an old comment comes back to haunt president obama's adviser. what he said about the 9/11 attacks that has him leaving his post. friends and families said their final good-bye to the victims of a killing spree in georgia. as the victims were laid to rest, the arrest of a suspected killer shocked everyone. potentially dangerous situation may have been averted on a san francisco bridge. chebing the bridge on a construction project, they found something shocking. i'm natasha curry. hope you're enjoying your weekend so far.

out of a job today, president obama's environmental adviser van jones resigned after coming under fire for signing a 2004 online petition. it suggested that the government played a role in the 9/11 attacks. he apologized and denied agreeing with the petition. he said i cannot, in good conscious, ask my colleagues defending or explaining my past. we need all hands on deck, fighting for the future. other comments jones made before getting his white house job has also gotten attention, including one on youtube, where jones talks about republicans. >> how are the republicans able to push things through when they have less senators but somehow we can't? >> well, the answer to that is [ bleep ]. >> in 2005, jones was also quoted, saying he became a communist after the acquittals

in the rodney king police beating case in 1992. this deadly wildfire is no longer threatening communities north of los angeles. crews are getting the upper hand and have contained nearly half the station fire. you see all the smoke here, burning east toward a large wilderness area. since it started, the fire has burned 155,000 acres. two firefighters were killed, fighting it. at least 76 homes have been destroyed. investigators say it is arson and they're trying to figure out who started it. seven people, the victims of a killing spree in south georgia, were laid to rest yesterday. funeral arrangements are still being made for an eighth victim. as sean callebs reports, friends and family were shocked when they heard who is accused in the killings. >> reporter: loved ones are saying good-bye to eight people brutally killed in the small coastal town of brunswick.

they tell me they were floored when 22-year-old guy heinze jr. was charged with all eight murders, stand accused of killing his own father, five other relatives and two friends. >> the most heinous crime we've ever had in the community. >> reporter: guy heinze jr., the man charged in the killings, made this frantic 911 call after he claimed he discovered the bodies. >> my whole family's dead. >> reporter: something wasn't right. after police arrived, they charged heinze with possession of drugs, obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence from allegedly taking a shotgun from the mobile home and hiding it in the car. at the time police said he was not a suspect. two days later, his attorney said his client is not a killer. >> mr. heinze denies his involvement in the murders. >> has he been cooperating? >> he has and will continue to cooperate. >> reporter: heinze walked out of the county jail friday only

to be arrested two hours later and charged with murder. >> two pieces of information came forward to us late this afternoon. we took those two pieces of information, compared them to the whole of all the evidence presented all week long and we're satisfied -- >> reporter: police won't say what this new evidence is or reveal a possible motive. it doesn't make sense to a shocked and grieving family, who can only say good-bye to the close-knit relatives who shared a violent death. sean callebs, cnn, brunswick, georgia. top u.s. commander in afghanistan believes at least some civilians were killed in a nato air strike there. stanley mccrystal visited the attack site yesterday. at least 90 people were killed friday when a plane hit two nato gas trucks seized by the taliban. the strike happened when the taliban allowed civilians to take some gas from the truck. >> i think it's a serious event

that is going to be a test of whether we are willing to be transparent and whether we are willing to show that we are here to protect the afghan people. and i think that it's very important to me that we follow through on that. nato and afghan officials are investigating the air strike. international forces initially said they believed there were no civilians there. a boy who had been missing for nearly two years was found alive, in a secret room in his grandmother's house. 6-year-old ricky chekevdia was allegedly kidnapped during a custody dispute between his mother and father. when police found him, he was hiding with his mom. >> he ran around like he had never seen the outdoors. it was actually sad. he is in very good spirits for someone who has been isolated in that house with no other outside being. very social, very polite, very

talkative little boy. >> ricky's mom and grandmother are in jail. he is staying with one of his father's relatives. they are looking into claims that his dad abused him before his disappearance, but his dad denies that. the body of a 4-year-old boy who had been missing since friday was found yesterday in a septic tank in western pennsylvania. wyatt smitsky had gone outside to play with his two sisters. his family reported him missing about 1 1/2 hours later. hundreds of people helped to search for wyatt. police say the lid of the septic tank looked like it had been tampered with and would have been impossible for the boy to lift t police did interview his father, but haven't said if he was a suspect. wyatt had a heart condition and needed daily medication. all five people on board a small plane died when it went crashing into an oklahoma park, then burst into flames. investigators say a tulsa doctor

and his family were flying in heavy fog, headed to dallas yesterday. the plane hit a guidewire from a communications tower that was about 150-feet tall. highway patrol says it appears that the pilot did not see the tower. he, his wife and two young daughters all died at the scene along with another man on board. the busy bay bridge in san francisco is scheduled to reopen tuesday, after some major repairs. that may not happen now. the reason is a significant crack was found in a top to bottom investigation of the double-deck span which links san francisco and oakland. a senior engineer says that the crack was discovered on the eastern side yesterday and it was one of the eight steel pieces that helped hold up that side of the bridge. workers saw the crack while they were replacing one bridge section. you can see their progress here. the pieces of steel are about two inches thick. the crack was about halfway through one of them. you can watch workers installing that new section of the bridge

live on the web, the 300-foot piece is scheduled to be rolled in today and weighs about 7,000 tons. it's going to be replaced in mid air. but how? well, one of the tricks the workers are using is dove soap. that's right, same soap you may use, using it to lubricate two parts of the section. >> the teflon pad is there, lubricated with dish soap. it's really slippery and slick, there's no friction and it can move. >> workers say there's nothing special about the dove brand and any soap would do. they shopped around and dove gave them the best deal. they'll use hundreds of gallons of it. great white sharks have been tagged for the first time in the atlantic ocean to track their movement. har pooner tagged two of them off the massachusetts coast yesterday. officials will track the shark's travels by satellite so

scientists can better understand their migratory patterns. swimmers have been warned to be extra careful. happy labor day weekend. hope you're enjoying it so far. so, what if you went to the beach, how is the weather looking? let's check in with meteorologist bonnie schneider to see. >> some of the beaches into the new york area look great, and jersey shore, lots of sunshine. down in florida, it's been stormy. partly cloudy skies in hilton head and scattered storm force daytona beach. temperatures are warm, in the 80s. we'll watch out for scattered showers and thunderstorms. you can see already we're getting them in miami for today. be prepared for a downpour. the national forecast also looks for heavier rain in and around the desert southwest. we'll see fair conditions up to the great lakes and northeast, which means very nice conditions. we look toward tomorrow for labor day, we are anticipating showers and even mountain snow

for areas in the higher elevations of the northwest. stormy conditions across the south. that would be beneficial for texas. that's been really dry across south texas. cooler conditions across areas into the upper midwest. check out highs tomorrow, 78 in chicago. lows will drop down into the 50s. you're getting an early taste of fall, appropriately so, as this is the unofficial final weekend of the summer season. overall, i would say the weather looks good for this holiday. that is a look at your forecast. i'm meteorologist bonnie schneider for "hln." crashing down in a matter of seconds. take a look at this police actually do have an explanation for how this suv ended up in the second floor of someone's home. ♪

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say a drunk driver ran a stop sign, hit a mound of dirt and went flying. the homeowner had just put his house on the market. >> i was shocked. how did you do this? what were you thinking? how fast were you going? he was doing a "dukes of hazard". >> parts of the suv are scattered all over the house. the driver plead not guilty to dwi. he is due in court next month. one of the videos proves how infectious laughter can be. check out the bride's reaction after the groom trips over his vows. >> waffly and pancaky -- i've been scared of this all my life.

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another radio tower has come tumbling down. this time in pennsylvania. white hall township says a 350-foot tower belonging to clear channel fell overnight, but it's not exactly clear how it came down here. earth liberation front claiming responsibility for knocking down two towers in the seattle area. piece of heavy equipment was apparently used there. whitehall police haven't said if that incident and a latest one could be related. rescue crews are searching for survivors from a ferry accident off the philippines. at least three people died when the ferry capsized this morning. almost 1,000 people were on it and more than 200 have been rescued. it's still unclear why the ferry sank, but this ship had two other incidents since 2006. some college students would rather cheat than fail.

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an old comment comes back to haunt president obama's environmental adviser. what van jones said about the 9/11 attacks that has him leaving his post. killing spree in georgia, as the victims were laid to rest, the arrest of the suspected killer shocked everyone. a potentially dangerous situation may have been averted on a major san francisco bridge. engineers checked the bridge during a construction project and found something shocking. good sunday morning. i'm natasha curry. this is "hln." hope you're enjoying your

holiday weekend so far. the man who helped to create millions of jobs for the u.s. economy is out of a job today. van jones resigned after coming under fire for signing an online petition in 2004. it suggested that the government played a role in the 9/11 attacks. jones apologized and denied agreeing with the petition but says, quote, i cannot, in good conscience, ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. we need all hands on deck, fighting for the future. other comments jones made before getting his white house job has also gotten attention, including one on youtube, where jones t k talks about republicans. >> how are the republicans able to put things through when they have less than 60 senator, but somehow we can't? >> the answer to that is they're [ bleep ]. >> in 2005, jones was also quoted, saying he became a communist after the acquittals

in the rodney king beating case in 1992. this deadly wildfire is no longer threatening communities north of los angeles. crews are finally getting the upper hand and have contained nearly half the station fire. see all the smoke here, burning east toward a large wilderness area. since it started, the fire has burned 155,000 acres. two firefighters were killed fighting it, and at least 76 homes have been destroyed. investigators say it is arson and they are trying to figure out who started it. seven people, the victims of a killing spree in south georgia, were laid to rest yesterday. funeral arrangements are still being made for an eighth victim. as shaen callebs reports, friends and family were shocked when they heard who was accused in the killings. >> reporter: loved ones are saying good-bye to eight people brutally killed in the small coastal town of brunswick. family members told me they were

floored when authorities told them 22-year-old guy heinze jr. had been charged with all eight murders. he stands accused of killing his own father, five other relatives and two family friends. the killings have shocked this region. >> the most heinous crime we've ever had in the community. >> reporter: a week ago, guy heinze jr., the man charged in the killings, made this frantic 911 call after he claimed he discovered the bodies. >> my whole family's dead. >> reporter: something wasn't right. after police arrived, they charged heinze with possession of drugs, obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence for allegedly taking a shotgun from the mobile home and hiding it in a car. at the time, police said he was not a suspect. two days later, his attorney, ron harrison, said his client is not a killer. >> mr. heinze denied his involvement in the murders. >> has he been cooperating? >> he has been and will continue to cooperate. >> reporter: friday, heinze walked out of the county jail

only to be arrested two hours later and charged with murder. >> two pieces of information came forward to us. we took those two pieces of information, and compared it to the whole of all the evidence collected all week long and were satisfied -- >> reporter: police won't say what this new evidence is or reveal a possible motive. it doesn't make sense to a shocked and grieving family, who can only say good-bye to the close-knit relatives who shared a violent death. sean callebs, cnn, brunz wick, georgia. top u.s. commander in afghanistan believes at least some civilians were killed in a nato air strike there. general stanley mccrystal visited the site yesterday. 90 people were killed friday when a plane hit two gas trunks seized by the taliban. the strike happened when the taliban allowed civilians to take some gas from the truck. >> i think it's a serious event

that is going to be a test of whether we are willing to be transparent and whether we are willing to show that we are here to protect the afghan people. and i think that it's very important to me that we follow through on that. >> nato and afghan officials are investigating the air strike. international forces initially said they believed there were no civilians there. a boy who had been missing for nearly two years was found alive in a secret room in his grandmother's house. 6-year-old ricky chekevdia was allegedly kidnapped during a custody dispute between his mother and father. when police found him, he was hiding with his mom. >> we let him out of the car and he ran around like he had never seen the outdoors. it was actually very sad. >> surprisingly, ricky is in very good spirits for someone who has been aye isolated in that house with no other outside beings. he's very social, very polite,

very talkative little boy. >> ricky's mom and grandmother are in jail. he is staying with one of his father's relatives. authorities are looking into claims that ricky's dad abused him before his disappearance, but his dad denies that. the body of a 4-year-old boy, who had been missing since friday was found yesterday in a septic tank in western pennsylvania. wyatt smitsky was last seen friday night when he had gone outside to play with his two sisters. his family reported him missing about 1 1/2 hours later. hundreds of people helped to search for wyatt. police said the lid of the septic tank where his body was found looked like it had been tampered with and would have been impossible for the boy to lift it. police did interview his father, but haven't said if he was a suspect. wyatt had a heart condition and needed daily medication. all five people on board a small plane died when it went crashing into an oklahoma park and burst into flames. a tulsa doctor and his family

were flying in heavy fog, headed to dallas yesterday. now, the plane hit a guidewire from a communications tower that was about 150-feet tall. the highway patrol says it appears the pilot did not see the tower. he, his wife and two young daughters all died at the scene along with another man on board. the busy bay bridge in san francisco is scheduled to reopen tuesday after some major repairs. that may not happen now. the reason is a significant crack was found in a top to bottom investigation. a senior engineer says the crack was discovered on the eastern side, one of the eight steel pieces that is help to hold up that side of the bridge. workers saw the crack when replacing one bridge section. you see their progress here. the pieces of steel are about two inches thick. the crack was about halfway through one of them. for the first time, great white sharks have been tagged in

the atlantic ocean to track their movement. harpooner tagged two of them off the massachusetts coast yesterday. officials will track the travels by satellite so scientists can better understand their migr a. tory patterns. man's plan to put his house in the market came crashing down in a matter of seconds. police do have an explanation as to how this suv ended up in the second floor of someone's home.

some people thought it was an explosion, but it was actually an suv crashing into

the second floor of someone's home. police in suffolk county, new york, say a 20-year-old drunk driver ran a stop sign, hit a mound of dirt and went flying. get this, the homeowner had just put his house here on the market. >> i was shocked. how the -- did you do this? you know, what were you thinking? how fast were you going? he was doing a "dukes of hazard." parts of the suv are scattered all over the house, as you can see, and the driver plead not guilty to dwi and is due back in court next month. one of the most popular videos on cnn.com proves how infectious laughter can be. check out one bride's reaction after the groom trips over the vows. >> be my waffly and pancakey -- i've been scared of this all my lif

life. >> he will never live that one down. the bride may be forgiven for cracking up here. just before the groom said waffly instead of lawfully. he tried to put her ring on the wrong way. poor guy. eventually, everyone composed themselves and the pastor was able to pronounce the couple husband and wife. nascar driver carl edwards has become known by his backflip victories. he was inspired by a 13-year-old, who won a contest for a new design on his car. even though she lost both her parents, has a bubbly, engaging personality that draws in everyone around here. she said i want to be on tv, and interview somebody. she interviews carl for us, and promises to help him get over his broken foot.

>> on cnn, are you telling me, jody, with my broken foot if i win the race and i cannot do a backflip, you can come out there and do a back handspring or something for me? >> yes. >> all right. that is a deal. >> we want to see that. prayers to her. can dannica patrick be heed to nascar? tony stewart will likely split time between the irl and nascar seri series. play last night versus byu game being played in denver. junior quarterback suffering a sprained shoulder. he could be out for a few weeks. oklahoma leading the game when he left, but losing on this touchdown pass by max hall. 13-14, byu gets the win over number three oklahoma. melanie oudin has done it again at the u.s. open, 67th

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for survivors from a ferry accident off the philippines. local coast guard official now says at least five people died when the ferry capsized this morning. about 900 people have been rescued and about 60 are still missing. five u.s. boats and a civilian helicopter are helping to take part in the search. it's still unclear why the ferry sank. this ship had two other incidents since 2006. jaycee dugard's hometown never lost hope that she would be found alive. now they're celebrating her rescue after being captive for 18 years. they're saying thank you, as well. >> everyone was just going, did you hear, jaycee's alive? and she's found. we were all so excited. >> neighbor, angie keil never forgot the blue-eyed girl so viole violently snatched on on her way to school. sadness and fear have reverberated in the mountain

community. >> there were tears and they were scared and they should have been scared. >> fifth grade teacher says classmates wrote jaycee letters. one student felt her absence during each life milestone. >> she didn't have a chance to graduate high school, to have friends, turning 21, going to college. that's probably been the most haunting thing. >> angie keil says in the midst of all the horror and loss, jaycee unknowingly gave her and other parents an incredible gift. >> this guy walked around the corner and he said, if you come find my wallet with me, i'll give you $5. >> that was keil's son, emmitt, after a frightening encounter. he got on his bike. emmitt was taught to escape through a program in schools called a fighting chance. >> my name is terry.

i'm jaycee dugard's mother. >> reporter: her mother helped launch it six years after her disappearance. >> we would put the kids in the trunk of the car and lower this. we don't latch it all the way. >> is that scary for the kids? >> at first it is, but, boy, when they get out of the trunk, they feel really good. they understand what it takes to break wires, kick out taillights or what it takes to bang on the top of the roof and really make a lot of noise. >> just say no, you don't know this guy. so i did. >> you don't know what would have happened. the fact that emmitt knew what to do and not to ganl in any conversation meant that he is with me now. >> keil says in this community, where nobody used to lock doors, the training appears to have helped a number of children. now she's overjoyed, knowing the girl who started it all is finally back home. >> i can't imagine what it would be like to get her back. >> jaycee's mother ultimately

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an old comment comes back to haunt president obama's environmental adviser. what van jones said about the 9/11r 9/11 attacks that has him leaving his post. friends and family said good-bye to the victims of a killing spree in georgia. as they were laid to rest the arrest of the suspected killer shocked everyone. a potentially dangerous situation may have been averted on a major san francisco bridge. engineers checked the bridge during a construction project and found something shocking. good sunday morning. i'm natasha curry. this is hln. hope you're enjoying your holiday weekend. the man who helped create

millions of green jobs for the u.s. economy is out of a job. president obama's environmental adviser van jones resigned after signing a petition in 2004 that suggested that the government played a role in the 9/11 attacks. jones apologized and denied agreeing with the petition but says quote i cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. we need all hands on deck fighting for the future. other comments jones made before getting his white house job have also gotten attention. including one that's now on youtube where jones talks about republicans. >> how were the republicans able to put things through when they had less than 60 senators but somehow we can't? >> well, the answer to that is they're [ bleep ]. >> in 2005 jones was also quoted saying he became a communist after the acquittals in the

rodney king police beating case in 1992. this deadly wild fire is no longer threatening communities north of los angeles. crews are finally getting the upper hand and contained nearly half of the station fire. you can see all of the smoke. it's now burning east toward a large wilderness area. the fire has burned 155,000 acres. two firefighters were killed fighting it and at least 76 homes have been destroyed. investigators say it is arson and they are trying to figure out who started it. seven people, the victims of a killing spree in south georgia, were laid to rest yesterday. funeral arrangements are still being made for an eighth victim. as shawn calebs reports friends and family were shocked when they heard who is accused in the killings. >> reporter: loved ones say good-bye to eight people brutally killed in a mobile home in the small georgia coastal town of brunswick. family members told me they were floored when authorities told

them 22-year-old guy heinze jr. had been charged with all eight murders. he stands accused of killing his own father, five other relatives, and two family friends. the killings have shocked this region. >> it's the most heinous crime we've had in the community. >> reporter: a week ago guy heinze jr. the man now charged in the killings, made this frantic 911 call after he claimed he discovered the bodies. >> my whole family's dead. >> reporter: something wasn't right. after police arrived they charged heinze with possession of drug, obstruction of justice, and tampering with evidence for allegedly taking a shotgun from the mobile home and hiding it in a car. at the time police said he was not a suspect. two days later his attorney said his client is not a killer. >> mr. heinze denies his involvement in the murders. he has been cooperating and will continue to cooperate. >> reporter: wednesday a judge set his bond at 20,000. friday he walked out of jail only to be arrested two hours

later and charged with murder. >> late this afternoon two pieces of information came forward to us. we took the two pieces of information, compared it to the whole of all of the evidence collected all week long, we were satisfied. >> reporter: police won't say what this new evidence is or reveal a possible motive. it doesn't make sense to a shocked and grieving family who can only say good-bye to the close knit relatives who shared a violent death. shawn calebs, brunswick, georgia. the top u.s. commander in afghanistan believes at least some civilians were killed in a nato airstrike. general stanley mcchrystal visited the attack site yesterday. at least 90 people were killed when a plane hit two nato gas trucks seized by the taliban. the strike happened when the taliban allowed civilians to take some gas from the trucks. >> i think it's a serious event

that is going to be a test of whether we are willing to be transparent and whether we are willing to show that we are here to protect the afghan people. and i think that it's very important to me that we -- that we follow through on that. >> nato and afghan officials are investigating the airstrike. international forces initially said they believed there were no civilians there. a boy who had been missing for nearly two years was found alive in a secret room in his grand mother's house. 6-year-old ricky chekevdia was allegedly kidnapped during a custody dispute between his mother and father. when police found him he was hiding with his mom. >> we let him out of the car and he ran around like he had never seen the outdoors. it was very sad. >> surprisingly, ricky is in very good spirits. for someone who has been isolated in that house with no other outside beings he is very social.

very polite, very talkative, little boy. >> ricky's mom and grand mother are in jail. he is staying with one of his father's relatives. authorities are looking into claims that ricky's dad abused him before his disappearance but his dad denies that. the body of a 4-year-old boy who had been missing since friday was found yesterday in a septic tank in western pennsylvania. wyatt smitsky was last seen friday night when he had gone outside to play with his sisters. his family reported him missing about an hour and a half later. hundreds helped search. police said the lid where the septic tank where his body was found looked like it was tamp tampered with. police did interview his father but haven't said if he's a suspect. wyatt had a heart condition and needed daily medication. all five people on board a small plane died when it went crashing into an oklahoma park, then burst into flames.

a tulsa doctor and his family were flying in heavy fog headed to dallas. the plane hit a guide wire from a communications tower that was about 150 feet tall. the highway patrol says it appears that the pilot did not see the tower. he, his wife, and two young daughters all died at the scene along with another man on board. the busy bay bridge in san francisco is scheduled to reopen tuesday after major repairs. but that may not happen now. the reason is a significant crack was found in a top-to-bottom examination of the double deck span which links san francisco and oak land. a senior engineer says the crack was discovered on the eastern side yesterday. it was one of the eight steel pieces that helped hold up that side of the bridge. workers saw the crack while they were replacing one bridge section and you can see their progress here. the pieces of steel are about two inches thick. the crack was halfway through one of them. for the first time great white sharks are tagged in the

atlantic ocean to track their movement. a harpooner tagged two of them near cape cod off the massachusetts coast yesterday. officials will track the sharks' travels by satellite so the scientists can better understand their migratory patterns. they were spotted while investigating reports of shark sightings. swimmers have been warned to be extra careful. hey, happy labor day weekend. hope you're enjoying it so far. so what if you wanted to head to the beach, say. how's the weather looking? let's check in with bonnie schneider to see. hey, bonnie. >> hi, natasha. some of the beaches in the new york area are great and on the jersey shore, lots of sunshine. down in florida it's been stormy. check this out. we have partly cloudy skies in hilton head and scattered storms for daytona beach. it's warm in the 80s and we'll watch for scattered showers and thunderstorms. you can see already we're getting them in miami for today, so be prepared for a downpour. the national forecast also looks for heavier rain in and around the desert southwest.

we are going to see fair conditions up to the great lakes and the northeast which means for nice conditions. as we look toward tomorrow for labor day we are anticipating showers and even mountain snow for areas in the higher elevation of the northwest, stormy across the south, that would be beneficial for texas, it's been really dry across south texas. cooler conditions, you can see across areas into the upper midwest. check out highs tomorrow, 78 in chicago but lows will drop into the 50s. you're getting an early taste of fall, appropriately so as this is the unofficial final weekend of the summer season. overall i'd say the weather looks good for this holiday. that's a look at your forecast. i'm meteorologist bonnie schneider for hln. a man's plan to put his house on the market came crashing down in a matter of seconds. take a look at this. police do have an explanation for how this suv ended up in the second floor of someone's home. it hard to breathe.

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some thought it was an explosion but it was an suv crashing into the second floor of someone's home. take a look at this mess. police in suffolk county, new york say that a 20-year-old drunk driver ran a stop sign, hit a mound of dirt and went flying. get this, the homeowner had just put his house here on the market. >> i was shocked. how did you do this, you know? what were you thinking? how fast were you going? he was doing a dukes of hazard. >> parts of the suv are all over the house as you can see and the driver pleaded not guilty to dwi. he is due back in court next month. one of the popular videos on cnn.com shows how infectious laughter can be. check out a bride's reaction after the groom trips over the vows. >> be my waffly and pancaky --

i've been scared of this all my life. >> he will never live that one down. the bride, she might be forgiven for cracking up. before the groom said waffly instead of lawfully he tried to put her ring on the wrong way. poor guy. so eventually everyone composed themselves, the pastor was able to pronounce the couple husband and wife. i'm larry smith, in few places is the excitement greater than the university of oklahoma. the sooners opened at the dallas cowboys new stadium. ou ranked third versus 20, brigham young and this before halftime. sam bradford last year's heisman trophy winner, the best in college football as a sophomore, sprained shoulder, out for the game. max hall, the nephew of former

cowboys quarterback danny white, throws a game-winning score. 14-13 byu. one of the rarest finishes, northern iowa and 22 iowa, the winning field goal is blocked. the ball never crossed the line of scrimmage. they get one more shot at it. again and again it's blocked. iowa holds on in iowa city. american melanie oudin has done it again, the 17-year-old out of atlanta, she upset her way into the fourth round of wimbledon earlier this summer. look at this shot. knocking off sharapova. the third best american moving on in the fourth round. the play of the day, a wild moment as well turned in by john sendin. second round play. it's a par 5 hole. you need five shots for par. this is his second shot. if it goes in it's the rarest of birds, the albatross.

the double eagle. that's the play of the day. can you feel it? in some places there's already a touch of fall in the air and that's making the desert southwest a really good weekend getaway. >> a trip back to the wild, wild west in tucson, arizona can be fun for the entire family. it's two hours from phoenix but the two cities are worlds apart. >> phoenix has manicured gardens and transplanted palm trees, tucson embraces its desert identity. >> people walk away from here realizing how much biodiversity is in this area. >> a must see for people of all ages is a look inside the arizona senora desert museum. kids get in free. >> if you're on a budget the

sonora desert museum is great. it has a museum there, there's outdoor education, and a zoo all in one. >> you're going to be blown away by what this desert has to offer.

yet another radio tower has come tumbling down. this time in pennsylvania. police in whitehall township say a 350-foot tower belonging to clear channel fell. it's not clear how it came down. yesterday we told you about the earth liberation front claiming responsibility for knocking two towers down in the seattle area. a piece of heavy construction equipment was apparently used there but whitehall police haven't said if that incident and the latest could be related. rescue crews are searching for survivors from a ferry accident off the philippines. a local coast guard official now says at least five people died when the ferry cap sized this morning. about 900 people have been

rescued and about 60 are still missing. five u.s. boats and a civilian helicopter are helping take part in the search. it's unclear why the ferry sank, but this ship had two other incidents since 2006. jaycee dugard's hometown never lost hope she would be found alive. they are celebrating her rescue after being held captive nearly 18 years. they are saying thank you as well. >> everyone was going did you hear jaycee's alive, and she's found. we all were so excited. >> reporter: angie never forgot the blue eyed girl so violently snatched on the way to school. during the two decades since sadness and fear have reverberated in this mountain community. >> there were tears and they were scared. they should have been scared. >> reporter: jaycee's fifth grade teacher says classmates wrote jaycee letters. one classmate felt jaycee's absence during each life

milestone. >> she didn't have a chance to graduate high school, to have friends, turning you know, 21 and going to college. i think that's probably been the most haunting thing. >> reporter: angie says in the mids of all of the horror and loss jaycee unknowingly gave her and other parents an incredible gift. >> this guy walked around the corner and he said, if you come find my wallet with me i'll give you $5. >> reporter: that was kyle's son emmet after a frightening 2002 encounter. the man chased him but he got away on his bike. emmet was taught to escape through a program in school called a fighting chance. >> my name is kerry. i'm jaycee dugard's mother. >> reporter: jaycee's mother helped launch it. >> we would put the kids in the trunk and lower -- we would actually lower this. we don't latch it all the way. >> isn't that scary for the

kids? >> at first but boy, when they get out of the trunk they feel really good, they understand what it takes to break wires, what it takes to kick out taillights or what it takes to bang on the top of the roof and make a lot of noise. >> the training told me say no, you dobts know this guy, so i did. >> you never know what would have happened but the fact that emmitt knew what to do and not to even engage in conversation, meant that he is with me now. >> reporter: kyle says in this community where nobody used to lock doors, the training appears to have helped a number of children. now she's overjoyed knowing the girl who started it all is finally back home. >> i can't imagine what it would be like to get her back. >> reporter: jaycee's mother ultimately moved away from south lake tahoe. this community has felt connected to the dugard family. sunday they will hold a hometown parade of celebration to show their support. for cnn, south lake tahoe,

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time for a check of the headlines. president obama's environmental adviser is stepping down. van jones came under fire for signing a petition in 2004 that suggested government officials allowed 9/11 attacks to happen. he also says people who oppose health care and energy reform put up a smear campaign against him and this. >> we want to know what really happened. the police may think they know what happened but we want to know really the truth. and it couldn't be one person doing all that. >> he is talking about a killing spree in south georgia, seven of the eight people killed were buried yesterday. guy heinze jr. who called 911 to say he found the bodies was

arrested and charged with the murders. iran and venezuela say they are standing together against what they call imperialist foes. the leaders made the announcement in a meeting in tehran. iran's president says improving relations is necessary given their common interest and enemies. astronauts finished the last space walk of the mission, they did maintenance work on the international space station. discovery is due to land in florida on thursday. a check of your headlines here on hln. a contractor left his job in afghanistan after helping expose what he calls stupid behavior by u.s. embassy guards. he claims that sexual activity and intimidation was allowed in the ranks and now an investigation is under way. here is paula newton's exclusive interview. >> reporter: a claim from afghanistan terry pierson says he is home in britain much sooner than he wanted to be

after blowing the whistle on behavior he says was shocking and undignified. >> it was just downright stupid some of the things they were doing and insensitive. >> reporter: he was a contractor working as an operations supervisor at camp sullivan in afghanistan. housing quarters for u.s. embassy guards on contract. the camp is now under a u.s. state department investigation for inappropriate conduct stemming from charges and explicit photographs involving u.s. embassy guards. images of nudity, alcohol abuse, and what appears to be sexual hazing. pierson says he saw it for himself a couple of months ago, was disgusted and said no one should have tolerated it. >> you would not try to enforce a sexual deviant way of thinking on someone. may have a laugh and a joke and do something, drop your trousers for a laugh but when you start encouraging people to drink

alcohol, running off someone's body part -- a bit over the top. >> reporter: pierson says he wrote e-mail to his employer r.a. international and complained of armor groups, contractor that shared the camp and employed the guards, featured in the pictures. >> and his answer to it was they are just letting off steam. i think that's what the way they looked at some of the incidents. >> reporter: but the incidents were investigate bid the watchdog group project on government oversight and reported to the state department. several guards have now been fired or resigned, management is being replaced. but as a whistle blower pierson says he wasn't after mass firings, just a change in behavior. he says back at camp sullivan he was made to feel he had done something wrong and so he resigned a few days ago, only to ask for his job back just hours later. it was too late. he was on a plane home within

hours. his employer, r.a. international, says pierson resigned of his own free will and quote although we are now aware of the alleged events at camp sullivan, the employee's resignation was not associated with this matter. >> how much of the -- you are the person who said this is not right, and now you're out of a job. >> have a chance to do something different i don't think i would. i think i would still end up doing exactly the same thing. i think people's dignity, dignity at work and respect at work is more important than having a job. >> reporter: he says-y will continue to help with the investigation but he still is stunned that doing the right thing would have such dire consequences for his own life. cnn, liverpool, england. all five people on board a small plane died when it went

crashing into a park and burst into flames. a tulsa doctor and his family were flying in heavy fog headed to dallas yesterday. the plane hit a guide wire from a communications tower that was about 150 feet tall. the highway patrol says it appears that the pilot did not see the tower. he, his wife and two young daughters all died at the scene along with another man on board. the busy bay bridge in san francisco is scheduled to reopen tuesday after some major repairs. but that may not happen now. the reason is a significant crack was found in a top-to-bottom examination of the double deck span. a senior engineer says that the crack was discovered on the eastern side yesterday. it was one of the eight steel pieces that helped hold up that side of the bridge. workers saw the crack while they were replacing one bridge section, and you can see their progress here. the pieces of steel are about two inches thick, the crack was about halfway through one of

them. you can watch workers installing that new section of the bridge live on the web. the 300-foot piece is scheduled to be rolled in today and it weighs about 7,000 tons. it's going to be replaced in midair. but how? one of the tricks the workers are using is dove soap. that's right. the same soap you may use. workers use it to lubricate two rails that hold the new bridge section. >> these jacks, they run on teflon pads instead of wheels. the pad is there. it's lubricated with dish soap so it's slippery and slick. there's no friction and it can move. >> there's nothing special about the dove brand and any soap would do but officials shopped around and dove gave them the best deal. they are going to use hundreds of gallons of it. the top u.s. commander in afghanistan believes at least some civilians were killed in a nato airstrike there. general stanley mcchrystal visited the attack site yesterday.

at least 90 people were killed friday when a plane hit two nato gas trucks seized by the taliban. the strike happened when the taliban allowed civilians to take some gas from the trucks. >> i think it's a serious event that is going to be a test of whether we are willing to be transparent and whether we are willing to show that we are here to protect the afghan people. and i think that it's very important to me that we -- that we follow through on that. >> nato and afghan officials are investigating the airstrike. international forces initially said they believed there were no civilians there. a boy who had been missing nearly two years was found alive in a secret room in his grandmother's house. 6-year-old ricky chekevdia was allegedly kidnapped during a custody dispute between his mother and father. when police found him he was hiding with his mom. >> we let him out of the car and

he ran around like he had never seen the outdoors. it was actually sad. surprisingly ricky is in very good spirits. for someone who has been isolated and in that house with no other outside beings he is very social, very polite, very talkative little boy. >> ricky's mom and grandmother are in jail. he is staying with one of his father's relatives. authorities are looking into claims that ricky's dad abused him before his disappearance but his dad denies that. the body of a 4-year-old boy who had been missing since friday was found yesterday in a septic tank in western pennsylvania. wye yot smitsky was last seen friday night. his family reported him missing about an hour and a half later. hundreds of people helped search. police said the lid of the septic tank where his body was found looked like it was tampered with and would have been impossible for the boy to lift it. police did interview his father

but haven't said if he's a suspect. wyatt had a heart condition and needed daily medication. for the first time great white sharks have been tagged in the atlantic ocean to track their movement. a harpooner tagged two of them off the massachusetts coast yesterday. officials will track the sharks' travels by satellite so the scientists can better understand their migratory patterns. the great whites were spotted while scientists investigated reports of shark sightings in the case. swimmers had been warned to be extra careful. hey, happy labor day weekend. hope you're enjoying it so far. so, what if you wanted to head to the beach, say? how's the weather looking? let's check in with bonnie schneider to see. hey, bonnie. >> hi, natasha. some of the beaches up in the new york area look great and on the jersey shore, lots of sunshine. but down in florida it's been stormy. check this out. we have partly cloudy skies in hilton head and scattered storms for daytona beach.

we'll watch out for scattered showers and thunderstorms. you can see already we're getting them in miami for today. so be prepared for a downpour. the national forecast looks for rain around the desert southwest. we're going to see fair conditions up to the great lakes and the northeast which means for very nice conditions. as we look toward tomorrow, for labor day, we are anticipating showers and even mountain snow for areas in the higher elevations of the northwest, stormy conditions across the south, that would be beneficial for texas. it's been really dry across south texas. cooler conditions as you can see across areas into the upper midwest. check out highs tomorrow. 78 in chicago but lows will drop down into the 50s. you're getting an early taste of fall as this is the unofficial final weekend of the summer season. overall i'd say the weather looks good for this holiday. that's a look at your forecast. i'm meteorologist bonnie schneider for hln. before you spend a lot of money on a car alarm system you

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flying. get this t. homeowner had just put his house here on the market. >> i was shocked. how did you do this, you know? what were you thinking? how fast were you going? he was doing a dukes of hazard. >> parts of the suv are scattered all over the house. the driver pleaded not guilty dwi. he is due back in court next month. happening now. more than 100 firefighters are trying to contain this huge water main break in an l.a. suburb. a fire department spokesman says that the main broke in studio city last night and damaged several homes and businesses. some people had to leave their homes but no one has been injured. firefighters had to rescue one driver whose car was swept away in all of this. water is several feet deep in spots. the spokesman says it could take five hours to shut the water off. i'm larry smith.

in few places as the national excitement greater than the university of oklahoma. the sooners opened at the dallas cowboys new stadium. ou ranked third versus 20, brigham young and this before halftime. sam bradford last year's heisman trophy winner, the best in college football as a sophomore, sprained shoulder, out for the game. max hall, the nephew of former cowboys quarterback danny white, throws a game-winning score. 14-13 byu. one of the rarest finishes, northern iowa and 22 iowa, the winning field goal is blocked. the ball never crossed the line of scrimmage. they get one more shot at it. again and again it's blocked. iowa holds on in iowa city. american melanie oudin has done it again, the 17-year-old out of atlanta, she upset her way into the fourth round of wimbledon earlier this summer. look at this shot.

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yet another radio tower has come tumbling down, this time in pennsylvania. police in whiteall township say a 350-foot tower belonging to clear channel fell overnight but it's not clear how it came down here. yesterday now we told you about the earth liberation front claiming responsibility for knocking two towers down in the seattle area. a piece of heavy construction equipment was used there. but whitehall police haven't said if that incident in the latest one could be related. the top finance ministers want to crack down on hefty bank wither bonuses. that's one thing they agreed on during the g-20 financial

meeting in london. the plan falls short of what europe demands because the u.s. and britain refuse to impose bonus caps. in an exchew sif interview with cnn u.s.cnn, u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner said that does not mean excessive bank payout practices of the past will be tolerated. >> there is no risk that we will can afford and will allow conditions in the financial industry to go back to what they were in the peak of the boom. >> but the speed with which they've gone back to those sorts of -- >> haven't gone back yet. >> on the way. >> no, haven't gone back yet. it is important that not happen again. you are going to see very significant reforms in compensation practice across the major financial centers. one thing we did today, which is very important, is reach agreement on a common framework and commit ourselves to make sure we're going to apply those standards on an even basis across our countries. >> geithner and his colleagues also agreed to stick to stimulus

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an old comment comes back to haunt president obama's environmental advisor. what ben jones said about the 9/11 attacks that has him leaving his post. friends and families said their final good-bye to the victims of a killing spree in georgia. as the victims were laid to rest, the arrest of a suspected killer shocked everyone. potentially dangerous situation may have been averted on a major san francisco bridge. engineers checked the bridge during a construction project and found something shocking. good sunday morning. i'm natasha curry. this is hln. hope you're enjoying your weekend so far. the man who helped create

millions of green jobs for the u.s. economy is out of a job today. president obama's environmental adviser van jones resigned after coming under fire for signing a 2004 online petition. in 2004. it suggested that the government played a role in the 9/11 attacks. he apologized and denied agreeing with the petition. he said i cannot, in good conscious, ask my colleagues spending precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. we need all hands on deck, fighting for the future. other comments jones made before getting his white house job has also gotten attention, including one on youtube, where jones talks about republicans. >> how are the republicans able to push things through when they have less than 60 senators but somehow we can't? >> well, the answer to that is [ bleep ]. >> in 2005, jones was also quoted, saying he became a communist after the acquittals

in the rodney king police beating case in 1992. this deadly wildfire is no longer threatening communities north of los angeles. crews are getting the upper hand and have contained nearly half the station fire. you see all the smoke here, burning east toward a large wilderness area. since it started, the fire has burned 155,000 acres. two firefighters were killed, fighting it. at least 76 homes have been destroyed. investigators say it is arson and they're trying to figure out who started it. seven people, the victims of a killing spree in south georgia, were laid to rest yesterday. funeral arrangements are still being made for an eighth victim. as sean callebs reports, friends and family were shocked when they heard who is accused in the killings. >> reporter: loved ones are saying good-bye to eight people brutally killed in a mobile home in the small coastal towns of brunswick. family members told me they were

floored when authorities told them 22-year-old guy heinze jr. was charged with all eight murders, stand accused of killing his own father, five other relatives and two family friends. the killings have shocked this region. >> the most heinous crime we've ever had in the community. >> reporter: a week ago the man now charged in the killings made this frantic 9 11 call after he claimed he discovered the bodies. >> my whole family's dead. 11 c claimed he discovered the bodies. >> my whole family's dead. >> reporter: something wasn't right. after police arrived, they charged heinze with possession of drugs, obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence from allegedly taking a shotgun from the mobile home and hiding it in the car. at the time police said he was not a suspect. two days later, his attorney said his client is not a killer. >> mr. heinze denies his involvement in the murders. >> has he been cooperating? >> he has been cooperating and will continue to cooperate. >> reporter: wednesday his bobbed was set at $20,000. friday, had the einze walked out of the county jail only to be

arrested two hours later and charged with murder. >> this be afternoon, two pieces of information came forward to us. we took those two pieces of information, compared them to the whole of all the evidence collected all week long. we were satisfied. >> reporter: police won't say what this new evidence is or reveal a possible motive. it doesn't make sense to a shocked and grieving family, who can only say good-bye to the close-knit relatives who shared a violent death. sean callebs, cnn, brunswick, georgia. all five people on-board a small plane died when it went crashing into an oklahoma park, then burst into flames. investigators say a tulsa doctor and his family were flying in heavy fog headed to dallas yesterday. the plane hit a guywire from a communications tower that was about 50 feet tall. it appears the pilot did not seat wire. he, his wife and two young

daughters all died at the scene along with another manion board. a boy who had been missing for nearly two years was found alive in a secret room in his grandmother's house. the 6-year-old ricky chekevdia was apparently kidnapped during a custody dispute between his mother and father. when police found him had he was hiding with his mom. >> we let him out of the car and he ran around like he had never seen outdoors. it was actually very sad. >> surprisingly, ricky is in very good spirits. for someone who's been isolated in that house with no other outside beings, he's very social, very polite, very talkative little boy. >> ricky's mom and grandmother are in jail. he is staying with one of his father's relatives. authorities are looking into claims that ricky's dad abused him before his disappearance, but his dad denies that. the body of a 4-year-old boy who had been missing since friday was found yesterday in a septic tank in western

pennsylvania. wyatt submitsky was reported mittsing about an hour and a half after going outside to play with his sisters. police say the lid of the septic tank where his body was found looked like it was tampered with and would have been impossible for the boy to lift it. police interviewed his father but have not said if he was a suspect. wyatt had a heart condition and needed daily medication. the busy bay bridge in san francisco is scheduled to re-open tuesday after some major repairs. that may not happen now. the reason is a significant crack was found in a top-to-bottom examination of the double-deck span which links san francisco and oakland. a senior engineer says that the crack was discovered on the eastern side yesterday. it was one of the eight steel pieces that helped hold up that side of the bridge. workers saw the crack while they were replacing one bridge section and you can see their progress here. pieces of steel are about two

inches thick. the crack was about half-way through one of them. for the first time, great white sharks have been tagged in the atlantic ocean to track their movement. a harpooner tagged two of them near cape cod here off the massachusetts coast yesterday. officials will track the sharks' travels by satellite so that scientists can better understand their migratory patterns. the great whites were spotted while scientists investigated reportings of shark sightings. swimmers are reported to be extra careful. happy labor day weekend. hope you're enjoying it so far. what if you want to head to the beach? how's the weather looking? >> some of the beaches into the new york area look great, and jersey shore, lots of sunshine. down in florida, it's been stormy. partly cloudy skies in hilton head and scattered storms for daytona beach. temperatures are warm, in the 80s. we'll watch out for scattered showers and thunderstorms. you can see already we're getting them in miami for today.

be prepared for a downpour. the national forecast also looks for heavier rain in and around the desert southwest. we are going to see fair conditions up through the great lakes and northeast which means for very nice conditions. we look toward tomorrow for labor day, we are anticipating showers and even mountain snow for areas in the higher elevations of the northwest. stormy conditions across the south. that would be beneficial for texas. that's been really dry across south texas. cooler conditions across areas into the upper midwest. check out highs tomorrow, 78 in chicago. lows will drop down into the 50s. you're getting an early taste of fall, appropriately so, as this is the unofficial final weekend of the summer season. overall, i would say the weather looks good for this holiday. that is a look at your forecast. i'm meteorologist bonnie schneider for "hln." a man's plan to put his house on the market kram crashing down in just a matter of seconds. take a look at this. police actually do have an explanation for how this suv

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for how this suv ended up in the some people thought it was an explosion, but it was actually an suv crashing into > an explosion, but it was actually an suv crashing into the second floor of someone's home. take a look at this mess. suffolk county, new york, police say a drunk driver ran a stop sign, hit a mound of dirt and went flying. the homeowner had just put his house on the market. >> i was shocked. how did you do this? what were you thinking? how fast were you going? he was doing a "dukes of hazzard". >> parts of the suv are scattered all over the house. the driver plead not guilty to dwi. he is due in court next month. happening now, more than 100 firefighters are trying to contain this huge water main break in an l.a. suburb. a fire department spokesman says that the main broke in studio city here last night and damaged several homes and businesses. some people had to leave their

homes but no one has been injured. firefighters had to rescue one driver whose car was swept airway in all of this. water is several feet deep in some spots. the spokesman says it could take five hours to shut the water off. if you haven't actually done it, you can still imagine what it would be like to go from driving on the right side of the road to -- you know, here, to driving on the left side in a country like great britain. that's exactly what folks on the island of samoa are going to be facing starting next week. right now they drive on the right. so why the change to driving on the left? cars with the steering wheel on the left are brought in from hawaii but the shipping is four times as much as it is to get a car from new zealand. however, cars in new zealand are made for driving on the left side of the road with the steering wheel on the right. supporters of the switch say it will save money in the long run. exactly what the costs will be to make the switch are still being determined.

i'm larry smith from ecstasy to agony just like that. in few places is the chances of the national championship greater than the university of oklahoma. they ranked third in the nation versus number 20, brigham country. sam bradford, the best player in college football as a sophomore, a sprained shoulder, out for the game. could be out for weeks. meanwhile max hall the nephew of former cowboys quarterback danny white stole the game winning score. byu with the upset. northern iowa and number 22 iowa bidding for the upset. game-winning field goal is blocked. however, the ball never crossed the line of scrimmage, panthers recover and get one more shot at it. here we go. again it is blocked. iowa holds on in iowa city. american melanie odan has done it again. the 17-year-old out of atlanta

upset her way into the fourth round of wimbledon earlier this summer. look at this shot, knocking off maria sharapova to get into the fourth round. play of the day. a wild moment. second-round play. at the par 5 hole, you need five shots to get in for par. this is his second shot. if it goes in, it is the rarest of birds. the albatross! the double-eagle. he's at 8 under par. that's worthy of the play of the day. that's sports. don't trust just anyone to help you with your mortgage. hln money expert clark howard tells you how troubled homeowners are getting ripped off. >> we have a big percent of the american people who are upside down in their mortgages, owing more on their homes than what they're worth. they also have a lot of people in that situation who o have

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coming up at noon eastern. in this struggling economy, he's going to help you save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. jaycee dugard was missing for 18 years. her neighbors were using her case to teach their kids important safety lessons. >> we would put the kids in the truck of the car. at first it was a little scary for them. but, boy, when they get out of but, boy, when they get out of the trunk they feel really good. >> one young man says those lessons may have saved his life. g a smidge? y'know, there's really no need to weigh packages under 70 pounds. with priority mail flat rate boxes from the postal service, if it fits, it ships anywhere in the country for a low flat rate. cool. you know this scale is off by a good 7, 8 pounds. maybe five. priority mail flat rate boxes only from the postal service. a simpler way to ship.

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yet another radio tower has come tumbling down. this time in pennsylvania. police in white hall township say that a 350-foot tower belonging to clear channel fell overnight but it is still not clear how it came down here. yesterday we told you about the earth liberation front claiming responsibility for knocking two towers down in the seattle area. a piece of heavy construction equipment was apparently used there, but white hall police haven't said if that incident in the latest one could be related. rescue crews are searching for survivors from a ferry accident off the philippines.

almost 1,000 people were on it and more than 200 have been rescued. five u.s. boats and a civilian helicopter are helping take part in the search. it's still unclear why the ferry sank, but this ship had two other incidents since 2006. jaycee dugard's hometown never lost home that she would be found alive. so today they are celebrating her rescue after being held captive for nearly 18 years. as kara finnstrom reports, they're saying thank you as well. >> everyone was just going "did you hear jaycee's alive? she's found!" we were all so excited. >> reporter: neighbor angie keil never forgot the blue-eyed girl snatched on her way to school. >> there were tears and they were scared. they should have been scared. >> reporter: one classmate felt

jaycee's absence during each live milestone. >> she didn't have the chance to graduate high school, to have friends turning 21 and going to college. i think that's probably been the most haunting thing. >> reporter: but angie says in the midst of all the horror and loss, jaycee unknowingly gave her an other parents an incredible gift. >> this guy walked around the corner and he said, "if you come find my wallet with me, i'll give you $5." >> reporter: that was angie's son after a 2002 encounter. he says the man chased him but he got away on his bike. >> practice these things with your family. >> reporter: emmitt was taught to escape through a program in school called a fighting chance. >> my name is terry. i'm jaycee lieu dugard's mother. >> reporter: jaycee's mother helped launch it in her daughter's honor six years after her appearance. >> we'd put the kids in the trunk of the car. we would actually lower this.

we don't latch it all the way. >> isn't that a little scary for the kids. >> at first it is a little scary for them but, boy, when they get out of the trunk they feel really good. they understand what it takes to break wires, what it takes to kick out taillights or what it takes to bang on the top of the roof and really make a lot of noise. >> the training they told me just say no, you don't know this guy. so i did. >> you just never know what would have happened but the fact that emmett knew what to do and not even engage in any conversation meant that he is with me now. >> reporter: angie says in this community where nobody used to lock doors, the training appears to have helped a number of children. now she's overjoyed knowing the girl who started it all is finally back home. >> i can't imagine what it would be like to get her back. >> reporter: jaycee's mother ultimately moved away from south lake tahoe but this community has always felt very connected to the dugard family. sunday they'll hold a hometown

parade of celebration to show their support. kara finnstrom, south lake tahoe, california. some college students would rather cheat than fail. and they're getting help, as you might guess, on the internet. wait until you hear how much it costs and where that help is coming from. !

time for a quick check of the headlines. president obama's environmental advisor is stepping down. van jones came under fire for signing a petition in 2004 that suggested government officials allowed 9/11 attacks to happen. he also says people who oppose health care and energy reforms put up a smear campaign against him. and this -- >> we want to know what really happened. police may think they know what happened but we want to know really the truth and it couldn't be one person doing all that. >> he is talking about a killing spree in south georgia. 7 of the 8 people killed were buried yesterday. guy heinze jr. who called 911 to

say that he found the bodies was arrested and charged with the murders. iran and venezuela say they're standing together against what they call imperialist foes. their leaders made the announcement during a meeting in tehran today. iran's president says improving relations between the two countries is necessary given their common interest in enemies. space shuttle "discovery" astronauts have finished the last spacewalk of this mission. they did some maintenance work on the international space station. "discovery's" due to land in florida on thursday. that's a check of your sunday headlines here on hln. i'm natasha curry. a contractor left his job in afghanistan after helping expose what he calls stupid behavior by u.s. embassy guards. he claims that sexual activity and intimidation was allowed within the ranks and now an investigation is underway. here's paula newton's exclusive interview. >> reporter: fresh off a plane from afghanistan, terry pearson says he's back home in britain much sooner than he wanted to be

after blowing the whistle on behavior he says was shocking and undignified. >> it was just downright stupid some of the things they were doing. and insensitive. >> reporter: pearson was a contractor working as an operations supervisor as camp sullivan in afghanistan, housing quarters for u.s. embassy guards on contract. the camp is now under a u.s. state department investigation for inappropriate conduct stemming from charges and explicit photographs involving u.s. embassy guards. images of nudity, alcohol abuse, and what appears to be sexual hazing. pearson says he he saw it for himself a couple of months ago, was disgusted and said no one should have tolerated it. >> you would not try to enforce a sexual deviant way of thinking on someone. you may have a laugh or joke and do something, drop your trousers just for a laugh. but when you start encouraging people to drink alcohol,

involving someone's body parts, a bit over the top. >> reporter: he says he wrote e-mails to his employers ra international and complained to supervisors of armor group, the contractors that shared the camp and employed the guards featured in the pictures. >> his answer to it was they're just letting off steam. i think that's the way they looked at some of the indents that happened. >> reporter: but the incidents were investigated by project on government oversight and reported to the state department. several guards have now been fired or resigned. management is being replaced. but as a whistle-blower, pearson says he wasn't after mass firings. just a change in behavior. he says back at camp sullivan he was made to feel he had done something wrong and so he resigned a few days ago, only to ask for his job back hours later. it was too late. he was on a plane home within

hours. his employer ra international says pearson resigned of of his own free will and, quote, although we are now aware of the alleged events at camp sullivan, the employee's resignation was not associated with this matter. how much does it bother you right now, you're the whistle-blower, you're the person that said this is not right and now you're out of a job. >> this is like i have a chance to do something different, i don't think i would. i'd still end up doing exactly the same thing. because i think people's dignity -- dignity at work and respect at work is more important than having a job yourself. >> reporter: pearson says he will continue to help with the state department investigation but he's still stunned that doing the right thing would have such dire consequences on his own life. paula newton, cnn, liverpool, england. all five people on-board a small plane died when it went

crashing into an oklahoma park, then burst into flames. investigators say a tulsa doctor and his family were flying in heavy fog headed to dallas yesterday and the plane hit a guide wire from a communications tower that was about 150 feet tall. the highway patrol says it appears the pilot did not see the tower. he, his wife and two young daughters all died at the scene along with another man on-board. the busy bay bridge in san francisco is scheduled to re-open tuesday after some major repairs. that may not happen now. reason is a significant crack was found in a top-to-bottom examination of the double-deck span which links san francisco and oakland. a senior engineer says that the crack was discovered on the eastern side yesterday. it was 1 of the 8 steel pieces that helped hold up that side of the bridge. a worker saw the crack while replacing one bridge section. can you see the progress here. pieces of steel are about two inches thick. the crack was about half-way through one of them.

you can watch worker installing that new section of the bridge live on the web. the 300-foot piece weighs about 7,000 tons and is scheduled to be rolled in today. it will be replaced in mid-air. but how? one of the tricks that the workers are using is dove soap. the same soap you may use. workers use it to lubricate two rails that hold the new bridge section. >> these jacks run on teflon pads. instead of wheels, the teflon pad is there. it's lubricated with dish soap so it's really slippery and slick and there is no friction and it can move. >> workers say there's nothing special with the dove brand and any soap would do but officials shopped around and dove gave them the best deal. they'll use hundreds of gallons of it. the top u.s. commander in afghanistan believes at least some civilians were killed in a nato air strike there. general stanley mcchrystal visited the attack site

yesterday. at least 90 people were killed friday when a plane hit two nato gas trucks seized by the taliban. the strike happened when the taliban allowed civilians to take some gas from the trucks. >> i think it's a serious event that is going to be a test of whether we are willing to be transparent and whether we are willing to show that we are here to protect the afghan people and i think that it's very important to me that we follow through on that. >> nato and afghan officials are investigating the air strike. international forces initially said they believed there were no civilians there. a boy who had been missing for nearly two years was found alive in a secret room in his grandmother's house. 6-year-old ricky chekevdia was allegedly kiss napd during a custody dispute between ace mother and father. when police found him he was hiding with his mom.

>> we let him out of the car and he ran around like he'd never seen the outdoors. it was really sad. surprisingly, ricky is in very good spirits for someone who's been isolated in that house with no other outside beings, he's very, very social, very polite, very talkative little boy. >> ricky's mom and grandmother are in jail. he is staying with one of his father's relatives. authorities are looking into claims that ricky's dad abused him before his disappearance but his dad denies that. for the first time, great white sharks have been tagged in the atlantic ocean to track their movement. a harpooner tagged two of them near cape cod here off the massachusetts coast yesterday. officials will track the sharks' travels by satellite so that scientists can better understand their migratory patterns. the great whites were spotted while scientists investigated reports of shark sightings in the cape. swim remembers reported to be extra careful. happy labor day weekend.

hope you're enjoying your holiday weekend so far. what if you want to head to the beach? how aet weather looking? let's check in with meteorologist bonnie schneider. >> reporter: some of the beaches up into the new york area look great and beaches in the jersey sore -- you can see already we're getting them in miami for today so just be prepared for a downpour. the national forecast also looks for some heavier rain in and around the desert southwest. we are going to see fair conditions up through the great lakes and northeast which means for very nice conditions. as we look towards tomorrow for labor day, we are anticipating showers and even mountain snow for areas in the higher elevations of the northwest. stormy conditions across the south. that would be beneficial for texas. it's been really dry across south texas. cooler conditions as you can see across areas into the upper midwest. check out highs tomorrow, 78 in

chicago but lows drop down into the 50s. you're getting an early taste of fall, appropriately so, as this is the unofficial final weekend of the summer season. overall i'd say the weather looks good for this holiday. that's a look at your forecast. i'm meteorologist bonnie schneider for hln. before you spend a lot of money on a car alarm system, make sure your car's really a target for thieves. jennifer westhoven's looking out for you and has some information you might find surprising. >> reporter: i hope you're enjoying your labor day weekend. this story may surprise you. thieves are probably going to pass by a new car. they're far more likely to steal older versions of popular cars. the new cars have the antitheft systems and it's the parts on the old cars that are worth so much. the most stolen car in america -- the 1994 honda accord. if you take a look at this list, a lot of the cars from the '90s -- one of them -- even from

the '80s. but you see popular models here, civic, camry, ford f-150 and dodge ram pickup. this is accord rg to the national crime insurance bureau. if you own one of the cars on that list you may want to put in an alarm or other theft deterrent like smart keys, kill switches. the number of cars stolen though has been shrinking for five years in a row and it is now at a 20-year low according to early numbers from the fbi. i'm jennifer westhoven looking out for you. >> you can get more great money advice from jennifer westhoven each weekday on "morning express" with robin meade from 6:00 to 10:00 eastern. a man's plan to put his house on the market came crashing down in just a matter of seconds. take a look at this. police actually do have an explanation for how this suv ended up in the second floor of someone's home. geico's been saving people money on car insurance for over 70 years.

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some people thought it was an explosion but it was actually an suv crashing into this second floor of someone's home. take a look at this mess. police in suffolk county, new york say that a 20-year-old drunk driver ran a stop sign, hit a mound of dirt and went flying. get this -- the homeowner had just put his house here on the market. >> i was shocked. how could do you this? what were you thinking? how fast were you going? he was doing dukes of hazard. >> parts of the suv are scattered all over the house and the driver pleaded not guilty to dwi. he's due back in court next month. happening now, more than 100 firefighters are trying to contain this huge water main break in an l.a. suburb. the fire department spokesman says that the main broke in studio city here last night and

damaged several homes and businesses. some people had to leave their homes but no one has been injured. firefighters had to rescue one driver whose car was swept away in all of this. water is several feet deep in some spots. the spokesman says it could take five hours to shut the water off. i'm larry smith. nascar driver carl edwards has become known for his back glips aft after victories. but he was touched by a 13-year-old who won a contest designing the new paint job on carl's car. she is battling an aggressive form of cancer. even though she's lost both of her parents, has a bubbly and engaging personality that draws in everyone around her. she says i want to be on tv, i want to interview somebody. she interviews carl for us and even promised to help him again over his broken foot. >> on cnn, are you telling me, that with my broken foot, if i win the race andky not do a backflip, can you come out there

and do a back handspring or something for me? >> yes. >> all right, that is a deal. that's a deal. >> we love it. our prayers to her. could danica patrick be headed to nascar? star driver tony stewart says the indy league racing star for whom he's become sort of a mentor will split time between the irl and nascar's nationwide series with an eye on the top level sprint cup series in 2011. stewart himself jumped from the irl to nascar a decade ago. college football heisman trophy winner sam bradford could miss up to a month. in a game he played in denver, the junior quarterback suffered a sprained shoulder. he could be out for a few weeks. meanwhile, oklahoma leads the game when he left but lost on this touchdown past here, 14-13 byu gets the win over number three oklahoma. 17-year-old melanie udan, the 67th ranked player in the world figures to move up big-time. back-to-back upsets over maria

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come tumbling down, this time in pennsylvania. police in white hall township say that a 350-foot tower belonging to clear channel fell overnight but it is still not exactly clear how it came down here. yesterday we told you about the earth liberation front claiming responsibility for knocking two towers down in the seattle area. a piece of heavy construction equipment was apparently used there, but white hall police haven't said if that incident and the a littlest one could be related. the world's top finance ministers want to crack down on hefty banker bonuses. that's one thing they agreed on during their g-20 financial meeting in london. but the plan falls short of what europe demands because the u.s. and britain refuse to impose bonus caps. in an exclusive interview with cnn, u.s. treasury secretary timothy geithner says that does not mean excessive bank payout practices of the past will be tolerated. >> there is no risk that we will can afford and will allow

conditions to go back to what they were in the peak of the boom. >> but the speed with which they've gone back to those sorts of -- >> haven't gone back yet. >> on the apply those standardses on an even basis across our countries. >> geithner and his colleagues also agreed to stick to stimulus measures like low interest rates to help ensure a global economy recovery. rescue crews are searching for survivors from a ferry accident off the philippines. a local coast guard official now says at least five people died when the ferry capsized this morning. about 900 people have been rescued and about 60 are still missing. five u.s. boats an a civilian

helicopter are taking part in the search. it's unclear why the ferry sank, but this ship had two other incidents since 2006. if you haven't actually done it, you can still imagine what it would be like driving on the ride side of the road to driving on the left side in great britain. that's what folks on the island of schmo area are going to face next week. right now they drive on the right. why the change to driving on the left? cars with the steering wheel on the left are brought in from hawaii but the shipping is four times as much as it is to get a car from new zealand. however, cars in new zealand are made for driving on the left side of the road with the steering wheel on the right. supporters of the switch say it will save money in the long run. exactly what the costs will be to make the switch with are still beidetermined. you might call it a freak

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an old comment comes back to haunt an advisor. what he said about the 9/11 attacks that has him leaving his post. >> friends and family said good-bye to victims of the killing spree in georgia. as the victims were laid to rest, the arrest of the suspected killer shocked everyone. a potentially dangerous situation may have been averted on a major san francisco bridge. engineers checked the bridge during a construction project and found something shocking. good sunday morning. this is hln. hope you're enjoying your holiday weekend so far. the man who helped create millions of green jobs for the

u.s. u economy is out of a job today. president obama's environmental advisor van jones resigned after coming under fire for signing a petition in 2004. it suggested the government played a role in the 9/11 attacks. jones apologized and denied agreeing with the petition but he says "i cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. we need all hands on deck, fight forge the future." other comments jones made before getting his white house job have also gotten attention, include be one you on youtube you where jones talks about republicans. >> how were with the republicans able to put things through when they had less than 60 standards but somehow we can't? >> well, the answer to that is [ bleep ]. >> in 2005, jones was also quoted saying he became a communist after the acquittals

in the rodney king beating case in 1992. this deadly wildfire is no longer threatening communities north of los angeles. crews are finally getting the upper hand and have contained nearly half the station fire. you can see all the smoke here. it's now burning east toward a large wilderness area. since it started, the fire has burned 155,000 acres. will two firefighters were killed fighting it and at least 76 homes have been destroyed. investigators say it is arson and they are trying to figure out who started it. seven people, the victims of a killing spree in south joornlg george, were laid to rest today. funeral arrangements are still being made for an eighth victim. as sean callebs reports, everyone was shocked when they heard who was accused in the killings. >> reporter: loved ones are saying good-bye. family members told me they were

floored when authorities told them 2-year-old guy heinzy jr. had been charged in murder. he stands accused of killing his father, five relatives and two family friends. the killings have shocked this region. >> the most heinous crime we've ever had in the community. >> reporter: a week ago guy heinze jr., the man now charged in the killings being made this frantic 911 call after he says he discovered the bodies. >> my whole family is dead. >> reporter: something wasn't right. he was arrested with possessing drugs, obstruction of justice and tampering with evidence for allegedly taking a shotgun from the mobile home. at the time police said he was not a suspect. two days later his attorney said his client is not a killer. >> mr. heinze denies his involvement in the murders. >> has he been cooperating? >> he is and will continue to. >> reporter: wednesday his bond was set at 25,000s and friday he walked out of the jail only to

be arrested and charged with murder two hours later. >> this afternoon, two pieces of information came forward to us. we took those two pieces of information, compared it to the whole of all the evidence collected all week long. they were satisfied. >> reporter: police won't say what this new evidence is or reveal a possible motive. it doesn't make sense to a shocked and grieving family who can only say good-bye too the close-knit relatives who shared a violent death. sean callebs, cnn, brunswick, georgia. >> all five people on board a small plane died when it crashed into an oklahoma park and burst into planes. investigators say a tulsa doctor and his family were flying in heavy fog headed to dallas yesterday. the plane hit a guide wire from a communications tower that was about 150 feet tall. the highway patrol appears that the pilot did not see the tower. he, his wife, and two young daughters all died at the scene

along with another man on board. a boy who had been missing for nearly two years was found alive in a secret room in his grandmother's house. 6 the 6-year-old was allegedly kidnapped during a custody dispute between his mother and father. when police found him, he was hiding with his mom. >> we let him out of the car and he ran around like he had never seen the outdoors. it was actually very sad. >> surprisingly, rickey is in very good spirits for someone who's been isolated in that house with no other outside beings, he's very social, very polite, very talkative little boy. >> ricky's mom and grandmother are in jail. he is staying with one of his father's relatives. authorities are looking into claims that ricky's dad abused him before his disappearance, but his dad denies that. the body of a 4-year-old boy who had been missing since friday was found yesterday in a septic tank in western

pennsylvania. wyatt was last seen friday night when he had gone outside to play with his sisters. his family reported him missing about an hour and a half later. hundreds of people helped search for wyatt. police said the lid of the septic tank where his body found looked like it had been tampered with and it would have been impossible for the boy to lift it it. police did interview his father but haven't said if he's a suspect. wyatt had a heart condition and needed daily medication. the busy bay bridge in san francisco is scheduled to reopen tuesday after some major repairs. but that may not happen now. the reason is a significant crack was found in a top to bottom examination of the double-deck span which links san francisco and oakland. a senior engineer says that the crack was discovered on the eastern side yesterday. it was one of the eight steel pieces that help hold up that side of the bridge. workers saw the crack while they were replacing one bridge section. you can see their progress here. the pieces of steel are about

two inches thick. the crack was about halfway through one of them. for the first time, great white sharks have been tagged in the atlantic ocean to track their movement. a harpooner tagged two of them off cape cord yesterday. officials will track the sharks' travels by satellite so scientists can better understand their might ratory patterns. they were spotted while scientists investigated reports of shark sightings in the cape. swimmers have been warned to be extra careful. i'm bonny schneider with a look at your forecast. for those of you planning a beach getaway for the holiday weekend, you'll find good conditions in some beaches up into the northeast. however, the gulf coast and all the way across parts of florida will be looking for stormy conditions for today. we'll be seeing temperatures changing as we go through the afternoon. hot in texas but cool up into new england. the holiday forecast calls for cooler weather through the great lakes, very pretty conditions across much of the mid-atlantic

and northeast. stormy in texas. if you get south of areas into san antonio, that would be beneficial. it's been so dry there. hot temperatures across much of the west and we'll look for monsoonal moisture to bring rain to places like phoenix, arizona, as we go through the weekend. here is a look at high temperatures today, climbing up to 91 in dallas, 74 in chicago. we'll be looking for 67 in boston and 85 which is actually cooler here in atlanta. let's take a look at the forecast for tomorrow. as we look at the board, you'll see not much of a change for labor day itself. hot in phoenix, 98. 93 for billings, and 80 in minneapolis, 90 in tampa. that is a look at your forecast. a man's plan to put his house on the market came crashing down in just a matter of seconds. take a look at this. police actually do have an explanation for how this suv wa ended up in the second floor of someone's home.an price.'ll match and

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. an suv crashed into a second floor of this home. take a look at this mess. police in suffolk county, new york, say a 20-year-old drunk driver ran a stop sign, hit a mound of dirt and went flying. get this, the homeowner had just put his house here on the market. >> i was shocked. how did you do this? you know, what were you thinking? how fast were you going? he was doing a "dukes of hazzard". >> parts of the suv are scattered all over the house. the driver pleaded not guilty to dwi. he is due in court next month. happening now -- more than 100 firefighters are trying to contain this huge water main break in an l.a. suburb. a fire department spokesman says that the main broke in studio city here last night and damaged several homes and businesses. some people had to leave their homes, but no one has been injured. firefighters had to rescue one

driver whose car was swept away in all of this. water is several feet deep in some spots. the spokesman says it could take five hours to shut the water off. if you haven't actually done it, you can can still imagine what it would be like driving on the right side of the road to driving on the left side. that's exactly what folks on the island of smoke area aamoa will week. right knew they drive on the right. so why the change to driving on the left? cars with the steering wheel on the left are brought in from hawaii, but the shipping is four times as much as it is to get a car from new zealand. however, cars in new zealand are made for driving open the left side of the road with the steering wheel on the right. supporters of the switch say it will save money in the long run. exactly what the costs will be to make the switch are still being determined. i'm larry smith. there's a double hangover in oklahoma.

the weekend began with dreams of a national championship run but it will end with sam bradford's golden arm in a sling and an opening season loss. those dreams perhaps dashed. ou ranked number 3 taking on 20th ranked byu. here is the play before halftime. bradford could be out a few weeks. max hall, the touchdown pass here, game winner for the cougars as they upset the sooners 14-13. one of the rarest finishes you'll ever seen. northern iowa bidding for the sweat at number 2 iowa. final seconds being the field goal was blocked. the panthers recovered. they get one more shot. two chances, two blocked field goals? iowa hangs on and survivors the potential stunner. american melanie oudin has done it again, on hat the u.s. on saturday, watch this shot. upsetting maria sharapova to

again advance to the fourng round whaxt a great tournament for the 17-year-old. he is the strongest man in america. derek poundstone ranks number two in the world and is train being for next month's competition by pulling a 60,000-pound fire truck. he says it's harder than pulling the one that counts, an airplane, because the fire truck has an transmission. he eats eight to ten meals a day and drinks a chicken shake a morning, two pounds of broiled chicken placed in a blender. yummy. that's sports. don't trust just anyone to help you with your mortgage. clark howard tells you how trouble e ed homeowners are get ripped off. >> we have a number of people who are upside down on their mortgages, owing more than what their homes are worth.

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yet another radio tower has come tumbling down, this time in men pen. police in white hall township say a 350-foot tower belonging to clear channel fell overnight, but it's not clear how it came down. earlier we told you about the earth liberation front claiming the responsibility for knocking two towers down in seattle. a piece of heavy instruction equipment was apparently used there. but white hall police haven't said that incident and a latest one could be related. rescue crews are searching for survivors from a ferry accident off the philippines. a local coast guard official now says at least five people died when the ferry capsized this

morning. about 900 people have been rescued and about 60 are still missing. five u.s. boats and a civilian helicopter are helping take part in the search. it's still unclear why the ferry sank, but this ship had two other incidents since 2006. jaycee dugard's hometown never lost home hope that she would be found alive. today they're celebrating her rescue after being held captive for nearly 18 years. as kara finnstrom recoports, they're saying thank you you as well. >> everybody was saying, did you hear? jaycee is alive? she was found. we're all so excited. >> reporter: neighbor angie kyle never forgot the blue-eyed girl so violently snatched on her way to school. sadness and fear have reverberated in the small community since. >> there were tears and they were scared. they should have been scared. >> reporter: jaycee dugard's fifth grade teacher said they wrote her letters.

one classmate felt jaycee's absence during each life's milestone. >> she didn't have the chance to graduate high school, to have friends turning 21 and going to college. i think that's probably been the most haunting thing. >> reporter: but angie kyle says in the midst of all the horror and loss, jaycee unknowingly gave her and other parents an incredible gift. >> this guy walked around the corner and he said, if you come find my wallet with me, i'll give you 5s. >> reporter: that kyle's son emmitt shortly after a frightening 2002 encounter. emmitt said the man chased him but he got away on his bike. emmitt was taught to escape through a program in schools called a fighting chance. >> my name is terri. i'm jaycee lee dugard's mother. >> reporter: jaycee's mother launched it six years after her disappearance. >> we would put the kids in the trunk of the car and we would lower this.

we don't latch it all the way rnchts isn't that scary for the kids? >> at first it is scary. but, boy, when they get out of of the trunk, they feel really good. they understand what it takes to break wires, what it takes to kick out taillights or what it takes to bang on the top of the roof and really make a lot of noise. >> the training had told me, just say no. you don't know this guy. so i did. >> you just never know what would happened. but the fact that emmitt knew what to do and not even engage in any conversation meant that he is with me now. >> reporter: kyle says in this community where nobody used to lock doors, the tryaining appeas to have helped a number of children. now she's overjoyed knowing the girl who started it all is finally back home. >> i can't imagine what it would with be like to get her back. >> reporter: jaycee's mother ultimately moved away from south lake tahoe, but this community has always felt very connected to the dugard family. sunday they'll hold a hometown

parade of celebration to show their support. some college students would rather cheat than fail. and they're getting help as you might guess on the internet. but wait until you hear how much it costs and just where that help is coming from.

time for a quick check of the headlines. president obama's environmental advisor is stepping down. van jones came under fire for signing a petition in 2004 that suggested government officials allowed 9/11 attacks to happen. he also says people who oppose health care and energy reforms put up a smear campaign against him. and this -- >> we want to know what really happened. the police may think they know what happened, but we want to know really the truth. and it couldn't be one person doing all of that. >> he is talking about a killing spree in south joj george. seven of the eight people killed were buried yesterday. guy heinze jr. who called 911 to

say he found the bodies was arrested and charged with the murders. iran and venezuela say they're standing together against what they call imperialist foes. their leaders made the announcement during a meeting in tehran today. iran's president says improving relations between the two countries is necessary, given their common interest and enemies. space shuttle "discovery" astronauts have finished the last space walk of this mission. they did maintenance work on the international space station. "discovery" is due to land in florida on thursday. i'm natasha curry. a contractor left his job in afghanistan after helping expose what he calls stupid behavior by u.s. embassy guards. he claims that sexual activity and intimidation was allowed within the ranks. now an investigation is under way. here's paula newton's exclusive interview. >> reporter: fresh off a plane from afghanistan, terry pearson says he's back home in britain much sooner than he wanted to be

after blowing the whistle on behavior he says was shocking and undignified. >> it was just downright stupid some of the things they were doing. and insensitive. >> reporter: pearson was a contractor working as an operations supervisor at camp sullivan in afghanistan. the camp is now under a u.s. state department investigation for inappropriate conduct stemming from charges and explicit photographs involving u.s. embassy guards. images of nudity, alcohol abuse and what appears to be sexual hazing. pearson says he saw it for himself a couple of months ago, was disgusted, and said no one should have tolerated it. >> you would not try to enforce sexual deviant way of thinking on someone. you may laugh and do something,

drop your trousers for a laugh. when you encourage people to drink alcohol off people's body parts, a bit over the top. >> reporter: pearson says he wrote e-mails to his employer, r.a. international, and complained to supervisors of a.m.or groups, a contractor that shared the camp and employed the guards featured in the pictures. >> and his answer to it was, they're just letting off steam. i think that's the way they looked at some of the incidents that happened. >> reporter: but the incidents were investigated by the watchdog group project on government oversight and reported to the state department. several guards have now been fired or resigned. manage mgtment is being replaced. but as a whistle-blower, pearson says he wasn't after mass firings, just a change in behavior. he says back at camp sullivan he was made to feel he had done something wrong and so he resigned a few days ago, only to ask for his job back just hours later. it was too late. he was on a plane home within

hours. his employer, r.a. international, says pearson resigned of his own free will and "although we are now aware of the alleged events at camp sullivan, the employee's resignation was not associated with this matter." how much does it bother you? you're the whistle blow, the person who said, this not right, now you're out of a job? >> if i had a chance to do something different, i don't think i would. i think i'd still end up doing exactly the same thing because i think people's dignity at work and respect at work is more important than having a job yourself. >> reporter: pearson says he will continue to help with the state department investigation, but he still is stunned that doing the right thing would have such dire consequences in his own life. paula newton, cnn, liverpool, england. all five people on board a small plane died when it went

crashing into an oklahoma park, then burst into flames. investigators say a tulsa doctor and his family were flying in heavy fog headed to dallas yesterday. now, the plane hit a guidewire from a communications tower that was about 150 feet tall. the highway patrol says it appears the pilot did not see the tower. he, his wife, and two young daughters all died at the scene, along with another man on board. the busy bay bridge in san francisco is scheduled to reopen tuesday after some major repairs, but that may not happen now. the reason is a significant crack was found in a top-to-bottom examination of the double-deck span which links san francisco and oakland. a senior engineer says that the crack was discovered on the eastern side yesterday. it was one of the eight steel pieces that helped hold up that side of the bridge. workers saw the crack while they were replacing one bridge section. you can see the progress here. the pieces of steel are about two ink inches thick. the crack was about halfway through one with of them.

you can watch workers installing that new section of the bridge live on the web. the 300-foot piece is scheduled to be rolled in today and it weighs about 7,000 tons. it's going to be replaced in midair. but how? one of the tricks the workers are using is dove soap. that's right. the same soap you may use. workers use it to lupry kate two rails that hold the new bridge section. >> these jacks, they run on teflon pads instead of wheels. the teflon pad is there, then it's lubricated with dish soap. so it's really slippery and slick. there's no friction and it can move. >> workers say it's nothin special about the dove brand. any soap would do. but officials shopped around, and dove gave them the best deal. they're going to use hundreds of gallons of it. the top u.s. commander in afghanistan believes at least some civilians were killed in a nato air strike there. general stanley mcchrystal

visited the site yesterday. at least 90 people were killed friday when a plane hit two nato gas trucks seized by the taliban. it happened when the taliban allowed civilians to take gas from the truck. >> i think it's a serious event that is going to be a test of whether we are willing to be transparent and whether we are willing to show that we are here to protect the afghan people. and i think that it's very important to me that we follow through on that. >> nato and afghan officials are investigating the air strike. international forces initially said they believed there were no civilians there. a boy who had been missing for nearly two years was found alive in a secret room in his grandmother's house. the 6-year-old was allegedly kidnapped during a custody dispute between his mother and father. when police found him, he was hiding with his mom. >> we let him out of the car and

he ran around like he had never seen the outdoors. it was actually very sad. >> surprisingly, ricky has been in very good spirits, for someone who's been isolated in that house with no other outside beings, he's very social, very polite, very talkative little boy. >> ricky's mom and grandmother are in jail. he is staying with one of his father's relatives. authorities are looking into claims that ricky's dad abused him before his disappearance, but his dad denies that. the body of a 4-year-old boy who had been missing since friday was found yesterday in a septic tank in western pennsylvania. wie yoot smitsky was last seen friday night when he went outside to play with his sisterses. his family reported him missing about an hour and a half later. hundreds of people helped search for wyatt. police said the lid of the septic tank where his body was found looked like it had been tampered with and it would have been impossible for the boy to lift it. police did interview his father,

but they haven't said if he's a suspect. wyatt had a heart condition and needed daily medication. for the first time, great white sharks have been tagged in the atlantic ocean to track their movement. a harpooner tagged two of them near cape cod here off the massachusetts coast yesterday. officials will track the sharks' travels by satellite so scientists can better understand their migratory patterns. the great whites were spotted while scientists investigated reports of shark sightings in the cape. swimmers have been warned to be extra careful. hey, happy labor day weekend. hope you're enjoying it so far. what if you went to the beach? how is the weather looking? let's check in with bonnie to see. >> some of the beaches in the new york area look great and on the jersey shore. lots of sunshine. but down in florida it's been stormy. we have partly cloudy sky nz hilton head and scattered storms for daytona beach. temperatures are warm, in the 80s.

we'll watch out sfor scattered showers and thunderstorms. we're getting them already in miami for today. just be prepared for a downpour. the national forecast also looks for some heavier rain in and around the desert southwest. we are going to see fair conditions through the great lakes and northeast, which means very nice conditions. as we look towards tomorrow for labor day, we are anticipating showers and even mountain snow for areas in the higher elevations of the northwest. stormy conditions across the south. that would be beneficial for texas. it's been really dry across south texas. cooler conditions as you can see across areas into the upper midwest. check out highs tomorrow, 78 in chicago, lows dropping into the 50s. you're getting an early taste of fall, appropriately so as this is the unofficial final weekend of the summer season. overall being the weather looks good for the holiday. that is a look at your forecast. i'm bonnie schneider for hln. a man's plan to put his house on the market came crashing down in just a matter of the seconds. take a look at this. police actually do have an

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dwi. he is due back in court next month. happening now -- more than 100 firefighters are trying to contain this huge water main break in an l.a. suburb. a fire department spokesman said that the main broke last night in studio city and damaged several homes and businesseses. some people had to leave their homes but no one has been injured. firefighters had to rescue one driver whose car was swept away in all of this. water is several feet deep in some spots. the spokesman says it could take five hours to shut the water off. i'm larry smith. nascar driver carl edwards has been known for his back slips after victory. if it weren't for a broken foot, he might have slipped after meeting joey lawrence. he won a contest for a paint job on his job. even though she has lost her parents, she has a bubbly, engaging personality that draws in everyone around her. she says she wants to be a

reporter so we let her do the interview. >> on cnn, are you telling me, jody, with my broken foot, if i win the race and i cannot do a back flip, you'll come out and do a back handspring or something for me? >> yes. >> that is a deal. could danica patrick be headed to nascar? tony stewart says the star will likely split time next year between the irl and nascar's nationwide series with an eye on joining the sprint cup series in 2011. stewart himself jumped from the irl to nascar a decade ago. college football and sam bradford could miss a month. number three oklahoma was leading but lost their star, sprained shoulder. they're not sure how long he'll be out. byu took advantage. max hall the game winner here. 14-13, cougars upsetting the sooners. little tennis for you.

17-year-old melanie oudin has done it again at the u.s. open. kaimg in ranked 67th will. another upset, this time of sharapova. she advanced to the fourth round. good for her. that's sports. a sweet celebration in this week's "how we got started." growing up in a traditional mexican home, this woman spent most of her time in the kitchen. >> it's in our culture that the female stays home, house work and cooking and baking. >> reporter: but no one ever baked a birthday cake for claudia's mom. >> i figured i'd bake the cake for her. i decided to take cake decorating classes. >> reporter: she brought home loads of samples and claudia gave her friends a taste. >> people were thinking, oh, wow, we didn't know you did cakes. how much would you charge for my son's birthday cake? that's how it started. >> reporter: over the past 15 years, her cake business grew to include flowers and eventually blossomed into a full-service

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millions of green jobs for the u.s. economy is out of a job today. president obama's environmental adviser van jones resigned after coming under fire for signing an online petition in 2004. it suggested that the government played a roll in the 9/11 attacks. he apologized and denied agreeg with the petition but he says, quote, i cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend time and edge explaining my past. we need all hands on deck fighting for the future. other comments jones made before getting his white house job has also gotten attention, including one that's now on youtube where jones talks about republicans. >> how are the republicans able to push things through when they -- but somehow we can't. >> well, the answer to that is -- >> in 2005 jones was also quoted

saying he became a communist after the acquit nals of the 1992 rodney king beating case. this deadly wildfire is finally getting under control. it's now burning east toward a large wilderness airy since it started the fire has burn 1d 55,000 acres. two firefighters were killed fighting it. and at least 76 homes have been destroyed. investigators say it is arson and they're trying to figure out who started it. seven people, the victims of a killing spree in south georgia were laid to rest yesterday. funeral arrangements are being made for an eighth victim. friends and family were shocked when they heard who is accused in the killings. >> reporter: loved ones are saying good-bye to eight people brutally killed in a mobile home in a small coastal town of brunswick. family members told me they were

floored when authorities told them 22-year-old guy heinz jr. stands accused of killing all eight. the killings have shocked this region. >> it's the most heinous crime we've had in the community. >> reporter: a week ago the man now charged in the killings made this frantic 911 call after he claimed he discovered the bodies. something wasn't right and after police arrived they charged heinze with possession of drugs, tampering with evidence for taking evidence and hiding it in a car. at the time police say he was not a suspect. two days later his attorney said his client is not a killer. >> mr. heinz e was not involved in the murder. >> friday heinz walked out of

the county jail only to be arrested two hours later and charged with murder. >> two pieces of information came forward to us. we took those two pieces of information, compared it to the whole of all the evidence that we collected all week long, we were satisfied -- >> reporter: police won't say what the new evidence is or reveal a possible o motive. it doesn't make sense to is shock and grieving family. sean callebs, cnn, brunswick, georgia. all five people in a small plane died when it went crashing and burst into flames. they were flying in heavy fog headed to dallas yesterday. the plane hid a guy wire from a communications tow their was about 150 feet tall. the highway patrol say it appears the pilot did not see the tower. he and hi wife and two young

daughters all died at the scene along with another man on board. a boy who had been missing for nearly two years was found alive in a secret room in his grandmother's house. 6-year-old ricky was allegedly kidnapped during a custody dispute between his mother and father. when police found him, he was hiding with his mom. >> we let him out and he ran around like he had never seen the outdoors. it was very sad. >> surprisingly, ricky is in good spirits but somewhat isolated in a house, he was very social, very polite, very talk aive little boy. >> ricky's mom and grandmother are in jachlt he's staying with one of his father's relatives. authorities are looking at a claim that ricky's dad abused him before his disappearance, but his dad denies that. the body of a 4-year-old boy who had been missing since friday was found yesterday in a septic tank in western pennsylvania.

wyatt smitsky was last seen friday night when he'd gone outside to play with his two sisters. his family reported him missing about an hour and a half later. hundreds of people helped search for wyatt. police say the lid of the septic tank where his body was founded looked like it would have been tampered with and it would have been impossible for the boy to lift us. th he had a heart condition and needed daily medication. the busy bay bridge in san francisco is scheduled to reopen tuesday after some major repairs, but they may not happen now. the reason is a significant crack was u found in the top to the bottom. a senior engineer says the crack was discovered on the eastern side yesterday and was one of the aid steel pieces that help hold up that side of the bridge. a worker saw the crack while they were replacing one bridge section. you can see their progress here. the pieces of steal are about

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suburb. it broke open last night. some people had to leave their homes but no one has been injured. firefighters had to rescue one driver whose car was swept away in all of this. water is several feet deep in some spots. the spokesman says it could take five hours to shut the water off. now, if you haven't actually done it you can still imagine what it would be like to go from driving on the right side of the road, you know, here, to driving on the left side in a country like great britain. that's exactly what the folks on the island of sa mow ya are going to be facing. cars are brought in from hawaii, but the shipping is four times as much as it is to get a car from new zealand, however, cars in new zealand are made for driving on the left side of the road with the steering wheel on the right. they say it will save money in

the long run. exactly what the cost will be to make the switch are still being determined. i'm larry smith. it's a double hangover in oklahoma. it began with dreams of a national championship run but it will end with brad ford's arm in a sling. the dreams are perhaps dashed. ou ranked number three. here's a play just before halftime. bradford going down. a sprained shoulder. he could be out for a few weeks. meanwhile max hall, a touchdown here. game winner for them. one of the rarest finishers you'll ever see. final seconds. this field goal is blocked but the panthers recover. that was turned down, so they get one more shot at it. two shots and a game winner? two blocked field goals? you've got to be continued me. iowa hang on to survive. american melanie has done it

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yet another radio tower has come tumbling down, this time in pennsylvania. police in whitehall township say a 350-foot tower belonging to clear channel fell overnight but it's not exactly clear how it came down here. yesterday, we told you about the earth liberation front claiming responsibility for knocking two towers down in the seattle area. a piece of heavy construction equipment was used there but whitehall police haven't said if that incident and the latest one could be relate jood rescue crews are searching for survivors in a ferry accident off the philippines. a local coast guard official now says at least five people died when the ferry capsized the morning. about 900 people have been

rescued, and about 60 are still missing. five u.s. boats and a civilian helicopter are taking part in the search. it's still unclear why this ship sank but they have had two other incidents since 2006. jaycee dugard's home town never lost hope that she was alive. today they're celebrating her rescue after being held captive for nearly 18 years. and as reported, they're saying thank you as well. >> everyone was just going, did you hear, jaycee was alive, and she's found. we're all just so excited. >> reporter: the neighbor never forgot the blond blue manufacture eyed girl snatched on her way to school. >> there were tears and they were scared. they should have been scared. >> reporter: classmates wrote jaycee letters. one classmate felt jaycee's

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buried yesterday. guy heinze jr. who called to say he found the bodies was arrested and charged with the murders. they're standing against what they call imperialist foes. the leaders made their announcement in tehran today. improving relations is necessary given their common interest in enemies. and space shuttle astronauts finished their mission. "discovery" is due to land in florida on thursday. that's a check of your sunday headlines here on hln. i'm natasha curry. a contractor left his job in afghanistan after helping expose what he calls stupid behavior by u.s. embassy guards. he claims that sexual activity and imtim dags was allowed within the ranks and now an investigation is under way. here's an exclusive interview. >> reporter: fresh off a plane from afghanistan terry peerson says he's back home in britain

much sooner than he wanted to be after blowing the whistle on behavior he said was shocking and undignified. >> it was downright stupid some of the things they were doing and insensitive. >> reporter: he was a contractor at camp sullivan in afghanistan, housing quarters for u.s. embassy guards on contract. the camp is now under a u.s. state department investigation for inappropriate conduct stemming from charges and explicit photographs involving u.s. embassy guards, images of nudity, alcohol abuse, and what appears to be sexual hazing. he said he saw it for himself a couple of months ago, was disgusted and said no one should have tolerated it. >> you would not try to enforce sexual deviant way of thinking on someone. drop your trousers just for a laugh, but when you start

encouraging people to drink alcohol run off someone's body part, over the top. >> reporter: he said he wrote letters to his employerer as complained to supervisors, a group that shared the camp and employed the guards featured in the pictures. >> his answer was -- and i think that's what they -- the way they looked at some of the incidents that happened. >> reporter: but the incidents were investigated by the watchdog group, project on government oversight and reported to the state department. several guards have now been fired or resigned. management is being replaced. but as a whistle employer, peerson says he wasn't after mass firings, just a change in behavior. he said back at camp sullivan he was made to feel he had done something wrong and so he resigned a few days ago only to ask for his job back just hours later. it was two late. he was on a plane home within

hours. his employer says peerson resigned of his own free will and, quote, although we are now aware of the alleged events at camp sullivan, the employee's resignation was not associated with this matter. how much does it bother you right now? you're the whistle blower, you said it's not right, and now you're out of a job. >> if i could turn back the clock and have a chance to do something different, i don't think i would. i still think i'd do exactly the same thing because i think people's dignity -- dignity at work and respect at work is more important than having the job himself. >> reporter: pearson says h will continue to help with the department's investigation but he's still stunned that doing the right thick would have such dire consequences in his own life. all five people onboard a small plane died when it went

crashing into an oklahoma park and then burst into flames. investigators say a tulsa doctor and his family were flying in heavy fog yesterday. they hit a guy wire from a communications tower that was about 150 feet tall. the highway patrol says it appears the pilot did not see the tower. he and his wife and two young daughters died at the scene along with another map onboard. >> the busy bay city bridge is due to open after tuesday after major repairs but that may not happen. the reason is a significant crack was found in a top-to-bottom examination. a senior engineer says that the crack was discovered on the eastern side yesterday and was one of the eight steel pieces that helped hold up that side of the brilk. workers saw the crack while they were replacing one bridge section and you can see their progress here. the pieces of steel are about two inches thick. the crack was about halfway through one of them.

and you can watch workers installing that new section of the bridge live on the web. the 300-foot piece is scheduled to be rolled in today and it weighs about 78,000 tons and it good evening to be placed in midair. how? one of the tricks they're using is dove soap. workers use it to lubricate two rails that hold the new bridge section. >> these jacks, they run on teflon pads instead of we'lls. then it's lubricated with dish soap so it's really slippery and slick. there's no friction and it can move. >> workers say there's nothing special about it but workers shopped around and dove gave them the best deal. they're going the use hundreds of gallons of it. they believe some civilians were killed in a nato air strike.

stanley mcchrystal visited the attack sight. 90 people were killed when a plane hit two diesel gas trucks. they allowed civilians to take some gas from the trucks. >> i think it's a serious event that is going to be a test of whether we are willing to be transparent and whether we're willing to show that we're here to protect the afghan people, and i think that it's very important to me that we -- that we follow through on that. >> nato and afghan officials are investigating the air strike. international forces initially said they believed there were no civilians there. a boy who had been missing for nearly two years was found alive in a secret room in his grandmother's house. 6-year-old ricky chekevdia was kidnapped during a custody dispute between his mother and father.

when police found him, he was hiding with his mom. >> we let him out of the car and he ran around like he had never seen the outdoors. it was very side. >> surprisingly he's in good spirits, someone who's isolated in that house with no other outside beings, he's very social, very polite, very talk aive little boy. >> ricky's mom and grandmother are in jail. he's staying with one of his father's relatives. authorities are looking at claims that ricky's dad abused him before ricky's disappearance, but his dad denies that. hey, happy labor day weekend. hope you're enjoying it so far. what if you wanted to head to the beach, say, how's the weather looking? let's check in with meteorologist bonnie schneider. >> some of the beaches look great. beaches on the jersey shore, lots of sunshine. down in florida, stormy. check this out. scattered storms for daytona beach. temperatures are warm in the 80s and we'll watch out for the

scattered showers and thunderstorms. you can see we're getting them in miami. be prepared for a downpour. they also look for love heavier rain in and around the desert southwest. we're going to see fair conditions in the great lakes and the northwest. but as we look toward tomorrow, labor day, we're anticipating showers and even mountain snow for areas of higher elevations. stormy conditions across the south. that would be beneficial for texas. it's been really dry across south texas. cooler conditions across areas into the upper midwest. check out highs tomorrow. 78 in chicago, but lows will drop down into the 50s. so you're getting an early taste of fall, appropriately so as this is kind of the unofficial weekend of the summer season. overall the weather is good for this holiday. that's a look at your forecast. i'm meteorologist bonnie schneider for hln. a man's house came crashing down in a matter of seconds.

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hazard." >> parts of the suv are scattered all over the house, as you can see, and the driver pleaded not guilty to dwi. he's due in court next month. more than 100 firefighters are trying to contain this huge water main break in an l.a. suburb. a spokesman said the main broke in studio city last night and damaged several homes and businesses. some people had to leave their homes but no one has been injured. firefighters had to rescue one driver whose car was swept away in all of this. water is several feet deep in some spots. the spokesman says it could take five hours to shut the water off. i'm larry smith. nascar driver carl edwards has become known for his backflip after victories. if it weren't for a broken foot, he might have flipped. this 13-year-old won a design contest.

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