jane: thank you.he overseas now to the developing story. three american tourists have been arrested in iran. swiss diplomats are now acting as go-betweens for the site -- the united states and trying to meet with these three hikers. they may have wandered across the border into iran. the three were traveling with a fourth friend. that friend stayed behind at the hotel because he became sick. david, update us if there has been any progress. >> not a lot at the moment. we spoke to the u.s. embassy. the restated what they said earlier. the state department has contacted the swiss, which represents u.s. interests in tehran. they're hoping to get consular access to these three. it is slightly worrying. the three got picked up back on friday. nothing has been said by the iranian authorities. jane: i cannot imagine that it is extremely sensitive. >> yes. we of the nuclear issue, the friction because of that, the election that was very controversial. the west did say some strong comments about what happened t

jane: [laughter] thank you.he changed the way that many people view the disabled and she changed their world for the better. eunice kennedy shriver died today at the age of 88. we will look at her life and legacy when we come back. imodium multi-symptom relief combines two powerful medicines for fast relief of your diarrhea symptoms, so you can get back out there. imodium. get back out there. a child who needs you is waiting. please call. jane: we are waiting for president obama to hold his own town hall on health care reform. it is scheduled to start in new hampshire there, hundreds of people have already turned out. not all of them will be able to get inside. they are lining the streets. new poll numbers from rasmussen. public support for the health care reform plan has fallen to a new low. take a look, 42%. that is down five points from just two weeks ago. rick: one of the most beloved members of the kennedy family is gone. eunice kennedy shriver passed away early this morning near the compound, the 88-year-o

jane: now on to health care. town hall meetings with members of congress are flooded with constituents. take a look. >> we have come to a place where it is more important to give illegal immigrants, illegal aliens health care than it is -- how dare you. how dare you. >> stops out, come on. jane: it is not just democrats. >> that's not fair. jane: that comes from a town hall from mike kaufman in colorado. president obama will hold a town hall of his own in montana tomorrow. what is the message going to be, and has it changed at all? >> it should be interesting, because he is going to appear with senator max baucus from the middle of health-care negotiations. the county he is going to is a conservative county, and democrats as republicans to sign a civility pledge, but republicans said no, because that feels like they are being asked to be seen but not heard. a lot of people are waiting at to appear at this town hall. jane: an event on saturday also? >> yes. there are probably know people in the world who have done

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jane: held up at knifepoint. we will show you the tape and tell you about the key evidence that could bring these people to justice. plus, they put their lives on the line for all of us. coming up, an incredible story about disabled veterans and the people showing their appreciation in a very big way. (announcer) transform your water. women who drink crystal light drink 20% more water. crystal light. make a delicious change. gathering dust, as pollen floats through the air. but with the strength of zyrtec ® , the fastest, 24-hour allergy relief, i promise not to wait as long to go for our ride. with zyrtec ® i can love the air ™ . >> i am harris faulkner at the breaking news desk, and what you are looking at now is a suspect giving himself up after spending quite a bit of time on a rooftop in los angeles. he is one of four suspects after a walgreen's in van nuys was knocked off this morning. three suspects got off on the freeway. he was on the roof, talking on a cellular phone. they were not sure if he were jumpi

jane: thank you. rocked by homicides in shootings, and now the mayor of the town and other city leaders want to do something about it. how about an adult curfew? gregg: curfews, not just for kids anymore, and that could soon be the case in a city in minter -- new jersey. this would be the city's -- the nation's first non-emergency curfew to include adults. this comes in the wake of several deadly shootings. joining me on the telephone is the mayor of paterson, new jersey. there is that document called the first to tap -- amendment. how are you going to get around that? >> first and foremost, in these to be clear and understood that what we are asking the governing body to do is an act whatever a curfew that would include adults. when we talk about the constitutionality, whose rights are we protecting? we have seen in five months seven shootings just in this past month. it all happened in new early hours of the morning. gregg: clearly, this is not an emergency such as the riots, this is not martial law

jane: thank you.ould be some good news for people along the gulf coast. the national oceanic and atmospheric administration is daily back the forecast for the 2009 hurricane season. we are just entering peak hurricane season now. >> the pacific is active. this is felicia. category four, 140 m.p.h. winds. it is expected to weaken before it hits hawaii. noaa is downgrading some of their numbers. you're the recent numbers. one to two major hurricanes. that is down from one to three that we expected in may. they're expecting six hurricanes as opposed to opposed to seven. they're expecting a below average season. we're headed into peak season. there's a lot of what we are expecting. august is when we start to get busy. look at september and even october. it just takes one back hurricane to make an active year. remember in 1992, we had hurricane andrew that formed in august and became one of three category five storm to hit the u.s. this is typically where we see activity, across the central atlantic. we ha

jane: -- thank you. jane: cash for clunkers.e has already approved 2 billion more for the program. we asked you if the senate should be approving it, as well. we are getting a lot of answers on our blog. many americans cannot afford creatures, much less a new car. the president -- government is paying to have good cars destroyed. this seems to be the only stimulus so far that has produced immediate results. i'm robert shapiro. over a million people have discovered how easy it is to use legalzoom for important legal documents. at legalzoom, we'll help you incorporate your business, file a patent, make a will and more. you can complete our online questions in minutes. then we'll prepare your legal documents and deliver them directly to you. so start your business, protect your family, launch your dreams. at legalzoom.com we put the law on your side. jane: new developments in the cash for clunkers program. this is the program offering hundreds in rebates for trading in your gas guzzler for more fuel efficient models. so many people

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jane: so annoying.ng for the beeps translate to big profits for phone companies. >> are you angry at? press 5 if you are angry. from the category of, "who knew ?" you are using air time sending a message, and that costs money. the more you have to wait, the more profit the phone company debts. an online effort started a few months ago to give consumers an option. on average, it takes about 15 seconds to get through the options. but we have the technical writer of the "new york times," who started a campaign to take back to the beat. >> are you kidding me? it has been 40 years. there is no one alive who does not know you can leave a message. if there is, they do not deserve to use a cellular phone. >> he argues that if horizon's -- verizon's 80 million customers check their message is three times a day, they can make a massive profit. blogs have written the four major carriers. here is when it gets tricky. each company has a different method for getting around the beat. there is no standard, but the bloc

jane: thank you, catherine. obama administration finds itself wrapped up in the battle for how we pay for health care in this country. there's a lot more at stake than just this one issue. the president calls this his top domestic priority. the controversy seems to be chipping away at his popularity. right now according to today's daily tracking poll, only 28% of those surveyed strongly approve of the president. 40% strongly disapproved. joining me now is a former speechwriter for vice president al gore. the president did not release of mid a plan to congress. he led congress crafted because he supposedly did not make -- make the mistake that the clintons did and submitting it without congressional input. do you think that is a mistake? >> i do not know if it is right to be reacting to the polls right now. no baseball player wants to be nicknamed mr. august. what is going on right now is probably not the most important thing. there is always something that is a little bit risky when you let congress gets -- get

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jane? jane: david, was there a conversation today with the senator about the reports that the administration was going to maybe take out the public option, drop the option of government-run health care and maybe this morning oops, the health and human services secretary may have misspoken about that? >> well, it didn't come up during the actual town hall itself, but after the town hall meeting, senator specter held a very brief news conference. i specifically asked him about the public option. he told me point blank i still support the public option, even if support for it is to some extent eroding. when i asked him specifically again to what extent he thinks there may be some type of erosion, he said that he still believes there is support for it and it's just too soon to tell how successful the public option component might be. here now the senator's own words. >> it's too soon to make any evaluation as to the public response. the senate hasn't even brought a bill and the house hasn't bro

jane: thank you. jon: take a look at wall street. dow industrials up five points. in the meantime, there are signs the manufacturing sector is bouncing back from the recession. denali is reporting from the fox business network. -- jenna lee is reporting from the fox business network. >> on the manufacturing side, we have durable-goods orders for july. these are items that will last you a couple of years. this is important for the manufacturing sector because if these orders are up, you can produce more items. it was up at the highest we have seen in two years. good news for the manufacturing sector. however, year over year, they are still down, but we are looking better as we approached the second half of 2009. new-home sales also better than expected today. we are seeing people go out and go shopping. new-home sales only make up to 50% of the market, so we have to keep that in mind. there is also a thought that homeland could slow down when the tax credit expires. definitely some questions whether th

jane: thank you.also, take a look at this video of a massive marine assault in afghanistan. they are facing resistance as they are rooting out the taliban. the taliban has put up such a fight, the military said that they may have known this offense was coming. operation in eastern resolve has been launched just ahead of the presidential elections in afghanistan. we are in afghanistan reporting with greg palkot. >> we are holed upç in a small compound in the middle of the town of danahçhaneh. we have been witnessing firefight after a firefight between military and insurgents. we are also dealing with ied's and it is an over all busy operation. this operation is aimed at clearing up the taliban in the area. the captain on the ground so far says that several taliban fighters have been killed. most of the fighting is happening in a village of about 2000. the feeling is the town does not like the taliban and does not like warfare on their street to ether. jane: thank you. çrick: back home now to madison

. >> reporter: this woman, call her jane, as in jane doe, is speaking in disguise because of the terrible things that happened to her one day after she and her young son had a nothing special wander in the mall near boca raton. while she was shopping, buying a fashion baseball cap, spraying on perfume, someone was out in the parking lot waiting, watching, on the hunt for vulnerable women. he must have locked on jane as she and her exited the mall at nordstrom about 1:00 that day. she was doing the usual mother's juggling act as she popped the hatch of her black suv. >> i put my son in first, strapped him in the car steet. >> he's in back. >> yes, in the back. then i go to the back of the truck and i put the stroller in, shut the gate, and start walking to the front. that's when i hear my son an he's, like, mama, mama! i could tell he's worried or scared. that's when i look in to see if he's okay and there's a guy sitting there. >> reporter: a guy in a floppy hat, wrap-around shadin shade s in her suv next to her 2-year-old. that moment, how terrifying is that? >> i was in shock at that mo

jane: thank you.inally some positive news about jobs. let us check on wall street for you. down about 85 points. jenna plea. -- jenna lee. >> we have to put this in context. we have a big dog report on friday. what we see today are private service giving us a preview of what we could see on friday. we are seeing layoffs slow down. in july they were at the slowest pace in nine months. also, there are fewer job cuts announced by employers. that is also a good sign. it did mention that in the private sector we sell more than 370,000 job losses an. combine that with the americans who have lost their jobs since the recession began and you have 6.5 million americans who are of of work. the market could be expecting this, although we are in negative territory, coming off of a pretty strong session. this will be a big story coming into the end of the week. jane: newç details about a shooting at a gym in the pittsburgh area. 48-year-old george sodini shot and killed three women before killing himself. he walk

>> caller: hi, jane. what i wanted to know, i wonder why michael didn't try to have his own natural child. possibly maybe he might have been already on drugs and it was in his system since she wanted to give him his children so bad? >> that's an excellent question. who better than bethany marshall, psychoanalyst, to answer it. first of all, that dovetails with another big story. the reports out of some quarters michael jackson might have had a love child, omar bhatti, a 25-year-old aspiring rapper from norway who says, no, i was just a friend of his, but joe jackson is apparently saying, well, you know, he has the same jackson dance and jackson walk as the rest of the jacksons. what do you make of all of that, bethany? >> i'm very suspicious when joe jackson starts talking about somebody's walk and talk. i feel like he's promoting a new album and artist. i'm suspicious of what he has to say. in terms of brenda's question, it could be that michael jackson, we found out in the trial that maybe he was not se

>> perfect analysis, jane within as usual. i would totally agree, even if they felt they had some evidence sufficient to charge him with at this time or sufficient to charge someone else with, that they would wait until they had all the evidence and charges they are going to make and make them all at one time. >> now, peter boaz, you're the bbc correspondent. what's fascinating about the search warrant it was signed on the 24th. it was not executed until four days later on the 28th. there have been published report that are from tmz that cnn cannot confirm, it was a jockeying for who's in charge and that was partially the reason for this delay. what do you know? >> well, you know, when you get multiple organizations involved in an investigation like this, there are often conflicts of interest in terms of who is leading the investigation. who is taking the key role. that may or may not well be a factor here. i don't know. what i do know is that i spent a lot of time trying to distinguish between fact and fiction and speculation

jane velez-mitchell, my colleague, joins me now. "issues with jane coming up top of the hour. you know, i felt for her there, jane. not sure about you. and she talked about the kids being number one. one thing though, i'd like to -- if the kids were number one, both of them should stop airing out the dirty laundry in public. i mean, i think they should go silent about the divorce and the nitpick back and forth about whose fault it was. >> the horror of this whole thing, mike, is this is the show. >> yeah, you're right. >> this is the show that they didn't know they were getting into. and not knowing that there's going to be a giant lion there that you're going to have to fight with to the death. and you think you're going in to do a stage play. this is the reality show that happens when you put your family into this situation. and so what she's doing now is a great performance. she might think she's being real, but she's really just part of the show. and that's the tragic irony of making a deal with the devil like this where you turn your family into a show, is that if it's a

: i'm jane skinner. continues, and we'll watch outside the basilica there. the casket will make its way to an air force base outside of boston and family will travel with senator kennedy's body to the nation's capital. senator kennedy will be buried near his brothers in arlington cemetery. he got a send-off from colleagues and friends and from his beloved family. ted kennedy as we've been hearing touched so many lives in his long senate career, especially those of staffers who are like an extension of the family. so many of them went on to distinguished political careers and a couple of them join us noch. susan, a special assistant to the senator, both knew him well. susan, it's been said that the senator had a hand in planning what we've been seeing over the past couple of days. can you see that hand in what we' we've' seen unfolded? >> oh, absolutely. jane, you know, my job was where is the church, it's a big one in downtown boston. she said, no, it's in mission hill. and i'm from boston, my daughter s

and jane at the time had a couple of things going on to make a business they had created an enclosure where tourists can come and pay a few dollars and walk a month boxed the butterflies. they're all over the place you can see butterflies from all over the world and walk with them and they will land on you they were doing this with local butterfly so they would capture the butterflies and put them in the enclosure interests could walked with them. one of the ways to capture the butterflies is to get them drunk it seems and they put out riveting fruit with year and a device that works as a trap they get lethargic after they eat and drink this potion and it is easy to catch and put into the enclosure. they have no training as entomologist and once i a spend the time coming back to the states i started to check on things like trump butterfly's i met with experts and a professor i talked with at university of california berkeley said this is an area that there is so much we don't know, we don't know what happens inside the chrysalis that changes from caterpillar to butterfly it is not ent

[laughter] >> jane, what you read this passage? about authors reading authors. >> a lot of my recommendations for the books that i read for this book came from other authors i was reading so i came to realize that there are only 2 degrees of separation for novelists. and we know from their own testimony that forster read james, james read dickens, dixon said savante is, he tried margarita vara and she read [inaudible] and of course forest dickens read scott, scott rett savante fielding read savante is, will fred alston, dickens and chains to the code james, james red balls -- [inaudible] and so forth. [laughter] [applause] >> so what are you recommending at the moment of when you are reading? how often of when you read to you immediately feel like other people need to read this? how evangelical are you? >> i will say one thing when i read maria vargas novel the war of the end of the world i wrote in my notes this is the book that war and peace wanted to be. [laughter] >> i read it on my kindle on the we ought hear all of kittredge,

i want to bring in my colleague, jane velez-mitchell, host of "issues with jane velez-mitchell." coming your way 12 minutes to the top of the hour. i thought it was time for him to take his medicine and move on. but no go. we get another postponement here. >> well, yeah, they want to know if virginia authorities say yeah, he can do this specific type of community labor in their state, like graffiti cleanup and sort of physical labor as part of his community service, which is part of the plea deal. but the bigger picture is look how slow things go when you have a celebrity involved. i have gone into those courthouses in los angeles early for a celebrity case. you see the normal cases, the average cases, the people who don't have money, who aren't famous. bing bong bing, they are sentenced and they're off to the slammer faster than you can blink. and yet you look at this case, which is not that complicated -- >> doesn't seem it, no. >> the celebrity cases get dragged out and dragged out, perhaps in the hopes that maybe we'll lose interest and we won't care what happens. >> well, fa

i will agree with something different that jane said.up the fight and i think that president obama actually hopes that they will. if you look at two weeks ago, he held a blogger conference call where he talked to liberal bloggers. he urged them to keep the heat on lawmakers. another noticed that organizers in president obama's sort of advocacy group was encouraging people to quote, deluge senators. i think president obama would like to have plausible deniability here, but he secretly hopes the liberals will keep the pressure on. >> jane, your reaction. >> out of the white house and i think it's incumbent on president obama in august to push forward with the notion that a real public plan is not the fake co-op that the insurance industries and kent conrad has come up with. >> jane, are you confident that president obama is going to do that, or are you convinced or worried maybe he will take the middle of the road approach which will not be the public option will be these co-ops a lot of progressives can't stand? >> in the "washington post

. >> jane wells in los angeles. hello, jane. >> hey, larry, it's been quite a year, hasn't it?hile your money has been used to fix the economy, you're suing yourselves, paying yourself, buying yourselves and it ain't over yet. a few examples after the break. h >>> dahl it a sign of the economic times, hormel, making of spam, strong performance in its refrigeratored food segment, spam. right now the stock is trading higher on the day of 236, up . 6.5%. i'm not sure i've had spam. >> do you eat more or less spam and a half more. >> i'm happy to say i haven't tried it either. i'm sure it's delicious. i don't want to disparage them in any way. >> do you free it way. >> there's no way larry has had it. >> i don't think i've had it. >> all right. i propose we have it for lunch later this week. >> the new bull market recovery. thought i'd put that in. >> 4:00 p.m. hearing scheduled to discuss the judge's rejection of bank of america's $33 million settlement with s.e.c., another example of a government agency caught in the middle between you, the taxpayer and you, the shareholder. jane

. >>> i'm jane velez mitchel. here's my issue. we have to feel for the husband who lost his wife, his young daughter and nieces in that horrific drunk driving accident in new york. his wife was bombed and high when she killed eight people, including herself. now her husband's job, his finances, all in jeopardy. his surviving son is injured and he's being investigated by child services. it makes you wonder why he ever called that news conference saying that coroner's toxicology report on his wife was just plain wrong, that she could not have been drunk. he made excuses for his wife's actions. all that did was draw attention to this case. denial is a very dangerous thing. but instead of having blinders on, this grieving husband should be asking himself, why he didn't see this coming. i'm jane velez-mitchell and that's my issue. >>> tonight on "issues," a family feud over the so-called wrong way crash mom. two members of diane schuler's family are severing ties over allegations of lying. plus new video of schuler just hours before th

jane jane, the host of "issues" on hln.and jane, let me go to you first, give us background for viewers who may not have been paying attention to the whole billy mays story. >> well, essentially, wolf, there's a whole controversy over the autopsy report saying it was unnecessary to release these details. others say, hey, don't be in denial and don't blame the messenger. as you mentioned, the coroner's report said that he died primarily from heart disease. but cocaine was a contributing factor. they didn't actually find cocaine, but by-products which concluded that he used it in the days leading. they also found several prescription meds, including valium, vicodin and alcohol. so they were very upset this was released, saying it was unnecessary and speculative. all of a sudden, you have the very famous pathologist, dr. cyril wecht taking a look and saying, huh-uh, he actually died of a drug cocktail, which is potentially even more damaging than what the original autopsy report said in terms of billy mays' image. so it's almo

jane raised an issue. goes to "issues with jane velez-mitchell." a supposed reenactment was foezed to take place. they asked ron cummings, point girl? my daughter, a quote from him. >> your comments to that, jane? we're both saying it didn't make sense when they got married. is that a plausible explanation? >> it is. it's the only one that makes sense to me. she has the missing key. if he stays close to her, he will somehow solve the mystery. i think it's admirable on his part not to crack up talking to someone that might have the information about your daughter's where abouts. >> jane, christy cornwell, you're going to be on that one, too? >> another young woman, hiking in the area, was abducted, ended up dead. whey is this happening? >> more "prime news," stay with us. 

i looked to jane, who was unsmiling. stay focused. there was 52 cents. matter how many come up for sale. what larry had once said about her flashed through my mind. jane can tell you what delta airline said and she was once in first class on a morningneath from jfk to berlin and what it costs them. there's nothing she doesn't know about the company. i was in the position of most of the bondholders. ey would do damn near anything they could do to get out. and it would mean an avalanche of selling. millio of dollars depended on my decision, and every eye in the entire floor was trained on us. everyone waiting for my first call, and the price i would buy at and the price i would sell. t to whom. iemember thehone around me ringing, and then suddenly northwest airlines also declared bankruptcy. it was one of those audible gasps around the floor. the noise you hear in a bill ball par wn a fast ball rips past the batter on a full count in the ninth. jesus christ, i thought the roof was going to fall in. we got hit by northwest bondholders bailg out. it was too

jane, what about the personal side? we know his great sense of humor. talk about for a moment the -- there's joan kennedy, of course, the first wife. this family -- we see ed schlossberg in the background there. the family has come together. they've had their trials. joan kennedy is the first wife and obviously the divorce, and then years later vicky reggie, who he said became the love of his life and gave his life so much meaning in the latter years. tell me about the christmas party, share with the viewers and the costumes and some of the parties that ted kennedy had for the staff on the hill. >> i know you shared so many of the good times, but the staff, you know, the kennedy staff over the years could fill a small football stadium. every year he and vicky would bring together the staff with a skit artfully written oftentimes by the senator and vicky and carefully edited by carriy parker, a long time aide to the senator and wonderful writer. they would do the most tongue and cheek fun things that you would have hundreds people stuffed into the help c

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jane? >> well, we talked to senator grassley who is at the center of the health care tornado, if you will. he says that it did appear over the weekend that the administration was backing off from the public option plan, but yesterday he said he thinks there was some back-pedalling there. here is what he had to say about why he thinks there will be no bill if it includes a public option plan. listen. >> what's wrong with a public option is the think tank says 120 million people are going to opt out. 120 million people opt out, then 15 million people with private health insurance, pretty soon you don't have any private health insurance, and pretty soon you have what they have in other countries, where the government runs everything. and then you have -- and americans will not stand for rationing. when they want an mri, they want it tomorrow. they don't want it in three months like you have to wait for it in some countries. >> so there you can see what is sort of playing out in that poll. you

jane, what can you tell us? i need good news. i need to be upbeat. >> you're going to like this, larry. the bad news is the firm has laid off half its staff. the national federation of independent business means job cuts are enclosing, and some people believe now is the best time to start a small business. >> the cash flow i did in year one needs to be brought back by some rate of return. >> this is an entrepreneurship boot camp for disabled veterans at ucla's anderson school. tens of thousands of these disabled vets are returning from war and starting businesses. they may have an edge because of the discipline and leadership they've learned. >> you and i maybe don't have the luxury of understanding what it is to be in an arena of what it is when somebody's shooting at you. that gets you pretty focused, i think, on things you need to do to survive. business today is not unlike war. >> 20-year army veteran edward rubelcalva has been in both gulf wars, severe respiratory problems from the fires in desert storm possibly. he has star

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jane, good morning. >> reporter: well, good morning, eun. roy an exciting place this is this morning. people are beautifying this school and hundreds of others around the city and joining me now is chancellor michelle rhee. this has to be kind of a fun thing as chancellor to go around and see all this. >> it is. it's very fun. every weekend before the beginning of school we have beautification day. so this is the third one since i've been in office. and it's really exciting. because i think it just gets everybody really pumped up. we invite the community in so that everybody in the neighborhood, whether they have children or not knows that monday is the first day of school. and as you can see from the folks here at tubman, we have a lot of people volunteering. >> reporter: yeah. i'm told up to 100. now, what does this do for the morale of the students to see the flowers and have the clean schools? is that all part of it? >> oh, absolutely. when i talk to kids about coming to school, one of the things that hthey often say to me is te environm

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cnbc's jane wells is in los angeles with the details. jane? >> hi, melissa. it's a rare look inside the last bank standing, which specialized in option arm loans, and it is still surviving. first fed financial, the parent of first federal bank california, has seen its stock plummet to pennies. a year ago it was on everybody's list to fail. and yet it has still survived. why? well, first of all, it stopped making risky loans at the end of 2005. so it missed a lot of the bad news. it started modifying loans before everyone else did at the end of '07, getting in front of a lot of problems. but regulators won't let it make any new loans until private investors recapitalize the bank. and that won't happen until the bank finishes working through $4 billion worth of troubled mortgages. >> we're hoping to raise capital by september. if it can't get done by september, it needs to get done by year end. so if we're here at year endish it's passed. >> want to talk about the modification offer we sent you last week. >> we can get through this last group of mods, which we'

my goodness. >> jane, thanks so much. stacy, thanks so much. a -- larry, you have to get yourself over there one of these days. a programming note. be sure to tune in on september 23rd for the cnbc special presentati presentation, "the new age of walmart" with david faber. >> up next, a game-changing success story. >> julia boorstin has a cnbc exclusive interview. hello, julia. >> hello, the company between rafer ray and merlin, hgtv design star is thriving. i'll talk successful to the ceo, coming up only on "the call." r. with my new netbook from at&t. with its built-in 3g network, it's fast and small, so it goes places other laptops can't. i'm bill kurtis, and wherever i go, i've got plenty of room for the internet. and the nation's fastest 3g network. gun it, mick. (announcer) sign up today and get a netbook for $199.99 after mail-in rebate. with built-in access to the nation's fastest 3g network. only from at&t. we're shopping for car insurance, and our friends said we should start here. good friends -- we compare our progressive direct rat

jane, she's in court today, right?wanted to get a lawsuit thrown out that was seeking to appoint a guardian over the children's finances. any idea where that stands? >> apparently, they're in court as we speak on the west coast. and this was an effort by an organization called a minor consideration, which looks out for kids who are in reality tv, in regular tv, in movies. and it's based on jackie cooingn. he was the famous child star a long time ago who was left destitute because he was essentially robbed by the adults who were supposed to be looking out for him. this is an old hollywood story. it happens over and over again. if i had a nickel for every child star who's penniless out in hollywood. and so let's hope hope that the get something out of this financially so at least they can go to college, at least they have some security, given the price that they are paying. >> yeah, exactly. this video is going to be around for them to see, and it could cause some scarring and it could cause some wounds for these kids do

cnbc's jane wells has been doin a bit of lay away herself. hey, jane. >> hey, mandy, you find something you really want to bu like these spongebob boxers,  can't afford it, and within a  certain amount of time come bac with a full cash balance and  take it home. no interest charges. now, lay-away sort of went away as credit cards became more easily available and you could take this right away and pay it off in installments. now shoppers are finding their credit cards maxed out and kmart is seeing purchases take off in heading back to school. liz is using lay-away to buying clothing for an upcoming grand baby. >> well, they took it away in a lot of spots, because it used to be that kmart, sears and all of the other bigger stores had it, and then took it away for a while. so to see it coming back is kind of nice. >> kmart's corporate sister, sears, also resurrecting lay away. but look what's coming back, as well, the christmas club. does anyone remember those, like bank accounts where you deposited money and gathered interest. credit unions still doing it. kmart launching a card wh

"issues with jane velez-mitchell." that's coming up just about 15 minutes from now. also with us, we welcome back "showbiz tonight's" a.j. hammer. "showbiz tonight," the most provocative entertainment news show on television. a.j. fresh off vacation. good to have you back, a.j. >> yeah, it's good to be back. we'll be talking about this tonight as well, mike. >> yeah, we've got quite the story. jane, let me start with you on this one. how does this happen? we're talking about a serious assault charge in 2007, sex addiction. he had anger management courses. he was charged with battery again just this past april. how's he just walk onto a reality show set? >> well, you call it part of the reality show curse, mike, because so many people who have been involved in reality shows end up in trouble. and essentially, i think that a certain type of personality, extraordinarily narcissistic, seeking fame for the wrong reasons, that's the profile of somebody who will end up on a reality show, seeking fame, seeking a shortcut that

under the jane doe law, it is also providing a safety net for victims who are not ready to go to law enforcement. >> some of those who are sexually assaulted know their perpetrators. with that comes the risk of that person knowing all of their vulnerabilities and the things they can threaten them with. they may have to have a further contact through job exchange. >> only 10% of white victims ever come forward. now under the new law that took effect in january, they can visit a forensic nursed within five days of an attack. they can place charges and retrieve the samples from the hospital to make a stronger case. >> it gives people time to get their heads together. they are afraid of creating an embarrassment for their families. they are afraid of not being believed by police. they watch these crime shows were the victim is torn up on the stand. that cannot happen in the case anymore. >> they have already examined over 100 jane doe's in this area. >> this is the tip of the iceberg. >> kerry cavanaugh, wbal-tv. >> forensic investigators are on call 24/7 to collect evidence. it will hel