captioning funded by cbs this was the best case scenario out of this tragedy, and the child appears to be healthy. >> a baby taken from its murdered mothers womb is found alive. fighting the flu. pregnant women and health care workers get priority for the vaccine. a mad dash. a 7-year-old driver running from the law and the lord. this is "cbs morning news" for thursday, july 30th, 2009. good morning. thanks for joining us. i'm michelle gielan. the case can be best be described as horrific. a baby cut from her slain

mother's womb. this morning the baby is found and a suspect is under arrest. good morning, terrell. >> all week long law enforcement officials have been working on this grewsome kidnapping case. this morning the baby girl looks like she's in good condition. she's being evaluated right now at a hnew hampshire hospital. >> we wanted that child. this is the best case scenario out of the tragedy. >> the baby's mother was last seen a weekal. it's not clear when she was killed. monday her mutilated body was discovered in a closet in her home in massachusetts. but it wasn't until tuesday the hree had been e teead been eigh pregnant. it was the strange behavior of julie cory, an acquaintance of her that led to a break in the case. cory told mutual friends she gave birth sometime last week. cory who didn't even know she was pregnant called police.

>> many of her acquaintances watczedth that there was w realize a d that there was a woman who was killed and missing the child. >> reporter: last night cory, the baby and male friend were picked up at a shelter. she was questioned and arrested charged with being a fugitive for justice with probable cause she had kidnapped her baby. haynes is described as a troubled young woman who was estranged from her mother. relatives say she acted much younger than years and started to mix with the wrong crowd. michelle. >> terrell, did the mother of this new baby leave behind any children? >> michelle, yes. family members say she had three other children. her youngest an 18-month-old baby girl. she was already in state custody. family members are raising the other two girls, a 5-year-old and 3-year-old. haynes had filed a restraining order against her ex-boyfriend. very tragic story we're reporting this morning. michelle, back to you. >> absolutely. terrell brown here in new york.

thank you. federal health officials have come up with a plan to distribute the flu be vaccine for the h1n1 flu virus when it becoming available this fall. a government panel recommends the first vaccinations go to health care workers, children and pregnant women. at least 1 million have been affected so far and 266 have died. the death toll includes a disportion nature number of pregnant women, 15 so far. karen brown reports. >> reporter: she has one more thing to worry about, swine flu. >> i also have diabetes, so i'm doubly at risk for contracting it. i know it's very severe. >> reporter: a new study says pregnant women are at least four times as likely to be hospitalized as others with the virus. >> especially in the second and third trimester. there is reduced lung capacity and changes in their immune systems, which make them more vulnerable to a number of infections. >> reporter: now the cdc is

putting pregnant women at the top of the list for the new swine flu vaccine. 20 million doses have already been produced. >> we are on track expecting vaccine doses in the fall. exactly how many, exactly when will be tough to pinpoint. >> reporter: doctors say the swine flu shot is being intensely tested and the benefits will outweigh the risks to mom and baby, although one shot is not enough. >> you actually need two vaccines. you need two shots in order to become protected. >> reporter: in the u.s. pregnant women make up 6% of the swine flu deaths. moms-to-be with flu-like symptoms are urged to seek medical attention immediately. six months pregnant she was out of intensive care after getting the swine flu. >> it can be very devastating, and you want to act as quickly as possible. >> reporter: researchers are urging pregnant women with flu-like symptoms to take tamiflu before h1n1 is confirmed. karen brown, cbs news, new york.

now to president obama's efforts at health care reform. two bills are emerging from the house. late yesterday a deal was reached between house leaders and conservative blue dog democrats. it has an estimated price tag of $900 bill onover ten years. fewer small businesses than first proposed would be required to health care coverage to their employees. members have until the end of tomorrow to discuss the bill and make changes. then they leave for a month-long break. the second bill is coming from house republicans. that plan costs $700 billion and offers tax credits to help americans buy insurance but it would not require people or business to have or offer coverage. it's unclear what impact that would have on reducing the number of uninsured, nearly 50 million americans. it also rejects federal oversight for the health care industry. americans have big doubts about the plans making their way through congress. a poll released just last night

finding 31% of those questioned said the plan would help them. nearly twice as many said it would not. less than half approve of the way the president is handling health care. it has been tabbed the beer summit, but it's really beer diplomacy. tonight president obama will host the. suzanne robertson in washington with more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning to you. we've heard the 911 tape and the woman who made the call, even from the president. hopefully today's happy hou thit the white house will finally put this one incident to rest. the drink drama house tonight, the white house. president obama has invited harvard scholar henry louis gates and sergeant james crowley over for a beer, hoping they can finally put to rest the controversy over racial profiling that erupted

yesterday. >> professor will drink bud sxlit professor gates liked red stripe and i believe sergeant crowley likes blue moon. >> while they sip their beers at a picnic table, they'll look for common ground. gates accused crowley of racism for arresting him in his own home. the already touchy situation got even worse when president obama said the police acted stupidly. the president later said he should have calibrated his words differently, and that both men overreacted. >> my sense is you have two good people in a circumstance in which neither of them were able to resolve the incident in the way that it should have been resolved. >> both gates and crowley will bring family members with them and president obama hopes it will lead to improved relations between police and minority communities.

as you heard there from the president's spokesperson, it will be a blue moon for the officer, a bud for the president and for the professor himself, a red stripe or a beck's. the white house only stocks domestic beers, michelle. bet you didn't know that. it's interesting to see if either professor gates or the sergeant will offer an apology to each other. >> susan robertson in washington. thank you. a check of overseas market and foreclosure news in our "money watch." a boy makes a run for it after an unlikely police chase. first, katie couric as a preview of tonight's "cbs evening news." we'll go inside what could be a medical break through for amputees making human saansplants possible for the outhsou of u.s. veterans that have lost limbs in the wah@h@ that's tonight only on the "cbs evening news."

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severe thunderstorms socked the colorado springs area. as much as four inches of rain triggered flooding on highways yesterday. to the south hail battled fweb low county breaking windows on cars and buildings. so far parts of colorado have received double the normal rainfall for the month. record heat is baking the northwest. in seattle the hot item in store, fans, as people sought relief from the 103-degree temperature. the hot weather is not helping firefighters in washington. a wildfire there threatened more than 120 homes and burned more than 500 acres. on the cbs money watch, stocks in asia rallied this morning. claire is here with the detaet tails. >> asian markets bounced back a bit. shanghai stocks rebounded 1%. hong kn'djaspa japan's benchmars rose half a percent each. now, on wall street three dow components are on deck to report earnings today.

exxon mobile, insurance giant travellers and walt disney. investors are walking the daily unemployment rate. the number of americans filing new claims for unemployment is expected to have risen to 585,000 last week. the dow jones starts down 20 points and nasdaq off sony turned in sony turned in a quarterly loss of $390 million. the stronger yen slammed its bottom line. electronic sales also continue to suffer in the global recession. the company doesn't see things getting better anytime soon. it kept its forecasting for red ink ahead. communities in california, florida, and nevada top the charts in foreclosure activity for the first half of the year. realty tracks rates the las vegas area has the highest

rate of foreclosures at 7.35%. the cape coral, for tt. myers rn was second and merced in california came in third. one more news from our new poll, more americans believe the economy is getting better. 32% say that, up from just 21% as recently as two weeks ago. as for the stimulus, only 4% say it's created any jobs, but more than half say it eventually will. 41% say it won't. michelle. >> all right. i believe in positive thinking, so let's keep that going. >> yes, let's keep our fingers crossed. >> claire, thank you. just north of salt lake city a 7-year-old boy went on a sunday drive and guess what? he did the driving. a camera in a police car caught the action over the weekend. the boy wasn't a bad driver, though he did blow through a few stop signs. eventually he got out and ran.

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here's a look at the weather in some cities around the country. miami partly cloudy and 90, chicago 77, denver showers and 68, los angeles 77 degrees. time now for a check on the national forecast. the latest satellite picture shows clusters of thunderstorms spreading over much of the southern plains and deep south. it's a gray, rainy morning across most of new england. later today the northwest coastline will continue to sizzle as temperatures in both seattle and portland will be right around the century mark. heavy rain from thunderstorms will swath the southern plain in the deep south. scattered storms across the ohio valley. in sports the phillies made a major move. phillies traded ben francisco and four top prospects for cliff lee. it's the second straight years the indians have dealt a reigning cy young winner. on the diamond the phillies visited phoenix.

justin upton got the scoring started with a two-run shot in the second inning that put the d'backs up 2-0. he looked masterful striking out eight. the phillies lost for the sixth time in 25 games, 4-0. in st. louis albert pujols came up in the bottom of the fifth inning with two on and two out and lined the game winner over the head of dodger center fielder matt kemp. the cards beat l.a. 3-2. in boston oakland's davis cleared the bases with a three-run double off the green monster to put the a's up 5-0 in the first inning. oakland won 8-6. when we return, another look at this morning's top stories o americans on revamping health care. it's not just her story, it's our story.

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more storms over the ohio valley, and it's another scorcher along the northwest coast. here's another look at this morning's top stories. a baby taken from its murdered mother's womb has been found alive. darlene haynes' body was found in her massachusetts home monday. another woman and the baby were found in new hampshire yesterday. a panel of experts recommends that the first vaccinations for the h1n1 flu be given to pregnant women, health care workers and children. it will be available by fall. plans to overhaul the nation's ailing health care system are slowly making their way through congress, but a new poll suggests many people have a lot of concerns about whether this is the right cure. chip reid reports. >> reporter: at a town hall meeting in north carolina, the president made an impassioned argument for recovery hauling

health care in america. while this support appears to be sold, he still hasn't convinced most americans. the president, for example, says just about everyone will benefit from health care reform. >> whether or not you have health insurance right now, the reforms we seek will bring stability and security that you don't have today. >> reporter: according to the new poll, if government does act to cover everyone, 69% of americans say they're concerned quality of care will diminish. 76% are concerned taxes will go up. 77% that their medical costs will rise. and what about this claim? >> if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. >> reporter: he's repeated it dozens of times, but the new poll says 62% are still concerned they will have to change doctors. the poll also has good news for the president. 82% of americans agree with him that the health care system is in need of a major overhaul.

>> if we do nothing, i can almost guarantee you your premiums will double over the next ten years. >> reporter: in fact, if there's no reform, 75% are concerned their costs will go up, 66% worry about someday losing their coverage. as for the president's plan to create a new government health insurance plan to compete with private insurers -- >> i'm for the public. >> most americans agree, 66% support the public option. only 27% are opposed. the president says he's confident health care reform will be signed into law by the end of the year, but the american people are far less certain. according to our poll, only 16% say it's very likely it will happen in 2009. chip reid, cbs news, the white house. the first fast food restaurant has opened in north korea's capital. you can't get an american-style hamburger there but you can

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good morning. flames consumed a house on chain bridge road near american university last night. the fire chief tells the "washington post" it took crews two hours to establish and sustain water flow. the home's owner is said to be on vacation and neighbors think the dogs inside escaped. a judge has found banita jacks guilty of murders her four daughters. federal marshalls found the girls bodies in the southeast dc row house when they came to serve an eviction notice in january of 2008. jacks faces life in prison at her sentencing, which is set for october. tomorrow the dc council is expected to vote on new tax hikes in order to close a huge budget short fall. council members met in private about the proposals yesterday. on the table are sales and tobacco taxes and a $45 million cut for the school system. good morning, howard. >> it was a weird day yesterday. we had the clouds and then book in the afternoon o toadrn

warnad. thisg moin rnisnice and quiet. a good start to the day. hiisclgh dsoucodsming in acros west virginia. so the morning ns probabli tt lelessli le ss rnte afn.oo afternoon. tempafsps e ththe 60s. culpeper 64. oakland and garrett county 61. it could be a patch of fog in one or two spots. looking at temperatures in the mid to upper 80s with, you know, an outside chance for a thunderstorm. right now 74. right now it is time for angie. >> yes, it is. right now things are looking nice on 6 -- 66. that's how we begin the quick traffic report. from gainesville to centreville lanes are wide open. in to maryland, 270 southbound, 111 to the beltway. no incidents or accidents to report and staying in maryland,

the inner and outer loop drivers are moving at speed around the beltway. some local high school students created a 100 pub foot public art project at a high school. it didn't cost a dime and it is made from a common throw away that threatens the environment. >> reporter: it is bright and bold. >> when i heard we were doing a public waving i got -- weaving i got really excite because i love big art and being loud an showing people we exist and that we are here. from a distance you may not realize it is made of plastic bags. >> think of all these bags and only a couple of weeks worth for two or three families and these are all dumped in a river how huge it would be. >> art work is not always traditional formats and it can be many different things and almost any material is up for grabs. >> reporter: they asked for

donations and received more than enough. >> the cans in there, too. >> we couldn't figure out how to use them at first but we decided to use them like christmas lights. >> reporter: it began as an art work, fiber and waving and kids made things like this using chicken wire. and then the teacher realized she had a large loom right behind the class. >> i want to show people how much waste we produce. some people bought in trash bag full of bags. i think that is terrible because we use so much. >> reporter: they want to remind people to recycle or use canvas bags. in fairfax, peggy fox 9 news now and wusa9.com. >> today students will take the cans, bag and bottles down to recycle them. to find a recycling