move over, lucy. another female fossil may be the oldest skeleton found of a human ancestor. scientists believe the fossilized remains of a female are 4.5 million years old. ardi predates lucy by a million years. it may offer new clues as to how humans may have evolved. >> if you were to ask someone on the street what did an early ancestor of humans look like. they would probably say well it would look like lucy and before that it would look like a chimpanzee. what the fossils that are being described in science today will tell you is both of the conclusions are very incorrect. >> ardi was discovered in ethiopia 15 years ago. it took three years to dig up the skeleton and years more to study it. >>> defense attorneys are trying to stop prosecutors from seeking the death penalty in the caylee anthony murder case. they want murder charges dropped against caylee east mother casey. the defense filed several motion after the state attorney's office released hundreds of documents related to the case. prosec

was found-- and lucy opened up a wonderful world of 3 tnt 2 million years ago-- i would have said if we just have some success in the rocks older than four million years we can maybe find a skeleton. maybe we can find an animal community. make reck recover a lot of data. so we went out there because we were curious to explore that unknown part of the past. just as we send planetary missions do deep space, this was a mission into the deep past, into planet earth's past and into our past. so by recovering these data, all of this evidence, we've opened up a new window, a new chapter in human evolution. what chapter lies beyond? it's out in the desert in ethiopia. >> suarez: but are there limits? this is a 4.4 million year estimate. beyond that are the things that you find likely to be just too degraded, to too fragmentary, too hard to find? >> no, we just need the right conditions of preservation. we got fortunate this time. an ancient river flood plain embedded this community, including all of its inhappen habitants. we're looking for older and older rocks in similar circumstances wher

lucy and john david and mommy will be out there. more information, go to cdc.gov. >> bradford. >> no. >> hi, bradford. bradford. hey, bradford. >> where's daddy. >> oh, no, turn the tv on. take the bear. take this. >> hey, bradford. >> oh. >> oh, yummy. >> tell him to look at the tv. now, get him to look at you. >> bradford. >> that's good! your hand is in the way. oh, god, richard. >> stop it. stop it. your hand is in the way. he's bottling the bottle. >> oh, bradford. bradford. hey, bradford. hey, bradford. bradford. bradford. >> try soft talk. >> hey bradford. >> sing a song to him. ♪ mary had a little lam ♪ little lam -- >> bark like a dog. >> woof, woof. >> bark like a cat. >> my other one will get pissed. pull him out of the way. now, look. bradford. >> he likes it. >> what you have to do. hey, pay attention when i'm talking to you. hey, hey, i'm talking over here. hey, buddy. >> you know, renee rockwell, i was worried about switching the twins from formula to real milk, i thought it might upset their stomach. that's a cold mi

reporter: she challenges that idea. >> it's different from what people expected and different from lucy. it's not specifically chimpanzee-like. >> reporter: she lived in the forest. scientists speculate in this environment, males could carry more food, making them more attractive to females. >> what would naturally follow is females target males that supply them with food on a regular basis. >> reporter: a time that remains fascinating, the human descendants of ardi of all ages. >> how old do you think they are walking around? >> 36. >> they look as old as me then, huh? >> reporter: robert bazell. >>> kidnapped as a young girl seven years ago, elizabeth smart tells her story in court. >>> later, up in the sky in new york, it was an american hero. announcer: right now, all over the country, discover card customers are getting 5% cashback bonus at grocery stores. now, more than ever it pays to discover. research institute.. ...we've studied countless tailgate... it's official. bush's baked beans are a gameday hit! and no one recognized you. jay...i'm a master of disguise. next gameday enj

until now, the oldest was lucy discovered in the early 1970s and shown in this exhibit at the american museum of natural history. she lived 3 million years ago. until now, scientists assumed any earlier human ancestors would be more chimpanzee-like and walk on all fours. ardi challenges that idea. >> it's a creature that is very different from what many people expects and very different from lucy. it's not specifically chimpanzee-like. >> reporter: she lived in the forest, not the savannah, as many assumed. scientists speculate in this environment, males could carry more food, making them more attractive to females. >> what would naturally follow is females target males that supply them with food on a regular basis. >> reporter: the latest understanding of our distant past, a time that remains fas niting, the human descendants of ardi of all ages. how old do you think they are walking around? >> 36. >> they look as old as me then, h? >> reporter: robert bazell. nbc news new york. >>> kidnapped as a young girl seven years ago, elizabeth smart tells her story in court. >>> later, up in t

. >> reporter: ardi now replaces the famous lucy, currently on display here in new york city, as ourt known relative. lucy dates back 3.2 million, while ardi, a much more primitive ancestor, is a million years older are dating back 4.4 million years. >> that's why this discovery is so important because it's so much and he was it's so informative about the way we were. >> reporter: ardi stood about four feet tall and awayed 110. she as youed all fours to climb trees but researchers say she walked upright on the ground and didn't drag her knuckles. she also had flexible hands and feet and probably used stone tools. smaller canine teeth, likely meant less fighting between males, competing for the attention of females. and possibly monogamous relationships. >> the further back we go in time, the harder it gets, especially to find complete skeletal remains. >> reporter: a priceless time capsule of our early days walking the earth. daniel sieberg, cbs news, new york. expnjt there's much more about ardi in the latest issue of "science" magazine on sale tomorrow. we'll be you've wanted to qu

artie predates lucy. researchers believe it could offer new clues to how humans may have evolved. >> if you were to ask someone on the street today what did an early ancestor of humans look like, they would probably say, well, it would look like lucy. and before that it would look like a chimpanzee. what the fossils that are being described in science today will tell you is that both of those conclusions are very incorrect. >> artie was discovered in ethiopia in 1994 sandwiches between layers of volcanic rock. took years to study it. >>> how about some good news in a bad economy? if you can get away for a trip, right now is a great time to go. hln money expert clark howard says there are ultra-cheap deals out there. >> do i have great news for you if, a, your job is secure and you're not carrying extraordinary levels of debt. this fall represents the best bargain time i can remember in forever for you to take a trip somewhere. why? because everybody else either can't afford to or is afraid to go. so the d

in ethiopia, also the remains of lucy were found there. the pelvis and hip indicates she could walk on two legs like humans. the findings challenge earlier beliefs that humans evolved from a chimp-like creature. >> we have used chimps and gar gorillas. we want do that anymore. >> reporter: chimps and humans evolved separately from the same ancestor. >> we can see that as primitive as this creature is, it has already evolved. those special characters indicating that it is on our side of the family tree. and that it is not on the chimpanzee side of the family tree nor is it the chommon ancestor. >> reporter: that miss link was less like a chimp than previously thought and that opens up entirely new ways of thinking about human evolution. >>> the obama administration wants americans to take cybersecurity much more seriously. the white house is sounding the alarm saying one of the biggest threats to national security may be the computer in your own home or office. steps you can take to increase computer security include using anti-virus softwa

it's a dream come true. >> caller: lucky lucy. >> thank you. what's your question, dear? >> caller: i think misty's stories don't jive because i think she's learning disabled. >> why do you say that? >> caller: remember the 911 call when they asked for her address? >> yes. >> caller: she gave the street. the 911 operator asked for the numerical and she said, what's that? >> okay. to ellie jostad, our chief editorial producer on the story from the very beginning. is there any sign she is disabled? if she is disabled she's somehow managed to throw off the cops now for about nine months. >> no reports like that, nancy. however, we do know misty croslin, although she's only 17 years old, has dropped out of school, has not gone to school for some time. some reports suggesting she dropped out as early as after the sixth grade. >> what about it, art harris? is that true? >> i've spoken to her grandmother in nashville, tennessee, who raised her during the crucial years of grammar school, sixth grade. she said she had a hard time with her homework. she had to sit down with misty.

. >>> today marks the official start of lucy's in. thousands waited in line to get the flu vaccine -- the official vaccine --flu season. patients could choose to receive either shot or the nasal form of the vaccine. the seasonal flu vaccine is not the only one people are sick -- scrambling to get. the center for disease control reports that 27 states are already reporting widespread swine flu cases. this week, hospitals, health departments, schools, and doctors' offices will begin receiving the first shipments of the h1n1 vaccine. the first batch will go to health care workers, children, pregnant women, and people with health conditions who are at higher risk for complications. >> it will be a little chaotic. they want to get from a private physician, that will have to make a call to find out if their doctor has it. >> and news survey indicates that six out of 10 adults still are not sure if they will get the swine flu vaccine. >>> people in montgomery county laced up their running shoes this morning for the race that is run in honor

in 1974, researchers discovered this creature which they called lucy. she was part 8 and part human. this is how her kind might have looked. -- she was pt ape and part human. the new find is 100 million -- is 1 million years older. >> this is very exciting. this takes us back to an early part of human evolution. >> the new discovery should give scientists new insight into how the human race evolves from primitive apes. >> this is bbc world news, the latest headlines. the brazilian city of rio the janeiro aonehas won the bid to t the 2016 olympics. thousands of children promised a new life in the sun has had something terribly different happen. they were sent to australia but in e farms and care homes they went to, many suffered hardship and abuse. some try to tell the british what was going on. the warnings were ignored. >> excited child migrants on their way to australia. it is estimated at 7000 british children were sent across the world. the youngest, just two years old. the policy was promoted as rescue, children from the slums sent to a new life. t

>> lucy was very complete skeleton and told us a lot but lucy was walking on two legs.lready bipedal. and this is transition walking four legs in the trees and walking two legs on the ground. it's an ape caught in the act becoming human. >> let's throw up these pictures. to the untrained eye but when you see, what is different about this hand and different about some of the skeletal features? >> this is a hand, it's very flexible in the wrist and hands, grab on branches as it moves about in the trees. primitive adaptation. >> let's take a look at the foot. >> this is bizarre. you notice the big toe is going out to the side like a chimp but it can grab on ridges and still use it for climbing in the trees. >> let's take a look. these are the hip bones? >> another bizarre hybrid, on the top of this hipbone, it's very much like a modern hominid like lucy but on the bottom it's very primitive. one thing on the ground and another thing in the trees. >> why are we getting so many discoveries, you were in ethiopia, you went to as a journalist and we find all these amazing fos i

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scientists say unlike lucy, artie's fossil does not re resemble that of a chimpanzee. artie has a combination of the features of chimps, humans and other creatures. she walked on two feet, but also had a grasping big toe that allowed her to travel easily in trees. she weighed about 110 pounds and stood close to four feet tall. one biologist says artie has shown that our last common ancestor with chimpanzees was not a monkey. but a different primate that was not a human and was not a chimp. it was something else. there is a series of articles about artie in the journal "science." >>> coming up this evening, we'll tell you about calls to stop allowing maryland lawmakers to use easy pass toll service for free. >>> considering a bill that would ease restrictions on raising chickens in the city. >>> we'll get a check on bob's full forecast. stay with us. beautiful day today, bob. but a little nippy out there. >> that's right. this is the time of year when the moth balls spreads across the morning. everybody getting out those knit sweaters. outside today, we had a chilly beg

it's lived so well before the famous 3.2 million-year-old lucy, which until now was the earliest known skeleton belonging to a human ancestor. >>> the dow opens at 9,509 after plunging 203 points on thursday. the s&p, that fell as well, 27 points. the nasdaq, that dropped 64 points. >>> taking a look at overseas trading this morning, in tokyo, the nikkei sank 246 points, while in hong kong the hang seng tumbled 5 # 9 points. >>> mostly disappointing economic data got the first day of the fourth quarter off to a rocky start on wall street. stocks plunging to their lowest level in three months. disappointing results from an industry report on factory production raised questions in the minldz of investors skeptical over the strength of a recovery. meanwhile, u.s. auto sales tumbled 23% without the aid of the federally funded clunkers program. hardest hit, general motors. its sales spiraled 45% for the month of september. >>> adding to wall street worries, first-time jobless claims, reenforcing economists fears ahead of the monthly report on jobless claims. that's due out today. that numbe

lucy and john david and mommy will be out there. for more information, go to cdc.gov.ññññ >>> bradford. >> oh, no. >> hi, bradford. bradford. hey. hey, bradford. >> turn the tv on and take the bear. take this. >> hey, bradford. >> ooh. >> look at the tv. now get him to look at you. >> bradford? bradford? >> oh, that's good. your hand's in the way. oh, god, richard. >> stop it, stop it. >> hand's in the way. he's bottling the bottle. >> oh, bradford. bradford? hey, bradford. hey, bradford. bradford? bradford? bradford! >> try soft talk. >> bradford. >> sing a song to him. ♪ mary had a little lamb, little lamb ♪ >> bark like a dog. >> woof, woof. >> meow like a cat. >> nope. my other one will get pissed. hey, bradford, pay attention to when i'm talking to you, son. we're going to pull the bottle away. now look. bradford, bradford. what you've got to do -- pay attention to when i'm talking to you. hey, hey, hey. i'm talking over here. hey, buddy. >> you know, renee rockwell, i was worried about switching the twins from formula to real milk. i thought it might upset th

great to have you with us today, lucy. mr. secretary general, i hope that your address along with senator lugar's remarks will spark debate among key legislators. we were lucky enough to host you here during the transition where we had very good conversations and i know that your attention in the strategic concept is not to provide a piece of paper but to provide a debate that will drive the alliance forward in a more effective and meaningful fashion and we hope that this forum will help you to achieve that. it is a particular pleasure for me now to pass to senator chuck haigel, one of america's policy thinkers and the embodiment of the biartis an nature and commitment to renewing the global challenges, what i mean by bipartisan is that senator haigel last week gave a speech in minnesota called the eugene mccarthy speech and he's about to go to michigan to give the gerald ford speech. i think that it is safe to say that this is the first time in history that one man has given both those speeches. it's also a great privilege to

it's a dream come true. >> caller: lucky lucy. >> thank you. what's your question, dear? >> caller: i think misty's stories don't jive because i think she's learning disabled. >> why do you say that? >> caller: remember the 911 call when they asked for her address? >> yes. >> caller: she gave the street. the 911 operator asked for the numerical and she said, what's that? >> okay. to ellie jostad, our chief editorial producer who's been on the story from the very beginning. is there any sign that she is disabled? if she is disabled she's somehow managed to throw off the cops now for about nine months. >> yeah, well no reports like that, nancy. however, we do know misty croslin, although she's only 17 years old, has dropped out of school, has not gone to school for some time. some reports suggesting she dropped out as early as after the sixth grade. >> what about it, art harris? is that true? >> nancy, i've spoken to her grandmother in nashville, tennessee, who raised her during the crucial years of grammar school, sixth grade. she said she had a hard time with her homework

. >> artie is 1.2 million years older and far more primitive than the others fans called lucy. but artie did not drag her knuckles across the ground like a chimp. >> digital artie. >> she stood upright and walked on two feet and she evolved not in the savannah like scientists suspected up until now, but in a valley surrounded by the creatures of the rain forest. >> porcupine, a mongoose, a bunch of birds. >> one of the most remarkable things about artie are these small canines right here. in apes and chimps, the canines are huge and long and sharp for attacking other males fighting, but artie had small canines. apparently because she was cooperating with others. >> working together as a social group, the essence of what it means to be human. in washington, bruce leshan, 9news now and wusa9.com. >> wow. and the discovery channel airs a special on artie a week from sunday and the research comes out in the magazine, science, tomorrow. >>> topper is back with your full forecast, stick around. you wanted more. u waed videos and phos... ail and brdband. you wanted to ruyour buss from

. >> caller: lucy looks just like you. >> that's a complement to me. thank you. >> caller: lucky lucy. >> thank you, what's your question, dear? >> caller: i think misty's stories don't jive because i think she's learning disabled. >> why do you say that? >> caller: remember the 911 call, they asked for her address. >> yes. >> caller: she gave the street. the 911 operator asked for the numerical. she said what's that. >> all right, to our chief editorial producer who's been following the story from the beginning? is there a sign she's disabled? if she is, she's thrown off the cops for about nine months. >> no reports about that. we know, all though she's only 17 years old, dropped out of school, has not gone for some time. she may have dropped out as early as the sixth grade. >> art harris, is that true? >> i have spoken to her grandmother who raised her during those crucial years of grammar school. she said she had a hard time with her homework. she had to sit down with her and misty begged her to help her. she says she has learning disabilities and h

they done buy this thing of lucy and way back four or five million years. they don't buy that.ling them neanderthals doesn't hurt these guys. >> actually i said knuckle-dragging neanderthals. one of them came up and said i don't like you talking about me that way. he was trying to prove to me that he was a knuckle-dragging neanderthal. i said look at your knuckles, there's no callouss. >> let me talk about real people and real problem. my thinking is you want to make health insurance accessible, affordable, everybody has to chip in to the ability they can. nobody is getting a free ride here. talk about why it matters to you. i want some heart here. >> why it matters to me, i was so sick growing up as a child. i had to go to the hospital four times a week for treatments. when i was growing up my parents had union benefits. both belonged to a union. they both got union benefits, twice, when i was 7 and when i was 17, they went out on strike. i wondered whether i would survive. whether our health benefits would remain in place and whether i would be able to continue my treatment.

researchers today presented a part shl female skeleton 1 million years older than the famous lucy, whoieved to be the oldest link in the human development chain. it was discovered 125 miles northeast of addis abbab. here's ned potter. >> reporter: this find in the desert, said scientists, changes our picture of evolution. they call it ardipithicus, "ardi" for short, and assembled the fossilized bone fragments into this female skeleton. they think she may have looked like this. >> if you were to ask someone on the street today, "what did an early ancestor of humans look like," they would probably say, "like a chimpanzee." those conclusions are very incorrect. >> reporter: many of ardi's features are very different from chimps. so scientists say there may have been an animal 2 million years before ardi, from which both apes and humans descend. they don't know what it looked like, but it did not look like a chimp. >> not only has the human line been evolving dramatically over the last million years, for the same 6 to 7 million years, the chimpanzees have been evolving. >> reporter: charle

hate to say it but move over lucy. it seems another female fossil may be the oldest skeleton ever found of a human ancestor. scientists believe the fossilized remains of a four-foot tall female are 4.4 million years old, nick named arty. predates lucy by more than a million years. researchers believe it could offer new clues to how humans may have evolved. >> if you were to ask someone on be the street today what did an early ancestor of humans look like, they would probably say, well, it would look like lucy and before that it would look like a chimpanzee. what the fossils that are being described in science today will tell you is that both of those conclusions are very incorrect. >>ardi was discovered in ethiopia back in 1994 sandwiched between layers of volcanic rock. it took three years just to dig out the skeleton and years more of course to study it. >>> listen to this. a 10-year-old girl tried to sell her grandmother on ebay. she says her grandmother is annoying. the bids came pouring in. we'll explain. remember

have presented a partial female skelton of a skelton that is 1 million years older and the famous lucyned potter has more. >> this 4 million-year-old find changes are picture of evolution. they call aarte and have assembled the bones into this female skelton. they think she may have looked like this. >> if you would ask what someone looked like, they would probably say that it would look like a chimpanzee. those conclusions are incorrect. >> many of those features are different from chimpanzees. there may have been inedible 2 million years before arte. >> not only has the human line been moving, but for the same 7 million years, the chimpanzees have been evolving. >> they believe she walked upright. her feet were like a ch imp's. she could easily climb trees. we have found our roots. they're different from what we thought. ned potter, abc news. >>> 6:25. there is still another half-hour of "good morning washington." >> the fight for gay marriage in the capital. there could be a bill by next week. >> david letterman admits to having affairs with staffers. we will have more on why he mad

daughter and i just -- i -- >> i mean, if somebody was the last person to be with my child, john david or lucy, and police say they have the key to what happened, i would at least say "what happened?" >> well, i haven't seen her since the results. but i did talk to her on the telephone, and she was telling me she had no problem with me and that she didn't have anything to do with our daughter going missing, that she was at home and all this stuff that everybody's saying is lies about her. that's the only time i've talked to her. >> okay. well, you've got to take that with a box of salt because what do you expect the ex-wife is going to say about the new girlfriend? okay? that's never good. we are taking your calls live. to jane velez-mitchell, host of hln's "issues" and author of a fantastic new book we're going to talk about shortly. jane, what about croslin's mother behind bars? they already put the squeeze on her brother, who coughed up quite a bit of information in a late-night jailhouse interview. now mommy's behind bars on a forgery of a check. >> and she remains behind bars. and i think

. >> lucy's and officially start sunday, but this dallas hospital is already -- flu season officially start sunday, but this dallas hospital is already on overload from last year. the staff is trying to cope. things could get worse. it is reported that 15 states could run out of hospital beds, assuming the h1n1 virus stays relatively mild. >> you will see different standards of care, people not being hospitalized when they would under ordinary circumstances, people being discharged early, and some treatments being postponed. >> the cdc reports that one- third of those who died from h1n1 that they tested also had bacterial pneumonia. health advocates are urging hospital workers to be even more careful. >> they need to be taking care of in a very protected way, which includes everyone in the healthcare organization washing their hands every time. >> the cdc has 600,000 doses of the vaccine. for the sickest children, they are also sending 300 courses of tamiflu which expired dates. officials say it is safe and it works. >> this is not a matter of let's just change the labels. >> another

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and i just -- i -- >> i mean -- if somebody was the last person to be with my child, john david or lucy, and police say they have the key to what happened, i would at least say what happened? >> well, i haven't seen her since the results. but i did talk to her on the telephone, and she was telling me she had no problem with me and that she didn't have anything to do with our daughter going missing, that she was at home and all this stuff that everybody's saying is lies about her. that's the only time i've talked to her. >> okay. well, you've got to take that with a box of salt because what do you expect the ex-wife is going to say about the new girlfriend? okay? that's never good. we are taking your calls live. to jane velez-mitchell, host of hln's "issues" and author of a fantastic new book we're going to talk about shortly. jane, what about croslin's mother behind bars? they already put the squeeze on her brother, who coughed up quite a bit of information in a late-night jailhouse interview. now mommy's behind bars on a forgery of a check. >> and she remains behind bars. and i think t

i'm starting to think i'm going to have to take john david and lucy in an armored tank to get them to school in the morning. to marc klaas, president and founder klaaskids foundation. this is your expertise, marc. what can you tell us? >> well, i can tell you that kids being victimized on the way to school or from school or at schoolbuses is much more common than society allows for. and i think you don't have to take your kids in an armored vehicle but you have to be aware of this and you have to take the obvious precautions. what the authorities are going to want to do is check with her friends, check with the registered sex offenders in the neighborhood, check her cell phone, see if it might be pinging, see if she had taken her medication, if she has any medications with her, and certainly check her computer files. and then i think they'll take it from there. >> you know, you were talking about disappearing on the way to and from school, marc klaas. how common is that? >> well, i don't think anybody's ever done statistics on it, but let me give you a couple names. itan pats, amber h

. > artie is 1.2 million years older and far more primitive than the other fans call lucy, but artie did not drag her knuckles across the ground like a chimp. >> she stood upright and walked on two foot and she evolved not in the savannah line scientists suspected up until now, but in a valley surrounded by the creatures of the rain forest. >> porcupine, a bunch of birds. >> one of the most remarkable things are these small canines right here. in apes the canines are huge and large and sharp for attacking other males. but artie had small canines. apparently because she was cooperating with others. >> working together as a social group, the essence of what it means to be human. >> it tells us that we as humans have been evolving toward what we are today for at least six million years. >> this came out in the last range. >> researchers have uncovered even more ancient fossils in the valley. but we are still waiting to find out what mysteries they will reveal. in washington, bruce leshan, 9news now and wusa9.com. >>> we want to thank the discovery channel, which airs a special a week fr

lucy. we have one more here. what do you want to buy? >> well, thank you, suze, for taking my call. second my two teenage kids on a band and choir trip to europe next summer. it's going to cost about $6,000 per kid, so a total of $12,000. we lived in europe when they were younger, and so this is a great opportunity for them to go with their peers and without their parents, and we want to also use this as an opportunity to teach them the value of work and money. >> how does this teach them the value of work and money when you worked for your money and you are going to spend $12,000 of your money? how does that relate to what they're doing? all they're going is tooting away on their little instruments there. $12,000, girlg friend. you better have a serious sum of money for this one. >> yeah. well, we're thinking that that's part question. how much of this should they be required to earn? >> like 100% of it if you ask ask me. >> okay. >> what is wrong with america today? that's the can i afford it segment? you want to know if you can spend $12 thougs of your money on your children. sho

crime victim when my fiance was murdered before our wedding, but i cannot imagine losing john david or lucy. how are the parents? how are her parents tonight? >> they're a wreck. i haven't heard from her dad today. so i can't imagine how he's doing right now. i know her mom's a wreck. >> you know, just hearing the facts, miss olten, i can hardly take it in. she only had about 1,000 feet to walk. 1,000 feet to get home from her friend's house. and just the shock of a 15-year-old neighbor girl being the suspect. i know the family is stunned. >> it just -- it's so unreal. >> when did you first discover that elizabeth was missing? >> her oldest sister called me about 7:00 and told me they couldn't find her and that they were out looking for her, that she was headed to her mother's house, and then they went up to the other house where she was supposed to be playing and they said she wasn't there. >> so she started walking home at 6:15. 7:00 the parents were already on the phone with police. the parents did everything right. they knew where she was. she was right there in the neighborhood. just a

they don't buy this thing of lucy and way back 3,000 years. it doesn't hurt these guys. know that. >> actually i said knuckle dragging the knee yand ro thauls. he said, i don't like you talking about me that way. i said, i wasn't talking about you. i said, i thunk yink you were tg about me. i said, no, no, i'm serious. i wasn't talking about you. look at your knuckles. there's no callouss. >> let me talk about real people and real problem. my thinking is you want to make health insurance accessible, affordable, everybody has to chip in to the ability they can. nobody is getting a free ride here. >> why it matters to me, i was so sick growing up as a child. i had to go to the hospital four times a week for treatments. when i was growing up my parents had union benefits. both belonged to a union. twice when i was 7 and 17, they went on strike. i wondered whether i would survive. whether our health benefits would remain in place and whether i would be able to continue my treatment. it's a hard thing. it's a hard thing when you're a child to think about whether you're going

they don't buy this thing of lucy and way back four or five million years. they don't buy all that.lling them neanderthals doesn't hurt them. >> i said knuckle dragging 93 earned athals. and one came up to me on the floor. he said i don't like you talking about me that way. and i said i wasn't talking about you. and he said i think you were talking about me. he was trying to prove to me that he was a knuckle dragging neanderthal. i wasn't talking but. look at your knuckles. no callouss. >> let's talk about real people. my thinking is you want to make health insurance accessible, affordable. everybody has to chip in the way they can. nobody is getting a free ride here. talk about why it matters to you. >> why it matters to america i was so sick when i was growing up. i had to go to the child four times a week for treatment. when i was growing up, my parents had union benefits. both belonged to a union themselves both got union benefits. and twice when i was 7 and 17, they went out on strike and i had, i wondered whether i would survive. whether our health benefits would remain in pla

it's a dream come true. >> caller: lucky lucy. >> thank you. what's your question, dear?i think misty's stories don't jive because i think she's learning disabled. >> why do you say that? >> caller: remember the 911 call when they asked for her address? >> yes. >> caller: she gave the street. the 911 operator asked for the numerical and she said, what's that? >> okay. to ellie jostad, our chief editorial producer on the story from the very beginning. is there any sign she is disabled? if she is disabled she's somehow managed to throw off the cops now for about nine months. >> no reports like that, nancy. however, we do know misty croslin, know she's an 17 years old, has dropped out of school, has not gone to school for some time. some reports suggesting she dropped out as early as after the sixth grade. >> what about it, art harris? >> i've spoken to her grandmother in nashville, tennessee, who raised her during the crucial years of grammar school, sixth grade. she said she had a hard time with her homework. misty begged her to help her. the grand mother had a hard time,

daughter and i just -- i -- >> i mean, if somebody was the last person to be with my child, john david or lucylice say they have the key to what happened, i would at least say "what happened?" >> well, i haven't seen her since the results. but i did talk to her on the telephone, and she was telling me she had no problem with me and that she didn't have anything to do with our daughter going missing, that she was at home and all this stuff that everybody's saying is lies about her. that's the only time i've talked to her. >> okay. well, you've got to take that with a box of salt because what do you expect the ex-wife is going to say about the new girlfriend? okay? that's never good. we are taking your calls live. to jane velez-mitchell, host of hln's "issues" and author of a fantastic new book we're going to talk about shortly. jane, what about croslin's mother behind bars? they already put the squeeze on her brother, who coughed up quite a bit of information in a late-night jailhouse interview. now mommy's behind bars on a forgery of a check. >> and she remains behind bars. and i think that th

i'm starting to think i'm going to have to take john david and lucy in an armored tank to get them tol in the morning. to marc klaas, president and founder klaaskids foundation. this is your expertise, marc. what can you tell us? >> well, i can tell you that kids being victimized on the way to school or from school or at school buses is much more common than society allows for. and i think you don't have to take your kids in an armored vehicle but you have to be aware of this and you have to take the obvious precautions. what the authorities are going to want to do is check with her friends, check with the registered sex offenders in the neighborhood, check her cell phone, see if it might be pinging, see if she had taken her medication, if she has any of her medications with her, and certainly check her computer files. and then i think they'll take it from there. >> you know, you were talking about disappearing on the way to and from school, marc klaas. how common is that? >> yes. well, i don't think anybody's ever done statistics on it, but let me give you a couple of names. itan pat

crime victim when my fiance was murdered before our wedding, but i cannot imagine losing john david or lucyarents? how are her parents tonight? >> they're a wreck. i haven't heard from her dad today. so i can't imagine how he's doing right now. i know her mom's a wreck. >> you know, just hearing the facts, miss olten, i can hardly take it in. she only had about 1,000 feet to walk. 1,000 feet to get home from her friend's house. and just the shock of a 15-year-old neighbor girl being the suspect. i know the family is stunned. >> it just -- it's so unreal. >> when did you first discover that elizabeth was missing? >> her oldest sister called me about 7:00 and told me they couldn't find her and that they were out looking for her, that while she was headed to her mother's house and then they went up to the other house where she was supposed to be playing and they said she wasn't there. >> so she started walking home at 6:15. 7:00 the parents were already on the phone with police. the parents did everything right. they knew where she was. she was right there in the neighborhood. just a few house

daughter and i just -- i -- >> i mean, if somebody was the last person to be with my child, john david or lucye say they have the key to what happened, i would at least say "what happened?" >> well, i haven't seen her since the results. but i did talk to her on the telephone, and she was telling me she had no problem with me and that she didn't have anything to do with our daughter going missing, that she was at home and all this stuff that everybody's saying is lies about her. that's the only time i've talked to her. >> okay. well, you've got to take that with a box of salt because what do you expect the ex-wife is going to say about the new girlfriend? okay? that's never good. we are taking your calls live. to jane velez-mitchell, host of hln's "issues" and author of a fantastic new book we're going to talk about shortly. jane, what about croslin's mother behind bars? they already put the squeeze on her brother, who coughed up quite a bit of information in a late-night jailhouse interview. now mommy's behind bars on a forgery of a check. >> and she remains behind bars. and i think that the w

i'm starting to think i'm going to have to take john david and lucy in an armored tank to get them toin the morning. to marc klaas, president and founder klaaskids foundation. this is your expertise, marc. what can you tell us? >> well, i can tell you that kids being victimized on the way to school or from school or at school buses is much more common than society allows for. and i think you don't have to take your kids in an armored vehicle but you have to be aware of this and you have to take the obvious precautions. what the authorities are going to want to do is check with her friends, check with the registered sex offenders in the neighborhood, check her cell phone, see if it might be pinging, see if she had taken her medication, if she has any of her medications with her, and certainly check her computer files. and then i think they'll take it from there. >> you know, you were talking about disappearing on the way to and from school, marc klaas. how common is that? >> yes. well, i don't think anybody's ever done statistics on it, but let me give you a couple of names. itan pats,

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