breaking news firefighters in california spent the night beating back flames from the inferno inferno, and they've caught a break. >> right now, if i were in a boxing match, i think we're even. >> our own dave price will bring you the latest from the scene. new developments this morning in the jaycee dugard kidnapping case. for the first time an attorney for one of the kidnappers will be speaking out live. and we'll also speak with the suspect's first victim. and inside the h1n1 virus. the reason some people survive the deadly virus while others don't. early this wednesday morning, september 2nd, 2009. captioning funded by cbs

good morning, everyone, i'm maggie rodriguez, here with harry smith, julie chen is on assignment this morning. >> more than dozen fires burning in california. and finally a degree of optimism about getting some control about its future voiced yesterday. dave price is on the scene. we'll get to him in a minute. also this morning, we'll be speaking with two people who have a lot to say about the two people accused of kidnapping jaycee dugard raping her and keeping her captive for 18 years. you will hear from one of the attorneys of one of the suspects. and on the right is katie callaway who was raped by phillip garrido and or horrified to find out that he went on to do this again. we will get to that this morning. but first, we have a glimmer of

hope to report on those california wildfires. firefighters say they're making progress against the biggest of those dangerous fires. the station fire just north of l.a. has destroyed at least 62 homes. but some evacuation orders have finally been lifted as of this morning. let's get to our own dave price out there in lake view terrace, california. good morning, dave. >> reporter: good morning to you, maggie. we're in the area so badly affected. we're in the angeles national forest, and 20 of the homes destroyed are along this stretch of neighborhood. you can see fire completely overran this area. you may see my camera man's shadow. remnants of a home of a family of a life here. and oddly enough one of the things we found here coming in here, a fire extinguisher, unhelpful in this situation. it was so strong. now, the good news is overnight firefighters were able to take

advantage of the weather of the humidity of the cooler temperatures and the fire this morning now 22% contained. but tell that to the people who lost these homes. and this fire and this battle are far from over. as of early this morning, this massive fire has consumed close to 130,000 acres. 200 square miles, but containment is up and fire officials hope they've turned the corner. >> this is our first increase in containment since the beginning of the fire. >> reporter: the air assault includes a huge arsenal, this 747 drops 20,000 gallons of fire retardant at once. the super scooper over 7,000 gallons of water. enough to cover four acres. it's the newest effort to save mt. wilson the site of many tv radio, and cell phone towers. >> we've got firefighters on the entire perimeter with shovels,

axes -- >> reporter: more than 60 homes have been lost but crews on the ground has saved hundreds. >> we're dictating more of what the fire's doing now instead of the fire running out of the canyon at us. >> reporter: this morning, firefighters remain desperate for a break in the weather. >> if the temperature should go up again, the humidities come back down again, this could be an angry fire again. right now if i were in a boxing match, i think we're even. >> and even's not a bad place to be this morning. you can see as you move anything the air quality is awful here and throughout a large portion of southern california. and with more on that. >> reporter: the massive wildfires are spreading a toxic cloud, aggravating allergies, and triggering as ma attackthma attacks. >> reporter: at the hospital eight miles from the flames the e.r. is bustling with patients fighting for breath. >> we have seen a profound increase in the number of patients coming to the emergency

department having asthma-like symptoms and cough. >> i just sound like i was on my last breath. >> reporter: on hollywood boulevard, tourists are snapping pictures in the haze but a tour through the streets is a tough sell. >> today at least 60% to 70%, and the smoke is real bad. >> reporter: at schools in burbank, some 10 miles from the fire, the smoke is keeping kids indoors during recess. and after three days they're going stir crazy. >> they are finding themselves a little wiggly in class. they know the fires are going, but they still want to check. why are we staying inside? >> reporter: the why is easy to answer. how much longer is still up in the air. cbs news, los angeles. >> reporter: now we want to take a look at what the fires are expected to do today and how the weather's going to impact it. light winds are going to roll through here but very light. it should stay dry, we should get cooler air by friday. morning clouds and fog primarily

right along the coastline, but here in the mountains and inland temperatures 90 to 100 degrees once again. concerns that it may trigger thunderstorms or dry thunderstorms and that's a danger as well. now friday we're going to cool down by 10 degrees and the ace in the hole may be may be as an outside shot moisture from hurricane jimena. now let's go 400 miles south of here go to some video of cabo san lucas and what that storm has done so far.cbcbcbcb they've seen tropical storm force winds, flash flooding and keep in mind the eye is still 100 miles to the west. but cabo on the south side of the california baja peninsula are on the strong side of that storm. now, as we take a look and transition to a loop of hurricane jimena it's a category two storm moving at about 105 miles per hour. and again, it's moving to the northwest at about 13 miles per hour. the eye not expected to make landfall quite yet, but should make so on the california baja

mexico coast as a low or weak category two storm. still plenty dangerous, though. now, let's transition to the national maps as well and talk about what may happen that could bring some moisture to southern california but that's still a big question mark. elsewhere as we journey along to the east coast, melbourne, florida getting pounded as much as the state did. record-setting rains in melbourne, 4.2 inches yesterday, more today, south dakota oklahoma, and the midwest to the mid-atlantic just perfect. that's a quick look

>> that's a quick look at your weather picture. we'll send it back to you. and to a lot of people these are just statistics the number of homes burned, but it's sad to be here looking at all of this. >> all right, dave we'll get back with you in about half an hour or so. now to the kidnapping of jaycee dugard. this isn't the first time phillip garrido has faced this kind of charge. 15 years ago he was convicted of kidnapping and rape and was sentenced to 50 years behind bars. "early show" correspondent hattie kaufman with more. >> reporter: good morning, phillip garrido would be in prison right now and through the year 2027 if he had served that full sentence back in 1977. but he was paroled after just 11 years and now sits in jail for allegedly kidnapping jaycee dugard fathering two children

with her, and keeping them all captive here. >> reporter: karen walker and her four children live just a few doors down from garrido. >> you know it's just disturbing that all the kids in the neighborhood playing over here and he you know on numerous occasion i've seen him driving by the house. >> reporter: garrido allegedly snatched jaycee dugard off the street and kept her captive for 18 years. >> i'm glad that he was caught when he was, but it should have happened sooner. >> reporter: walker shares a growing concern that the convicted rapist was released early, free to roam her neighborhood. >> they changed the law in 1987 and mr. garrido from the federal system would never have gotten out. >> reporter: peter says investigators assigned to regular home visits all missed opportunities to discover garrido's hidden compound. if you're a parole office and you're visiting this parolee, wouldn't you be curious? >> one would hope they would be

curious. >> reporter: both facing multiple charges including kidnapping for sexual purposes and forcible rape. nancy garrido once worked here at this children's center ironically part of a child abuse prevention program. in 1993 nancy garrido may have been alone with jaycee and the girls for five months while her husband returned to jail for a parole violation. karen walker found her encounters with mrs. garrido disturbing. >> erratic movements from i'm suspecting drug use, poor hygiene. the little girl was really pale. >> reporter: danielle was an acquaintance of mr. garrido and says her son warned her saying -- >> mom, there's something kind of strange about him. and i said no baby it's just that he has different beliefs than all of us. and he says no mom, there's something strange about him. >> reporter: because there are several unsolved murders in the surrounding area police combed

through this compound where jaycee and her daughters were held captive. though they found a bone fragment and several other items that require testing, they found nothing that definitively at this time ties the garridos to any of those unsolved crimes. harry? >> thanks. joining us now from el dorado hills, california is gilbert maines the court-appointed attorney for phillip garrido's wife nancy. mr. maines good morning. >> good morning, harry, how are you? >> i'm well. how would you describe your client's state of mind? >> when i talked to her, i would say that she was distraught frightened appeared to be a little lost. i would describe her like a ship without a rudder, she's concerned. >> has she been able to talk to you about her relationship with the girls? with jaycee's daughters? >> i would preface this by saying, you know i've been in

this case now for five days, have seen no evidence whatsoever. and i've had an hour and a half or so with my client in an attorney-client interview room talking through the glass. so it's not really conducive to opening up a dialogue. having said that, she has said to me that she misses the girls. that she loves them. and in her feeling was that they'd become a family. >> wow. >> seems a little strange, but that was it. >> is she cooperating with the police and the prosecutor? >> we haven't been asked to cooperate with anyone. >> interesting. would you describe her right now -- just from these five days and the hour and a half that you spent with her -- as an accomplice or as a victim? >> well you're asking me to formulate a defense strategy

after five days with -- and with no evidence. and i can't do that. if i'm asked to pick one of the two, i would say victim. >> has she talked at all about why she was with this man? how they met? what the nature of their relationship? >> well she confirmed to me that they had met when he was in prison, serving his prison term. they got married while he was still in prison. they were married for some period of time while he was still in prison. this is her first and only marriage. we haven't delved into it much beyond that. >> what's the most important thing, at least, you can share with us publicly that you need to know from her? >> i don't think there's anything that i need to know from her right at this moment. what i need to have with her is

an open line of communication so that i can uncover and delve into what her history has been and how she got to where she is. and that's going to take some professional help for me. >> professional help you mean psychologist psychiatrist do you think? >> take your pick, yeah. >> all right. mr. maines we thank you so much for your insight this morning. we do appreciate it. >> you're welcome. >> all right. we're going to speak to the garrido's first victim and ask what she felt when she heard garrido had allegedly struck again in just a little while. but next president obama gets ready to jump back into the health care battle. how he plans to regain the momentum. and why is this boy bleeding through his eyes? we'll find out -- well, try to find out. this is more than my easy button. it's my "save-so-much-on- his-graphing-calculator... look. i made it say, "booger."

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welcome back to "the early show." another busy news day. good morning, jeff. >> maggie, good morning to you, good morning, everyone. a taliban suicide bombing attack killed nearly two dozen people. it happened near a mosque about 60 miles east of kabul. at least 23 people were killed. among the dead the deputy head of the intelligence agency in afghanistan who was targeted in that attack. president obama will spend the long holiday weekend at camp david finalizing plans for a new push on health care reform. david axelrod told politico it's a different phase now in the health care fight. so "we're going to approach it in a different way. the president is going to be very active." cbs news senior white house correspondent bill plant has more on that this morning. bill good morning. >> reporter: good morning, jeff you bet he'll get active. he's looking at a major battle

when he gets back after losing control of the health care debate over the last month. the latest cbs news poll shows the approval of the president's handling of health care reform has slipped six points since july even though his overall job rating for that period is down only slightly. why the difference? >> to a large extent people distinguish their views on obama handling health care from their views of obama overall. they see the news they see the outrage over health care in the town halls and equate that with obama. >> 60% in our polls say the president has not clearly explained what he wants. >> he needs to go out there and make a case for something. he's got to make very clear this is what i want this is how it's going to help you. and this is why congress should pass it. >> reporter: and people here at the white house are telling us that is exactly what the president plans to do starting next week, probably with a major speech or tv event laying down to congress exactly what he expects from health care reform. jeff? >> bill, thank you.

in orbit this morning, astronauts from the shuttle discovery finished another tricky space walk removing an ammonia tank from the hall of the space station. and a teenager appears to have a bizarre medical condition. saying he cries tears of blood three times a day. he says it began happening about three months ago. his mother's taken him to several doctors trying to figure out what's wrong. >> my eyes are bleeding. >> i'll go wherever we need to go, do whatever i have to do i want somebody please to help my baby. >> so far doctors have failed to figure out what's causing it or to come up with a treatment. now here's maggie. >> let's take advantage of the fact that our dr. jennifer ashton is here as always to ask her about this. i've never seen anything like that have you? >> in fact maggie an ophthalmologist reported this was a one in a million condition, which really does have to make us pause in the

medical community when something has really never been reported. they're saying it could be called hemolacria. and what's perplexing it seems to be occurring with both eyes. usually it would be more plausible occurring with just one eye. and again, they have subjected him to all kinds of imaging tests, c.a.t. scan mri, ultrasound. we need to emphasize the point in medicine sometimes it's just important to know what something isn't as what it is to give us the information. >> to know he's not suffering from anything potentially life threateng. we'll be back with dr. jen. don't go away.

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hello, it's 7:25. another sensational september day start. the second in a row. the second in a row as well. it's christy in for sharon and tim in for marty. >> well, we're looking at temperatures today like yesterday. all be it, warmer, i'll say. >> 78 degrees today and mostly sunny and pleasant and another moonlit sky. 81 degrees tomorrow, partly sunny and pleasant and temperatures getting up to around 80 friday and 80 and 80 for the weekend.

overnight lows around 60 degrees. . >> well, the roads are cay yours trulyic -- chaotic -- we're looking at harrisburg expressway, stop and go up to the beltway. and the northside, sluggish from harford. and that's a ten minute delay and there are brake lights from 795 and edmonson and delays from 648 to holings ferry road and here's a look at i-95 north and very heavy there and this is brought to you by first mariner arena. log on to wjz.com for your chance to win tickets to see sesame street and with the children around the nation in class

health officials are waiting for a spike in h1n1 cases. >> reporter: and the h1n1 precautions are on the top of the agenda for the staff and the state of maryland already, more than a million americans have been hit with the virus and 500 died. president obama had a message for americans, get your shots, one for the seasonal flu and one for the swine flu. they're planning on distributing the vaccine when it's ready in october and they're gathering together for the briefing on the preparations. and the police need your help in getting a criminal off of the baltimore county streets. the man robbed two women at joppa road and parkville and anyone who recognizes the man, call the baltimore county police. students at millford mill academy got a pleasant

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again, which has raised the question, do those lists serve their purpose? cbs news correspondent bianca is here with more on that. >> good morning, maggie. the case of jaycee dugard has brought up the debate. is enough being done to protect children from known sex offenders? >> reporter: does registering sex offenders stop them from molesting new victims? and are we doing enough to monitor them once they're released? what happened in antioch, california, suggests the answer is no. >> this case is a prime example of the inability of the system to deal with repeat sex offenders. >> reporter: john walsh, host of "america's most wanted" believes a 2006 law named after his murdered son adam would improve this system but congress has yet to provide the money. >> three years ago, president bush signed the adam walsh act in the rose garden and this law still isn't funded. >> it makes me angry because we

already know these problems exist, we created laws but we don't enforce it we don't fund them. >> reporter: mark lunsford's daughter jessica was raped and killed in 2005 by a convicted sex offender. he says it'll take much more than a registry to solve the problem. >> the sex offender registry isn't going to keep your kids safe. >> are you living next to a sex offender? at the national sex offender public website, you can find out. i put in the address of where i grew up in miami and found out there are 100 offenders living within five miles of my childhood home. nationally there are more than 600,000 sex offenders. some believe a problem that big demands a tougher approach. >> and according to the group family watchdog, which tracks sex offenders by state, the typical sex predator will assault 117 times before being caught. maggie? >> beyond disturbing. thank you. joining us right now is a victim of phillip garrido. nearly 33 years ago, catherine

callaway hall was abducted and raped by him. thank you for being here. >> thank you for having me. >> most of us just heard this name for the first time a couple of days ago. but this is a name and a face that has haunted your nightmares for 33 years. you were watching tv last week, you hear his name you see his face and think what? >> i thought, oh my god, that's the man that kidnapped me. that's him. i called up to my husband to come down and see. and i was just -- i was shocked. i was stunned. i started shaking. immediately i had the sense of some sense of relief because he had finally been caught and he was going to be put away. but at the same time, i had overwhelming feelings of the fact that my fears had always been justified. >> that you always feared he would strike again? and when you heard when the details began to emerge about

what he did to jaycee dugard and those two girls allegedly, what was your reaction? >> i was horrified. i couldn't believe he went after a child. i could and i couldn't. because he went after an easier prey but i thought it was horrible absolutely horrible. >> you were 25 back in 1976 when you made what you call the most horrible mistake of your life. you let phillip garrido get in your car to give him a ride. so he makes you drive to this remote location. and what happens? >> he slammed my head into the steering wheel, pulled my keys out of the ignition grabbed handcuffs out of his pocket grabbed both of my hands. overpowered me he was much larger than me. then he maneuvered me over into the passenger's seat made me put my head in my lab and tied my head to my knees with my hands handcuffed behind me. >> he takes you to a warehouse and rapes you? >> yeah. >> for how long? >> about eight hours.

>> what was going through your mind? >> survival instincts kicked in. i just had to be alert every second every moment, i had to be aware of his frame of mind. i had to just figure out how to stay alive, how to connect with him on some kind of human level and make myself you know real to him and not let him go off into a fantasy world. >> you were 25 can you imagine an 11-year-old girl in that situation? >> oh, absolutely not. he snatched her. he actually physically grabbed her, they did. he had to talk his way into the situation with me. and then it was my decision, stupid decision to give him a ride. >> luckily a police officer passed by saw something was wrong, phillip garrido was arrested tried, sentenced to 50 years, but he gets out after 11. do you ask yourself how does that happen? >> yes, i do. but the parole officer informed me that he had been somewhat of a model prisoner that he was

very manipulative and charismatic and pretty much was used to getting his way in prison and with the authority. but when he didn't get his way, his whole persona changed. and he managed to get paroled early. he, at the time i talked to the parole officer, was trying to get out of his six month halfway house term which i don't know if he did or not. >> but you do know he shows up at your workplace after he gets out. >> yes, he did. >> does he confront you or threaten you? >> he did, he never identified himself, but i recognized him. >> what did he say to you? >> he came up to my roulette wheel and, you know very threateningly said hello, katie. and started asking probing questions about my history, about how long i'd been dealing, how long i'd been in lake tahoe. >> did you tell the police? >> i did. oh yes, i did.

actually when i got on my break, my next break, i went immediately to a pay phone and started calling around until i found out he had been released from the penitentiary and he was at a half way house in oakland. >> so all these years go by you don't hear from him until now, until you see what's happening with him now. you were telling me a few seconds ago, you feel a sense of guilt, like you didn't do enough to put him away for good the first time. what do you want now? >> i want him put away forever or i want him executed. and i know that's harsh, but i'm sorry, i wish he'd never gotten out. >> all right. katie callaway, we appreciate your time. and now, let's take a break. we'll be right back. ♪ oh ♪ announcer: say hello to the can-doers. - the budget masters. - ♪ yeah yeah ♪ the knock-out artists who are finding more ways to spread

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welcome back to "the early show." we want to go back to dave in california for another check on the weather. good morning, dave. >> good morning to you, harry. some of these areas still

smoldering, we're -- excuse me over 127,000 acreshghghg have burned so far, close to 200 square miles, that's roughly the size of chicago. this area right here if you can see wires down, no power here at all. and it's no wonder because the transformers themselves shattered and burned down. and this area so known for its beauty is just barren. we'll have more on the fires in a little while. but in the meantime let's take a look at the national maps. relatively quiet nationally. if we go to the east coast and focus on florida, melbourne, florida, yesterday setting a record with 4.2 inches of rain in one day. and more of that statewide today. thunderstorms this afternoon, in the plains to oklahoma. the midwest to the mid-atlantic just perfect. and the northwest is going to be sunny and warm. here in california temperatures have dropped just a bit, but today expect it to climb once again between 90 and 100 degrees. a cooldown expected toward the end of the week. these fires now 22% contained,

but so much work left to go. that's a quick look at our >> and that's a quick look at our national maps and our weather. we'll see you again in just about half an hour. harry, back to you in new york. >> thanks, dave. up next, we'll take a look at why the h1n1 virus can turn deadly so quickly. this is "the early show" on cbs.

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on this morning's "healthwatch" we look inside the h1n1 virus. and here again is our dr. jennifer ashton. >> good morning, harry. and in some people the h1n1 virus can be deadly. let's take a look inside the body to see what actually can happen and why. >> reporter: germs, they're everywhere in our homes, offices, and schools. some are harmless but others can be deadly like the h1n1 virus or swine flu. it spreads when a carrier coughs or sneezes, another person touches the object or surface with the flu virus on it and then touches his own nose or mouth. the virus is inhaled by the body and goes straight to the lungs. the virus attaches to the lung cells and the the body is now infected. over the course of days the blood vessels in the lungs or the air sacs are damaged.

fluid leaks from the blood vessels into the air sacs of the lungs. while some air sacs fill with fluid, others collapse altogether. when the air sacs collapse, the lungs can no longer inflate as they normally would with oxygen. the lungs become stiff. without air entering the lungs, the amount of oxygen in the blood drops. in diagnosed early, some patients will get extra oxygen supplied by a breathing machine, others may fall into a coma. patients die from h1n1 because their lungs give out via lack of oxygen or drowned by fluids. at this time 50% of h1n1 deaths are due to viral pneumonia, half the fatalities have been in people with preexisting medical conditions like obesity, diabetes, or pregnancy, harry. >> look at that animation. i'm sitting there looking at it and i wanted to know is that flu or is that pneumonia? >> well what that described is a situation we referred to as

ards where the lungs literally become like sponges and can't exchange oxygen. that can happen with the viral pneumonia, a bacterial pneumonia, but half of the deaths due to h1n1 have been due to this viral pneumonia leading to that kind of pulmonary. what the cdc reported to me last week in atlanta was as they've studied the autopsy results of the people who have succumb to the virus, what they're finding is about half of the cases are in people who were either obese, they had diabetes they were pregnant and suppressed their immune system. so they were at a higher risk going into this virus, which, again, we have to emphasize in most cases have been mild, but they were at higher risk going into severe complications that then led to their death. >> i thought that was so interesting to see that animation because you literally saw it transform from what seemed like a normal flu virus

to something that was much more insidious and, in fact ultimately deadly. >> right and there's a variable time course harry, sometimes it happens over hours todays, sometimes over weeks. but again, once that ards sets into the lungs and the patient is put on a ventilator multiple organ systems then begin to fail and the mortality rate can be as high as 30% to 50%. >> we're going to talk more about this in the next hour. thanks so much. we'll be right back. you're watching "the early show" on cbs. (announcer) before they give you the lowest price some pharmacies make you work for it with memberships and fees. but not walmart. they have hundreds of generic prescriptions for just $4 for up to a 30-day supply or $10 for 90 days. save money. live better. walmart.

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looking at the blue sky there around spaghetti junction, you can check out the traffic and christy will have the rest of the traffic. and a gorgeous day start and a little bit chilly. we'll look at the forecast today. looking at temperatures, we'll call it 78 degrees and sunny and pleasant overnight low, lower than normal and we'll call this 56 degrees and 81 and partly sunny and pleasant for your thursday. your five-day forecast has temperatures around 80 degrees and overnight lows around 60. we'll turn it to christy for a

look at the roads. >> thank you, tim. plenty of activity to talk about outside. especially on the 95 corridor, we're looking at delays, that's from little gun powder bridge falls and also an accident at 95 southbound approaching white marsh boulevard. moving to the northside, 20 minute delay from bel air to charles street and westside, sluggish to edmondson. and on the harrisburg expressway, congestion is continuing into the southbound direction up to the beltway there. we have an accident on the shoulder at owennings mills boulevard and delays continuing up to the beltway and 15 from york to middletown road. we'll look now at 695 and 97, that's moving along and 95 at white marsh. this is brought to yogi exxon

-- brought to you by exxon. now, back to you. thank you, the school year is here and can the flu season be far behind? >> the government is preparing for the return of the swine flu virus. mary bubala is live outside of the state health department. >> reporter: that's right, the state's getting more involved in preparing and schools are preparing as elementary and middle and college students go back and a million americans have been diagnosed with the swine flu and 500 have died. at the white house, tuesday, president said get your flu shots, both the seasonal and the swine flu. and the maryland officials are preparing for the h1n1 virus. they'll distribute the vaccine in october and they're gathering together for a major briefing from governor o'malley today. and stay with us, up

firefighters gained some ground in the battle against the california firefighters but residents are not out of the woods just yet. >> the temperatures go down again, the humidity goes down again, this could be a massive fire. the abduction of jaycee dugard highlights the short comings of how we track those convicted sex crimes. we look at what more can be done to keep predators away from kids. and tough times don't mean you have to be hard on yourself. how you can still afford a little luxury in your life. early this wednesday morning, september 2nd, 2009.

what's better than a beautiful morning like this? all of these people to keep us company. good morning, everybody. welcome back to "the early show" maggie rodriguez, harry smith, julie's on assignment. also this morning, a very nice couple that's going to be here in a little while. for some reason their son put them up for sale on craigslist. he's sitting there 5:30 in the morning, you know and he sees all of these people trading all of these and bartering all of this stuff and thought what could i get for my parents? so he put them up for sale for $155. >> oh, that hurts. >> true story, we'll meet the son and parents in a little while. also this morning, a plus-sized fashion show. five great looks for full figured women covering everything from work to a night out on the town everything for

you ladies. but first, let's go back inside and check in with jeff glor at the news desk. firefighters in california are finally reporting some real progress against the wildfires that have scorched nearly 200 square miles there. dave price is near the fire lines north of l.a. this morning. dave can you hear me now? >> all right, jeff we can't hear you very well because all of the telephone service here is down and we're working with satellite phone so bear with us for the imperfection. but we are out here in the canyon the area on this street where about 20 of the 60 or so homes that burned are located. right now 8,000 firefighters battling these blazes. the good news, 12,000 people were evacuated, that number down to 6,000 now, 62 homes, as we mentioned, are left with nothing but rubble. the fire now 22% contained, and

again, that is up from 5% to 6% on monday. a little bit higher humidity some coole temperatures and, again, they're battling this with backfires from the air and from the ground and in some cases just letting it burn out, as well. you can see the charred remnants behind me of course and that's what's left of this home here. there is just nothing here. nothing but stones. and of course we'll have much more for you fm here and take a look at your weather picture in just a couple of minutes. but in the meantime back to you in new york. jeff? >> dave thank you very much. the national transportation safety board is urging the government to impose new safety recommendations on emergency medical helicopters. nancy cortis is in washington with more on that. good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning, jeff, the ntsb says there are too many accidents because of operators to move quickly and sometimes in bad conditions. they're calling for some sweeping changes.

last year was the deadliest year yet for emergency medical helicopters. 12 accidents, 29 fatalities six were killed in this collision in flagstaff, arizona, involving two medical choppers. >> you see one coming you know directly overhead and one coming underneath. >> now the ntsb wants 19 major safety changes, including more bad weather training and simulators for pilots mandatory night vision imaging systems in every cockpit. they even suggest paying higher medicare reimbursement rates to chopper operators who immediate higher safety standards to encourage everyone to improve. now we should point out that each year patients and organs are transported safely by helicopter, the faa says it's going to consider the recommendations as it makes new rules for medical choppers due out early next year. >> nancy, thank you.

laura ling and euna lee, the two imprisoned in north korea for over four months are finally breaking their silence about their arrest this morning. cbs news correspondent michelle gielan reports. >> reporter: the two women returned to u.s. in early august to be reunited with their families after spending 140 days behind bars in north korea. former president bill clinton traveled to north korea to win their freedom. in the new article posted tuesday on current tv's website, ling and lee said they never intended to cross the border from china into north korea. but admitted when the guide told them to follow them quote beyond the middle of the river, we did. they quickly turned back and they say they were "firmly back inside china when the soldiers apprehended us." they say to this day we still don't know if we were lured into a trap. the journalists say that some part of their captivity are too painful to talk about publicly,

but their experiences quote pale when compared to the hardship facing so many people living in north korea. ling and lee released a video last month to thank people who had demanded their release. >> to all of the people who supported euna and me throughout the nearly five months that we were in captivity, we wanted to thank you from the bottom of our hearts. >> reporter: michelle gielan, cbs news, new york. all right, we are going to head back now across country to check in with our dave price who once again is out near l.a. for a check of our nation's weather this morning. good morning. >> just about 30 miles north of downtown l.a. is our location right now, we'll talk more about the fires later on this morning. but right now, let's talk about what's happening both in the pacific and the atlantic. jimena hurricane jimena, what could be an ace in the hole for firefighters here slight chance of it is currently a category two storm with 105-mile-per-hour winds moving west at about 13

miles per hour. it has not made landfall yet but will shortly, it is off the california baja peninsula. as we take a look in the atlantic we are watching tropical storm erica and you never know what erika is going to do. 5 miles per hour is its movement, several hundred miles off the lesser antilles. meanwhile, relatively quiet nationally, florida getting pounded by rain once again. yesterday, ove4 inches in melbourne, more of that heavy stuff today. thunderstorms in the afternoon throughout the plains south dakota to oklahoma midwest through the mid-atlantic looks absolutely gorgeous. the best stretch of weather you've had in a long time. today here in southern california inland temperatures 90 to 100 degrees again, but we're expecting better conditions as we head towards the end of the week. that's a quick look a >> we have a nice stretch shaping up into the labor day

weekend, we'll have a chance of showers and really, we're looking at a nice day. temperatures getting up to 78 degrees and we'll have a mostly sunny around pleasant afternoon. tonight, 56 degrees and normal of 61 with a moonlit sky and partly sunny and pleasant today, well, tomorrow, 81 degrees and that's the same >> that's a quick look at your weather picture. you know when the fires roll out here and you've been here for it they happen so quickly, you have to move with rapid speed. yesterday, there's a wild animal preserve in this area. they took some of those wild animals out in a budweiser truck. >> oh my goodness. >> luckily they're safe this morning. >> safe and happy. >> back to you. >> all right, dave thanks. coming up next we'll ask

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in their natural state and bake them with fruit into soyjoy. since the shocking discovery of jaycee dugard last week police have been searching for any evidence that might connect kidnapping suspect phillip garrido to other missing girls and to unsolved murders in the area. >> reporter: after four days of searching phillip garrido's property authorities say they have no evidence linking him to the murders during the '90s but garrido is now a suspect in the disappearances of two other girls, both of whom kidnapped in a 20-mile radius of garrido's antioch home. she was only 9 years old when she was snatched on november 19th 1988. two months later 13-year-old

eileen misheloff was walking home from school alone when she was abducted in nearby dublin. after finding jaycee dugard alive, the families of these missing girls now say they have new hope. >> i can't express how happy we are for jaycee's family. do we hope the same for ourselves? with every breath of every day i hope. >> joining us now from los angeles, cbs news legal analyst lisa bloom. good morning, lisa. >> good morning. >> as you know phillip garrido was convicted of rape and kidnap and sentenced to 50 years in prison got out after 11. when the victim of that crime was here this morning, she told me he got out because he was that model prisoner. are you surprised, lisa that at his own trial he admitted he couldn't control himself, that he leered at young girls got out so soon? >> absolutely maggie. he was sentenced to 50 years, he got out just short of 11 years. that is intolerable. the laws have changed over the last few years. i don't think that would happen

now. but it is absolutely inexcusable given what he was convicted of. he wasn't just any sex offender. this is a man who kidnapped and violently raped a woman in a rape room that he had set up beforehand for this purpose. it's absolutely intolerable that he got out in less than 11 years for that crime. >> and he gets out and all of his neighbors know he's a sex offender thanks to megan's law, but he still manages to do it again, which begs the question, what good is a law if this can happen? >> well the laws are only good as the police officers who enforce them. and in this case we had all of the modern protections to monitor phillip garrido. he was subject to random visits at his home by the parole officer. he was registered as a sex offender, as you say. he even wore a gps anklet over the last few years. but when a neighbor called the police and said there's a sex addict living next door to me he's got children in the backyard, the police officer failed to check the backyard.

the parole officer who visited his home never checked the backyard. now, police agencies have apologized for that. they admit that was clearly an error. but we've got to have a higher level of monitoring and scrutiny of sex offenders if we're going to protect children in the future. >> do you think that this case will lead to changes in the law where law enforcement is concerned? or do you think they'll just have to learn an important lesson from him? >> well we have to have more sharing of information to police officers who are on the ground trying to protect children every day. the police officer who got the report from the neighbor and went to the home apparently was not aware of the specific crime that garrido was convicted of. if he had known, for example, that garrido had set up a rape room that he had built a special structure to rape his first victim he may have been more careful in scrutinizing his home going into the backyard looking for evidence of anything that would indicate a future crime. so that information has to be available, we have to have a national registry.

we have to fund the adam walsh act so that children are protected, absolutely. >> hopefully we're closer to doing what we need to do. lisa bloom, thank you so much. >> thanks maggie. up next everything you wanted to know about the h1n1 virus that we're afraid to ask. our dr. jennifer ashton is here with the answers when we come back.

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we have been paying such close attention to the h1n1 virus for some many months now, especially as flu season comes back again. we all have questions, every day that we want answers to. first thing, vaccine is supposed to be ready when? and will there be enough? >> so seasonal flu vaccines are coming out now, and that we

cannot forget about the seasonal flu. but h1n1 vaccine, the first bout about 45 million to 50 million will be slated to arrive about mid october and about 20 million every week thereafter nationwide. >> you're saying the other flu vaccine normally available, we should go out and get -- if we're regular flu shot receivers -- >> absolutely. >> we should get that too? >> absolutely. >> go ahead. >> i was going to ask because my wife and i have been talking about this a lot. she is entering her final trimester, our first child we're expecting in november. so we've been talking to our doctor, you a little bit about it. what we're supposed to do. she's due on november 20th. and i know there's been a little bit of a delay in the vaccines being released. >> right. >> what do you do in that case? >> actually the priority for her, jeff is the seasonal flu shot to get it now. because it does take about two weeks to get the immune protection. it's not only while they're carrying the baby but in the first six months after the baby is born, those infants cannot be

vaccinated against influenza, also not proven to be treated with tamiflu, so the protection she would get from the vaccine, not only for her while pregnant, but also for your newborn baby. >> i have a follow-up, it's absolutely safe for pregnant women to get the h1n1 vaccine? >> only the injectable form not the nasal mist. >> and can they take tamiflu if they get the virus? >> they can. and we've seen that in the news with pregnant women who have succumb, treatment with antiviral medication in pregnancy if there's a high suspicion of h1n1 or seasonal flu has started. >> let's break this down in a normal situation. regardless of the h1n1, who should go and get their flu shots now? >> the seasonal flu? >> yes. >> elderly people health care workers, anyone who has contact with a baby under the age of six months, anyone with a chronic medical condition that puts them at higher risk for complications of seasonal flu. >> is it possible -- is it

possible that that normal flu vaccine will be helpful against h1n1? >> doesn't look like it. and there's no crossover between those two strains. >> so you should go get your normal vaccination under normal circumstances right now and be ready for the time when it becomes available in october. who then is on the top list of people who should get that shot? >> so the only difference harry, they removed the elderly people from the h1n1 because those people may have some immune protection against part of the virus. again we're talking about health care workers, someone with contact of a newborn in the house, so that's either day care or household. children these are people that really need to talk to their doctor if they're interested in getting vaccinated. and you know what's interesting, when i talked to my patients in the office there seems to be the extreme of apathy or panic, and no middle ground. and people need to understand that the vaccination process is not 100% guaranteed that you

will not be affected but also helps reduce doctors visits treatments with antibiotics, over the counter flu medications, sick days due to lost workdays. >> it really is -- >> on behalf of all parents. i'm not sure i want to give my daughter the shot. it's a little bit controversial. we don't know a lot about it. can all children get the mist instead? and is the mist just as effective as the shot? and is it any less risky? >> they could be an hour in and of themselves, maggie. but there's controversy about whether the mist is as effective. there's even controversy in my house, my husband and i both physicians, we are leaning towards vaccinating our children with the mist against h1n1. we always vaccinate them against seasonal flu. and you know again you should talk to your doctor whether or not the mist is right. i think most pediatricians lean towards the flu mist to healthy children not asthmatic children, but healthy children. >> 20 seconds we have left. what's the possibility that the virus continues to mutate and becomes what? >> stronger.

the good news so far, study out of university of maryland it does not look like that's happening, so it continues to be mild. very, very contagious but mild. >> can we do this every day? >> you wish t

today has a george start and chris -- today has a gorgeous start. >> we'll have a lot of sun and things won't be heating up. we have a wind from the north, north east and that's keeping it chilly early on. it will be comfortable for the daytime high of 78 and below, the normal of 61 for the low and partly sunny and pleasant and 81 tomorrow. we'll send it to christy for a look at the roads. well, thank you, tim, we're

looking at delays out there traveling on the beltway system. on the northside of the outer lupe, that's slow. about 15 minutes there and westside, ricers town road and edmondson avenue. and 95, no improvement, it's jammed up to the harbor tunnel freeway and an accident on white marsh boulevard. and the southbound direction to middletown road and now, let's look at 95 and 395, you can see the volume building there as well. this is brought to you by first mariner arena. sesame street will be there september 10th through the 13th. go to wjz.com for tickets. as the flu season approaches, health and other officials are trying to protect school children from the h1n1 virus. mary bubala has more. >> reporter: don, with schools and colleges in session, h1n1

preparations are at the top of the agenda and state and national officials now. 1million have been hit by the virus and several more -- and 500 died. and maryland officials are developing a plan to distribute the h1n1 virus in october. they're also gathering for a briefing on the swine flu. don, back to you. and the baltimore city councilwoman will be in court with or without her attorneys and she's accused of violating campaign finance laws. the charges come from a political survey that the prosecutors say was paid for by local developers. firefighters are trying to find out what happened with a fire in columbia. and crews say they rescued pets

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wow. you know with all that enthusiasm i'm assuming somebody here probably got off to a good start. >> with their carnation instant breakfast. >> oh, really? welcome back to "the early show." in this half hour what would you do if your kids put you up for sale on the internet? >> what would you do? >> well i'm certain my 19-year-old would be more than

happy to just give us away. he might pay someone else to take us off his hands. but we're going to -- this is a true story, we're going to find out what happens and what the parents' reaction is in just a couple of minutes. also ahead, full-figured women, you hear them complain the designers and retailers don't have anything for them. we're going to show you trendy fall looks in sizes 10 and above. >> because the average size woman in the united states is a size 12 thank you very much. >> 70% of women are a size 12 or higher. but first let's head back to california and get our final check of the weather with dave. good morning again, dave. >> good morning to you guys. no matter how many times you see it and no matter how many fires you cover, it's still dramatic to look at the devastation. we're in tujunga canyon. these are steel belted tires, this is a chevy suburban and if you take a look clearly right here the glass just literally

melted around this car and the inside is completely burned out. we're counting three cars in this driveway alone, 20 homes in the neighborhood 62 homes destroyed so far, and again the costs continue to mount in both property damage and the human toll of so much hurt. firefighters now 22% contained this fire, and that is good news. but, again, it is a tough battle ahead. let's take a look at the national maps right now and see what's happening across the country weather wise and go to that. relatively quiet. florida sees some heavyowowow rain we'll continue through today, melbourne, record-setting rain. the plains are going to see thunderstorms during the afternoon. midwest and mid-atlantic perfect, and the northwest is going to be sunny and warm as well. we're watching the fires here. another hot day, dry weather, but maybe, maybe a break as we head to the end of the week where we see temperatures dropping about 10 degrees or so. and there's a possibility we may see some of the moisture from that hurricane begin to help out firefighters here as well.

>> look for 80, 83 and 80 and >> that's a quick look at your weather picture. and harry, if viewers at home ever wonder why people come back through the devastation to sift through their homes and why you often find them crying at small things they found. look at this. a little girl's pink piggy bank which in all of this devastation survived. amazing. we'll send it back to you. >> good job, dave thanks so much. you know you can buy almost

anything on the website craigslist but a recent posting had people doing a double take. it says perfectly good parents $155 got lots of use out of these guys over the past 50 years, but it's time to move on excellent overall condition. still plenty of life left in them. will consider trade for newer model, hot blond under age 40 or an erector set in good condition. must see, please e-mail or call michael for additional details and pics. joining us this morning michael amatrudo and his parents ed and arlene. good morning. >> good morning, harry. >> you're still on speaking terms? >> this time we are. >> all right. so when did you post this? sunday morning? >> early saturday morning. >> early saturday morning, you're sitting around, spend a lot of time on craigslist. >> fairly absolutely. >> what was the inspiration for this? >> well i found it amazing at some of the things people will try to sell on craigslist that

was one thing. i found a lot of humor in it. and how much they would ask in other things they'd be willing to trade for. >> how did you choose $155. >> well choosing the right price point is tricky. >> it is. >> the affordability. i just tried to make it ridiculous, was the answer and that was the whole idea of the entire thing. >> how long did it take before your responses started to explode? >> within minutes i was getting hits from all over the place, everything from making offers to you know saying that they were laughing. >> did he warn you? did he drop you a note and call you? >> after the fact. >> after the fact. >> yeah. >> like it usually was. >> and what as you began to realize what was transpiring, what was your response? >> ha-ha-ha. >> how many kids do you have? >> let me think. michael is number three. we have a daughter --

>> and so you took this in good humor? >> oh yeah. >> this is good for a laugh. >> not surprised. >> what kind of calls did you get as these things get a life of their own and people start toe mail and spread messages and everything else. what did people say? >> the same types of things. arlene got more calls than i did. >> well for example, one of our friends said we really hope your son has a good sense of humor when he finds out that he's out of the will. and others said they would be more than willing to pay the price or even double provided it includes our antique fire engine. >> there are a lot of things involved. >> oh yeah. >> oh yes. >> a lot of things involved. surely there were strange and probably some weird responses. >> there were. >> but i word if this didn't also have a sense people realize it was in good humor. you really do love your mom and dad. >> absolutely.

that's the whole point. they literally are priceless, that was the whole joke. how do you put a price on two terrific people? >> when you heard the $155, what did you think? >> where did he come up with $155 then i realized it was michael. only michael would come up with something like that. >> right. i'm still holding out for the erector set. >> did you get any good offers? >> i had excellent offers everything from money to excellent trades to you know, there were many, many offers coming in like crazy. it was incredible. >> provided that shipping and handling. >> the shipping was important. how that was going to be handled. it was pretty crazy, harry. >> really fun. thank you, all for coming in this morning and sharing this story. >> it was our pleasure. >> appreciate it. it was fun to be here. >> good deal. $155 is a bargain for perfectly good parents. if you love a great massage and

pedicure but can't afford those luxuries right now, we have solutions for you. susan koeppen is here with cost-cutting advice. good morning, susan. >> good morning. >> you say yes, you can still get the man cure pedicure and massage? >> sort of think outside of the box and instead of going to your normal salon where they may charge you a forte, think about the different schools that are out there where students are learning these skills. they're also looking for clients and patients to come in and you can get things done dirt cheap. >> how dirt cheap? >> we're going to start with massage. we have wendy and dawn. >> dawn is completely out of it right now. >> she's very relaxed. and from the new york college of health from fegsprofessions where they teach massage and acupuncture, a massage by a student is $30, where normally in a salon or another spa it would cost about $150. you're saving a bundle.

acupuncture $30, and also the senior citizen discount which is $20, right? >> $20, are they supervised because some might not like the idea -- >> you are supervised you're not just thrown in a room -- you are supervised there is a plan and the students are learning their skills and practicing on you. >> how is it? >> great. >> thumbs up, thank you. let's talk about hair style, cut and color, you can also go to a school? >> yes, we have julia and zach. zach is a stylist and she got her haircut. so she paid $25 to get this hairdo. you can go ahead and style it or whatever you normally -- >> you did that? that's very nice. >> and with her haircut $25, but at this salon, which is connected to the cosmotology school a haircut can go for as much as $500. so you're saving a bundle. they also have a coloring for as low as $15. and there's schools across the country, really all you have to

do is go on the internet type in beauty school and then cleveland or los angeles or whenever you live and the schools will pop up and you can call them and some of them list their prices. we found schools in l.a. that had pedicures for 7.99 haircuts for $4.99. >> a lot of people think why not. but more people are scared when it comes to something like medical treatment. >> here we have biba. she was laid off from her job, lost her dental insurance, she needed an emergency root canal. so where did she turn? she went to the dental school at columbia university where she got the work done by someone who had lots and lots of training wasn't in practice yet, but someone who knew what they were doing. so they were able to save a bundle. at the school they say you can save anywhere from 50% to 75% off what you would normally pay at a dentist's office. >> does it have to be somebody in her situation who didn't have

insurance? can anybody go? >> anybody can go. you can be a billionaire and head over there. for any of these services. you don't have to be low income you don't have to be someone who was laid off, anybody can go. >> did you feel like you were skimping on quality? >> no not at all. i had received the service, which is a student. >> okay. >> so quite contrary to your regular doctor where you would really go to generalist i have received expert service. >> so she's happy. >> and everybody here seems very happy with their service. >> thank you all, for coming in. susan, thank you so much. you can go to earlyshow.cbsshow.com for more tips. these tough economic times have single folks rethinking the traditional rules about money and dating. joining us for some insight, nicole beland and matt titus

author of "why hasn't he called?" good morning to you both. >> good morning. >> all of the old rules were thrown out the window many years ago, though many women reluctant to necessarily participate. it's so interesting even after all of the liberation and everything else. a lot of traditional roles still are sort of fallen into right? >> people are thrown out the darwinian dating. dating looking for a guy that's financially successful the total package, personable. women are sacrificing that and going after men -- as i said allowing themselves to date guys of lesser financial status because of the economic downturn. bad decision. i don't like it. >> i don't know if that's the reason they're -- i don't think they're sacrificing anything i think they're just change inging. we did a huge survey and found that women are actually -- in some areas they are traditional,

like the first date but that they are more than willing to date a guy who makes less than them even a guy who might still live at home with his parents because he hasn't gotten going in his career. >> isn't there a tendency in these tough times to go for the guy as opposed to say well there's less guys with less money out there. or should a woman be thinking i need to go, i want to hit the mother load. >> she needs to be patient, and she needs to search and seek out that kind of man because he does exist. a guy on his mother and father's couch, that guy shouldn't be dating. he should be looking at his career and -- >> it all depends on how old he is. i think it's a basic instinct to want to be with a guy who can provide for you because for many we've been programmed to do that. but it's not your only instinct and not the only thing you'll find attractive. >> but we're in these topsy temperature topsy-turvy times.

say you go out with matt and you're cutting him some slack, who should pay? >> on the first date it's more about -- the first date's more about ritual than romance. >> i agree with you, absolutely. >> but after that, men and women should split the check or take turns treating each other. that's the reality, a partnership is about equality to take care of each other. >> absolutely not. a man always pays. when a woman -- >> not anymore. >> when a woman pulls out a wallet or her men, she is becoming one of the guys. >> she's becoming an equal. >> no it's a gateway for lesser treatment from the man, absolutely. >> in our survey we found 57% of women would even be willing to pay on a first date that 81% of guys expect to pay. expectations versus reality. >> but you say splitting -- it makes some sense. you would think step away for a second, split the check, tough times, everybody -- >> yeah. >> that's the ultimate no-no? >> it creates a behavior pattern with the guy. you're lowering the bar for him

to treat you subpar for the duration of the relationship. >> i think it's backwards thinking. that might be the case with some guys -- you don't want to go out with the kind of guy who would treat you worse because you picked up the check. >> should you ever talk about money on dates? >> i'm going to say absolutely not unless you're trash. absolutely not you don't talk about your economic situation. >> you can talk about work and that'll tell you everything you need to know. >> you can talk about work. you have those questions, the secret questions to ask a guy. >> like are you employed? nicole thanks so much matt do appreciate it. for more on love and money check out our website. up next, great fall fashions for most of the women in the country. we'll be right back. q

this morning on our series early fall fashion extravaganza sexy and trendy fashions for the full figured woman. lawrence varian is here with more. we recall talking earlier, 70% of women in america are size 12 or over. why do you think they're not embraced by the fashion industry? >> i think because everything changes and if you think about it maggie, the fashion model was 14 and 16 and everything constantly changes. and now sizes are getting bigger and designers are paying attention and creating larger fashions for the full figured woman. >> let's see some of them that are going to be hot for this fall. the first look we have is from work to play to every day. >> and here we have melissa, and this is a great look for women on the go. all of the fashions today were provided by lane bryant. this is a look you can move

throughout your wardrobe. we have the dress shirt i love with the french cuffs and the must-have item for all women this season is a wonderful duster sweater and we've created for everyone if you want to create a waistline, add a thick belt. i love that love the textures for fall. and again it's fashion and function and great for women on the go. it's great. >> where should women with fuller figures shop? >> department stores are really paying attention, go into any department store around the united states and find much more selections for the fuller figured gal. >> i love that. thank you, melissa. >> thank you, melissa. >> casey's next to show us fashion fit and fabulous. >> and this is from the icon collection. and i love this look because this collection was designed by the inspirations of paris and london. and this to me is fantastic. i love the pant. >> she's beautiful. >> and i love the long riding coat. it's a long riding coat and this is great for women that want to create a longer leaner silhouette. and the icon collection is for

women that want to elevate their wardrobe to add a little more sophistication and savvy to their look. >> looks beautiful. >> and it's all about balancing the look which i like. >> next jordan we had a look yesterday a model was dressed kind of like the tv show "madmen." >> i don't care what size you are, if you find a size that suits you, wear it and find it. and i love this look. it's all about that '60s dressing the pencil skirt has been reintroduced into the collection, which i love. >> i love the so-called full figured women can wear a pencil skirt. >> i've balanced out the look with the sweater with the ribbed waistline to create the waistline and then added the leather zip jacket so you can go a little '60s a little modern it's the right decade. and fuller figured women should wear whatever you want and gives you more of a shape with that skirt. >> too many women hide behind

baggy clothes. >> you're not going to be who you were in high school and love where you're at now. >> going to show us how to go from dusk to dinner. >> you're going to go to work dress to impress, show the boss you have what it takes. for women that are busy moms that don't have a lot of time. the husband calls and says honey, let's go to dinner. so i put her in this beautiful turtle green dress with a matching cardigan. the cardigan is key for every woman this season i love the turtle green and for the shoe go with the nude shoe. carry it right into fall. >> it makes your legs look longer. looks beautiful, thank you bernadette. >> every woman needs a little black dress. i love this new invention of the little black dress. we've got the wonderful cuffs. and speaking -- >> what does ponty mean? >> it's a wonderful fabric. we have all of the shoes from endless.com, you can get all of

your shoes. say good-bye to back fat and say hello to a smoother back. >> how did you do this? >> this is the smoothing bra and only $40. it's a patent technology that gets rid of back fat. smoother shapes softer lines and if this is what you get, fashion at its finest. >> thank you so much. >> pleasure being here. >> and for all of you who are trying to write really quickly, it's all on the earlyshow.cbsnews.com. >> that was a really good segment. good job. gorgeous women, real clothes, real human beings. way to go. >> and it's starting to get cooler now, so you're thinking about the fall, right? there's a marked difference here in new york over the past couple of days. >> there is indeed it's a beautiful day today. >> it is. >> i wonder how we'll use that day. >> we'll give that some thought. have a great day, everybody, your local news is next.

hello again. a look at spaghetti junction downtown and it's cooler today. it's tim willms in for -- marty bass. and it will be a beautiful day. and getting up to a daytime high below the average of 82 degrees. down at 56 tonight and below the average of 61 and under a moonlit sky and partly sunny tomorrow and pleasant and 81 degrees and 80 friday, 83 saturday and the labor day weekend looks nice and leveling out at 80. thank you. and in the news, the students around the country get back

into the classroomings and health officials and others are working on protecting them from the swine flu. mary bubala has more. >> reporter: h1n1 preparations are at the top of the agenda for school administrators and also, the state and national officials. already, a million americans have been hit with the virus and 500 died. president obama said, get your flu shots and one for the seasonal flu and the other for the swine flu. and the maryland officials are preparing and developing a plan to distribute the vaccine when it's ready in october and they're gathering together for a briefing on the swine flu. don, back to you. the man accused of gunning down a security officer inside the national holocaust museum is going to appear in court this morning. the 89-year-old is ordered to appear in a hearing. the white supremacist was seriously wounded and he's been

in the hospital ever since. the baltimore county police are needing help identifying this man who robbed two women on joppa road in parkville. he also sexually assaulted one of them. if you recognize the man in the hooded sweatshirt, call the police. south west airlines gets an early christmas present courtesy of the faa. they're giving south west until christmas eve. and the faa says that the parts don't prevent and preclude the safe operation of the plans and -- planes. the ravens are preparing to fly south today around tomorrow nighing they'll be in atlanta taking on the falcons. they'll help determine the roster spots and many of the players are eager for the regular season to start. it does on september 13th downtown. >> and stay with wjz-13,

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