barbara hall takes us inside yesterday's memorial service. ♪ >> reporter: two weeks after annie le'surder, mourners gathered for a memorial service here in eld raorado, california. her mother wrote a poem in eulogy. the poem translated into english by a brother. >> farewell, my child. you are here lying in the cold coffin. >> reporter: le's family thanked those who banded together around the family during their tragedy. >> your thoughts and prayers in union with many around the world have been a force of comfort and strength for our family. >> reporter: le was found strangled, her body hidden in a wall at a yale university laboratory where she worked. police found her body on the same day she was to be married. charged in the murder, raymond clark iii, a lab technician who worked alongside her. le's family still trying to come to grips with her death will. >> we were all unable to be fully prepared for this tragedy. this crossroad we are confronted with the tragic passing of annie marie le. >> reporter: le's family held a private burial after the service. yale officials are planning

barbara hall, reporting from atlanta. >>> you probably don't think of prescription pills when you thinkf recycling, right, but lots of people showed up in niagara county, new york, yesterday, with a-to-drop off their old, unwanted medicines. 'the second year st. mary's hospital has hosted the prescription drug dropoff. the idea here is to keep the drugs out of the wrong hands and stop people from polluting the water system. >> like before in the past, i would just dissolve them in water and dump them down the drain but i don't know if that's the proper way to dispose of it. >> a similar event at another hospital collected more than 300 pounds of prescription drugs last year. >>> a "saturday night live" n newbie dropped an "f" bomb over the season premiere. the question is, was it a slip of the tongue? of course we bleepd it out. listen to new cast member jennie slate. >> you know what? >> you frickin' threw an ashtrays. i [ bleep ] love you for that. >> "snl" member charles rocket got in trouble for using the "f" word on the show. >>> this is not your average pothole. check it out, heav

barbara hall has details in today's business brief. >> reporter: stocks ended little changed thursdayer rising to their highest levels in nearly a year early in the session. the dow fell almost 8 points to close at 9,783. the nasdaq and the s&p 500 both dipped about 1/3 of a percent. new home building was on the rise in august. construction starts last morose by 1.5% since july mostly because of new apartment projects. the census bureau reports that building permits an indicator of future building plans increased 43%. >>> fewer number of americans filed for unemployment benefits. 6.2 million people filed continuing claims up nearly 130,000. the net worth of americans is on the rise for the first time in nearly two years. americans were $2 trillion wealthier in the second quarter of this year. the gains were mostly thanks to the recovering stock market which shot up 22% in the second quarter. it's still 19% below the peak in the 3rd quarter of 2007. for business brief. i'm barbara hall. >>> still to come new details in the samurai sword death. >>> the case is still open and this is whe

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barbara? >>> bribery in city hall. those are the accusations facing a d.c. council member's chief of staff. he is facing federal charges because of taking money to promote taxi legislation. chris gordon reports. >> reporter: fbi agents executed a search warrant in the offices of city council member jim graham, and focusing on the chief staff's desk and computers. he is accused of promoting legislation favorable to taxi caps. >> we fully believe once all the evidence has been put in front of a jury he will be completely ven dau tatd. >> reporter: the indictment charged him with accepting a $1,000 bribe on june 19th, with a individual seeking moratorium on taxicab license making them more available and granting him and his associates an exception. that individual met with councilman jim graham that said he would introduce the bill the next day. on july 10th, he presented a copy of the taxicab legislation presented to the person identified in the indictment as individual number one that said this is for you, and thank you very much. individual number one-handed $500 in cash to lowsa, who is vo

barbara mikulski and ben cardin plus kathleen sebelius. this town hall starts at 10:00 today. you have to be a card-carrying member of leisure world to listen in live in person. it's described as a private age-restricted community in montgomery county with as many as 8500 residents. barbara, back to you. >> thanks, kimberly. >>> massachusetts governor will have the authority to name the late ted kennedy's temporary replacement in the u.s. senate. the senate state approved legislation that allowed governor deval patrick to name the successor. opponents say it's not fair because lawmakers stripped mitt romney of the same power when it appeared john kerry might be elected president. patrick is expected to make the decision as early as tomorrow. massachusetts voters will pick a permanent replacement in a spial election in january. >>> a shootout at the border. four people were injured when gunfire erupted at the nation's busiest border crossing. police say it began with human smuggling at the border between san diego and tijuana. officers say a total of 74 people were crammed into

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. - hi, i'm halle berry, and as a new mom, i can tell you that childhood is a magical time. but for children with diabetes, life is not quite so carefree. the barbaraard to find a cure. know the signs: irritability, excessive urination, weight loss. if you have any of these signs, please call your doctor. early detection can save your life. give to save lives and reach for the cure. call now or log on to childrensdiabetesfoundation.org. >> look, the fbi is skillful at public relations. why did you even get this story to begin with, why is it done on the over of the repatezation act. >> they are remanufacturing the news so they can help pass legislation. it was attacking the constitution and i question as to why the fbi would release this information right now. they have control of the information. why release it now. >> the patriot act is not bad. it got the worst name in any legislate i have history. if they named it something else it would have a better regard in the public's eye. let's face it. he made a point. he is far left but his main point is that many of the terrorists have seen more of the product of snitches that entice dopes to get invo

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hall meeting all about health care reform. mr. biden spoke to residents at leisure world, a retirement community at silver spring. he had plenty of company on the stage. barbara mikulski was there with kathleen sebelius. he assured this health care reform would not hurt medicare. >> we are committed to protecting medicare, securing that trust fund and making sure another generation of americans follows our baby boom generation is able to have medicare. >> mr. biden warned without health care reform, the medicaid trust fund could run out of money in eight years. >> police arrested two men in the murder of a 22-year-old fairfax county woman. erika yancey was killed in november 2008. police found her stabbed to death in her car on sunrise valley drive. today they announce an arrest in that case. eun yang joins us with more. >> reporter: the arrests come a year after the murder. michael thompso and marcus williams were arrested yesterday. the victim's family had no doubt police would close this case and want the suspects brought to justice. >> although it doesn't bring erica girl, another young girl won't be victim at their hands. >> reporter: she still wants to

barbara bailey. first, donald preston. ." and obama says at a town hallth you. that is why i'm opposed to cutting that out. but let me just say, one of the specific proposals from the proponents of this bill in terms of how to pay for it, it is a $500 billion cut to medicare, $500 billion. and absolutely, medicare advantage is that the top of that hit list. please note that. >> i want had some. the president had a town hall meetings in montana, and then in colorado, and said if you have a program that you like, you can keep it. in the same speech, but we're going to eliminate medicare advantage, which is for 10 million american citizens. i am sure that there are people here today. we had 3000 in wyoming. when they put that program in the place, it was intended for people in the cities and people in rural communities. that is louisiana. i had the privilege today to tour the new louisiana state university medical lab area. incredible, stated the are, doctors all around the country and maybe around the world are going to come there to learn to do with comput

hall meeting today on health care reform in montgomery county. mr. biden spoke to residents at leisure world, the massive retirement community in silver springs. he had plenty of company on stage. maryland senators barbara mckuls ki took part as well as kathleen sebelius. >> we are absolutely committed to securing medicare and making sure our baby boom generation is able to have medicare. >> mr. biden warned without health care reform, the medicaid trust fund could run out of money by the year 2017. >>> police in tyler, texas, say today a teacher was stabbed to death at school this morning. the attack happened in a classroom in a high school about 95 miles southeast of dallas. a student has been arrested in the case. >>> a shootout at the border. four people were injured after gun fire erupted at the nation's busiest border crossing. police say it began with human smuggling. at the border between san diego and tijuana. officers say a total of 74 people were crammed inside three vans. they say one of the vans tried to barrel past inspectors, and that's when customs agents opened fire. three people in the vans were hit by the bullets. one of them is in critical condition. police arrested everyone in the v

barbara, as we talk to you on this day eight years later from the september 11th attacks, i know you were there at the pentagon and as you mentioned, everyone talking in the hallsnow about what's happening. the concern couldn't be higher as we continue to look at these live pictures of the potomac river and what's happening. >> i want to add one thing. we americans sort of tend to forget a little bit. it's been eight years. a lot of people came to work in this building this morning saying saying it's raining outside and miserable. we won't go outside to the ceremony. we're very sorry for the families but it's another miserable rainy day in washington d.c. looking at it with a sense of sophisticated boredom if you will. and now we have this. and it really hits you. >> absolutely. barbara, i appreciate that. we want to get back to you if you are able to learn anymore information from your seat. the pentagon. our homeland security correspondent has new information at this hour. what do you have? >> we've been talking to the coast guard since we became aware of this incident. they're not able to confirm exactly what was happening on the river. we are told that comm