but she said she did that to knock caylee out because caylee had trouble sleeping when she wanted to go out. and she couldn't find a babysitter. >> just very quickly, to dr. marty makary, physician, professor of public health at johns hopkins. dr. makary, it's my understanding that chloroform was banned by the government for consumer use on patients back in the '70s. so if that's correct, if i understand that, maybe they could still use it at a hospital, i don't think so, but that would be a big -- another big fat lie of tot mom's, that she got it through her mother. >> that's right. we only use straight alcohol. we don't use chloroform anymore. the only place it's really stocked is in a laboratory where in places -- >> wait, wait, wait. you use straight alcohol? what do you mean you use straight alcohol? for what? >> anything that ends with an o-l like chloroform or alcohol is used to clean. it's a sanitizer. it's diluted down, and it's a powerful anti-septic. so we use straight alcohol to clean or -- or sterilize all sorts of equipment. >> okay. you just taught me something new, dr

because it works. >>> casey, where's caylee? where's caylee?i don't know where she's at. >> just smiled. it didn't bother her. >> she's the most important thing in this entire world to me. >> i still believe my daughter. >> i believe in my daughter. >> i believe everything my sister tells me. >> they've already said they're going to pin this on me. >> the charges against her are -- >> overlapping layers of duct tape. >> child abuse. >> try to pin it on zanny the nanny. >> traces of chloroform. >> regardless of how if happened. >> they found the bod you why. >> i will lie, i will steal, i will do whatever i can to find my daughter. >> they don't know if it's perjury or not, right? >> directly connected. some things they found on the body -- >> there's no evidence that casey has ever done any harm to her child. >> some things they found in her home -- >> the media's going to have a fricking field day with this. >> it's pretty cut and dry at this point. >> may have some mistruths out there or half truths, but she is not a murderer. >> it's not my

she did that to knock caylee out because caylee had trouble sleeping when she wanted to go out. >> medical professionals say chloroform is no longer commonly used at an anesthetic and wouldn't have been available at a clinic like the one where casy's mom worked, by the way. >>> when you thought flying couldn't get more expensive, spirit airlines is announcing another fee. august 1, so you're aware here. it plans to charge passengers for carry-on baggage. the one-way fee, $45. if paid at the gate. $30 if it's paid in advance. personal items like purses and laptops that fit under the seat, they're free. but for the carry ones that fit in the overhead bins, that's where you're going to pay for it. >>> christmas is eight months away. who's thinking about it, right? clark howard! he already has a prediction about the hottest ganlgtsdgets. >> okay, every spring, i give my prediction on what i think is going to be the hottest electronics item the following christmas. so here goes, believe it or not, i think the hottest item we're going to be looking at is going to be electronic book readers. i th

says that casey didn't seem upset. >> where's caylee, where's cayl caylee.ust smile and it didn't bother her. >> reporter: we asked her whether she's saying these things hoping to get a break on her sentence in exchange. >> and i was facing the death penalty. i got 30 years, i'm blessed, so there's nothing i need. i'm fine with the sentence i have. >> that was kathi belich of hln affiliate wftv reporting there. so "in-sessions" beth karas just spoke to casey anthony's lawyer, jose baez, about this reaction to this interview. what did he say. >> reporter: hello, christi. i asked him about the specific allegations in this interview, and she is standing by a statement that the defense has released, a couple of days ago. shortly after the interview came out. and after the judge strickland stepped down. and he said we received nearly daily respond to the case developments and the latest media reports and will not comment on every story published in connection with in case. casey anthony maintains her innocence and looks forward to her day in court. and of course,

. >>> she's the florida mother accused of killing her two-year- old daughter caylee. abc2 news jeffrey collin has the details. >> reporter: at times, the almost 300 pages of jailhouse letters are the negligent ram brings of a woman behind bars. in unbelievable of the handwritten letters did anthony confess to the murder of her two-year-old daughter caylee, the murder she is charged with; but in a newly released police report a fellow inmate claims anthony told her she used a type of tranquilizer to put her baby to sleep so select go on the town without hiring a babysitter. 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 anthon

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

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.

it is a love/hate relationship. >> that relationship between casey and cindy and cindy and caylee andow could that factor in as you try to build a case against casey anthony? ? >> well, if you look at the depositions over the last year, we have heard from beginning when caylee was born and the doctors handed her to cindy anthony, the mother, and that really had irritated casey. and there was a lot of riff back and forth, and you even heard on june 15th, the day that last seen, you know, she was last seen after mother's day, that there had been an argument in the house between casey and cindy. so there is a lot of things to sort out here. and you know, had this woman heard this before from any other news reports is what i am asking, too. >> that is a good question. we have to move on, guys. thank you, mike, stacy, beth. >>> should the nfl have suspended ben roethlisberger? she was accused oversexually assaulting a young woman at a georgia nightclub, but he ends up with a six-game suspension. i believe that the nfl made the right move and what do you think? make your comment at 1-877-te

caylee wilson was last seen sunday afternoon.olice say she left home to attend a friend's birthday party, but never arrived at the party. they say caylee had no history of running away. >>> the clown getup are instantly recognizable. ronald mcdonald, the corporate mascot of the giant fast food chain, is under attack from the food police. sandra hughes reports. >> reporter: this clown got a lot of smiles outside mcdonald's, but his distant cousin is under fire. >> retire ronald! >> reporter: that's ronald mcdonald they're talking about, the icon of fast food for nearly half a century. >> it's a real shocker because who would think they would want to retire ronald? >> reporter: the same watch dog group that sent joe camel packing is now after the mcdonald's mascot. they say he's targeting kids and feeding into the epidemic of childhood obesity. >> mcdonald's is the corporation that essentially invented childhood marketing. >> reporter: the group conducted its own poll and found nearly half of those surveyed say ronald should go. >>

would come on the door, casey, where's caylee, where's caylee just messing with her and she would justd it didn't bother her. >> we asked her if she was saying these things hoping to get a break on her sentence in exchange. >> i'm not facing the death penalty. i have 30 years and i'm fine with the sentence i have. >> beth karas reporter for her sister network "in session" on trutv spoke to him and if the state will rely on the testimony on two jailhouse snitches then the case will be easier to try than i thought. he's referring to dirkovitch and robin adams. jose baez says he stands by his earlier statement that we do receive nearly daily requests to respond to the latest case developments and related media reports and will not comment on every story publiced in connection with the case. casey anthony maintains her innocence and looks forward to her day in court. she spoke to the attorney to get background on the convicted murderer now making these allegations against casey anthony. dirkovitch is 31 sink a 30-year term for murdering a teenager four years ago. she pled guilty to second-

test compared hairs from casey anthony's car trunk and from the area where her little daughter's caylee'sns showed up. the nearly 300 pages of evidence includes testimony from a woman who claims she had an affair with george anthony, that is casey's father. >>> what an astonishing photograph, this is a pile of cosmic dust that is three light years tall. can you wrap your mind around that? they're made of cool hydrogen made of dust. the picture was snapped by the hubble space telescope. it is the 20th anniversary of the day the space observatory was launched. >>> listen to this, a woman who bought a secondhand jacket a se jacket for her son found more than $1200 in one of the pockets. barbara richie said at first she thought it was a pack of cigarettes. she had the thrift store get in touch you with the owner to track down the owner. i looked over and saw a $100 and a wad of the money. >> that jacket originally belonged to a woman who gave the store the clothes of her late husband. >>> the midterm congressional elections are months away, but things are getting interesting in florida alread

we expect a great year from caylee. carol suggs is our rush linebacker. think adding no great player is disappointing when you bring another great player in to play with them. great players make each other better. >> as horrifying as the oriole'' record, it is easy to forget the games that they play almost good enough to win. new life on the team after the arrival of rhyne hughes. a to run shot over the monster. the game was tied at 4. picking up the top 10, there he is, rhyne hughes. new blood is flowing well. the second straight to a head game. this was the go-ahead run with the bases loaded, a 5-4 orioles lead. a base hit to right. up the middle, and that was helpful. a three run lead at fenway. bill hall, a single off jim johnson. johnson pitching his third inning, and he gives way to meredith. it is a memorable first. the game is over, the orioles went 7-6. they are taking the day off monday and then hose the yankees' starting tuesday. the yankees facing angels, bottom of the seventh. he intentionally walked to rallies. -- what morale is. -- walks mo

casey anthony wrote letters about her daughter caylee now in the hands of authorities.just released to the public. the content is shocking, even according to her own family. nbc's michelle kosinski has more from orlando. michelle, what can you tell us about these letters? what did she say onto these other inmates? >> reporter: tamron, there won't supposed to be any notes passed between casey anthony and anybody else. a guard has been suspended since this happened. she established a friendship with a drug dealer. she wrote hundreds of pages here positively crammed with daughte whom she's accused of murdering, saying how much he misses her. she wishes she could have five more minutes with her. she'd give her life to do so. she also professes her innocence, though, saand says s was a great mom. she tells her inmate friend she was sexually abused by her brother as a young teenager and she thinks her dad did the same thing to her when she was younger. these are allegations her family, though, adamantly denies. police say that she actually said things to other inmates that ar

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

caylee had no history of running away. >>> the clown get up in the shock of red hair are instantly recognizabled the world. ronald mcdonald's is under attack from the food police. sandra hughes reports. >> reporter: this clon got a lot of smiles outside mcdonald's. his distant cousin is under fire. the icon of fast food for nearly half a century. . >> it's a real shocker. >> reporter: the same watchdog group that sent joe camel packing for marketing cigarettes to children is after mcdonald's mascot, he is targeting kids and feeding in to the epidemic of childhood obesity. >> the group conducted its poll and found nearly half of those surveyed say ronald should go. about a dozen protests took place at mcdonald's across the country. so far they are shrugging it off at corporate headquarters. the company said ronald is the beloved brand ambassador for mcdonald's. he is a symbol of a charity the ronald mcdonald's house started in 1974 with one house for the families of sick children. it is now grown to 271 houses in 30 countrys. asking for ronald to go away maybe difficult. >> you might as well boy

anthony has pleaded not guilty to first-degree murder in the death of her daughter caylee. the toddler's remains were found in december of 2008, six months after she was last seen alive. >>> just when it looked as though flights would start getting back to normal, a new eruption from the volcano in iceland is causing new trouble. a new ash cloud is headed toward london. look at this thing. it is just i go ji gantic. london airports are closed, though some flights are getting out of other parts of europe, we understand. >>> the u.s. postal service is in some serious trouble. it's forecasting a $7 billion loss this year. the postmaster general has warned congress that the agency may completely run out of money by early november. just, of course, as the holiday season starts to ramp up. so would you miss saturday delive deliveries? we hit the streets to find out. >> i'm joe carter. this is hln's views from the street. how important is it to you to get your mail delivered on saturday? we're on the street to find out. the united states postal service is in a heap load of debt. t

. >> the new development in a murder of a florida toddler caylee anthony.hy her mother was back in court. >> reporter: casey anthony's lawyers claim the prosecutors with held evidence that could prove her innocence. 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 s

test compared hairs from casey anthony's car trunk and from the area where her little daughter cayl caylee'swoman 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. symbicort contains formoterol. medicines like formoterol may increase

>> caylee. >> caylee, you did a great job on this. i like the colors and stick-on letters.by capital one venture card. george? >> sam, thank you very much. >>> all of you at home probably remember the movie "war games," when a teenager hacks the defense department's computer and nearly launches world war iii. cyber war has areached the top officials. it's the subject of a new book by richard clarke. you were the head of cyber security in 2001. counterterrorism expert under three presidents. you famously warned about 9/11, for months before it happened. now, you're sounding the alarm again. what is this threat? >> well, the threat, george, is not just hackers. we've had hackers almost since the birth of the internet. what's happening now, is nations, militaries, governments, are hacking. you have a story this morning about google. >> front page of "the new york times." >> who do you think did that? chances are the chinese government. all of our systems, the electric power grid, bob gates, and the secretary of defense, has been hacked. everything has been successfully penetra

she's accused of killing her 2-year-old daughter caylee almost two years ago near the orlando, floridaining us now from winter park, florida, investigative reporter. what's going on with this case now? >> reporter: it's gotten really interesting, i'll tell you. defense attorneys jose baez and mason are expected to go before a judge perry. they are going to ask judge strickland, the judge presiding over the case to recuse himself. >> based on what? >> reporter: they are alleging and claiming he acted inappropriately whenever he phoned a blogger that's actually been following this case since the very beginning. the blogger was sick in the hospital. the conversation that was reported between the two is that judge strickland told the blogger that he had a very fair blog, which many of the area attorneys that i've talked to locally say that is not acting inappropriately and this probably the worst move by the defense thus far. >> but if the judge is disqualified, does this further delay the trial? >> reporter: it won't delay the trial. they will definitely have to go through the criminal ju

. >> as long as we have caylee home, everything els we'll deal with. >> adams told investigators anthonyed 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-degree murder. >>> tonight, let's stop to remember army staff sergeant robert pirelli, 29, franklin, ma

that you well know the difference between a memorial such as what was held in the case of little caylee. her body was never buried, that we know of. that was a memorial service. there's a difference between a memorial and a funeral. you said funeral. that means the burial of remains. did you not say funeral? >> no. i did say funeral, yes, nancy. but no one's ever said anything about finding any body or any remnants from what they think might be haleigh. >> mr. shoemaker, what can you tell me about ronald cummings who, i'm going out on a limb here, i've maintained from the very beginning had no part in his daughter's disappearance. >> absolutely. he had nothing to do whatsoever -- >> how is he doing with this news? he's behind bars. >> he's shocked. you know, he's been holding out hope, thinking that possibly someday, you know, there's been so many rumors and so many different leads, that haleigh's been seen. and he's hoping that maybe someday she would come home. but i believe at this point he's obviously -- he's got a hold of the truth and he understands that most likely haleigh is not

. >>> 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