might we finally learn the real identity of dan cooper? ooper jumped out of a plane.. >>> it was one of the greatest unsolved mysteries of the 20th century. hijacker, cooper jumped out of a plane and was never seen again. 40 years later, this cold case is warming up. bob ore reports. >> the fbi has been looking for him. >> the man hunt started immediately, but four decades later, the fbi is still searching. over the years, more than 1,000 suspects have been scrutinized and several phony death bed confessions. it began in 1961 with a passenger calling himself dan cooper, threatening to blow up this airplane. he escaped somewhere over washington state. cooper and a ransom of $200,000 in cash parachuted into history. vanishing into thin air. no one knows if the hijacker sur viefd. some believe db cooper was inspired by dan cooler. the fbi does it a new lead from a credible source, which points to a possible new suspect. the item obtained is being tested for fingerprints by the fbi lab. a that might prove difficult. >> when the happened, the er

he said his name was dan cooper. the media had db as a moniker. so dan cooper is really the man's name and everything regolf around this tie, a tie he left, a cheap tie he left on the plane 40 years ago bev jumped out the back with parachutes and $200,000 in cash. apparently there is some dna on this tie as well as partial fingerprints on a magazine. we are told a person of interest's name was giver on a local law enforcement agent who passed it to the fbi who took fingerprints and dna from that person. we are not saying wertz he is alive or dead or where he may be. but it's been given to quantico, in virginia, and the stuff is being compared. dan cooper is known for liking raleigh cigarettes and drinking whiskey. he told fly attendants from portland to seattle that he would blow the plane up. he would trade some of the passengers for $200,000 and two parachutes. when he got towards the border of oregon and washington he would bail out the back never to be seen again. it was one of those mysteries that plagued the fbi for years. 9 years after this

cooper has bebe a mystery since november 24th, 1971, when a man calling himself dan cooper hijacked and threatened to blow up a passenger jet flying from portland to seattle. he ordered the plane to land and demanded a $200,000 ransom and a parachute. after cooper's demands were met and the plane took off for mexico, per his request, cooper did the unthinkable. he lowered the back stairs and jumped out of a speeding 727. thousands of feet over the pacific northwest, during a raging storm. >> the air was freezing. i mean, this was negative, i think negative 4 degrees at that height. and when he opens the stairs, the blast from the jet en. >>>s above completely deafening. >> reporter: he disappeared, despite a massive man hunt, becoming some what of a folk hero, iconic, even the subject of a movie. the one big case where the fbi did not get their man. marla cooper says she now remembers s conversation with her father before he died in 1995, that she didn't fully understand at the time. >> my father made a comment about his long lost brother, my uncle l.d., and said that he thought he was

had the "dan cooper" comic books thumbtacked to the wall. >> reporter: what made marla cooper and herother most suspicious was how l.d. cooper soon vanished from their lives. >> i definitely think it was strange he disappeared like that. >> reporter: and while marla cooper is revealing what she believes could be her family's darkest secret, she does not believe her uncle was a monster. >> i don't think he was an evil person. i think he did a really terrible thing. and i think he regretted it. >> reporter: marla cooper speaks with conviction. but is she right? the fbi has spent months trying to find out. and they say their work will continue until thehevidence allows them to say, case closed. george? >> one way or the other. okay, pierre thomas. thanks very much. >> probably not going to stop until they're able to say that. all right, george. >>> now, to that oppressive heat dome baking 165 million americans this morning. triple-digit temperatures all over the south and texas. abc's ryan owens is there still in sweltering dallas. good morning, ryan. >> reporter: good morning, robin. as

a man called dan cooper hijacked a plane found from portland to seattle. he demanded $200,000 and got the money before the plan landed and parachuted out before authority kos catch him. >> i have very vivid memories. they just kind of came back in a flood. >> the fbi is following a credible lead on a new suspect but won't say if the tip came from her. >>> some people in danville are furious over a high school upgrade that's supposed to be good for the environment. they say when they agreed to a solar panel project, they were told no shes were be -- no trees would be cut but at san ramon valley high school, construction crews removed a dozen trees to make way for these solar panels. district officials say they were young trees planted two years ago before the solar project existed. >> we have plans to replant them as soon as we find a good spot for them. probably more trees than we removed -- removed. >> the solar panels are being installed at five districts in the area. they are being paid with stimulus money and will cover two-thirds of the energy costs.

and dan cooper was indicted within five years.if he's found alive today, he can still be prosecuted in federal court. >> 75 is the new 65, clint. >> amen. i'll vote for that one. >> good to see you, buddy. >> good to see you, thomas. >> casey anthony's whereabouts are a mystery to everybody but a judge says she has to return to florida. will she? >>> a police officer thrown in the air as he tries to stop a suspect. incredibly, he survives, gets up, and he nabs the guy. [ male announcer ] this is the network. a network of possibilities. excuse me? my grandfather was born in this village. [ automated voice speaks foreign language ] [ male announcer ] in here, everyone speaks the same language. ♪ in here, forklifts drive themselves. no, he doesn't have it. yeah, we'll look on that. [ male announcer ] in here, friends leave you messages written in the air. that's it right there. [ male announcer ] it's the at&t network. and what's possible in here is almost impossible to say. ♪ [ recorded voice ] onstar. we're looking for city hall. i

. >> stewart it is 40 years since dan cooper hijacked the flight seattle and got a $200,000 ran som. him. this week a woman came forward claiming to be db cooper's niece and her uncle died. db cooper was a gentleman robber and never harmed any of his hostages and created a mystery that lasted for decades. the statute of limitation has run out. >> we have run

the man called himself dan cooper. investigators went to the house of a man named d.b.r who lived in portland at the time, and he was cleared. there have been numerous books and songs about the saga. a kid found some of the money buried on a beach near vancouver. some believe the hijacker died during the jump. the fbi lists the case as open. the new revelation comes from an article out of the uk. a reporter was talking to the agent that handles cooper enquire t enquires, and the agent said she thought the article would not be published until the anniversary in november, so seeing it now may have caught them off guard. we will have to wait and see on the fingerprints being examined, and maybe they match the ones from the plane in 1971 or maybe they don't. either way the cooper story will live on in american fork lowlkl. >>> of course, we're waiting for house speaker, john boehner, to take the podium there and tell us the latest on negotiations. ♪ [ female announcer ] granola thins. something deliciously different from nature valley. thin squares of crispy granola layered

it began in 1971 with a passenger calling himself dan cooper threatening to blow up the airplane. >> he made me feel very sure that we had a very real and horrifying threat. >> reporter: he escaped somewhere over washington state, both cooper and a ransom of $200,000 in cash, par suited into history, seemingly vanished into thin air. no one knows if the hijacker survived, not sure of his real name. some believe d.b. cooper was inspired by comic hero dan cooper who parachuted from airplanes. a credible source points to a possible new suspect, item obtained from that suspect is being tested for fingerprints by the fbi lab. the author jeffrey grabo says that might prove difficult. >> when this case happened in the 1970s the irabu of dna was not upon us and agents didn't look out to preserve this evidence in the way that we do now. >> reporter: still this may be the best clue since 1980, when an 8-year-old boy in washington state discovered nearly $6,000 in cash during a family picnic. >> my son ran up and said wait a minute, daddy, so he raked a place out in the sand there, and there it

in november 1971 a man calling himself dan cooper hijacked and threatened to blow up a northwest orient. if he didn't 7 a 200,000 dollar ransom and safe passage to mexico. after landing in seattle capper got his money. released most of his passengers and the plane tack off again. in a daring get away cooper jumped from the jet. thousands of feet over the pacific northwest during a raging stor storm. despite a massive man hunt cooper and the money vanished. after cooper exploits copycat hi jack'sings abounded. seems impossible now in the post 9/11 day of intensive airport security but the 70's were something of the hey-day of hi jacking. with of 15 in the year 1972 alone. >> fbi has announced the following identification of the hijackers. >> maybe it was the brashness. sheer adventure of the escape that made him the stuff of ledgeen. man in suit hi jack a plane and disappears. but popular culture wouldn't let him go. >> 3 he is in song. tv show with plots. >> check him out rate now. >> character bearing his name. >> agent cooper? >>reporter: even theater film starring oscar winner robert

not necessarily who dan cooper was, but why so many people thought their brothers, their fathers, their>> at one point cooper had a conversation with a flight attendant. and you saw that account. what's listed out there? >> well, you know, in any crime you're looking for the motive. and you know, my first days looking through the file, and i spent several days just going through page after page after page, i saw this snippet of dialogue that i've never seen before. and during the hijacking, the stewardess says, she asked him, why did you do this? do you have a grudge against northwest orient? and he says to her, no. i don't have a grudge against your airline. i just have a grudge. and so i thought, i just have a grudge. who is this man? who is this man who has a grudge? and then i began to look for people with grudges, and i found a lot of them. >> you, like the fbi, got into some of these different accounts of people who claim they know who he is, or they are, in fact, him. we've seen this latest case now, marla cooper's story, she's come out this week saying it was her uncle. do you g

in 1971 a man calling himself dan cooper or d.b. cooper escaped from a jet with $200,000 in ransom.scovery in space. first oxygen molecules discovered in deep space. astronomers found bonded molecules of oxygen in the orion nebula. they were found by the herschel space observatory which uses infrared technology. here is the first close-up of vesta, an asteroid twice the size of california. it is the second largest object in the asteroid belt between mars and jupiter. this picture is from nasa's dawn spacecraft which will orbit vesta for the next year. cool stuff. >>> nine minutes past the hour. scott pelley has a preview of tonight's "cbs evening news." >> no school, no lunch. that is the story for many children in america, and the bad economy is making it worse. in one town where nearly all of the students get free meals during the school year, one remarkable woman has made it her mission to make sure that no child goes hungry throughout the long hot summer. that story tonight on the "cbs evening news." >>> now with the forecast for the orion nebula -- >> i was just going to say le

apparently her uncle is also obsessed with this guy named dan cooper who was a canadian comic book herore you go. if that isn't the biggest clue of all. apparently he had pictures up on his wall. >> it's all adding up 40 years later. >> there you go. >>> coming up, hidden risks for couch potatoes hanging out playing video games. >> there goes my social life. the new warnings for children and grown-ups about this extreme medical danger. you're watching "world news now." me medical danger. you're watching "world news now." extreme medical danger. you're watching "world news now."4x ♪ ♪ >> were you a big gamer? >> back in the day of nintendo. >> you were a gamer? >> blisters on your thumb, you had to blow into that cartridge to get it to work, i'm old school, nintendo, back in the day. >> pac man, mrs. pac man. for decades parents have warned kids not to sit too close to the tv saying if you do, you'll go blind. >> but researchers are saying going blind isn't a concern, dying is. abc's senior medical contributor dr. tim johnson explains. >> reporter: video game diagnosis.is not a clinical

in 1971, a man calling himself dan cooper hijacked a plane when you he escaped after getting $200,000 in ransom. he was never found and his fate remains unknown. despite the failed link, authorities aren't yet ruling this suspect out. a texas jury has sentenced polygamist leader warren jeffs to life in prison for sexually assaulting children. he considered his spiritual woo wives. judge who heads the fundmentalist church of jesus christ of ladder day saints was charged after a 2008 raise on his ranch. he argued his fate is being persecuted. and philadelphia's mayor is calling the city's stiff curfew on young people a case of tough love. the move follows a string of flash mob attacks where teenagers choose a meeting place online, then they show up and brutally assault local residents. failure to obey the curfew could result in fines up to $500. wa walgreen's says it's looking at new options to sell health insurance. other private companies are looking to do the same. >> under the new federal laws. thanks for that. we watched as congress played a dangerous game of chick opinionopinio en

reporter: the real identity has been a mystery since november 24th, 1971, when a man calling himself dan cooperked and threatened to blow up a passenger plane flying from portland to seattle. he ordered the plane to land and demanded a $200,000 ransom and a parachute. after his demands were met and the plane took off for mexico, cooper did the unthinkable. he lowered the back stairs and jumped out of a speeding 727 thousands of feet over the pacific northwest in a raging storm. he disappeared despite a massive manhunt, becoming the stuff of legends and even a movie. through the years many leads and dead ends. >> a family reported recovering a bag containing 5,000 decomposed dollars. >> the fbi says a parachute found in washington state is not the one used by infamous hijacker d.b. cooper. >> reporter: despite all the clues found, there were no signs of d.b. cooper. but were there? marla coopers claims she saw him days after the thanksgiving hijacking at her grandmother's house. eerily near the scene of the crime. >> my uncle, l.d., was wearing a white t-shirt and was bloodied and bruised and a

cooper and there's the true story of dan cooper, the name is hijacker actually used and to go throughout what witnesses actually reported in 1971 was an intimate and just lucky great experience. >> so is there anything that stood out to you? >> plenty. >> like, for example? >> the most -- i don't know, what comes to mind right now is just who this hijacker was, his personality, his means, all the things that he said to the stewardesses and his motive and behind every crime we really want to understand the motive. and i'll give you one little snippet of dialogue that i was able to uncover. at one point, the stewardess says to the hijacker, do you have a grudge against northwest airlines? is that why you want to hijack the plane? he said, no, i don't have a grudge against your airlines, i just have a grudge. so this is a man who just had a grudge and the truth is, there's a lot of them out there. >> and the fbi has said for years, there's no way he could have survived jumping out of that airplane, now we hear that he could have lived for decades. what do you think? what's your gut? and

a man calling himself dan cooper hijacked a northwest airlines flight from portland to seattle.demanded and got, i should say, $200,000 of ransom. and now 40 years after he parachuted into folkler history. made a movie after this guy, cooper could soon be identified. marla cooper joining me now by phone from oklahoma city. marla, let me get this straight. you say d.b. cooper was actually l.d. cooper who was your uncle. >> he was my uncle, yes. >> why do you believe that? >> well, as i stated in the interview yesterday, i saw my uncle plotting a scheme. i was with them while they were plotting it. i didn't really know what was going on. they were teasing me. i was a little girl and afterwards on thanksgiving day i saw them return and i heard them discussing what they had done with my father and i have very vivid memories of it that have surfaced in the last, well, they began surfacing two years ago and just kind of came back in a flood and, so, i'm certain of it because of my memories. >> let's be more specific, if we can, with regard to your memories. who, so, it was before this

. >> dan, scientists in cooperation with the u.s. government and stanley kubrick faked a moon landing, why am i believing them on this? >> i don't know. i'm going to tell you right now, i feel like if aliens did come down, i would turn all of you in. >> you have made that clear. >> yeah. i want to let them know again. >> bring that up a couple more times. in case they missed the top. >> if you don't, i'm worried. >> i was reading the report because i like to be thorough -- >> sure. >> it says that they were nasa affiliated scientists, which is very different from working for nassasm you probably hang outside -- i think he was an intern. i'm not joking. i think he made a clarification and said, i'm an intern at nasa. >> wow. >> so, yeah. my final take on this, if aliens come to the earth to destroy us, one of them will realize despite our faults, we are a good and noble race and he will work with us, most likely dying after saving us. moving on, from alien fears to an alien names pierce. was he too mean to christine? former senate can

a man calling himself dan cooper bought a ticket from portland to seattle before thanksgiving in 1971e a bomb and demanded money and parachutes. on the ground in seattle he released the passengers and then ordered the crew to take him to mexico. once airborne again, he soon jumped out with $200,000 cash. a fraction of that money has been found but not a trace of him in the nation's only unsolved airplane hijacking. now an fbi official says that a. tip has led to a promising new suspect whose fingerprints and dna are being checked against traces found on items like this clip-on tie left on the plane by the hijacker. but the author of a new book about the case says he's sceptical that the traces of evidence found on the plane can ever provide a good match. >> the problem with the print is there are too many prints. the prints that the fbi has been able to find aren't necessarily good ones. the fbi won't say whether this latest suspect is alive. most of those checked out before were dead. but either way, investigators hope they're close to solving this long-running mystery. natalie? >> s

it seems repugnant and alarm over al assad's violence ram dan offensive may be what pushed first the gulf cooperation council and then the arab league and then the saudi king to break the deafening arab silence. >> we are alarmed by the situation in syria. an arab country with a big role in the region. >> reporter: ancient southern city and cradle of the syrian revolution where today the army guns blazed on. the syrian leader, deaf to the tongue-lashing he's now had from fellow arabs, neighboring turkey and the west. and as his isolation grows so syria drifts towards the abyss of chaos as king abdullah warned. >> sreenivasan: street violence spread to more of london and beyond today, as british police reported more than 215 arrests. the trouble broke out saturday night when several hundred youths attacked police, broke into shops, and burned vehicles. it came on the heels of the fatal shooting of a man by police last thursday. this evening, looting also broke out in the city of birmingham, 120 miles to the north. the u.s. government has pledged to provide $105 million in new famine relief for the hor

dan lothian with us now. president taking no questions. but with a clear-cut message talking about how this cooperation helped considerably, but no one needs to rest on their laurels just yet. >> reporter: that's right. i think it was two-fold, the message from the president. first of all thanking all of those workers, volunteers who geared up and prepositioned various supplies ahead of the storm. both on the federal level. also state and local level. so thank you from the president. in addition to that, as you pointed out, the president calling on americans who night mooigt be still in those impacted areas to be vigilant. because there's still a lot of concerns, even though the heavy part of the storm may have passed by. there's still concerns about downed power lines, also inland flooding as well. so the president calling on those in those areas to be vigilant. but what you're seeing here, no doubt, is this administration wanting to show a very strong force, to show that they've been on top of this situation not only just over the last few days, but also the last few weeks. because they fully understand what can happen if you're slow in

i like to introduce dan crippen, who is the executive director of the national governors association. we don't have name cards, so could you -- thank you. also, michael cooperrespondent for "the new york times" who does a lot of work in state and local government issues. and in addition we have stephen fehr, who is a special is also in state and local issues fighting for stateline.org and also on reports for the pew center on the states. so with that, sue, i would like to turn over the microphone to you've spent we will try to have an interactive and if we could just kind of turn to a slight use or you can see each other. one hoping to do is get a little bit of the conversation going among the panel. try to move this along for an hour, maybe more. we have an hour and a half? spend about 15 minutes taking questions from the audience, 15 or 20. if you have questions or if questions come up, do write them down, make no. we will try to make sure to get as many of them as we can. so gentlemen, i'm going to not repeat a lot of what was yesterday. there was a lot of conversation yesterday about how bad the problem is, is it fixed, you know, where do you see the re