huckaby's daughter was sandra's playmate.ge lewis is at the courthouse in stockton, california, with the latest on the hearing that is about to begin. >> reporter: just moments from now melissa huckaby is expected to learn whether she has been indicted for the kidnap, rape, and murder of 8-year-old sandra cantu. sources close to huckaby say she is expecting to be indicted, that she will continue to plead not guilty to all the charges. she had been scheduled to appear in court next month, but her court date was moved up to today after a grand jury met, deliberated, heard evidence in secret. now, the prosecutors could have had a preliminary hearing to determine whether there was enough evidence to try melissa mukby for a huckaby for all these alleged offenses but instead they took these to the grand jury, perhaps out of deference for sandra cantu's family. her killing has had a profound effect on the hometown of tracy. thousands of people turned out for sandra cantu's memorial and continue to visit the mausoleum where she is en

and the judge spoke of some, quote, rigmarole getting huckaby to court. sheriff's department said she was later transported without incident. >> we have a no-nonsense judge. when she says you're coming to court, mr. or ms. defendant, you're coming to court. >> reporter: it has been four months since huckaby's arrest. she has pleated not guilty to the original complaint. now the judge has ordered her to be present at every court session. a good idea, according to sandra cantu's grandmother. >> i'm glad the judge said she would have to be appear to every one of the court dates. that should not keep her from -- she did a lot worse. don't you agree? so those few scratches shouldn't matter. >> reporter: the prosecution is adamant about moving the case along rapidly. hinting that a child involved in a separate drugging incident may be called as a witness. >> in any case with children as victims or as witnesses, it's important to move the case along. >> the prosecution has a real advantage in that they have their case together. they've already had a dry run of t

i have a bone to bik with mike h huckaby. we weigh in on the hammer's fancy footwork. but first tonight's op ced. you know the whole saying let majority rule, that's normally how it works. well a washington post/abc news poll says the majority of the public still supports health care in this country. 52% of an insurance plan created by the government. that famous public option. 51% say health care reform is necessary. 66% say their quality of care will be as good or better when this is all done and that's a number that has not changed since june. even after all the town hall protests, all the death panel talk, the comparisons to adolf hitler, more than half the country still supports reform. what people are losing is faith in the president and his leadership on this. he is still -- he is still offering an olive branch. i've got to calm down when i say that because i don't think he should be doing this. he's still offering an olive branch to the people trying to destroy his presidency. mr. president, put this on the republicans. you invited them to the table and they sa

it's melissa huckaby. she was supposed to return to court next month, but the proceedings were moved up to today. the former sunday school teacher is accused of killing cantu, who was her daughter's playmate. now, the girl's body, remember, was found stuffed inside a suitcase in a pond back in april. that was a month after she'd disappeared. huckaby faces a number of charges, including murder and rape, and she's pleaded not guilty. >>> we've learned that a group from texas will start a new search for missing florida girl haleigh cummings. that search is expected to begin in about four to six weeks and a spokesperson for the search group said weather and the vegetation conditions at that time will make the search easier. here is the thing. haleigh turned 6 years old today and she's been missing for six months now. >>> michael vick says he cried in prison because of the guilt he felt about being involved in dogfighting. in an interview with "60 minutes" last night, vick says he blames himself for his bad him

huckaby has pleaded not guilty to murdering 8-year-old sandra cantu.ody was found stuffed in a suitcase that was pulled from an irrigation pond back in april. huckaby also pleaded not guilty to charges of drugging a 7-year-old girl and a 37-year-old man who police believer she dated at one point. a trial date hasn't been set by the way. >>> preliminary autopsy results show a former university of georgia professor and his wife were mauled to death by a pack of wild dogs. the couple's mutilated bodies were found saturday on a rural road. animal control has captured 13 stray dogs seen in the area, including four puppies. investigators say the dogs have been hanging around an abandoned house in the area. >> it appears at this time that she was attacked and killed by the dogs in some manner at some point and then possibly later on he came up. but we feel sure that she was probably attacked first based on location of the scene. >> they were, you know, wonderful, dear, kind-hearted people and we miss them and this is just terrible, terrible. >> a superior cou

. >>> plus the latest on the case against melissa huckaby, the wok accused ofingi ap-8ear-old girl. >>> stay with us. f >>> tracking the first hurricane of the season. bill was upgraded early this morning. also two other named storms being tracked. claudette has made landfall and tropical depressn ana is also d. >>>. >> for all the hittest on the stourms, we'll turn to tom. >> good morning again. >>> good morning. the atlantic certainly getting very active and it's turned a little more humidere this morning. after we started off rather dry, moderate humidity and temperatures now climbing in to the low 80s to mid-80s in many locations. upper 80s now in the ctral shenandoah valley. they'll easily hit the mid-90s there. these are the current dew points in the upper 60s to near 70. dew point in washington now 70. temperatures on the eastern shore now the low 80s and 70s out of the mountains. a weak upper level disturbance passing just to our east giving us these clouds around. and those will be with us over washington and points east, but elsewhere a hot of sunshine over virginia. here's

in the meantime, huckaby remains behind bars without bail. >>> tonight, we're finding out more about the murder of a florida couple that cared for 17 adopted children. turns out, at least one of those children was sleeping in the bed where the two were killed. susan roberts has new details for wjz. >> reporter: newly released crime scene reports in the home invasion murders of burt and melanie billings revealed the killers took no chances. they made sure. melanie billings was shot five times, twice in the face. her husband took six shots, two to the back of his head. a sheriff's report says one of the billings' adopted children, who has down syndrome, was sleeping with them when the gunman burst in. the 10-year-old boy witnessed the crime and said the gunman told his father "you're going to die." then started shooting. a 9-year-old who was in another room said he heard seven booms and a scream. >> come on out. >> reporter: six men and a teenage boy are each charged with two counts of first-degree murder in the case. and this morning, an 8th suspect is behind bars. pamela riggins was

. >>> a california grand jury has indicted sunday school teacher melissa huckaby for the kidnapping, rape and murder of 8-year-old sandra cantu, who disappeared in march. she could face the death penalty. huckaby's also charged with drugging a 7-year-old girl, and a 37-year-old man. >>> a computer program is accused of masterminding the biggest i.d. theft in u.s. history. cross vr prosecutors say 28-year-old albert vonz less of miami and two russian partners hacked into corporate computers and stole data for 130 million debit and credit card accounts. gonzalez is already facing trial in a separate case. the theft of 40 million credit card numbers that cost at least $200 million. >>> the wife of south carolina governor mark sanford is speaking out in-depth for the first time about her husband's affair with a woman in argentina. jenny sanford tells "vogue" magazine that she googled the other woman to find out what she looked like. and that she -- that her husband was obsessed with this other woman. mrs. sanford calls his affair an addiction and describes learning of the philandering an

. >>> a grand jury indicted sunday school teacher melissa huckaby on charges she kidnapped, raped andalysts have been saying the market is due for a correction. major markets losing 2% on the day. the dow jones industrials down 186 points. the s&p 500 finishing more than 24 points lower. and the nasdaq falling more than 54 points. >>> i said when i announced this strategy there will be more difficult days ahead. the insurgency in afghanistan didn't just happen overnight and we won't defeat it overnight. this will not be quick, nor easy. but we must never forget, this is not a war of choice. this is a war of necessity. those who attacked america on 9/11 are plotting to do so again. if left unchecked, the taliban insurgency will mean an even larger safe haven. >> welcome back to "hardball." that was president obama this afternoon talking about the war in afghanistan at the vfw convention in phoenix and, of course, his warning of difficult days ahead ring true for the family of sergeant william cahir who was killed in afghanistan last thursday. sergeant kahir enlisted in the marine corps

it was that suitcase that made police suspicious of melissa huckaby, a sunday schoolteacher an mother of a small child of her own. she was arrested after talking to a local newspaper reporter. >> i asked her whose black suitcase that was. she said the day sandra went missing someone had stolen a black suitcase from her driveway. >> reporter: prosecutors could have asked for a preliminary hearing to determine if there was sufficient evidence to put her on trial, but instead took their case to the grand jury. legal experts say there are multiple reasons for doing that. >> one, to avoid defense delays, two, avoid pre-trial publicity and, three, avoid anguish to the victim's family caused by a public hearing. in this case, all three of those factors apply. >> reporter: members of sandra cantu's family say they do not want people to forget what happened to her. >> there have been permanent memorials erected in memory of sandra. we have a sandra cantu playground, a tree planted in her memory. it's just part of tracy's story, a sad part of tracy's story. >> reporter: if the grand jury has in

melissa huckaby went when the judge read the charges. could take a couple of months before deciding whether to seek the death penalty. can tu's body was found in a suitcase in april. >> the price tag for fighting california wildfires is now more than $60 million and fire season still has months to go. nearly a dozen fires are burning across the state. some are close to being contained. some are relieved to go back home but they are still cautious. no relief yet. >> last year, california spent $300 million fighting fires. in just six weeks. the state now has $519 million in the firefighting budget. >>> a man accused of stalking miley cyrus, she was there filming the movie "the last song." he told police that he was secretly engaged to her. >>> so we're looking at hurricane weather. chris is in for bob. >> there's a tropical wave continuing to make its way from the southeastern central bahamas and will affect the central united states down towards the miami area with heavy rainfall and now what is left does bear watching because there's a