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madness. a snap between the judges and serena williams makes for an ugly semifinals at the u.s. open. snapshots of a miracle. a new exhibit puts pictures on display of the plane that landed in the hudson. we have all of that plus remembering the wall street meltdown one year later. but first, the new developments in the desperate search for missing yale grad watt student annie le. investigators say evidence was found saturday at the building where she was last seen six days ago but authorities aren't saying what kind of missing person's case they're dealing with. >> we are not in a position today to conclude whether this is a missing persons case or whether criminalality is involved and i need to stress that. >> there are reports today that bloody clothing found belonged to annie le. the fbi, however, is not even saying what's been found. >> all i will say is that items
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that could potentially be evidence have been seized. none have yet been associated with annie le. >> police also say there are 70 security cameras in the area where le was last seen. investigators have been poring over the tapes but no sign of the 24-year-old grad student and this, the day she was to be married. still no suspects. >> we have not identified anyone as a person of interest. we have conducted numerous interviews. i would say i do not know whether it's den givety she has left the building at this point. >> yale is now offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to le. and joining me live is clint van zantd, a msnbc analyst. another very somber good morning to you, clipt, on the heels of this news. >> absolutely. >> doesn't seem to be a major announcement but the clothing. >> yeah. a couple of things closed in on
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us on this press conference. number one is that the fbi and other investigators have still not been able to show she left the building. she left 120,000-square foot lab with a parking garage housing 1,000 cars. they have yet to put her out of that building. we know she went into the building at 10:00 a.m. swipes the key card and goes there. there's a fire alarm set off by steam, an automatic alarm that could be either unintentional or intentional. that goes off at 12:40. when everybody bails out of the building at the time, but so far, even with a frame by frame analysis, authorities have not been able to say that she left the building. and what's just as important, alex, i think is the fbi put down a report that was circulating yesterday saying that a body had been found inside that building. the fbi said, absolutely not. no body at this time. >> clint, the fact that they're not saying much, i mean, is there more in your mind that is being said?
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the way you interpret it. >> well, there can be. there's always reason for what you say and what you don't say. you realize that if foul play is involved that the person or persons involved could be listening, trying to figure out what their next move should be as zoo as a profiler i worked -- we worked very hard to make sure that the press conferences like the one last night are scripted appropriately so that you drive the bad guy. you drive the potential killer either one way or the other. there can be some things in there that were said or not said that have, you know, investigative purpose, too, but right now what we know is supposedly items of investigative interest were found. some media reports, bloody clothing up in a ceiling and taking somebody on a ladder getting up in a false ceiling, stuffing the items there. if they did that, the question still reigns supreme, where's annie? >> absolutely. is that whole building been
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declared a crime scene? this is a huge building. >> yeah. it's a huge building and number one, it is a potential crime scene because you don't know where if an assault took place where necessarily it took place and realize number two the fbi, the local police, state police, they have to interview everyone inside that building. professors, students, janitors, visitors. alex, it is not as simple as saying whose key card went in because, you know, you and i know many times we go into a door, swipe the key card and two or three people slide in behind you so the challenge is, too, not just who went in but everybody that went in and say, who went in behind you that didn't swipe a card? >> well, what a task for the investigators. okay, clint, thanks so much. more from you later. stay tuned to this because coming up in the next half hour, a live update from the yale campus in connecticut on the search for annie le. from there to politics now
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and president obama preparing for a four-state swing this week fighting for control of the health reform message. >> i'm not going to let people misrepresent what's in my plan. i will not accept the status quo. not this time. not now. >> i'm joined live from washington with white house reporter for "the washington post." good morning, ann. >> good morning. >> so the president had that minnesota crowd fired up in the 47 minutes 0 of that speech for the health care plan. at this point in the debate, is this the most effective way for the president to try to get control of the debate? >> well, the white house certainly thinks so and judging from that rally you showed clips from i would say probably yes and we haven't seen that enthusiasm for him really since the campaign. now, this white house saw during two years of campaign august in which the public sort of soured
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on him or at least his popularity dimmed a little bit. only to see it come back in september and october. so i think they're hoping to see that again this year that it was not a great august and things are picking up now. get him on the road and campaigning for health care. >> fired up in minneapolis. also fired up in washington yesterday, activists. tens of thousands of people gathering to protest the administration's handling of everything from health care to the auto bank bailout. were you surprised by that turnout? >> well, yeah. it is this free wheeling organization that's a loose-knit reform uprising if you will. that's sort of picked up steam over the year as we've seen different issues, taxes, health care even some birthers thrown in who have come up sort of in generalized opposition to the president. it was a pretty large crowd. not the largest we have seen in washington but i think what we are seeing is deja vu and the intensity of the opposition to
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him remain strong as they kind of figure out they're all in opposition to him even though they don't have a single issue uniting them. >> yeah. at what point might it hurt the white house to continue to kind of dismiss these voices? i mean, they're not one big, cohesive group, whether they have the lobbying power to get noticed, is there a point where the white house would be hurt by dismissing them or are they dismissing them? >> they're trying to do kind of a two-pronged approach. yes, they are dismissing them, obviously. dismissive of sarah palin and the death panels and the president did at least speech to congress and other points in time talk about the critics of the plan and don't agree with him and wanting to reach out to them. trying to do both. the president certainly tries very hard not to insult his critics. >> okay. let's get to health care with the bipartisan gang of six meeting tomorrow. they could propose something as early as tuesday.
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we have got three dems, three republicans in the group. might we see emerging republican support for something? >> possibly. but i have to say that the white house is still focused on the democrats. there's snowe a part of it. but i think at this point seeing the white house hoping for is they'll get a democratic coalition without losing people in the house. even saw the president yesterday reiterating his determination to support the public option if no other alternative is arrived at so i think, yes, they would like to see that but not counting on it. >> what do you think in terms of predictions? will we have a health care bill before the end of the year or as the vice president says thanksgiving? >> i actually don't do predictions because if i do, whatever i say the opposite will occur. i think i can say that the white house certainly i think even beyond just the spin they're giving us because the spin is to get it done by thanksgiving, they seem increasingly confident. they seem more confident today than they did last tuesday. so i think they think so but as
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we have seen with the debate before it can turn on a dime. >> absolutely. okay. anne, thanks so much. >> thank you. coming up this hour, a live report from the white house on the president's plans for the week including what he'll say tomorrow in new york marking the anniversary of the collapse of lehman brothers. well, police in sacramento, california, arrested 15 homeless people for illegally camping on a vacant lot. many of them made their way back to the lot and half a dozen police raids of the makeshift campgrounds since the lot's opener opened it up to the homeless last month. the campers say they are staying put. tennis star serena williams is going home without a shot at defending the u.s. open title. after a dispute with judges over a call at a critical point in the match it was quite the scene and my colleague is joining me with the details. what happened here, dan? she was the number two seed.
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>> she obviously as you said, number two. so serena williams, though, simply exploded when she was called out for stepping over the line and it was at a crucial point in the match. here's what happened. take a look at this. the incident began being called out for a foot fault and that call gave her opponent a free point and put serena one point away from losing and williams got into a spat to say the least with the judge. take a look. [ inaudible ] >> i didn't say i would kill you. are you serious? are you serious? i didn't say that. >> okay. if you read her lips, you even take out the bleeps, it's still tough to make out what specifically she said. serena herself, she tried to set
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the record straight on what happened on the court. >> she said i would kill you. i was like, what? i was like, wait a minute. i had misheard. she never said that. that was just something -- i was like, whoa, whoa. wait a minute. let's -- let's not. i'm not that way. she was like, no. i didn't say that. she said something else. i used to have a real temper and i've gotten a lot better so -- you don't believe me but i used to be worse. yes, yes, indeed. >> well, unfortunately for her, that outburst did cost her the match. she was given a point penalty for unsportsmanlike conduct. kleister will go for the title. alex? certainly, well, exciting. i mean, a lot of people couldn't believe what they saw last night. >> yeah. such a bummer. now no u.s. woman in the finals and the guys tapped out a while ago. >> yeah. >> unsportsmanlike conduct,
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should be better than that. lesson learned we hope. thanks very much, dan. still ahead, it was the collapse felt around the world. a look at what's changed as we approach the one-year anniversary of the lehman brothers demise. the miracle on the hudson like you have never seen it before. a closer look coming up. ♪ i got troubles, oh ♪ but not today ♪ 'cause they're gonna wash away ♪ ♪ they're gonna wash away ♪ ♪ ♪ they're gonna wash away ♪ this old heart ♪ gonna take them away [ quacks ] back playing in the afternoon.
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roadways. as much as three to five inches of rain is expected through sunday night and then in western florida flooded streets and basements. a flood warning in effect for manatee county. 50 miles south of tampa until the beginning of this week. four to seven inches of rain fell overnight friday into saturday making for a soggy mess. president obama will be givinging a major speech on the economy tomorrow. the one-year anniversary of the collapse of lehman brothers. what is the state of the nation's banks and economy now? here's what treasury secretary geithner told congress this week. >> i think the u.s. financial system today is in substantially stronger shape than three months ago, six months ago, nine months ago and on the eve of this recession. >> a financial reporter or "the new york post" joins me now. good morning. >> good morning. >> do you agree with that? >> yes. it is true. that the financial system is in a better position than a year
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ago or six months ago. banks trust each other again and credit is flowing better. the reason that's happening is because the government supported these financial institutions in a massive way. trillions of dollars and kinds of guarantees and investments and that sort of thing. we have financial stability but come at quite a price. >> are we guaranteed that the economy will continue to tick up upwards back on the path to precover ri? >> no guarantees. we are probably growing the second half of the year. inventory's got so low. factories have to crank up again to create more cars and make more things for their customers. but that's not the same as the sustained recovery. as consumers try to figure out how how to get their debt loads in line as these structural changes in the economy happen, there's no guarantees that we have a sustained recovery but we have things looking better than that few months ago. >> what do we expect to hear from the president tomorrow? >> i think part of what the administration is doing is
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trying to remind people of how dark things were this time a year ago and six months ago. they want to make clear that the policies result in what we're seeing. trying to say, hey, look what we did. that said, it is a risky thing. with another tick down in a next few months, we are in a fragile state with the economy and could leave them looking bad if unemployment rate rises too far or if we have another return of the crisis. >> if the obama administration reworks the rescue of the financial system, what kind of changes are they proposing now? >> now they're talking about regulatory reform. trying to do things to keep wall street from going back to the bad behaviors that resulted in the crisis. they want tighting capital requirements, for example. they want a new regulator to protect consumers, working their way through congress and stalled a bit. they haven't moved as fast as we were expecting. everybody expects these things to happen but when. might not be this year and given
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the health care debate. >> with all of this that's come with the federal bailout program, it is scheduled to expire at the end of the year unless secretary git near asks congress for an extension. should he? do you think he's likely to do that? >> regardless of what he should do, he will. he has to write a letter to congress by december 31st explaining why to keep the financial bailout in place. there's not much chance that he wouldn't do that. they want to keep the tool available in case we have another return to crisis, a major institution about to fail and bring the rest of the economy with it. they don't want to take the power off the table and lose the, you know, lose the options they have to try and salvage the financial system. >> neil, is there a difference between should and will? i mean, is this a key, should be doing this? yes, he is going to but is there a difference there? >> the truth is it really is helpful to have options on the table. you know, the reason lehman
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brothers went bankrupt last year is because the government didn't have the powers to do anything about it. now, you know, the t.a.r.p. is not a long-term solution. having $700 million in a kitty is not a great policy. figuring out what replaces it takes more than a few months. >> okay. neil irwin, as always, pleasure. thanks so much. >> thank you. still ahead, a live report from connecticut as new clues turn up in the search for a missing yale student. keep it here. e. a sanctuary. a command center. ( both revving ) a sophisticated sedan. a sports car. together. nissan maxima, the four-door sports car. now get a new nissan maxima for 0% apr financing for 60 months.
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agenda this week. what's on it? >> reporter: health care, health care and health care. >> okay. >> reporter: tomorrow, actually, travels to pennsylvania. perhaps a little change of pace speaking in pittsburgh to the annual afl-cio. on labor day he attended an afl-cio picnic in cincinnati. the speech is expected to touch on health care and has a fund-raiser for arlen specter as long as he is in the keystone state and then looking ahead to thursday, heads to nearby college park, maryland, speaking at the university of maryland to a rally much like the one we saw yesterday out in minneapolis. at the target center in downtown. it was very interesting, alex. there were tens of thousands of protesters on the west front of the capitol to protest president obama's policies, not just health care but a lot of people having anxiety and anger, frankly, over the amount of money the zboft spending, bailouts and the rest. you know the story. but back in minneapolis, the president spoke to i'd have to say adoring throng. 15,000 strong supporters who
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want change in health care so the fight continues. you're right. there could be movement in the senate as early as this week with an actual bill language and driters for weeks and months the gang of six and everybody waiting now on the edge of the seat to see how it works out, alex. nothing is settled at this point. >> mike, if you read between the tea leaves or get a sense of things, you can feel things in the air. do you get a sense that the white house is -- well, you know what i'm saying. do you get a sense that the white house is more positive after wednesday night's speech that they feel they have momentum going their way? are they feeling that way? >> reporter: i think they are and a feeling shared by democrats on the hill t. make or break issue is a public option where the government should offer a health care plan to compete with private plans and republicans dead set against it, unified in the opposition to that but democrats split down the middle and i think those on the democratic tleft see a public option heard in the president's speech encouraging
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words and those in the center of the political spectrum who happen to be democrats heard wriggle room there but there seems to be new momentum. whether it carries on and it will last another month at least remains to be seen. >> mike viqueira, many things. >> reporter: all right. today on "met the press" a debate. if it's sunday, it is "meet the press" so check your local listings for the time. the american student accused of kill ago roommate in italy is heading back to court. what to expect once that trial resumes next on msnbc sunday. or just one brita filter. ( drop plinks ) brita-- better for the environment and your wallet. you must be looking for motorcycle insurance. you're good. thanks. so is our bike insurance.
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for us. good morning to you, stephanie. what can we expect tomorrow? >> reporter: good morning, alex. well, you know, the trial was stopped early before the summer recess because it became clear that the defense teams didn't have the entirety of the dna evidence from the prosecution. they're now coming back after the two months and a lawyer told an italian newspaper they're now armed with the entirety of the evidence and new analysis and going to break some big news in this case over the next week or so. what they will contest principally are two pieces of dna evidence that the police and prosecution are relying on. one is dna on a blooded bra strap belonging to the victim found in the house. police cob tend that that dna belongs to solichi and the defense team says it is contaminated and doesn't prove anything. the other piece is dna on a knife that the police say was
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the murder weapon. amanda knox's defense team will say it's unlikely to be the murder weapon and insufficient proof of knox's involvement in that murder. alex? >> well, we'll see what all comes to pass in the trial but how outside the courtroom? it is a tough time for the families. what do you know about that? >> reporter: it really is. i mean, when you think about it, there's obviously the parents of meredith who lost their young daughter to a gruesome murder and watching it play out in this trial and the courtroom hearing graphic, explicit details of how their daughter was killed. even by italian standards the trial is lasting longer than usual and then you have the difficulty for both the parents of solikhito and amanda knox facing incredibly high legal fees. both families almost bankrupt. knox's family is relying on donations to be able to spend time with their daughter. >> wow.
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all right. thank you very much, stephanie goss from london. terrible time. well, tears of actress jennifer connelly and here's why. she was emotional while defending herself after reports of critics by the president of tv network and ripped up a picture of connelly in half after not seeing her at the opening night party. connelly says she made a brief appearance. >> my husband and i did go to your party last night but only very briefly. and i had to leave early because yesterday was the first anniversary of my father's death. and i'm very sorry. i would have loved to have stayed longer but was not able to so please accept my apologies. sorry. >> the president reportedly says he was just joking ripping up the picture. what a gracious statement for her to make, though. that guy better feel bad about
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himself. president obama's pulling out the stops this week to make sure his voice is the one you're hearing on health care. a national tv interview, a talk with ohio factory workers, a union speech in pennsylvania, rally in maryland. all that on the agenda. for more now on the president's agenda, i'm joined by eleanor trip and jonathan allen. and good morning to both of you. >> good morning, alex. >> good morning. >> i did get your thank you note, the one you wrote. >> i'm glad. >> the viewers know you are one of the last people i thank. it's very thoughtful. >> you're welcome and thank you again. >> okay. eleanor, here we go again. is there a point of diminishing point of returns on the speeches or no choice but to press on with them? >> i think it is former president lyndon johnson, a master of dealing with congress and said congress should be dealt with relentlessly and
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continuously and i think you have to apply that to the american public, as well. i think the white house learned the lesson of the summer where they lost the debate. they really didn't provide any counter point to all of the negative attacks that were out there. and i think he's now determined to blanket the air waves until he cuts a deal and he gave a great speech and he is a wonderful orator and better get a deal fast because the other recommendation of lyndon johnson is legislation that silts around starts to stink like a dead cat and time the not on this president's hand. he has to wrap this up quickly. >> okay, jonathan. i want the details. the white house now says that illegal immigrants barred from buying insurance through the exchanges that the government would set up under this health care reform plan. for all the flack that representative wilson got for shouting at the president in his speech, his outburst came when the president talked of
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immigrants but did the shout get results? >> i don't think so. his point of view is heard. we've seen from the senate stevens since then a movement to make sure that basically identification is checked in enrolling people which isn't something that was in there before and the debate has changed a little bit and we are seeing democrats respond to the republican concerns that just saying that it's illegal isn't as strong as checking i.d.s or even assessing penalties to people that subscribe illegal aliens into health care. >> eleanor, we're talking about what you write on newsweek.com say the president's speech to congress wednesday breathes new life into the democrats. why didn't the president address congress earlier? >> well, if he gets the bill, we'll say that his timing was perfect. so if he has talked to the country in june or july, august might still have wiped away the results of that speech. so i don't necessarily think
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that his timing is off. but he lost a lot of ground over the summer. and democrats were demoralized so he really needed to make this speech the other night because he was losing his own base. and then arithmetic of capitol hill is the republicans are irrelevant. they basically provide a united front against any reform with the possible exception of olympia snowe. the various strands of the party on the brink of breaking apart and brought the progressives back in basically saying public option is fine but insurance reform is good and they were basically clapping. and i think he gave enough to the conservative blue dogs so he brought the party together. >> what about the gang of six, jonathan? they reconvene tomorrow. how do you think the week plays out from their perspective? do you think bipartisan
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compromise is a possibility? despite what eleanor was saying. do you think there's a chance for it? >> i mean, real bipartisan compromise is unlike but i think the white house is looking for a fig leaf, a couple of republicans or even just olympia snowe coming over to get something to say we had some republican buy and snowe is well less than 1% of the republican party in congress. but if you look at this gang of six in addition to that you have some republicans that worked with democrats before. i know the white house wants to dismiss particularly grassley and also enzi but mike ensi worked with kennedy so he's somebody who can worked with and obviously is not something who's signed on to health bill yet. >> all right, you two, i'll check in with you again. thank you very much, eleanor and jonathan. >> thousand. an autopsy is planned today for a former adviser and top fund-raiser for disgraced illinois governor blagojevich.
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christopher kelly's death is being investigated as a suicide. he was supposed to start a prison sentence friday for tax fraud charges. he also pleaded guilty to taking part in a fraud against two airlines with hangares at o'hare and plotting with blagojevich to squeeze money from people and business seeking illinois state business. he pleaded not guilty. a busy day for firefighters in san francisco. lightning strikes from a thunderstorm sparked a series of fires in the bay area. a transformer exploded after it was hit. two parked cars were engulfed in flames there. at least 20 fires from the more than 400 reported lightning strikes. more than 50,000 homes lost power during that storm. and take a look at this. the coast guard rescued two men from this burning fishing vessel in texas. the crew of a helicopter saw the smoke yesterday afternoon and two men in a life raft. they were taken to the hospital. one is in stable condition.
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the condition of the other man is not known. let's get the very latest on the search for missing yale graduate student annie le. today the evidence inside the building where le was last seen but on this the sixth day she is missing and the day she was to be married authorities still being cautious. >> don't know where she is. we don't know what happened to her. we don't know if a crime was committed or not. >> nbc's mike tiabbi is live in connecticut with the latest. good morning to you. what can you tell us about the evidence? >> reporter: good morning, alex. the evidence as far as we were able to determine of yesterday consists of bloody clothing and other evidence which suggests the strong possibility of foul play and a source said that the police department that he's part of didn't think about the runaway bride scenario as suggestisu suggested but it's being
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explored as a missing person case. the officials of the university and several police agencies involved spent most of the press conference denying that the case was solved or anywhere close to it. no body is found. they said that they do not have a suspect or even persons of interest at this point although they have conducted many, many interviews at this point and the investigation continues. the reward of $10,000 posted by the university is still in force and still looking for help from any source possible. we are standing in front of the building where she was last seen tuesday at 10:00 a.m. she was married today in long island. that wedding of course called off. alex? >> mike, among those questioned, reportedly a man that works inside that building. are you getting anymore details on that particular interview? >> reporter: no, just that the person was interviewed and many people inside the building have been interviewed as the former profiler pointed out, hundreds of people coming in and out of this building. with the fire drill three hours
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after she was last seen on a camera tuesday, many came out of the building and hard to see and as clint said, they have gone over it frame by frame and not detected any one or person coming out looking like annie le and they have only seen her going in and not coming out again. >> okay. mike, in new haip, thank you. coming up in the next hour, a fbi profiler and analyst will offer analysis on where the case stands today. still ahead, a never before seen look inside the plane that landed on the hudson river. also, elton john revealing the plans to become a father. here on msnbc sunday. ( conversation ) garth, you're up. hold on, i'm at capitalone.com picking a photo...
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home in pieces as they told al rockier shortly after the hurricane hit. >> it is going to take a shovel at a time. most people in this situation realize that you can't do it by yourself. no man is an island. >> reporter: the couple spent almost every day of the past 12 months turning a house back into a home. >> there's a lot of hills and valleys throughout life and you got to overcome these things. >> reporter: amid the rebuilding and lives started over, the other story of the storm is those not coming back. by some estimates, the island has lost close to 20% of its population. the island's biggest employer, the university of texas medical branch laid off a third of its staff after the storm. those who didn't move away for a job left out of fear. >> i can't go through it again. i can never put my heart into a home and see it destroyed like that again. >> reporter: sill vie owe and her family are moving to an
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soont. she's not alone. for those committed to staying, rebuilding has been a slow process, more than 14,000 people are still out of their homes. >> but we're afraid of people losing hope. the longer we go, the more frustrated they get. >> reporter: but what galveston's known for, the beaches, are back. a cocktail of crowds and construction. mixed with a splash of hope that this season won't be a mean one. jeanette shamblien, nbc news, galveston. elton john says he and her partner want to adopt a little ukranian boy who's hiv positive. he was touring with children in the ukraine as part of the aids charity work. he performed for the children and later said he wants to adopt a 14-month-old old boy named les. >> i'm 62 and i think because of the traveling that i do and the life i have, maybe it wouldn't be the fair thing for a child
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garry do that allegedly abducted and held dugard will be back in court tomorrow. they're set to appear before a judge monday morning for a bail hearing. they pled not guilty to 29 charges including kidnapping, rape and false imprisonment. and have been held without bail since they arrest last month. well, looking ahead to the week on wall street, monday mark it is one-year anniversary, the investment bank lehman brothers
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failed. the failure triggered the near collapse of the entire global financial system. tomorrow president obama will speak about the state of the u.s. economy right outside of the new york stock exchange. earnings predicted this week include palm, it could see some double losses apparently. and retail sales and housing starts are expected to increase. we'll see what happens with that. this is a never before seen look at a miracle. we are getting an inside look at the miracle on the hudson. of course, the us airways plane that ditched into hudson river in january. the new york city exhibit is called brace for impact. joining us live is photographer steven mallins. good morning to you. >> thank you. >> let's talk about the name of the exhibit. where did that come from? >> a pickup of sully. a branding director, a friend of mine talking about the possible titles for it and suggested it and made absolute sense for us. >> how did you get access to the
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plane? >> i was commissioned. i have a working relationship. i have been out on a couple of jobs with them including retiring the new york city subway cars and we knew each other and i was able -- i called jason when the plane landed. >> when that thing -- out of the hudson, we are seeing it right there. what an extraordinary experience. what was that like for you getting in there? creepy? uplifting? because you thought of a miracle that happened. what was that like? >> nerve wracking. i was shaky and shocked. it is a little kind of like walking around in a -- you know, in a crash site but a very, very positive one. >> what was most surprising thing that you saw? >> i think the water droplets that were still on the tray. i think caught me off guard. >> on the trays? >> yes. >> the trays you put your food on? >> yeah. a photograph in the exhibition with the cup holder and stand
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and everyone thinks it's a portal somewhere and it is your tray. the economy seat. >> yeah. >> was there anything about that that gave you a clue as to how it was able to be such a miracle? stuff left behind by the time you got there? people ditched and ran their lives without the bags and was that left behind? >> no. they had already cleared out the baggage. it was about a week or more after when i got inside. the fbi has gone in and gotten the baggage out and materials so the food cart was there. >> the food cart was there, yeah. how does it compare to other things you do? you say you have done salvage work but is this a very poignant event for you? >> oh, it's like a life changing experience for me. >> really? why? >> i feel the photographs are now historical documents. you know? the most successful water landing in aviation history. only been one other in 1957. there was one other landing where everyone survived. but that was a very, very
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different situation. they had 15 hours' notice to do this. they were flying in from europe. so having these photographs and just being a part of this history in new york is -- >> do you expect -- it's brooklyn exhibit. we'll give details in a moment but do you expect people on the plane be it sully, the captain and others to come? >> this was a very happy moment. it's the opening was last night and one of the passengers came. >> wow. >> yeah. >> and spoke to you. what kind of conversation did you have there? >> it was -- it was very emotional. when she first arrived, she was tearful and stayed for the entire exhibition and we went out for dinner afterwards. and she's incredibly warm and loving and loves the photography and ecstatic to be there and trying to get the passengers to the exhibition. >> very good luck to with, steven. it's at the front room gallery, 147 robling street okay.
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