and with him was a note from his adoptive mother, torii hanson, addressed to the russian department of education. that says, let's take a look at it here, i no longer wish to parent this child. he is violent and has severe psychopathic issues and behaviors. i was lied to and misled by the russian orphanage workers and director regarding his mental stability and other issues. in a phone call with cnn, torry hanson's mother said he had a list of people he wanted to hurt, including his american mom. russian authorities are saying this is just not true. this esee no signs of that behavior. listen. >>. >> translator: the examinations show the boy to be healthy, physically and mentally. it's a lie. when i asked how the mother treated him, he burst into tears and say she used to pull his

on russian tv, he said hanson did not feed him and often pulled him by the hair. as it has threatened to do. working on new safeguards. leaving perhaps several thousand families and orphans in diplomatic limbo. >> over the last 15 years, over 50,000 russian children have been adopted into american families. 50,000, and the vast majority of those children are in loving, stable situations. >> reporter: back here in tennessee, authorities begin investigating what many adoption experts say could be a case of child abuse. >> hanson and the mother have been quoted as saying the boy was violent when he wanted things like toys. he attacked an aunt over a homework dispute and threatened to burn down the house with the family in it. families need to think carefully before adopting. >> kids who have come from foster care and come from orphanages often need some help. we have to provide that help. we can't just say oh, the parent should just love the kid and everything will be okay. >> hanson's neighbors like the folks at the this and that store say their biggest concern is t

. >> reporter: they say hanson had other options. >> this child could have been placed with a qualified licensed agency for placement services so that that we could have found a family. >> reporter: an official in moscow says three russian families are already eager to give the boy a new home. the u.s. and russia are now trying to determine what the future of adoption relations between the two countries will be. whitt job stop, wjz, eyewitness news. >>> the u.s. embassy says that a delegation of high-level state department officials will visit moscow to discuss the status of future adoptions. >>> a milestone on wall street today. the dow officially crossed the 11,000 mark today. the dow is up 9 to close at

and now the bedford county sheriff's office is trying to bring hanson in for questioning. but hanson's lawyer said the woman refuses to talk to tharts unless a charge is filed. >> is it appears to me that what we're going to have to do at this point is continue the investigation, try to dig into and get enough evidence to bring charges. and that's the only way we're going to get to talk to her, it looks like. >> boyd says he is requesting medical information from authorities and any records that allege the boy was abused while in tennessee. >>> rumors swirling around washington as to who president obama will nominate to be the next justice on the supreme court. hillary clinton is the latest name to be tossed around, but the white house disspelled that rumor. brian moore has more from capitol hill. >> reporter: the retirement of justice john pawn stevens gives the president another mark to p put. >> another care whether the judge is an activist judge we should do everything to defeat that nomination. >> reporter: republicans are promising a fight and democrats aren't giving

and the description of the behaviors that the hansons gave are pretty typical.y tend to be extreme behaviors, they tend to be scary, because these kids are scary and they're acting that out. >> so you're saying, again, here's what the hansens are saying, that justin, the seven-year-old had a hit populist. the adopt actiive mom was at th of the hit populist and he supposedly tried to set the house on fire? that doesn't surprise you? >> i've heard those types of stories before, but when the family comes, and justin had been here for approximately seven months, those are not typical behaviors when a child first comes. and they weren't, apparently, when justin first arrived. but according to what i understand, justin received treatment in such a way that that's where he ended up. and all i can think of is that his mother and grandmother, and i believe an aunt was involved in raising him, that they were not apprised of how best to work with a child who came from an orphanage. so that this would be his ultimate resort to trying to get help, that he was so frustrated a

hanson adopted artyem six months ago, but the family says the boy's behavior began to escalate.ew pictures of the family's house on fire. so, this week, the boy's adopted grandmother flew him to washington, checked him in as an unaccompanied minor and sent him off on the ten-hour flight to moscow. today, the russian president, dmitry medvedev, told abc's george stephanopoulos it was illegal. >> it is monstrous to take the kid and virtually throw him out over the plane. >> reporter: and medvedev noted that more than 15 russian children have been killed in recent years by their adoptive american parents. parents like peggy sue hilt who is serving 17 years in prison for beating her daughter to death. >> i didn't mean to hurt her. >> reporter: adoption lawyers say the young boy's story is truly unusual. americans adopt 1600 russian children every year. >> adoption is not child rental. this woman is -- was responsible for the kid, for the rest of his life. >> reporter: joyce has worked for 15 years with russian-born children whose adoptions are deeply troubled. >> there's a certain p

. >> reporter: tory hanson's decision to send her adopted son packing has parked controversy. >> if russia chooses to suspend these adoptions, these are russian citizens. that is russia's right. we would like to see these adoptions continue but we understand the concern that russia has. we share that concern. >> reporter: when sevelia finally arrived in moscow he was carrying a note that said -- >> i am returning him to your guardianship. it within went on to say that he was violent and had psychopattic problems. shelbyville neighbors had mixed feelings over hanson's decision to return the child. >> i just hope everything works out for her. and get all that stuff resolved. >> they ought to give her some jail time for sending that child back that way. >> this child could have been placed with a qualified licensed agency for placement services so that he we could have found something like us or catholic charities could have found a family. >> reporter: an official in moscow says three russian families are already eager to give the boy a home. russian authorities are now trying to figure out

hanson is now under investigation by u.s. authorities.ent a note indicated she felt the boy was psychotic and that she had been misled by russians about his character when she adopted him eight months ago. she claimed he threatened to burn the house down. today, the russian foreign ministry spok spokesman stated until a u.s. state department delegation, due in moscow next week, signs an agreement guaranteeing better protection of russian children adoptions are suspended. >> the adoption of russian children by russian citizens now suspended will be possible in the future only if such an agreement is reached. >> reporter: essentially, the russians are asking for a way of monitoring russian children, even after they become american citizens and are living stateside. difficult to do, legally complicated. today, the state department seemed caught off-guard by the announcement of a freeze. >> we are not aware of any change in policy. we are seeking that clarification through the embassy. most importantly we want to have the discussion with auth

the phone call with a cnn, nancy hanson described him as violent and si psychot psychotic.rican mom he threatened to kill for her house. when they caught him in the act of trying to start a fire in the home, nancy said she was afraid he was going to burn the house down and kill everyone in it. >> reporter: nancy hanson says she honestly believes taking the little boy and sending him back to russia was the very best thing, for their family and the best thing for the little boy. in the meantime, it's anticipated that the hanson family will meet with local law enforce. sometime this week. >> that claim from russia, that about half a dozen adopted kids have died in america since the mid-1990s, have been able to verify that. >> reporter: we found in at least a half dozen incidents, the russians are right. there were cases of adoptive american families now charged as a result of the death of russian children. one of the most recent cases took place in august of last year in pennsylvania. a 7-year-old russian boy died as a result of abuse and malnutriti malnutrition. his parents a

home run from hanson highlighted the night for the tigers. i'm mat stewart. good night.ers win big. home page][e:20011231] everybody bring it in. nsoni gelay parhe l ohn. >> why are you going to be a racing president? >> first of all i'm a girl. >> i did this in colleague for a minor league team. >> i need three volunteers. who's up first? >> i'm waiting for this my whole life >> how old are you? >> i'm 27. >> that's a long time to wait to be a racing president >> it's a once in a lifetime opportunity. incredibly intense experience. living the dream. putting on the giant head of thomas jefferson. i think goes hand and hand with the racing president. i'm liking for stamina, strength, and ultimately having a good time and having fun with it. >> so once you got half way through the out field you were winding around and went to the knees. were you trying to stay up. talk me through that? >> the

. >> reporter: torre hanson's decision to send her adopted son packing has sparked international outrage. russian authorities have temporarily suspended adoptions by american families after the tennessee mom sent the 10-year- old on a one way trip back to his homeland alone. >> if russia chooses to suspend these adoptions these are russian citizens, that's their right. we would like to see the adoptions continue and we share that concern. >> reporter: when he arrived in moscow he was carrying a note he carried a note saying "i'm sorry to say that for the safety of my family friends and myself i no longer want to parent this child." it goes on to say he is psychotic. he was seen, he said no but guess toured that his hair had been pulled. shelbyville neighbors had mixed feelings over her decision to return the child. >> i hope everything works out for her. and get this all resolved. >> they ought to give her jail time for sending that kid back over that way. >> reporter: they say hanson had other options. >> this child could have been placed with a qualified licensed agency for placement s

hanson and those are the facts. -- he is her child. that is what is so troubling about this, that, you know, if any of us, and if i have two of my children on a flight to russia by himself, i would be in a lot of trouble. so that is something that we have the take out the fact that this is an adopted child out of the equation, because really n the ice of the law, that child is the legal child of mrs. hanson. >> and in the parents' eyes as well, this mom's eyes as well. stacy, let's talk about the little guy, how traumatic and damaging to be brought here and months later shipped back, because you are not good enough. >> hugely damaging. first of all, all of the self-esteem issues to go with it where he is not feeling good enough, and that could affect his behavior and make him act out more and make him more emotional and then a whole second part where he was just put in an unsafe environment. from what i understand the stranger met him on the other end who was paid a couple of hundred dollars i was told and that pers

. >>> also new morning, police in tennessee say this they have not been able to talk with torre hanson, she's the woman who sent her 7-year-old adopted son back to russia. the local sheriff says that woman's attorney told them she will not talk unless a charge is filed. an adoption agency has been checking on the family since at dopgs says they have not been able to contact hanson. >>> ben roethlisberger will not face criminal charges in an alleged sexual assault at a georgia nightclub. a judge says there was not enough evidence to prosecute and that allegations by a college student that roethlisberger attacked her could not be proven beyond a reasonable doubt. he may still face punishment by the national football league. >>> time-outs or spanking? a study of nearly lly 2500 kids found that kids that were spanked were likely to be defiant, have temper tantrums and hit other kids by the time they turn 5. evidence showing stronger than ever against corporal punishment. coming up at 7:00, the co-author of the study to explain why spanking can lead to other problems as well. we'll be talki

justin told caretakers torry hanson often pulled him by the hair.ous and threatened to stop all adoptions by u.s. families. what's your reaction to this story? >> it's so sad and so tragic. i feel so sad for this poor child who was placed in a loving home, to have the opportunity to have a better life. i feel so sorry for all of the children sitting in russia waiting to be adopted. i feel bad for the russians who now are wondering can we trust the americans to adopt our children. i feel sad for this mom who became so desperate she made such an awful decision. >> where is the real problem here? is the problem find ag child behaviorally unmanageable or is the problem that she put him on a plane back to his native country by himself? >> i think there's many problems here. i think the first problem is we had a mother in distress that did not seek help. a mother who felt so desperate she did not get herself services. there's many services out there but she didn't get services for her child. i think it's unbelievably awful she would make this choice, this

>> you've been talking about the questions swirling around the case of justin hanson.ecause he doesn't have enough information. the mom is not talking nor is her mother. did the adoption agency do everything they could to screen the adoptive mom? did they really make sure they were fitting to parents? and where are the parents? well, they're not talking. we're going to try to get answered tonight. also, sarah palin hammering the deal for nuclear weapons. no other administration would consider such a step. but is that true? well, actually, no, it's not. ronald reagan comes to mind. keeping them honest on that. and mississippi governor haley barbour waiving in on the confederacy controversy dogging virginia. we'll dig deeper on the civil war and why people see the conflict so differently. those stories and a lot more at the top of the hour. >> larry: that's anderson cooper 10:00 eastern, 7:00 pacific. all right. he just went over this incredible case, the american woman returning her 7-year-old adoptive son to russia. with us, mark geragos, noted defense attorney in l.a.

but that doesn't stop jim hanson.nly uses splenda. >> i bring it with me in case a restaurant doesn't have it. >> i think splenda tastes better than any of the other sweeteners i used. >> reporter: just like the talk on the web doctors can't agree on benefits or harmful impact. dr. stanley gardner takes a holistic approach to treatment and says it should be taken off the market. >> definitely an inadequate study to prove that's going to be safe on millions and millions of people that are going to take it in the next 10, 12 years. >> reporter: he says there have been widespread reports of allergic reactions to splenda. >> we consider it unhealthy. it's not healthy. >> reporter: but mcneil nutritionals, the makers say on their web site the company is "extremely proud of the strong clinical database that supports the safety of sucralose. " she agrees >> there's no problems as far as we can see. >> reporter: many of the doctor's patients battle life threatening conditions like diabetes and obesity. she says it's very hard

pursued the wrong man in the robert hanson espionage case. he did extensive interviews and worked with richard clark, the former top counterterrorism aide in blowing the whistle on failures in the counterterrorism program. he has worked with corporate whistleblowers including chuck hammel and campaign to silence him as he was blowing from whistle on oil companies. he is currently working on a book about mr. chalaby from iraq which is expected to be published next year by doubleday. it is an honor to have mr. bonner here and i can tell you straight up that many, many whistleblowers that we have worked with have worked successfully with "60 minutes" and a premiere program and we are truly honored to have him her. >> thank you for having me. [applause] the two things i've learned or seen most consistently about whistleblowers in all my years is that one, there is sometimes often difficult, rough, persnikety-type personalities. that's what makes them whistleblowers. they are not willing to get along to go along. they are willing to buck the trend

along with his partner boots hanson, yes that woik the company name coots and boots, would put out fireexplosives, depriving the well head of oxygen for a fire. he was called in when the iraqi army set fire to 700 oil wells on their way out of kuwait. he made quick work of that job. coots was lovingly described by his own daughter as "hell on wheels." he was 86 years old. >>> when we come back, what some americans are saying. wheels." he was 86 years old. >>> when we come back, what some americans are saying. a heart attack caused by a clot, one that could be fatal. but plavix helps save lives. plavix taken with other heart medicines, goes beyond what other heart medicines do alone, to provide greater protection against heart attack or stroke and even death by helping to keep blood platelets from sticking together and forming clots. ask your doctor about plavix. protection that helps save lives. people with stomach ulcers or other conditions that cause bleeding should not use plavix. taking plavix alone or with some other medicines including aspirin may increase bleeding risk, so tell y

>> that is ryan hanson who is a member of the cast of party down.ooting one day in a park and there was a lake with many ducks, who that isn't very donald duck looking duck. >> jimmy: that's a great looking duck. it's big and orange where it's supposed to be orange. >> it's a good specimen. there are a lot of pranks on the set. ryan captured this duck and tut it in adam scott's trailer and in his shower so when he opened his door, there was a giant duck in his shower. >> jimmy: did he get scared? >> i don't know, probably. there are a lot of pranks on that set most of which cannot be told on tv. >> jimmy: filthy pranks, maybe if there are children who just relanded should not hear them. >> yes. >> jimmy: the show is about indicatorers. the show is very funny. it's kind of got an all-star cast. >> it's a great show, yeah, six people in the ensemble. it's about a indicatoring service. i play this crazy woman from a stage mother who just moved their with her daughter who is going to be the next hannah montana. so i've been doing a lot. >> jimmy: what i

what we have been trying to do is track down the hanson family with former addresses that they have. they are listed in at least four different states. there air lot of listsings here in tennessee. this is one of them. 2441, it's murfreesboro, tennessee. it is not a home. it is a post office box. another address is a vacant lot. in a phone call with cnn, the boy's adopted grandmother described him as violent and psychotic. he had a hit list that he wanted. on that was his adoptive mom. nan nancy she was afraid he was going to burn the house down and kill everyone in it. martin savidge joining us live. this note to the russian ministry of education that was stuffed in this boy's backpack doesn't mince words at all. the adoptive mother writes, i no longer wish to parent this child. this child is mentally unstable, violent, has severe psychopathic issues and behave yoer. she believes the russian government lied to her about this child. >> reporter: that's exactly right, kyra. they had several visits with the child dating back to last year when they were beginning this adoption process.

captain sig hanson, captain northwestern working on the high seas for 18 years.onathan hillstrand. captain's time bandit. and hillstrand is the other captain. and captain keith colburn who captains wizard. we understand last night was the highest rated catch episode ever. >> thank you, that's awesome. >> larry: you deserve it. how long are you gone for when you go out? >> just depends on how much quota we're allowed to catch. so, you know, in our younger years, we were gone for 9 to 11 months, you know, out of the year. these days, five to seven months. >> larry: how long have you been doing it? >> all my life. i was 12 the first time i went to alaska. >> larry: jonathan, how far out do you go? >> we're about a week out. five days in dutch harbor and another two and a half days out to sea past that. >> larry: are there different crab seasons? >> king crab are about a day and a half out, a day out. but you're so far from civilization, dutch harbor's got a bar, a church and a little store. >> larry: where are you doing this, andy? >> it's on the aleutian chain. and

torre hanson put the 7-year-old child on a one-way flight back to russia last week. she attached a note saying that the orphanage she adopted him from failed to disclose psychological problems. an attorney is havinging child abandonment charges but may have to be filed in virginia. the loudoun county prosecutor says that alone does not give him jurisdiction to prosecute and does not plan to bring charges. >>> a verdict in a multimillion dollar sex abuse lawsuit against the boy scouts of america. jurors in the oregon case have ordered the organization to pay a portland man $1.4 million because of repeated sexual abuse he suffered from a scout master back in the '80s. the jury decided the scouts are libel for punitive damages and negative general for failing to take steps for preventing abuse after keeping a secret list of suspected ped fills for -- pedophiles. >>> the nebraska's republican governor signed an abortion law that could have national implications. the measure bans abortions at 20 weeks based on the assertion that fetuses feel tame. a court challenge is exp

torrey ann hanson who sent her adopted 7-year-old son back to russia alone could face charges of child neglect or abandonment, but officials admit this is complicated. >> we're going to have to continue the investigation, try to dig into and get enough evidence to bring charges. >> nbc's ron allen is in the mother's hometown, shelbyville, tennessee with more. what are we hearing from the mother and her family today? >> reporter: nothing directly. what they told the sheriff yesterday, charge us with a crime or leave us alone. the family's been in hiding for four or five days. there's been no sign of them. people around town don't know them. even before the incident happened, people were saying this family is a mystery. they keep to themselves. people hadn't seen the little boy. the sheriff says that as part of the investigation, he hasn't even found people who know this family very well. >> ron allen from tennessee today. thanks very much. we want to update our audience on a breaking story we continue to follow out of florida. 11-year-old nadia bloom has found alive. that's the good new

should he charge tory ann hanson for sending her adopted son back to russia alone. threatened the family. >> we're not sure right now. this is an extremely complicated deal. >> reporter: some lawyers who say the mom who's been labeled cruel and abusive did not commit a crime because children often fly alone and the mom had someone to take care of the boy when he landed. >> there was no intent to abandon. there is no intent to put the child in any type of danger. >> reporter: that kind of talk stokes the anger in russia where they say the boy was abused by his adoptive mother. >> when i asked him, he almost started crying and he told me that tory's bad. >> reporter: but some international adoption experts say it is not unusual for kids who spent years in orphanages like justin did to have serious emotional and behavioral problems. >> if you don't have a consistent caregiver so you don't have someone who is meeting your needs as an infant or a young child, you don't learn that ability to trust. >> reporter: in dallas, this family worries their hopes of bringing a 7-ye

jim hanson and his time at nasa put out a paper that said -- i'll see if i can quote it accurately. any value for carbon in the atmosphere greater than 350 parts per million is not compatible in which civilization has developed and on which life adapted strong language for scientists. stronger still when you realize we're well beyond here. the air is 390 parts per million c02 and that's why the oceans are acidifying. that's why moisture -- water vapor is collecting in the atmosphere, on and on and on. we decided to see if we could organize around that number. around the world. 'cause it's clear we're going to have to deal with this globally to really make a difference. it was not an intuitive choice to take a number as our kind of organizing cry because the numbers kind of abstract. it's a scientists not like i have a dream, you know, it doesn't leap off the tongue. on the other hand, for global organizing they have one great advantage. arabic numerals translate against linguistic boundaries. and so with no money particularly or anything we set out to try to organize in the winter o

hanson. those are the facts. just like if he were born to her biologically, he is her child.at's so troubling about this is that, you know, if any of us -- i have two children of my own. if i would have put one of my children on a plate flight to r by himself, i would have been in a lot of trouble. >> a sheriff in cincinnati has asked -- in tennessee has asked for records about the boy and whether he might have been boozed in -- becaused in tennessee. and more on where the boy left from when he flew to russia. because justin flew alone out of dulles national airport, just outside of washington, d.c., in virginia, charges might be filed there. an airport spokesman saying that the case of referred to loudoun county attorney's office in virginia. more later for you on the story. >>> and now we've got good news. if you are having a hard time finding a job, a bill extending jobless benefits has cleared a hurdle in the senate, but it's not a done deal yet. our money expert, jen westhoven is watching that. before we were concerned about this being extendsed. >>> yeah, thanks. not ev

was samuel huntington formerly political science professor now deceased at harvard and victor davis hansonow is as yet it mostly with the hoover institution stanford and both talk about the problem of language and can we begin to understand each other when half of us speak spanish and half of us speak english and so on. and i tripped over this interesting little factoid that in the year 1741 benjamin franklin than in pennsylvania of course complained that and worried about the fact that what he called the germans coming and swiss coming into pennsylvania were going to germanize pennsylvania so the pennsylvanians would not be able to talk to each other because half would be speaking german and half would be speaking english. so this is not a new theme in our history. interestingly enough, he later then changed his mind as early as 1821 pennsylvania legalized bilingual education in german and english in to the commonwealth of pennsylvania so we have had a lot of that and in fact we had a fair amount of bilingual education in the midwest and elsewhere until world war i when they were against