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also no hits on gavin smith's cell phone. no usage of his credit cards.is family says he has no enemies and so far now this case remains a real mystery. in los angeles, cecilia vega, abc news. >> police say now they are giving some more resources to this case. they aren't specifying what those resources may be, but the fact that his cell phone, no cell phone records since the disappearance and no credit card use, what does that tell you? >> i don't know. it's so -- it's clearly possible that someone abducted him. it's possible he may no longer be alive. but i find it odd that he has just disappeared without a trace because there are surveillance cameras almost everywhere. especially in los angeles. so it just doesn't make sense to me. >> hope the family does not get the worst news. we'll follow that. >>> and when we come back, we'll lighten the mood with the wednesday morning "skinny." >> some unbrotherly love amongst the jacksons. and last night's losers. yes, two. "dancing with the stars." you're watching "world news now." >> announcer: abc's "world new

here's nbc's gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: the mystery began wednesday morning when movie executive gavin smith up for work. >> it's so out of character for gavin to just be off the grid. >> reporter: chris aronson is his boss at twentieth century fox, where smith has worked for almost 18 years. >> he's one of our key players on domestic distribution. >> reporter: smith worked at the fox offices in calabasas, just outside los angeles. he managed theaters in dallas and oklahoma city. he was last seen tuesday night at a friend's house in the nearby suburb of oak park. also missing, his black mercedes, similar to this one. >> he's never done anything like this before. >> reporter: 57 years old, a married father of three with a successful job. smith's family says they have no idea why he disappeared. his son, a basketball player at the university of southern california, tweeted, "please help me find my dad, gavin smith. more people looking, the better." >> we all miss him, we want him home and we want him home safe. >> reporter: so far, investigators aren't saying much, only that they need the publ

gavin smith loved his family and he was family oriented and this type of a depart your without warning to family or friends highly unusual. not to mention the fact there has been no sign of him, either merr his car a distinctive say 420. his cell phone not used or credit cards used. he has disappeared like a puff of smoke. >> you went to high school with him or was a year behind him. >> i was a year behind him and gavin was a standout athlete and those people have a natural charisma and he had the personality to go with it. a wonderful guy. >> greta: played at ucla on a national championship team. >> 1975. the last of the wooden dynasty teams. and gavin went on from there. lost touch with him after he left ucla. but hearing he was in the film industry not really unusual. his family has connections to the film industry. his mother and father i believe were both involved in that. >> greta: the person's house he left from. did the person notice anything unusual at all in his behavior that you know of? >> nothing. they in fact went to bed and gavin was down stairs in the family room watchi

been one week since anyone has seen or heard from gavin smith. police are stumped. and that family is desperate for a clue. gavin smith is a 20th century fox movie executive who helped put some of hollywood's biggest blockbusters in theaters. from "titanic," to "avatar," to the latest "star wars" movies. he even appeared in front of the camera a few times. >> congrats. >> reporter: now, this 57-year-old father of three is at the center of a hollywood mystery. after he didn't pick up his youngest son from school on wednesday and hasn't been heard from since. his family is beginning to fear the worst. any cause of concern that would lead you to suspect any foul play in any way? >> he didn't pick up his phone in the morning. that's a huge cause of concern. he didn't call his office. he didn't show up to work. he's never done any of those things in 21 years. >> reporter: smith had been on a business trip in las vegas the week before. he came home to los angeles friday. and was supposed to spend tuesday night at a family friend's home nearby. >> he wa

be safe. >> gavin smith is a successful movie executive. married and the father of three boys but where is he? he disappeared 11 days and go and the los angeles sheriff's department is looking for him. steve whitmore is the spokesman. steve, are you with us? >> yes, judge. i am. thank you. >> thanks for joining us. we know how busy you are. all the circumstances surrounding this case just hit me as very unusual. what can you tell me? >> regrettably when people do disappear each has an unusual aspect to it. mr. smith was last between between 9:00 and 10:00 p.m. on tuesday may 1. he was reported missing the following day may 2 to one of our local stations. he is 6'6", 210-pounds, grey hair with blonde highlights and has a goatee. a scar about five inches on his calf and approximately four inch scar on the inner right wrist. the reason i tell you that is because we are still asking the public's help. he is a striking figure. if anybody sees this individual or even see something that they think that is not important, it always is important. cal

. >>> it's been a week since anyone has seen 21-year-old fox executive gavin smith. now, his family is asking for the public's help. rachel kim has the story. >> reporter: tonight, 57-year- old gavin smith's whereabouts is a mystery. the fox executive was last seen leaving a friend's oak park home around 9:00 p.m. tuesday. smith's wife doesn't want to speak to the media. but his sister told us on saturday night, her brother would never take off and just disappear. >> it's difficult. your worst scenario. is coming true. we just want him back. his family, his sons. we all just want to see him again. >> reporter: one of his sons, evan smith, who plays basketball for usc, is getting the word out about his father on twitter. today, he tweeted, if my faith hasn't crumbled, nobody's should. he also said, all of the love and support you all have given my family has been the greatest. still looking for him, i'll never stop. >> there's no words to describe what you would feel when you're in this situation. it's something very surreal to me. >> reporter: investigators say they

the 57-year-old gavin smith last seen on his way home from a friend's house. his wife reported him missing the next morning. smith is a 20th century fox emyek tiff whose films includ huge blockbusters. >> he didn't pick up the phone in the morning that is a huge cause of concern. he didn't show up to work. he's never done any of those things in 21 years. >> his son has gone to twitter to plead for help. police say no one used his cell phone or credit cards since he disappeared strange. >> if it's good to be president it's better to be an exhead of state. fewer headaches and taxpayers pay for plenty of perks. $15,000 worth of stamps from jimmy carter. and 830,000ses today george w. bush's phone bill. yes, it's true. bill clinton made $10 million in speaking fees last year. george w. bush made $15 million giving speech autos the drive to get support for ballot initiative to preserve coit to you jer under way. backers join bid three towers. and proposition b directing the city to use more funds raised there to preserve the murals and maintain grounds. the daughte

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when movie executive gavin smith didn't show up for work. >> it's so out of character for gavin to justoff the grid. >> chris aaronson is his boss at 20th currentry fox for smith has worked for 18 years. >> he's one of our key players. >> he worked at a office in kalabasas, he managed theaters in oklahoma city. >> he was last seen tuesday and also missing, his black mercedes, similar to this one. >> he's never done anything like this before. >> 57 years old, a married father of three with a successful job. smith's family says they have no idea why he would disappear. his son, a basketball player, at the university of southern california, tweeted, please help me find my dad gavin smith. more people looking, the better. >> we all miss him. we want him home and we want him home safe. >> so far, investigators aren't saying much. only that they need the public's help. >> do you suspect foul play? >> right now it's a missing person situation. >> the case of a movie executive caught up in a real-life hollywood mystery. gabe gutierrez, nbc news. los angeles. >>> in today's then and now, remembe

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the family of missing hollywood executive gavin smith speaking out saying he would never abandon them. his whereabouts a friend's house that was on tuesday. he drove ov and hasn't been seen since. >>> brand new developments in the case of a teenaged girl. they found this flag it links his disappearance to the 15-year-old. multiple surveillance video show the car near her house and where some of her belongings were also found. >>> it is time now to brew on this. we all know sitting in traffic can be stressful. now it seems your daily commute is not only causing stress it is hurting your health. a new study find that people who drive long distances to work are more likely to be over weight and have higher blood pressure. the reason twher spending too much time ore more time rather than being physically active. they don't have as much time to cook but they have more time to snack in hear cars. the rate of divorce going up 40 percent for couples with longer commute. >> that's what we want you boo brew on is your commute driving you over the edge. >> send your comments to fox friend first

los angeles police now saying foul play cannot be ruled out if 57-year-old gavin smith disappeared.ga has the latest. >> reporter: this morning marks 11 days since anyone has heard from gavin smith. he's a twentieth century fox executive who distributed megahits like "titanic." police are stumped about where he is or even if he's still alive. >> we're helpless. it's horrible. it's horrible. >> reporter: but now there are new questions about exactly where smith was before he went missing. his oldest son, a usc basketball forward reportedly tweeted last month, my dad decided to leave the family last night. real family sticks together. it has since been deleted. smith's family told us he was staying with a female family friend when he went missing. >> last time i saw him was on monday. >> reporter: did he come home monday night? i want to go back to the -- >> we're going to try to not talk about that part. >> reporter: what they will say is that police have spoken to her and when smith drove off from her house in his mercedes they don't believe he was leaving for good. >> she said he w

this is 57-year-old gavin smith.last seen a week ago leaving a friend's home in los angeles, driving away in his mercedes. now smith's sister said he didn't bik ppick up his son wedy american oi for school which she says is out of character. author of "where the wild things are" has died. maurice sendak died from complications of a recent stroke. sendak illustrated more than 00 books during his 60-year career. his final book inspired by his love for his brother will be published next february. sendak was 83 years old. a sick little man. one phrase campaign insiders used to describe john edwards. talk about sordid testimony today here in the corruption trial of the former presidential candidate. edwards made several phone calls to certain people asking for cash. and scott thompson just made a big move in response to the firestorm. but is it enough? everyone in america depends on the postal service. i get my cancer medications through the mail. now washington, they're looking at shutting down post offices coast to coas

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>>> the family of a missing film executive is using social media to help find him. 57-year-old gavin smithe leaving a friend's home in ventura county. that was in california, may 1st. his black mercedes-benz is also missing. the 20th century fox film exec is married and has three children. his son, evan, has post eed messages on twitter, asking for help to help find his dad. >>> he is now one of america's most wanted man and now his wife and mother is behind bars. ana mayes is accused of helping kidnap a woman and her three daughters. a manhunt has been launched in the woods of tennessee and mississippi. nbc's traun traung has the latest on this story. >> reporter: this is newly released video of adam mayes in the white t-shirt. in the store surveillance tape, mayes jokes about his haircut. police believes he changed his appearance while on the run. the video was taken on april 30th, that's three days after police say he can kidnapped jo ann bain and her three daughters in tennessee. two of the missing were found buried. the victims, jo ann bain and her 14-year-old daughter, adrienne. bain

sheriff's deputies are asking the public for help in finding gavin smith. last seen in his mercedes tuesday night. he is an executive with 20th century fox. >>> nasa researchers are looking for chunks from a meteorite that crashed into el dorado county, california, last month. they spotted 12 potential craters, but are not saying exactly where they are. but that hasn't stopped meteorite hunters from searching. many are already in the area hoping to find one and maybe make a quick buck. >>> robots are battling it out in indianapolis this weekend. the electronic gladiators are taking part in the national robotics league championship. the robot competition is designed to help introduce young people to manufacturing. >>> one of the hardest moments for presidential candidates, knowing when to call it quits. state of the union host candy crowley lays out the blue print for leaving the field gracefully. >> reporter: fred, in a campaign game, it's not important just knowing when to fold them, but how. 23 minutes of pure newt, but it followed a well-worn template of

california are searching for a top movie executive who disappeared nearly a week ago. 57-year-old gavin smithwo decades. police say he was last seen at his home in oak part tuesday evening. >>> to politics now -- republican presidential front-runner mitt romney took in some hoops last night. he was at center court as the celtics crushed the hawks in game four of their nba playoff at the garden in bean town. >> meanwhile, president obama officially kicked off his re-election campaign over the weekend delivering a fiery speech in two key swing states. abc's rick klein joins us with the details. >> reporter: rob and sunny, if you look inside the speech from over the weekend you'll see the strongest argument that team obama thinks they have against mitt romney. it's not just the policy. it's the person that they are running against. they want voters to know all about the proposals they say would take the country backward. more than that, they want you to know about the very wealthy and they would argue out of touch person at the top of the ticket. now mitt romney's folks are turning things around

the family of missing hollywood exec gavin smith pleading for help in finding their loved one. fe and children now speaking out saying he would never abandon them. smith's last whereabouts, a friend's house in oak park, california. that was tuesday. he drove off and apparently hasn't been seen since. the pictures are unbelievable. alaska shore being flooded with debris from last year's tsunami in japan. some of the items covering the beaches of middleton, island. the debris arriving months earlier than expected because of the strong force of the winds. more degree expected to hit the west coast of the united states. the mass is the size of california. if you can imagine that. those are your headlines this morning. >> all right. meanwhile, his victory is being called the return tea party. republican nominee for indiana senate, the u.s. senate that is from indiana, richard murdoch defeated six term senator richard lugar in indiana's republican senate primary and he joins us right now live from indianapolis. good morning to you, sir. >> good morning, steve. great to be with you. >>

gavin smith was last season driving his black mercedes away from his california home on tuesday.stribution department for almost 18 years. now he's missing. all right. brian, over to you and somebody smart. >> brian: you have to make that distinction. 13-year-old hoping to learn a thing or it about history wound up giving historians a lesson of their own. benjamin cody pointed out a major error at new york's famed metropolitan museum of art. he's here right now to show us what he saw and how we got it right on this map. congratulations. you're in 7th grade, 123 years old. >> yes -- 13 years old. >> brian: you go to the museum and what did you see? >> i saw the map, but did not include this part of spain right and morocco. >> brian: so first off, the whole byzantine period extends from? >> stems from 476 to 1453. >> brian: and everybody knows that. i was going over it for steve and gretchen. good. so you're not seeing this area outlined or this area of africa outlined. so what do you do? >> i went to a docent who direct medicine to the front desk and they told me to fill out like

on may 1, executive gavin smith got in his car in oakland, california and has not been seee been desperatelyues. joining us now with the very latest on the case is host of "justice," judge jeanine pirro. good morning. >> good morning. >> steve: this guy returns to the los angeles area, he had been at a convention. he stays at a family friend's house rather than his own house and vanishes. >> what's more interesting is the fact that the family friend's house is not that far from his own house. so you say to yourself, wait a minute. you're coming back from a convention in vegas and staying at a family friend's house. so then you fast forward a little bit and at first it was family friends and then it's a family friend, and then we find out it's a female. now, the fact is that he was reported missing by his wife when he didn't pick up his youngest son to take him to school. what does that tell you? that tells you that there had been prearrangements made that he would pick up the son, which then when you back up, you realize the son had tweeted a few weeks before, you know, something about the f

gavin smith worked at fox studios for nearly 18 years.leaving a friend's house in a mercedes. he's 6'6", a former ucla basketball player. >>> look at this. lightning being blamed for this destructive fire in minneapolis. a lightning bolt snapped a high-voltage power line. the electrical current went through the pavement and ignited a natural gas line underground. >>> here's diane with a preview of "world news." >>> tonight, a member of the superrich is coming forward to defend what is happening in the country, including the huge gap in who is getting the money. he says the system is working. david muir challenges him tonight. >>> a performance part concert and part cirque du soleil. no world records here. a musician sending notes soaring to new heights. this is in brazil. the flying piano performance part of a festival there. a much braver man than i. >> cool under pressure. just like lara spencer. >> thank you, george. >>> time for "pop news." from now on, please call him dr. shaq. and we're not talking honorary. he's a newly minted p 4r

gavin smith was last seen tuesday night. ey knew something was wrong when smith failed to pick up his son the next morning. he is a movie distributor for 20th century fox. and the company says there were no signs of any problems that may have led to his disappearance. >>> one man is dead after collapsing on a hiking trail. he was found around 8:30 yesterday morning in the fremont hills. police say they believe the man may have had a heart attack while hiking with his wife. >>> workers a the a pleasanton recycling center made a surprising discovery a native american human skull. they found the skull on friday as they sorted recyclables on a conveyor belt. a anthropologist looked at the skull and turned it over to the native american law enforcement. >>> changing the term post- traumatic stress disorder. the military want to replace disorder with injury. the hope is that will reduce the stigma for troops seeking treatment. ptsd is associated with a traumatic event such as combat. iran announced its concern about a pack with uni

gavin smith worked at fox studios for nearly 18 years. leaving a friend's house in a mercedes. he's 6'6", a former ucla basketball player. >>> and take a look at this. lightning being blamed for this destructive fire in minneapolis. three cars, as you can see there, completely engulfed in flames. a lightning bolt snapped a high-voltage power line. the electrical current went through the pavement and ignited a natural gas line underground. >>> and now, here's diane sawyer with a preview of tonight's "world news." diane? >>> good monday morning to you, josh. tonight on "world news," a member of the super rich, and we mean super rich is coming forward to defend what is happening in this country, including a huge gap in who is getting the money. he says the system is working. david muir challenges him tonight. >>> well, finally, diane, a performance that was part concert and part cirque du soleil. no world record is being set here. that is exactly what it seems to be. a peaeniianist, suspended by wire hundreds of feet in the air in brazil. th

one man claims he is almost man gavin saw this man smith a week after he disappeared dining about two a woman. the man says he did not realize who it was until he saw this is a news report. >> georgia congressman jack kingston wants to put the brakes on funding for nascar. nascar legend daryl waltrip told us how this would hurt the sport. >> these are the best p.r. men that the army and the navy and any branches of the military could have. they do stuff in the community. the recruits love this program. this is a great program and to disrupt it or destin it is somebody that really needs to do a little more homework. >> congressman kingston says the push to get the government out of sports sponsorship is based on finances not fanfare. >>> get the tissues ready, dave. an army couple surprises their kids by returning from afghanistan early. the reunion will melt your heart. >> that is travis and isala. they haven't seen their kids since this past october. both being deployed overseas at the same time. >> both. >> are you kidding me? that is sacrifice. >> it is. their kids thinking that th