go to a church with an ex-con child abuser in the pulpit. and a shocking number of injured thoroughbreds are put down at the track. how race official, reacteding. and it was mayhem in a lacrosse match. a brawl worthy of pro hockey minus the ice. my goodness. ooibl richelle carey welcome to "hln news and views." hope you're enjoying your labor day. the white house is hoping to put fears to rest. post and the white house website at any moment.

some conservatives are threatening to pull their kids out of school tomorrow so they will not be exposed to the president's address. the speech will be broadcast in schools on the internet right wing radio. the president is trying to indoctrine nate kids with an agenda. white house officials stay is silly. he just wants to tell kids to stay in school and get good grades. i-reporter, sharing their views on the president's back-to-school address. 14-year-old from georgia and another from washington both had this to say. let's listen. >> as a student i believe that president obama may be trying to push his political view, opinion and agenda on us. also, students will be able to vote in the next election and i think mr. he wants a chance to win their votes. in fought, i stand corrected. i don't believe we should go through the experience of not going to school or sending our

kids to school for any still, just may not listen. >> we are saying if you don't agree with somebody you don't have to listen. you can shout them down if you want to. where's the remember lag debate? what happened to different ideas and coming back having conversations at the dinner table? what are we showing our kids? we are cutting off the ability to the have real dialogue. why can't we have all of our children listen to our president and talk to them about their own decisions? if we're going to really move forward as a nation we need to have our kids share different ideas. >> thanks to both i-reporters for their views. head to ireport.com and send reactions after the speech as well. this story, in 1998, serving four years in prison for sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy. next sunday he'll become an ordained minister at a church in

louisville, kentucky. richard lui spoke with him last night. this has got to the have parents at this church worried and even people in the larger community worried as well, richard. what's going on? >> yeah. a lot of reaction when you look at this, richelle. with the jaycee duggard case, and supposed to be in recovery, phil greeto, really wasn't, as we now know, that could be scaring church pa riciners at this moment. how he handles questionable situations while she in recovery? >> i've learned that, that i have to change the way that i think in order to change my actions and my behaviors, and i've learned a lot of things as far as what situations not to place myself in and when i'm having problems on emotion level, to seek out counsel from other people, such as my pastor or other members of the church. >> okay. that pastor sitting next to him, you saw in the picture, the

church has around ten children, about 50 members. one member, also a former deacon told our affiliate never straight forward about his background until the former deacon confronted him. >> i don't want to take the chance. >> all right. so you're saying he did not want to take a chance with this issue. saying that, again, that he was not straight forward with them in the past and so he confronted him personally with the actual rap sheet when he brought it to him. the pastor or or darined him also told me he was surprised here when he heard about his background but believed here, richelle, his faith was of second and third chances in life. >> i saw some of those interviews, richard. he said that this pastor and this church meant a lot it him because they gave him a second chance. to would do what it took to allay their feerps how far is he willing to go with that? you pose a very spark question to him about castration.

>> yes. castration, in discussion, especially, again, the case with garrido. resoerch found the dana study the "washington post" pointed to on ra syd simple. in 40 out of 50 cases sex offenders reoffend, and after castration, surgically or chemically, goes down to one out of 50. a stark difference according to this danish study. would he consider cass trigs relieve some of his critics' concerns and in answer to his desire to try to serve the ministry, this is what he said to that question. >> it's not something that i've considered or even thought about, because as i learned through the treatment programs that i've been in that this defense is more a mental and emotional problem that has to be corrected through thinking and, therefore, as you change your thinking about things in the way you have in the past, that you can change the way that you behave.

and being able to seek out counsel through others can help you get through that, and not allow yourself to be in high-risk situations. >> of course, he's gone through two therapy systems, a post-conviction. richelle also told me he wants to become a minister because of the very reasons people are being critical of him. because he would like to serve as an example of somebody who was convicted but now can serve the ministry. >> the pastor told you as far as he knows this is the only situation he's aware of in the country where a registered sex offend sir about to become a minister. he doesn't know of any other time thas happened. >> has the attention. >> and it's going to happen. >> yes. >> richard, thanks very much. great interview. we want to know what you think, because we know you're trying to process this right now. does a registered sex offender deserve the chance to become a minister? call us at 1- 77-tell-hln. you can e-mail us at cnn.com/hln. you can also comment on my hln

facebook page searching richelle carey and post comments there as well and text your views plus comments to hln tv, standard text rates apply. we'll talk about this again in a little while. san diego charger's linebacker mayorman flatly denied he assaulted reality tv star. freed by the san diego county sheriff's office after hess arrest over are the weekend. in a statement he says he was worried about her whose real name is tothewind, he shez she was drunk and didn't want her to drive. paramedics came to the home and found no signs of injury on her. she signed a citizen's arrest accusing him of battering and false imprisonment. president obama's adviser on green jobs quit this weekend and is blaming a vicious smear campaign. resigned following a controversy over a petition he signed years ago. it called for an investigation of the government deliberately allowing the september 11th

terrorist attacks to happen. the white house says president obama did not force jones to resign, but jones didn't want to be a distraction. >> the president and the ceq accepted his resignation because van jones, as he said in this statement, understood he was going to get in the way of the president and ultimately this country moving forward on something as important as creating jobs in a clean energy economy. >> the president should suspend any future appoint of so-called czars while the administration and the congress carefully examines the background and qualifications of the more than 30 individuals who have been appointed to these czar positions. >> that is also made dlauger to remarks about republican innocence the past. the white house says president obama does not endorse the controversial koumts that jones made. president obama is appropriately talking jobs this labor day and introducing a new key adviser.

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the u.s., but also in many parts of the country, we're seeing a fair amount of inflew sense sa. that's very unusual for this time of the year. >> health officials are racing to get millions of swine flu vaccinations ready. the cdc says the shots won't be ready, though, until next month. crews are working as fast as they can to fix a crack in the san francisco oakland bay bridge by tomorrow morning. the crack was discovered in the 73-year-old bridge saturday when workers were replacing a portion of it with a new double-deck section. the damage link is two inches thick and was cracked half way through. the contractor worked overnight to produce the wells needed to repair on a chartered jet. still transportation officials worries bridge may not reopen by 5:00 a.m. local time tomorrow as scheduled. >> as soon as it's done we're going to open the bridge, and that's about all we can say right now, and i can tell you all of the engineers, all of the

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these sharks to be in our waters. swimmers should be aware of that and they should use appropriate caution. >> a marine expert managed to tag two of the great whites to help monitor their movement. it's the first time the massive presidenters have been tagged in the atlantic. more than 12 racehorses euthanized last year. it's about the same number of fatalities as previous years despite increased focus on health and safety at the track. this issue gained national attention when a popular filly was injured running the kentucky derby. he was put down right there at the track. california is the largest racing state reported 251 deaths last year. police in florida say a 15-year-old try to have his mom killed. accused of asking a 123 13-year-old friend to ambush her friday night in his driveway. police say the boy slashed her

with a kitchen knife and ran when it broke. she was not seriously hurt. she managed to call 911. police eventually arrested them. local media reports the son told the friend the killing to be a club initiation. those boys are in police custody right now. police say a boy missing nearly two years was found alive behind a wall. in his grandmother's home. ricky shakenda will be 7 next week. police in illinois say they found him friday with his mom in a secret room about the height of a washing machine. he disappeared soon after. his dad wants custody. that was in 2007. >> we let him out of the car and he ran around like he never seen the outdoors. actually very sad. surprisingly ricksy in very good spirits. for someone who'sin isolated in that house with no other outside beings, he's very social. very polite and talkative little

boy. >> police say talkative, polite in good spirits. he's staying with his father. relatives it under supervision of state child welfare worker. a pennsylvania coroner says more test, needed to determine the causes of death 6 a 4-year-old boy stuffed in a septic tank. wyatt thomas was last seen yeah 6:00 p.m. friday after going outside to play with his sisters. they have a known suspect and charges could be filed later today. the boy's father did not say, he's being interviewed. the septic tank appeared to be tampered with. boyte had a heart condition that required him to take daily medicine. a swedish charity is accusing american troops of storming through a hospital in central afghanistan in search of taliban fighters and u.s. forces broke down doors and tied up four hospital guards. he says they also searched the female ward of the hospital which he called very

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it, it didn't help his case in your opinion? >> caller: no,s it did not. >> were you open to it helping his case at all? >> caller: at first i have the opinion, everybody gets a second chance, of course. just listening to him talk, he needs to keep himself out of certain situations and needed to get counseling from church members and his pastor, it's obvious he has not been reform and i would not want him around my children. >> thank you for your phone call. thanks for answering some questions. appreciate that. and from atlanta, georgia. donna, this is really an emotional issue. what do you think? >> caller: hi. thank you for taking my call today. >> sure. >> caller: i watch a lot of nancy grace, and i see these stories of children that are missing, and unfortunately, we don't know how many children are truly being fallen into the

hands of predators. not all case, reported, and i see this gentleman taking an opportunity to have his moments in fame on television, and he had stating his case, and he is -- he has been released. he has served his time. he is probably on probation and doing his counseling and therapy. >> my understanding is that his actual probation is over. that part is over, but she a registered sex offender for life. that part is true. >> caller: right, right. >> yes. >> caller: and so he's allowed by law his second chance and he is finding his flas a church where a minister is open to taking him in and giving him that second chance, and this, i feel, that the members of the church and the parents need to educate themselves to use the internet as a tool to find out how much statistics are out there's in their own community. how much registered sex offenders there are with a ten-mile radius of him and they should all stand together and unite and say, let's give our children a chance before we give him a second chance.

>> okay. i have to move on to the next call. thank you very much. appreciate your feedback. actually, it's time to get some basic comments. i post add comment page. obviously you're very passionate. eric wrote is there such a thing as a former, offender? watching the news the past ten years they are one and the same it seems. and i believe what the bible teaches. this man didn't come clean that he was a sex offender until confronted. in fact a deacon asked about it. to me that says something rye-the-right there and will agreed saying i believe in forgiveness, too, and that he could become an or tained it minister, but he must portray that to the church. nouts have him at minister nap supposition of trust and he should not be allowed 0 occupy. we'll continue to take your phone calms, e-mail, basic comments and your texts on this line. call us.

well, the white house just published president obama's speech to schoolchildren the day before he's going to deliver it, hopefully to full fears to rest and conservatives are threatening to pull their kids out of school tomorrow so they will not be xpoekzed to the address. featuring the broadcast on the internet, right wing commentator say the president plans to indoctrinate kids in a socialist agenda and ideas. the white house says that's silly. he just wants kids to stay in school to get good grades. a couple of excerpts from the speech that the white house just put out. this is one. he will tell the students, you can't drop out of school and just drop into a good job.

you've got to work for it and train for it and learn for it. and he will add, what's your contribution going to be? what problems are you going to solve? what sdoivry willy make the white house just releasing this with the past few minutes. and a 14 response to the address from georgia, and another of august, they both have pretty strong opinions about this. they put together their i-report. here's what they had to say. >> as a student i believe that president obama may be trying to push his political view, opinion and agenda on us. also, many high school students will be able to vote in the and maybe using this as a chance to win their votes. if not, i stand correct bpd i also believe we should go to the extent of not going to school or sending our kids to school, but any student who doesn't agree with obama like myself just may not listen.

>> we are telling our kids if you don't agree with somebody you don't have to listen to them. if you don't agree with them you can shout them down if you want to. where's the rigorous debate? what happened to exposing our kids to different ideas and having conversation at the dinner table? what are we showing our kids? we are dutting off the ability to have real die plopg at the end of the day why can't we have our children listen to our president and talk to them about his decisions? we need to have our kids hearing different ideas. >> our thanks to both i-reporters for their views. if you want to weigh in with your opinion, head over to ireport.com and be sure to send us your reaction after the speech as well. and president obama is pechbltly talking jobs this labor day and introducing a new key adviserthis is the president landing in cincinnati. he'll be techniquing this afternoon at the krlcio picnic late to in cincinnati.

an annual union event that draws thousands of people. the new counselor for manufacture jobs. hope to see the president in hopefully a couple seconds. we'll see. the person who's going to be introducing is and the steel workers union, we'll keep you post and the president getting to that. and the president's adviser on green jobs, quick this weekend and planning a vicious severe campaign. resigned is after a controversy over a petition signed years ago -- caught for an investigation whether the government deliberately allowed the september 11th terrorist then the ceq accepted his nomination, he understood he was going to get in wait of the

president and ultimately this country moving forward and something as important at creating jobs in a clean energy economy. >> the president should suspend any future appointment of so-called czars while the administration and the congress carefully examines the background and qualifications of the more than 30 yids who have been appointed to these czar positions. >> also made derogatory remarks about republicans in the past. the white house says the president does not endorse those controversial comments that jones made. san diego chargers shawne merriman denice he assaulted tv reality star tila tequila. he was freed by the san dag other sheriff office after being arrested this weekend. in a statement he says he was worried about tequila whose real name is tila wind. he says she got drunk and he didn't want her to leave.

police came to his home during this incident and found no injuries on her. she signed a citizen's arrest warrant accusing him of battery and false imprisonment. crews are working to fix the crack in the san francisco oakland bay bridge by tomorrow. the 73-year-old bridge saturday, work wers replacing a portion of it with a new double-deck section. the damage is two inches thick and was cracked halfway through. some steel needed. they were rushed to snans on a charter jet. still transportation officials worry the bridge may not be ready by 5:00 local time tomorrow. that's the schedule they're working with. >> as soon as it's done we're going to open the bridge. that's about all we can say right now, and i can tell you all of the engineer, all of the contractors, anybody putting anything anything in to that, down to the janitorial staff, is doing everything they can do to

get the bridge open as soon as possible. we can't handicap it. as this time we can give you assurance we are doing everything possible. >> 360,000 cars cross that bridge every day. if you have kids going back to school tomorrow, health facials say they're starting to see swine flu cases on campus all across the country. the worst right now is washington state university. at least. all right. our sister network of cnn, head of the cdc says this situation is very unusual. >> with schools back in session particularly in the southeast of the u.s. but also it and that's very unusual for this time of the year. >> health officials are racing to get millions of swine flu vaccinations ready and right now the cdc is saying they're not going to be ready until next

month. labor day weekend marks the un -- for many today on cape cod, the water's off limits because of these four great white sharks just hanging around the shoreline. shark sightedings are common in cape cod in public swimming areas and they've been closed because of safety concerns. >> it's a common occurrence for the sharks to be in our waters. bim wimmers and this is the first time the mass irpredators have been tagged in the pittsburgh. 1200 thoroughbreds were euthanized in the racetrack last year according to a national count of the associated press. it's about the same number of fatalities as previous years in spite of increased focus on health and safety at the track. the issue is getting national attention, which eight bellies,

a popular -- they put them down right there at the track. california e is the largest racing state and reported 251 deaths last year. controversial over a man about to be ordained as a minister. how his criminal past has some church members asking very serious questions.

one of the central tenants of christianity is the belief people can change for the better, and as adam with the affiliate whjs from a church in kentucky, he says they're really putting that belief to the test.

>> reporter: city refuge church proclaims that everyone is welcome. that's probably what attracted mark horgan, charged back in 199 with sodomizing and intimidating an 11-year-old boy. pleaded guilty to a charge, served nim prison and agreed not to serve as a leader in any church where he would have contact with children, but his probation is over. even if the sex offender registration will never end. >> but as as a society we can't forgot. we can't move on and i preach in this to church to allow god to move you on to another level. >> reporter: he now leads praise and worship at the chrch and will become an ordained minister next sunday. >> if we show people that someone with mark's background, 345shg's past, can become someone that be productive in the society, then who else could

reach out to other people but christ's people? >> reporter: the former church deacon kevin pickerel says he was never straightforward about his past until confronted. >> i had a piece of paper that i had done my research on and said, handed it to him and said, this is the problem. his reaction is, oh, you found out. >> reporter: they say he may be templed by children who gather foreweekly sunday school and worries he could reoffend. >> maybe he's the low percentage that doesn't, but i don't want to take the chance. >> reporter: pastor meadows says he will sign an agreement not to mince store children. >> god is a god love and a forgiving god, and i'm doing what these telling me to do, and if that's not popular, well, jesus wasn't able to either. so. >> again, reporting for an affiliate in mobile, kentucky xwlashgs do you think about this? there's a registered sex

offender, does he deserve the chance to become a minister? call us at 1-877-tell-hln. e-mail us, or text us. views and comments and name to hln tv. standard text rates apply. and comment on the facebook page as well. in the 18 years she was gone, jaycee dugard's parents never forgot about her in her hometown. they had a parade following the same one that marked the tenth anniversary, but it went in the option direction. hundreds walked through the town wearing jaycee's favorite color that is pink. you see there. and organizers reportedly raise $10ds,000 for this. jaycee and her two daughters fathered by her alleged kidnapper, phillip and nancy garrido pleaded not guilty to the charges. and one of the stories on cnn 30i78.com is a nancy grace

cold case. melissa brady sloan living in orlando when she disappeared in may of 1994. vanished ten day before she was supposed to testify against her husband in a domestic violence case. despite periodic searches, no clues, no signs of her have ever been found. more on melissa sloan's disappearance. check out cnn.com and nancy grace is on hln every night. talk about this story. a boy missing near think two years found alive behind a wall in his grand. mother's home. wow. ricky will be 7 next week. police near st. louis, illinois say they found him friday with his mom in a secret room, and this room was about the height of a washing machine. he disappeared soon after his dad won temporary custody of him back in 2007. >> let him out of the car and he ran around like he'd never seen

the outdoors. it was actually very sad. surprisingly ricksy in very good spirits. for someone who's been isolated in that house with no other outside being, he was very social. very polite, very talkative little boy. >> he is staying with relatives on his father's side under supervision of state child welfare workers. coroner of pennsylvania says more test, needed to determine the cause death for a 4-year-old boy found stuffed in his septic tank. wyatt thomas last seen about 6:00, 6:00 p.m. friday after going outside to play with his sisters. pennsylvania state police say they have a known suspect and charges could be filed later today. authorities believe the boy's father but are not saying he's a suspect. according to police, the lid of the septic tank appeared to be tampered with. the little boy had a heart condition that required him to day daily medicine. police say a teenager wanted

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much talk, also a sneak preview of what he's going to say.

president obama tells students it's okay to ask questions and it's okay to ask for help when you need it. why, then, are some parents so upset about the back-to-school address happening tomorrow? and served time for committing a sex crime. here her he is but this kentucky man says he's ready to serve god. would you put him at the pulpit? nfl star shawne merriman denying he assaulted tv personality tila tequila. merriman says no charges have been fouled against him but how has been tila tequila responding on twitter. have you seen this video? check out the mayhem at a

championship lacrosse match over the weekend. ouch. hln news and views. hi there, happy labor day. i'm brooke baldwin. what is happening with obama and why so many parents are so concerned? well, parent tlous out there cae a look at the president's back-to-school address one day before he delivers it. conservative commentates are urging parents to yank their kids out of class so they would not hear the message. deputy political director joins me in washington. we chatted over the weekend. i read the four-page text that i printed out. i'm sure you have as well. explain to us again why is this cause for such controversy? >> one of the reasons not the speech he's giving to students but the lesson planner that was supposed to go out with the speech. that at the time call ford students to write letters to help the president. the white house said they would release this a day in advance,

they didding came out just in the last hour. no matter what you want to do with your life i guarantee you you'll need an education to do. you want to be a doctor, teacher, police officer? a lawyer, a member of the military? you're going to need a good education for every single one of those careers. you can't drop out of school and drop into a good job. you've got to work for and train for it and and learn for it. the president goes on to talk about how if you don't do some of that you're quitting not only on yourself but the country. the president talked about his tough, personal experiences growing up but says don't let the tough circumstances stand in the way of your education, don't let it be an excuse. at end of the day the circumstances of your life, what you like, where you come from, how much money you have what you're going on at home, that's no excuse for neglecting your home work or having a bad attitude. that's no excuse for talking back to your teacher or cutting class or dropping out of school. there's no excuse for not trying that's the president.

you can see all of that on his website. right now if you go to white house.gov. parents can decide whether they want their kids to go listen to the president. take a listen to the education secretary, arne duncan. >> reporter: president is asking students to take personal responsibility, challenge them work hard every day, set goals, have a strong work ethic. it's voluntary. folks can watch it in school, that night at home with families, two months from now or never watch it whatever they want to do. >> paul, i saw in one of the sunday talk shows, arne duncan saying to bob schieffer the speech is 18 minutes but critics are saying it's 18 minutes too long. what are they still saying? what is their comeback when it comes to the speech? >> conservative critics and parents in general feel the administration is allowing the government to take over too much

of our daily lives and i think they feel when the president's speaking to their own kids, their students, that started ringing aalarm bells. take a listen to tim pawlenty, the republican governor of minnesota on state of the union with john king. >> there's concerns about the disruption, there's also concerns about is this going tonight in an appropriate manner? i trust and hope the white house will have a content not political and not using the public school infrastructure for that persurpose. about the era of youtube if someone wants to hear a message from the president they can go get it, it doesn't have be imposed upon them one moment in school. >> brooke, this is a talker the last couple of days. we've been talking about it. everybody across the country has been discussing it. >> we'll all be waiting for him to give it tomorrow at noon. paul stein hauser, good to see you in washington. thank you. well, we have been asking you what do you think of all of this? i-reporters sharing views on the

back-to-school address. want to share a few with you. a 14-year-old has this to say. >> as a student, i believe that president obama may be trying to push his political view, opinion and agenda on us. also, many high school students will be able to vote in the next election and i think obama may be using this as a chance to win their votes. if not i stand corrected. i don't believe that we should go through the extent of not going to school or speending ou kids to school but any student who doesn't agree with obama, like myself shouldn't listen. >> if you don't agree with them, you can shout them down if you want to. where's the rigorous debate? what happened to exposing our kids to different ideas and coming back home and having conversations at the dinner table? what are we showing our kids? we are cutting off the ability to have real dialogue. why can't we have all of our children listen to our president

and talk to them about their own decisions? if we're going to really move forward as a nation, we need to have our kids exposed to different ideas. >> great feedback both sides of the issue there. thank you to our i-reporters. we'd love to hear from you. go to ireport.com and be sure to sents your reaction after speech tomorrow as well. registered sex phoner will be ordained as a minister sunday. but as you can imagine, not everybody at the new church in kentucky is rolling out the welcome mat. charged with sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy in 1998 and served four years in prison. he just got off probation and says he is reformed and the chief pastor of the church accepts that. one former deacon says he's worried he will reoffend. >> maybe he's going to fall in that category of the low percentage that doesn't. but i don't want to take the

chance. >> if we show people that one with mark's background, mark's past, can become someone that will be productive in society, then who else could reach out to other people but christ's people. >> the church caters to gay and transgendered followers and he will sign an agreement not to minister to children. what do you think about that? does the registered sex offende deserve a chance become a minister? 1-87 1-877-tell-hln. hlntv, standard text rate as ply. san diego chargers linebacker shawne merriman flatly denies he assaulted tv reality star tila tequila and he has not been charged by police. freed by the sheriff's office at arrest. and in a statement he said he became worried about tila

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how are we going to drive them down? why do they charge us more? they can. how do we get them down? competition, choice, and a competitive price. i don't know how any conservative can be against those three things. >> lots of things we can agree to on a bipartisan basis, john. the public option isn't one of them. the trigger option simply kicks the can down the road. all it does is delay the inevitable, for a lot of reasons it's a bad idea. if the democrats embrace the public option notice form of the trigger, they're going to shoot themselves in the foot. >> what is the trigger option? it allows the government to provide public health insurance if and when private insurers fail to increase competition and perhaps more importantly decrease cost. on the west coast, crews working as fast as they can to fix what's called a significant crack in the san francisco oakland bay bridge by tomorrow morning. the crack was discovered in the 73-year-old bridge saturday as

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way. this is giving him a position of power and we teach our children to look up to people with power. you can't keep him from children in a church, they're everywhere. and it's our job as intelligent adults to protect them at all costs. this kind of behavior can resurface at any time. why would we want to take that chance with an innocent child? innocence is lost and does not get a second chance. >> perhaps minister in a different way. francis, thank you for calling in. i-jay calling in from louisiana. >> caller: hi. yes. we ha-- i feel that if he did h time with the law, finished probation, who are we to say

he's before god and god has forgiven him and given him -- look i will give you a second chance because i know the deacon of the church, he's concerned that he's going to regress to going back into what he did. but the deacon has to realize that god has given the deacon a second chance. why are we to say we cannot give this guy a second chance because, you know, we've all sinned. give this guy a second chance and to prove to him that god is forgiving him, this guy is totally healed, let work for it and see the difference what god has done for us. >> i.j., you're about giving him a second chance. sam from pennsylvania, what do you think? second chance or not? >> caller: definitely not. i'm a former police officer, and what i know and remember about the laws in all of the states, any pedophile supposed to be from several hundred feet to a thousand feet away from any school. we all know that every church consists of some type of bible

school. that means if he's allowed to go into the church, he's only a door away from any small children that he might want to be near. if they allow this, then the state and the police departments are definitely breaking the law by letting him into a church, knowing that there is a school there. >> they say he won't be ministering children, but you're right, it may be tough to keep him that certain bit of distance away. an e-mail from julie from st. paul, machine. . i think the guy who wants to be sworn in as a minister with the support of a pastor should be allowed for sure. but the only body of believers he should be allowed to peach to should be other like-minded parishioners, child molest teres. brit writes i don't see a problem with registered sex offenders becoming a minister. we have politicians and federal judges sexually abused people. how come politicians are not required to register but regular people are? want to know what you think.

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perhaps you heard about the president's speech to schoolchildren nationwide. now the white house published the text to the speech one day before the president will be delivering it hoping to put fears to rest. some conservatives are threatening to pull children out of school tomorrow so they won't be exposed to the address. the speech will be broadcast to schools on the internet and right wing radio and tv comme commentators saying mr. obamtry to indoctrinate kids with his socialist agenda. the white house is saying that's plain silly the president's speech is about taking sperns nal responsibility for the education and challenge them to work hard every day, set goals, to have a strong work ethic and

i think this is a really important message. it's absolutely voluntary. no one's mandating this. folks can watch it in school, that night at home with families, watch it two months from now or never watch it, whatever they want to do. >> what's interesting to me is the last time a president spoke to our nation's children was in 1991, and the real question is -- that was george bush sr. -- the question is why has it been 18 years since the president has focused on our nation's children? it's important that we get engaged in education, we improve education dramatically in our country. we have a long way to go. a dropout rate unacceptable. having the president challenge the nation's youth is a positive thing. >> concerns about the disruption and also concerns about is this going to be done in an appropriate manner? i trust and hope the white house will have a content that's not political and not using the public school infrastructure for the purpose. the main concern in minnesota has been it's disruptive to the

school. in the era of youtube if someone wants to hear the message of the president they can go get it it doesn't have to imposed upon them one moment on the first day of school the white house published the text and the speech. the president will tell students you can't drop out of school and just drop into a good job. you've got to work for it and train for it and learn for it. and he says he'll ask, what happens your contribution going to be? what problems are you going to solve? what discoveries will you make? if you have kids go back to school tomorrow, college kids, health officials are starting to see swine flu cases across the country. the worst right now, washington state university. 2,000 students there reporting symptoms of the h1ni flu virus. the hefd the cdc told tennessee the situation there is unusual. >> with schools back in session, particularly in the southeast of the u.s. but many parts of the country we're seeing a fair

amount of influenza, and that's very unusual for this time of the year. >> health officials are racing, as you can imagine, to get millions of the vaccinations ready but the cdc says shots will not be available until next month? a mess come tomorrow here, crews are working as fast as they can to fix a crack in the san francisco oakland bay bridge by tomorrow morning, they hope. the crack discovered saturday as workers were installing the new double deck span. the damage length is two inches thick but it's cracked halfway through. an arizona steel contractor worked overnight to produce the repairs needed and rushed them to san francisco on a chartered jet. the transportation officials say they may not be able to reopen the bridge by 5:00 a.m. local time tomorrow, as scheduled. heads up there if you're heading over the bay bridge. president obama's green job adviser quit this weekend, and he's blaming a vicious smear campaign. van jones resigned following

controversy over a petition he signed in 2004. it called for an investigation into what the government deliberately allowed the september 11th terrorist attacks to happen. the president says they did not force jones to resign but jones did not want to be a distraction. >> the president and the ceq accepted the resignation because van jones as he says he understood he was going to get into the way of the president and ultimately this country moving forward on something as important as creating jobs in a clean energy economy. >> the president should suspend any future appointment of so-called czars while the administration and the congress carefully xz the ba care examines the background and qualifications of 30 individuals appointed to these czar positions. >> jones also made deroger to comments about republicans in the past. white house says president obama does not endorse jones' controversy comments. well, san diego charger's

linebacker shawne merriman denying he assaulted tv star tila tequila and he's not been charged by police. merriman freed over the weekend by the san diego county sheriff's office after his arrest. in a statement he says he became worried about tila tequila, real name thien nguyen, when she became intoxicated at his home. merriman says paramedics came to the house, they found no signs of injuries on her but here's the flip side. she signed a citizen's arrest warrant accusing merriman of battery and false imprisonment. she denied she was drunk and that she's allergic to alcohol. >> one of the tenants to christianity is the belief that people can change for the better. affiliate whas tells us one church is putting that belief to the test. >> reporter: city refuge church proclaims everyone is welcome that's probably what attracted

mark hourigan. hourigan was charged back in 1998 with sodomizing, sex lyle abusing and intimidating an 11-year-old boy. he plead guilty to a lesser charge, served time in prison and agreed not serve as a leader in any church where he would have contact with children. but hourigan's probation is over. even if the sex offender registration will never end. >> us as a society we preach, move on to a bert life. >> reporter: the lord has touched hourigan's heart. hourigan leads praise and worship at the church and he will become an ordained minister next sunday. >> if we show people that someone with mark's background, mark's past, can become someone that will be productive in society, then who else could reach out to other people but christ's people. >> reporter: but former church

deacon kevin pickerell says hourigan was never straightforward about his past until he was confronted. >> i have my piece of paper i don't my research and said, this is the problem. and his reaction is, oh, you found out. >> reporter: he fears hourigan may be tempted by children who gather at the church for weekly sunday school and worries he could reoffend. >> maybe he's going to fall in the category of the low percentage that doesn't, but i don't want to take the chance. >> reporter: pastor meadows says, hourigan will sign an agreement not to minister to children. >> god is a god of love and forgiving god, and i'm doing what he's telling me to do and if that's not popular, well, jees ses wasn't either. >> that was affiliate whas reporting. we want to know what you think about that story. does a registered sex offender deserve the chance to become a minister? call us 1-877-tell-hln or send us an e-mail cnn.com/hln or text

us, views, comments, and name to hln tv, standard rate as ply. a boy missing for nearly two years was found alive behind a wall, a wall, in his grandmother's home. his name, ricky chekevdia. he will be 7 next week. here he is. police say near st. louis, illinois, they found him friday with his mom in a secret room just about the height of a washing machine. the boy disappeared after his dad won temporary custody two years ago. but this morning the grandmother told abc's "good morning america" she has done nothing wrong. >> i want to be really clear, it's behind a dresser, behind a wall i want to be clear how much time your grandson was spending in there. you say he didn't live in there but how much time were they in there? >> in two years' time, maybe five minutes. >> five minutes? so just when -- >> yes. >> -- someone would come around

and be looking for him, you would use it for that? >> no, no. when -- there only had been one other time where they had went into that space and it was just for a very short period of time. >> why did you bill that space? >> i didn't. it was already there in that home that i had purchased 14 years ago. >> 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 isolated in that house with no other outside being, he's very, very social. very polite. very talkative little boy. >> where's the boy now? police say he's staying with father's relatives under supervision of state child welfare workers. want to get a story just into hln. three british muslims found guilty of plotting to blow up planes on flights between britain and north america april jury found them guilty of conspiracy to murder by

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>> wry couple couple of unlikely pairings in institutions and modern technology, each grabbing quick cnn.com. reggie, i'm a fan of twitter though i don't tweet enough. and i'm a fan of the opera. how do they go together? some say they don't go very well together. this is an experiment done in london. people out there could contribute and write an opera with twitter. of course, limited to 140 characters, just like any tweet is. and they came together in a collaborative process to put together a 20-minute opera. and this is done quickly. people had a little while to submit these tweets and then the opera only had three days to put it together in something that made at least a little bit of sense. they had three days for the direct and the composer to make a 20-minute opera with original music performed at london's

royal opera house. the aim to bring in a broader audience. >> it's about kind of extending the art form, restoring what the opera is. we believe it's a live and exciting art form and perceived as -- part of our function is to explore to the living art form and get people involved in that. >> i tweeted and therefore that -- i can see opera. my first time at the opera. now i'm terrified of it. >> you can hold video at cnn.com. if you're wondering -- you see the twitter icon, if you're wondering what the opera ended up being about, it's confusing but a man gets kidnapped, placed in a tower by the twitter birds and a talking cat helps to rescue him. >> okay. >> you figure that out. >> i wouldn't be seeing madam butterfly. a different kind of opera. the largest muslim nation ohhing ramadan in a new way.

talking ring tones? >> yeah. you can see what the theme is today, right, taking old traditions and marrying them to very new technologies. so in this case, it's happening in indonesia, the world's biggest population of muslims. and these ring tones that are muslim and islam related are really popular. what they could do is ring you to let you know during ramadan when you need to pray. also a reminder built into these cell phones and people can download them. in indonesia, they've made it cheap for people to do this so that there's a huge mass of people using phones and using these downloads. check it out. >> signals sunday. >> when i do my activities outside, it's really helpful. the alarm reminds me to pray five times a day. >> reporter: the world's biggest muslim -- >> apparently sales are great. one user says it helps push islam into the future, modernize

access and the way that people worship. so, there you go. marrying, as i said, a very new technology with something that people have been doing for ages, and i guess if it's a remainor to do something that you have to do, why not rishth? >> exactly. i'd like ring tones of reminding me of my friend's birthday. >> you thought of a business idea. >> reggie aqui, good to see you. thank you. have you heard the old saying, i went to a hockey game and wound up, well, watching a fight? this isn't hockey, this is lacrosse. two players from the salmon bellies hit a player from the branson excelsiors and that caused a bench-clearing brawl. the fight lasted five minutes. but it resulted in 173 penalty minutes. brawls like this one certainly not condoned the rule book allows for a little bit of fighting. each team fined a thousand books for failing to control their bench. labor day weekend marks the unofficial end of summer.

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cape cod times reports police asked timothy and his wife about a possible sighting of haley in an area walmart. the police chief says the couple is cooperating with the florida investigators. misty cummings was the last person to see little haleigh before she vanished from her home february 10th. wouldn't that be a development? you can bet nancy grace will be on this. she'll have more on the story tonight, 8:00 eastern time, right here on hln. an unusual twist for a newly engaged couple hiking along the beautiful pa tomorrow okay refer over the weekend. just moments after saying yes to a marriage proposal, a woman goes over the edge, literally. wjla has the story of her rescue. >> reporter: every year, scores of hikers are injured, some even rescued along treacherous trails that line the positive tomorrow okay river. but this scene captured may be a

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we have some new information coming in the search for haleigh cummings. investigators travel to massachusetts over the weekend to question the brother of haleigh's stepmother, misty. the "cape cod times" reports they asked she and her husband about a possible sighting of haleigh at a walmart in the area. the police chief says the couple is cooperating with the investigators. misty was the last person to see haleigh before she vanished from her home back on february 10th. nancy grace will have more on this case at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on hln. concerned parents can now take a look at president obama's back to school address one day

before he actually gives the speech. the text version is now available at whitehouse.gov. right-wingers urge parents to pull their kids out of class so they wouldn't be exposed to the message. they say the president is trying toin dock tri nature kids with the so kauth socialist agenda. white house officials say that's silly. we have a couple excerpts for you. take a look. the president will tell students you can't drop out of school and just drop into a good job. you've got to work for it and train for it and learn for it. here's another piece for you. what's your contribution going to be? what problems are you going to solve? what discoveries will you make in i-reporters are sharing their views on president's back to school address. 14-year-old cameron haroldson and omikonga domingua of washington. we pulled their reports to share with you. >> as a student, i believe that president obama may be trying to

push his political view, opinion and agenda on us. also, many high school students will be able to vote in the next election and i think obama may be using this as a chance to win their votes. if not, i stand corrected. i do not believe we should go to the extent of not going to school or not sending our kids to school but any student who doesn't agree with obama like myself, may not listen. >> we're showing if you don't agree with somebody, you don't have to listen with them. you can even shout them down if you want to. where is the rigorous debate? what happened to exposing our kids to different ideas and coming home and having these conversations at the dinner table? we are cutting off the ability to have real dialogue. at the end of the day, why can't we have our children listen to our president and talk to them about their own decisions? if we're going to really move forward as a nation, we need to have our kids exposed to different ideas. >> our thanks to both i-reporters for their views. if you want to weigh in with your opinion, this is what you

do. head over to ireport.com. be sure to also send us your reaction after this speech, as well. if you have kids going back to school tomorrow, health officials say they're starting to see swine flu cases on campuses all across the country, but one campus in particular is getting it really bad. in this washington state university, at least 2,000 students have reported symptoms of the h1n1 virus. head of the cdc says the situation is unusual. >> with schools back in session, particularly in the southeast of the u.s., but also in many parts of the country, we're seeing a fair amount of influenza. and that's very unusual for this time of the year. >> health officials are racing to get millions of swine vaccinations ready, but right now they say they're not going to be ready until next month. police say a boy missing for nearly two years was found. they found him alive behind a

wall, at his grandmother's home. wow. ricky cheveda will be 7 next week. police say they found him friday with his mom in the secret room. this room was about the height of a washing machine. he disappeared soon after his dad won temporary custody back in 2007. well, this morning, the grandmother told abc's "good morning americament" she has done nothing wrong. >> i want to be really clear, it's behind a dresser, a wall, i want to be cleesh about how much time your brand son was spending in if there. you say he didn't live in there, but how much time were they in there? >> in two years' time maybe five minutes. >> five minutes. so just when -- >> yes. >> when someone would come around and be looking for him? is that -- you would use it for that? >> no, no. when -- there had only been one other time when they had went into that space, and it was just for a very short period of time.

>> why did you build that space? >> i didn't. it was already there in that home that i had purchased 14 years ago. >> 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 isolate indeed that house with no other outside beings, he is very social. very polite, very talkative little boy. >> so right now, ricky is staying with his father's relatives under supervision of state child welfare workers. police in florida say a 15-year-old tried to have his mother killed, and he's accused of asking a 13-year-old friend to ambush her friday night in his driveway. police say that boy did slash her with a kitchen knife but ran off when it broke. she wasn't seriously hurt. she was able to call 911, and police eventually arrested both of them. local media reports the son

allegedly told the friend the killing would be some sort of club initiation. both boys are in police custody. registered sex offender about to be ordained as a minister in kentucky. mark horgan went to prison for sexually abusing a boy in 1998. the probation barred him from being a church leader. but that probation is over now, and he says the court-ordered treatment changed him. courts are worried he will reoffend. he says he will sign an agreement not to minister to children. so is that okay with you? we want to know, what do you think? the guy is a registered sex offender. does he deserve the chance to become a minister? call us, 1-877-tell-hln. you can also comment on my facebook page by searching richelle carey. also, text the words views and comments and name to hlntv.

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washington to pass health care reform now. he just spoke a few minutes ago at an afl-cio picnic in cincinnati. this annual union event typically craws thousands of people. he says his recovery plan for the nation is working, and he wants democrats and republicans to come together on a health care reform package. let's listen to some of what he said. >> i want a health insurance system that works as well for the american people as it does for the insurance industry. they should be free to make a profit. but they also have to be fair. they also have to be accountable. that's what we're talking about, security and stability for folks who have health insurance, help for those who don't. coverage they need at a price they can afford. finally bringing costs under control.

that's the reform that's needed. that's the reform we're fighting for. and that's why it's time to do what's right for america's working families and put aside partisanship, stop saying things that aren't true, come together as a nation, pass health insurance reform now. this year. >> kind of has a campaign event feel to it. president also named a new senior counselor for manufacturing policy. ron bloom served on the auto industry task force. he has been an investment banker and worked for the steel workers' union. let's talk about some good news in a bad economy. more americans are feeding the piggy bank. the national rate of savings is up to 4%. over the weekend, the president announced new irs rules to make it more easier and automatic to save. >> we have to revive this economy and rebuild it stronger than before. in making sure that folks have the opportunity and the incentive to save for a home or college, for retirement or a

rainy day is essential to that effort. >> a few more details for you. if you work at a small or med m medium-size business, you may be able to start a 401(k) automatically, and you could stash pay for unused vacation or sick days into your 401(k) for some big tax savings. americans headed back to work tomorrow may find it's taking them a little bit longer to get where they're going. but the longer commute might be a sign of economic recovery. stephanie elam has the facts for us from new york. is maybe there is a silver lining for why it takes so long to work? >> i know, people are not excited about it, but you've got to read into it and think positive thoughts. here's the deal. after a year-and-a-half of decreased congestion, it's getting a little more crowded on companies roads, according to a company that monitors roads nationwide using gps.

the average american will spend 30 hours stuck in traffic this year. it's off the 41-hour average from 2007 before the recession began. they say thein cruise is due to lower fuel prices and increased economic activity. that means more people going to work. washington, d.c., for example, saw one of the largest increases in had the time, a result of more government workers. but it's not just job. inrix says its numbers take into account shipping and freight activity, as well, richelle. >> okay. i'm with you. i'm feeling the vibe. let's talk about all this money from the stimulus package. some of that money was supposed to go for lots of road projects. might that be part of what's -- all the traffic hold-up is about, as well? is. >> yes, ma'am. the transportation department receives $27.5 from recovery and reinvestment act. if you look at what that has funded so far, over 6,000 road

projects nationwide which inrix says led to a 40% increase in delays from 2008 to the first half of this year. now, take a look at this map. it will show you where some of the biggest delays are, starting with albuquerque, new mexico, their i-40 project. and in st. louis, multiple interstate projects are in the works. and the massachusetts accelerated bridge program has boston, worcester and springfield with overnight lay delays. number one, portland, ma maine. you can follow this, and a related story, about some of the more unusual stimulus projects, richelle, online. >> interesting. this is all supposed to be about progress. patience for progress. >> exactly, there you go. >> thanks, stephanie, have a good holiday. >> you too. >> even though we're working. but that's the point. >> exactly. it's a race against time for

crews trying to repair the track on the san francisco oakland bay bridge. will it reopen before morning rush hour tomorrow?

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contractorses, everybody putting anything into this, right down to the janitorial staffer, is doing everything they can do to get the bridge open as soon as possible. we can't handicap it. at this point in time, we can't give you a time. but all we can do is give you our assurance we're doing everything possible. >> and you wouldn't want anybody to rush a project like that. about 260,000 cars cross that bridge every day. labor day marks the unofficial end of summer, but no final dips in the ocean for many folks in cape cod today. the water is off limits because of these four great white sharks just kind of hanging around the shoreline. shark sightings are common in cape cod, but several swimming areas have been closed because they have safety concerns. >> it's a common occurrence for these sharks to be in our waters. swimmers should be aware of that, and they should use appropriate caution. >> a marine expert managed to actually tag two of the great

whites to monitor their movements. it's the first time the massive predators have been tagged in the atlantic. indianapolis police are looking for two people who took an 11-year-old girl hostage during a bank robbery. police released this surveillance of the video of the robbers wearing masks and wigs. police say they grabbed this little girl, put her in a headlock and pointed a gun at her until the teller gave him the cash. >> most robbery, the suspect goes in with a note or communicates very quietly that they are committing a robbery, they want the money, no alarms and they're out the door. they bumped up another level when they took this girl hostage. >> very scary times. people are getting desperate because of the economy. >> i think it's ready to change. >> well, the girl was released before the robbers left the bank. police found their get-away car 20 minutes after the robbery. still looking for the guys, though. witnesses say their gun had had

pink ack september on it. sean merryman flatly denied he assaulted reality tv star. he was freed, although arrested over tweekend. he has released a statement and saying he was worried about at the tequila. pair madics came to his home and didn't find any injuries on her. she signed i citizens' arrest. she denied she was drunk and says she is allergic to alcohol. so kind of a he said/she said right now. one michael jackson's trademark white gloves was sold at auction for $49,000. that is twice what the australian auction house was expecting. a winner bidder bought it on behalf of, yes, the hard rock

cafe and casino in las vegas. kind of fitting. jackson wore the glove when he married debbie rowe. . have you ever heard the saying, i went to a fight, and a hockey game broke out? well, in this case, this is not hockey. this is the canadian la crosse championship. it start when had two players started a brawl. this lasted five minutes, and there were 172 penalty minutes as a result of that. brawls like this one are not condoned, but actually the rule book in la crosse makes room for fighting. each team was fined $1,000 for failing to control their bench. and the samenbellies won. a registered sex offender is about to become an ordained minister and says his congregation shouldn't worry

about his past. what do you think? we're taking your calls, next. to use wisdom. @9

there are many men who have walked with christ their whole life and have been in church, but they are put through a two to five year program, attend bible colleges and mentored by men of tchurch before they are put in a position of becoming ministers of. also, this is a position where a man should be a man of god. >> i did see a part of his interview, patricia. and he says he does feel he does have a calling. are you not buying that? >> caller: if he does, then he needs to start learning and training, and going to bible college, and doing the things that he will need to serve his flock, if he is called. >> okay. so -- but you think now is just not the time. >> caller: oh, it's of the just

way too soon. >> okay. thank you for your phone call. michael is calling from are knoxville, tennessee. he's done with his pro abortion, but he has to be registered as a sex offender for the rest of his life. what do you think about giving him a chance to be a minister? >> caller: i think he has every right to call himself whatever he wants. he can call himself king or pope. the question is, is he legitimate? and i think that comes back to the church that chooses to your ordain him. it's like the hateful preacher that wants obama to die. he's just a guy with a store front and tax exempt card. >> would you want this guy to be a minister in your church? >> caller: oh, heck no. he's a po dunk off chute -- he can call himself -- >> let's not take shots at the church itself. >> caller: it's up to the people to decide whether they want to attend the church. >> and linda is calling us from

oreg oregon. where do you fall on this? >> caller: yeah, high, thank you for taking my call. first and foremost, i was abused as a child in school. and when i went to school, we didn't talk about these things, but i don't think he should ever be allowed to preach anywhere, any time. because even though he is forgiven and god does give second chances, there are chances. sometimes they're long lasting. how many children -- talk about enabling. how many children do we have to sacrifice before the world says enough? >> okay. >> caller: i mean, that's like putting an addict in a room -- an alcoholic in a room with a roomful -- you know, of booze or maybe a person that's suicidal with a loaded gun. that's stupid. >> okay. thank you for calling in and sharing your personal story. i think we have time for one quick facebook comment if quick get to that. andrew wrote this. no, all this does is give them access -- more this is one offense i don't believe that happens.

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i have an update for you on the search for haleigh cummings. investigators say they traveled to massachusetts over the weekend to question the brother of haleigh's stepmother misty. the "cape cod times" is reporting that police questioned timothy croslin and his wife about a possible sighting of haleigh at a walmart in that area. >> the police chief says the couple is cooperating with investigators back in florida. that's where hill haleigh is from. misty was the last person to see haleigh before she vanished on february 120th. nancy grace will have a deeper look inside this investigation. that's at 8:00 p.m. eastern time

right here on hln. a boy missing for two years is found alive behind a ball in his grandmother's home. ricky chekevdia will be 7 and was found friday with his mom in a secret room about the height of a washing machine. ricky disappeared after his dad won custody in 2007. this morning, the grandmother told abc's "good morning america" she did nothing wrong. >> i want to be clear how much time your grandson was spending in there. you say he didn't live in there, but how much time were they in there? >> in two year's time, maybe five minutes? >> five minutes. so just when someone would come around and be looking for him, is that -- you would use it for that? >> no. no. when -- there had only been one other time where they had went into that space.

and it was just for a very short period of time. >> so why -- why did you build that space? >> i didn't. it was already there in had that home that i had purchased 14 years ago. >> 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 isolated in that house with no other outside beings, he is very social. very polite, very talkative little boy. >> police say that he is staying with his father's relatives under supervision of state child welfare workers. like many americans, president obama is on the road this labor day. he traveled to cincinnati to speak to members of the afl-cio union. his speech touched on top issues like employment, education, and health care reform. jill dougherty joins us with the latest. jill, this kind of had the feel of a campaign event.

he was very energized. >> yes, they were. well, these are people, obviously, who are big supporters of the president. but that said, there is a lot of nervousness here. these are people who have lost jobs. so the president was trying to make the case at the top of his remarks that the economy is on its way back. he said we're on the road to recovery. he also got into something that they would be pleased to hear, which is a person who is going to be the point person on manufacturing for the president. and that is ron bloom. he used to work with the steel workers, and now he's going to be the senior counselor to the president on manufacturing dealing with policy, strategic planning, et cetera. president also, as you might expect, talked about health care, it was a big subject here. and something that people feel very strongly about. a lot of the people here are proponents of that so-called public option. it's very controversial, but here is how the president explained why to him it's important.

>> i see reform where americans and small businesses that are shut out of health insurance today will be able to purchase coverage at a price they can afford. where they'll be able to shop and compare in a new health insurance exchange. a marketplace where competition and choice will continue to hold down costs and help deliver them a better deal. and i continue to believe that a public option within that basket of insurance choices will help improve quality and bring down costs. >> and moving toward that very really crucial speech that he's going to be delivering on wednesday on health care reform, the president said now is the time to act. there has been a lot of debate, but now is the time to act. and richelle, he got into a lot of other questions, too. back to you. >> there is a crucial speech wednesday, but there is also a speech tomorrow that is i think more crucial than anybody expected, jill. let's talk about the president's address to schools tomorrow.

>> right. well, you know that has turned into a controversy that the white house certainly did not want to be in. it's about an address -- what should be an innocuous address to students at the beginning of the school year. it became very controversial because of a phrase in that -- the explanation that they had sent out early, which was, "what i can do to help the president." it was supposed to be on the educational front. it was taken and interpreted in different ways so they changed that and had to backtrack. but here is some of what is in the address. the verbiage and how it was said came out, in fact, today. for example, he said, some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who have had the most failures. j.k. rowling's first harry potter book was rejected 12 times before it was published. michael jordan lost hundreds of games, missed thousands of shots during his career, but once he

said, i have failed over and over and over again in my life, and that is why i succeeded. so nose a those are the words o president obama, encouraging students to work hard, don't drop out of school. and you can read it for yourself, by the way, on the white house website, decide whether or not your children should be exposed to this message. richelle? had. >> all right, jill. thank you for those excerpts there. whitehouse.gov. thank you for the wrap-up. appreciate it. kids going to school tomorrow, and health officials are starting to see swine flu cases across the country. you're not going to believe what's happening at washington state university. 2,000 students there have reported symptoms of the h1n1 virus. the head of the cdc says the situation is pretty unusual. >> with schools back in session, particularly in the southeast of the u.s., but also in many parts

of the country, we're seeing a fair amount of influenza. >> health officials are race to go get millions of swine flu vac nations ready by next month. iran says it's ready to talk with the united states and the u.n., but not about its nuclear program. president mahmoud ahmadinejad says he wants to exchange views to solve global challenges. he says the country's disputed nuclear work is off limits and nonnegotiable. the u.s. and its european allies have given iran until the end of this month to suspend uranium enrichment. if not, they could face another round of sanctions. a swedish charity is accusing american troops of storming through a hospital in search for taliban fighters. u.s. forces broke down doors and tied up four hospital guards. they also say they searched the

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liquids and gels we can take on flights. a court spokesperson says the men could be sentenced as soon as thursday. another five defendants were found not guilty. as president obama gets ready to address a joint session of congress wednesday about what he wants in in health care reform, lawmakers are still trying to work on their planes. a source close to discussions says a bill proposed by the chairman of the senate finance committee does not include a government-run insurance plan. but the plan backed by max bauc baucus, does allow for health care cooperatives. he says he could support bringing in a public insurance option that would only kick in if private insurers don't pick up costs. when he lost his job and lost his health insurance, greg decided to reenlist in the army to make sure his family would get coverage. jim acosta has the story of the soldier and the sacrifice in the

war against afghanistan. >> reporter: army specialist greg missman was only on the ground in afghanistan for one month. >> my son's convoy had been ambushed. >> reporter: in july, his father jim got that knock on the door. >> the chaplain and the master sergeant showed up, so -- it was -- it was not a pleasant day. >> reporter: it was an abrupt tend to what was his second stint in the army. he left the service 11 years ago, but last year lost his job as a computer consultant. he lost his job? >> lost his health insurance. >> he reenlisted to see to it his family had health insurance. >> see you in a year. >> he was full of confidence the day he left for afghanistan. >> so he said, you know, i'm going to go back in the army. and make sure jack has -- his

son, jack, would have health insurance. that was really the motivating thing to have him go back in. >> greg missman grew up in a community that's already lost two of its sons to the war in iraq. greg made it three. only in afghanistan. keith moppin's son matt is another of those fallen soldiers. >> do you think we may be seeing more cases like greg missman? >> no doubt about it. we probably will. i just -- i was going to say, i hope it saint from here, but i open it ain't from anywhere. but it will happen again. >> jim missman looks at the letters he has received from the president and military leaders and worries about the future. >> i'm a gold star parent, because of my son's sacrifice. and i would rather not see anymore gold star parents. >> but this gold star parent doesn't have an aanswer on how

to fix the nation's health care system. >> he made quite a sacrifice. health care is -- it's going to be a tough one. >> these days, he's remembering a son who sacrificed a country and family. a pentagon spokesman says there is no way to count how many soldiers have joined the armed services to get health care benefits. as for greg missman, his son will continue to receive military health insurance, so this soldier's sacrifice lives on. jim acosta, cnn, washington. well, it's a race against time for crews trying to repair a major crack on a major bridge. that is the san francisco oakland bay bridge. will it reopen by rush hour tomorrow? what one transportation official has to say about that. you've wanted to quit smoking so many times,

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wages and health care, but he says -- this is a quote, the best way for me to contribute to those causes is by continuing my work at citizens' energy corps, a nonprofit free oil to the poor. joe kennedy not joining the race to fill former ted kennedy's senate seat. in the 18 years she was gone, jaycee dugard's hometown never forgot about her, never. people in south lake tahoe, california, had another parade for her. hundreds of people walked through the town wearing pink, because it's jaycee dugard's favorite color. she wasn't there. organizers raised $10,000 for jaycee and her two daughters. fathered by her alleged kidnaper. phillip and nancy garrido have pleaded not guilty. indianapolis police say

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a major terrorism case ends in a guilty verdict. we're just hearing about the convictions of these three suspects whose plot really changed the rules for all of us. every person who flies in an airline worldwide. prosecutors say they planned to use liquid explosives hidden in bottles carried on the board the plane. this is what led to the restrictions we all have to go through. they were all convicted of conspiracy to murder. secretary johnson hails the verdict, saying the three men

were hatching a daring plot that would have led to a terrible attack. they intended to blow up planes. al qaeda is indeed linked to the plots. breaking news. former representative joseph kennedy will not, he will not run for his late uncle, uncle's senate seat. ted kennedy. he says he cares about those seeking decent housing, fair wages and health care. he said the best way for me to contribute to those causes is to continue my work at citizens energy corp. the nonprofit organization provides free oil to the poor. president obama told a crowd in ohio that the nation is in fact on the road to recovery and called on the government to pass health care reform and pass it now. he spoke at a picnic in cincinnati a while ago. his recovery plan for the nation is working.

he wants democrats and republicans to come together on this health care reform package. >> i want a health care system that works as well for the american people as it does for the insurance industry. they should be free to make a profit. they also have to be fair. they also have to be accountable. that's what we're talking about. security and stability for folks who have health insurance, help for those who don't. finally bringing cost under control. that's the reform that's needed. that's why it's time to do what's right for america's working families and put aside partisan ship, stop saying things that aren't true. come together as a nation, pass health insurance reform now.

this year. >> part of that speech the president named new senior counselor for manufacturing policy. his name is ron bloom. he served on the auto industry task force. he's been an investment banker for the steel workers union. wednesday night the president will be speaking to a joint session of congress talking health care. tuesday he's addressing students nationwide. a lot of concerned parents when it comes to the school address. and they are speaking out one day before the president delivers it. with a text version available online at whitehouse.gov. parents were urged to pull their parents out of class tomorrow so they wouldn't be exposed to the message. they say the president is trying to indoctrinatindoctrinate. they say it's silly. the president will tell the students tomorrow you can't drop out of school and just drop into a good job. you have to work for it and

train for it. more tests are needed to determine the cause of a death for a 4-year-old boy found stuffed in a septic tank. he was last seen right around 6:00 p.m. friday after going outside to play with his sister. pennsylvania state police say they have a noun suspect in charges could be filed as early as this afternoon. authorities interviewed the father but did not say he was a suspect. the boy had a heart condition that required him to take medicine every day. police say a boy missing for nearly two years was found alive behind a wall at his grandmother's home. ricky will be 7 next week. police near st. louis, illinois, say they found him friday with his mom in a secret room about

the height of a washing machine. the boy disappeared after his dad got custody in 2007. this morning on ""good morning america" the grandmother was on. she says she's done nothing wrong. >> i want to be really clear it's behind a dresser, behind a wall. i want to be clear about how much time your grandson was spending in there. you say he didn't live in there. how much time were they in there? >> in two year's time, maybe five minutes. >> five minutes? just when someone would come around and be looking for him, you would use it for that? >> no, no. there was only one other time they went into the space. just for a short period of time. >> why did you give him that space? >> i didn't. it was already in the home that i purchased 14 years ago. >> police say the boy is in good spirits and is staying with his

father's relatives under supervision of state child welfare workers. missing florida girl haleigh cummings. we have a new development to report now. investigators traveled to massachusetts over the weekend to question the brother of haleigh's stepmother misty. the cape cod times is reporting that police asked him and his wife about a possible sighting of haleigh at an area walmart. the police chief says the couple is cooperating with the florida investigators. misty was the last person to see haleigh before she vanished from her home on the 10th of february. that's tonight at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern time. here on hln. in the 18 years jaycee dugard was gone, her hometown never foergt about her. they followed the same route as

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she needed the montgomery county fire and rescue team to air lift her to safety. can you imagine being pulled up into the helicopter? the woman fell right after saying yes. she has been treated and released from the hospital. a proposal she will not forget. love thy neighbor. not the message from one church. this is a preacher who says it's okay to hate president obama. >> reporter: people lined southern avenue sunday morning spreading their message of love. >> i would never preach hate. >> this is video of one of pastor anderson's sermons posted on youtube. >> i hate barack obama.

i'm going to prove this why i should hate barack obama. why god wants me to hate barack obama. why god hates barack obama. >> i'm appalled anybody would talk about killing the president and as a religious leader i'm appalled anyone would do it from a pulpit. >> more of us who believe god needs peace and love than hatred. >> pastor anderson is standing by his message. he refused to be interviewed only saying -- >> i'm not changing anything that i've said. >> reporter: last sunday. >> i would like to see him die of natural causes. >> rice attended the service. he admits preaching about wanting president obama to die is extreme and offered this solution. >> i think obama could reach out toen anderson and pray that both would come to sign kind of agreement. >> other members are continuing to standby pastor anderson. >> how was the sermon? >> this member has prayed for the president and others to die.

>> if people do evil in this world, things will happen to them, okay. god is a god of judgment. >> thomas johns says not his god. melissa gonzalez, 12 news. got another story for you related to the church. a registered sex offender about to be ordained in kentucky. he went to prize in 1998. his probation barred him from being a church leader. his probation is now over. he says the programs actually changed him. >> i've learned that i have to change the way i think in order to change my actions and my behaviors. i learned a lot as far as what situations not to place myself in. and when i'm having problems on an emotional level to seek out counsel from other people the

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>> so you say absolutely not. we've got one side. susan in naples, florida. would you want a registered sex offender as your minister? >> caller: well, i believe a true christian knows that god can forgive all things. if the church can't forgive you, who can? this happened years ago. this man paid for his crime. should we make him pay forever? so i believe that he who is without sin should cast the first stone. and who better to preach to the sinful than a total sinner, and he knows he is, and he's asking for everyone's forgiveness. of course, he'll be watched by the whole world now. i'm sure. susan, thanks for calling from

florida. i want to read some e-mails. susan says this. no, he should not be allowed to become a minister. my ex-husband is a registered sex offender. they are the only addicts that cannot be reformed. these perverts hide behind their church, religion, when they're caught. this man is a danger to all children in that church, neighborhood and the entire state. another writes i think this is something he truly believes. if he's trying to turn his life around and asks for forgiveness and be close with god, who are we to stop him? another says he should minister in prison, not church. if he has reformed he could help others benefit from his advancement. however, he should never be allowed to be around children or their sleeping areas. jd writes i would rather see michael vick become a minister

than this guy. got a lot of people buzzing on that. it's packing time for "discovery" crew. they wrapped up the last space walk on saturday. they installed gps antennas way up on the space station and prepped for a new chamber coming next year. today they will load up something like a u-haul to carry trash, completed experiments, and extra gear back to earth. a fight broke out at a lacrosse game. during the canadian lacrosse championship. not hockey when two players hit a player from the other team. bunch of people involved in that. the fight lasted five minutes. both teams fined $1,000 for failing to control the bench.

president obama is addressing schools

a lot of people wondering who will run for the late senator ted kep di's senate seat in massachusetts. it will not be joseph kennedy. he will not be running for his late uncle's senate seat. he cares about those seeking fair wages and health care. he said in a statement that the best way for me to contribute to those causes is by continuing my work at citizens energy corp. a nonprofit. college kids back to school tomorrow. health officials are starting to see swine flu cases on campuses across the country. the worst hit right now is

washington state university. the latest number we have 2,000, the number of students reporting symptoms of the flu virus. the head of the cdc told our sister network cnn that the situation is very unusual there. >> with schools back in session, particularly in the southeast of the u.s., but also in many part of the country a fair amount of influenza. that's unusual requester this time of the year. health officials are racing to get vaccinations ready. concerned parents can look at obama's back to school address one day before it's delivered. right wing radio and tv commentators urging parents to pull their kids out of class tomorrow so they won't be exposed to the message.

they're arguing the president is trying to indoctrinate kids. white house officials say that's just silly. we have a couple of excerpts from the texts. the president will telling students you can't drop out of school and land a good job. tough work for it and train for it. also asking children what is your contribution going to be? what discoveries will you make? he'll make the address nationwide at noontime tomorrow. president today was in cincinnati, ohio, talking to if nation, talking to union workers in cincinnati. he says the nation is on the road to recovery. he called on the government to pass health care reform now. that event typically draws thousands of people. the president wants democrats and republicans to come together on the health care reform package. and the public option is good for everyone.

>> i see reform for americans in small businesses that are shut out of health insurance they won't be able to purchase, coverage at a price they can afford. they can shop and compare in a new health insurance exchange. a marketplace where competition and choice will hold down costs and help deliver them a better deal. i believe a public option will help improve quality and bring down costs. >> as part of the speech the president named the new senior counselor for manufacturing policy. ron bloom served on the auto industry task force. he's been an investment banker and worked for the steel workers union. a boy missing for two years is found alive behind a wall in his grandmother's home. ricky will be 7 next week. police near st. louis, illinois, said they found him friday with his mom in the secret room. really tiny.

the height about as high as a washing machine. the grandmother was on "good morning america" this morning. she says she has done nothing wrong. >> i want to be really clear. it's behind a dresser, behind a wall. i want to be clear about how much time your grandson was spending in there. you say he didn't live in there. how much time were they in there? >> in two years time maybe five minutes. >> five minutes? >> yes. >> just when someone would come around and be looking for him? >> no. no. when -- there was only one other time they went into the space. it was just for a very short period of time. >> why did you build that space? >> i didn't. it was already there in that home that i had purchased 14 years ago. police say the boy is in good

spirits. in the 18 years she was gone living in a backyard in a shack, jaycee dugard's hometown never forgot about her. people there held another parade to show support for her. it followed the same route as one that marked the 10th anniversary of her disappearance but went in the opposition direction. hundreds of people walking the through the town wearing dugard's favorite color, pink. she did not attend but organizers raised some $10,000 for the woman and her two daughters fathered by the alleged kidnaper. a domestic dispute could be behind a horrific murder/suicide in louisiana that left four family members dead, including a 2-year-old boy. we're hearg from a relative, the relative says the suspect had attack d his estranged wife before and repeatedly violated a

restraining order she had against him. he shot and killed her on saturday along with her son and 2-year-old grandson. he also seriously wounded his pregnant daughter-in-law. he killed himself. police tried to pull over his car. we are just now, just this afternoon hearg from the british government about the convictions of these three suspects whose plot changed the rules for aum of us. anyone who gets on an airplane around the world. prosecutors say they plan to use liquid explosives hidden in soft drink bottles carried aboard the plane. they were convicted of conspiracy to murder. here's what prosecutors are saying. they intended to blow up planes on trips from britain to the u.s. and canada. pressure authorities say al qaeda is definitely linked to the plot. and a swedish charity is accusing american troops of storming through a hospital in central afghanistan in a search for taliban fighters.

an aide worker tells cnn that u.s. forces broke down doors, tied up four hospital guards, he says they also searched the female ward of the hospital, which they called disrespectful. in context she says of afghan culture. the u.s. earmt does operate in the area. any operation in the area would have been afghan led. happening now in thest open. 17-year-old melanie oudin has advanced in the quarter finals. she beat 13th seeded nadya petroba. she lost the first set. one point from falling behind in the second. she rallied. there they go. oudin now heading for the u.s. open quarter finals. police say a teenager wanted his mom dead and found another child willing to make it happen. it's a rocky start to a lifelong

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her home on february 10th. who is following this? miss nancy grace. she'll have a deeper look inside the investigation coming up tonight at 8:00 and 10:00 eastern time right here on hln. let's look at this together. dramatic pictures just in on a fire in florida. take a look at all the smoke coming from a surf shop in daytona beach. the surf shop is on fire. no word of injuries. we'll continue to look at the live pictures and see how this thing started, if anyone was injured. so far no one has been. police in florida say a 15-year-old tried to have his mother killed. he asked a 13-year-old friend to ambush her in the driveway friday night. police say the boy slashed her with a kitchen knife, but it broke. police caught both the boys.

local media is reporting the son told the friend the killing would be a club initiation. you can have believe the boys are in police custody. this one got people talking. registered sex offender about to be ordained in kentucky. he went to prison for sexually abusing a boy back in 1998. his bro bags barred him from being a church leader. but his probation is now over. so he says the court-ordered treatment programs have changed him. some church members are worried he'll reoffend. he'll sign an agreement not to minister to children. what do you think? does a former sex offender deserve a chance to become a minister? call us. there's the number. send us an e-mail at cnn.com/hln. grab your phones. text us and the word "views" plus your comment and name to

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they have been closed nearby streets. affiliate wftv is reporting the police scanners are suggesting this was an arson. you can see the firefighter on the ladder pouring water on that thing. fairly fully engulfed. a witness on the scene said someone threw something at the building before it burst into flames. don't go near this thing in zai toe na beach. looked like hotels nearby. we're hearing it's a surf shop on fire. no word of injuries. perhaps police are pointing to arson. one of the largest wildfires in southern california's history now about half way controlled. some 4,600 firefighters north of l.r. l.r. authorities now trying to figure out who started the fire. crews are working as fast as

they can to fix the crack. what they're calling a significant crack in the san francisco oakland bay bridge by tomorrow morning. listen up, if you take this thing to berkeley or oakland. the crack discovered in the 73-year-old bridge saturday. workers are replacing a portion of it with a new double deck section. the damaged link in there two inches thick. cracked half way through. they're trying to work as fast as they can. they worked overnight. rushed them on a charter jet to san francisco. people are headed back to work after the long labor day weekend. 260,000 cars crossed the bay bridge each and every day. americans, yep, heading back to work tomorrow. they may be finding it takes longer. the longer commute may be a sign

of economic recovery. stephanie elam has the facts from new york. hey, stephanie. >> hey, brooke. after a year and a half of decreased congestion, it's getting a little more crowded on america's roads. they have over a million gps cars and trucks. the average american spends 30 hours stuck in traffic this year. it's still well off the 41-hour average americans spent in traffic in 2007 before the recession began. washington, d.c. saw one of the lrjest increases in travel times, a result of more government workers. they say the numbers take into account soefrl factors. >> lived in d.c. i do not miss that. >> it's not pleasant.

>> not fun. a lot of the money meant to be fund road projects. that's also contributing to the increase in traffic. >> definitely. the department of transportation received $27.5 billion from the american recovery and reinvestment act. that's funded over 6,000 road projects nationwide, which led to a 40% increase in delays during off peak construction hours for the first half of 2008 to the first half of this year. in new mexico, the i-44 project. in missouri. and in massachusetts the accelerated bridge program has three cities in the top ten. number one on the list, portland, maine. plans to redesign i-235. you can follow all the recovery from every angle. including the latest story of some of the more unusual

projects. if it seems more backed up, maybe take comfort in knowing the economy may be on the men. >> stephanie, thank you. >> sure. >> you can get much more of today's business news at cnnmoney.com. oprah winfrey has taken over michigan avenue. for the next three days police will shut down three blocks to tape her talk show, which is based in chicago. a huge crowd expected to hang around to watch. some say it's good publicity for the cities. but cab drivers say they will lose big. >> it's going to be a mess. it's going to be terrible for cab drivers and people who use the street all the time. >> this is wonderful. it's a wonderful gift in a time

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got pretty dramatic pictures to show you. it appears firefighters are getting control of this. this is a two-alarm fire in daytona beach, florida. live pictures for you now. the fire crews are on the scene of this. this is a t-shirt shop. it appears to be fully engulfed. we're told this is the total fashion shop, if you know the area. scenes from earlier. the fire department closed nearby streets. the area evacuated. lots of smoke. don't know if anybody was hurt because of the fire. hopefully everybody got out. local reports that the fire may have been a result of arson.

a witness told police somebody threw something at that building and then it burst into flames. it appears firefighters have gotten a handle on the two-alarm fire. also following a new development in the search for missing florida girl haleigh cummings. investigators traveled to monta massachusetts over the weekend to question the brother of the girl's stepmother, misty. the cape cod times reporting that police asked timothy and his wife about a possible sighting of haleigh at a walmart in the area. the police chief says they are cooperating. misty cummings was the last person to see haleigh before she vanished from her home on february 10th. police say a boy missing for two years was found alive behind a wall in his grandmother's home. he will be 7 next week.

police found him with his mom in a secret room. the room is so small, it's about the height of a washing machine. he disappeared soon after his dad won temporary custody back in 2007. this morning his grandmother told "good morning america" she doesn't think she's done anything wrong. >> it's behind a dresser behind a wall. how much time did your grandson spend in there? you said he didn't live in there, but how much time were they in there? >> in two year's time, maybe five minutes. >> five minutes? >> yes. >> just when someone would come looking for him? >> no. there was only one other time they went into the space. it was just for a short period of time. >> why did you build that space? >> i didn't. it was it was already in the

home that purchase hd 14 years ago. >> police say the boy is in good spirits. right now he's staying with his father's relatives. under supervision of state child welfare workers. more tests are needed to determine the cause of death for a 4-year-old boy found stuffed in a septic tank. he was last seen about 6:00 p.m. on friday. he had just gone out to play with his sisters. pennsylvania state police say they have a known suspect and charges could be filed later today. authorities interviewed the boy's father, but didn't say he was the suspect. according to police the lid of the tank appeared to have been tamperred with. the little child had a heart condition that required him to take medicine every day. >> we have confirmed former u.s. representative joseph kennedy will not run for his late uncle's senate seat. the six term congressman says he cares about those seeking decent

housing, fair wages and health care. he said in a statement that the best way, this is a quote, the best way for me to contribute to the causes is by continuing my work at citizens energy corps. that's the not profit organization that provides free oil to the poor. president obama told a crowd in ohio the nation is on the road to recovery. he called on congress to pass health care reform now. the president spoke at a picnic in cincinnati. he says his recovery plan for the nation is working. he wants democrats and republicans to come together on a health care reform package. >> i see reform for americans and small businesses that are shut out will be able to purchase coverage at a price they can afford. where they can shop and compare in a new health insurance exchange. a marketplace where competition and choice will continue to hold down costs and help deliver them

a better deal. and i continue to believe that a public option within that basket of insurance choices will help improve quality and bring down costs. >> the president also name ad new senior counselor for manufacturing policy. it's ron bloom. he served on the auto industry task force. he worked for the steel workers union. concerned parents can now read president obama's back to school address the day before he delivers it. the text version is available now. commentators urged parents to pull their kids out of class. that claim the president is trying to indoctrine nate kids. the white house officials called that silly. this is what the president will say. you can't drop out of school and just drop into a good job. you have to work for it, train for it, learn for it. also he's going to ask the kids, what's your contribution going

to be. what rob problems are you going to solve? what discovery will you make? whitehouse.gov. a major terrorism case ends in a guilty verdict. three men whose plot changed the rules for every airline passenger in the world. prosecutors say they planned to use liquid explosives hidden in soft drink bolt ttles carried aboard the plane. they now have restrictions. they were convicted of conspiracy to murder. allen johnson hails the verdict. saying the three men were hatching a daring plot which would have led to a terrible attack. prosecutors intended to blow up planes on trips from britain to the u.s. and canada. british authorities say al qaeda is linked to the plot.

registered sex offender is about to be ordained as a minister in kentucky. mark hourigan went to prison for sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy in 1998. that probation is over now. he says the court-ordered treatment programs changed him. >> i've learned i have to change the way that i think in order to change my actions and my behaviors. i've learned a lot as far as what situations not to place myself in and when i'm having problems on an emotional level to seek out counsel from other people such as my pastor or other members of the church. >> some church members are worried he'll reoffend. the pastor says he'll signen agreement not to minister to children. what do you think about this? you're very passionate.

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a cinderella story happening at the u.s. open. 17-year-old melanie oudin has advanced to the quarter finals with another comeback victory. she beat the 13-seed nadya petroba. she lost the first set. lost that.

then she was one point from falling behind in the second. she rallied. she's now heading to the u.s. open quarter finals. earlier she beat number 4 and number 29, maria sharapova. that girl is 17. good for her. president's adviser on green jobs quit this weekend. he's blaming a vicious smear campaign. he resigned following a controversy over a petition he signed five years ago. it called for an investigation into whether the government deliberatery allowed the september 11th terrorist attacks to happen. the white house says president obama did not force jones to resign, but jones didn't want to be a distraction. >> the president accepted his resignation because van jones as he says in his statement understood he was going to get in the way of the president and ultimately this country moving forward on something as important as creating jobs in a clean energy economy. >> the president should suspend

my future appointments of so-called czars while we examine the background and qualifications of the more than 30 individuals who have been appointed to these czar positions. >> he also made derogatory remarks about republicans in the past. president obama does not endorse his controversial comments. the president will have an address to a joint session of congress on wednesday night to map out the health care reform package he wants to see adopted. until now the president is only given general ideas about what he wants in the reform bill. the white house says this time the president plans to lay out specific details. most versions of the bill have a public option. most republicans flatly oppose a public option. >> give the insurance companies a chance, but have hanging over them the prospect of two, three, four years down the road the

public option would then kick in, or is that a cop out? >> they had 60 years of a chance. we've seen doubling premiums for the 85% of americans who already have employer-based health care. now it's time for a public option to really help. we have monopolized markets in nearly every metropolitan area with regard to insurance. how are we going to drive them down? why can they charge us more? how we going to get them down? competition, choice and a competitive price. i don't know how any conservative can be against those three things. >> there's lots of things we could agree to on a bipartisan basis. the public option isn't one of them. it kicks the can down the road,edlies the inevitable. it's a bad idea for a lot of reasons. if the democrats embrace the public option they're going to shoot themselveses in the foot. >> the trigger option would

allow the government to provide public option if private insurance felt increased competition and decreased cost. crews are working as fast as they can to fix a crack in the san francisco oakland bay bridge by tomorrow morning. the crack was discovered saturday as workers installed a new double-deck fan. it's cracked half way through. arizona steel contractor worked overnight to produce the wells needed to make the repairs. they put them on a charter jet to get them to san francisco. the transportation officials say they may not be able to reopen the bridge by 5:00 local time. as scheduled. >> as soon as it's done, we're going to open the bridge. that's all we can say right now. everybody putting anything into this, down to the janitorial staff, is ding everything they can do to get the bridge open as soon as possible. at this point in time we can't

give you a time. u all we can do is give you our assurance that we're doing everything possible. >> about 260,000 cars cross that bridge every day. someone would never forget the special moment, a marriage proposal. one woman's in particular is quite memorable. she needed a helicopter rescue. i have asthma. and when my symptoms-the coughing, wheezing, tightness in my chest came back- i knew i had to see my doctor. he told me i had choices in controller medicines.

we chose symbicort. symbicort starts to improve my lung function within 15 minutes. that's important to me because i know the two medicines in symbicort are beginning to treat my symptoms and helping me take control of my asthma. and that makes symbicort a good choice for me. symbicort will not replace a re0=ue inhaler for sudden symptoms. and should not be taken more than twice a day. symbicort contains formoterol. medicines like formoterol may increase the chance of asthma-related death. so, it is not for people whose asthma is well controlled on other asthma medicines. see your doctor if your asthma does not improve or gets worse. i know symbicort won't replace a rescue inhaler. within 15 minutes symbicort starts to improve my lung function and begins to treat my symptoms. that makes symbicort a good choice for me. you have choices. ask your doctor if symbicort is right for you. (announcer) if you cannot afford your medication, astrazeneca may be able to help.

two-alarm fire in daytona beach, florida. man, that smoke is thick, black smoke. fire crews now appear to have this thing under control. you can tell this is fully engulfed. this is a t-shirt shop. the fire department closed nearby streets. they got people out of there. local media reporterring from police scanners it may have been the result of arson. a witness told police someone

through something at the building before it burst into flames. again, the latest is that fire crews appear to have a grip on the situation now. i went to a fight and then a hockey game broke out. this is the canadian lacrosse championship. it started when two players hit a player from the other team. it caused a bench clearing brawl. this fight lasted five minutes and resulted in 173 penalty minutes. okay. they don't condone brawling in lacrosse. the rule book allows for fighting. this is brutal. both teams were fined $1,000 for failing to control their players. merriman says he did not

assault tila tequila. he released a statement saying he was worried about tequila. he says she was drunk and didn't want her to drive. paramedics did come to the house during the incident and didn't find injuries on her. she signed a citizen's arrest warrant accusing him of battery and false imprisonment. she posted a comment on her twitter page denying she was drunk and claiming she's allergic to alcohol. this is a punt 82 yards for the dallas cowboys preseason game friday night. he's never played proball. he didn't make the starting team. he was the last player cut. cowboys are keeping him on the

plaza. technically, he is in the nfl. just moments after saying yes to a marriage proposal, the woman goes over the edge, literally. we have the story of her rescue. >> every year scores of hikers are injured. some rescued along treacherous trails that line the river. >> in the area, although it's beautiful, it can be dangerous. >> this dramatic rescue captured by a helicopter camera may be a first for chief paramedic and copilot. authorities say sunday afternoon they spotted to a unique circumstance in maryland. a man asked the woman being hoisted up in this basket to marry him while they were hiking the rugged billy goat trail. >> he proposed just prior to her falling. >> we're told after she said yes, she lost her footing and

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children do not need to be on the offensive while the children are at church. the pedophile may be repentent and how old do his second chance away from him. >> you hi they're just asking for trouble having him in the church. thank you for your phone call. to charlotte, north carolina. jamin? did i get that? >> caller: yes. >> what do you think? he says he has a calling. what do you think? >> caller: i don't think he should ever be allowed to be a minister. if he wants a second chance, he should be allowed a second chance. not in that way. i don't believe that somebody who does that type of crime can really be fixed.

it's a matter of time before it happens again. we hear about it all the time. that's asking for trouble. i would never allow that if i was making the decision. >> if your church were choosing to do that, would you leave? >> caller: i would definitely leave. >> thank you for your point of view. let's get to illinois. brian is calling. you heard what the first two callers said. what do you think? you think he deserves a chance? >> caller: the way i look at it is god says judge not ye be judged. also when a prostitute lady was brought before jesus. he tells the crowd ye who have not sinned cast first stone. nobody cast the first stone, of course. basically nobody should judge. they should let god do the judging. >> are you concerned -- i understand exactly what you're

saying, but are you concerned about him reoffending? >> caller: absolutely not. i wouldn't say i am. god has called him. i believe he'll do fine. >> thank you for the phone call. got a lot of passionate responses on my facebook page as well. you've been commenting all day. this is what some of you have to say. andrew wrote, no. it just gives them more access to children. i believe in rehabilitation, but that is one offense i don't believe it helps. bobby said i'm sure we as christians will help he has learned his lesson. i'm not sure i would want want to listen to a person. god may forgive, but i'm not sure i could. jacob said he may have changed but a as a minister you have to be devoted to the congregation, which includes the youth. which by law he cannot interact

with.

new develop in the search for missing florida girl haleigh cummings. investigatored traveled to massachusetts over the weekend to question the brother of her stepmother, misty. the cape cod times is reporting police asked timothy and his wife about a possible sighting of haleigh at a walmart in the area. the police chief says the couple is cooperating. misty cummings was the last person to see haleigh before she vanished from her home on february 10th. nancy grace will have a deeper look into the investigation at 8:00 p.m. eastern time here on hln. a boy missing for two years

is found alive behind a wall at his grandmother's home. ricky will be 7 next week. police say they found him friday with his mom in a secret room. it was about as tall as a washing machine. he disappeared soon after his dad won temporary custody in 2007. this morning the grandmother told "good morning america" she's done not wrong. >> i want to be really clear. it's behind a dresser, behind a wall. i want to be clear how much time your grandson was spending in there. you say he didn't live in there. how much time were they in there? >> in two years time, maybe five minutes. >> five minutes? just when someone would come around and will booking for him? you would use it for that? >> no. there was only one other time they went into the space.

it was just for a short period of time. >> why did you build the space? >> i didn't. it was already there in the home that i purchased 14 years ago. >> we let him out of the car and he ran around like he had never seen the outdoors. it was very sad. surprisingly he's in good pwho n isolated in the house. he's social, polite, talkative little boy. >> they say the boy is staying with his father's relatives now under the supervision of state child welfare workers. coroner in pennsylvania says more tests are needed to determine the cause of death of a 4-year-old boy stuffed the this a septic tank. pennsylvania state police say they have a known suspect and could file charges later today.

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one month. >> my son's convoy was ambushed. >> in july his father jim got the knock on the door. >> a chaplain and a master sergeant somehowed up. so -- it was not a pleasant day. >> reporter: it was an abrupt end to his second stint in the army. he left the service 11 years ago. last year he lost his job as a computer consultant. >> he lost his job? and became unemployed. >> became unemployed. lost his health insurance. >> his son reenlisted to see to it his family had health insurance. he was full of confidence on the day he left for afghanistan. >> so he said, you know, i'm going back to the army and make sure his son jack would have health insurance. that was really the motivating

thing to have him go back in. >> he grew up a a community that had already lost two sons to the war in iraq. greg made it three. keith is one of the other fallen soldiers. >> do you think we've seen more cases? >> no doubt about it. we probably will. i was going to say hope it ain't from here. i hope it ain't from anywhere. but it will happen again. jim looks at the letters he's received from the president and military leaders and worried about the future. >> i'm a gold star parent because of my son's sacrifice. and i would rather not see any more gold star parents. >> this gold star parent doesn't have an answer on how to fix the nation's health care system. >> he a made quite a sacrifice.

health care is it's going to be a tough one. >> these days he's remembering a son who sacrificed to country and family. a pentagon spokesman says there's no way to count how many soldiers have joined for health care benefits. his son will continue to receive military health insurance so the soldier's sacrifice lives on. cnn, washington. check in again on this fire. we've been trying to keep tabs on for you. firefighters appear to have this under control. this is a beachwear shop. it appears to be a total loss. the fire department got everybody out of the area. we don't know if anybody was hurt. there were people in the building at the time.

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crews are working as fast as they can to fix a crack in the san francisco oakland bay bridge by tomorrow morning. it was discovered in the 73-year-old bridge on saturday as workers were installing a new double-deck span. the damage is two inches thick, cracked half way through. an arizona steel contractor worked overnight to make the wells needed for the repairs

then rushed them to san francisco on a chartered jet. transportation officials say they might not be able to reopen the bridge by 5:00 a.m. local time tomorrow. that's the schedule they're trying to work with, though. >> as soon as it's done we're going to open the bridge. all of the engineers, all the contractors, everything putting anything into this, right down to the janitorial staff is doing everything they can do to get the bridge open as soon as possible. we can't handicap it. we can't give you a time right now. but we can give you our assurance that we're doing everything possible. >> 260,000 cars pass the bay bridge every day. registered sex offender about to be ordained as a minister in kentucky. he went to prison for sexually abusing an 11-year-old boy in

1998. his probation barred him from being a church leader. the probation is over now. the court ordered treatment programs. he says that he's changed. some church members are worried he'll reoffend. the pastor says he will sign an agreement not to minister to children. what do you think? does he deserve a chance to become a minister we've been taking your calls. get to the phones. most of you have not been feeling this. some of you have. let's go to smooch from california. >> caller: he's never going to be rehabilitated. if you want to be a minister let him do like eight states in the country. let him become castrated if he really wants to do his job. he's not going to be rehabilitated. i'm not a doctor, but i don't

think anybody can be, anybody can be, you know, rehabilitated if they can do anything like that to kids. >> our own richard lui interviewed him yesterday. and asked him to the idea of being open to castration. he said he didn't think castration was the answer because he thought that the problem with the urges were in his mind, not something physical. it's funny you should say that. that question has been posed to him. he didn't think that was the answer. steve, what do you think about letting this guy become a minister. >> the church is about forgiveness. the whole body is a member of the church. so, sure, probation, he has completed his probation. so that's a test, isn't it? the probation is to see whether or not an individual can succeed, apparently he has

succeeded. i realize his crime was more severe than some. i wouldn't say someone should have to register as a sex offender is automatically a bad person. and his prison sentence that he served was i'm presuming appropriate or if he was that dangerous, wouldn't he have been put in prison for longer. i'm sure people are prosecuting him are looking hard at what he did. i agree with what the individual said earlier. nobody is condoning that sort of behavior. at some point we have to say okay, it's not a matter of whether or not you're rehabilitated or cured but a matter of whether or not you're safe. he seems to be safe. >> got a lot of comments on my facebook page when i posed this question to you. this is one one person wrote.

again, the pastor says this gentleman has agreed to sign a document, at least sign a document saying that he wouldn't minister to children. some people may say that's not enough. cameron wrote this: got a lot of e-mails as well. russell e-mailed this: not sure about comparing michael vick to a sex offender. but we wanted to air your comments. robert in warren, ohio, wrote he

should be given an opportunity to prove himself. julie in st. paul, minnesota said i think the guy who wants to be sworn in as a minister with the support of a pastor should be allowed for sure. the only body of believers he should be allowed to preach to should be other like minded parishione parishioners, child molesters. thanks for your phone calls and facebook comments. president obama is going to tell students it's okay to ask questions and it's okay to ask for help when you need it. knowing exactly what he'll say. geico's been saving people money on car insurance for over 70 years. and who doesn't want value for their dollar? been true since the day i made my first dollar.

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