. >>> we turn now to the mysterious death of valerie hamilton. a 23-year-old swim coach who walked into a north carolina bar one night and was found dead days later, stuffed into a storage locker. the prime suspect, a convicted sex offender. with each new detail from the investigation, new questions. not only about how she died, but also, how she lived. her father, a police chief, now not only grieves for her, he's also defending her, as yunji de nies reports. >> this is not a murder. there's no murder at all. she overdosed in her sleep. >> she didn't sound like she was on anything. she didn't sound like she was drunk. >> he woke up and she was dead. >> reporter: what do you think happened that night? >> you know, i don't know. we may never know. we may never know what happened. >> reporter: what merl hamilton does know is that his daughter was found dead in this storage locker after a late night with this registered sex offender with a lengthy criminal record, including rape, breaking and entering, and drug possession. do you think that he kille

. >> reporter: what merl hamilton does know is that his daughter was found dead in this storage locker after a late night with this registered sex offender with a lengthy criminal record including rape breaking and entering, and drug possession. do you think that he killed your daughter? >> i don't know. i don't know enough about it to say that. i think if he wasn't with my daughter that night, she would be alive. >> reporter: but now hamilton finds himself having to answer questions about the life style his daughter led. >> it's very very unfortunate to me that people will see one segment of a case and then almost immediately start laying some semblance of blame on the victim. >> reporter: valerie hamilton went missing a week ago wednesday. she was seen leaving a local bar with michael harvey. when she didn't show up to her job as a swim instructor friends and coworkers began to worry. >> it's not like her to not show up and not let us know that i'm sick or my car's broken or i had something else going on. >> reporter: we felt it. i think the police side of me knew and the father side

hamilton's body showed no signs of what they call traditional physical trauma. according to police witnesses hamilton voluntarily left the bar last week with harvey and went to his house where the two used drugs. witnesses say something went wrong and hamilton needed, quote, immediate medical attention but harvey never called for help. instead, investigators say harvey moved hamilton's body and made great efforts to clean up any potential crime scene before he disposed of her body. hamilton's body was found this past weekend in a storage shed. >> i'm telling you what, if you've got kids, you've got daughters, my daughter was perfect and what my daughter did or didn't do or whatever, in these daddies eyes and those mama's eyes my daughter was perfect. >> reporter: among the mo mourners -- >> we all work for the district attorney's office here, we believe in justice, we fight for justice and we know that valerie will get justice in this case. >> reporter: and investigators are still waiting on toxicology results and also results from a sexual assault examination k

investigators say hamilton willingly left that bar with him.y found no signs of physical trauma on her body. they did find evidence of drug usage. witnesses told them valerie appeared to need immediate medical attention. but that harvey did not help her get it. they believe he made great efforts to clean up any potential crime scenes before he disposed of her body. the medical examiner is still processing valerie's toxicology report and sexual examination kit. it's not clear what she may have taken, but police say drugs were involved. >> do you feel that as a father now you're having to defend your daughter and her death? >> i know who my daughter was. and her friends knew who she was. my wife knows who she was. my daughter knows who she was. more particularly, my god knows who she was. and i'm not -- i'm not going to defend her. there's nothing to defend. >> reporter: michael harvey's extradition to charlotte has been delayed because he's said to be going through drug withdrawal. it is not clear what charges he will ultimately face. in a few d

chief hamilton, again, our sincere condolences to you.ire family, the community there, and mayor padgett, thank you also for joining us at this very difficult time. and you let us know if there's anything more that we can do to help you both. thank you. >> thank you. >> thank you, malm. >> thank you. >>> let's get over to the weather now and sam. >>> hey, robin, we're going to start with the fact that fall kicks off around wednesday. i think it's 9:00 p.m., if i'm right. wednesday night. we've got a lot of heat on the board. even the cool air gets displaced by the time we get to warmer temperatures again. so from, you can call it phoenix, because they've had two record-high temperatures lately. denver, memphis, atlanta, all the way up to boston and new york. back to the 80s in boston. wednesday, new york, 88 degrees. philly, 90, washington, d.c., 90. coincident coincidentally, when fall starts, going to be the warmest temperatures. anybody still vacationing, even in south florida, the long waves will cause problems with the rip currents.

mclaren's lewis hamilton expects ferrari and red bull to be major threats at this weekend's singapore grand prix the former world champion is second in the overall standings with just five races left alone his preparations for this latest one have been a bit unusual away from the track hamilton was taking part in a dragon boat race that same banging the drum at the front all part of his promotional activities we are told his boat won as you might expect and i doubt the brit would love to repeat that success on the come sunday he's five points behind red bull's mark webber in the standings and thing is that i am ferrari will be fast . ferrari's seem to be very quick it is. it so are expected to be very competitive as we can dribble for very also last year so. maybe jenson has a. tough battle ahead of us but you know i think that he done a great job i'm really excited to get back out of the track i think the car should be between a treatment of the last race so very exciting. funny these old mice times ago but not before you've had a chance to watch all the net busting action from the r

investigators say hamilton willingly left a local bar with harvey. they found no signs of physical trauma on her body. detectives found evidence of drug use and interviewed witnesses who said she appeared to need immediate medical attention. legal analysts say he could still be held responsible for her death. >> this is similar to the michael jackson situation. if someone provides a lethal dosage to another person and that person administers that lethal dose to themselves and dies, that could constitute a manslaughter. >> reporter: as harvey prepares to face charges, hamilton's family continues to grieve. family and friends gathered yesterday for her funeral to say their final good-byes. we are still waiting for valerie hamilton's full toxicology report and sexual examination kit. those results will be critical to this case. robin? >> they will. yunji, thank you very much. >>> juju chang has the morning's other news for us. good morning, juju. >> good morning, robin. happy wednesday. and, george, and good morning, everyone. we begin with a setback fo

hamilton was last seen on wednesday and her body was found saturday in a storage bin in charlotte. a five-day manhunt the suspect was arrested in nig niagara falls new york. wiehl, look, this guy should never have been on the street. >> this is a horrible case. >> bill: the judges in north carolina, he was in and out of the system. he is a drug addict. >> right. >> bill: he has a rape beef against him. he has to register being a sex offender. no matter how many times he comes into the north carolina state system, they don't put him in jail. >> can we back up? >> bill: is there any excuse? >> can we back up just for a minute? he was convicted of rape in new york. >> bill: yes. >> he served four years. then he moved to north carolina. >> bill: and his record moved with him. >> of course it did. >> bill: right. >> you have to register as a sex offender. >> bill: and he didn't. >> which he did not. now, under north carolina law, bill, he could have gotten 20 years in the penitentiary. >> just for that. >> just for that. but it didn't end there, okay? >> bill: wait. so the judge didn't

some good news for ferrari but not for mclaren in today's grand prix showing yes britain's lewis hamilton went out on the first lap at monza and on the pitch jenson button to the checkered flag all the latest on formula one and the rest of the sport that's coming up now. hello welcome to the sports news on this busy sunday afternoon and here are the headlines taste. the moscow side failed to gain ground on leaders senate after suffering a one zero defeat at look at motif in the capital dhabi. while back on track and under alonzo catapults himself back into the formula one title race with a hard fought win in the italian grand prix. still king of the ring coke floor samuel peter to keep his heavyweight crowns. and that's kickoff for the football and in the russian premier league third place to have missed their chance to cut the gap on leaders in it following a surprise one they'll defeat at city rivals latif marquez my partner headed up twenty five minutes in proving to be the difference in the capital dobby the brazilian striker converting a penalty for only the second goal in russia thi

the second one was in 2001, which was for martha hamilton. -- from martha hamilton. we worked together for a long time. she said that i needed another kidney and she said that she had two and that i could have won. -- one. we did the book. you have a copy right there. is "black and white and red all over: the story of a friendship ." we did that together. that was on behalf of the "washington post." >> how long have you been back from dialysis? >> almost two years, now. >> did the other kidneys fail? >> it stopped functioning as well as it should be functioning. to avoid other problems, which chose to go back on dialysis. >> so, are you going to go back on -- have another transplant? >> i don't know. my youngest daughter wants to give me her kidney. i am now 62-years old. i am doing quite well on dialysis this time round. i do not know if i want to put another life of someone i love, and i love both of those women and i love my daughter. i do not necessarily want to put another one of them at risk when i'm actually doing ok. >> how often do you have to go? >> i have

of police chief merle hamilton. she is seen leaving a restaurant with a man police believe is harvey. her body was found on saturday in a storage unit. he was arrested today in niagara falls. >>> d.c. school chancellor michelle rhee went on oprah today to advocate school reform like the kind she's implemented here in the district. she's featured in the new movie waiting for superman, it's a documentary about the poor state of the country's public schools. meanwhile speculation said she will be moving on if and when vincent gray takes over as mayor. bruce johnson is here with the latest on who is coming and who is going, following city hall and mayor fenty's defeat last week. >> that's right. and all bets are that michelle rhee won't stick around beyond the transition period. and others the fenty administration is looking for work today. >> reporter: pulling up the resume file. it's being seen in every corner of the d.c. government office buildings today. the fenty team is out and the gray team will be in at the end

now 980 miles from hamilton bermuda. that's an important destination we tell you because it looks as if we get in to sunday afternoon. sunday night. look at this. this storm will be approaching hamilton bermuda almost right forward and if it goes to the right or left it will be really close to what looks like a category two storm rolling over bear move diana of course it will pull away. what this means for us going to the beach this weekend or early next week we will run in to swell and rip tides will be a problem once again. 72 by 9:00. notice the clouds increasing. a chance of a shower by 5:00, 84. better chance of showers up to western maryland, pennsylvania border. eastern west virginia out to the shenandoah as we go through the afternoon. a better chance of showers on the. the momslikeme.com bus stop forecast, partly cloudy, comfortable. near 70. sunrise ten before 7:00. tonight watch for scattered showers and maybe a scattered thunderstorm. southwest winds five to ten. sunset 67:18 and -- 7:15. >>> this morning we

hamilton expects ferrari and red bull to be major threats at this weekend's singapore grand prix the former. world champion is second in the overall standings with just five races left the latest preparations for this latest one have been a bit unusual away from the track hamilton was taking part in a drag race that same banging the drum at the front all part of his promotional activities we are told his boat won as you might expect tonight that the brit would love to repeat that success on the come sunday he's five points behind in the standings and phase they and ferrari will be fast. for a reason to be very good so. you know. i think should be. very very. funny it is almost time to go but not before you've had a chance to watch all the net busting action from the russian premier league game week twenty one has finished in some style tell you it is go still. so listen. this list makes me feel so. live live live live . live . live live live live . the mother brings us to the end of the school for now with the weather is coming up next. more news today violence is once again flared u

that is route 9 at hamilton station road currently closed because of an accident. for those that are traveling along northbound i-95 here in lorton, nice, easy commute continuing up towards the beltway. no problems to report on the beltway leading annandale to merrifield and you will fine that traveling at the wilson bridge, all lanes are open and traffic is running smoothly there. top side of beltway, the outer loop as you work your way around from 650 new hampshire avenue and continue to silver spring, light traffic volume there as well. you will find lanes are open coming southbound as you travel from 109 out towards the split. that's a check of your fox 5 on-time traffic. >>> it appears the east coast will avoid the wrath of hurricane igor. the category one storm barely missed bermuda, making its way up the atlantic ocean away from the northeastern u.s. the storm pelted bermuda with rain and knocked out electricity in many parts of the island. forecasters say igor will continue to cause high surf and rip current as long the eastern seaboard. >>> questions conti

you may have to use hamilton as a reroute.send it back to the desk, guys. >> thanks. >> have a lot of cool weather this week. rob says it continues. you can see it when you get up. >> you want to pull the blanket over you. >> exactly. >> it's tough to get out of bed when we're in the 40s and low 50s. putting september on hold for another day. temperatures cool, and that's good news for air quality today. air quality levels all around the bay area today good. the system that brought the light rain yesterday, slowly moving off to the east. inland, we will see a few more 70s, probably more sunshine. not a warm day. for tomorrow, the weekend ahead, high pressure building in this will lead to a warmup. we should see 80s going into tomorrow afternoon, more to come as we go through the weekend. today, a high of 73 around san jose. 75 morgan hill. 75 around pleasanton and livermore. 60s for san francisco and oakland. north bay, 68 in petaluma, 73 from healdsburg. from here into the start of the weekend, temperatures rebound inland. so

hundreds are gathered at a funeral for 23-year-old valerie hamilton.ese eyes, a and her mama's eyes, she was perfect. >> the chief broke down at a vigil held for valerie. earlier the prime suspect in hamilton's murder waived extradition at a hearing in upstate new york where he was arrested on monday. clint van zandt joins us over the phone. >> caller: sure, tamron. >> this is another individual who served time for assault. he faced jail time before, and now he's accused of murdering this young girl, dumping her body, the details are unbelievable. this is something with a violent that's back on the streets. >> currently it costs about $37,000 a year to keep an offender in jail, in prison. somehow in this country we have to identify repeat offenders. this guy, as you suggest, he had a long record. not just for sex offenses, drug offenses, weapons, breaging and entering. shoplifting. it goes on, possession and selling heroin. it went on and on. somehow, you know, if we had the magic ability to, we need to identify those repeat offenders that are going to

last night the community held a vigil for hamilton who was the daughter of murl hamilton.ld this afternoon. >>> in kentucky, the lawyer for a man accused of strangling his wife says his client falsely confessed it that murder. woody will smith is charged in the death of his wife back in may of 2009 and initially, according to court documents smith's attorney was going to argue that caffeine made him do it but in opening arguments yesterday the caffeine made smith confess and that actually someone else committed that murder. joining me now here in the studio is former attorney general of new jersey. good to have you with us. this is kind of confusing because we have the original confession, but now the attorney is arguing a different argument in court. how smart is that now that this trial is in motion? >> it may be the only thing he is left with. number one, the attorney has to get this confession or statement suppressed. number two, he has to persuade the jury that his client was under extreme emotional disturbance and did not understand what he was doing. >> >> we have s

last week, you and your co- chairman, lee hamilton, issued another report that i must say was pretty much overshadowed by the koran-burning controversy, so i want to put the spotlight on that for a minute. basically, you and mr. hamilton concluded that we have failed to anticipate the real danger we face now from home-grown terrorists. you went on to say in the report that terrorists have found our achilles heel. just how serious is this, and what do you actually mean by that? >> we think it's very serious. we think it's a growing threat because the strategy has changed. it's much more difficult for al qaeda to maybe have a great big attack like 9/11, so they're plotting smaller attacks. they're using non-traditional people to try to do them. so, the best non-traditional people they can get, frankly, are american citizens, people with passports, people who can travel back and forth. people like the person who tried to blow up the bomb in times square. they're recruiting these people every day over the internet. they're taking them to places, not necessarily in afghanistan, but somali

to help prevent it. >> reporter: now, harvey is reportedly denying he killed valerie hamilton. his neighbors spoke to our affiliate wsoc, and harvey said valerie died in her sleep. a lot of unanswered questions in this case. robin? >> yes, there are. our hearts go out to chief hamilton and his family. >>> juju chang has the morning's other news for us. >> good morning, robin and george. good morning, everyone. the national guard is apologizing for the ongoing wildfire that's burned several homes and thousands of acres near salt lake city. the guard admits no one checked the red flag wind conditions before a machine gun training exercise, which sparked the fire. and they waited hours before calling for help. >>> advisers to the fda say more research should be done before the agency approves genetically engineered salmon for human consumption. the salmon grows twice as fast as natural salmon. the fda holds a hearing today on whether the fish would carry a special label. >>> and a showdown over the don't ask, don't tell policy towards gays in the military gets under way in the sen

rick leventhal is streaming live from hamilton, bermuda.hat kind of weather are you seeing there, rick. >> reporter: we are seeing widespread minor damage, nothing too major. no deaths or injuries to report. power is out over much of the island. although the power company is making some progress. as we drove around this morning we saw a lot of trees down, some power lines down, 28,000 of the 35,000 customers here were in the dark. that's roughly 80% of the island. about 7,000 of those customers have got even the lights back on since this morning. we did see one boat that did make it through the storm. a lot of trees down, branches down, things certainly could have been a lot worse, jon. jon: we know bermuda is known for pink-stand beaches. how did they do. >> reporter: they lost a lot of the pink sand in the storm. unfortunately a lot of it it was chewed away earlier in the week. we shot some, why don't you take a look. the biggest problem appeared to be erosion, the roots of this palm tree exposed. you can see here at elbow beach where the

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piece of peapape which he signs, fully understood, admissions, everything else, but that -- force hamilton hament we do -- commissioner hammer: we do this in criminal courts all the time. we will save the city lots of money by taking this position and no one will be gaming the system. we once discussed whether or not we had the full-fledged admission and then withdraw it. >> they enter their plea and we were told we couldn't reconsider, i would imagine withdrawing would be about the same thing. commissioner chan: commissioner, i have to defer on this. >> i know mr. alden has had this conversation with people in other police agencies, that that would be effective just to say that if on this date the officer does not retire, which i didn't brick -- bring up, he raised. that the ultimate disposition will be based on the charges. quite frankly, you add to that, you know, attorneys get a bad rap in this world, but if paul cummings comes to this position and says he's going to do that, it's going to happen. so stimse sometimes we have to add something to that, probably the most credible man in t

. >> rose: we conclude this evening with laird hamilton, the extraordinary surfer, and susan casey, the author of a book called "the wave: in pursuit of the rogues, freaks, and giants of the ocean." >> the planet is mostly ocean and life comes from the ocean. and so one of the things i really aim to do with my writing is to take people into these places and show them the incredible majesty and in some cases the fear and in some cases the wackiness. but there's, like, a parallel universe. and it's in our world that we live in. how often do we see it. >> and if you part patriot, then you'll appreciate, then you'll revere. so all of those things i think are so critical in what needs to happen for the ocean. we need these books, we need these waves, we need people to be in awe of them maybe at first, to participate in activities and then ultimately be pro active in trying to protect the ocean. >> rose: melody barnes, laird hamilton and susan casey when we return. captioning sponsored by rose communications from our studios in new york city, this is charlie rose. >> rose: melody barnes is he

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igor causó inundaciones dejando sin electricidad a miles de res debtss de hamilton, la capital.os la carta de un periódico a los narcos que asesinaron a 2 de sus periodistas. - será apto para el consumo >>>josé: vamos a méxico con una casa abierta de un diario de ciudad juarez, para los narcotraficantes. >>>raúl: así lo describieron sus colegas la misma bala que lo asesinó, una herida grave a la libertad de expresión en méxico. este domingo en su editorial el diario de ciudad juarez, luis carlos describió a los carteles de las drogas. somos comunicadores no adivinos, por tanto como embajadores de la explicación, que remgs que xmri xeno qué que r expliquen que qué es lo que quieren de nosotros. para saber a qué atenernos. >>> nos hace temer que pudiera suceder algo más. >>> el jueves 16 de septiembre, un comando de sicarios, disparó sobre santiago y otro fotógrafo del mismo diario que logró sobrevivir y por eso su editorial, se dirigen a organizar, las autoridades de facto en esta ciudad. los mandos sustituidos no han podido hacer nada para impedir que los compañeros sigan cayend

. >> my name is john hamilton. the picture is taken from our debt three doors away looking at the moment in question. this is certainly an attractive and a number of people have understated -- have stated that this is what the city would like to see. we are concerned that the permit was approved based on either a misunderstanding or a misrepresentation but in any event it is clear to us that she did not try to deny access, it was simply trying to coordinate with your own personal travel schedule and the seven month time period occurred between when the owners of the property in question said that we will get back to you after this. the next awareness was that something was going on so we are concerned the only from our own standpoint based on the view that we have that also on the city processes that allow this to go forward even there was a blocked identification when place and i'm not sure that i have the evidence for 40 and at the time it should have been notified. from a process standpoint i don't think that th

valerie hamilton's funeral is this afternoon.ry jacobs, abc news, new york. >>> military police have shot and killed a man they say opened fire at a small store on a texas army base. two women were wounded in the shooting at ft. bliss before the police moved in. the area was roped off for an fbi investigation. the sprawling base next to el paso never was under lockdown. >>> nato says a helicopter crash has killed nine military service members in afghanistan. the crash happened in the southern part of the country. there were no reports of enemy fire at the time. the nine deaths make this year the deadliest of the afghan war. at least 529 people have been killed so far. >>> iran's president mahmoud ahmadinejad addresses the u.n. general assembly on thursday. until then, protesters are planned until his speech. ahmadinejad is under pressure because of the american hikers still being held in a tehran prison. >> reporter: iranian president mahmoud ahmadinejad has been the center of attention ever since arriving in new york saturday. h

championship and he's twenty one points behind and you need to worry about roger the race lewis hamilton was three points clear at the top but went out on the first lap after colliding with ferrari's felipe paymaster the mclaren driver seemed unable to steer properly after the incident and retired massa went on to finish the . front three prelim. voted for its. very strong opposition to vary with from birth to grow from the indians from. both riders the first two positions. after the study was it was difficult for dancing with the base but there you know if you're going from first to do that the immigrant from best would be stopped thanks to him we are we're sleeping here. saying the voters sports and sebastian o.c.a. has won the rally of japan to reopen the fight for the title in the world rugby championship it was victory number two this season for the frenchman and also his career as a train driver capitalized on the mechanical problems suffered by his rivals as posole burke and we co-hosted and had to settle for second and six places respectively six time defending champion sebastian

with stan stovall, donna hamilton, your insta-weather + forecast with tom tasselmyer. a 11 news at 5:00 p.m. in hd continues now. >> new tonight, our latest investigation. outrages findings from an investigation into a government plan that is supposed to save the environment and your hard- earned cash. the mayor recently purchased an appliance with the energy star label, but how you know you get what you paid for? >> by the end of the year there will be big changes in how their products are certified. this comes after the product was found to be liable for fraud and abuse. here is david collins with more. >> donna knows a thing or to about saving energy and money. 80% of the lights in her home are compact fluorescent bulbs. ceiling fans are strategically placed reducing the need for air conditioning. >> week the basement with this. we keep our thermostat on 62 in the winter most of the time. a lot of people think that is cold, but we have gotten used to it. >> when it comes to appliances, she shops using the energy star label. her dishwasher and refrigerator have the s