she says ellis, you have to come down and talk to me. she was teaching at northeastern university in chicago. i take three buses, as i recall, and go see this great woman, not knowing what to expect. i find my way into her office, and there is a very warm, gentle woman who has my manuscript in front of her. she pushes it towards me, and what she has done, she has underlined all kinds of things and written across the top in both blue and red ink, ellis, one day you will be a great writer. as you can imagine, that was tremendous delegation for a kid who came from my circumstances. that was sort of what planted the idea in my head. she actually planted the idea that i should be writing as a profession. she said during our conversation, ellis, i do not know which a plan to do with your life, but you should be a writer. i did not know professionals or writers. the idea of being a writer was something that had not occurred to me. once she planted the seed, i became obsessed with it. i was, as you probably guessed, a fairly intense young man. i

. >> this week on q&a, our guest is ellis cose. he has a radio documentary series about people overcoming adversity. >> ellis cose, back on march 14,do you remember writing that? >> i do. it was in the aftermath of the o.j. simpson imbroglio. i think it remains to be true today, even though we have a black or interracial president, even though we have made tremendous strides in just those 14 or 15 years since then. we still have a very different way characteristically of coming to these issues. >> can you give us a couple of examples? >> one current example we have seen, henry louis gates and segeant crowley who arrested him. the initial response was to call the policeman stupid. only one out of five whites liked that reaction. that is just one example of many where there is an issue that impinges on race in this society. we tend to look at it quite differently as a consequence of our different histories and different sets of experiences. >> how many years have been with "newsweek"? >> 15 years. >> who is the first person that aske

>> very possibly, yes. >> okay, ellie, what else is happening in the case? >> well, nancy, they have a hearing next week to make that protective order permanent. we don't know if we'll hear more about what's going on then. also, dalia dippolito has her initial appearance in september. >> she wants her husband dead and she was sobbing like her world had crumbled.

>> very possibly, yes. >> okay, ellie, what else is happening in the case? >> well, nancy, they have a hearing next week to make that protective order permanent. we don't know if we'll hear more about what's going on then. also, dalia dippolito has her initial appearance in september. >>> at one point, says she is 5,000 percent sure she wants her husband dead, and is sobbing like her world had crumbled. >>> his wife dalia is accused of trying to hire a mit man to kill him. a confidential informant tipped off police. >> they keep telling me how lucky i am today, and it really hasn't hit me yet. >> dalia dippolito met with an undercover police officer posing as a hit man. according to police documents, she was prepared to spend $4,200. when asked if she was sure she wanted her husband killed, she laughed and said, i will be very happy. she also said, i am not going to change my mind. i am 5,000% sure i want it done. at the police department, she came face-to-face with the alleged hit man, and her husband. this is all she had to say. of. >> i didn't do anything

mark ellis up again. this time he's got the bases loaded. ellis trying to make it happen.ds it into left. jack cuts, scores and take a look. here comes kurt suzuki. ellis, tremendous night, 5 for 5 with 4 rbis. a's win big, 9-1 the final. >>> redskins are back on the field for two a days tomorrow preparing for a preseason game with the ravens. they are seeing injuries not from the heat but injury bug. other players are trying to get back to the action. wide receiver devin thomas had been out of practice because of a sore hamstring. same jer that kept him out much much of last season. today he was working after practice in the heat, really trying to loosen things up. he said he snows he has to get himself back out there in practice. this might have been the greatest glimmer of hope. guard randy thomas, sidelined with a sore knee, back today. he says he knows he will have to push it when he feels good enough to go. >> i just know when i'm ready and when i'm not. and i know it's a long year. trying to be careful. it's been responding well the last two days. we're going up wit

green-ellis plodding ahead for a couple. jim has new comedy on cbs, it premiers monday september 21st. "accidentally on purpose." we had our nfl seminar this week in new york, all the producers, directors, announcers, game planning for the season. jenna sent along a sweet, heartfelt message about promoting her show, more than happy to accommodate. >> phil: got right to the point. >> jim: green-ellis for four more. how about afc? >> phil: it's patriots, i think the dolphins are tough, strong. they have had another solid preseason, looked like they're building on what they did last year. can receiving core of the dolphins step up make them a team that can just maybe get over that edge and be a big time contender. of course everybody is anxious to see how terrell owens does in buffalo. good players usually help your football team. >> jim: third and four on the mass, too low. for sam aiken. >> phil: football just not come out of kevin o'connell's hand very well. nose got down a couple of times, it's wet. the interception takes a

>> very possibly, yes. >> okay, ellie, what else is happening in the case? >> well, nancy, they have a in the case? >> well, nancy, they have a hearing next week to make that protective order permanent. we don't know if we'll hear more about what's going on then. dalia dippolito has her initial appearance in september. >> at one point 5,000% sure she wanted her husband dead and she was sobbing like her world had crumbled. >>> very quickly again, thank you so much for your support today. the book "the eleventh victim" is finally in bookstores. as i mentioned to you many times a portion of my proceeds goes towards wesley glenn ministries. they provide a truly loving home to the mentally handicapped. and with me tonight, the director of wesley glenn ministries, dr. william oliver, aka, billy. billy, thank you for being with us. we have a very brief time right now, but could you tell our viewers what is wesley glenn? >> nancy, wesley glenn is an agency of the united methodist church. we provide 24-hour care, residential care. >> now some people have accused meth

green-ellis plodding ahead for a couple. jim has new comedy on cbs, it premiers monday september 21st. "accidentally on purpose." we had our nfl seminar this week in new york, all the producers, directors, announcers, game planning for the season. jenna sent along a sweet, heartfelt message about promoting her show, more than happy to accommodate. >> phil: got right to the point. >> jim: green-ellis for four more. how about afc? >> phil: it's patriots, i think the dolphins are tough, strong. they have had another solid preseason, looked like they're building on what they did last year. can receiving core of the dolphins step up make them a team that can just maybe get over that edge and be a big time contender. of course everybody is anxious to see how terrell owens does in buffalo. good players usually help your football team. >> jim: third and four on the mass, too low. for sam aiken. >> phil: football just not come out of kevin o'connell's hand very well. nose got down a couple of times, it's wet. the interception takes a

ellis five hits. and it would be the last pitch for guthrie who cannot get out of the fifth. 9-1 is the final. when it rains it pours. ugly night for the os. they lost the last nine times against oakland. >>> terry fran cohe na and losers of six straight hosting the tigers, back and forth. grabbing the lead and turning it over to papelbon. a big strikeout and the 9th. he is getting cabrera and they beat the tigers. they end that six-game skid. >>> over to football where ravens are in their third week of training camp gearing up for the first pre-season game when the redskins come to town of note what is new, defensive coordinator greg madison taking over. he says the ravens may go with a basic defense than recent years but no matter the defensive game plan. what matters most is having the players to execute the plan. >> you want a scheme to atact people. our players and come out and improve and that's what i ific. >> one of the highlights. a catch and carry. it did not end there. delivered a touchdown

three days here we are again the s&p 500 back over at 1000 lincoln ellis of the lynn group would you make of the rally here again in the last three sessions. it's interesting monday was the first time we saw volume picked up and it was really significant value when a relative basis for the month of august. in the selling pressure. the moment we saw this 990 level on tuesday it was as if there was a jack and a box let out the we drifted higher ever since one lower volume. lower volume may be the case but for those who were still making money the dollar is a dollar at this point and it is the holidays after all. it is the holidays and i think a lot of people went home at the end of july in one home short and the day traders who have met and initialed by yes toward combining our play the market and has a tendency to push these numbers higher. your outlook hasn't changed at all with this market activity we know you had you on the with the beginning of the money you're still looking for the malibu, top? it is very toppy from a technical basis on a daily torque and on a weekly charts being

let's go to ellie jostad. ellie, when these contestants try to get on these shows, what's the protocol? don't they check and see whether there's a criminal past? >> well, as you mentioned before, pat, this is a production company, 51 minds, that did -- that produced this show. and they say they weren't aware of his criminal record. i don't know exactly what kind of background check was done. but they apparently weren't aware of it. >> and apparently he fell through the cracks, bethany marshall. we talked about that earlier, right? >> or maybe he fooled them. or maybe he's so charming that he was able to fool them. >> they could have done a background check and found out about his prior domestic. they probably did psych testing and he probably came up with some kind of a personality disorder. and instead of then going on and then evaluating his propensity towards violence against women, they may have thought, oh, great, this guy has a personality disorder and the camera loves crazy. because that's what a lot of

terms of cutting back on their insurance coverage when their overtime hours didisappear. >> so jim ellis the unemployment rate actually fell but that in itself is a bit of a mixed message at least this time around, right? explain the -- discouraged worker factor. >> one reason that probably the rate fell even though the number of jobs that the economy has dropped is because a lot of people who are not working are now not classified as unemployment. officially unemployed. and that's what they call people who are marginally attached to the workforce. in other words, discouraged workers. people who would like to work and are fit to work and have looked for work in the past 1 months but now have stopped looking either because they feel that there no jobs out there for them or because of something in the last four weeks that kept them from withing out and pounding the pavement looking for work. those people aren't considered unemployed technically and they fall out of the system. however there is a lot of them. there is about, right now, almost two million workers who fit that way. and that's

going to have here is 30, 35 million people, either entered illegally or they are descendents and ellis island will be nothing. i thought we will create their ellis island that we will record the experience of going through literally an infernal out there, these deserts, to enter the promised land. and so we did it. northern california, north carolina, we're down in new orleans. we are all after katrina all laborers. everywhere. crossing the wire. dealing with human smugglers here we did it all, one package, exodus. the fall 2008, accept no substitute. >> the most interesting person you've met along the way? >> during that story? >> during that story. this will sound on. there was a pastor that lives in new orleans. jesus gonzÁlez. then he decided he should devote himself to god and not be a roughneck, move to normans. had a little honduran, you know, parrish, congregation. than katrina hit, 80% of the city is destroyed. and suddenly these mexicans start showing up, you know. now his congregation are refugees from hurricanes, if you've ever been in new orleans, around the louis armstron

. >> to ellie jostad, our producer on the story. ellie, what her can you tell me? >> boynton beach police say they have several conversations that this woman had on -- with this informant and the undercover cop. it's all on tape. she gave the informant $1,200 as a down payment to buy a gun to allegedly kill her husband. >> $1,200. you know, a lot of celebrities spend that much on a pocketbook. that was to get him killed? >> right. then she told the undercover cop she would give him $3,000 after the job was done. i'll clean the pool if you clean the windows. pick the windows, pick the windows! anything but the windows. deal. oh! new windex outdoor all-in-one... cleans outdoor glass fast. just spray with water, wipe with a windex cleaning pad, and rinse for a streak-free shine in half the time. you're done? she pulled a fast one! ( laughs ) new windex outdoor all-in-one. a streak-free shine in half the time. s.c. johnson, a family company. >> no, no, no! oh my god! i want to see him! no, no! >> we have to do our job. if you want us to find his killer, we need you to

. >> to ellie jostad, our producer on the story. ellie, what more can you tell me? >> boynton beach police say they have several conversations that this woman had on -- with this informant and the undercover cop. it's all on tape. she gave the informant $1,200 as a down payment to buy a gun to allegedly kill her husband. >> $1,200. you know, a lot of celebrities spend that much on a pocketbook. that was to get him killed? >> right. then she told the undercover cop she would give him $3,000 after the job was done. >> mrs. dippolito? >> yes. >> sergeant ramsey. [ inaudible ] >> no, no, no! no, no, no! oh, my god. i want to see him. >> we have to do our job. if you want us to find his killer, we need you to -- >> no, no. >> did he have any enemies? is there anyone that would want to hurt him? >> do you see that? listen. >> ma'am, you cannot do this right now. we need you to listen. >> you are seeing dalia dippolito, a 26-year-old newly wed of six months breaking down in hysterical sobs as police inform her her groom is dead, murdered. they carry her away. she's nearly

what else have you got for us, ellie? >> we learned not only were the dea, lapd and las vegas police there looking for anything regarding michael jackson's treatment, they were also looking for correspondence with other doctors. they list six of them here. dr. klein, who we've heard about before, michael jackson's personal dermatologist. i assume the same dr. klein. dr. metzger, dr. adams. dr. mark tadrisi, dr. randy rosen. also, any correspondence with aeg. that's the group that was promoting michael jackson's concerts in london. or also the nurse practitioner, cherilyn lee. she's the woman who claims that michael jackson was begging her for the drug propofol. >> let me clarify. you're saying they were looking for any correspondence related to those people or did they find correspondence related to those people? >> they were looking for it. it's not clear if they found it, but they were looking for any correspondence with michael jackson or any of those aliases as well as the doctors i just mentioned. >> of course, the t

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here's ellis.in the bullpen. >> jim: we are seeing a young pitcher, and david hernandez really pitched tonight. he was forced into saying, you know what, we're actually going have a game plan and try to stick with it. use all our pitches. throw a lot of strikes. gotten away with a couple of hanging curveballs. >> gary: ground ball to short, this time izturis has it. >> jim: it's one thing to talk about young pitchers being inexperienced, what happens is, in talking to brian matusz who now has two starts, he said, i learned more than i learned in the minor leagues in two starts up here, because this is the best. david hernandez, tonight he's shown me, i can take a little bit off my curveball, i can take a little off my change-up, i can add and subtract from my fastball. it's all about getting your innings. and feel comfortable. they've only got them three runs. your second half, gonzalez has been the best of them. that is in one game i guess where he gave up 10 earned runs. >> gary: pennington has f

. >>> straight out to our chief editorial producer, ellie jostad. ellie, what more can you tell me? >> we're finding out now that police are putting together a comprehensive time line of what happened between the time that jenkins checks out of that hotel in san diego on friday morning and the very next morning, when jasmine's body is found. they're looking through phone records, looking through bank records, trying to find out exactly where he was and when. >> and of course, ellie jostad, if there is an accomplice that helped him dismember and dispose of that body, certainly, text messages or cell phone calls may reveal who that person is. >>> everyone, we are switching gears. we want answers. we are live in oklahoma at the brutal murder of a lady pastor inside the church house. the police say the crime scene, the most horrific they have ever seen, with sex attack and thievery not reported as a motive. pastors throughout the region now warn they may be a target. >> reporter: friends say they believe god was saving a special place in heaven for reverend carol daniels. each sunday fo

we've g months too with bad uneloyment. >> all right, jim ellis and diane swonk, thanks both vey much >> thank y. >> find out how ha hit statesre coping with record numbers of jobless clai on our web sitemt newshour.pbs.or >> woodruff: in other newswall street was hpy with the emplment report. theow jones industrial average gained well over 113 pots to close at 9370. the nasdaq rose 27 points to closat 2000. for the week the dowained 2%. the naaq rose 1%. president obama signed a extension of thecash for clunkersprogram to stimulate auto sales. the senate proved another $2 billion last night, aeek after the hoe did so. the program had l but run through its initial bget of $1 billio secretary of state llary clinton raied south africa today to help struling economi across the african continent. it was her second sp on a seven nati tour. in johannesburg, clinton tol busine leaders they have a "responsibility d an opportunity" to contbute to africa's economic succs. >> we belve that south afca has so mu mo economic potential and i nnot exist as sland of relative prospery amid a sea of unt

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back to you, ellie jostad. what more have we learned about them as a couple, how they met, the whole she bang? >> well, this morning on the "today show," michael dippolito said that morgan his wife went to the gym she even offered to stop and ping starbucks for him on the way back. now, they actually met at -- >> wait, wait, wait. she offered to bring back starbucks. okay. pause. mickey sherman, stacy schneider, gloria allred. so mickey, what did she do, put extra raisins in his cereal for him that morning? what was his last meal? how do you go about this? planning your husband's shooting death in the head. what do you do, still sleep with him the night before just to kind of a send-off? fix a special gourmet meal for breakfast or is it just like see ya? i'll bring you that coffee when i get home. >> mocha-choca i'm going to kill you. >> did she stop at starbucks or did she know he wasn't going to be alive when she got home from starbucks? >> she was hoping. it cost her a few bucks to have him killed. how come

to our chief editorial producer, ellie jostad, what about it, ellie, what do we know? >> nancy, the "los angeles times" is reporting from three different sources that cardiologist dr. murray claims that he spoke to investigators. he told them that he had been regularly administering propofol, that powerful anesthetic to jackson to help him sleep. that night in question, jackson was under the influence of propofol. this doctor reportedly told investigators in an interview that, because there had never been problems in the past, he felt he could leave the room and make several phone calls. when he returned, jackson was not breathing. now, we spoke to the spokesperson for the doctor, they wouldn't -- or the doctor's attorney, rather. they wouldn't confirm all of the article's details, but they would confirm the comments of that the attorney made. he said he was not going to dispute what these investigators said, but he says they are not telling the whole story. >> but that doesn't jibe, alan duke, entertainment editor with the cnn wire with the earlier story that jackson

out to our chief editorial producer ellie jostad, what can you tell me about motive? >> the last night she's seen alive, she and ryan jenkins are seen together at a poker game in san diego. her friends say that she is on the phone a lot, and she is texting with somebody. her ex-fiance said it was him. he said he got the last message from her at 1:40 that morning. she said she was going to las vegas and going to come see him. so that apparently may be motive. ryan jenkins found out about these texts. >> ellie, what can you tell me about her telling other people that her marriage was a mistake and that she was in over her head. >> right. another ex-fiance of hers, a guy named travis said he had spoken to her recently. and she told him she thought she was over her head but didn't know how to get out of this relationship with jenkins. >> ryan jenkins is an animal. what he has done to jasmine is unspeakable. it's just not right. >>> jasmine fiore's body was so mutilated when found in a trash bin behind an apartment complex outside say l.a. police, that it had to be identif

. >> straight out to our chief editorial producer, ellie jostad, ellie, what can you tell me about hubby finally filing for divorce and for a protective order? >> right, nancy. last friday michael dippolito filed for divorce from his wife. in the petition he lists that the wife allegedly hired a hit man to kill him. also, just before air, he got a restraining order. his lawyer says that michael dippolito fears for his life. he doesn't know what she's capable of and he wanted to make sure there's an order, keeping her away from him. >> and she's out on bond, living with mommy. she's probably propped up on the sofa, having chicken soup right now. very quickly to tonight's safety tips. ps taking your calls. teens getting ready for back to school and back behind the wheel. rules of the road for teen drivers. talk to your teen about safety. set ground rules. they've got to follow before happeneding over the keys. and hey, put the rules in writing. texting, cell phones, ipods while driving, major distractions. it causes fatal crashes. always wear seatbelts. discourage speeding. make your teen

the story tonight from nbc's rehema ellis. >> reporter: it was a terrible accident that left people stunnedght people died when a minivan went the wrong way. >> reporter: 36-year-old diane schuler driving her 2-year-old daughter, her 5-year-old son and three young nieces home from a summer weekend family outing. >> she was fine. we packed the cars up. like we always do. >> reporter: four hours later she hit and killed three men in a second vehicle, on a highway about 35 miles north of new york city. only schuler's 5-year-old son survived. days later, hundreds of neighbors, friends, and family members held a funeral service. husband mourning daughter and wife. schuler's brother and wife, saying good-bye to their three children. >> cherish your children. cherish your children. >> reporter: police investigators and family struggle to understand how this tragedy could have happened. at around 1:00 p.m. police say schuler called her brother, saying she felt disoriented but she continued driving. eyewitnesses later told police diane schuler drove erratically for the next 60 miles before coming he

ellis is retired.e hope you'll bring family and friends out to the yard here at orioles park. every friday is also student night presented by at&t. all students with the proper id get the left field upper reserve seats. angels are coming to town for the weekend series. >> the booming bats of the angels. >> here is cliff pennington. 1 for 5 last night. jokingly said, i was kidding last night, with a regal name such as yours, you ought to have a 1 or 2 or 3 behind it. so it will be cliff pennington the second or third. he said i am. he is cliff pennington the second. he said i'm a junior to my dad. >> jim: and the middle name is randolph. dad taught him to switch hit when he was about 7 or 8. nice to have that breaking ball coming towards you. >> gary: makes life a little easier. pennington in the number nine spot hitting .275. nick markakis has got it. >> jim: he's only 1 for 14 hitting right-handed. so now 10 for 27 hitting left- handed. >> gary: so two down. double by davis, came with one away in the

to ellie josted, nancy grace producer. let's talk about this because, how did it all begin as far as what police are saying dalia talked to someone about allegedly wanting her husband killed? >> right. this started just about two weeks ago. a confidential informant came to the police and said that he had information that dalia dippolito wanted her husband dead. he called the police that very night that he was told about it by her. the next day he meets with dalia dippolito. he tells her, yeah, okay. they act like this plan is going to go forward. she gives him $1,200 and says hire a hitman for me, buy a gun. he then, of course, is working with police. that's all been recorded, that conversation. two days later, she meets with an undercover cop who she thinks is a hitman. again, they go over the plan. she agrees to pay him $3,000 after her husband has been murdered. she says that he'll have $10,000 on him and the hitman is welcome to that money. the next night the hitman calls her and says leave the house by 6:00 a.m. and t

as rehema ellis reports, they are getting some crucial help. >> reporter: 45-year-old caroline is one of the foot soldiers in a battle against time a mother of three, she's often volunteered for clinical trials. now rolling up her sleeves to take part in testing the pandemic flu vaccine that many parents would like to have ready by the start of school. >> hopefully they'll find a cure or the right vaccine that will work and it will help protect my kids. >> reporter: emory university in atlanta is part of eight government sponsored clinical trials that will involve 2,800 people. the initial testing that began last week includes healthy adults 18 and older. >> these studies will inform on vaccine policy how best to use the vaccines. we don't currently know if one dose or two will be required. we don't know if it's high dose or low dose. >> reporter: volunteers will get three shots, including one for seasonal flu. they'll get seven checkups over the next two months. trials begin soon in healthy children between the ages of 6 months and 17 years old, a critical test group because last spr

as part of our "making the grade" series here is nbc's rahema ellis. >> reporter: the first day of schoolan be harder for some than others. especially when it is still summer. such was the case in chicago, the third largest school district in the country. 90,000 elementary schoolkids went back to school early at no extra cost to the district. it's part of a growing shift here toward year-round education. there are about 2 million students in 46 states who attend year-round schools, that is about 5% of all students nationwide who are giving up the american tradition of a long summer vacation. the push for year-round schools in chicago is a grassroots effort by parents, teachers and principals, concerned about low test scores. studies show long summer vacations are a major reason test scores of students from low income families lag behind others. >> i think this is a good program because children are going to learn a lot more and remember more of what they learned last year. >> reporter: but nationwide studies on the effectiveness of year-round schools show minimal results. last year in chi

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n nbc's rehema ellis reports tonight on how one school district is spending its share, part of ourookether schools are "making the grade." >> reporter: for baltimore, maryland, an older city with inner city problems, its $95 million in federal education stimulus money will be more than a help to its school system of 193 schools, almost 6,000 teachers and 82,000 students. >> it's been a lifesaver. >> reporter: school's ceo dr. andreas alonzo said it's filling a $30 million budget gap, and saved programs le summer school classes for 20,000 students. >> it's allowed us to save hundreds of jobs that we would have lost if the money had not been available. >> reporter: the federal government's $100 billion stimulus for schools is its largest one-time investment in education ever. some of the money intended to make up shortfalls in state's education budgets. >> every dollars states spend much help to improve the learning of our children here and around the country. >> reporter: the challenge for baltimore and school systems nationwide is that the stimulus money is just a mporary boost. the f

joining us is lindsey stacy and fell his ellis henican.old in my hand data on the reportage on edwards last week when this story broke. nothing. [ laughter ] the network news nothing. >> you say nobody picked it up. bill: you have got a grand jury proceeding that could put the man in jail for quite some time. you have got the mistress hauling a baby into the grand jury will we'll see that child in a minute. you have got a guy whose wife just wrote a best seller about her struggle with cancer and infidelity that her husband hoisted upon her and you have no coverage at all, ellis? what's this all about. >> i love a great sex scandal about a former politician. bill: this is a criminal story. >> it ought to be covered as a criminal story as soon as there are criminal stuff that you can actually report. bill: grand jury investigation mistress with a baby walking in. >> i don't have any problem with your analysis that says that one thing got a lot more coverage than another thing. that's clearly true. bill: why did it happen? >> there are a bunc

. >> to ellie jostad, our chief editorial producer on the story. ellie, i'm not getting the sense that cops are saying someone could have followed them. that this weren't a stranger in that sense. my interpretation is, and i'm on the outside looking in, is that it's someone within the family or close friends surrounding the family. >> right, nancy. well, what i think is very significant about this announcement from the sheriff's office is they're saying that misty croslin still holds answers in this case. they say she's failed to provide a detailed account of what she was doing in those hours late that evening and early that morning. >> unleash the lawyers. we're taking your calls. to you, ray giudice. defense attorney in atlanta. and former prosecutor out of miami. to you, ray giudice, months later, months have passed. wouldn't it be about time for her to cough up the details of what happened that night if she had nothing to hide? >> law enforcement is sending her as clear a message as possible, go get a lawyer. if you have nothing to child, let t

. >> caller: symbol cbg, cb richard ellis group up 2% today. commercial real estate. is it a buy?what a crummy stock! no, actually kind of interesting. i don't want to play with my heart here. c.b. richard ellis had a good interview in the sunday paper business section about three weeks ago talking about the idea that business has really turned. i have to tell you, i am not as bearish on commercial real estate as others. i've been in a cross fire with some of my friends from jpmorgan. with my friend doug cass. i think commercial real estate is not nearly as dangerous as other people think. andy, good luck to your dodgers. >>> market showed mixed signals today but i say full-speed ahead. "mad money" will be right back. >>> coming up -- >> the news is the best in months. >> with a brighter outlook on unemployment, which companies stand to benefit the most? cramer's got a pair of big players that can turn your investment into a payday. >>> is it time for a gold rush? cramer goes head-to-head with eldorado ceo paul wright to see if they still have the midas touch on the executive deci

what do you know, ellie josted? >> don't know of an alleged lover at this point, although we do know that she told the confidential informant she gave him a schedule of where her husband would be, gave him a couple of pictures, told the cop, who was posing as a hit man, some ways that he might get out of town easily, some getaway routes. she apparently gave him lots of information to try to pull off this alleged plot. >> and going to the gym that morning, that was supposed to be her alibi? >> right. actually she offered to go get her hair done. she thought that would be a good alibi. this undercover cop told her why don't you get out of the house by 6:00 a.m. in the morning. she went to the gym, and that's where she got word that her husband was dead. >> leann in mississippi, hi, lee an. >> caller: hi, nancy. god bless you and your family. >> thank you. thank you very much. >> they are beautiful. >> they are two little miracle babies. lucy was a little over two pounds when she came into this world. i'm happy to say