police in new haven, connecticut, question a yale university lab worker about the killing of lab student annie le. we have the latest developments. former president jimmy carter blames racism for some of the intense animosity against president obama. do you agree? and -- >> it's not really scary. it's exciting. i wouldn't call it scary. >> a high school cheerleader faces off with that ten foot 353-pound alligator in south carolina. wait until you hear what happened. i'mry shill carry. welcome to mhln. investigators are testing the

dna of a lab instructor to see if he is linked to the killing of grad student annie le. they questioned raymond clark last night. they searched his apartment. >> reporter: no one came to the door when eyewitness news cameras arrived. the man who lives in this company, number 1-a,is ray clark. he apparently lives here with his girlfriend. the manager of the apartment complex tells us no one has seen him since thursday. although undercover new haven detectives have been closely watching his apartment ever since yesterday. >> it's very nerve-racking because the detectives are here and our kids are her and they haven't told us anything that's going on here. >> reporter: while ray clark has not been officially named a suspect, he is a person of interest. he is listed in the yale directory as a lab technician for the animal resources center. it's believed some of the animals used for research are are kept in the basement of the

street annie le was working on, as a graduate student in pharmacology. after miss for five days le's body was found sunday in the baseme basement, hidden behind the wall. and the office where clark worked was very close to where le was doing her graduate work. while people here in middle town have noticed a police presence, they are shocked to hear that it may be connected to the yale murder. >> shocking. >> wow. >> yeah. just saw it on the news this morning. guy is right next door. >> our thanks to daniels of affiliate wsb for that report. the senate finance committee will take up a health care reform plan next week. that is by far the most modest proposal yet considered by congress. it would cost $856 billion over ten years.

chairman max balk cuucus holds hope. republican olympia snow of maine hopes to negotiate the plan and won't commit to supporting it. it will require every american to buy private health insurance. there's no government-run plan, though. it would be non-profit co-ops that could provide some coverage. the proposal for bids, insurance companies from dropping policyholder it is they get sick and it also includes protections for people with pre-existing medical conditions. baucus has tax credits for lower and middle income families to help pay for insurance and creates exchanges for small groups to compare plans when they shop for coverage. that's kind of a wrap-up for you. well, a fallout is growing over the congressman who shouted "you lie" during the president's speech to congress on health care. yesterday the house passed a resolution mostly along party lines, formally admonishing representative joe wilson.

house democrats wanted him to apologize to congress for his behavior but the south carolina republican said his personal apology to president obama applies to everyone. and also, have you heard this, former president jimmy carter was asked his thoughts on wilson's heckle and he said he thinks it was rooted in racism. carter told nbc's "nightly news" it's part of a bigger backlash. >> that racism in connection still exists. and i think it's bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the south but around the country, that african-americans are not qualified to lead this great country. >> we want to know what you think. do you agree with former president carter or do you think the comment is out of line? lines are open. call us. 1-877-tell-hln. if you're at your computer you can e-mail us at cnn.com/hln. also, you can comment on my

facebook page. just search r richelle carey. if you want to text, send them to hlntv. standard text messages will apply. california authorities are back again searching the home of kidnapping suspect phillip garrido. they started searching yesterday for clues in the disappearance of two young girls who went missing in the late '80s. investigators suspect the search will take several days. garrido and his wife are already charged with kidnapping jay see dugard, keeping her captive for 18 years. jaycee's kidnapping had similarities to the disappearance op garrett in 1988 and the other in 1989. they were both abducted from cities less than 50 miles from antioch. and dugard and garrett, they pretty much look alike. you can see in the pictures.

not only that, a sketch of the suspect in garrett's abduction resembles pictures of phillip garrido at the time. there were also similarities in the get-away vehicle and the scar found on garrido's property. we'll keep you posted on that. a huge fire engulfed a multi-million dollar home in los angeles this morning. looks like an apartment complex. that's a house. fire officials say no one was hurt. the flames did not spread to any they bo neighboring properties. the fire has now been put out. no word on what caused it. we are getting word on a stabbing in a home in southern california. police say they suspect a mother stabbed her two young daughters and then herself. 911 call sent us aers to that home this morning. they found a woman and her two daughters, ages 3 and 5, all stabbed. they are all in the hospital now. police say one of the daughters

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forensic experts in new haven, connecticut, are testing the dna of a yale university lab technician to see if he might be linked to the killing of graduate student annie le. police questioned raymond clark for the third time last night and also searched his apartment. he was released into the custody of his attorney early this morning. the police chief said clark isn't the only person they're looking at in connection to this case. >> we are also making sure that there's not other potential suspects, and so we're avoiding the issue of tunnel vision. we're looking at everyone who had access to that building and could have been there during that time period. >> annie le's body was found

sunday stuck behind a wall in the lab where she worked and clark also worked. sunday was supposed to have been her wedding day. california authorities back again at the home of kidnapping suspect phillip garrido. they started searching yesterday for clues into the disappearance of two young girls who went missing back in the late '80s. investigators expect the search will probably take a few days. garrido and his wife are already charged with kidnapping jaycee dugard and keeping her captive for 18 years. they have pleaded not guilty in this case. police say jaycee dugard's 1991 kidnapping had similarities to similarities of kayla garecht in 19 8 and mishelofn in 1989. dugard and garecht have a lot of similarities in the way they

look. not only that. a speketch of the suspect in he abduction had similarities at the time. also similarities in the get-away vehicle and a car found on garrido's property. senate finance committee will take up a health care reform plan next week. that is by far the most modest proposal yet considered by congress. so got some bullet points for you. the cost, $856 billion over ten years. chairman max baucus holds out hope that some republicans will support this. minority leader mitch mcconnell is already blast and republican olympia snow in maine is not committed yet to supporting it. require every american to buy health care insurance. there's no government-run insurance plan though. there would be non-profit co-ops that could provide insurance. the proposal for big insurance companies from dropping policyholder it is they get six and it includes protections for

people with pre-existing medical conditions. you've been hearing a lot about that. baucus last proposes tax credits to help lower and middle income families pay for insurance. the measure also would create insurance exchanges to help individuals in small groups compare plans when they shop for coverage. the fallout is growing over the congressman who shouted "you lie" during president's speech to congress on health care. yesterday the house passed a resolution basically along party lines that formerliedy admonish representative joe wilson. they wanted him to apologize to congress on the floor for his behavior but the south carolina republican said his personal apology to president obama applies to everyone. he wasn't apologizing anymore. also m you heard this. former president jimmy carter was asked his thoughts on wilson's heckle and he said he thinks it was rooted in racism. he told nbc's "nightly news qutd "

qutd," he thinks it's part of a bigger backlash. >> racism still exists and i think it's bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the south but around the country that african-americans are not qualified to lead this great country. >> so we want to know what do you think. do you agree with the comments of former president carter made or do you think his comments, his opinion, disagree? think it's out of line? well, get to the phones. 1-877-tell-hln. e-mail us at cnn.com/hln. you can dive in on my facebook page as well. just search richelle carey hln. you can join in on the conversation or text,text the word "views" and comments and name to hlntv. standard text rates apply approximately sensitive topic. we want your passion, just be respectful and we'll dive in in just a little bit. a lot of police activity outside a home in southern

california. this is why. it is a scene of a bloody stabbing. police say a mother is suspected of stabbing her two young daughters, and then herself in what they say was a murder suicide attempt. these little girls are 3 and 5. the 5-year-old girl is in critical condition. police say the mother and the younger daughter who was stabbed several times are expected to survive. a georgia man is charged with punching and kicking a female army reservist outside a cracker barrel restaurant while her little girl looked on in terror. 47-year-old troy west beat up hill just because she told him to be careful. apparently he almost hit her 7-year-old daughter while he opened the doors to the restaurant. police say west forced her to the ground and kicked her in the head while yelling racial slurs. >> it's clearly a shocking incident, to where a man that's twice the size of this female

beats her down in front of the child. >> that just really bothers me that she had to see that. i want justice served. i don't want him to -- i don't want him to ever do this to anybody else. >> west claims that hill spit on him, but witnesses say they never saw that. police aren't ready to release a security video of all this. so west is charged with battery, disorderly conduct, and cruelty to children. a hearing is set for a week from tomorrow. a huge fire, huge brought down this multi-million dollar home. happened this morning near los angeles. fire officials say no one was hurt. also, they're able to keep the flames from spreading to other properties in the whohollywood hills area. no world on what caused that massive fire. idaho woman says one minute she's taking a walk with her husband, laughing, having a great time. the next minute she has a tree limb sticking out of her throat. we have pictures to show you.

they are difficult to see if last weekend, michelle and her husband taking a scenic drive when somehow a limb from a spruce tree came through the passenger window and impaled her neck. she said she doesn't even know exactly what happened. she just remembers a strange pressure on her neck and her shoulder. obviously the panic on her husband's face. >> i would say, i love you, but i couldn't hardly move my jaw because that tree was stuck and had my jaw stuck. i was praying all the way not to take my baby from me. she was just beautiful. i i'm just thankful she was alive. >> and she is. doctors removed that 13-inch wil limb from her neck and her throat. they said they did a great job and she is recovering at home. talk about a girl power. >> it's not really scary. it's exciting. i wouldn't call it scary. >> i'm scared looking at it.

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i'm jane valez mitchell and here's my issue. another day and another beautiful young life wiped out. the war on women just continues to escalate. there's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. annie le was just going about her business when she was attacked at 10:00 in the morning on a secure building on a ivy league campus. don't tell me women need to modify their behaviors to be more safe. instead, why not we modify the social messages that equate masculinity with violence. look at our movies and popular culture. there's a new blood-drenched

slasher movie out called "sorority row" about killing girls on a college campus. if we use violence against women as entertainment, then what can we expect in real life? i'm jane valez-mitchell, and that's my issue. >> find out what else jane has on her mind. tonight, vh1 is said to be toning down the crazy a little bit on those reality shows. what does that exactly mean? watch "issues" with jane valez-mitchell tonight right here on hln. talk about a little crazy, can i say that? one guy got himself arrested after he decided to take a ride on his motorcycle naked. police pulled him over in marion county, florida, yesterday. cord together officer the man said the last thing he remembered was being at hooters. then he failed a field soberity test. police say it's his 50fifth dui >> i asked him what happened to

his clothing an he said he lost them. i could see from his feet, which were bare, all of the way up to his shoulders that he didn't have any clothing on. >> put that officer in an awkward position to talk about that. once he was released from jail the suspect said, quote, that wasn't me. a 353-pound alligator proved to be no match for a little high cool cheerleader. 16-year-old cami colin took down this ten-foot gate we're a cross bow sunday night in a swamp in south carolina. she's been hunting with her dad since she was about 2. but this is the first time she went alligator hunting. >> i thought it was going to be way smaller. i was very shocked whenever it got to the bode and it was that size. it was a huge adrenaline rush. exciting. >> she's a cheerleader so everybody is like, cheerleaders are wimpy. she's not. she duck hunts with me, she fishes. to me, the alligator is just the ultimate.

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a week long fight between the low income housing group acorn and a couple of conservative video make rers starting to get incredibly ugly. we are joined now with more on the tape and the latest allegations against the community organizing group. these tapes, abbey, will make you stop and look. >> and they're going to keep trickling out. this couple spent the whole summer going around the country posing as a pimp and a prostitute, dropping in on a.c.o.r.n. offices, housing offices in various cities asking for help and setting up a fictitious brothel.

the fout in their series of undercover sting videos was shot in california. and this one's pretty interesting because the a.c.o.r.n. worker claim that she, too, once ran a prostitution service. she now says she's playing games with filmmakers. here's a clip from that video. >> i ran a service. >> really? >> yeah. >> heidi fleiss is my hero. >> really? >> i understand. and believe me, i do know because i used to employ girls that would do this because they didn't care. i've had people, women, that would take care of every little wish, you know, every fantasy. >> and she went on. she didn't just stop there. that a.c.o.r.n. worker said she told the pair that she killed her ex-husband. here's that sound. >> i shot him. i shot him. i just picked up the gun and said [ bleep ] you. i shot him and he died right there.

>> of course,s that not the whole story. the police department looked into the woman's claim to be a killer and issued this statement. quote, the claims do not appear to be factual. investigators have been in contact with the involved parties known former husbands, plural, husbands, who are alive and well. now, remember, the couple who took the video, james oh chief and hanna, don't try to hide the fact that they're on a mission to take down a.c.o.r.n., a group that has been a t. subject of serious allegations and corruption of election fraud. a.c.o.r.n. is fighting back just as hard. a.c.o.r.n. provided us with a sworn statement from the woman in the video, which you saw, she said, quote, i told them several times that akorp would not support anything what they were doing in any way. i felt like they were playing games with me so i proceeded to play games with them. of course, again, those are sworn statements from her. the woman also says she had no idea she was being taped.

we're attempting to contact her. hopefully we will get in touch with her. we would love to hear her side of the story. a.c.o.r.n. sans the video was edited to cast the woman and the organization in the worst possible light. some people would say that it worked. and it said that it wants to see the raw footage from this and the previous videos. so there you who. there's the story. did you keep up there? >> i tried. i tried. you gave us a lot of details. we appreciate that. i guess if they say if they acknowledge they're on a mission to take down a.c.o.r.n., do we have more videos to come? >> who knows. they have been trickling in every day. starting last week. we'll have to wait and see on that. we have reached out to them. of course, we want to talk to them. >> yes. >> they have not returned cnn's phone calls. >> great wrap-up there. appreciate it. thank you. i got some video to show you. look at this. southern california, but this is the thing. it took police not one but four tries to stop this driver last

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a man spent the night in police custody after being questioned about the death of student annie le. a woman takes home an unwanted souvenir from a drive in the country. we'll show you pictures to prove it. it's hard to believe. forensic experts are testing the dna of a yale university lab technician to see if he might be linked to the killing of graduate student annie le. police questioned raymond clark iii last night and searched his connecticut apartment in middletown. he was released into the custody of his attorney about 3:00 in

the morning. new haven's police chief says clark is not the only person they're investigating in the case. >> we're also making sure that there's not other potential suspects and so we'll avoid the issue of tunnel vision looking at everyone that had access to that building and could have been there during that time period. at this point we looked at about 700 hours worth of video. we interviewed over 150 people. some we interviewed a second time. we've got over 150 pieces of evidence seized so far. >> annie le's body was found sunday stuffed behind the wall in the lab where she and clark worked. sunday was to be her wedding day. november 10th set as execute day for john allen muhammad. prosecutors requested that muhammad be put to death the day before, a monday. the judge wanted to make sure government offices would be open on the day before the execution in the event something happened that required action from the governor or perhaps a judge. muhammad was convicted of the

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police say jaycee dugard's 1991 kidnapping had a lot of similarities to the disappearance of michaela garecht in 1988 and ilene misheloff in 1989. both garecht and misheloff were abducted from cities less than 50 miles from antioch. not only that, a sketch of the suspect from garecht's abduction reveals pictures of phillip garrido at the time and similarities in the getaway vehicle in both garecht and misheloff's cases and a car found on garrido's property. a huge fire engulfed a multimillion dollar home in the hills overlooking los angeles this morning. fire officials say nobody was hurt. the homeowner said his priceless art collection is gone. his ferrari collection also damaged. flames didn't spread to any neighboring properties in the hollywood hills. the fire was put out but it's just rubble now. no word on a cause. the fallout growing for the

congressman that shouted "you lie" at the president last week. the house passed a resolution mostly along party lines admonishing wilson. they wanted him to apologize for his behavior in front of congress but the south carolina republican said his personal apology to president obama applies to everyone. meanwhile, when asked about wilson's heckle, former president jimmy carter said he thinks it was deeply rooted in racism. he told nbc's nightly news it's part of a bigger backlash against this country's first african-american president. >> racism still exists and i think it's bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the south but around the country, that african-americans are not qualified to lead this great country. >> what do you think?

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light hearted approach. >> my name is tom. i'm the founder and director of the blackout film festival. next saturday, september 19th, we're going to be holding blackout film festival, the great recession. we assembled 18 engaging and entertaining short films about the current economic recession and can't wait to share them with audiences. i'm here with director of "wall street chicken." one of the most unexpected results of this year's festival is despite the serious theme, filmmakers responded with upbeat positive films. can you tell me where you chose to take that approach? >> first of all, people don't want to be dragged down when they go see a movie.

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a spruce tree came through the passenger window and impaled her in the neck. doesn't exactly know how it happened. she remembers a strange pressure on her neck and shoulder and the panic on her husband's face. >> i would say love you but i couldn't hardly move my jaw because the tree was stuck and had my jaw stuck. i was praying all of the way. >> i was thankful she was alive. >> doctors removed the limb from her neck and throat during a six hour surgery. they did great job. she's recovering at home. serena williams says the biggest events of her life didn't happen on the tennis court. this morning on cnn williams again apologized for her outburst at the u.s. open. she also talked about the 2004 murder of her half sister and the knee injury that dropped her from the number one player in the world to almost number 200. williams said both events gave her a different perspective on

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we have breaking news out of connecticut. the medical examiner's office in new haven tells cnn that yale graduate student annie le was strangled to death. asphyxiation. forensic experts are testing the dna of the yale university lab technician that one right there to see if he might be somehow linked to her killing. he had access to that building. wfsb affiliate has more. >> reporter: no one came to the door when cameras arrived. the man who lives in this apartment is ray clark. he lives here with his girlfriend. the manager of the apartment complex tells us no one has seen

him since thursday. although undercover new haven detectives have been closely watching his apartment ever since yesterday. >> it's very nerve-racking because the news trucks are here and kids are here and they haven't told us anything that's going on here. >> reporter: while ray clark has not been named a suspect, he's a person of interest. he's listed in the yale directory as a lab technician for the animal resources center. it's believed some of the animals used for research are kept in the basement of this building. annie le was working in that same building as a graduate student. after missing for five days, le's body was found sunday in the basement. police say her body was hidden behind a wall. and the office where clark worked is very close to where le was doing her graduate work. while people here in middletown have noticed a police presence, they are shocked to hear that it may be connected to the yale

murder. >> shocking. it was on the news this morning that it's right next door. >> the breaking news out of new haven, connecticut, confirming that annie le was strangled to death and her body was found sunday in the wall of that basement lab. we hope to hear more. investigators are expected to appear at a news conference later this afternoon around 3:00 eastern. we'll bring that to you live. california authorities are searching the home of phillip garrido again today. they began searching yesterday for clues into the disappearance of two young girls that went missing in the late '80s. investigators expect to search this area for several days. garrido and his wife fanancy ar charged with kidnapping jaycee dugard and keeping her captive for 18 years. jaycee dugard's 1991 kidnapping had similarities to the disappearance of michaela garecht in 1988 and ilene

misheloff in 1989. both garecht and misheloff were kidnapped from cities less than 50 miles from antioch. not only that, a sketch of the suspect in garecht's abduction resembles pictures of phillip garrido at the time. police say there were also similarities in the getaway vehicle in both garecht and misheloff's cases and a car found on garrido's property. police in antioch say there has been a shooting near a high school. they say a male was shot multiple times near deer valley high school. this is in antioch, california. the victim has been transported to a hospital by helicopter. the question is still unknown. police said there was an exchange of words between the group of males, the victim was with and another group in a car. shots were fired from the vehicle which fled and the victim was hit. a judge in virginia set november 10th as the execution

date for convicted d.c. sniper john allen muhammad. prosecutors requested muhammad be put to death the day before, a monday, but the judge wanted to make sure government offices would all be open the day before the execution in case something happens that requires action from the gocvernor or courts. muhammad was convicted of a 2001 murder of a virginia man at a gas station. in all he and his teenage accomplice shot 13 people in the fall of 2002 killing ten of them. ohio authorities spent a couple hours trying to give a death row inmate a lethal injection but his veins kept collapsing. now the ohio governor au yoor cf the execution for at least a month. the man was convicted of raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl in 1984. the problem surrounding this execution opens the door to a legal challenge that could complicate things even further. a huge fire engulfed a

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word of another incident involving a stranger allegedly spanking another person's while in cincinnati where police say gloria ballard was arrested and accused of spanking a 2-year-old boy in a salvation army store. she's facing an assault charge. cincinnati police said the toddler said something that annoyed the woman. police said she then told the boy's mother she didn't know how to take care of her son. put him over her knee and spanked him three times. earlier this month a man in georgia was arrested for slapping a woman's daughter in a walmart store in stone mountain, georgia. robert stevens was charged with cruelty to children in the first degree. you know the excuse, not tonigh tonight, honey, i have a headache. a new study finds that people with allergies affect their sex life.

researchers said they wanted to see how allergies affect people's quality of life. four u.s. companies have won approval from the fda to begin manufacturing the just approved h1n1 vaccine but how do they produce this any way? cnn.com has a look at how the vaccine is made and dotcom live's virginia cha is here to show us. >> this is the first company in the world to successfully complete clinical trials for the h1n1 vaccine. cnn received permission to go inside the facility to see how the vaccine is made. you start out with lots and lots of eggs. we're talking tens of thousands of fertilized eggs. infected with the virus. after about three days the virus is extracted from the egg and this is similar to other vaccines. it is collected for purification

and hits the assembly line where boxes of labeled and stored in cool containers. they have produced millions of doses already for the chinese population but not providing vaccines for the u.s. the world health organization says h1n1 is spreading across china quickly. it's accelerated by the onset of the flu season which is upon us. now, as in america, there are a lot of people not sure about taking the vaccine. many are struggling with whether to give it to their children. if you are listening to this and you have concerns, questions about h1n1 or the vaccine, head to cnn.com/h1n1. we have a special feature that will give you the latest information. >> seems like everybody either has a facebook page or been asked to join. it might seem that way because it appears to be true. a pair of milestones. >> this is big news. roughly 1 out of every 22 people on the planet is on facebook now.

the ceo making the announcement they hit the 300 million member mark. so to put this in perspective, there are 307 million people in the u.s. facebook now about as big as the united states although 70% of the users are actually outside the u.s. facebook says the fastest growing demographic is no longer teenagers but people over the age of 35. with all of those users you would expect facebook to roll in cash. not exactly. the other big part of the announcement was for the first time they are turning a profit which is slightly different from being profitable which they're still not technically but it does mean that the regular income is outpacing standard business expenses. most of the revenue generated by ad sales. so, does this success mean that facebook is more likely to sell itself to the highest bidder. one says no. probably what it means is they'll go public. we'll see. >> all right. thanks, virginia.

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breaking story. we've been following this for several days. the connecticut medical examiner a few moments ago revealed that the yale graduate annie le was strangled to death. her body was found sunday in the wall of a basement lab on -- near the yale campus. forensic experts are testing the dna of a lab technician not a student but was an employee to see if it was linked to the killing of annie le. police released the man to the custody of his attorney earlier this morning. another day and another beautiful young life wiped out. the war on women. it continues to escalate. nowhere to run or hide. annie le was going about her business attacked at 10:00 in the morning in a secure building on an ivy league campus.

how about we modify the social messages that equate it with violence. perfect example, look at movies in popular culture. a blood drenched slasher movie out about killing girls on a college campus. if we use violence against women as entertainment, then what can we expect in real life? i'm jane velez-mitchell and that's my "issue." >> find out what else jane has on her mind. don't miss "issues" tonight. that's tonight and every weeknight at 7:00 eastern right here on hln. we're following a story. a drive-by shooting near a high school in antioch, california. these are brand new aerial pictures of the area of the school itself. local reports indicate a male student was shot multiple times near deer valley high school. you can see the campus there. he was transported to a hospital

by helicopter. condition unknown. police said there was an exchange of words between the group of males the victim was with and another group in a car. shots were fired from the vehicle which fled away and the victim was hit. so far no arrests. the fallout is growing over the congressman that shouted out "you lie" at the president during a speech to congress on health care. today a resolution was passed along party lines formally admonishing joe wilson. they wanted wilson to apologize to congress for his behavior. the south carolina republican said his personal apology to president obama applies to everyone. meanwhile, when asked about wilson's heckle, former president jimmy carter said he thinks it was rooted in racism. he told nbc's "nightly news" it's part of a bigger backlash against this country's first african-american president. >> racism still exists. and i think it bubbled up to the

surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the south but around the country, that african-americans are not qualified to lead this great country. >> do you agree with former president carter? do you think his comment is a little off the mark? either way, give us a call. toll free, 877-tell-hln. e-mail at cnn.com/hln or just text views and your comment and name to hlntv. standard text rates apply. we'll hear from you all day today on this hot button issue. as they campaigned to succeed, president bush was harsh of barack obama and john mccain for different reasons. in a new book by matt lattimer, it's said that bush called the mccain campaign a five spiral crash because the senator

couldn't get enough people to show up at campaign rally in his home state. the book "speechless" arrives in stores next week. police say 47-year-old troy west beat up hill because she told him to be careful. apparently he almost hit her 7-year-old daughter while he opened the restaurant's door. that led to the exchange. police say west forced the woman to the ground and kicked her in the head all the while yelling racial slurs. >> clearly a shocking incident to where a man that is twice the size of this female beats her down in front of the child. >> that just really bothered me that she had to see that. i want justice served. i don't want him to ever do this to anybody else. >> west claims he'll spit on him but witnesses say they never saw that. police are not ready to release security video that captured the incident.

west is charged with battery, disorderly conduct and cruelty to children. a hearing is set for a week from tomorrow. a 353-pound gator proved to be no match for a high school ae no match for a high school cheerleader. she took down a gator with a cross bow. she has been hunting with her dad since she was 2 years old. this is the first time she went alligator hunting. >> this is very exciting. she duck hunts with me, she fishes and to me the alligator, she plays softball. the teenager said the experience was exciting. she plans to have a bigger catch. the cost of gasoline nudged

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a medical examiner provides one answer in the mystery surrounding annie le. the cause of her death. many questions about her killing still remain. a former president sees a racial overtone in the anger directed at the current chief executive. police are combing the house where jaycee dugard was held captive for 18 years. why investigators think the house may be the key to finding two other missing girls. welcome to "news and views." we have breaking news. in the killing of the yale graduate student annie le. the medical examiner's office

says the 24-year-old was strangled to death. forensics experts are testing the dna of a yale university lab technician to see if he might be linked to her killing. raymond clark is cooperating. his sister, brother-in-law and fiance are technicians at the lab where annie le worked. new haven's police chief says clark is not the only person they are investigating. >> we are making sure there are not other suspects. we are looking at everyone who had access and could have been there during that time period. we have looked about 700 hours worth of video. we have interviewed over 150 people. some we interviewed a second time. we have 150 pieces of evidence seized so far. >> annie le's body was found stuffed behind a wall in the lab

on sunday which was supposed to have been her wedding day. discussion on annie le and jaycee dugard. law enforcement analyst mike brooks. mike, we have information about how annie le was killed. the fact she swuz strangled. how does that help you focus this investigation. they are not looking at a murder weapon, per se. >> no, they're not. it is another piece of information. to me, as an investigator, until i interview someone and talk to them about she dies that is for the investigators. >> it doesn't indicate a crime of passion? do you draw any conclusions? >> not really. not unless i interviewed the people and found the motive. yes. she was strangled. he didn't use any weapon. >> let's talk about raymond clark. what do we know? >> raymond clark iii, a person

of interest. i hate that term. you are a suspect or not. >> what does your gut tell you? >> it looks like he was in handcuffs right there so he is in custody. they took a dna sample from him. some people are saying why did they release him. they basically said they knew where he was all the time they took over the case. it sounds to me like they have been focusing in on him. they are looking at other people to make sure there are not other suspects. the other day they believe this is not random act and no one else is in danger. if no one else is in danger, other suspects are out there. why did they take his dna? did they take anyone else's dna? not that we have heard of. >> how difficult is it to get that warrant to take someone's dna? >> it is basically a search warrant on a body. they are taking dank and other things, probably hair samples. we don't know and it hasn't been

mentioned, we don't know if she was sexually assaulted. these are things you have to consider. they may have taken dna from her body, wounds on him from her fighting him off. these are things they can compare. it could take a couple of days. compare the dna with what they found on her body, around her body. they found clothes on saturday, possible bloody clothes. were they connected to this guy or other people they are calling potential suspects? these are things they are looking at right now. the other thing, too, richelle, if he did kill her there, you have these bloody clothes and we know she was strangled, where was the crime scene? where did it happen? did he try to cover something up. working in the lab you have a lot of cleaning materials. when someone is strangled, other bodily fluids are expelled. did he try to clean these up.

150 pieces of evidence. >> i was struck by that as well, mike. >> that is a lot of evidence. >> to log in 150 pieces of evidence, i can tell you, that is a lot of evidence. what it is, we don't know. >> let's talk about the investigation at phillip garrido's home. investigators expect to be there for several days because they are trying to see if there is a link between phillip garrido and two other young girls missing since the 1980s. are these solvable crimes because how old they are? >> thank god for technology. these girls disappeared, one in 1988, in 1989 a 13-year-old girl. a lot of similarities. the witnesses say the sedan they saw in the area they believe was involved in the abductions matches the car of garrido on the property he kidnapped jaycee

in. >> one of the young girls looks like jaycee as well. >> yes. >> they were saying when they took jaycee off the street they were shopping around. they went back looking for her and the same m.o., if you will, in the other two cases. they said we are going back, looking for evidence. we have the car there. is there any trace evidence, dna possibly in the car that we wouldn't have been able to test in the '80s but now with the technology maybe they can. >> mike, thank you for your perspective. watch nancy grace. nancy goes in depth and brings us up to date on the major developments in this murder investigation. 8:00 and 10:00 eastern time on hln. there's word of another incident involving a stranger allegedly smacking another person's child.

police in cincinnati say gloria fowler was arrested and accused of spanking a 2-year-old boy in a salvation army store. she is facing an assault charge. the toddler said something that apparently annoyed her. she told the boy's mother she didn't know how to take care of her son and put him over her knee and spanked him three times. earlier this month a georgia man was arrested for slapping a woman's daughter in a walmart. he was charged with cruelty to children in the first degree. we are following a drive-by shooting in antioch, california. a male student was shot several times by deer valley high school. these are live pictures of some of the students in the parking lot right now. school officials say the teenager was shot after an argument with another group of people. that led to a lockdown at all

schools in antioch. no word on whether police have made arrests. a mother suspected of stabbing her two young daughters before turning the knife on herself. all three are in the hospital. one of the daughters is in critical condition. the injuries of the mother and other daughter are said not to be life threatening, these girls are 3 and 5 years old. police recovered several naives from the home. they are not saying why the mother allegedly stabbed herself and her kids. the fallout is growing over the congressman who shouted "you lie" during the president's speech on wednesday. the house passed a resolution mostly along party lines formally admonishing joe wilson. house democrats wanted him to apologize to congress. the south carolina republican said the personal apology to president obama said it should apply to everyone.

former president jimmy carter thinks it is rooted in racism. he told nbc's "nightly news" it is part of a bigger backlash. >> that racism intonation still exists. i think it has bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the south, but around the country, that african-americans are not qualified to lead this great country. >> what do you think about those comments? do you agree with former president carter? do you think those lines are misguided, wrong, out of line? call us. 1-877-tell-hln. e-mail us cnn.com/hln. if you are into facebook go to my facebook page, richelle carey. leave your comments. text the word views and your

name and comments to hlntv. standard text rates apply. the senate finance committee takes up a health care reform plan the modest proposal yet. it could cost $856 billion over ten years. chairman max baucus hopes it will gain support. olympia snowe who helped putting the plan together isn't committing to supporting it. >> we share a common purpose to make the lives of americans better tomorrow than they are today. to get health care reform done the time for action is now. we will act. we will act and pass health reform legislation this year. >> what do we know about the plan? it would require every american

to buy public health insurance. no government run insurance plan. there could be nonprofit co-ops. insurance companies couldn't drop policy holders because of illness and keeps insurers from dropping people from preexisting conditions. and creates exchanges for small group and individuals to compare plans when they shop for coverage. a woman takes home an unwanted souvenir in a simple drive in the country. this is hard to believe but g we'll show you the pictures to prove it. progresso. hi, may i speak to my oggy please? thank you. i'm sorry, who? my grandma. this is obviously her chicken noodle soup. only hers tastes like this. just put my oggy on the phone. thanks so much. hold one moment please. another person calling for her grandmother. she thinks it's her soup huh? i'm told she's in the garden picking herbs.

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>> hi, richelle. 160 million americans get health insurance through their employers. employer sponsored premiums jumped 5% to more than $13,000 for the family as the overall pace of inflation fell. employers pick up most of the tab. but as cost grows most companies are passing the costs on to workers. one example rgs this year, 22% of individuals who get insurance through work have $1,000 deductibles. in 200610% had deductibles that high. >> how do all those numbers plug into this back-and-forth health care debate? >> they definitely fit in somewhere. one of president obama's main arguments is costs have to be under control. employer based premiums could

top $30,000 by 2019. that is if costs keep growing at the same rate as the last ten years. no business or family will be able to afford coverage if that happens. they agree high costs must be addressed but the real question is how. many democrats want a public option but republicans and the insurance agency say that will drive insurance out of business. the baucus plan doesn't have a public option no republican has signed on to it yet. no doubt we will hear more about this. it is going to rage on for a long time because more people thinks they need more of an agreement. >> even republicans who helped put it together haven't committed to it. we've got a long way to go, stephanie, thank you. >> sure. ohio authorities spent two hours trying to give a death row

inmate a lethal injection and his vein kept collapsing. he was convicted of raping and murdering a 14-year-old girl. the problems surrounding his execution opened the door to a legal challenge that could complicate things more. a woman in idaho says she is walking and talking with her husband, the next minute she had a tree limb sticking out of her throat. these pictures are really difficult to look at. michelle childress and her husband taking a scenic drive. a limb from a spruce tree came through the passenger window and impaled her neck. she doesn't know exactly what happens. she describes a strange pressure on her neck and shoulder. she clear remembers the panic on her husband's face. >> i was saying, i love you, but

i couldn't hardly move my jaw since the tree was stuck. >> i was praying all the way not to take my baby from me. she was just beautiful. i was thankful she was alive. >> doctors removed the 13-inch limb from her neck and throat. it took a six-hour operation. she says they did a great job and she is at home recovering with a story to tell. talking about telling stories, talk about girl power. >> it is not scary. it is exciting. >> a junior varsity cheerleader took down this gator.en wait until you hear what her weapon of choice was. and, ooh, rotisserie chicken. yes, you do. [ barks ] yeah. you're so special, you deserve a very special dog food. [ woman ] introducing chef michael's canine creations.

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we do have breaking news in the killing of the graduate student from yale. the medical examiner's office in new haven, connecticut, says 24-year-old annie le was strangled to death. forensic experts are testing the dna of a yale university lab tech to see if he is linked to the killing. his name is raymond clark. police searched his apartment yesterday, they towed away his mustang. clark's attorney says he is cooperating. his sister, brother-in-law and fiance are technicians at the lab where annie le worked. clark is not the only person they are investigating. >> we are making sure there are

not other potential suspects. to avoid tunnel vision we are looking at everyone who had access to that building. we looked at 700 hours of video, interviewed over 150 people, some we interviewed a second time. we've got over 150 pieces of evidence seized so far. >> that is quite a bit of evidence. annie le's body was found stuffed behind a wall in the lab sunday. sunday was supposed to be her wedding day. be sure to watch "nancy grace" tonight. nancy goes in depth on this case and brings us up to date. "nancy grace" at 8:00 and 10:00 eastern time on hln knews and views. this is police activity at the home of kidnapping suspect phillip garrido, his home in antioch, california. this is coming from our affiliate kron.

this search started yesterday. they are looking for clues in the disappearance of two young girls who went missing in the late '80s. investigators are going to be there for several days. garrido and his wife are in custody. they have pleaded not guilty. the 1991 kidnapping of jaycee dugard has similarities of the disappearance of michaela garrett and ilene misheloff in 1989. dugard and garrett look alike. not only that, a skrech of the suspect in garecht's abduction looks like garrido at the time. a car found on ga credo's

property is similar to those witnesses say occurred. students are charged with gang raping a student. the man snatched the 18-year-old's cell phone dancing at a party. he used the phone to lure her to a dorm bathroom where she was tied up and gang raped. some students are upset with university officials because they first learned about the attack on facebook. police are searching for a fifth suspect. a horrible case. the fallout is growing over the congressman who shouted "you lie" during the president's speech to congress last week on health care. we all saw that. yesterday the house passed a resolution mostly along party lines. this resolution formally admonishes representative joe wilson. it came to this because house democrats wanted him to apologize to congress on the floor for his behavior. the south carolina republican said his personal apology to president obama applied to

everyone and he was done apologizing. now former president jimmy carter said he thinks it was rooted in racism. he told "nbc nightly news" it is part of a bigger backlash. >> that racism intonation still exists and i think it has bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the south but around the country, that african-americans are not qualified to lead this great country. >> all right. that is pretty charged stuff. what do you think about this? do you agree with what former president carter is saying or do you think he is off base, out of line, are you bothered by it? give us a call, 1-877-tell-hln, e-mail cnn.com/hln or text your

views to hlntv. standard text rates apply. the senate finance committee will take up a health care reform plan next week. the most modest proposal. it would cost $856 billion over ten years. the chairman, max baucus is holding out hope some republicans will support it. mitch mcconnell has already blasted it. republican olympia snow, part of the gang of six that helped putting it together, has not committed to supporting it. it would require every american to buy private insurance. no government run plan. the proposal forbids insurance companies from dropping people if they get sick and protects people with preexisting medical conditions. baucus is proposing tax credits for lower and middle income

families to pay for the measure and creates exchanges to shop for coverage. there is a lot of news recently about the h1n1 vaccine. it should become available to the public in a matter of weeks. what actually goes into making something like that? we are going to step into the lab.

a huge fire engulfed a multimillion dollar home in los angeles this morning. it is so big it looks like an apartment complex. that is somebody's home. fire officials say no one was hurt. the homeowner lost a priceless art collection, a fabrege egg

and stradavarius violin. no word on what caused it. four u.s. companies have won approval to begin manufacturing the just approved h1n1 vaccine. we told you yesterday it is supposed to be out there soon. how do they make this stuff? cnn.com has a behind-the-scenes look at how the h1n1 drug is made. reggie is here to show us. >> i'm going to take you on a behind-the-scenes tour on how they do this. a first company to complete the trials on h1n1. in china. it has to do with eggs. that is how they produce the vaccine and that is why people who are allergic to eggs can't

get the vaccines. the eggs are infected with the virus, left to incubate. then the virus is extracted from the egg. the virus is rendered inactive and collected for purification. the doses are bottled, labeled and stored in cool containers. this company produced millions of doses. these are for the chinese population. these are not for the u.s. population. the world health organization said h1n1 is spreading across china, accelerated by the regular flu season. in america there are skeptics. they want to take this vaccine. if you have questions about h1n1 go to the special section in our website cnn.com/h1n1. that was one of the most interesting things we are

showing on our site. >> great stuff. we have a whole site for everything you need to know. if you have be on the interweb -- excuse me the internet, you are probably on facebook. everybody has a facebook account, but who is counting? who is counting? >> this is interesting because facebook is releasing statistics. first of all, they say there are about as many people on facebook as there are in the u.s. which is kind of stunning. that is a huge rise. the other interesting thing is 70% of users are from outside the u.s. and the fastest growing facebook user is the demographic, what do you think, richelle? >> i'm told the kids don't like the fact the older people are running to it in droves. >> ding, ding, ding. it is people over the age of 35. that is the demographic that is

growing. you might think they have to be swimming in the cash. that is not the case. in their announcement yesterday they have 300 million people on facebook, they say they are now for the first time cash positive. if you say is that the same thing as being profitable. it is not. it means their regular income is outpacing the standard expenses. most of their revenue comes in from ad sales. >> because facebook is free. yes, it's the ads. >> this is coming on top of statistics that came out a couple of months ago about twitter. they have, shall we say, older population than a lot of us expected. >> wow. i love all this information. i think most people do because they are on facebook. >> i'm friends with you on facebook. i always get great stuff from you. >> thanks, reggie. a.c.o.r.n. in trouble since

last year's elections. they are announcing changes in light of a conservative filmmaker's release about the group. ring ring ring ring. hey, your chicken noodles ringing. ring ring. progresso. hi, may i speak to my oggy please? thank you. i'm sorry, who? my grandma. this is obviously her chicken noodle soup. only hers tastes like this. just put my oggy on the phone. thanks so much. hold one moment please. another person calling for her grandmother. she thinks it's her soup huh? i'm told she's in the garden picking herbs. she is so cute. okay well i'll hold.

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welcome back. the nonprofit community organizing group a.c.o.r.n. announced new steps after staffers were exposed in embarrassing juntd cover videos. the group says it is ordering a hiring freeze and complete independent review of these videos. a fourth undercover video is out apparently showing an employee of a.c.o.r.n. giving tips to a fake pimp and prostitute. in san bernadino, california. a female a.c.o.r.n. employee admits she has firsthand experience operating an escort service. she claimed she shot and killed her abusive husband. a.c.o.r.n. says the staffer new she was being set up and played along.

her known former husbands are alive and well. a.c.o.r.n. is claiming these videotapes are doctored. the senate voted to block federal grants to a.c.o.r.n. and calling on the president and the white house to cut all ties to a.c.o.r.n. >> a woman in idaho, walk, talk, laughing with her husband, scenic drive, the next minute she has a tree limb sticking out of her throat. last week michelle childress and her newlywed husband taking a drive, a limb from a spruce tree came from the passenger window and impaled her neck. she doesn't know what happened. she had a strange pressure and saw the panicked look on her husband's face. >> i was saying i love you, but i couldn't hardly move my jaw

because the tree was stuck and had my jaw struck. >> i was praying not to take my baby from me. she was just beautiful. i was thankful she was alive. >> can you imagine? doctors removed the 13-inch limb from her neck and throat during a six-hour surgery. she is recovering at home. there is word of another incident involving a stranger allegedly spanking somebody else's kid. police in cincinnati say gloria ballard was arrested and accused of spanking a 2-year-old boy in a value vags army store. she is facing an assault charge. she told the boy's mother she didn't know how to take care of her son, put him over her knee and spanked him three times. of course, earlier this month a man in georgia was arrested for slapping a woman's daughter at a stone mountain walmart. robert stephens is charged with

cruelty to children in the first degree. following information about a drive-by shooting near a high school in antioch, california. a male student was shot multiple times. near the deer valley high school. he had to be taken to the hospital by helicopter. we don't know how he's doing. school officials say he was shot after an argument with another group. the shooting left to a brief lockdown of all the schools in the city. there is no word if police have made any arrests. another story we are following. heartbreaking, a mother suspected of stapping her two young daughters before turning the knife on herself. all three are in the hospital in orange county, california. one of the daughters is in critical condition. the injuries of the mother and other daughter not considered to be life threatening. these girls are 3 and 5. police have recovered several naives from the home. they are not saying why the

mother allegedly stabbed herself and her kids. the house is considering putting $550 million a year toward developing green technology cars. a vote on this is expected today. the white house wants to raise the fuel official si standards to 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016 and the first limit on carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming. two illinois high school students may be expelled after that brutal fight happening on a school bus. this 17-year-old boy was punched and choked and finally one student stepped in to stop the attack. >> i was, like, oh, my god. why did they do that little boy like that. i told my son why are you laughing? >> i wanted to help but if i helped i would have gotten in trouble. the student who finally did get

involved said a school principal shook his hand. the school board will decide whether any of the students involved are kicked out of school. a a 353-pound alligator proved to be no match for the little high school cheerleader. 16-year-old cammie collins took down that gator with a crossbow. she says she's been hunting with her dad since she was about 2 years old. this was her first time hasn'ting alligator. >> i thought it was beginning to be way smaller. i was very shocked. it was huge adrenaline rush. it was very exciting. >> she's a cheerleader. she comes with me, duck hunts, fishes. she deer hunts. she does it all. she plays softball. >> she said she was excited when all this happened, and she hopes

to land a bigger cash on her next trip. serena williams says the biggest events in her life don't happen on the tennis court. this morning on our sister network cnn she once again apologized for her outburst. she also talked about a 2004 murder of her half sister and a knee injury that dropped her from the number one player in the world to almost 200. she said both of those events gave her a different perspective on life. she also talked about what motivates her and the big matches. >> for me i'm really an emotional player. i give everything i have out on the court. people see that when i play. i'm always yelling come on. sometimes i throw my racket down. i'm just that person when you go out there, it's like she's exciting to watch because she's so into the match. i think that it was okay to be angry but to also just stay calm and have a way of doing it.

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a medical examiner provide an answer in the mystery surrounding the death of annie le, the cause of her death. though many questions still remain. a former presidency's overtone and the anger directed at the current president. your views on what he said. and police are combing the house where kidnapping victim jaycee dugard was allegedly held captive for 18 years. hi, everybody. midweek. hln news and views. in new haven, connecticut, police have scheduled news conference in two hours, about 5:00 eastern to talk about the latest developments in the killing of a yale graduate

student. 24-year-old annie le was strangled to death. they didn't say whether she was sexually assaulted. forensic experts are testing the dna of a yale university lab technician to see if he might be linked to her killing. they searched his car and towed away his mustang. clark's attorney says he's cooperating with investigators. his sister-in-law and brother-in-law and fiancee are also the technicians in the lab where the victim worked. annie le's body was found on stuffed behind the wall in a basement of a building. it was supposed to have been her wedding day. they say clark isn't the only person they're investigating in the case. they're not operating under tunnel vision. hln law enforcement analyst mike brooks, thanks for your time. >> good to be with you. >> releasing cause of death, does that indicate an arrest may be close? >> not really. it just says she was strangled

to death. it does not say whether or not she was sexually assaulted. we still do not know a motive as of yet. they searched his house, his apartment they took his car, i'm sure today took his computer. also clothes. >> today took his dna. it's like a search warrant for his body if you will. because we don't know what kind of evidence they have and they found on the body. was there trace evidence, hairs, fibers?

we don't know that. they're not saying that. that would indicate to me if they're taking his dna they want something to compare to. >> what about wounds on his body? >> any kinds of scratch marks. if he was the one who actually did strangle her, were there any marks around his neck of her trying to defend herself. >> can that be matched? can you match a suspect hands with marks on a neck? >> one thing they can do is most likely some touch dna, those kinds of things and maybe skin under her fingernails. i'm sure one of the first things they did is bagged a hand to make sure they didn't lose evidence. that's what you do in death investigations. at the time they didn't know. there could be a lot of evidence at the scene. where is the crime scene in that building? it had to be swrr in the building. did the person who strangled her or murdered her put her in the

utility chase? did he clean up the crime scene somewhere in the lab? >> i would say yes. reportedly he fail ad polygraph. what would the questions have been like? what would you have asked to the potential suspect? >> were you involved in the death of annie le? >> simple as that? >> simple as that. you get a baseline. very, very simple. >> are you surprised that so many people associated with him there's not going to be an exchange unless somebody was holding onto you. i think there's more of an exchange of evidence. >> 5:00 news conference, we're all waiting for it. mike, good to see you. a virginia judge has set november 10th as the execution case for convicted d.c. sniper muhammad.

they wanted to make sure the offices would be open the day before the execution in case something happens. muhammad was convicted of the 2002 murder of a virginia man at a gas station. in all, he and his teenage accomplice shot 13 people in the d.c. area in 2002, killing ten of them. investigators are searching again at garrido's home. investigators expect the search will take several days. certainly the rest of the week. garrido and his wife nancy are already charged with kidnapping jaycee dugard and keeping her captive for 18 years. both have pleaded not guilty in the case. police say jaycee dugard's 1991 kidnapping has similarities to the disappearance of two other girls. you see all three one women

there dugard and garecht even looked alike back in the day. not only that a sketch of the suspect resembles pictures of garrido at the time. police say also similarity miss the getaway vehicle in gair garecht's cases. the white house says they don't believe he's being criticized because of his race. yesterday the house passed a resolution mostly along party lines formally admonishing representative wilson for shouting you lie. they wanted him to apologize to congress for his bhafr. but he said his personal apology to the president applies to everyone. meanwhile when asked about wilson's heckle he says he thinks it was rooted in racism. he told nbc's "nightly news."

it's part of a bigger backlash against the country's first african-american president. >> that race schism still exists and i think has bubbled up to the surface. because of a belief among many white people, not just in the south, but around if counted that african-americans are not qualified to lead this great country. >> what do you think? agree? disagree? you think he was off base? the former president? the 39th president of the u.s. phone lines are open right now. let's hear you weigh in.÷ e-mail at cnn.com/hln. or you can text views plus your comment and name to hlntv. standard text rates apply. we're going to air your responses all day. the senate finance committee will take up a health care reform plan next week. that's by far the most modest proposal yet considered by congress. it would cost $856 billion over ten years. max baucus holds out hope it

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wtvr reporter wayne snapped these pictures. he's obviously in the orange vest there. today is the first of 180 days he'll serve as part of a sentence for assaulting his former girlfriend rihanna back in february. he's cleaning police horse stables in richmond, virginia. he'll wash official vehicle, pick up trash and clean graffiti. president george w. bush was reportedly harshly critical of senators barack obama and john mccain. a new tell-all book by former book speech writer said the former president once said of president obama this cat isn't remotely qualified. and bush called the mccain campaign a five-spiral crash because the senator couldn't get enough people to show up at a campaign event in his home state. some insiders call the book a betrayal of trust. his former spokeswoman dismissed the book saying what of he says the president said didn't ring true to me. the book is called "speechless" and arrives in stores next week.

acorn has announced new steps after staffers were exposed in embarrassing undercover videos. the nonprofit community organizing group says it's ordering a hiring freeze and a complete and independent review of the videos. a fourth undercover video is out showing an employee of acorn in california giving tips to a fake pump and prostitute. in the tape that you're about to see clips of a female acorn employee admits she has some first-hand experience operating an escort service. she says heidi fleiss is my hero and claims she shot and killed her abusive husband ten years ago. acorn says the staffer knew from the beginning she was being set up and was only playing along. the police department looked into the woman's claim of being a killer. and in a statement said they've been in contact with the involved party's known former husbands. they're all alive and well. acorn fired four employees seen in other videos but claims that the video tapes are doctored.

the senate has already voted to block grants to acorn. now they want the president and the irs to cut all ties with the group. an idaho woman said one minute she was talking and laughing with her husband and the next she had a tree limb sticking out of her throat. these pictures are tough to take. last week the newlywed and her husband were taken a scenic drive when somehow a limb from a spruce tree came through the passenger's side window and impaled her neck. she doesn't exactly know what happened. but she remembers a strange pressure on her neck and shoulder and the panic on her husband's face. doctors removed that 13-inch limb from her neck and throat during a six-hour surgery. she says they did a great job. she's recovekovcovering at home. dining out may be more cost effective with tables empty and tabs smaller. restaurants are cutting prices and tweaking menus. kelly grant is right here to show us how you can save i guess

50% or more. you can find recession specials. >> easily. you can find great deals at restaurants right now. certainly one of the things you want to be aware of is many restaurants are cutting prices. check out grubstreets.com and opentable.com to see where there are deals near you. it holds true for high end restaurants. we saw in new york one offering frugal fridays where they capped menu prices at $10. per se is offering inexpense a la carte options. >> we think of coupons for products at a grocery store. there are coupons at restaurants. >> there are a lot more coupons at restaurants. more restaurants offering them in print and online. good reason to pick up the sunday paper and sign up for newsletters. be checking on twitter and facebook. i just got signing up to be a fan of one of the tgi fridays

characters. you get a free hamburger. good deal just for a few minutes of your time. >> how about gift certificates? you recommend those? >> gift certificates are a great option to save. especially restaurants.com. offering deals at local restaurants. usually you can get about a $25 get certificate for $10 and much less that that. there can be catches sometimes. you want to read the fine print before you buy. >> a final question, you go out in new york and eat out. are the prices lower? do you get good deals you think? >> you can get great deals in new york. my trick is to go out for lynch instead of dinner. you'll get the same great food but at a fraction of the price. >> kelly grant, good to see you. thanks. the cost of gasoline had the consumer price index higher. they climb 4/10 of a percent.

two illinois high school students may be expelled after a brutal fight on a school bus was captured on video. students just watched as the 17-year-old youngster was punched and choked repeatedly. finally one student stoep stepp and stopped it. >> i was like oh my god. twhi did they do the little boy like that. and i told my son, why are you laughing? >> i wanted to help. i didn't help. i knew i would have been in trouble if i got in it. i didn't want to get in trouble. >> the student who got involved said his school principal shook his hand and thanked him afterwards. the old excuse, not tonight i have a headache. now you can blame allergies. a new study finds 83% of people with allergies say their sex lives have been affected. 17% say their allergies almost always affect their sexual activity. the former president jimmy

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her body was found stuffed behind the wall in the basement of the building on sunday. clark is not the only person they're investigating in the case. california authorities are still searching the home of kidnapping suspect phillip garrido. they're back at it today in antioch, california. they began searching anew yesterday looking for clues in the disappearance of two young girls missing since the late '80s. garrido and his wife nancy are already charged with kidnapping jaycee dugard and keeping her captive for 18 years. most have pleaded not guilty. police say dugard's 1991 kidnap ing of two other young girl ls. both were abducted from cities less than 50 miles from antioch. dugard and garecht even looked

alike. police say there were also similarities in the getaway vehicle in the cases and on the car found on garrido's property. we're following a story about a drive-by shooting. this is a high school that happens to be in antioch, california. a town about 60 miles east of san francisco. police say a male student was shot multiple times near deer valley high. he was transported to a hospital by helicopter. we don't know the condition. this occurred a couple of hours ago. the shooting led to a lockdown of city schools. still no word on whether police have made any arrests. the white house says president obama doesn't believe he's being criticized because of his race, but not everyone is so sure. yesterday the house passed a resolution mostly along party lines admonishing joe wilson for shouting "you lie" during the president's address a week ago today. they wanted wilson to apologize

to congress for his behavior, but the south carolina republican said his personal apology to the president applies to everyone. when asked about the heckle former president jimmy carter says he thinks it was rooted in racism. he told the nbc "nightly news" it's part of a bigger backlash against this country's first african-american president. >> that racism still exists. it's bubbled up to the surface. because of a belief among many white people, not just in the south, but around the country, that african-americans are not qualified to lead this great country. >> republican national committee chairman michael steele released a statement says in part president carter is flat out wrong. this isn't about race. it's about policy. this is a pathetic distraction to shift attention from the president's wildly unpopular

government-run health care plan that the american people simply oppose. next week the senate finance committee will take up a health care reform plan that's by far the most modest proposal considered by congress. it would cost $856 billion over ten years. chairman max baucus holds out hope it will gain republican support. >> this is our chance to reform health care in america. we cannot let this opportunity pass. last week president obama laid out what he believes are the key try keer criteria for reform. to provide more security and stability for those with health insurance today. it should expand coverage to those who don't. it should slow the growth of health care costs. and it should keep insurance companies honest.

>> the plan would require every american to buy private health insurance. no government-run insurance plan as such. though there would be non-profit co-ops. the proposal forbids insurance companies from dropping policyholders if they get sick and includes protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. they would be in a higher risk pool. he also proposes tax credits to help lower and middle income families pay for insurance. it could create exchanges for small groups and individuals to compare plans as they shop for coverage. the fda has approved a swine flu vaccine. you can get a head start on the shots next month. limited supplies should be available by the beginning of october. the government says 45 million doses will be shipped out by the 15th of october. >> we will have enough vaccine available for everyone. there is enough on order.

there will be enough vaccine. we're concerned about getting it to the priority populations as quickly as possible. that's what we've asked the states to focus on. >> health officials want high risk groups like pregnant women, young kids and health care workers to be vaccinated first. the house is considering putting $550 million a year toward developing green technology cars. a vote should come today. the white house wants to raise the fuel efficiency standards too 35.5 miles per gallon by 2016. the community organizing group acorn very much in the news has drawn fire since the election of '08. and a conservative film maker says he's got more ammo against the group. a new video tape allegedly shows more acorn mils conduct.

a georgia man is charged with punching and kicking a female army reservist while her little girl looked on in horror. 47-year-old beat him up because she told him be careful. he almost hit her daughter as he opened the restaurant's door. he forced her to the ground and kicked her in the head, all the while yelling racial slurs. >> clearly a shocking incident to where a man that is twice the size of this female beats her down in front of the child. >> it really bother me that she had to see that. i want justice served. i don't want him to -- i don't want him to do this to anybody else. >> the fbi is investigating this as a hate crime, west, the suspect claims that hill spit on him. witnesses say they never saw that. police are not ready to release the security video that captured

the entire incident reportedly. west is charged with battery, disorderly conduct and cruelty to children. word of another incident involving a stranger spanking someone else's child. a cincinnati woman is due in court today accused of spanking a 2-year-old boy in a salvation army store yesterday. police say the toddler said something that apparently annoyed the woman. officers say then she told the boy's mother she didn't know how to take care of her son, put him over her knee and spanked him three times. she's facing an assault charge. earlier this month a georgia man was arrested for slapping a woman's daughter in a walmart. robert stevens was charged with cruelty to children. acorn has announced new steps after staffers were exposed in embarrassing nonprofit. a fourth undercover video has surfaced showing an employee of say corn giving tips to a fake

pump and prostitute. this is in california. in it a female acorn employee admits she has some firsthand ex experience. she says the staffer knew she was being set up and was only playing along. the police department looked into the claim of her being a killer and in a statement said they've been in contact with all of the known former husbands and they're all alive and well. they have fired four employees seen in other videos. the senate voted to block some federal grants for acorn. now republicans in congress want the president to cut ties with the organization all together. the blackout film festival is this weekend in new york. 6 the founder describes it as an event inspired film festival. this year's theme being the

recession. over 18 short films were submitted. he was surprised so many took a light hearted approach. >> hi my anytime is tom. i'm the founder and director of the blackout film festival. next saturday, september 19th, we're going to be holding a blackout film festival for the recession. we've assembled 18 entertaining films about the current economic recession and can't wait to share them with audiences. >> this is director of wall street chicken. one of the most unexpected results of this year's festival is that despite the serious theme, film makers generally responded with upbeat positive films. can you tell me why you chose to take that approach with wall street chicken? >> first of all, people don't want to be dragged down when

they go see a movie. they want to be entertained. they want to laugh. it's always better to laugh. laughing can relieve you from anything. >> when you are up against a recession you sort of have to go the opposite way in order to draw people in. >> the heavier the subject is the more importantly to treat it lightly. i released a lot of it as a comedy. really powerful and sincere. it doesn't feel cheap or exploited but manages to be light hearted in the midst of strategy. one of the amazing things are the people. >> you codo so much with so little money. their goal was to gather a variety of films that explored the recession in ways the film makers saw fit. you can catch it in manhattan

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we're just getting this picture in. we know very little about it. the smoke you see at the top of the screen is the wreckage of a plane that missed the runway at the hayward, california, executive airport. a small plane literally missed the runway, went over a road. there's a better shot. went over the road and caught on fire. right by a series of buildings and what looked like railroad tracks. which paralleled the runway. it is said to be a king air twin turbo. the plane had taken off. it was returning. obviously some sort of mechanical issue. that's why it would return. it missed the runway all together and burst into flames. we don't know the fate of those on board. four men are charged with

gang raping a student at long island university. newspaper reports say the man snatched an 18-year-old woman's cell phone as she was dancing at a party on the campus. he used that phone to lure her to a dorm bathroom where she was tied up and gang raped. some students are upset with university officials because they first learned about the attack on facebook. police are still searching for a fifth suspect. there's word from hill college in texas that three basketball players are being held in connection with the alleged rape of a fellow student. the school's president said the incident occurred monday night at a campus dorm. the victim was treated at a hospital and is now home with her feap. family. an idaho woman says one minute she was talking and laughing with her husband, and the next she had a tree limb sticking out of her throat. we have to warn you, these pictures are hard to take. last week newlyweds michelle and her husband were taken a scenic drive and somehow a limb from the spruce tree came right through the passenger's side window and impaled her neck. she doesn't know exactly what

happened. but she does remember strange pressure on her neck and shoulder and the panic on her husband's face. >> i would say, i love you, but i couldn't hardly move my jaw. the tree was stuck and had my jaw stuck. i was praying not to take my baby from me. she was just beautiful. i was thankful she was alive. >> doctors removed the 13-inch limb from her neck and throat. she says they did a great job. she's recovering at home. at the health care debate ramps up, a new survey is out giving freash ammunition for those fighting for reform. stephanie elam is along with details. >> well, chuck, think about this. 160 million americans get their health insurance through their employers. here's the thing. those costs are rising fasts. a new family foundation study founds employee sponsored

premiums jumped 5% to more than 13,000 zlrz for a family. as costs grow, more companies are passing those increases to workers by raising premiums and other out of pocket costs. this year 22% of individuals hat a $1,000 deductible. >> how does this play into the health care debate? this study finds employer based premiums could top $30,000 by 2019. that's if costs keep growing at the same rate as the last ten years. the fear is no business or family would be able to afford coverage if that happened. those opposed agree the high costs must be addressed by the real question is how.

many democrats want a public option. the republicans in the insurance industry say that will drive public insurance out of business. even though the baucus plan doesn't have a public option, no republican has signed it yet so chuck, a debate that will change -- continue to rage on and on as people try to figure out how to change the system and make it better for all americans. >> yeah, meanwhile, meanwhile, is 6% of our gdp, something like that. >> a huge chunk of it. >> and soon to be 20, i heard. stephanie elam, thank you very much. more at cnnmoney.com. check it out. speaking of business news, positive news in industrial production is helping wall street have a pretty good day. it's a triple-digit day, with about ten minutes to go in the trading session. the d.j. industrial's up 104 or so. all of the broader indices are also in the green, in positive territory. a 353-pound alligator proved no match for a high school cheerleader. 16-year-old took down a ten-foot gator with a crossbow sunday in a south carolina swamp. he's been hunting with her dad since she was 2 years old but

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a medical examiner provides at least one answer in the mystery surrounding annie le. the cause of her death, but many questions still remain about the killing of this yale grad student. police are honing in through this house where kidnapping victim jaycee dugard was allegedly held captive for 18 years. why investigators say the house may be the key to finding two other missing girls. a former president sees a racial overtone in the anger directed at current chief executive. we'll hear your views on that. welcome to hln "news & views." i'm richelle carey. i hope that you're having a good day right now. police in new haven,

connecticut, have scheduled a news conference for about an hour and a half from now. they're going to talk about the latest developments in the investigation at the killing of a yale grad student. in the medical examine's office in new haven, connecticut, says 24-year-old annie le was strangled to death. the office also says it cannot say anything at this point about whether there were signs of sexual assault. forensics experts are now testing the dna of a yale university lab technician to see if he might be linked to her. they searched raymond clark's apartment yesterday. they also towed away his mustang. clark's attorney says he is cooperating with investigators. his sister, his brother-in-law, and fiancee, all are all technicians that the lab where annie le worked. new haven's police chief saysta clark is not the only person they are investigating. >> we're also making sure that there's not other potential suspects. and so avoiding the issue of tunnel vision, we're looking at everyone that had access to that

building and could had been during there during that time period. we have at this point look at 700 hours of worth of video. interviewed over 750 people. some interviewed a second time. we've got over 150 pieces of evidence seized so far. >> annie le's body was found stuffed behind a wall in the lab sunday, which was supposed to had been her wedding day. and be sure to watch "nancy grace tonight" on hln "news zp views." nancy goes in-depth on the annie le case and brings us up to date on the major latest developments on the latest on this murder investigation. that's right here on hln "news & views." four men are charged with gang-raping a student at long island's hofstra university. the newspaper reports say that a man snatched the 18-year-old woman's cell phone while she was dancing at a party on the hempstead campus. he used the phone to lure her to a bathroom where she was tied up and gang raped.

some students of upset with the university officials because they first learned about this attack on facebook. police are still searching for a fifth suspect. california authorities are -- again, back at the home of kidnapping suspect phillip garrido. they started the search yesterday. and they're looking for clues into the disappearance of two young girls who went missing in the late '80s. investigators expect the search will take several days. garrido and his wife are already charged with kidnapping jaycee dugard, keeping her captive for 18 years. they have pleaded not guilt nethat case, and police say that jaycee dugard's 1991 kidnapping, that it has similarities to the disappearance of two other young women, michaela garecht in 1998 and ilene misheloff in 1989. both garecht and misheloff were abducted from cities less than 50 miles from antioch. and dugard and garecht when you put their pictures side by side, you can see they look-alike. and not only that the sketch of the suspect and in garecht's abduction resembles photos of phillip garrido at the time.

and also this, police say that there were similarity in the getaway vehicle in both garecht and misheloff's cases and a car found on garrido's property. got some live pictures to show you right now. there's a plane that crashed in the bay area in california. this is hayward, california's municipal airport. apparently a twin-engine beach craft king air had just taken off. there were some sort of mechanical problem. the plane tried to get back. didn't make it to the runway and you can see the result. crashed and there was a fire. no word yet on how many people were on board. how many injuries as a result of this, but this plane tried to come back after mechanical problems and then ended up crashing right there at the airport. a virginia judge has set november 10th as the execution date for convicted d.c. sniper john allen muhammad. prosecutors have requested muhammad be put to death before, a monday, but judge wanted to make sure government offices will be opened the day before the execution.

just in case something happens, that requires action from the governor or from the courts. muhammad was convicted of the 2002 murder of a virginia man at a gas station in manassas, and all and his teenager accomplice lee boyd malvo shot 13 people in the d.c. area killing ten of them. got just in to hln a short time ago. we got cell phone pictures of singer chris brown performing his community service. wtvr reporter waincobalt took these pictures and today is the first of 180 days chris brown is serving as part of a sentence of assaulting his former girlfriend rihanna back in february. brown in cleaning police horse stabiles in richmond, virginia. he's also going to wash official vehicles. pick up trash and remove graffiti all over the next several months. again, that's 180 days. a huge, huge fire engulfed this multimillion dollar home. it is massive. this is near los angeles. it happened this morning. nobody was hurt in all this, but

the homeowner says he lost a priceless art collection. a fab erge egg and a violin. investigators say it will take a while to confirm those lows. they were able to keep these flames from spreading to neighbor's houses in the hollywood hills area. this fire is out now but no word on what caused that huge fire. well, the senate finance committee will take up a health care reform plan next week. that is by far the most modest proposal yet considered by congress. it's going to cost $856 billion over two years. that's what the plan calls for. chairman max bacchus holds out hope, some republicans will support it, but senate minority leader mitch mcconnell has blasted the proposal. and a republican, olympia snowe of maine who helped negotiate this plan, she's not committed to supporting it. >> this is our chance to reform health dmar america. we cannot let this opportunity pass.

last week president obama laid out what he believes are the key criteria for reform. it is to provide more security and stability for those with health insurance today, it should expand coverage to those who don't. age it should slow the growth of health care costs, and it should keep insurance companies honest. >> so here is a few bullet froints this plan. the plan will require every american to buy private health insurance. there's no government-run insurance plan. there would be nonprofit co-ops that could provide coverage. the proposal also forbids insurance companies from dropping policyholders if they get sick and it includes protections for people with preexisting medical conditions. baucuy is also proposing tax credits to help middle and low-income families to pay insurance and the measure would create insurance exchanges to help individuals in small groups, compare plans when they shop for coverage. so stay tuned when how it's

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white house spokesperson robert gibbs says president obama doesn't think criticism of his policies is based on the color of his skin. this is part of the growing fallout since congressman joe wilson shouted "you lie" during the president's speech on health care. yesterday, the house passed a resolution pretty much along party lines and it formally admonished south carolina republican joe wilson. house democrats say they did this because they wanted him to apologize to congress for his behavior, but wilson said that his personal apology to president obama that it applied to everyone. and now this, former president jimmy carter says he thinks

wilson's outburst was rooted in racism. carter told nbc's "nightly news" that them to it's part of a bigger backlash against the country's first black president. >> that racism in the nation still exists and i think it's bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the south, but around the country that african-americans are not qualified to lead this great country. >> all day we have been asking for your views on former president carter's comments. how, uploaded his view, his report using ireport.com. take a look at that. >> i'm frankly tired of the bickering between republicans and democrats over the last two weeks. i mean, first you had the republicans freaking out about obama making a speech. we made a big, big deal out of a

speech. and i blame republicans for making a big deal out of that. but now you have the democrats making a big deal out of joe wilson calling the president a liar. now, the quorum in which he said that might had been inappropriate. he has apologize bud he makes an interesting point about health care debate about the whole health care debate, about houthealth care plan might potentially apply to illegal immigrants. now that's debatable. but to say that if calling the president out is a racist now by injecting race and now you know in america, if you inject race into anything, you're going to -- you're basically blowing up the issue ten times bigger than it really is. and frankly i think we're just adding gasoline to the fire. >> been taking your fairly heated comments on my facebook page as well, just search richelle carey hln, if you want to jump in and leave your comments. so we picked a few. this is what amanda write. she says --

it's not funny. it's not fair. it is not true. it is a low blow and a sorry argument. conservatives come in all colors, ages and regions. i think that she meant to say religion, not sure. i'm a 25-year-old college student and i respect the president. alan says this, the opposite, racism is definitely playing a role in the opposition to the obama administration. many right-wing conservatives are simply against every idea that administration imposes simply because president obama is black. the president couldn't even give a speech to schoolkids about nothing but school without a controversy. so just a sampling of what you all been debating back and forth today. thanks for your e-mails, your phone calls, your facebook comments, as always. how about this, "primenews" starts at the top of the hour. a lot of topics there that are pretty controversial as well. check them out, cnn.com/primenews. got a picture to show you, i'm scared. i know that the thing's not alive but look at that, a

355-pound algator. no match for a high school cheerleader. 16-year-old took down the ten-foot gator with a crossbow sunday night near a swamp in south carolina. she was huntsing with her dad. she says she's been doing that since she was about 2 but that this was the first time she went alligator hunting. >> i thought it was going to be way smaller. i was just very shocked whenever it got to the bottom and it was that size. >> she is a cheerleader and everyone is like cheereders are wimpy. she does it all. she plays softball. >> she said this in particular was very exciting and she's thinking bigger and better next time she goes hunting. the community organizing group a.c.o.r.n. it's drawn a lot of fire since last year's election. it is now announcing some changes in light of a conservative filmmaker's latest

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in the new york area. they did not find that. and it's unclear whether anyone is still being detained. the fbi is also looking at locations in denver, where bomb-making materials may had been purchased. a.c.o.r.n. has announced new steps after some staffers were expos exposed -- in some embarrassing videos. it is ordering a complete independent review of the videos and also issuing a hiring freeze. now a fourth undercorpvideo is now out. apparently showing an employee of a.c.o.r.n. giving tips to a fake pimp prostitute. this is in san bernardino, california. in this video, a female a.c.o.r.n. employee admits she has some firsthand experience operating an escort service. she says "heidi fleish is high hero." and she also claims that she shot and killed her abusive husband ten years ago. now a.c.o.r.n. is saying the staffer knew she was being setup but she was just playing along. in fact, the san bernardino police department looked into

their claims of being a killer, and the statement said they've been in contact with the involved parties, known former husbands, that's their language, and that they're all alive and well. a.c.o.r.n. has fired four employees seen on other videos but it claims its videos are doctored. senate's already voted to block from a.c.o.r.n. man in georgia is charged with kicking. police say 47-year-old troy west beat up tashia hill just because she told him to be careful. apparently he almost hit her 7-year-old daughter when he was opening the doors to the restaurant. police say west forced the woman to the ground, kicked her in the head all while yelling racial slurs. >> it's clearly a shocking incident to where a man that's twice the size of this female

beats her down in front of the child. >> it just really bothers me that she had to see that. so i want justice served. i don't want him to -- i don't want them to ever do this to anybody else. >> west claims that hill spit on him. but witnesses say they never saw that. police are not ready to release a security video of this entire incident. west right now is charged with battery, misorderly conduct and cruelty on children and the hearing is set from a week from tomorrow. in idaho woman says the one minute she's walking, talking with her husband, enjoying the scenery. next, she had a tree limb sticking out of her throat. we have pictures of it. the pictures are graphic. they're difficult to look at. just follow me. last week newlyweds michelle childress and her husband taking a scenic drive. somehow lived from a spruce tree came through the passenger window and impaled her neck. she doesn't know exactly bhapd. she just remembers there was a strange pressure on her neck, her shoulder, and she remembers the panic on her husband's face.

>> i would say, i love you, but i couldn't hardly move my jaw because the tree was stuck and had my jaw stuck. i was praying all the way not take my baby from me. and she was just beautiful. i was just thankful she was alive. >> doctors removed that 13-inch limb if her neck and throat during a six-hour surgery. she says they did a great job and she is recovering at home. so clearly hey did. investors continue to buy more after two more reports. shed positive light at the u.s. economy. stephanie elam is at the business desk in new york with today's trading details. let's get to it, girl. >> reporter: all right, richelle, guess what, stocks have now posted gains in eight of the last nine sessions as optimism about the recovery continues to grow. that's pushed all three major averages to their highest levels in nearly a year. let's just show you the numbers. the dow gained more than 1%, or

108 points to 9791. nasdaq and the s&p 500 both tacked on about 1.5%. fed chief ben bernanke's comments yesterday that the recession is very likely over, continued to boost stocks, and his view was supported by an upbeat report on the manufacturing sector. companies increased production more than expected last month. and today worth the return of anheuser-busch to the nyse. the company was acquired by the european giant inbev last year but bud is back on the big board. wall street shares gained 1.5%. richelle? >> all right, thanks, steph, have a good one. >> reporter: you too. the house is considering putting $550 million a year towards developing green technology cars. lawmakers could vote on this sometime today. the white house wants to raise will the fuel efficiency standards on 35 1/2 miles per gallon by 2016 and it wants the first limit on carbon dioxide emissions that contribute to global warming. police say a hofstra student was gang raped in a dorm.

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police in new haven, connecticut, have scheduled a news conference for about an hour from now. they're going to talk about the latest developments in the investigation of the killing of a yale grad student. the medical examiner's office in new haven says 24-year-old annie le was strangled to death. the office also says it cannot say anything at this point about whether there were signs of sexual assault. forensic experts are now testing the dna of a yale university lab technician to see if he might be linked to this killing. his name is raymond clark. there he is right there. they searched his apartment yesterday. they towed away his ford mustang. his attorney says he's cooperating with investigators. his sister, brother-in-law, and

fiancee are also techs at that lab where annie le worked. new haven's police chief says clark is not the only person they're investigating in this case. >> we're also making sure that there's not other potential suspects and so we're avoiding the issue tunnel vision. we're look at everyone that had access to that building. and could had been there during that time period. looked at 700 hours worth of video. some we interviewed a second time. we've got over 150 pieces of evidence seized so far. >> annie le's body was found stuffed behind a wall in the lab sunday. and sunday is the day she was going to be married. be sure to watch "nancy grace" tonight on hln news & views. she goes in-depth on the annie le case and she brings us up to date on the latest developments into the murder investigation. right here on hln "news & views." california authorities are,

again, back at the home of kidnapping suspect phillip garrido. this started yesterday and they're back for this reason. they're looking for clues into the disappearance of two young girls who went missing in the late 1980s. investigators expect to be there conducting this search for several days. garrido and his wife were charged with kidnapping jaycee dugard and keeping her captive for 18 years. they've pleaded not guilty. and now have some cell phone photos of singer chris brown performing his community service. wtvr reporter wayne cobalt took the pictures. today is the first day of brown's 180 days he's serving as part of a sentence for assaulting his former girlfriend rihanna in february. is cleaning horse stabiles. had is from richmond, virginia, where he's from. and wash vehicles, pick up trash and remove graffiti all over the next several months. got new developments with the community organizing group, a.c.o.r.n. the group has announced a hiring freeze. no more new workers will be

hired until it completes an independent review, and this is all coming after a string of undercorpvideos surfaced and that allegedly show a.c.o.r.n. workers to give advice about how to evade the i.r.s. and how to help a couple posing as a pimp and a prostitute creating brothel involving underaged girls. abbie boudreau joins us to break this down. these developments have come since i spoke to you, couple of hours, you got an upnight and brand-new information. a.c.o.r.n. is reacting to all of these videos taken says that it's reviewing policies nationwide. now this news comes after the very latest video was released. tape number four, which was shot in san bernardino, california. and that one's pretty interesting because the a.c.o.r.n. worker claim that she too once ran a prostitution service. now she says she was playing games with the filmmakers. here's a clip from that web video.

>> service. >> yeah. >> heidi fleish is high hero. >> really? >> i understand and believe me i do know because i used to employee girls that would do this because they didn't care. i had people who would take care of every little -- you know every fancy. >> and the a.c.o.r.n. worker didn't stop there and told the pair that she had killed her ex-husband. >> i shot him. i shot him in self-defense. >> in self-defense? >> and i picked up the gun and i said [ bleep ] and he died right there. >> and of course that's not the whole story. the. the san bernardino police department looked into the woman's claim to be a killer and issued this statement "the claims do not appear to be factual. investigators had been in contact with the involved parents, no former husbands who are alive and well. and remember the couple who took the video, james o'keefe and hannah giles are both conservative activists and don't try to hide the nact they're on a mission to take down a.c.o.r.n. a group that's been the subject

of serious allegations of corruption and election fraud. a.c.o.r.n. is fighting back just as hard. a.c.o.r.n. provided us with a statement, a sworn statement from the woman in the video which says "i told them several times that a.c.o.r.n. would not support what they were doing in any way." the woman also denies of having run a call girl service. is. she says "i felt like they were playing games with me so i proceeded to play games with them." the woman also says she had no idea she was being taped and of course we are attempting to contact her. a.c.o.r.n. says the video posted by o'keefe and giles was editted to cast the woman and the organization in the worst possible light. and said it wants to see the raw footage from this and the previous videos. so. >> okay. the filmmakers of o'keefe and giles. >> right. >> ithon have reached out to them. any success, any signs that we're going to be able to talk to them. >> they have not contacted us. i mean we have contacted them from the very, very beginning. but they have not returned repeated calls from cnn.

so all we can do is keep trying and reaching out and of course wanting to hear more about what -- why they were doing this in the first place. and in the meantime, of course, reachingut to the employees and hopefully talk to some these a.c.o.r.n. work bhoers can tell us more of what they were thinking and more from their side. >> all right, that's exactly what we want. thank you very much, abbie, for breaking that down for us. and in giving us everybody's statement. because everyone wants to defend themselves. appreciate it. >> all right, thanks. four men are charged with gang raping a student at long island's hofstra university. newspaper reports say a man snatched the 18-year-old woman's cell phone while she was dancinging at a party on the hempstead campus. he used the phone to lure her to a dorm bathroom where she was tied up and gang raped. and some of the students are really upset with university officials because they say they first learned about this attack on facebook. police are still searching for a fifth suspect. huge fire engulfing multimillion dollar home in los angeles this morning.

nobody was hurt in all this, but the homeowner, he says he lost priceless art collection. a faberge egg and a violin. investigators say it will take a while to confirm all of his losses. able to keep the flames from spreading to a neighbor's homes. this is in a hollywood hill's area. fire's out. no word on wa caused it yet. an update on a plane crash in the bay area. this is hayward, california's municipal airport. authorities say the only person on board was the pilot. firefighters pulled him from the wreckage, got him to the hospital. don't know how he's doing. but apparently this twin-engine beech craft king air had just taken off. some sort of mechanical problems so the pilot tried get back to the airport. did to the make it to the runway. you can see right there, the plane crashed and caught fire. only person on board is the pilot. white house spokesperson robert gibbs says president obama doesn't think criticism of his policies are based on the

color of his skin. that's just part of the growing fallout since a congressman shouted "you lie" during the president's speech on health care last week. yesterday the house passed a resolution mostly along party lines. this resolution formally admonished south carolina republican joe wilson. house democrats wanted him to apologize to congress right there on the floor for his behavior, but wilson says his personal apology to president obama applied to everyone and he wouldn't apologize anymore and now former president jimmy carter says he thinks wilson's outburst was rooted in race pichl he told nbc's "nightly news" it's part of a bigger backlash against the country's first black president. >> that racism in the nation still exists. and i think it's bubbled up to the surface because of a belief among many white people, not just in the south but around the country, that african-americans are not qualified to lead this

great country. >> so do you agree with what former president carter is saying? let us know what you think. we'll be airing some of your comments a little bit later in the newscast.

four u.s. companies have won approval from the fda to begin manufacturing the just-approved h1n1 vaccine. swine flu. but how do they make this stuff? cnn.com has a behind-the-scenes' look at how the h1n1 drug is made and dot com's live nicole

lapin is here to joins us. interesting stuff. >> how vaccines are made, you probably sit up late at night thinking about it, so i have the answer for you, taking you inside at sino biotech which is in china, and they are the first ones to develop the h1n1 vaccine. so let's go inside. i learned a whole slew of things about how vaccines are made. so i want to impart all of thigh knowledge to you. it starts with thousands of fertilized eggs. and then those eggs are basically infected with virus. then those eggs that are infected with the virus are left to incubate for about three days. then the virus is extracted from the egg. it's similar to other vaccines and how they're made. the virus is then rendered inactive, created for purification and then bad bing, bada boom, they are bottled, labeled, they are stored in containers, and then you get that shot. did you learn something? i hope you did. there will not be a test after this. >> okay, thank you. but yes, i did learn something.

the video's amazing too. >> it is amazing. and they wear those biotech suits as well because they're dealing with all of this hazardous material. tell you though that this is just in china. hasn't been approved for the united states though, and i know a lot of questions about, hey, when it does come here, you know should i get it, should my kids get it? we have all of that info detailed on cnn.com/h1n1. don't go to slash swine flu. go to h1n1. and i promise you it getious right there. >> it does and we're using the proper name for it and we're a few weeks away, at least, from people able to get it, at least. one thing that everybody has, everybody has a facebook account. >> yes. >> and they're counting, too. they're counting. >> man, there are basically as many users, richelle, as there are people in the united states. >> that's huge. mean think about the power that facebook has if god forbid a natural disaster or something. they can really mobilize a

population on facebook. one out of every 22 people, richelle, on this planet are on facebook. so the ceo is announcing now that they've hit the 300 million mark. that's not the only announcement they have out. now they are cash flow positive. now, richelle, that doesn't necessarily mean they are profitable. it just means their regular income is outpacing standard expenses. >> okay? so a lot of the revenue is generated by ad sales but this is a big deal because you know how much talk there has been as of late about the viability of social network sites and where in the world they're going to make money in the future. are they going to go by the way of myspace and friendster? and now facebook is saying that they are not necessarily making tons of money, but they are at least in the green for right now. a lot of people are thinking, so does that mean they are going to be sold to somebody?

google buy them? common wisdom on the net is that they are probably going to go public. the ceo came out and said it could be in a few years. perhaps an ipo could happen then. >> all right but for now they are trying to prove they have staying power. >> and a lot of folks. >> thank you. and a lot of folks. all right, good stuff. 355-pound aligator proved to be no match for a high school cheerleader. 16-year-old cami collin took down a ten-foot gator with a crossbow sunday night at a swamp in south carolina. she was hunting with her dad. she says she's been doing that since she was about 2 but this is the first time she went alligator hunting. she says this was very exciting. and she hopes to land an even bigger catch on her next trip. just weeks after a georgia man was charged with slapping a stranger's child at a walmart, we're hearing about something else very similar. we'll tell you what happened this time and whether the suspect's facing charges. denise! you've lost weight! it's just all these giant things make me look small. i eat this fiber one yogurt.

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"primenews" coming up in just a few minutes. let's check in with mike. he's gite preview at the top of the hour. we've got new information today,

mike, in the murder investigation of annie le, and it seems like every -- every hour or so there's new information coming out now. >> yeah, exactly. we'll be all over that, as you have been. we're talking about an arrest made overnight. that person arrested, not a suspect. but we know they were detained for a bit of time. so we'll talk about that. what do we know about this person? we know that person was wlifg a fiancee. again, this is, as richelle mentioned this is in the death of 24-year-old annie le, her body found sunday, the day she was set to be married. we'll take your calls, your theories, your questions on this at n . we're going to show you a brutal bus attack, this is near st. louis, it's actually in illinois. the two kids, a 17-year-old kid wanted to have a seat, day after day, they wouldn't let hit sit down on this bus. finally he moved the kid's book bag. not only one, but two kids beat him up. we see that but another video of a girl attacks another girl. cutting her, burning her, what's

going on with our kids? can we keep them safe at school. >>? we'll have that conversation. keep your calls. update you on the community group, a.c.o.r.n. we have new information, richelle, like with annie le. we seem to have a new development with that every day, new videos coming out. there could be more videos to come. abbie boudreau, cnn special investigations unit is going to join with us the very latest on that. all size of it and find out exactly, will there be more videos to come? as always, take your calls, 1-877-tell-hln is the number or text us. "primenews" is coming a little more than ten minutes away. >> jam-packed show. people are fired up about this. i have been checking your comments on my facebook page. richelle carey hln and facebook, that's how you get there. the topic of president carter's comments have really struck a nerve and picked out of them. share them with you. says this "president obama will never be able to avoid some racism from some the people in this nation. racism is inbred or perpetuated

from generation to generation. many racists of in denial and not honest with themselves about the true feelings. the number of these people have gone down but we still have some growth growth yet. i my hope is that this reality will at some point be seen by all. this is what mike had to say. i don't feel racism is driving the comments on president obama. it is our freedom to negatively view the presidency just as bush, clinton, et cetera. it is my opinion that the racism issue will never go away because there are certain black americans that keep playing the race card. dare we discuss jesse jackson or al sharpton. we as a country elect ad black american as president. can't we all just move forward? okay. let's get to chad's comment now. race will always and forever be a topic along political lines, no matter how you slice the pie. why? white people founded our government and racism took root when africans were brought over to become slaves for white people. when one race claimed

superiority over another it's racism. just because we have a president of color doesn't erase slavery from the history book. one more comment. i told you all were passionate. abbey says -- i think some of it it is racism but not to the extent that search claiming. a stranger allegedl in cincinnati say gloria ballard was arrested and accused of spanking a 2-year-old boy at a salvation army store. ballard is now facing an assault charge. cincinnati police say the toddler said something that apparently annoyed her. police say she then told the boy's mother she didn't know how to take care of her son. she put him over her knee and spanked him three times and, yes, it was earlier this month a georgia man was arrested for stopping a woman's daughter at a stone mountain walmart. robert stevens was charged with cruelty to children in the first degree. as harry potter books are not enough for you and harry

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