and they're not letting me help them. >> secret letters from jail just released. 258 pages from casey anthony to her drug dealer pen pal. >> there's nothing in there that it is by any means even close to a confession. >> spilled her guts about plans after she's released. casey even reportedly took time to bash her own mom and dad. >> we think that there are things in there that she'll be criticized about because of the editorializing that goes on in this case and the way people like to criticize miss anthony. >> the media completely misconstrued everything that i said. the [ bleep ] detectives told them [ bleep ] [ bleep ]. >> the letters are all over the place and they've run the gamut. i made a list. she talks about going to bible study, talks about movies she's seen, talks about her family, talks about friends, she talks about how she misses caylee. she also talks about preparation for the memorial for caylee anthony. >> there's absolutely nothing to find out. not even what i told the detectives. >> well, you know, everything that you're telling them is a lie. >> i have no clue where cayle

they did not know each other before casey anthony was incarcerated. the way she did. investigators to our knowledge found out she used chloroform to drug her daughter. >> so right now it's really hard to say what she might say for the case. >> if she's a credible enough person after all, they put convicted criminals on the stand all the time. i did it also when i was a prosecutor. you just kind of -- you take your knocks if you have to because what they have to add to the case is so compelling. so it may be that they'll decide she is worth putting her on the stand. she apparently had the deal cut. could she have more years shaved off? i suppose, but again, the case isn't going to rise and fall own her testimony. >> thank you for this interesting development in the story for sure. thank you. >>> americans are remembering the godmother of the civil rights movement. dorothy height died tuesday. she was a long-time president of the national council of negro women. she was the leading woman who helped dr. martin luther king and others. president obama call

casey anthony's inmate pen pal talks about the day caylee's remains were found. she cried all day. was that because of sadness or guilt? >>> and this man flies nearly 20 feet. >> if you don't pay attention to the traffic, this could happen to anybody. >> don't miss more of the shocking video. >> controversy, opinion, your point of view, this is "prime point of view, this is "prime news." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> welcome, i'm ryan smyth in for mike galanos, and this is "prime news." incredible stories starting out today. a produce wer a hit reality show "survivor" has been released from the police custody in his wife's death. now, her body was found yesterday in a sewer at the moon palace hotel in cancun, mexico and staying there with her husband and their two kids. right now the prosecutors say she was possibly strangled. her husband has not been arrested for crime, but he has been detained and we are getting new disturbing details about what happened before she vanished. witnesses say there was fighting hours before she was killed and his face seems scratched up.

case against casey anthony. they make robin adams claims she cried all day when the remains were found near her family's orange county family home, but she says that casey had a feeling it was her daughter caylee. >> she seemed to be praying for her everyday. >> was she was a basket case? >> pretty much. >> you know her story right now, right? >> well, no, not all of the way, no. >> they found the body. >> okay. here is the key, that is december 11, 2008, but the problem is that it was days before the detectives positively identified the toddler's missing body, and prosecutors say it proves she is a cold-blooded killer, and hid the body. and the defense says they have a pen pal that is just for their personal gain, and someone they are calling the jailhouse snitch. so, now, this is former defense

. >> new documents just released in the casey anthony murder case. >> the unknown strand of hair found near caylee's body. >> there was hair attached. >> duct tape. >> hair analysis. >> newly released documents show the fbi tested a hair found on a plastic bag at the remains site. >> that's what they're going to try to find out-f they can link casey to that scene. >> trying to make sure that i'm not going to give anybody anything else to throw against me. >> hair found at the crime scene doesn't match either caylee or casey anthony. >> reportedly doesn't match any officers who are working the remains site. >> casey anthony maintains her innocence. >> my entire life has been taken from me. >> the defense has maintained that someone else put caylee's body in the wooded area and could use this tiny five-inch-long hair as proof? >> even though i'm giving them nothing they're still doing it. >> a jailhouse friend of casey anthony's telling an amazing story. >> she told us casey anthony talked to her about using chloroform to knock out caylee so she could party. >> she would put it on like a

washing his hands of this trial after complaints from the defense that he was buddy-buddy with a casey anthonyd a justice denied, but only time will tell. casey sits behind bars. an unknown judge is coming in and the defense team continues to file motions. is it a brilliant move by the defense or will it backfire big time? believe it or not, one day, one day we may actually know the answer. i'm jane velez-mitchell, still waiting, and that's my issue. >> tonight with jane, cops are digging for answers about what happened to haleigh cummings and they're now calling the case a homicide. she'll talk to misty croslin's grandmother who claimed she tipped off authorities. don't miss issues with jane tonight at 7:00 eastern. >>> the father of murdered teenager amber dubois speaking out about her killer's surprising courtroom confession. the 14-year-old vanished walking to school in her san diego suburb in february 2009. last friday convicted sex offender john albert gardner admitted to kidnapping, raping, and stabbing dubois. gardner also pleaded guilty to killing 17-year-old chelsea king in february.

"in session's" jean karrca casat tests link garbage bags to casey anthony's home. e nearly 300 pages includes testimony from a woman who says her sister had an affair with george anthony, that is casey's father. >>> the u.s. wants iran to release three american hikers immediately. the hikers were arrested last july. now iran claims they illegally entered the country from iraq. the white house press secretary says they haven't been formally charged or allowed to get any legal representation. the u.s. has asked iran's government to grant visa's to the hiker's family to allow them to visit but that request was denied. >>> you can't really transform education in america without help from good teachers. we talked to a big city mayor about how to get good teachers and keep them. >> i have no formal authority on how to appoint board members, or have any kind of say in how those dollars are spent. >> what strategy would you suggest if you had control? >> we have got to stop paying our teachers in my opinion as wage workers, they're not, they're professionals. we should pay

police write, casey anthony implied her mother, cindy anthony may have brought the chloroform home when she worked at a local clinic. >>> and then a bombshell. anthony graphically writes she was sexually abused as a child by her father and brother: "i woke up so many times to a flashlight in my face, and he would be sitting in my bed staring at me." late last night the family issued a statement saying they deny there was any improper sexual behavior in their family. another inmate claims that anthony revealed little caylee's body was found in a baby blanket and black garbage bag, though police never released those details. anthony yernls for freedom. "i need a vacation," she writes. "i'm thinking of costa rica. want to come with?" unfortunately we have to wait until we're released. if she's convicted of first- degree murder, casey anthony may never be released. jeffrey could haveman, abc news, miami. >>> well, how far is too far when it comes to partnertral controls? one arkansas teen has had enough. she's suing her own mother for allegedly harassing her facebook. according to the teen,

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according to interview trans released by prosecutors yesterday, inmates in jail with casey anthony saide would drug her daughter so caylee would go to slip. one inmate told investigators casey said something only caylee's killer would know. >> there was also something about the day takeyh lee's remains were found, this is very damning information as well, inmate robin adams whom she befriended at the jail on the day caylee's remains were found after the jail chaplain had broken the news to casey that she talked to casey and casey told her they had found a child's remains and the child was wrapped in a trash bag and a black trash bag. the investigators noted that the chaplain at the jail nor anyone else would have given the details on that first day and they're pointing out that the only person that would have known those details, or the only people who would have known those details are the killer and the investigator. so that looks like guilty knowledge on her part. >> caylee's remains were found december 2008, six months after she was reported missing. casey anthony, the mom, has plea

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people from the outside than the home would. >> jean casarez says another test compared hairs from casey anthony'she area where her little daughter cayl caylee's remans turned up. a woman says her sister had an affair with george anthony, he is casey's father. >>> you may get to see a lot more of two women linked to two big sex scandals. question is, will reality tv give a home to them? we're going to hear from a producer who says he has a wholesome reason for wanting to extend their 15 minutes of fame. [ wheezing ] i have asthma. and that's what it sounded like when my symptoms came back. i'd get this tightness in my chest. like i was breathing through a straw. so i went back to my doctor again. we talked about choices in controller medicines. we chose symbicort to help control my asthma. [ man ] while it's not a rescue inhaler, symbicort improves my lung function, starting within 15 minutes. it helps give me the control to... [ inhales, exhales ] symbicort is a combination of two medicines. it will not replace a rescue inhaler for sudden symptoms and should not be taken more than twice a day. sy

. >>> a jailhouse friend of casey anthony is telling one heck of a story. she says anthony admitted to her that she knocked out little caylee with chloroform so she could party. convicted killer mia dirkovich sat down for the interview with our affiliate. >> reporter: she spoke with us at the low he will correctional institution. she said casey used chloroform to knock out caylee. >> she would pour it on a wash rag and put it over the baby's face so she would enhail it and that will knock her out. >> did she say what she used to knock her out? >> i can't pronounce it. chloro foam? >> reporter: but when she was questioned under oath by investigators, she did not mention chloroform. we asked why. >> when they came to see me, i only remembered bits and pieces because that's really how it was. avs a year later. >> reporter: she says she is still remembering things. she told us casey said she also drugged caylee to prevent her mother cindy from babysitting. >> she felt leaving caylee with her more often, they will get a closer bond and that's what she didn't wan

>> well, that is an inmate in the florida jail who said she spoke to casey anthony and they are sayinghat casey used to use chloroform to knock out caylee so she could go out to party. and joining us now on the phone is brandy from texas. your thoughts? >> yes, this is brandy. >> go ahead, brandy. >> caller: i think that she absolutely did that, and the evidence shows, and that is why she was out doing all of the partying right before she got caught, because she knew once all of the fingers were pointed, she was going to do down. so, of course, she is going to party and get all of the partying out. >> okay. brandy, you believe that, and subscribe to that theory, and we talked again about that chloroform theory to knock her out so she could go party, and another reason we are hearing from the interview, and let's listen to maya derkovich say she would chloroform caylee rather than have her mother cindy babysit. because she was jealous of that. >> she said that if she left caylee with her more often they would get a closer bond, and that is not what she wanted. >> well, casey maintains h

. >> reporter: casey anthony's lawyers claim the prosecutors with held evidence that could prove hernnocence. her daughter was found dead after a 5- month search. they say they didn't have access to the names of searchers. they hunted around the area where her body was found but they were not the ones to find her because the area was under water at the time. >>> thank you. anthony has pleaded not guilty. >>> the doctor charged in michael jackson's death and has to face more than a dozen members of michael jackson's family. >> crowds gathered outside of the courthouse awaiting the man charged with michael jackson's death. he will face a dozen members of the pop star's family and the judge. this session is to set a date for preliminary hearing and to assign a judge for the case. they're fighting to allow the doctor to keep his medical license. they want it revoked but the attorneys argue, if he can't practice medication, he can't pay for defense. murray signed on a month before his death. his job was to help keep him healthy through a series of concerts. he was treating jackson for ins

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. >> we're getting sh inting shoc details from the 258 pages of letters casey anthony wrote at a jailwe have caylee home, everything els we'll deal with. >> adams told investigators anthony admitted she used to knock out her toddler so she could go out at night. >> our number one priority for kate and i is our kids. >> breaking news in the ongoing saga of the gosselins. >> smile now. >> jon gosselin reportedly wants custody of the kids. >> i'm fed up. >> his attorney telling tmz ex-wife kate gosselin's appearance on abc's "dancing with the stars" is harmful to the children. >> that's my job. that's what i do. >> my story is that. >> the attorney reportedly says he will use the reality tv show as evidence kate gosselin is an absentee mother. >> constructive criticism is great. >>> tragic, tragic story. it began on march 23rd, 2010. >> your children miss you. please come home. >> she was reported missing by her husband. >> she loved her kids very well, very much. >> under water, mommy found slumped over the front seat of the family car. >> arrested her husband and charged him with first

. >>> fellow inmates are accusing casey anthony are giving her daughter, caylee, medicine so she would sleep so that anthony could go out. that's from police interviews with the inmates. florida state attorney's office released the transcripts yesterday and jailhouse letter that say anthony wrote. in one she says she would give anything to have her little girl back. the girl's remains were found in 2008. her mother pleaded not guilty to murder. >>> you are about to be charged for your carry-on luggage. i kid you not. our money expert jennifer westhoven is here. so you have to pay for your checked bags, now you're going to have to pay at least on one airline for your carry-on. >> yeah. you hump it all in, you carry it all around, pop it in the overhead bin, $90 on your round trip ticket is how much more you could pay. >> that is a huge amount. >> it is a huge amount. if you think about the average plane ticket, 250, $300, that's a lot of money. so i mean obviously this is one airline we're talking about right now. so the question is are other airlines going to follow. the airline we're

a hearing is under way in the case of casey anthony charged in the murder of her daughter caylee. defense attorneys are in court today arguing to obtain access to records about a volunteer group that helped search for caylee's body in the summer of 2008. the group says only 32 volunteers were involved in the search. anthony's attorneys say the records are incomplete and suspect more volunteers took part. >>> next to missouri where authorities in kansas city evacuated a federal courthouse after a suspicious package was found with a note warning of explosives inside. investigators blocked off that area. the bomb squad was called to the scene and used a robot to examine the package. it was later found to be harmless. >>> finally to new jersey where an engine cover fell off of a jet blue aircraft as the plane took off from north liberty international airport. 134 passengers, five crew members were onboard at the time. pilots returned to the airport 11 minutes into the flight. they landed safely. thankfully, no injuries. that is a look at what's happening across the usa. ed, imagine th