, you know, kids wearing held melts while riding their bikes. the tickets are redeemable for ice creek or cookies at participating shops. >> if he sees or comes across through investigation or observes a positive behavior from a youth within the community, he has the option of giving out a reward for those actions so we can bring out positive reenforcement. >> i think encouraging the kids to do the right thing is great.

we're happy to be part of it. >> the campaign started last month. so far 60 positive tickets have been written up. still, charles manson has friends and followers even though he's been in jail for decades now. why are some people still drawn to him even though he's been convicted of nine murders? i'm robin meade. our military salute is to a husband and father. his wife wants to wish him happy anniversary and his son cannot wait for him to come home because he has something very special planned. >> caller: good morning, robin. i would like to salute my husband patrick kennedy. we miss him very much and love him. we have an anniversary coming up september the 9th and i thought i'd wish him a happy anniversary. his son josh misses him very much. says he can't wait for him to come home and have tickle fights again. anyway, i just wanted you to

know that we miss you very much and we can't wait for you to come home and we love you very much. >> that is so sweet. if you know somebody in the service, let us help you salute them by going to cnn.com/robin. watch for the salutes every morning from 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 a.m. eastern.

the family of eunice kennedy shriver says the 88-year-old is in critical condition in a massachusetts hospital. shriver, a long-time advocate for the disabled, is the sister of ted kennedy and the late president john f. kennedy. the family has not said why shriver is in the hospital. senator mel martinez is calling it quits, more than a year before his term is up, saying that it's time for him to move on. at a news conference yesterday, martinez says he would resign as soon as florida's governor chooses his replacement. and former governor from alaska, sarah palin, is weighing in on the health care debate. in her first online posting

since leaving office, palin called president obama's plan to overhaul the health care system, quote, downright evil. and that's a check of your saturday headlines here on hln. i'm natasha curry in for susan hendricks. the debate for health care reform has gotten louder and in some cases violent. were they genuine demonstrations or staged distractions? >> reporter: is it democracy? demagogry or both? congressional town hall meetings used to be rather sleepy affairs. not anymore. there are images of president obama with a mustache like hitler's or looking like the joker. also representatives hung in effigy. democratic senators like pennsylvania's arlen specter. >> medicare and social security --

>> reporter: and missouri's claire mccaskill are hearing it from extremely unhappy americans who don't like the idea of health care reform. >> the same plan -- >> reporter: people have been arrested. others have suffered minor injuries with the pushing and shoving. democrats like kathy caster have barrel been able to get a word in edge wise. at her meeting, reform opponents are seething because hundreds of them were stuck joud side the town hall because they couldn't sit inside the room. protesters held signs on the other side of the window. the congresswoman had to be hustled out. in texas, congressman lloyd dwa drowned out. >> the crowd certainly was angry. i suppose some might have had a negative reaction to the poster that said, lloyd doggett, trader to texas, devil to all people. >> reporter: how did it come to

this? depends on who you ask. they say these are orchestrated by the republican party, some say, and there was the release of this video. >> now they're organizing angry mobs just like they did during the election. >> reporter: the word mob is greatly insulting to the folks on the other side of the argument. many of the participants say they are simply exercising their rights. a pennsylvanian attended a town hall being hosted by arlen specter and kathleen sebelius. >> i feel like my constitutional rights are being taken away from me right before my eyes. i don't like the direction we're going. they're taking away our freedom of speech and the silent majority is finally fed up with it. >> reporter: but moveon.org has sentd out an e-mail to supporters saying they have a plan, quote, to fight back against these radical right wingers. the group is raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations. it's not only the weather that's

hot in august, now the political temperature is broiling too. gary tuchman, cnn, new york. a man suspected of planning several deadly bombings in indonesia is dead, killed in a dramatic shootout with police. top was allegedly in this house in a small town, the raid lasted 18 hours. once it was over, authorities say top was dead. the fbi placed him on the top ten list of terrorists here. he was wanted in connection with last month's bombings at two indonesianen luxury hotels that killed nine people, including the two bombers. top was allegedly a bomb maker and recruiter for an indonesianen terrorist group with respected ties to al qaeda. sonia sotomayor officially becomes a supreme court justice today. she'll be the high court's first latina when she's sworn in later this morning. sotomayor will take a private oath that the constitution

requires of all federal employees. then she'll take a public oath to pledge she'll administer justice fairly and impartially. sotomayor is expected to hear her first arguments next month when the court takes a key campaign finance case. your 401(k) probably got a boost from news that fewer than expected jobs were cut last month. the surprise drop in the unemployment rate jolted wall street, stocks rallied yesterday, closing at the highest point in nine months. the improved jobless rate of 9.4% caught most financial experts offguard. they had expected it to be worse. check out this video here. an alleged rob ser getting dragged by his own getaway car. police say he led them on a three-mile chase after snatching someone's purse. as you can see, he opened his door to ditch the ride and run, but his leg got tangled up in his seat belt.

the car kept rolling with most of his body dragging underneath. >> believe it or not, that frequentry ly happens. that frequently happens, generally, though, they stop the car before they get out and not let it keep rolling. he was doing maybe ten miles an hour, but still, he went up the curb and into a front yard while he was being dragged. >> he ended up with a broken leg. the door also smashed him in the head. he was later charged with armed robbery and fleeing police. connecticut police say the diagnosis is impersonating a nurse, and the prognosis could be time behind bars. a woman was arrested this week on charges of pretending to be a nurse. authorities in norwalk say 56-year-old betty lichtenstein had been working in a doctor's office. the doctor she worked for believed she was a registered nurse. you know, especially after a 2008 dinner honoring her as the connecticut nursing association's nurse of the year. but that association doesn't even exist. prosecutors say lichtenstein

spent more than $2,000 of her own money to stage the whole event. she could be sentenced to five years in prison if she's convicted. can you believe it is the last weekend of summer for a lot of school kids? we're keeping track of a hurricane headed toward hawaii right now. reynolds wolf joins us now. how is felicia doing? >> she's weakening. 36 hours ago this was a category 4 storm, it's now a category 1 storm, some gusts, though, up to 115. the forecast brings it a bet more to the west so it will weaken as it interakcts with cooler water. as it gets 2 a.m. tuesday with winds, thankfully it will be weakening. in the meantime, it's going to be getting stronger, storms across the midwest, the western great lakes. this frontal boundary all drifting off toward the east. that, with your daytime heating, could give you strong storms,

possibly hail and damaging winds, a tornado, flash flooding, especially parts of minnesota and wisconsin. still very hot for you in texas. high temperatures in place, going up into the 90s, dry for the west coast and parts of the northeast, a mix of clouds. high temperatures going to the upper 70s in many spots, washington, d.c., with 80, 98 for dallas. 68 in san francisco and for miami, 91 the expected high. i'm reynolds wolf for hln. a pregnant mom of six who hit hard times decided to go for a really radical approach to make some cash. >> it just came to me to try something different. i did not expect any type of response. i thought that this was crazy, no one is going to even look at it. >> and what she's selling on ebay that has some saying she does not deserve to be a parent.

have you ever just agonized over what to name a baby on the way? an arkansas woman has a solution to that dilemma. she is giving someone else the right to name her unborn baby through an ebay auction. she says she desperately needs the money since she's pregnant with her seventh child. her husband suddenly left her. she turned to ebay on a whim. >> i really had no expectations. anything is a blessing. so i am open for anything. >> it is cool because she needs the money. she probably needs the money for the baby. >> i think she ought to give that baby up for adoption if that's all the care she has for that child. >> some of the woman's relatives are also frowning on the idea of the highest ebay bidder naming her child. the bidding started at $100 but

is now over $3,000. here's one of those stories that kind of makes you say, what in the world? texas police say this guy here managed to sneak a 9 millimeter pistol into jail by hiding it under his own flesh. the houston chronicle says is he so obese he kept the gun without anybody noticing. the 500-pound man was even searched but officers still missed the weapon. he later told them about it diagram a shower break. six months ago, alex rodriguez was getting toasted, admitting he took performance enhancers, but today he's the toast of the town. since he returned from offseason surgery, the yankees have the best record in baseball, and last night he delivered for the yankees, a two-run home run in the bottom of the 15th that provide the the only one in a

2-0 win. did you know muhammad ali has family from ireland? the boxing legend honored at thursday's game is going to visit the hometown of his great grandfather who settled in kentucky in the 1860s. the woman accusing ben roethlisberger telling the truth? an affidavit finds the co-worker says she looked happy and boastful after claiming she spent the night with roethlisberger and wondered if she might be pregnant. she has since received dozens of harassing phone calls since filing the suit. 75 people drinking from the same cup? that's how many people estimate will sip from the jug when he took it to a restaurant. cink guzzled his beer, then put a soft drink for his kids to

enjoy. he lost track of what has been in the cup since he won it. kind of a scary thought. that's sports. love him or hate him, there's just no denying those colorful, quirky crocs. clark howard tells us how the croc craze may be coming to an end. you know, the people who make crocs, those cute little shoes that are so ugly that they're cute, that really caught on with kids and kids of all ages, including adults? well, that company was hotter than it could possibly be just a couple years ago. selling them like mad. and you know what? then they weren't hot anymore. but in the meantime, the people who make crocs had expanded like crazy, taking on a whole lot of

overhead. and now that crocs went from hot to not, they're just clinging on trying to survive. key lesson for you, if you are in your own business and suddenly demand starts to rise, you want to grow gradually. no matter how of the order book looks tempting, be careful what overhead you take on. because if you take on too much and sales suddenly aren't as strong, you could be on the ropes. i'm clark howard. for more advice from me, go to cnn.com/clarkhoward. and in response to media reports about the company's future, the managing director of crocs europe says he's extremely confident it will survive, adding crocs are here to stay and is continually invested in product development. as always, get much more advice from clark today at noon. clark will help you save more, spend less, and avoid getting ripped off. most of us cringe at the thought of getting a speeding ticket, but some cops are

actually writing tickets that put a smile on the driver's faces. what?

a florida medical examiner says cocaine contributed to the heart disease that killed famed tv pitchman billy mays. the medical examiner's office says mays used cocaine in the days before his death but he wasn't under the influence when he died. his family may ask for an independent review of the official autopsy. his wife found him dead in their florida condo june 28th. the st. louis police can no longer sport their body art. it's caused a problem for some cops who have been sent home because their ink was showing. the police association says the whole ban is unfair and there should be some leeway. >> this would be an issue where folks could be grandfathered in. i mean, we had folks that came on the police department and later had tattoos put on because the department didn't object to

it. >> and get this, some officers are forced to wear makeup to cover the tattoos up. investigators think equipment failure may have played a role in the air france crash two months ago, but now we're hearing some jetliners here in the u.s. may have the exact same problem. here's jeanne meserve. >> reporter: next week the federal aviation administration may issue an order requiring airlines to change the speed sensors on airbus a-330s. the air france plane that went down was an a-330. investigators have still not determined what caused that accident, but automatic messages sent before the crash indicated there were inconsistent speed measurements and that has focused attention on external speed sensors called peto tubes. two other incidents with a-330s, now the asoes yaited press is reporting that a review of data of recent flights have turned up

a dozen other occasions where speed sensors malfunctioned, all of them northwest a-330 flights. delta, which merged with northwest, would not confirm the incidents but exactly what kind of remediation the faa will recommend is being worked out with european authorities with the goal of making all 625 a-330s around the globe safe. now, could they call for the grounding of all a-330s? it would be extremely unusual for authorities to do that since the speed censors have not been proven a factor in even one crash, but the time frame sent out in the direct different will give us a clue as to how seriously authorities are taking this problem. if they call for the tubes to be changed sooner than the plane's next scheduled maintenance. that would indicate authorities view this as a major safety issue. >> that was jeanne meserve with that report. besides northwest, us airways is the only other american carrier

flying airbus a-330s. both airlines say they're already replacing speed censors on those planes. police in a connecticut town are writing tickets for good behavior. the positive citations are given to kids and teens that they catch obeying the law, like kids wearing helmets while riding their bikes. the tickets are redeemable for ice cream or cookies at participating local shops. >> if he sees or comes across either through investigation or observes a positive behavior from a youth within the community, he has the option of giving out a reward for that -- for those actions so we can bring some positive reinforcement. >> i think encouraging the kids to do the right thing is great. we're happy to be part of it. >> the campaign started last month. so far 60 positive tickets have been written up. still, charles manson has friends and followers even though he's been in jail for decades now. why are some people still drawn

to him even though he's been convicted of nine murders?

one of the most wanted men in the world is dead, killed in this shootout. why anti-terror forces have been hunting him down for six years. congressional leaders are getting more than an earful from some constituents about health care. is their outrage staged? what both sides are saying about the recent disruptions at town hall meetings across the country. you may need wilderness survival skills to stay at one luxury hotel. it is offering rooms for 19 bucks a night. 19, without a bed. that's not the only thing you'll be without. good saturday morning to

you. i'm natasha curry in for susan hendricks today. we start this saturday with eunice kennedy shriver, a sister of senator ted kennedy. she was reported in critical but stable condition yesterday. now her family is by her side at a hospital in massachusetts, that includes her daughter maria shriver, and her husband, governor arnold schwarzenegger. it's unclear why she went to the hospital. shriver has had a series of strokes in recent years. she's best known as the founder of the special olympics, which helps millions of people with disabilities worldwide. a man suspected of planning several deadly bombings in indonesia is dead. he was killed in a dramatic shootout with police. noordin top was allegedly in this house in a small town in java. the police raid lasted 18 hours. once it was over, authorities

say that top was dead. the fbi placed him on the top ten list of suspected terrorists here. he was wanted in connection with last month's bombings at two indonesian luxury hotels that killed nine people, including the two bombers. top was allegedly a bombmaker and recruiter for an indonesian terrorist group with suspected ties to al qaeda. the debate on health care may actually be hazardous to your health. this week, congressional leaders faced loud and sometimes violent crowds as they held town hall meetings to explain the current health care reform plan. democrats say the protests are being staged by republican-backed mobs. republicans say the disruptions show that the public does not support the legislation. a political analyst for sister network cnn said the chaos at some of the meetings is a threat to democracy. >> the real question is are we a self-governing people are not? can we face the large challenges we have as a country?

health care is clearly one of them. i think this is putting democracy to a real test and leaders on both sides need to step up and put an end to these disruptive, kind of brawling, physically violent sessions so that claire mccaskill had to even cancel one next week because of fear of violence. >> to clarify. senator claire mccaskill's office said she didn't cancel her town hall meeting. the school where it was going to be held called it off. judge sonia sotomayor officially becomes a supreme court justice today. she'll be the high court's first latina when sworn in this morning. she'll take a private oath that the constitution requires of all federal employees. then she'll take a public oath to pledge that she'll administer justice fairly and impartially. sotomayor is expected to hear her first arguments next month when the court takes a key campaign finance case. your 401(k) probably got a

boost from news that fewer jobs than expected were cut last month. the surprise drop in the unemployment rate jolted wall street. stocks rallied yesterday, closing at the highest point in nine months. the improved jobless rate of 9.4% caught most financial experts off guard. they had expected it to be worse. it is the first drop in the unemployment rate in more than a year. the better than expected unemployment numbers brought some welcome relief to the recession. a lot of people are still losing their paychecks. ed henry looks at how president obama is reacting. >> reporter: the upbeat jobs report is little comfort to greg thompson who feels fortunate the unemployment benefits he collects at the one stop career center in washington, d.c., were recently extended. >> for me, i'm just glad that it is. but there's no jobs. i mean, you can't -- i go out every week and i get the same story. >> reporter: but a couple of miles away at the white house,

the president had a much rosier view of the impact of his stimulus plan. >> this morning, we received additional signs that the worst may be behind us. >> reporter: while 247,000 more people lost jobs in july, the president noted that's far better than what he inherited. >> we're losing jobs at less than half the rate we were when i took office. we pulled the financial system back from the brink while we've rescued our economy from catastrophe we've also begun to build a new foundation for growth. >> reporter: republicans insist the stimulus may be working on the margin but has not provided the jolt the president originally promised. >> you have to define working. they've set the bar that says, we are going to have the second great depression and we didn't, so it has to be working. >> reporter: the president acknowledged there's a long way to go, he struck a very optimistic tone. >> i'm convinced we can see a light at the end of the tunnel but now we will have to move forward with

confidence and conviction to reach the promise of a new day. >> reporter: but greg thompson, a heavy machinery operator suggests while some jobs may be coming back, wages are plummeting. >> i guess some people just say, look, i'll pay you so much. i say, that's half what i've been getting. they say, if you don't want it, you know, we'll get somebody else to do it. >> reporter: the vice president's top economist was a bit less optimistic than the president during an appearance on my radio show. at cnn.com. bernstein said the white house is not entirely confident that unemployment will keep trending downward. he said it's still entirely possible it will reach 10% by the end of the year. ed henry, cnn, the white house. connecticut police say the diagnosis is impersonating a nurse. the prognosis could be time behind bars. a woman was arrested this week on charges of pretending to be a nurse. authorities say 56-year-old betty lichenstein had been

working in a doctor's office. the doctor she worked for believed she was a registered nurse, especially after a 2008 dinner honoring her as the connecticut nursing association's nurse of the year. that association doesn't exist. prosecutors say lichenstein spent $2,000 of her own money to stage the whole event. she could be sentenced to five years in prison if she's convicted. check out this video here. an alleged robber is getting dragged by his own getaway car. police say he led them on a three-mile chase after snatching someone's purse. as you can see, he opened his door to ditch the ride and run, but his leg got tangled up in his seat belt. the car kept rolling with most of his body dragging underneath. >> believe it or not, that frequently happens. it frequently happens if they do -- generally, they stop the car before they get out and not let it keep rolling. he was doing maybe 10 miles per hour. but still, be he went up the curb and into a front yard while he was being dragged.

>> the man ended up with a broken leg. the open door smashed him in the head. he was charged with armed robbery and fleeing police. people in hawaii are getting ready for hurricane felicia. fortunately forecasters at the national hurricane center say the storm will likely be downgraded to a tropical storm or depression by the time it reaches the island. it had been a category 4 storm but had been losing strength traveling over colder waters. meanwhile, a typhoon is dumping heavy rain on the island of taiwan. this storm is blamed in the deaths of ten people in the philippines, including three french tourists who were swept away in floodwaters. a pregnant mom of six who hit hard times decided to go to a radical approach to make some cash. >> it just came to me to try something different. i did not expect any type of response. i thought that this is crazy. no one's going to even look at it. >> what she's selling on ebay

that has some saying she does not deserve to be a parent.

have you ever just agonized over what to name a baby on the way? an arkansas woman has a solution to that dilemma. she is giving someone else the right to name her unborn baby through an ebay auction. she says she desperately needs the money since she's pregnant with her seventh child. her husband suddenly left her. she turned to ebay on a whim. >> i really had no expectations. anything is a blessing. so i am open for anything. >> it is cool because she needs the money. she probably needs the money for the baby. >> i think she ought to give that baby up for adoption if that's all the care she has for that child.

>> some of the woman's relatives are also frowning on the idea of the highest ebay bidder naming her child. the bidding started at $100 but is now over $3,000. one luxury resort offers hotel rooms for 19 bucks a night. you immediately think, there has to be a catch, right? take a look at what you get. an empty room. i do mean empty. guests get to sleep in a tent, a tent, with no lights or air conditioning. and don't forget to bring your own toilet paper eager. the hotel staff came up with this discount idea during a brain-storming session. >> started kind of easy stuff, towels and sheets and pillows and there was a little savings. try to discount from there. we got more and more carried away. someone said what about the air conditioning and the water. eventually we came down to take everything out including the bed. >> i love it. leather chairs next to the tent there. >> the san diego hotel ran the so-called survivor package last june. 100 people took them up on the

offer. justice sonia sotomayor has just been sworn in as the high court's first latina justice. sotomayor was sworn in by chief justice john roberts here. she pledged to administer justice fairly and impartially. sotomayor is expected to hear her first arguments next month when the court takes on a key campaign finance case. i'm larry smith. at 67 years old muhammad ali is as busy as ever. thirst night he was honored at yankee stadium, across the street from one of the sites of his greatest fights. now here is something that has never happened before, more than a century of games between bitter rivals. yankees and red sox, and never they gone scoreless through 14 innings. great catch by j.d. drew. a duel of great pitching that ended it in the bottom of the 15th inning when alex rodriguez hit the game-winning home run. 2-0 yankees.

a-rod compared it to a heavy weight fight. in pittsburgh last night, a fan diving for a foul ball, head first into the dirt. albert pujolss comforted the man's son who has down syndrome and was celebrating his birthday. pujolss gave him a baseball that the dad was trying to catch for him. the year of roger federer in tennis. first french open crown. a record-setting 15 grand slam titles and the birth of twins. federer posting the first pictures of his baby girls on his facebook page, calling their birth on july 23rd, the best day of his life. he's expected to return to the court in montreal next week. can you include lawn care in a college application? appalachian state edwards accidentally mowed over his foot. he was cutting the grass at his rented house when he slipped going up the hill, he will sit out two to four weeks but not

expected to miss any playing time. be careful about that. that's sports.

a florida medical examiner said cocaine contributed to the heart disease that killed famed tv pitchman billy mays. the hillsborough medical office says mays last used cocaine in the days before his death, but he wasn't under the influence of the drugs when he died.

mays' family said they never knew he used cocaine or other drugs and may ask for an independent review of mays' autopsy. his wife found him dead in their florida condo on june 28th. we have been saying that investigators think equipment failure may have played a role in the air france crash but now we're hearing some jetliners flying in the u.s. may have the same problem. here's jeanne meserve. >> reporter: as early as next week the federal aviation commission may require the airlines to change the speed censors. the air france flight that went down was an a-333 and investigators have not determined what caused that accident, but automatic messages sent before the crash indicated there were inconsistent speed measurements and that has focused attention on external speed censors. in june, investigators turned up two other speed censor incidents

with a-330s an now the associated press is reporting, a review of data from recent flights has turned up at least a dozen other occasions where speed censors malfunctioned, all northwest a-330 flights. delta which merged with northwest would not confirm the incidents but is in the process of replacing the tubes on its fleet. what kind of remediation the faa will recommend is being worked out in concert with european aviation authorities with the goal of making all 625 air bus a-330s in service around the globe safe. could they call for the grounding of all a-330s? it would be unusual for authorities to do that since the speed censors have not at this point been proven a factor in even one crash. but the time frame set out in the air worthiness directive will give us a clue as to how seriously authorities are taking this problem. if they call for the tubes to be changed, sooner than the plane's next scheduled maintenance, that would indicate that authorities

view this as a major safety issue. that was jeanne meserve with that report. besides northwest, us airways is the only other american carrier flying a-330s. both airlines say they're replacing speed sensors on those pla ens. police in a connecticut town are writing tickets for good behavior. the positive citations are given to kids and teents ths they cat obeying the law like kids wearing helmets while riding their bikes. >> if he sees or comes across either through investigation or observes a positive behavior from a youth within the community he has the option of giving out a reward for those actions so we can bring some positive reinforcement. >> encouraging the kids to do the right thing is great. we're happy to be part of it. >> the campaign started last month and so far, 60 positive tickets have been written up.

a new study shows most parents say they know they need to be vigilant when their child is in the hospital to make sure their child doesn't become the victim of a medical error. and they're anxious with good reason. studies show that one out of 15 children in the hospital is harmed by a medical error. and all of us actually need to be vigilant while we're in the hospital. statistics show that each year as many as 98,000 people died due to errors in the hospital and 99,000 people die from infections they awacquire in th hospital. we decided to ask nurses what do they do when their patient is in the hospital or a loved one is a patient in the hospital? what steps do they make to make sure that they don't become the victim of a danger in the hospital? well, we talked to many nurses and they certainly had stories for us. this is susan gonzalez, a nurse in georgia, she said that her father was in the hospital and that the nurse went to go give

her father some medication. susan asked, what are you giving my father and they said it was am pa sillen and she said my father is allergic and susan says if he had got than drug he could have died. we got lots of stories like that and also tips from nurses about what to do to protect yourself and here they are. first of all, the nurses said ask about every drug that you're given or that your loved one is given. what's the drug, what's the dosage, and are you getting it at the right time. also, tell doctors and nurses to wash their hands. too few doctors and nurses wash their hands. don't be embarrassed about telling them. that leads to tip number three. don't back down. if you don't understand something or someone is doing something wrong, such as not washing their hands. keep saying it until you get the explanation that you need. to learn more about how to stay safe in the hospital go to cnn.com/empoweredpatient and see my column full of tips from

nurses about how to stay safe. for empowered patient, i'm elizabeth cohen.

the family of eunice kennedy shriver says the 88-year-old is in critical condition in a massachusetts hospital. shriver, a long-time advocate for the disabled, is a sister of senator ted kennedy and the late president john f. kennedy. her family has not said why shriver is in the hospital. florida senator mel martinez is calling it quits. the republican announced yesterday he is stepping down more than a year before his term is up. saying that it's time for him to move on. at a news conference yesterday, martinez said that he would resign as soon as florida's governor chooses his replacement. and former governor from alaska, sarah palin, is weighing in on the health care debate in her first on-line posting since

leaving office, palin called president obama's plan to overhaul the health care system, quote, downright evil. >> that's a check of your head lines. i'm natasha curry. the debate over health care reform has gotten louder and violent. gary tuchman looks into whether the protests at recent town hall meetings were genuine demonstrations or staged distractions. >> reporter: is it democracy, demagoguery, or both? congressional town hall meetings during august recess used to be rather sleepy affairs. not anymore. there are images of president obama with a mustache like hitler's or looking like the joker. and also, elected representatives hung in effigy. democratic senators like pennsylvania's arlen specter -- >> medicare and social security -- >> reporter: and missouri's claire mccaskill are hearing

from extremely unhappy americans who don't like the idea of health care reform. >> the same plan they're asking us to be on. >> reporter: people have been arrested. others have suffered minor injuries with the pushing and shoving. democrats like florida's kathy castor have barely been able to get in a word edge wise. at her meeting, reform opponents were seething because they were stuck outside the town hall because they couldn't fit in the room. protesters held signs on the other side of the windows. the congresswoman had to be hustled out. in texas, congressman lloyd doggett tried to talk. he, too, was drowned out. one protester used his artistry to depict the congressman in an unsavory way. >> the crowd was angry. i suppose some might have had a negative reaction to the poster that said, lloyd doggett trader to texas, devil to all people. >> reporter: how did it come to this?

depends on who you ask. the democratic national committee says they're arc straighted by the republican party. >> they've lost the confidence of the american people. now desperate republicans and their well-funded allies are organizing angry mobs, just like they did during the election. >> reporter: the word mob is insulting to the folks on the other side of the argument. many of the parse pants of these demonstrations say they are simply exercising their rights. >> i feel like my constitutional rights are being taken away from me right before my eyes. i don't like the direction that we're going. they're taking away our freedom of speech. and the silent majority is finally fed up with. >> reporter: but now liberal advocacy group moveon.org has sent out a plan to fight back against these radical right wingers. the group is raising hundreds of thousands of dollars in donations. it's not only the weather that's hot in august. now the political temperature is

boiling too. gary tuchman, cnn, new york. justice sonia sotomayor has just been sworn in as the high court's first latina justice. sotomayor was sworn in by chief justice john roberts here. she pledged to administer justice fairly and impartially. sotomayor is expected to hear her first arguments next month when the court takes on a key campaign finance case. a man suspected of planning several deadly bombings in indonesia is dead. he was killed in a dramatic shootout with police. noordin top was allegedly in this house. in a small town in java. the police raid lasted 18 hours and once it was over authorities say that top was dead. the fbi had placed him on its top ten list of suspected terrorists here. he was wanted in connection with last month's bombings at two indonesian luxury hotels that killed nine people, including the two bombers. top was allegedly a bombmaker and recruiter for an indonesian

terrorist group with suspected ties to al qaeda. judge sonia sotomayor officially becomes a supreme court justice today. she'll be the high court's first latina when she's sworn in later this morning. sotomayor will take a private oath that the constitution requires of all federal employees. then she'll take a public oath to pledge that she'll administer justice fairly and impartially. sotomayor is expected to hear her first arguments next month when the court takes a key campaign finance case. your 401(k) probably got a boost from news that fewer jobs than expected were cut last month. the surprise drop in the unemployment rate jolted wall street. stocks rallied yesterday closing at the highest point in nine months. the improved jobless rate of 9.4% caught most financial experts offguard. they had expected it to be worst. it's the first drop in the unemployment rate in more than a year.

>> check out this video here. an alleged robber is getting dragged by his own getaway car. police say he led them on a three-mile chase after snatching someone's purse. as you can see, he opened his door to ditch the ride and run. but his leg got tangled up in his seat belt. the car kept rolling with most of his body dragging underneath. >> believe it or not, that frequently happens. it frequently happens. they do generally, though, stop the car before they get out and not let it keep rolling. he was doing maybe 10 miles per hour. still, he went up the curb and into a front yard while being dragged. >> the man ended up with a broken leg. the open door also smashed him in the head. he was later charged with armed robbery and fleeing police. connecticut police say the diagnosis is impersonating a nurse. the prognosis could be time behind bars. a woman was arrested this week on charges of pretending to be a nurse.

authorities iies in nor walk sa 56-year-old betly lichenstein had been working in a doctor's office. the doctor she worked for believed that she was a registered nurse. you know, especially after a 2008 dinner honoring her as the connecticut nursing association's nurse of the year. but that association doesn't even exist. prosecutors say lichenstein spent more than $2,000 of her own money to stage the whole event. she could be sentenced to five years in prison. if she's convicted. can you believe it? it is the last weekend of summer for a lot of school kids and we're keeping track of a hurricane headed toward hawaii right now. meteorologist reynolds wolf joins us now. how is felicia doing? >> she's weakening. you know, it's amazing, just about 36 hours ago, this was a category 4 storm. it's now a category 1 with winds sustained at 90 miles per hour. some gusts, though, up to 115. the forecast brings it a bit more to the west. as it does so, it is expected to weaken. as the interaction with cooler water at the same time, strong upper level winds, possibly making landfall on the big

island 2:00 a.m. tuesday with winds at 40 miles per hour, possibly heavy rainfall and heavy surf is what you can expect from this storm. it will be weakening. meantime, some storms across parts of the midwest and western great lakes. this area of low pressure this frontal boundary all drifting off towards the east. that with daytime heating could give you some strong storms, possibly hail and an isolated tornado, and flash flooding into parts of minnesota and wisconsin. still very hot for you in texas. high temperatures in places like texas going up into the 90s for many spots. very dry for the west coast and for parts of the northeast. a mix of sunshine and clouds. now, in the northeast, high temperatures going to the upper 70s in many spots. washington, d.c. with 89 degrees. 91 in chicago. 95 in houston. 98 for dallas. 68 in san francisco. and for miami, 91 degrees the expected high. that is your forecast. i'm reynolds wolf for "hln." a pregnant mom of six who hit hard times decided to go for a radical approach to make some

cash. >> it just came to me to try something different. i did not expect any type of response. i thought that this is crazy, no one's going to even look at it. >> and what she's selling on ebay that has some saying she does not deserve to be a parent.

have you ever just agonized over what to name a baby that was on the way? an arkansas woman kind of has a solution to that whole dilemma. she is giving someone else the right to name her unborn baby through an ebay auction. she says she desperately needs the money since she's pregnant with her seventh child and her husband left her. she turned to ebay on a whim. >> i really had no expectations.

anything is a blessing. so i am open for anything. >> it is cool because she needs the money. she probably needs the money for the baby. >> i think she ought to give that baby up for adoption if that's all the care she has for that child. >> some of the woman's relatives are also frowning on the idea of the highest ebay bidder naming her child. the bidding started at $100 but it's now over $3,000. one luxury resort offers hotel rooms for 19 bucks a night. you immediately think, there's got to be a catch, right? take a look at what you get. an empty room, and i do mean empty. guests get to sleep in a tent, a tent, with no lights or air conditioning. and don't forget to bring your own toilet paper either. the hotel staff came up with this whole discount idea during a brain-storming session. >> it started kind of easy stuff, towels, sheets and pillows. little savings. try to discount from there.

then we got more and more carried away. someone said, what about the air conditioning and the water? eventually we came down to take everything out, including the bed. >> i love it. the leather chair next to the tent. the san diego hotel ran the so-called survivor package last june and 100 people took them up on the offer. check out this mess here in san diego. an elderly driver ran over a fire hydrant yesterday which sent this water just shooting straight up into the air and everywhere. officials say there was so much water it flooded the street and a nearby store. repair crews later fixed the problem. police say the driver may have had a medical emergency when the accident happened. but check that out. here's one of those stories that makes you say, what in the world? texas police say this guy here managed to sneak a .9 millimeter pistol into jail by hiding it under his own flesh. "the houston chronicle" says george vera is so obese, he kept

the gun without anybody noticing. the 500-pound man was searched, but officers still missed the weapon. he later told them about it during a shower break. everybody wants to save more and spend less. we have the guy to help you. join money expert clark howard at noon eastern. he's going to show you ways to save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. "the clark howard show" noon eastern on hln. don't miss it. i'm larry smith. six months ago alex rodriguez was getting toasted in new york. the highest paid player ever in baseball admitting he took performance enhancers in his career. today, he's the toast of the town. since he returned from offseason surgery the yankees have the best record in baseball and last night, the three-time league's most valuable player delivered for the yankees. a two-run home run in the bottom of the 15th that provided the only run in a 2-0 win over rival boston. at the yankees build their lead atop the al east division. did you know muhammad ali

has family from ireland? the legend honored at thursday's red sox/yankees game is planning to visit the hometown of his great grandfather who immigrated to the u.s. and settled in kentucky. was the woman who has accused pittsburgh steelers quarterback ben roethlisberger of rape telling the truth? multiple reports site an affidavit by the woman's co-workers saying the alleged victim appeared, quote, happy and boastful, after claim she spent the night with roethlisberger. the accuser says she has received dozen of harassing and threatening phone calls since filing the civil suit. 75 people drinking from the same cup? yeah, that's how many folks british open champ stewart crink estimates took a sip from the jug. crink says he guzled his favorite beer from the trophy and later put a soft drink in it for his kids to enjoy but he has lost track of what has been in the cup since he won it. kind of a scary thought there. that's sports.

most of us cringe at the thought of getting a speeding ticket. some cops are actually writing tickets that put a smile on the driver's faces. what?

aed in florida medical examiner says cocaine contributed to the heart disease that killed famed tv pitchman billy mays. the hillsboro county medical examiner's office says that mays last used cocaine in the days before his death, but he wasn't under the influence of the drug when he died. mays' family says they never knew he used cocaine or other drugs. they also say they may ask for an independent review of his official autopsy. his wife found him dead in their florida condo. on june 28th. the federal government is giving new advice to schools about how to deal with the swine flu. it's advising people who get sick to stay home and cover their nose and mouth when they're coughing or sneezing. the government is also telling administrators they don't have to close schools if there is an outbreak. yesterday's guidelines came ahead of the new school year when officials fear that the virus could re-emerge. the vaccine against it should be

ready by october. the st. louis police can no longer sport their tattoos. a ban on visible body art took effect last week. it's already caused some problems for some cops who have been sent home because their ink was showing. the police association says the whole ban is unfair and there should be some leeway. >> this would be an issue where folks could be grandfathered in. we have people who came on the police department and had tattoos put on later on because the department didn't object to it. >> get this, some officers are forced to wear makeup to cover their artwork. the ban affects city and civilian employees. police in a connecticut town are writing tickets for good behavior. the positive citations are given to kids and teens they catch obeying the law like, you know, kids wearing helmets while riding their bikes. the tickets are redeemable for ice cream or cookies at participating local shops. >> if he sees or comes across

either through investigation or observes a positive behavior from a youth within the community, he has the option of giving out a reward for those actions so we can bring encouraging the kids to do the right thing is great. so we are happy to be part of it. >> the campaign started last month. so far 60 positive tickets have been written up. believe it or not, half the people in the world have a cell phone. a lot of them get a new one every year or two. so that means a lot of phones getting tossed. a company in japan is turning d phones, old computers, other e-waste literally into gold. >> how much gold will you get out of it? >> 70 kilograms. >> reporter: not aware of how much valuable metal is in your mobile phone, take a look.

tell us what can be recycled in a mobile phone. >> translator: in a member file phone this part of the battery is made of gold. this is gold, too. there's a lot of gold used in mobile phones. in there is a print circuit and this is also made of gold. >> reporter: the transformation process from electronic scraps to precious metals takes up to three months. while this plan is yet to fill the end product other urban money factories can produce the same output as a small gold mine. a profitable business considering the high price of metals. >> more significant about our plant is that we recycle everything. we don't produce any garbage. >> reporter: the next time you decide to throw away your old mobile phone or any other electrical gadget for that matter, think again. by recycling it you can play your part in improving the recycling

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