community planner in kansas and missouri. as i was doing some research this morning i came across an article in your book. i felt compelled to get in touch with you and express my interest in your research ideas. i am from earl northwest kansas, will be specifically, and i was raised in a working family farm. my father, mother, myself and two siblings ran the farm growing wheat, corn, soybeans, sunflower, and my love. i said that right. within the last past ten years or so many of our farming neighbors have sold or lost their farms. while my father is still operating as farm. i left colby to go to college where i received a ba in political science and a masters degree in regional and community planning. a master's degrees from kansas state, where another rutgers graduate was on my professors. being from a rural era and theme the continuing rapid decline of population, one of my passions is understanding borough population decline and the death of this community.

eastern parts of kansas. you can cito peca, light snow. heavier snow around kansas city and levin worth, too. temperatures right around 40 right there. the steady precip out of the south, that's all rain indiana in towards illinois. chicago radar again, you guys are dry. i think it's going to be a little bit of time before you see rain and it will be windy again. speaking of wind, look at this. we have video coming in from yesterday near washington state. this is western washington state. check out some of the damage around the seattle metro. look at some of the reports. sea-tac, the highest since a gust of 40. enough to bring down trees. also looking at 5 inches of rain. big surf again today. we'll get to that in about a half hour. >> thank you. so a lot of different storm systems you're watching. >> one out west and right in the middle of the country. >>> thank you. a georgia teacher is accused of trying to take a hit on his student. you know, take out a hit on him. the student's attorney tells local media

the young lady who wrote from colby kansas if we get on the research at colby kansas it would have been much more donner and bleak. but they're both on this continuum as i was talking about earlier we go from the healthiest small town that is thriving to the one that's finished, and i think one of the -- we use the research in ellis to speak to this issue and the passage that you quote speaks to that white issue. we do believe in the current socio-economic context where opportunities have shrunk where there just isn't a safety net and for those who are now going off to college. there isn't a viable safety net. think about when you were young and what opportunities there were for you when you graduated high school. they are very, very different now and they require different skills and they require that people be prepared. so, hour point was that if you are going to disproportionately allocate your resources, or precious resources and a time towards the kids who are going to go and not come back, then it's basically you are literally taking your money and checking it away because that is

you're waking up to that around northover kansas city around the nebraska/kansas state line. the green is all rain. notice the cold front is all the way towards the gulf. let me show you how much rain over the next 48 hours. computer model generating this little graphic. actually wrote down where you're going to see the snow line and the rain line. we're going to be right around south of omaha stretching west of kansas city. on the west side of that line it's all snow, about 4 to 10 inches. on the right side, all rain. northern missouri, lower iowa, back towards illinois. 1 to 3 inches of rain there today, tonight and tomorrow morning. the biggest rain squall now out of houston. you can see houston itself drying out just a touch. down to your south see the scattered showers still out there. a line going in toward eastern texas, too. look underneath the upper level low. that's all snow. all the white. it's beginning to get very close to lincoln, nebraska. omaha you should be all rain today. scattered showers. it's going to be breezy. a cold rain, too. temperatures in the upper

from new york to kansas. i put a lot of miles in my car. spend a lot of time in the air and airports. it really was a fascinating study to be involved in. what we found was young people in many ways sort themselves out into various groups, those who leave, those who stay, and those who come back. there are two main groups. one is the achievers. the achievers are young people who are motivated to leave because mainly of opportunity. colleges. people who go on and succeed elsewhere. for the most part achievers leave and don't come back. the second group are seekers who are not quite as academically oriented as the achievers or don't have the same opportunity of the cheevers. the secrecy of the military as a way to see the wide world. young people who never leave our stares, have no idea to go beyond the confines of a small town, for whom life is just fine where they are. who is working lives start early and revolve around these small towns. of the returners there are two groups. one we call boomerangs. people who go away for a short time alwa

focusing specifically on the far west counties in kansas. because of debility and may feel they came to kansas city to work and have not been able to advance any of my studies on the topic area i would like to offer my help in any way should the opportunity ever present itself. rural america is near and dear to my heart and i would love to contribute to this field of research. okay, so these are just some of the responses that we've received about this book. and it's clear that it's touched a nerve and i figure should hear it because they were ever going to have a conversation and really get serious about small-town america than it has to start somewhere. let me just lay out some of the background to what we see as wide alice matters as what is in many ways a typical small town. and what we can sort of do going forward into the future. between 1982 and 2000, over 800 nonmetropolitan counties just like the one we're in right now lost 10% or more of the population to outmigration. now this is not natural decrease. this is people actually leavi

here's your snow, right around nebraska/kansas state line. look at the pileup to about 2, maybe 10 inches of rain in some spots. specifically just south of nebraska. four to ten inches of snow from manhattan to kansas today. two to four inches of snow will pile up from areas between i 80 to i-70. >>> something else we're watching. space shuttle "atlantis" is on its way towards the international space station this afternoon. they plan on launching this thing a2:28 eastern. the only thing of concern is a wind now about 15 miles per hour at times. also look at the mid-level deck of clouds. that will not go far too far soon. i tell you, it will not rain there. no thunderstorms just low clouds and also stiff wind out of the northwest. might not get it up. you can see breaks in the action with the clouds a little. i don't see rain in the forecast that. will slow them don't. i don't see any of that. >> sts-129. hopefully they will get up in the sky. >> delayed, delayed. i think they will get it up. >> one delay, they'll be lucky. >>> a man who colla

that's the one right around kansas city.t it's a little impact for your morning commute. this weather brought to you by ups. so let me show you what i'm talking about. you have the upper level low still sitting right over missouri. remember this is a main power system that's really generating all the rain at the surface but it's only going to sit here a couple more days so it's a slow mover, no doubt about it. look at kansas city, all the white is all snow, the blue is all rain. it's mixing in and out with you but you still have a winter weather advisory until 8:00 this morning central time. so all of kc and the surrounding areas because of the snow on the road. a little on the tricky side, especially on those bridges and overpasses. take it a little easy out there. look at the temperature slowly riding up. 37 in topeka, kc 34. it's all snow coming down. a little leafly texture to it is a good indication of the snowflakes. this is pure liquid right around central parts of indiana and towards illinois. it's dry in chicago for

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the frontier airlines jet hit him at above 4,000 feet above kansas city saturday. the birds hit both engines but one lost power. >> heard this rumble, bang, boom boom and kind of saw a flash and then you saw smoke and then, you know, we started decreasing in altitude. >> well the plane still landed safely. remember a bird strike forced another plane to land in the hudson river. >>> the house in cleveland where 11 bodies were found. that makes something that we could see more digging this week at anthdany sowell's house and next store. the search has expanded four houses down now. one woman says her niece found something behind a boarded up house. >> they found bones about this long. they come running in the house bringing them in the house where their bare hands talking about, look at what we found. >> police aren't saying if they found anything. anthony sowell's attorney hasn't commented on the murder charges he is facing. he pleaded not guilty on friday. >>> the families of 9/11 victims are reacting to a big decision by the obama administration the self-proclaime

number one kansas against ucla. hi, everybody. i'm steve physioc. this is marcus johnson, former college basketball player of the year. marcus, i love the nonconference grudge matches. the back ten against the big 12. >> welcome back, buddy. we missed you around here. and my favorite movie, "hoop dreams." we're talking about the revolving talent in college basketball. the great teams. we had upsets. illinois gets defeated. knocks off louisville. michigan state gets knocked off. parity this college season. >> a new guy through the door at usc, that is kevin o'neill. he got two back on friday. >> who might that be? very familiar with this player. last year, he had modest numbers. but you look at what he did when the team played without him. they were 1-6, when they played with marcus johnson, they were 13-4. marcus johnson, one of the most athletic wings in the country. for nebraska, henry, he is an on-ball defender. he is much better basket. usc has got to deal with this sprinter. >> nebraska will get off usc full-court pressure. you bet. when we com

and that extends over into portions of kansas as well. you may have heard about all the commotion associated with the remnants of ida that pounded the mid atlantic and southern new england. that's still beginning to exit across that extreme southern new england region. still the remnants still lashing those areas. from new york city, an improved day with temperatures expected to be mostly into the 60s. that's running about 10 to 12 degrees above normal. also for the deep south, temperatures in the 70s. if you're headed to southern california, the winds are going to be fairly gusty. we're looking at wind advisories for riverside county, san bernardino. watch out, some of those wind gusts up around 40 to 50 miles per hour. for hln, i'm meteorologist karen mcginnis. >>> you could call it a beauty contest, and you can bet someone is really proud of the winner. >> when you look at missy, she has a lot of style, a lot of presence. she knows she's pretty. >> you see, she's a cow and as perfect as cows get. wait until you hear how much money some

authorities are still digging up a rural property about 30 miles east of kansas city. bates city, missouri. that's connected to the family. all five are charged with rape, bestiality, forcing children into fake marriages and forced abortions. investigators are searching the property for possible bodies and jars with buried notes from the children documenting the alleged sexual abuse. the sheriff said there are more alleged victims out there. the 77-year-old father and four adult sons made their first court appearance today. three of the men are former lay ministers in the community of christ which used to be called the reorganized community of latter day saints. >>> we have this story just in. affidavits have been filed for arrests and charges in the now infamous balloon boy saga. richard heene has been charged with one count. they agreed to turn themselves in and will plead guilty to charges tomorrow according to the attorney's statement. the couple may face jail time but the attorney says the prosecutor will recommend probation. >>> she posted pictures of a european

zack greinke of the kansas city royals, call it a royal comeback, now there was a lot of hype when he first came into the league but he struggled, the young man. in fact, he even left the team in february of 2006 and got a lot of criticism when he did. well, during that time he was diagnosised with social anxiety disorder and depression. now he was named the best pitcher out of hundreds in the american league earning the cy young award and he did it on a losing team which is rare and it's a big week for him. he marries his high school sweetheart on saturday. >>> a kansas city castoff is getting a second chance. larry johnson run out of town after several incidents including using gay slurs and attacking his coach on twitter was signed by cincinnati. cincinnati has become the city of second chances. they also signed chicago castoff cedric benson who was arrested allegedly for boating while intoxicated and he's one of the best running backs in the league. maybe larry will turn it around. >>> tila tequila filed a lawsuit against linebacker shawne merriman alleging domestic violence, seek

it would be the second stunner of the day with kansas city already surprising the pittsburgh steelers could see the raider it is going into thanksgiving off of the big win. and maroney -- of course new england on its way to 7-3. indianapolis, a perfect 10-0. and cincinnati. they will have to hold their breath here on the janikowski field goal try you have to figure that would win it for the raiders if he converts. from the patriots standpoint, they have a date with miami a couple of weeks away down in miami. phil: yeah, they do. miami showing how resilient they are, playing without ronnie brown, winning on thursday in carolina. jim, as we have seen every year, do not start predicting too early who will win these division races. jim: you have new orleans next on the patriots schedule. they go on the road and play a nighttime game against an undefeated team. and then at miami, carolina and buffalo. phil: those next two games, at new orleans and then division rival, miami dolphins. jim: you can see on your scoreboard, the raiders kicked a field goal with seconds to go. here is brady on t

. >> larry: kansas. >> what i loved about him was, diesel named desire, right?ld -- his lifetime average was 3.4 yards a carry. all right? >> larry: he earned every one of them. >> if you add it up, real simple, if you run rig ins on first down, 6.8, third down, 10.2. just enough for a first down. >> larry: are heroes born or do you think they're created? do you think some people are just boern heroes? like derrick jeter. >> no. i wouldn't think so. i think it has to be circumstances. i mean, i was talking about levi being a hero. he's more of an inspiration. i wouldn't say he's a hero. but i think circumstances brings out the hero. >> larry: finally, was any actor ever a hero to you? >> paul newman for his onscreen, what he did, and offscreen. >> larry: not a bad choice. matthew mcconaughey. >> larry: tyra banks is the host of the tyra show, and creator of the executive producer and host of america's next top model, which airs wednesday nights on the cw and recently launched an online magazine called tyra beauty, inside and out. do you have heroes now? >> i do.

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big week for him. >>> a kansas city castoff is getting a second chance. larry johnson, who was run out of town after several incidents including using gay slurs and attacking his coach on twitter, was signed by cincinnati. interesting because cincinnati seexs to become the city of second chances. they also signed chicago xastoff, cedric benson. he has now become onest of the best running backs in the league. >>> reality tv star wants 1.5 million bucks in damages from san diego linebacker shaen merriman. you may remember this star, she is a star of a shot the at love. she accused merriman of battery and false imprisonment after she left his house after a party, that but the d.a. chose not to press charges. >>> lastly, let's tear some things down. the former home of the dallas mavericks reunion arena was demoleddi demoledished on tuesday. the 29-year-old building collapsed inward. but they did not use explosives. they hammered away at two with supporting columns to get it to fall. i find that so fascinating. >> that means someone was inside? >> was hammerin

number one kansas at ucla. they fell today. they lost all three games in that tournament in anaheim. >> marques: very respectable showing against butler. really turned that program around. and then, losing to the long beach state team. a lot of work to be done for the bruins. >> steve: usc is rebuilding, as well. last year, they went 22-13. they won their first pac-10 title, beating arizona state by three. that was after trailing by 15 at half. blocked by stepheson. good defense. >> marques: converting the pass on the interior. >> steve: right now, nebraska, denying the pass to the interior. making usc work it around the perimeter. a little high-low action there. a slam. >> marques: big interior passing to vucevic and alex stepheson. it took ryan anderson, at 6'3", 6'4", about 120 pounds soaking wet. >> steve: usc, really the trojan "d" early in the season. >> marques: the pass to vucevic, showing he can play. not just can score. but a great bounce with a strong finish on the dunk. >> steve: modest pressure by the huskers. kevi

the harlem renaissance had such a fixture in the mind of people love other cities like los angeles, kansas city, seattle. i think that jack has had such a staying power and jazz was its own or form that it became a kind of language that lena horne could speak to, langston hughes could speak to, miles davis lived and sugar ray robinson laughed. >> host: now let's get to the opera and the six brutal acts because you spend considerable time in the book speaking about these fights between sugar ray robinson and jake lamotta. why have these entered the dream of the imagination? >> guest: before i answer that i just wanted to make one correction. it's wil haygood. >> host: i knew that. >> guest: just so the readers out there don't think i've changed my name. it's wil haygood. >> host: as soon as i said it i even wrote that down here to pass to you. i'm so embarrassed. i'm sorry. >> guest: it's quite all right. >> host: i misspoke. >> guest: but those six flights between robins and and take lamotta seized the imagination of the american populace because they fought six fights, they fought startin

family and social connections became business sessions as iowa yang and kansas san, da coa tan and nebraska can laborers sent loads of the meth back home. or, like jeffrey william hayes in oelwein and lori in ottumwa, either drove out to get some themselves or sent someone instead. meth has been, perhaps, the only example of a widely-consumed narcotic that might be called vocational as opposed to recreational. the market for meth in america is nearly as old as industrialization. poor and working-class americans had been consuming the drug since the 1930s whether it was marketed as men si green, meth green or o bead run for the simple reason that meth makes you feel good and permit you to work hard. thanks to the brothers and lori arnold, these same people no longer needed to rely on expensive prescriptions and were able to get a stronger form of meth at a much better price. this at a time when the drug's effects were arguably more useful than ever. so, too, did meth become more widely available at exactly the moment that rural economies collapsed and people left. under those circumstances,

nice way to end their year. >>> kansas chiefs caught trouble.larry johnson speaking of ending his season after using gay slurs and attacking his coach on twitter. he was also not playing that well. last year a woman sued him for allegedly throwing a drink in her face in a bar. they're probably saying good riddance to him in kansas city. >>> let's end on a fun note. the chicago bulls did a little spoof on nba.com of all those '80s compilation albums. here are the players singing. >>. ♪ funky town >> jesse's girl ♪ >> with his arms up. >> with his members only jacket and a blond wig. it's funny stuff. >> that is so cute. if you can't laugh at yourself, who can you laugh at, right? >>> huge news in the casey anthony case. investigators say they found traces of chloroform on a bottle and a is a rsyringe. >> the chloroform -- searches for chloroform are on the internet in the anthonys' home. the traces of chloroform are in casey anthony's car trunk. the body is found at the scene where we're still not talking about where casey anthony's childhood fri

our pants, we take a big load ♪ ♪ texas, colorado, dallas, amarillo, south dakota, south dakota, kansassand in our pants ♪ ♪ our flies are itching, it's the fire ants ♪ ♪ ♪ my name is ryo, i love big trains ♪ ♪ i run your -- over ♪ ♪ >>> okay. it gets worse after that. and i'm leaving out the part where you have the sex slurs on women. i want to go back to patty, richard heene's ex-wife. you alluded to the fact that you got out of the relationship because your children were in fear. what, if anything, did mr. heene do allegedly that caused your children to be afraid, your two little girls? >> well, they watched him verbally throw fits and throw things at us. he was like a master of mental warfare. he put us down, hollered at us a lot. he pushed me one time over a couch and then flipped the couch with me and the children on it, threw things at me, and sometimes you know, the things would not hit me but hit them. i filed a police report in lake arrowhead, california. and that was the night he flipped us over the couch and flipped the couch and he left marks on me from throwing things. >>

goodland, kansas, 43.7. record cold spells. the cold now is moving over toward nashville for this morning. that's what it looks like. let me show you the big picture. one north of the great lakes, in toward canada, another one offshore from the carolinas. that one is throwing a little moisture back on shore. down through south carolina. fog out there around charlotte and just south of the atlanta metro. it hasn't slowed you down at the airport yet, which is good. top side of that, light rain across central jersey, back to philadelphia, spreading to new york city in the form of light showers, giving you a delay at the airplanes there, too. that's something we're watching. frost advisory, all the areas shaded in blue. nashville, temperature in the mid 30s. outside of the heat island, it's colder. temperatures around 32. light rain is, right now, across chicago. we'll talk about that, robin, in about half an hour. >> a bad morning rush for them. >> when it comes to it, yeah. >>> treasury secretary says, sure, the deficit is high.

first, bill grady reporter with knbz, kansas city is, missouri, what is the very latest? >> we just talked with some investigators here a short while ago. what they tell us is that sometime this evening, announcement will be made by the investigative agencies. they also preface it had by saying there won't be any interviews granted this evening. it is just something we're going to release in the form of an actual news release. we know this property has been scoured all day long today. it's over 55 acres. so we don't know the exactly what it's going to be. we'll be here till it's made. >> how did this all come to light, this 26-year-old woman who says she was brutalized by these men when she was a child? she has siblings. did they all go at once to the cops or how did it come out? >> our understanding is that this case, the investigative arm of it started several months ago and the 26-year-old lady was the first to come forward. now, also i've got to tell you, jane, that the sheriff has made it very clear he is quite sure there are a number of victims out there and likely

. >>> north of kansas city four people are under arrest for their role in the apparent kidnapping and death of a 23-year-old woman. witnesses saw three men assault carol thomas last night and forced her into the trunk of a car. >> we have a bunch of little kids around here, you know, and to see somebody get kidnapped and get beat down like that, it's just not right. >> police found the car used in the abduction. it had been torched. they have also discovered a body which has yet to be positively identified. >>> he was the new york city police commissioner when 9/11 occurred and today bernard kerik pleaded guilt for lying to the white house and lying on his taxes. he was eventually nominated as homeland security secretary in 2004 but during the vetting process he lied to the white house. under his plea deal he could get 2 1/2 years behind bars. >>> the house majority leader steny hoyer is predicting the house will pass health care legislation saturday. house leaders will have the 218 votes they need to approve this sweeping reform measure. a couple of sticking points, language on abort

integrated level and i think the jazz that's came out of the renaissance had sex shade picture like kansas city and seattle, i think it had such a day staying power and it was its own art form it had its own language that lee in the horn, langston hughes could speak to, miles davis lived that sugar ray loved. let's get to to the brutal act we cash to spend considerable time in the book about the fights between sugar ray robinson and j. . why have they entered the imagination and? >> i want to make one correction it is wil haygood just so readers don't think i am changing my name. >> host: as soon as i said it. i even wrote that down. [laughter] i am so embarrassed. i am sorry that i misspoke. >> guest: those fights between robinson and jake it sees a the american populace because they fight and they go into the administration of eisenhower so that is amazing one was i tell yen, jake lamotta and one was black. there were street gains that had ethnic rivalries there were two titanic figures but had different responsibilities. robinson thought jake lamotta was a roughhouse ex-convict. jake la

. >>> the kansas city chiefs cut larry johnson after he was suspended from the team for using gay slursnd attacking his coach on his twitter account. he wasn't playing that well either. he's had a history of other off-the-field issues. a woman sued him for allegedly throwing a drink in her face in a bar. i told them to fire him and they did it. i'm not saying they did it because of me a. spoof on nba.com of all those '80s compilation albums. here are some of the players singing and i use the term loosely. ♪ funky town >> that's derek rose. ♪ i wish that i had jesse's girl ♪ >> this is my favorite, luol deng. why is he wearing a blond wig? ♪ i want to learn how to fly >> and now kirk hinrick. >> these are awesome. this is an attempt to endear themselves to the community. >> they're not actually selling anything. if they were selling that, i'd buy it. >> just for fun. that's cute. seven years after he terrorized the washington, d.c., area, john al muhammad is set to be executed tonight. a look back at the d.c. sniper shootings. when i looked back at the time line it's hard to believe how

able to do that but the web provides the opportunity in some ways the internet does for someone in kansas to get a hold of the really arcane companero book that recites some place in england within seconds over the web. and the idea that google had in the first place was to make every single book in the world universally accessible. and they want to do that by scanning every book that exists in the world. there is a very ambitious project. they want to create the world's biggest on-line library. what i mean my library is on line you don't actually have to go some place. it doesn't reside anywhere. it would reside on the web. so it was a very ambitious project, and they started scanning books and then they realized that they ran into a bunch of legal issues. copyright and antitrust. >> host: what was google's our original motive? >> guest: the original motive is along the lines of their mission, which is users of the internet to access any information they want, video, books, music now, maps, anything, any information that travels over the web. and the project was nothing but very ambitiou

the kansas city running back may have suspension cut in half to one week. it would save larry johnson about $300,000. he also publicly questioned the head coach's experience. a tough season for uconn after the stabbing death of jasper howard. they were leading late until rutgers tim brown goes 81 yards for the game-winning touchdown catch. the irony is brown was one of howard's best friends and said later that only howard would have had the speed to catch him. 28-24, uconn with the tough loss. unbelievable catch in the missouri game. the tigers up big and won big taking on colorado. watch this, one-handed, unbelievable. one more look at it. reaches up, back behind makes the catch. jerrell jackson. what, you have glue on your hands? that's sports. >>> how about this for a mark-up. an item that cost over a dollar sold for nearly 200 bucks. inspectors say one military contractor padded the bills and a lot of your money paid for it. >>> the parents of a 15-year-old california girl who was allegedly gang raped are urging people to do something positive. their pa

this is a revolution that's happening in iowa and in kansas and in places we don't take a where again, a huge amount of immigration and interracial marriage and all the rest is changing our country. that would be a big story and of itself. and it's certainly worth a book in of itself. but then there's the family revolution. if you go back to that old, real majority. the typical american family with mom, dad, and kids, usually to. today at one third of americans describe their own families that way as being a mom, dad, kids, according to stan greenberg. the number one description for a family today is love, that people get. love. so when people are asked to describe what their families are in an open number question, the answer is love. i can understand that. if you go back to 1960, 80% of kids under the age of 18 lived with a married parent. now 69 and a falling. sixty-nine and falling. divorce rate has doubled from 1960 to 2000, but it's been pretty stable. interestingly at the beginning of our country, most marriages ended in death. now the end by choice. [laughter] 1960, 5% of newb

i went to the sea oil rigs and kansas corn farms. i went inside the electricity grid and into the pentagon. i went into high-priced plastic surgery operating rooms, and into the innovating, you know, laboratories of the future. and the stories of the target is the really sort of this journey. and i hope to give you a little glitz of that, but let's start with my, you know, striking realization, which was very exciting. this one morning in my office i took an intimate tour of my own personal environment. since nearly all plastics, polymers, inks, paints, fertilizer and pesticides are made from agrochemicals and all parties are delivered to market by trucks, trains, ships in their place, there was virtually nothing in my office. my body included it wasn't there because of transfigured there i sat on a desk made of plastic when sweatshirt made of fleece, a polymer, over yoga pants made from lycra, ditto, sipping coffee shipped from a symbolic eating eggs and appletalk from washington surrounded by walls covered with oil derived paints j

here's 3-year-old pennsylvania twins, brianna brooklyn hugging in their pink pjs at bedtime and kansas friends of the show, the hardings. jordan, susie. casey. doggy dog, nell. and their favorite pumpkin patch. >>> jayme always punctual to work. she called her job to tell them she'd be running a few minutes late because she couldn't get water at her house. she called her mother just a few days down and asked to use her shower but jayme never nadto work and is never heard from again. >> as frantic search for missing mom jayme sue austin emerges. mom cindy gis holt. >> caller: someone had taken a shower. counter was wet. the counter on the other side of the room. it was quite wet, yes. >> jayme's prized poocha shell necklace, inside of the canister of a vacuum. what happened? >> i suspect something's up. i don't know. is this too unusual for her. >> investigators continue to question scores of witnesses as the search by land, air and water continues. >> i will go to my reporters in just a moment but first jayme's mother. jayme sue austin, age 31. a beautiful mother of two. her mom is wit

someone who has devoted his life to exploring the ocean, bob ballard was born in an unlikely place-- kansase was inspired by the explorer captain nemo, in jules vernes' "20,000 leagues under the sea." since then, he's been on more than 120 undersea expeditions all over the world. what still excites ballard most is making new discoveries, and he's done it time and time again. it may surprise you that the man who found the "titanic" would really prefer to be known for this-- six-foot-tall tubeworms bob ballard found by accident on an expedition he led near the galapagos islands. so, when you went down that day, you went down thinking that the origin of all life on earth was sunlight. >> ballard: the sun, exactly. when we began this expedition, we weren't even thinking about that. >> logan: and when you came up? >> ballard: we... we were stunned. >> logan: these tubeworms were 8,000 feet below the surface, living in total darkness, thriving off the energy of the earth, not sunlight, something no one in the scientific world believed possible. >> ballard: because we had been told that all life o

the presiding officer: the senator from kansas. mr. roberts: mr. president, thank you. i ask unanimous consent that i be permitted to engage in a colloquy with my republican colleagues. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. roberts: mr. president, i ask unanimous consent that my staff member, mr. brett king, have access to the floor. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. roberts: i thank the president. mr. president, the health care bill. the health care bill. there are a lot of things in this bill that i object to. the $2.5 trillion cost, the 24 million people still left uninsured, the unconscionable half trillion-dollar cuts to medicare and our senior citizens, with another half trillion in job-killing tax increases. in my view, the stunning assaults on liberty and the orwellian policies making health insurance even more expensive, any one of these things would make me vote "no" on this bill. but one issue has me troubled the most and that is the issue of rationing. and we have several of my colleagues here who are going to speak to this subject, and w

time to trying to beat the chargers when he was with the kansas city chiefs but manning first must comeouple of big pass plays. at least one. there's one down the field and it's defended. knocked down. gregory. knocks it down. steve smith was the target. now with 10 seconds. phil: well, if you're a charger defender why would you even look at a receiver in front of you that is short? so that's a good job. two people converging to the football once it's thrown. jim: second and 10. never gets it. and you go back and -- they are going to be saying first and goal at the 4, failed to score a touchdown on that last drive starting from the 4. had the hold call. ran it on third down. rivers saying come on, one more. phil: well, jim, they'll be second-guessed for the strategy after they got the philip rivers interception. hard to second guess that situation. play some odds. the game situation. your defense is playing well. jim: merriman is chasing manning and it's going to end right there. shawne merriman who was a part of that trade between the giants and chargers eli and rivers. he came in with

. >> host: we are wayne ad of kansas aren't we? we have gone to holdren level. so the big garamendi is forcing the banks to make loans to people who've accounting things like food stamps and welfare as income, it is off the charts trouble. so from there the bank of dallas. pretty in fannie. it except these because of a go south on will sam will take care and then the banks sell those to wall street, wall street picks up the commercial paper, they are treating the commercial paper but in order to ensure against a risk the mark and stanley and goldman, the investment house is out there that are taking risks, usually his there is insurance that, for the mortgage-backed insurance. so that insurance company was primarily aig so do you want to talk about that so that aig was insuring the loss of risk for the investment houses. >> guest: exactly, when talking about credit defaults what you were talking about ways of trying to spread around risk. one of the other problems the clinton administration added to this problem was fannie mae developed a situation in the late 9

host: to kansas city, don, on the union line.aller: the biggest problem that we have had in the past -- well, of course, reagan was ahead of that, but the fast track that they finally got rid of with bush. he just went wild. what we need right now is for obama to get into this the buteo and make sure that things are being done fair -- it into this wto and make sure that things are being unfair. he needs to look into nafta. we have got to get things straight because it is just killing us. there are only so many construction jobs. we need manufacturing back. you have the pressure of people coming from mexico and the fact all of manufacturing is gone, that pushes everyone into construction. let's talk about supply and demand. you have got too many people. of course, every business will tell you when there is not an of people we need to bring more people in so that we can get more workers. what they're talking about is that they want lower wages. they're not talking about people. they're talking about cost. host: don, thank you. let'

and they mentioned aldridge, collins, kansas the number one team in the country. >> larry: i'm not too sure if texas isn't number two. i mean, they've got two teams in that league right there that will be prlaying for the nationl championship. they're really good. >> dan: people talk about the recruiting class of john calipari. but you go back to texas and -- he pulled his name back. >> larry: got a lot better, too. that's no good. nicely done. >> larry: mac koshwal is absent tonight because of a foot injury. tweaked it before the game and they decided to hold him out and not play him. good production from devin hill. also krys faber who has been out there for a few -- several minutes tonight. getting his chance. he's in there right now. >> dan: inbounds. and a block. and they'll call that against faber who thought he was straight up. and williamson heads to the line. we a we apologize for our technical difficulties. we're work on the problem. >> larry: while we were off camera, we talked about garrett williamson. he was forced to play the point guard position. [ inaudible ] he can mov

we have a call kiva with us from kansas. your thoughts here? >> caller: i think he was being a coward. i mean, how can the wife sue the police station from a situation that her husband done? many times where i live tasing it can kill you. i mean, he just made a bad decision and his wife should just deal with it. i mean, he still had a job and could still be there he was just being a coward. >> a question for the lawyer in the sense of what legal basis how are you going to prove the actions of 9 police department or their lack of support, i believe where they are going. john you want to address that? >> real quick. this guy was on the front lines. this guy was not a coward. he's a new york city police officer who's a hero in many places and again, his actions were not criminal, from what we see and what's been reported. if they say he broke a policy, that's not criminal actions and this guy was long from a coward. he was a hero. >> yeah. >> bad decision, hindsight is always 20/20. >> yeah. the -- as you look at this and there was outrage at the

. >> host: now we are way out of kansas now, dorothy. now we have gone to a holdrun level. and so we have the big government forcing the banks to make loans to people who lack credit worthiness, counting food stamps and welfare as income, wireless acceptable. it's just off the charts, we know we're going to have trouble so from there the banks sell the loans to freddie and fannie. diggs have so loans because they say if they go south of san will take care and the banks sell them to wall street. wall street picks up the commercial paper, there are trading back commercial paper but in order to ensure against risk, the morgan stanley and the goldman, investment houses out there that are taking a risk in pricing risk in the equation, usually there is insurance that comes for those mortgage-backed insurance. morris back securities. so that insurance company was primarily. >> guest: a irg. >> host: do you want to talk about that so aig was insuring the loss of risk for the investment houses. >> guest: when you are talking about derivatives or credit to all swaps you are talking a

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matt: he had 26 on saturday against kansas and thompson with the rebound for georgia.nd take advantage of the size of this asheville team. inside, they go to leslie who is cutting. blocked by williams. that is his specialty. the fourth year junior out of raleigh. all time block list. got one right there. his team in a big hole. <ó south africa, an 8-year-old boy picked up the game of golf from his father. by the age of 9, he was already outplaying him. the odds of this gentle lad winning the junior world golf championships at the age of 14? 1 in 16 million. the odds of that same boy then making it to the u.s. and european pro-golf tours? 1 in 7 million. the odds of the "big easy" winning the open championship once and the u.s. open championship twice? 1 in 780 million. the odds of this professional golfer having a child diagnosed with autism? 1 in 150. ernie els encourages you to learn the signs of autism at autismspeaks.org. early diagnosis can make a lifetime of difference. matt: georgia with the early 11 point lead. thursday night, thanksgiving night, load up on the

two things wrong -- went wrong for my first concussion on a monday night game in kansas city. first, i never saw neurological doctor. second of all, i was cleared five days later to play the game of football by family practitioner. to the contrary testimony, i will say this. there has been significant changes in the national football league based on the nfl and the nflpa. what happened to me would not happen in the national football league today. that does not mean that we are all the way there. we are on our way. something is also extremely important. we should all understand and that is why we're here, the brain is the most vital and sensitive organ in our bodies. without it, we do not function. we do not operate. that is why and i will broaden the scope and ask that you help us establish a national standard three part of that national standard -- and this is where it can be somewhat of a call me and soothing approach to this -- the standard being that a neurological part -- doctor is always a part of the evaluation of head trauma, someone trained for that. and within this n

then the nation's midsection kansas city 66, 53 in chicago, 73 in dallas. southward along pars of i-35 through austin and san antonio should be nice with highs in the 70s, 75 in houston, 64 in atlanta, 87 miami and in boston and new york highs into the 50s. that's a look at your forecast. i'm reynolds wolf for hln. >>> check out this i-report photo. just an ordinary piano in an ordinary bar. right? check it out close up. kuz it give you the chills? what some people think it was. >>> the parents of a 15-year-old california girl who was allegedly gang-raped are urging people in their community to do something positive. their pastor read a statement from the family during an event at the high school where the alleged attack happened. police say as many as ten people were involved in the rape which allegedly happened during a homecoming dance. five people have been arrested. authorities say a sixth person taken into custody won't be charged because of insufficient evidence. >>> tonight on hln "news and views," could a georgia sex offender accused of trying to l

two things went wrong from my first concussion on a monday night game in kansas city. first, i never saw a neurological doctor. second of all, i was cleared five days later to play the game of football over the phone by a family practitioner. now, due to contrary testimony already, i will say this. there has been significant changes in the national football league based on the nfl and the nfl pa. what happened to me would not happen in the national football league today. that does not mean we're all the way there. we are on our way. something that's also extremely important. that we all understand and that is why we're here. the brain is the most vital and sensitive organ in our bodies. without it we do not function. and we do not operate. that is why i got to broaden the scope, mr. chairman, and ask that you help us establish a national standard. part of that national standard -- and this is where it can be somewhat of a calming and a soothing approach to this. is that the standard be a part -- part of the standard being that a neurological doctor is always part of th