he was assistant to the florida governor, and he served as a member of the florida land sales board. i knew thom back in those early days in melbourne and brevard county as we were experiencing the explosive growth at the time of the nation's attempt to catch up with the soviet union since they had surprised us by putting up sputnik and then later beat us into orbit with uri gargaren before we could get alan shepherd into sub orbit and ultimately john glenn into orbit. and those were exciting times. i will never forget one time i heard thom as we were sitting around one day, he says i'm just impatient having to sleep because i'm so excited about getting up in the morning and going out and doing all these things, and of course i just listed all of those important positions of public service. along the way, thom became a good friend of another brevard countian, george barley -- well, actually, i think george was from orange county. george was married to mary, and both of them dedicated their lives to restoration of the everglades. george and mary established the everglades trust and th

florida. regard lds, as this approaches from the south, hitting from north carolina down to florida. looking less and less likely this will do the big curve and the miss. the forecast keeps it parallel to the coast of florida here all the way from friday through saturday. we're talking about a storm that would literally rake all of the east coast of florida and then move onshore somewhere in south carolina or georgia. possibly a strong category 2 or category 3 hurricane. our computer model, squiggling lines, staring at these the next few days. a dp deal. unanimous discussion the southeast united states will be threatened by a very strong hurricane going throughout the middle to the end of this week. now's the time to prep. more details coming up. >> going to be busy. bill, thank you. >>> also coming up, investors on edge. verizon workers head back to work, and roomers of a new iphone. your first look at this morning's business headlines is straight ahead. >>> also, an inside the park home run

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polk county, florida, the town of bartow, had never had a crime like it, a mass murder. there were so many scenarios to run down. was it an act of passion, perhaps, or revenge? was diane, the dossos' daughter, who happened to be a local prosecutor, the target? local police quickly called on the help of agents from the florida department of law enforcement, the fdle, the state's counterpart of the fbi. fdle agent tommy ray was put in command of a state local task force. >> when we first started the task force, we started looking at this, there was an fbi profile. he stated that this was a clear case. and i said, what do you mean a clear case? he goes, hopefully you'll solve this but you're not going to solve this overnight. this is going to take a long time. >> reporter: agent ray knew all about crimes taking a long time to crack. in his 25 years on the job, he had a well-earned reputation as a cop with a knack for solving stone-cold cases. hopefully, the erie manufacturing massacre wouldn't be one of them. detectives began their investigation by looking at what the crime

>> our mission is to make duck hunting in florida better for florida duck hunters. >> i thought you wanto save the ducks. >> we want to save the ducks so we can hunt the ducks. >> you want to save the ducks now so you can kill them later. >> we preserve the word harvest. >> oh. are you willing to admit that your wind farms will be harvesting thousands of ducks. >> that is not true. >> not harvesting but just like slaughter begun. >> based on a national average of what we're seeing across the united states is basically three birds perturb yien for -- per tur turbine are killed. >> is there a number that is satisfactory to you of how many ducks are killed. >> obviously nobody wants to see one duck killed by a whirling turbine. >> because you want to see it kweuld a shot -- killed with a shotgun. >> that's right. >> you are like the serial killer. >> you are like the japanese dolphin hunter angry at the tuna net. >> that is possible because again the dolphin gets into the tuna net is wasted. >> the real victims are not dolphin siewsh sushi lovers but duck hunters. most are afraid to speak o

we cannot sell homes in florida. we cannot get out from underneath this debacle created by republicans. he is proposing a huge development where i live. he also talked about us having a triple-a-rated, boasting about that, the fact wears a wonderfully done by the s&p. why is he lying off draconian cuts to state workers? they have had no increase, governor. they have had nothing for their retirement. you are coming all the people who matter in this state, not your millionaire friends. i think it is about time republicans get a little bit at them to hear that people are hurting, continue to hurt in florida. where are these jobs creating? i am instructor for patient care technician. very low level health care and those jobs are hard to come by. also, i would like to add that he is reducing many important jobs. the legislature is trying to cut standards and if -- in the state and as governor supports that. but this is a good record for a governor, i would like to see a bad one. by far, he is the worst governor of the sta

this is near fort lauderdale florida. whether or not there is more than one person involved is something we are trying to ascertain. more on that in southern florida, on america's news. alisyn: the economy, of course, front and center as the road to 2012 kicks into high gear. political ads on the economy are already hitting the air waves. which ones do viewers respond to most?

the state of ohio pick up the cost of a florida crime convicted in florida where she served her timethat is giving her a better deal than normal people. >>guest: and that supports the argument they should wipe this out. >> why wipe it out? nothing good -- what you are saying is just because she is hated and reviled which we all agree upon that she should skate? i say she should be treated like anyone else who would have to serve the probation. >>guest: but anyone else would not have a revised amended order by the judge. >> what about the argument she is in danger? all they have to be came that and there are warranted threats and it may cost the state of florida more pun but that is the state of florida. can you not let someone state because it may cost more money. >> she appears to be have been -- she can do a year of probation easy, that is no big deal. >> a cleveland judge sentencing a serial killtory death for murdering 11 women and dumping the bodies on his property. he never looked at the victims' relatives as he spoke and he ignored the judge when asked whether he wanted to spe

florida picks up two seats. illinois loses a seat but i think could have possibly lost more without minority growth. despite the fact that we have sizable numbers in many places, our political opportunities, our ability to elect candidates of our choice are often frustrated and redistricting, in the drawing of election boundaries when the boundaries are drawn to fracture our community. to make it more difficult for us to do with other latinos, to elect our preferred candidate. we still face obstacles that we have faced in the past, including racially polarized voting which is the tendency of latinos to vote for one candidate and the tendency of non-latinos to vote for a different candidate in the same election. still a continuing legacy of the history of discrimination, those of us who are texans know that even up into the 1970s there were systemic and official barriers to registration and turnout. and that these effects lingered in many latino families. and we have current race-based opposition to creating lati

which has so many snowbirds are or americans from the north who have seasonal homes in florida they hate paying school taxes that kind of stuff so i understand florida school suck even when they have a ton of tax money but you know i think the bigger problem here is that rick scott sees this is a turn to work when jail does and so you know when you really think about it ok so somebody starting to throw me in jail for five years if they catch me prescription drugs or there's a threat you take away temporary assistance for my kids i mean if you really are a drug addict and again you could be a recreational drug user and still be kicked out of this program you could smoke marijuana once a month you know whatever suppose somebody who maybe drinks beer of the day will still get their assistance but you know i'm not sure that this is actually going to help anyone i do think it's a good idea to funnel that two to four million dollars and again that's just the cost reimbursement you could have a lot more going into processing those. into rehabilitation services there's still this is sense o

but i might also think a social safety net is good i mean but it should be a safety net in florida as a state that gives out. corporate welfare like it's nobody's business and nobody bats an eye i mean you look at farm subsidies for sugar cane you look at occupational license which we've all seen as a form of welfare but if you think about the fact that the state requires you to have five hundred hours of training which you probably have to get an expensive for profit college to cut hair or design somebody's living room i mean that's a form of welfare that protects people who already have those licenses if you look at the treatment the theme parks are given where they get all kinds of tax breaks for preserving a certain amount of forest land on the ground that's all welfare that's all things they pay less money than everybody else for whatever reason nobody wants to call it that right because we are the only things around and federally nationally and say there's a lot of corporate welfare going around but nobody wants to try to eliminate loopholes right now or any of the subsidies or

i know in florida, scott is very low in the polls. don't see how people are even passively letting this go down like this. >> well, unfortunately we don't have the recall provision in our state constitution like wisconsin. so given that we also have a republican legislature that won't impeach him, we're going it have to put up with him for four solid years. that's unless the doj diets him on indicts him on on medicare fraud, before he was governor. he is unpopular and people need to keep hounding him where where he goes in this state and remind him that his policies are job-killing anti-middle class politics. >> florida state representative scott randolph, thank you for your time tonight. >> thank you very much. >> republicans are taking to the wrote, bus tours to meet corporations. i mean, voters. that's the next story. as luxury s.u.v.s, it helps to have the quality and craftsmanship of your leather interior test better than the lexus rx 350. it's also helpful to set your "select terrain" dial to "sand." ♪ [ kate ] can't believe i h

not florida paying florida but florida paying "lock-up." the benefits of having lock-up to come in. the head of the department ed bus who worked as head of the team said, "i have no qualms of them coming into our prisons. i hope this will help floridians understand the challenges we face as a nation with our inmate population. a few days later the "lock-up" production team starts filming inside and then suddenly this week on wednesday, florida's republican governor rick scott pulled the plug on the whole project. his stated rationale, the stated department of corrections did not have the authority to grant this contract and failed to vet the contract with the staff before signing it. the feeling is it was outside the scope of the department of correctio corrections perview of the state. i don't know if it's going forward at this point. in reporting on the canceled "lock-up" controversy, i prefer to think of it as principal pointer-outer. we had to prove or debunk he is that thinned skinned. the florida department of corrections said, "other

problem and florida and quickly made the leap from state legislator to u.s. senate and now a billion both his parents struggle as cuban immigrants whether they came here on the mayflower on a slave ship or on an airplane from havana we are all descendants of the men and women who built here the nation that save the world. owes its comprehensive immigration reform and the dream act talk or maybe the republicans superman but the way he handles immigration is this kryptonite and supports english only law even though he ran his campaign in spanish the fact is that when he ran for senator he was able to advertise in spanish saying i'm an immigrant too and it garnered a fair amount of support rubio represents the hallmarks of the neo conservative movement leveling this criticism of president obama's taxes and wealthy americans it's class warfare and it's the kind of language that you would expect from a leader of a third world country not the president of the united states supporting a strong military america still the only watchman on the wall. and there is still

in florida's constitution, a quality education is now in the florida constitution. i do believe that in america, particularly, everyone is entitled to a quality education. and most certainly in this country, people should not go to bed hungry. that is just unacceptable. the way that the misery index in this country is one that is way out of the line because of the recent economic situation. i do not think that we as a country even understand how the unemployment has affected so many families, and we have a whole new strata called the new league for, people who were driving forces yesterday and in bread lines today -- who were driving portias -- driving porsches yesterday and in redlines today. we need to make sure americans had the opportunity to have reasonable health care. not excessive. the fact is we've got to make sure that what happened in past -- and we know that. a lot of costs have spiraled out of control. we have to have a baseline. this country has promised that in a sense of being a land of opportunity for all its people. the resources that we have in th

john mccain got the governor's endorsement and then took florida. mitt romney took great numbers in florida. rudy was on top and that fell apart. he knew he had the focus there so far it is paying off. got to be good news considering he started the week knowing in the a.p. poll he was trailing by 12 to rick perry. >> that's why mitt romney has had this calm exterior talking a lot about his opponents. >> juliet: not talking a lot, period. >> he has talked. he has been out there talking with people. maybe not a whole lot of media appearances. again, focusing all his attention on the president. not on his opponents. it will be interesting. as you said, brian, florida is going to be huge a lot of focus on iowa lately. florida clearly going to be more important in terms of getting someone in the game at that point. >> juliet: not that i'm -- i'm a little biased here but i think new jersey is going to be one to watch. chris christie, the no nonsense tough talking governor. seems to be a lot of sliding when it comes to obama's approval rating. >> brian: ev

that cone of uncertainty includes florida, but most of it is off the coast. on sunday, it will head up towards the carolinas. they think at this time it could strengthen over the warm waters of the gulf stream and have a category 1 hurricane along the south carolina or north carolina coast. we have a lot of interest here with emily. the big key is what will the state of emily be tomorrow morning after it comes off of haiti and the dominican republic? as far as commuter models go, a lot of them are taking it close to florida and parallel to the coastline going from sunday into monday. let's talk about the heat. this was so oppressive yesterday. 107 in kansas city. 112 in tulsa. we still have very warm temperatures this morning. 92 in dallas at this hour. excessive heat warnings cover all of the south. 109 in dallas. i can't picture what they've been going through this summer. >> 92 degrees already. unbelievable. >>> troubling data, disappointing earnings and worry all over wall street. your "first look" at business headlines is straight ahead. >>> a grudge mat

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kerry sanders is in orlando, florida, with the very latest on this. good morning, kerry. i bet this has been grabbing the headlines lately. >> certainly has. casey anthony is orlderred out of hiding to the florida department of corrections to meet with her probation officer. six months before -- 16 months before the murder trial, she was in court and was sentenced to a one-year probation for passing bad checks. >> when casey anthony walked free four weeks ago, she and her legal team believed she was a free woman. but she writes, it's clear. the defendant's probation was to start once she was released. the idea she had served her probation while in jail awaiting the murder trial was a clerical error and to let casey avoid her probation would make a mockery of justice. this is the not the message the courts want to send to the public or defendants. the error letting casey anthony's one-year probation be counted while she sat in jail may have gone unnoticed but for orlando attorney richard hornsby who blogged there was a mistake. >> i would like to sincerely apologize to amy

and that's why florida state fired him. >> right in florida, under florida law, florida is an at will. you could be terminated without cause for any reason. i'm not saying that alcoholism is not recognized under the americans with disability act. what i'm saying is you still have to perform the same as any other person would at your job. the allegations here is this man was abusive. he wasn't doing his job properly and he was having memory lapses at work. that could create a safety risk. he doesn't get special accommodations because he's an alcoholic and i don't see this case going anywhere with him. he was performing lesser than anyone else on the job. >> going forward, if this guy -- currently, he's suing for $75,000 to get his reputation and some money back from florida state. but going forward, if people are able to use this as a defense, they could never be fired because, you know, they could say look, i'm an alcoholic. you can't fire me! >> it doesn't work like that. there's a standard that the plaintiff is going to have to meet. it's not that alcoholism itself is a recognized t

afectado . >> el juev serca del sur de florida . >> mañana las mínimas de 50° y máximas de 70 . >> estoo que tendrá william bonilla bonilla:lo sucedido entre la final de portugueses y brasileños. . >> méxico ganó la medalla de bronse en el mundial sub 20 y brasil es pentacampeon al ganarle a portugal . >> se jugo la final sub20 . >> brasil se presentaba a la final y portugal llegaba a la tercera minutos 5 gol de oscar . >> el juego tomaba tintes de tener un final no apto para cardiacos. >> oliveira y el error del portero gabriel . >> oscar empujaba es esférico y al minuto 110 . >> brasil ganó 3x2 y es el nuevo campeón en la sub20. >> los galos pegaban primero error en la salida de los franceses. >> en la segunda mitad enrriquez empujaba el esférico ulises rivera y méxico completaba la historia escapandose con un tercero lugar. >> en el béisbol los gigantes de san francisco . >> venezuela celebraba a fondo y anotó un gran cuadrangular . >> & y dos tercios y 7 carreras y 11 imparables. >> jdmartinez con batazo pero se impacta contra la barda el equipo de houston ganó 7x5 . >> en la nfl ri

we go to florida a 90-year-old navy veteran is theldest graduate from florida atlantic university atory. he always wanted to go back and get his masters. he was born in 1921 in north africa and joined the north african navy fighting against the nazi, later joined the french navy andsraeli navy. a true hero. >> and getting his degree the biggest accomplishment of his life. in a pretty accomplished life already. >> live it every day. >> 90 years ole. there's still a lot to look forward to. >> here's something to look forward to i pair of flip-flops that will cost y y 18 thousand. that's because on the bottom of those flip flops is work by taped l.a. artist. vid palmer. >>> this morning on "world news news now." stunning sell-off. the dow jones industrial drops more than 500 points as the investors focus on bleak realities. and yesterday's plunge, erased all gains made the previous day, an encouraging upswing. it is thursday, august 11th. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> good thursday morning, everybody, i'm rob nelson. >> i'm tanya rivero. when the asian market

right now, participating in the florida straw poll while it is critical and florida will be a criticalrocess, we are not going to dedicate the resources to participating in that straw poll. by no means is that any indication we are not going to move full speed ahead in developing an organization in the sunshine state. >> shannon: do you have worries because the congresswoman's name will still be on the ballot if she doesn't spend time participating in that straw poll, if she doesn't finish well in the ballotting that folks at home and around the country may not understand her skipping florida, may see her further down the polls, are you worried about the perception? >> not at all this is a strategic move. as i said getting through the straw poll was critical step for us. we are planning to shift resources and develop an organization in florida. we plan to campaign there in the next few weeks. once people get the opportunity to see her and visit with her and speak with her, they will be pleased with what they see and hear. we have debates coming up. we have three debates in september. t

for those of you in florida, you may want to change some of your plans. the senate votes on the bills today with just a few sand granules left in the hourglass, and all the dithering and delaying didn't come for free. this might make you spit out your coffee or trip on your treadmill, so get ready for this. the price tag, more than 1 $.7 billion. that is how much extra interest the government will have to pay investors because it had to sell treasury bills to finance its operations in the middle of this mess. if the mess had been worked out even two weeks ago, that money would have been saved. now in the bizarre world of washington u you spend money to save money. here's some wisdom from gloria bo borger who is part of a panel. >> look. if you look at this down the road, we have some other landmarks that are coming up in november and again in december, and he said, look, this could frame the debate for the white house for 2012. if republicans are only for cuts and entitlements and not for any kind of revenue, that's something that our public opinion show

but again that's florida. no direct hits. strong surf and heavy waves across the florida coastline.ne as well. but cape hatteras, the eye is about 500 miles south-southwest of there right now. and that could be the potential bull's eye of a landfall but after that we will open up the entire mid-atlantic, the entire northeast, evening new england for impacts with this hurricane. right now a major category 3 hurricane. so we want to know, where is this thing going? here's our computer models, and as we head throughout the night and into your saturday, we start pushing this on towards perhaps landfall somewhere in north carolina. as you mentioned tropical form-force winds extend 200 miles, so charlotte we could be dealing with tropical-force winds up to the new england coastline and up into the new england in the northeast and remember the strongest sight of the hurricane is the east side. that's where the wind's coming in and the waves are coming in as well so really concerned about long island and argument sounds here into the chesapeake/delaware bay as well and our official track ha

in florida t the unemployment is way above the national average. president obama has been facing criticism of his own party and base, and more of the same is expected here. we will talk to congresswoman fredricka wilson. >>> and coming up, the changing and volatile situation in libya. gun battles and forces have erupted throughout the day, and others have fled. stephanie goss joins us on the phone near libya's border of tunisia, and rebels remain in control of his compound in tripoli, and what can you tell us that you have acquired as far as information, stephanie? >> well, stability is one thing, and it is surprising that rebels were able to go into that city as quickly as they did and seemingly as unimpeded as they did and it is another to go in to secure the city. what we are seeing now is that they don't quite have a complete control of the city. there are still gadhafi forces that look ready to fight back. but also keep in mind that gadhafi made a commitment in the early days of this to give guns to all of his supporters, so there are a lot of

>> well, it depends if she stays in florida or not.n florida, she will be required to look for a job. she'll have to have routine tests to make sure she's not using illegal drugs and make sure that she's not associated with other felons, but she also has the possibility of reporting here in florida, and there is 67 offices that she could do it at, and one in each county, and after she reports, she could then leave the state, and report her probation in another state. in all likelihood, if she does that, many of florida's very open public records would not be necessarily available for people to look at, because it would go by each state's probation rules. and so, let's say she goes to california. then, she would be on probation, ordered by florida, but following the rules of say california. >> all right. kerry sanders in orlando, thank you, ker i are. >>> the worst oil spill to hit the uk in a decade tops the stories around the world. royal dutch shell estimating 150 million barrels of oil spilled off of the coast of scotland. they have

luckily florida senator marco rubio was there to save the day.e stumbled. mrs. reagan was not hurt. >>> hot on the web today in one of the top google searches this hour. legendary tennessee women's basketball coach pat shum mitt facing her toughest opponent. she said she's suffering from early on set dementia. summit has more wins in college basketball history, men or women. she is 59 years old. she's been at tennessee for 37 seasons and has won eight national championships. >>> as if there wasn't enough diet books out there, now comes one aimed at children ages 6 to 14. doctors say it just sends the wrong message. that the book may actually make things worse for kids strug wlg their kid. they worry it could end up leading to eating disorders. it's called maggie goes on a diet. kids aren't supposed to diet. it's the story of a girl who transforms hrs from a chubby teen to a slender soccer star. >>> i just really -- are they or aren't they splitting up? a report came out saying will smith and jada pinkett smith saying they're separating. the coupl

it could make landfall as a weak hurricane in florida over the weekend. one the nextew days. >> absbsutely. >>> now here's a look at your tuesday forecast. severe storms around des moines, chicago, detroit, green bay, cleveland and pittsburgh. showers and thunderstorms in northern new england. popup thunderstorms along the gulf coast. heavy rain meanwhile for albuquerque, phoenix, salt lake city, southern california and my favorite city of all-time, las vegas. >> 90 in sacramento. 88 in colorado springs. phoenix heats up to 109. and dallas 108. 97 in kansas city. and 91 in minneapolis. 85 in boston. 90s from new york to new orleans. >>> here is this morning's feel-good animal story. these are never in short supply. >> you know you love them. >> it comes from miami where a puppy found himself stuck in the engine block of a car. >> nobody could get him out so they called in the fire department who used a jack to lift the car. eventually they were able to get the little fellow free. >> oh, very lucky. he got a few scratches and some other problems and is goi

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florida, 0.7% of the entire budget goes to funding judiciary. the superior court in san francisco recently said that it will have to reduce its staff by 42% compared to where it was two years ago, and that it will have to close 25 court firms -- courtrooms. we have established a commission for the preservation of the justice system that is chaired by ted olson and david boyce, speakers at this great forum in the past, and 24 of the most prominent lawyers in the country, both women and men, all ethnicities, both sides of the aisle, to look at this issue. let me tell you what we found. in hearings around the country, we found the supreme court of georgia telling us that there court is so under-funded that she has to ask nexus' lexus for pencils for her law clerks. in ohio, you cannot finally pleading unless you bring your own paper. in new hampshire, the court closed the courts to all civil jury trials for a year, a year. alabama supreme court justice said she is going to have to reduce civil trials by 50% and criminal cases by 1/3. well, we have

host: sebring, florida, go ahead.aller: i am in the middle of caller: i am in the middle of the state, although 60 miles and is pretty close compared to the hurricane passing 100 miles inland and hitting a lot of property. my question in my concern is, number one, when we have to triple hurricanes come through, there was a lot of investors who wanted flood insurance but they could not get it. they are not allowed to let people get flood insurance if they wanted it. that was one of my concerns. i did not discover that until the situation came up and realized that we are vulnerable. and there are a lot of people that cannot even get a flood insurance when we wanted. number two, i think the insurance companies are copping out. at that time when they are making record profits, you have one state that has a disaster and they have to pick up a lot of policies and to a lot of repairs, if the 40 other predict 49 other states in which were collecting insurance that have no problems. whenever there is something that occurs, lik

host: williams, a democrat, hallandale, florida. caller: america must remember that were our brother's keeper. look around you and see how our nation is falling apart around us. if we do not do athing and try to help ourselves, we cannot blame who we put in office. when 2012 comes, think about that. are those names. to help or hinder you? we are not stupid people. if we let one part to get away with this stuff, we will have problems. that is why we have checks and balances. we must remember that we are all brothers and sisters. host: left headline this morning. here is -- last headline on the debt ceiling this morning. here is the "washington post." independent, maryland. caller: good morning. there has been a lot of talk about how people have held this holding hostage. 95 democrats are against it. this bill increases the debt. economists have predicted about $4 trillion added the next decade. the cuts are only in the current rate. next year, the budget will be even worse and larger. if we had a credit to hit right now, it would be