how thin skinked is alec baldwin? you are a wildly successful actor with a great show that you feel the need to go after some obscure, incon sequential mopey who is barely on tv for more than four minutes a night. >> and guess pissy if it is any less. i am missing my face time. bill, you were talking and i am missing my face time. >> something is wrong without bald whip dash -- with alec baldwin when he feels threatened by -- >> an insignificant holly yes, sir than thou puppet whose only weapon is being quick at the google. >> that was pretty hard, actually. i don't care. >>> do you have a comment on the show? e-mail us at red eye at fox news .com. leave a voicemail on 212-462-5050. still to come, maybe, we don't know. , the half time report from tv's andy levy. >> tonight's half time report is sponsored by pals. the close level of friendship where one feels an attachment to another. thanks, pal. >>> let's find out if we got anything wrong so far. for that we go to tv's andy levy. hi, andy. >> i'm not talking to you.

his best friend jason baldwin and another, jesse miss kelly.re was no physical evidence linking them to the crime scene. but there was something investigators didn't like about them. especially damien. >> damien was kind of a smart ass. and he was a big reader. >> mara leveret is a writer and author of "devil's knot". she's known damien and his story for years. >> he would say things to jerry driver, the juvenile officer, that played against driver's own concerns about the occult and the satanic activity in the area. and damien thought that he knew more because he was reading about these things. >> the community was terrified. everyone was talking about an occult killer. witchcraft and devil worship. >> people were staying inside because they were afraid. >> and they were keeping their children inside because they were afraid. the reputation of the police as protecters was on the line. >> they had to get somebody. >> they were under a lot of pressure to do that, yes. >> and all the authorities there. i mean, that's what we pay our authorities t

kate baldwin doing great work for us up on the hill. let's look at the unique role of the vice president. knowing a little of what was going on behind the scenes now. >> that's right. a lot of people rib the vice president for his gaffes, either falling asleep on camera or using, shall we say, creative language. but getting attention for something quite different. i should make the point that a lot of people, not only here at the white house, but up on capitol hill, we're working around the clock. 24/7, to make this happen. but the vice president as much being viewed as the closer. someone who used his deep experience to find common ground. when president obama walked into the briefing room sunday night to announce a compromise deal on the debt ceiling, vice president joe biden was away from the spotlight. he ducked in late, sporting shirt sleeves and sat along the wall. but the role he played in shaping and selling the deal was far from low key. convincing liberal democrats like barbara mikulski who found the deal wrenching. >> he know

and what's up with alec baldwin 1234* probably not nothing. that's how you do a tease. >>> before he can rule he needs to go to school. it was until 2013. can't remember, actually. then he needs a major and knowing crap. it was about enrolling in a master's program in government and politics. what is the reality of city unions and infrastructure. decentralizing everything. how does it work? he says this while lounging on the hood of a pink golf cart. we should probably discuss this in our lightning round. can and will he win when and if he ends up running? there are four parts to that question. >> no, i don't think so. if you look at the demographics in new york, it will be very difficult for someone to succeed mayor bloomburg. hispanic, african-american and some minority group. >> anthony wiener almost did. >> i think that was more on his own mind or his own twitter account. >> joe, do you think when he enrolls in these courses he will go to class? >> is he going to mcgill university of canada? >> i don't know what he is going on. he needs to

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more details in a minute, but let's bring into the conversation kate baldwin. when the speaker walked by you moments ago you asked the right question, you didn't get a verbal answer, but he gave you a bit of a nod. he seems to think finally he's going to get a plan out of the house and senate? >> he's smiling more today than he was earlier -- they were getting votes for his original bill. i think there's more a more optimistic mood. >> you have the votes tonight? >> john, while we -- speaker binner has not answered my question. paul ryan is the chair of the house budget committee. he seemed pretty confident today at a news conference with speaker boehner saying he thinks this bill will prevail, going to prevail with a majority of republicans. one thing we've been tracking throughout the day is where do house democratic leaders stand? because they have refuse to take a position throughout the day. just a couple hours ago, we finally heard from a top aide that the democratic leader nancy pelosi, she was a yes vote, she was going to support and shortly right after

as part of an unusual plea agreement, echoles and two other convicted men-- jason baldwin and jessie misskelley-- were released from prison. >> this has been going on for over 18 years and it's been an absolute living hell. >> reporter: 17 years ago, damien echols was sentenced to death. the other two were given life. jason baldwin. >> and we didn't tell nothing but the truth, that we were innocent, and they sent us to prison for the rest of our lives for it. >> reporter: known as the west memphis three, the men were teenagers in 1994 when they were convicted of killing three eight-year-old boys in the town of west memphis, arkansas-- stevie branch, christopher byers and michael moore. investigators in this rural community believed that the teenagers killed the children as part of a satanic ritual. in recent years, though, d.n.a. evidence has been recovered at the scene-- none of it linking the accused to the crime. their freedom comes at a high price. under the unusual agreement known as an alford plea, the three men who still say they are innocent had to plead guilty to murder. >>

. >> reporter: damian eckels, jason baldwin, jesse miskelly jr., were all convicted of murdering and mutilating three 8-year-old cub scouts in west memphis, arkansas, in 1993. police called the killings part of a satanic ritual led pie eckels, who was put on death row. and meekly followed by baldwin and miskelly who received life sentences. >> i'm an outcast, i'm a freak. >> reporter: documentaries over the two decades since described the three not as murderers but as misfits. celebrities like actor johnny depp took up their kauds, as well as eddie vetter of pearl jam and natalie mane of the dixie chicks, who were in the courtroom friday when the three agreed to a legal maneuver that lets them maintain their innocence while acknowledging prosecutors have enough evidence to convict them. >> they would have to come with some concrete, physical evidence, and i they didn't have any. >> reporter: a local sprr defiant and stands by the original convictions. >> i have no reason to believe that there was anyone else involved in the homicide of these three children but the throw defendants wh

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because alec baldwin is a fantastic actor, one of the funniest character actors alive.that no one will respect him unless he pontificates his silly politics and he keeps toying with the idea of becoming mayor because it makes him feel important and smart. he has to realize he has a charming life, a great talent and a great career. >> andrew: the democrats in this town would never let him get the nomination. beck, what do you think? >> bob: so you take this lip gloss stuff and -- i see am serious. >> kimberly: called a wand. >> bob: alec baldwin? i could give a -- >> you wouldn't support him. >> bob: let him be an actor. >> kimberly: do we have a picture that's cute and charming we made. look at this. see now, compare this. >> bob: i haven't seen it in 40 years. >> kimberly: all photoshopped but compare it to michele bachmann on the cover of "newsweek." democrat and her. >> dana: speaking about this today you realize that the military used to be your path to politics now it seems to be hollywood. i think that is a little disturbing. >> kimberly: or investment banking. wh

baldwin says he may know, but will not say. >> i am so leery of pointing the finger at anyone no matter feel they be suspect simply because i've had the finger pointed at me and i know what it feels like and i do not want to get it wrong. >> reporter: baldwin says that now that he's free he'd like to have a gps come computer chip inserted in his body so that the authorities could track him so he will never be accused of being somewhere where he is not. meantime some of the families and the judge who oversaw this case say that the wrong people have been released here and that this is a mistake and releasing them is nothing short of injustice. >> kerry, thank you. >>> congressman ron paul wins new hampshire's young republicans straw poll. why as he suggests is the big media ignoring him? we're going to talk to his campaign. >>> more than 40 years after i have a dream speech, a moving memorial for the man who helped change a nation. gotta love the protein for muscles-- whoo-hoo! and omega-rich nutrition for that shiny coat. ever think healthy could taste so good? [ woman announcing ] new b

here's what jason baldwin said after he was released. >> this was not justice.g but the truth that we were innocent. and they sent us to prison for the rest of our lives for it. then we had to come here. the only thing that state would do for us was to say, hey, we'll let you go only if you admit guilt. and that's not justice no matter how you look at it. >> investigations to the case leading up to today's plea deal, spoke to damien echols during his incarceration. here's her report. >> west memphis, arkansas, 1994. an awkward-looking teenager with coal black hair and a far-away gaze stands trial, accused of killing three 8-year-old boys. best friends, badly beaten, hog tide and hidden in the watery bayou in the woods where they played. >> the first verdict reads as follows. >> reporter: at trial, prosecutors call is a satanic cult, a demonic ritual fuelling the town's blood luft with descriptions of sexual torture and mutilation. >> we the jury find damien echols guilty of capital murder in the death of stevie branch. >> reporter: damien echols was sentenced to

here's what jason baldwin said after he was released. >> this was not justice.the beginning we told them nothing but the truth that we were innocent. and they sent us to prison for the rest of our lives for it. then we had to come here. the only thing that state would do for us was to say, hey, we'll let you go only if you admit guilt. and that's not justice no matter how you look at it. >> investigations to the case leading up to today's plea deal, spoke to damien echols during his incarceration. here's her report. >> west memphis, arkansas, 1994. an awkward-looking teenager with coal black hair and a far-away gaze stands trial, accused of killing three 8-year-old boys. best friends, badly beaten, hog tide and hidden in the watery bayou in the woods where they played. >> the first verdict reads as follows. >> reporter: at trial, prosecutors call is a satanic cult, a demonic ritual fuelling the town's blood luft with descriptions of sexual torture and mutilation. >> we the jury find damien echols guilty of capital murder in the death of stevie branch. >> reporte

i'm fredricka whitfield with brooke baldwin. talking about some 4 million people without power all along the east coast in the mid-atlantic area in the nation's capitol, maryland, d.c., va, 1 million without power, a lot of people still shaken by the earthquake. >> what was it, last tuesday? 5.8 magnitude. >> that's right. national cathedral among those structures shaken. athena jones, give us an idea of what kind of damage. a lot of toppled trees throughout east coast. >> reporter: well, exactly. as you can see, rather a large tree fell here at the national cathedral overnight toppling another tree. this is one of the 200 or more trees that have fallen in the d.c. area, brought down by the storm. but i've got to tell you, as you guys were mentioning, this site, this cathedral has seen a rather interesting week in terms of natural events. the earthquake on tuesday toppled some of the main spires you see at the top in the back of the cathedral on the backside, toppled those so, the cathedral has been closed. on a normal sunday li

i'm fredericka whit ks field along with brook baldwin. of people were ordered to evacuate the lowest lying areas of new york city but some refused to go. our affiliate spoke with a man whose father stayed put. >> he never got out before and refused to get out now. >> when did the floodwaters come in. >> 5:00 this morning. >> reporter: what happened? >> the water started to come in through the front door, back door and time to go. >> reporter: what did he say? >> he ain't leaving, i'm not leaving. so he's upstairs, he's okay. i go check on him once in a while. he's all right. >> reporter: you've got your hip waders on so you're able to get him food or water he needs. >> he's got everything he needs upstairs. >> reporter: how old is your father? >> 93. >> reporter: he's not changing his ways is he? >> never. >> reporter: have you ever seen it this bad? >> this is the second time but higher than it was the last time. the last time was the big flood where everybody got bombed but this was a lot higher. it's actually going down now. you couldn

damian exannuals and jessie misskeley and baldwin were convicted of the murders of the young boys, andnow free to go home and they are continuing to do paperwork in the courthouse. when our reporter is able to get out and give us more information about how this came to be, we'll bring it to you. >>> now moving on to the state of texas where it is withering under a relentless drought that lasted ten months long now. ahead of the break, we asked how much it has costs farmers in that state. 1 billion to $5 billion? the answer? a staggering $5 billion. the drought is a huge and costy natural disasters this year. and nine of the disasters costs $1 billion or more. >> that's a staggering number. 549 people have died this year from tornados, lightning, weather eventually, and also from flooding. 549. that's more than ever since the advent of radar. since 1936, there has never been that many people killed by weather. this has been an extraordinary year. and tuscaloosa, alabama. there were nine basic tornadoes that day that killed people, including the one that went up into georgia, and that wa

langston hughes was very angry at james baldwin because of that as a. by that time uncle tom had ended the vocabulary as a spineless coward the obsequious person. >> harriet beecher stowe wrote a uncle tom -- "uncle tom's cabin" -- there is a little store called uncle tom's market. if you ever go to maine it is there and i am sure people are surprised when they see it because that is where she wrote the book. >> joan and i and a bunch of others will be there for the 200th anniversary in june. i will stop by for sure. >> i wonder if you can give a brief time line so we have more of a context when she wrote the book when other things happened like a fugitive act or the dread scott decision when john brown -- and so forth. >> what happened was the fugitive slave law was passed which was a proslavery law. when slaves come to the north if you don't capture them and helped return them to the south you could go to jail. and paid $1,000 fine which was a lot of money back then and it could be bad for you. she got really mad about that. her sister in law says you

hour two, i'm brooke baldwin. emergency leaders on the urgent situation in vermont where a lot of people are very much so still stranded in hurricane irene's aftermath. we are also awaiting new jersey governor chris christie who expected to speak live on all of the rushing floodwaters in his state. i want to begin this hour in ve vermont where the rivers are way up. even though it's been days since tropical storm irene dumped more than a foot of water, the water is still rising in upstate new york. amber lions is standing by in verm month. amber, let's begin with you. tell me where you are and what you're seeing around you. >> reporter: well, brooke, i'm right outside of a town called grafton. 20 towns across the state have been turned into islands. this river was just trying to build some type of a makeshift road so national guard troops can get in there and deliver supplies, baby formula, food, medicine to the 800 residents that are on the other side of that road. in that town called grafton and some towns are c

. >>> next up, we've heard spec tlags that alec baldwin wants to enter politics, but he tells "new york times" today he's looking into getting his master's in politics and seem to have sights set on becoming mayor of new york city. he plans to become knowledgeable, he says on the i.n.s. and ins and outs of new york and what's the reality of york and what's the reality of the city unions, agreements, teachers, decentralization, things like that, utilities of coned and mta, how does it all work? imagine that, someone wanting to learn the business of politics before entering it. >>> promising though a run may be for him as baldwin continues hi acting career on "30 rock" and plans to start chipping away in the fall of 2012. long-term plan. >>> up next, triple booked. that sums up the iowa straw poll weekend for mike huckabee. it's nothing political. three of the 20 candidates have tapped him to jam on his bass guitar at the campaign tents this weekend. he said yes to all the offers he received. so far huckabee has selected some buddy holly classics. when it comes to the straw poll, they wan

and baldwin. >>> still in shock. overwhelmed. i spent almost the past decade in solitary confinement. so i'm not used to being around anyone, much less this many people. it's kind of overwhelming. it's not perfect. it's not perfect by any means. but at least it brings closure to some areas and some aspects. you know, we can still bring up new evidence. we can still continue an investigations we've been doing. we can still try to clear our names. the only difference is we can do it from the outside instead of sitting in prison and do it. >> even when you're in prison, you have to worry about your own safety. it doesn't matter what crime it is, you got to worry about your safety regardless. >> jason, how about you? >> i didn't worry about someone else would do. i worried about people who loved me and care about me and trust. we can't live our lives in fear. this was not justice. in the beginning, we told nothing but the truth that we were innocent and they sent us to prison for the rest of our lives for it. then we had to come here

these are the shots of jason baldwin and damien echols and jessie misskelley.intain their innocence. our david mattingly looks at both sides of the case. >> reporter: after more than 18 years behind bars, the men known as the west memphis three find that freedom has a bitter taste. >> this was not justice. we told nothing but the truth. we were innocent. they sent us to prison for the rest of our lives. we had to come here and knowing that the state would do is a we will let you go only if you admit guilt. that is not justice no matter how you look at it. >> reporter: in a complicated deal, jessie misskelley and damien echols and jason baldwin admit their guilt. the west memphis three go free, but not free of the word murderer. >> it is not perfect. it is not perfect by any means. at least it brings closure to some areas and some aspects. we can still bring up new evidence. we can continue the investigations we have been doing. we can try to clear our names. the difference is doing it from the outside instead of sitting in prison. >> reporter: after their entir

i'm brooke baldwin.story, rising waters inland, wiping out bridges, sweeping away vehicles, collapsing homes, and endangering lives hours after irene's departure. ♪ >>> this is a far cry from a bedouin tent, the luxurious dwellings and tortured victims. >>> plus a boy punished for doing what so many children do. >> i couldn't do nothing about it because if i said something i would end up getting in trouble, too. >> hear jonathan's story from his twin brother, joseph. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> welcome back. i'm brooke baldwin. the storm and the aftermath, 5 million people all the way up and down the east coast still have no power right now, 5 million people. here's why. they were in the path of irene when that storm left the new york city area tore northward through connecticut, rhode island, massachusetts. we're talking about vermont and there's a reason, a brook here that normally runs quietly through the town of brattleboro is raging today. rainfall reached 15 inches in some spots, still

we want to take you to providence, rhode island, where kate baldwin is standing by.ow bad was the storm surge? >> reporter: i think as you heard from many other places on the east coast, many people are breathing a sigh of relief to use the now overused phrase, randi. here in providence, rhode island and throughout rhode island, they moved into cleanup and recovery mode. as you can see, the rain has tapered off. if you came to me five minutes ago i would also say the winds subsided, but they kicked up significantly in the last five minutes. on the tail end of this storm we may get some significant gusts, a reminder of where the damage we have seen really was coming from. now we are hearing crews are out on the streets having to work with a lot of debris that we've seen as we have been driving through providence. there's downed trees, significantly large trees down as well as downed power lines. but it appears the focus is getting people back online. the local power company, the national grid, the last update is that they're working on trying to get half of the state

police arrested damien ekohls, baldwin and misskelley and charged them with murder. >> they are chargedrs believed the three were part of a cult and the kill was a satanic ritual. in 1993, echols was sentenced to death and baldwin and misskelley were slated to spend the rest of their lives in jail. misskelley did confess to the crime early on his attorneys claimed he has a low i.q., the three maintained their innocence ever since. actor johnny depp pled their case and hosted benefits to raise moneyor their defense and in 2007 new dna evidence emerged that defense attorney argue exonerates the three. thursday they were transferred to a county jail, a craig head county judge issued a gag order prohibiting anyone from talking about the case publicly. sources including one victim's father say the men will go tree. this is a bittersweet development for anyone covering the case for a while. >> they've been convicted of killing the kids, are they just going to walk out of jail? >> there is a gag order and no one has violated it but what we have heard, what could happen today they could enter s

i'm brooke baldwin. let's begin where drew sort of left off there. you know what, you need a scorecard today. or maybe a traffic cop to keep up with the presidential hopefuls. i'm giving you a map. des moines, iowa, ground zero ahead of the iowa straw poll. des moines, iowa, flooded with republican candidates. plus, yep, sarah palin. she turned up, arrived there just a short time ago. she is not, i repeat not in the race, at least not officially. why else would she be in des moines? sarah palin is in iowa. but not the front-runner. no, mitt romney left eye wachlt he bolted iowa. today he's in new hampshire. the state he's banking on to help clinch the nomination. as we broke the news on in show just yesterday, south carolina is awaiting rick perry, the texas governor set to announce tomorrow in charleston. that yes, he is getting into the race. that, my friends, will make this whole new ball game. i want to begin in des moines. paul steinhauser is there again for us today. paul, besides sarah palin arriv

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. >> jimmy: original names. [ laughter ] that would come in -- we worked at alec baldwin's pizzeria.we need a cup, too." and you'd be like -- and you'd the slip the cups. and then, we would get mad, we would yell -- [ italian accent ] "deuce bigalow!" [ italian accent ] >> "male gigolo!" [ laughter ] >> jimmy: it never took off. it was not funny but i have a clip of the sketch. lorne let us air this. no one's seen this before. check this out. >> it's all right, cup boy. you can keep trying. [ incomprehensible babbling ] [ crashing ] [ laughter ] >> "deuce bigalow!" >> "male gigolo!" [ laughter ] >> jimmy: hey, you're gonna be at the del close improv marathon. >> i am, i'm gonna be at the del close improv marathon, ucb theater. we're gonna have some nice -- >> jimmy: i used to -- i went to -- i went there a couple times. it is amazing. it is like a all night long deal. it's like a -- >> yeah. >> jimmy: -- 20 hour thing of all improv groups. >> i think it's three days. you can stay there the whole time, if you want. some people actually do stay there the whole time. >> jimmy: i remembe

police came when misskelley confessed to the killings during questioning and implicated echols and baldwin as accomplices. but soon after he recanted and refused to testify claiming his confession was coerced by police. prosecutors proceeded with no physical evidence, no weapon and no motive. >> we're innocent. and we had to prove it the rest of our lives. >> reporter: the notorious case inspired a 1996 hbo documentary "paradise lost, the child murders at robin hood hill." and then a sequel. the tv special caught the attention of several celebrities including johnny depp, eddie vedder and natalie maines of the dixie chicks. all would lobby for their release. >> i am also here to show my support for the west memphis 3. >> reporter: in 2007, new evidence cast even more doubt on their guilt. modern dna testing revealed that none of the dna at the crime scene matched the three men. in the end, ththwest memphis three may never actually see their names cleared. the only way thehewalked free yesterday was to plead guilty as part of a plea agreement. >> how do you plead today? >> i am pleading gui

kate baldwin is standing by. what are we toll about when it will take place? of. >> the timing is very fluid, wolf. the question is, will this compromise bill pass the house? speaker john boehner in a press conference wouldn't answer the question when i asked him if he had enough votes. but the paul ryan seemed pretty confident this afternoon. listen to him. >> some have various concerns, whether it's going to prevail. i think we have a majority of republicans. >> it seems like there's something for everyone to dislike, if you will. there's also some concern amongst a groups of house republicans that the cuts to defense spending cut too deep. at the same time, on the other side, they seem to be sprobs of their own, if you will. joe biden in a meeting with democrats to try to rally support. still refusing to throw their support behind this bill. listen here to vice president joe biden. >> my sense is they expressed all their frustration, which i would be frustrated as well. >> i pro-thought it was a good meeting and i feel confident that this will pass. >> the

damien echols, jessie misskelley and jason baldwin. teenagers then. in their mid 30s today. convicted in what many labeled a literal witch hunt. no physical evidence against them. imprisoned for nearly two decades. >> i'm just tired. you know, this has been going on for over 18 years. >> in the beginning, we told nothing but the truth, that we were innocent, and they sent us to prison for the rest of our lives. >> reporter: but today, a bizarre final chapter. with a stunning reversal. four years after abc news first broke word of dna evidence that could exonerate them, the west memphis three walked free. >> the legal tangle that has become known as the west memphis three case is now finished. >> does anyone believe that if the state had even the slightest continuing conviction that they were guilty that they would let these men free today? >> reporter: it was 1993, the three second graders are found drowned in a ditch in west memphis. it was before arkansas could handle dna testing. no physical evidence to link the teens to the crime. >> they were the unusual kids in town, d

today baldwin says once again flared up. these are the images the world seeing from the streets of chatter that. corporations are on. the. one o'clock in the morning. to the remain your guard your ship through one. i made sure that there were no people around the buildings that were nearby were vacant. and they started a fire that resulted in forty thousand dollars with damage to three trucks unfortunately it's taken me to start a fire and found guilty of several different crimes be sentenced to twenty two years before people want to pay attention to things that i had to say or people like me had to say. should i stay here for the duration of my sons the entire world and life that i've had up to this point will be non-existent twenty one years from now that's hard to swallow. that's that's real difficult but i can't look back knowing what i know how and what i have my heart. crude trying. this was the longest prison sentence for any environmental and animal rights activists in oregon the average sentence for arson if you're

. >> i'm brooke baldwin. let's get you caught up on what we know at this hour on this storm. president obama an hour away from making the statement about the storm. he will be doing so 5:00 eastern from the rose garden. we'll bring it to you live as soon as we see the president. >> irene continues to lose power since making landfall this morning. floodwaters are receding on new york's long island and downtown manhatt manhattan. evacuation orders for low lying areas including the rockaways were lifted just last hour. residents are venturing out to examine the storm damage. >> the storm has proven to be fatal. at least 15 people across six separate states were killed during the storm. irene's powerful winds toppled trees, knocked down power lines, damaged homes. early wind damage estimates alone are expected to top more than $1 million. more than 4 million people without power. >> as homeland security secretary janet napolitano said earlier today, quote, we're not out of the woods yet. >> no matter where you are this morning, from north carolina to maine, we encourage you to st

i'm going to hand it over now to brooke baldwin. brooke baldwin. hi brooke hello to you. t r p thp this multistate bus tou in iowa. oour owp our own woour own with him. he is interviewing the president right now. he wip he will johe will joe bit. wop wolwolf will, not the . to talk a little about what the president revealed in the sitdown interview in how to win over voters in the key states. that will be later in the how. i do want to begin with this story. it's this bizarre extortion plot. never heard anything like it. i want to start with the victim here. take a look. this is the young woman who spent ten hours, ten hours with a bomb just dangling from her neck. a bomb or so she thought at the time. and now, this is the man who allegedly strapped that thing in place in hopes of prying money out her parents. paul doug peters, age 51, an australian finance executive. paul doug peters arrested yesterday outside of louisville, kentucky, by a local fbi swat team in connect with the case that has gripped australia for nearly two weeks. let me take you back to august 3rd. thi

. >> indicate baldwin. >> kate baldwin should be on dancing with the stars. >> no, i think blitz is missingrom this list. >> you are an excellent dancer. >> i think we need to remind you of your dancing skills. >> i was actually on the ellen show and doing a little dancing. >> i loved you then and i loved you after. >> let's talk about the vidro of kate dancing with the stars. >> it could be a make or break moment. just ahead, will the highly anticipated jobs plan deliver when it comes to issue number one? and his gop republican presidential candidate mitt romney making a dramatic shift on a strategy when it comes to the campaign trail. we'll talk about that in our strategy session. at exxon and mobil, we engineer smart gasoline that works at the molecular level to help your engine run more smoothly by helping remove deposits and cleaning up intake valves. so when you fill up at an exxon or mobil station, you can rest assured we help your engine run more smoothly while leaving behind cleaner emissions. it's how we make gasoline work harder for you. exxon and mobil. discover aveeno positivel

before air time, kate baldwin spoke briefly with house speaker boehner. >> how do you feel, sir? great. >> what do you think of the vote this evening? >> i thought it was a strong vote but the first step in many steps yet to go. >> what you hope the american people take? what do you think the message is for the american people tonight? >> the process works. it may not be pretty but it works. >> definitely not pretty. president obama said nothing publicly today but reluctantly endorsed the compromise last night. >> is this the deal i would have preferred? no. i believe that we could have made the tough choices required on entitlement reform and tax reform right now. rather than through a special congressional committee process. >> someone on the left put it differently. paul krugman slamming mr. obama under a headline reading "the president surrenders." you can decide what happens. more than $2 trillion in savings over the next decade including $21 billion next year, a little more than $900 billion agreed on for the next ten years and a bipartisan commission made up of six house a

the english football season and man seems to move to the top of the early standings after beating baldwin three two at the reebok stadium earning a second win in as many matches barry and zach go scoring for city elsewhere wolves who escaped relegation last may but full of sunil and they were also winners and we could go while still jewett new boys nor each and. both are still seeking this victories this season ricci delayed summated one deal with his first on strike but can one jones leveled in the dying seconds. moving states as well as angeles galaxy as new signing or a big key needed only twenty minutes to score his first goal in the m.l.s. the irishman to volunteer in the club's fixture against san jose earthquakes having trained just once on the eve of the game however keen wasted no time not seeing his first in front of the american crowd although it's windy for us many of the former tottenham striker opened the scoring up to get the ball from galaxy star david beckham it finished in a two nil victory for the al east side that led them to move six points clear of seattle in the wes

i'm brooke baldwin. i want to begin with something we've been talking about for quite a while and it continues to percolate. that being the heat. it is gripping so much of the southern u.s. in just two states, texas and oklahoma, the heat is to blame for 22 deaths, 22. and it is just the 3rd of august. temperatures again today reaching well into the triple digits. in fact, case in point, plano, texas, excessive heat is blamed for the death of a popular high school football coach who collapsed two hours into the team's first practice of the season. the heat index apparently soaring above 100 degrees. >> we were on a second short break and heading to the fieldhouse. he collapsed outside the fieldhouse. >> the heat proving to be fatal in georgia. two high school football players collapsed while out practicings under the sun and the heat. they both later died. if you have kids who say, mom, dad, the coach says i have to practice, i have to be out there, maybe in full pads, i want you to listen to the father

debt arland portugal and greece put together before the end of this year it will lead needs to sell baldwins gas which is equivalent to the whole of the green. government bond market in other words all of the greek debt that we've been talking about for weeks and weeks and weeks is being looted. italy is huge need is just a true big to manage it anyway be rescued in the way that other economies have so far been bailed out by the e.u. what the euro zone needs to do is completely rethink the approach that they currently have so we're going to actually a completely new approach sometime by september october or maybe november we are in severe danger that the euro zone is going to collapse well our business team has the world's markets on a close watch and i have an update for you in just a few minutes. also coming up later in the program the new great fire of long standing buildings ports billings calls moves in and more violence we report on the two days of violence the grips parts of the british capital. and syria now under pressure from the arab world's most powerful nation a saudi arabia pul

news continuing with brook baldwin. hi, brooke. >> hello, everyone. exhale.he detlet of default is over. a short time ago the president signed the extension. a lot of folks are saying, hey, big surprise, of course, that got it done. okay, all well and good. but dl are reports out there that as late as last sunday and with a deal appearing unlikely, the white house was making preparations to send out timothy geithner, the u.s. treasury secretary to prepare the american people for a stock market crash. folks, that was only 48 hours ago. so this thing was pretty close. and here's the pretsident. he spoke this afternoon from the rose garden. had a word or the two with congress for taking this thing to the brink. watch. >> we receive in the past few days washington has the ability to focus when there's a timer ticking down and there's a looming disaster. it shouldn't take the risk of default, the risk of economic catastrophe to get folks in this town to work together and do their jobs. >> joe johns, we didn't give you much break from talking to randi to talking to