didn't realize that bethany was watching around the corner. >> bethany came around the corner, i will, i will. and she sticks in her finger in there and it snaps her fingers and he goes does it hurt and she goes -- no. >> you all like that you stick your fingers in to things. >> not like that. >> bethany grew up fishing, kayaking, mountain climbing and playing soccer and hockey. on the boys' teams. >> it is tough sometimes being a mom when you see her playing hockey with the boys. >> was she a tomboy. >> oh, yeah. >> the joke in alaska is the men are men and the women will too. but rugged self sufficiency is a good thing t people respected bethany. and then came that day, the day so moment ouls in the life of every parent and child when it was time in her case to leave this cloistered paradise in mt. mckinley and go to college in anchorage and then what happened four days later? well, as you will see, what happened four days later shook the earth around here. in the spring of 2003, bethany rented an apartment on m street in bootleggers cove, a neighborhood on the water in downtown anc

. >>> and a new controversy over bethany frankel's new cocktails. we have the scoop on "skinny girl." >>> i'm michael smerconish in for tamron hall, and the "newsnation" is following reaction following a unemployment report putting pressure on president obama to bring thickness to the table for job growth. job growth flatlined in august. first time we have seen no change in hiring from one month to another in six decades. the white house is saying not the read too much into the numbers, but said that the level was unacceptably high. >> there is no question that we need faster growth overall in the economy, stronger job growth to get the kind of recovery that this president wants. i think that this only validates that we need to put real meaningful bipartisan action on the economy. >> the market is down more than 200 points as wall street absorbs this latest report. let's go right to the cnbc washington correspondent john harwood who is joining us live on the white house north lawn. hey, john, as if there weren't a ton of pressure on the president fo

. >> before appearing on "real housewives of new york" bethany frankel admitted she couldn't even pay the rent. after this, she scored "bethann yichlt here after." and this year, she sold her company, skinny girl, for $120 million. >> every person said don't do it. it will ruin you. it was a 50/50 shot. it would be horrendous or the best thing and bravo to bravo. it was the best thing. >> and after losing out on a paycheck reportedly worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. jill is selling shapeware. >> will you end up a millionaire on the shape ware? >> yes. >> you have? >> yes. >> i know, it's incredible. >> andy cohen, head of original programming at bravo who overseeing "housewives" empire spoke in 2009 and made no excuses for the show's infomercial tendencies or the toxic environment. >> i love sociology. i love the way people relate to each other. this is a study in affluent human interplay. and the manners and etiquette and social moires of a certain set of people. if anyone feels guilty watching the show, that's a way to justify it. >> the ladies say the secret to the success o

our friends in ocean city that watch bethany beach, end up getting wet as well.peratures out there right now, 71 here in town. gaithersburg 64. dropped off the last hour. frederick still at 66. hagerstown 64. right along i-95 for those communities, temperatures are dropping into the lower 60s. curcher cumberland into the 50s. the cold front is moving through and that is what is bringing in these colder temperatures and you go up to the north and northwest, pittsburgh is chilly, 52. detroit is 47. columbus is 50 degrees. this is the air mass for us tomorrow. now, we won't be in the lower 50s, or at least i hope not. if we are in the lower 50s, the forecast is going to be incorrect. it's going to be really, really crummy out there tomorrow. we should be upper 50s to lower 60s for the weekend. and that means tomorrow and sunday, there's a chance of showers tomorrow. it will be breezy, too. it's never going to feel much like 60 degrees and with the rain falling in places, it will be downright miserable if you are outside. sunday, i think a little bit more sunshine. w

whole foods is pulling bethany frankel's skinny girl drinks. margaritas. >> pulling them off the shelves because apparently they contain an ingredient whole foods said is not as natural as was claimed. some kind of preservative they say does not meet our quality standards. frankel for her part shrugs and says, that's a fraction of our business, we're doing great, we're expanding. she's riding it all the way to ththbank. >> $12 million empire. million empire. >>> here are some stories to watch today on abc news. amanda knox is due in court today in italy where she's fighting her murder conviction. the american student hired experts who dispute the dna evidence prosecutors used to convict her. >>> the former french president jacques chirac is expected in court today on embezzlement charges but he told the judge he is too sick to appear. >>> rainstorms delayed last night's nascar race in atlanta. organizers are waiting for tropical storm lee to blow over before resuming the race. the earliest it can begin is tomorrow morning. >> finally this half

directions, and putting together chardonnay and her husband, jesse, and morgan gonzalez and her girlfriend bethany, and me and jessica, and lisa, and her daughter, and just everything collaborated and ended up just joining forces and ended up actually meeting almost at the same spot within a half hour. it just, it just, we were just talking about it, getting ready for this and we're still baffled ourselves. >> you were doing this even though authorities were conducting their own search. what made you decide to jump into the search yourself. >> actually i'll let my sister chardonnay talk about that. she really handled a lot of the beginning work of the missing persons as well as the detective work, so chardonnay, its eight yours. >> well, my goodness, where do you start. what happened first is that immediately when our stories matched up that we had a problem, that my father was missing, we were connected through to the missing persons homicide department in los angeles with detective harris. detective harris ended up work ing with us and being able to put things together and try to wean out what c

host: next caller comes from bethany, louisiana. hi tomas. caller: good morning. i had watched one of our news programs like "60 minutes" or "20/20," one of those. and one of the interviews from -- on that program was talking to one of the government officials right there in greece. in the back of a yacht. and he was asking him what are you going to do about your tax problems? and that was mainly coming from whether taxes would get paid or not to levy the correct amount of tax on the individuals that had so much and so much money. and it was causing stress to the government, and this was at the first part of the falls of the economy here in the united states and around the world. so if they don't straighten that up, i know our tax policies here. it gets us middle class and lower middle class people rather -- they are rather vigorous coming out there with tax money. it just seems like someone could do something about that, doesn't it? host: mr. ambassador? guest: well, tax solutions are part of the mix of the solution we are looking at in europe and certainly in gr