mike burns is chief of the macon police department. amy lee womack is a reporter. thanks for being with us this evening. chief, what is the lateness this case? >> -- what is the latest in this case? >> we completed one search warrant yesterday. the day before, we came up with different items that we shipped to the fbi academy we shipped into the crime lab. >> judge jeanine: are there any suspects? what can you tell us about the suspects? >> we have several people of interest. when we started we had a get number, we have slowly narrowed them down through checking their alibis, process of elimination. we are getting closer. >> judge jeanine: why did this guy mcdaniel become a focus of the police? >> we check to start with boyfriends, girlfriends, neighbors. he was a neighbor. he inserted himself into the search for her the night before, going to apartment the next day he was on the crime scene. he also inserted himself, he went to the media and want today to talk about it. >> judge jeanine: amy lee you have interviewed mcdaniels' mother. what did she tell you? >> it

that a body found last week in macon, georgia, is that of 27- year-old lauren giddings. she had just graduated from law school studying to take the bar and a neighbor described as a person of interest is now in custody. >>> not guilty verdict in the casey anthony trial is triggering a public outcry. one juror said the prosecution did not prove its case. karen brown is in orlando, florida, where it is possible casey anthony could walk out of court a free woman tomorrow. karen? >> well, lesli, the jury is still not talking today so really this alternate juror is our only window into why they made the decision they did and what he says is he did not believe the prosecution provided a motive. he absolutely did not believe casey anthony killed her daughter because she didn't want to be a mom. people are already lining up to get a seat for casey anthony's sentencing. many can't believe she was cleared of murdering her

. >>> also tonight, we're following the story of a disturbing murder in macon, georgia because of who is involved. it is likely the victim a dynamic and determined 21-year- old law grad. we're still waiting on the id of a dismember the body of a woman in macon yesterday. >> we're monitoring a press conference that is due to start in the hour. lauren has been missing since saturday. her family is besides themselves with worry and nervous about the very manies. >> reporter: this was the scene yesterday in macon, georgia where investigators recovered a body. and this is a man that has been arrested and charged with burglary of her apartments after telling news crews he was in the residents with friends looking for lauren. his name is steven mcdaniel. >> he was afraid that someone had tried to break in thursday night. and she was afraid to stay in there. >> reporter: the police are not calling her a suspect in the disappearance. she is a 27-year-old law school grad studying for the georgia bar. but she grew up here in laurel, where she was a well-known, stand crowd student athlete. her fa

. >>> a murder mystery in macon, georgia, has ties to our area. has been missing since saturday. the 27-year-old lived in macon and there since graduating from law school. yesterday police found a dismembered body outside of giddings apartment complex. they will not say if it is in fact her. steven mcdaniel is behind bars after telling reporters he was inside her apartment shortly after giddings disappeared. >> she thought someone tried to break in on thursday night and she was afraid to stay in there. >> mcdonnell is charged with burglary while authorities work to identify the body that has been found, standout student athlete at fulton high school. she was just home two weeks ago as maid of honor in her sister's wedding. >>> police are looking for the suspects wanted in a deadly stabbing in hyattsville. it went down at a movie theater last night. police say a fight broke out between two groups of young people and somebody pulled out a knife and stabbed leanard smith matthews. eyewitnesses say there was blood everywhere and that 21- year-old youn

. >>> police in macon, georgia are trying to solve the murder of a howard county woman there. investigators are looking for the rest of her body. the 27-year-old graduate of howard county high school disappeared on june 26th. part of her body has been found. >>> new developments in the unsolved murder of phylicia barnes here. mike schuh is in the newsroom with an update. >> reporter: the agents are pursuing a child pornography investigation. it could be tied to her e-mail and facebook account. she went missing in december. her body was found later in the susquehanna river. the authorities are searching for accounts and an aol account. they're looking at evidence and distribution and possession of child pornography. no word if the e-mail and facebook accounts provide any useful information. >>> the police investigators labeled her death a murder and refused to say how she was killed. >>> bad news for the economy on the job front today. june unemployment numbers showed that hiring took a dive. this lead to an unemployment rate rise. the economists were expected 150,000 new jobs

macon phillips, director of the digital straty for the obama administration, i'll send my question along later. i expect you to slip it in. >> yes, sir. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. by the way, the president's twitter town hall begins at 2:00 p.m. eastern. appreciate it, macon. >> thanks a lot. >>> it could be america's biggest cheating scandal ever involving teachers and principals and shaking an atlanta school system to its core. we have the details straight ahead. >>> and she lost her husband in the challenger explosion. now the widow of astronaut ronald mcnair speaks out about the final shuttle flight on friday. >>> hey, look! hi. >> say cheese. >> no groups were perhaps more impacted more by the casey anthony verdict than mothers. many followed along with every aspect of the trial and expressed their frustration that so many questions about caylee remain unanswered. >> it's a little girl's life that she took. my daughter and caylee were the same age. >> she got away with it. i have grandchildren. all that evidence led to that girl doing this. i mean the partying, everythin

investigators have determined that a body found last week in macon, georgia, is that of lauren giddings. she just graduated from law school. her neighbor is a person of interest in her case. >>> video cameras becoming an increasing important law tool capturing people committing crimes. what about when police are on the other side of the lens and images of them making arrests are posted online. as our matt jablow shows us, it can lead to quite the controversy. >> reporter: there seems to be a new one every day. a video posted online of somebody being arrested often with force. just in the past few months here in washington we had the five people arrested by u.s. park police at the jefferson memorial protesting a ban on dancing. the man in the wheelchair arrested by metro transit police and now a man being arrested by dc police in the petworth neighborhood after appearing to challenge one officer to a fight. the videos often get a significant number of views online but the question is are they legal? >> we do feel strongly about it. >> reporter: arthur spitzer is suing the police departme

investigators in macon, georgia, says a dismembered body found near an apartment is 27-year-old laura griding. right now, a person of interest is in custody. however, police have not yet charged steven mcdaniels with murder. giddings just graduated from law school and was studying to take her bar exam. >>> many across the country are in disbelief over the not guilty verdict in the casey anthony trial. the jury determined she did not kill her 2-year-old daughter. tomorrow, they'll sentence her for lying to police. karen brown has the latest from orlando, florida. >> reporter: casey anthony could walk free within 24 hours. >> we the jury find the defendant not guilty. >> a jury of seven women and five men cleared her of murder. while the panel decided not to explain their decision, an alternate juror believed it was some sort of horrific accident. >> they didn't prove there was a murder. >> heckler was juror number 14. he said after more than a month of testimony, the prosecution did not prove its case beyond a reasonable doubt. >> they didn't show us how caylee died. that was important

police in macon, georgia, are all but certain that the dismembered remains they found on thursday are those of lauren giddings from laurel, maryland. authorities no longer consider giddings a missing person. giddings neighbor is behind bars as a person of interest in the case after telling reporters he was inside her apartment shortly after she disappeared. >>> showers are moving through the dc area tonight so the question is, will they stick around for the rest of the holiday weekend? annie is here with the forecast. how is it looking? >> a possibility of scattered showers and thunderstorms for tomorrow. we saw a few go through this evening. very light as you can see right here through loudoun county and frederick earlier tonight. we are seeing mostly cloudy conditions. you see the clouds have moved in. so tomorrow as you are heading out the door, you have to bring the umbrella just in case. the temperatures are warm and very mild outside. lower 80s in downtown. 80 annapolis. 75 in fredericksburg and 79 in winchester. not a whole lot of cooling overnight. partly to mostly cloudy and

. >> reporter: the police in macon, georgia are waiting for dna testing to come in, but they have identified two people of interest in the case. police announced they believe they have found the body of 27- year-old lauren giddings. >> the missing spern a homicide -- person is a homicide victim. >> reporter: mike persons says the condition of the body prevanes positive id. >> what's-- was the-- wased bodydismembered? >> sphwhient answer that out of the respect for the family. >> reporter: the familiar will can be - the family sent arequest for privacy and compassion giddings graduated from law school at mercer university this year a friend reported her missing after she had not heard from her in nearly a week. now a neighbor is considered a person of interest in the case e told reporters--- case. he told reporters he and others searched for her. >> we looked around the place and no sign of a trug -- struggle and nothing. she was gone. all of her stuff was there, herid was there and her wallet was there, but she was -- she was just gone. >> reporter: police released no information about the c

knowledge in the men's four hundred meters the american was happy with his second place finish in macon jermaine gonzalez christopher brown from the harness completed the podium carmelita jeter still dominate the women's one hundred meters in american run in eleven point one five seconds but it was a strong headwind. in rugby union defending champions new zealand claimed their biggest ever winning margin over the springboks on time turf as they thrashed south africa forty point seven in the tri nations in wellington cory jane made his case to be included in the all blacks world cup squad scoring a stunning try in the thirty third minute if the host an eighteen seven halftime lead. he then added another try five minutes after the break that girls would also went over twice to new zealand and if it's from the right profit and clean slate well done cause also reclaimed the all time test point record from england's jonny wilkinson converted a penalty his first of ten points to south africa the result was their second defeat of this year's trying nations having also master history or zealand

her friends in may con last heard -- macon last heard from her.y haven't released a name yet. >>> a vote of confidence for alanzo running the city schools. andrea fujii has more. >> reporter: good morning, don and everyone. assuming that he stays the entire four years, he would be the longest serving ceo since world war ii. this morning, we're learning more about his new contract. >> the city school's ceo will reportedly make $260,000 for each of the next four years. that's the same amount he made in 2010 and plus, the potential for performance bonuses. >> as of today, we know that at least eight schools, i'm forwarding for further investigation. >> reporter: it was a few days ago that the city schools came under fire for the student performance. at eight schools, the scores dropped by so much, there's speculation they could have been cheat -- cheating. >> reporter: these two schools were confirmed to have cheated in the past, all along, he's tried to place monitors in schools and acting quickly. >>> the progress of the kids is real, the overwhelm

. >>> police in macon say they believe a body found was of a missing woman, but still haven't made a positive id because of the condition of the body. they have two persons of interest, one of the people arrested for an unrelated burglary at the apartment complex where the body was found. she had just finished law school. >>> police in baltimore county are still looking for the gun nan a fatal shooting outside a nightclubment a man was shot to damage early yesterday morning in a parking lot. the shooter is still on the loose. >>> trouble and accusations about a summer job program for teenagers in washington d.c. two teens say coworkers separately assaulted them in separate attacks. the city is now reviewing safety measures for the summer program. >>> in this morning's school watch report, a controversial plan to help students in baltimore by attending classes on saturday to improve test scores, getting mixed reaction from parents. >>reporter: after three years of back to back gains, baltimore schools have an across the board dip in test scores, reading dropping by 3 percentage points

. >>> police in macon georgia are trying to solve the murder of a girl there. the 27-year-old disappeared on june 25th. >>> the police in baltimore county are asking for your help finding a serial arsonist. the most recent fire was set on sunday. the police believe that one is responsible for other arsons in the same area. maryland voters will have a final say as to whether the children of some illegal aliens get instate tuition rates. the board of elections determined that opponents of the dream act have enough signature -- signatures to put the bill up for referendum in november. >>> john mackey played tight end for nine seasons for the colts. he was a big part of the 1971 super bowl win. he was the first president of the player's association. he was number 88, dead at the age of 69. >>> and stay with wjz-13, maryland's news station. complete news, weather and traffic ahead this morning. ,,,,

>> macon, georgia. >> the entire town here? 33 students from macon, georgia. >> you guys have been here all morning long. let's get to the boards. we got one or two things going on this morning. made their signs. let they show them. drought and a drought that's so serious that climatologists are now saying it is beat the drought or right on par with the drought in the '50s and may beat the dust bowl. it is all across the deep south including every state in the gulf well into texas and may have the worst of it. here's where the heat is roaring and this doesn't help the drought situation at all. 100 in memphis. who was on the phone just now? no, no, who were you talking to? >> i was talking to family. >> tell them you were on "gma" right now. on the phone. on the phone. >> it may haveeen the only official breeze today. lara? >> thank you, sam. here's a look at what's ahead. she lost 110 pounds to make her dream come true. the newly crowned and newly slim miss south carolina. >>> the new trend of push prese presents. something spa

. >> gregory macon is serving 40 years for murder. he's been at stateville since 1985.he remembers when the prison had regular programs including theatrical and musical performances that used to take place here in the now long abandoned prison auditorium. >> the musical program was a great thing because of the fact we would have competition against other penitentiaries. and stateville was always number one. in here it's like a cage of awaiting execution because there's nothing for a man to do and no programs or nothing. you're just sitting here like a commodity. you know, a price tag on your forehead with nothing to do. >> rehabilitation, what's that? they erased that south of the dictionary here. there's no such thing as rehabilitation. it's about money. it's all about money. if they can keep a number on you and keep you in here, they get their check and that's it. this is a new cattle drive. >> this is not the place where we want to do services to inmates to get them reintegrated back into society. stateville's not that place. we don't have all those things to offer h

. >> reporter: the 27-year-old went missing in macon, georgia.t results are pending on a body found near her apartment to determine if that's her. the state of the body made the identification difficult, they didn't elaborate. the fbi is expected to receive other evidence. >>> thank you, jessica. since the remains aren't identified, the police said they're continuing to work around the clock, looking for her, hoping she may still be alive. >>> search teams are looking for a missing allegany man. the man was on a boat in a lake near pittsburgh when it capsized. >>> nasa's final shuttle mission is getting off on a bad foot. astronauts arrived, there's a 60% chance that the launch will have to be delayed because of rain. atlantis will make a final supply run to the international space station before the fleet is retired. as many as one million spectators will jam the area for the send off. >>> well, the string of warm summer days is continuing. will the pattern last into the week? bernadette woods is here with the updated numbers from first warning

. >>> macon police say they have obtained video of giddings the last day she was seen alive. the 27-year-old howard county native was found dead last week. next to her apartment in georgia, where she recently graduated from law school. investigators say her body had been dismembered and now they are pleading for help, finding the rest of their body. >> they are using the search dogs to reexamine the rest her apartment where parts of her body were found. >> several persons of interest are now being questioned. >>> voters will decide whether illegal immigrants can receive in-state tuition breaks in maryland. it was forced onto the ballot. gigi barnett explains, each side is preparing to sway voters. >> reporter: after months of state house rallies, they had thousands of names on a petition drive. this is where the battle for or against the dream act continues. on the radio. >> you and i know this bill. you and i know what's going on with this prop. >> reporter: it's one of the hottest topics in the state. the dream act would give in- state tuition for illegal immigrants. now, 1

. >> gregory macon is serving 40 years for murder. he's been at stateville since 1985.when the prison had regular programs including theatrical and musical performances that used to take place here in the now long abandoned prison auditorium. >> the musical program was a great thing because of the fact we would have competition against other penitentiaries. and stateville was always number one. in here it's like a cage of awaiting execution because there's nothing for a man to do and no programs or nothing. you're just sitting here like a commodity. you know, a price tag on your forehead with nothing to do. >> rehabilitation, what's that? they erased that south of the dictionary here. there's no such thing as rehabilitation. it's about money. it's all about money. if they can keep a number on you and keep you in here, they get their check and that's it. this is a new cattle drive. >> this is not the place where we want to do services to inmates to get them reintegrated back into society. stateville's not that place. we don't have all those things to offer here. statevil

police are using search dogs today to reexamine the apartment complex in macon, georgia, where her bodyound. police have several persons of interest they are questioning. >>> a call for the fda to investigate a popular hair straightener. jessica kartalija has the latest on the controversy over the brazillian blowout. >> reporter: vic, it seems like the perfect answer to keep hair from frizzing up. but now, at least 10 members of the house are asking the fda to get involved. they want the agency to look into whether women who undergo the brazillian blowout are getting too high levels of formaldehyde. formaldehyde is classified as a possible carcinogen. >> hair straighteners are considered cosmetics by the fda and are not subject to premarket approval. >>> let's check on the roads now with kristy breslin at wjz traffic control. >> hi, denise. hi, everyone. the rain is definitely affecting your drive. we're having problems on 95 in both directions. southbound 95, that is heavy past the beltway. also, northbound 95, up to whitemarsh boulevard. as far as the beltway itself, no good news ther

police in macon, georgia, have identified a body found last week, a 24-year-old lauren giddings. she had just graduated law school and was preparing for the bar exam. her body was found feet from her apartment. giddings neighbor who was a suspect in several burglaries is now a person of interest in her death. >>> the national park service is looking for bilingual volunteers to spread a life saving message about the dangers of swimming in the pot only am river. the recent deaths all involve victims who are not fluent in english. >> the last two and a half to three years, 14 persons, none of whom is native english speaking, all of whom are either spanish speaking or vietnamese speaking. >> the park service is hoping to arrange large meetings in predominantly spanish and vietnamese communities to tell residents while the river may look pretty, it is too dangerous to wade and swim in. >> prince george's county has a new police chief. sort of. mark mcgaw has been named -- has been named the interim chief. he's been that since december so the county has approved, giving magaw the offic

the company just expanded to joplin after starting a mini tech boom in tiny macon, missouri. >> i was or underemployed for i.t. jobs. >> we'll take people who may have worked in manufacturing, that may have been completely unemployed, may have come off of a farm and a short time later they're writing software for fortune 500 companies. >> reporter: such as alex ross who was working as a fast food fry cook. >> i never really completely understood what a programmer was before that time. it's challenged me to do things that i didn't know i could do. >> reporter: so far they've brought 06 jobs to macon and at president clinton's cgi america, they'll commit to creating 1,000 jobs in rural missouri over the next five years. how much promise is there in this idea of in-sourcing, bringing jobs to rural americans? >> a lot. you save so much on labor and there's no real problem with distance. if you can put them in rural america, the idea of putting 1,000 jobs in joplin, which goodness knows needs it because of the tornado is a wonderful, wonderful idea. >> reporter: big dreams in small communi

he was a farmer from rural macon county, and butler didn't know a thing about evolution, but got interested in the issue after one sunday a preacher in his church talked about a young woman who came back from college and believed in godless evolution. well, that was enough to provoke him, so he ran for office shortly after hearing that sermon and resolved that he was going to pass legislation to deal with that, and he lived up to his political promise. opponents of that legislation cited freedom of expression, cited the scientific evolution, talked about galileo, and a group of ministers from nashville, 13 of them, in fact, sent a petition to the legislature that said we don't like this; it's a bad idea. ironically the governor that signed the legislation into law was a progressive. when signing it into law, his thinking was no one's going to notice. it will make people happy and it will not be enforced. making your constituency happy and hoping it slides under the table. he, in fact, told the senator that the act was absurd and should not have been passed by the legislature. he did these t

the sentence that was in the new england version but in the southern version, i looked at one from macon, georgia, and as the president term was six years. so change for the present condition. again, we have this one language. we still have a lot of problems with american unity today in 2011 just like we had in 1861, but webster, this was a singular achievement. his reputation starts to dwindle as the speller goes out of print around 1900. here's what the satirist said in 1911. hell, the eternal resting place of the late doctor webster, dictionary maker. that has to do with webster's personality. webster alienate a lot of his friends in his life. he had a friend from yale, named joe barlow, a poet. and webster had a religious conversion and he said he never wanted him after 30 years he told barlow he never wanted to talk to him again all of a sudden. than two years later barlow gets a position in the madison administration and webster ask him for a favor, as if nothing had happened. he could be very crotchety. he also edited historians. it'd only been about six biographers of webster and

discovered thursday is that of a missing maryland woman. 27-year-old lauren guidings was living in macon. she went to high school in columbia and went missing last saturday. a neighbor accompanied police into her apartment and spoke to reporters about what he saw. >> no sane that anyone had broken in. nothing. she was gone. all of her stuff was there, her id was there, her wallet was there. she was just gone. >> that man, steven mcdaniel, has now been named a person of interest in her murder. he has been charged with burglarizing two other apartments in the neighborhood where he lived. >>> a woman and her young daughter are murdered in baltimore county. last night family and friends gathered to pray for the victims and the man accused of the crime. dozens gathered outside the apartment where alicia avery and her four-year-old daughter were found shot to death. french banker dominick strauss-kahn is free from house arrest this morning. prosecutors admit there is trouble with the sexual assault case against the former head of the imf. >> a brief 12 minutes in court and dominick strauss-kah

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now the jury macon include that the accused made them, they were made well in advance of the death ofony, true? >> months, months in advance. when you get to the aggrevators in the penalty phase, one that is most powerful is cold, calculated and premeditated. the premeditated part is super premeditation. not just premeditation. it is advanced planning. this gives them the advance planning they need for that. greg growing a couple of efforts by the defense -- >> gregg: a couple of efforts by the defense to create reasonable doubt difficult to qualify and sometime quantify. george anthony took the stand. at one point he was crying about how he was so distraught that he tried to commit suicide. here's the suicide note, which came into evidence. we'll put it up on the screen. this isn't all of it. but these are select phrases: >> gregg: would you expect the defense to suggest that these are words of somebody who may be responsibility -- responsible for the victim's death? >> they did. that's what got the entire note admitted into evidence. they tried to, without admitting the note, they t

. >>> michael jackson's thriller video macon taken -- this kid is in a league of his own.n't know which is better, the kids dancing or these, you know, guys sitting in the stadium hooting over this whole thing. not only did the fans love it, so did almost 2 million people on youtube. some people got to blow up their boss's car. so that was patrick, a 1995 mitsubishi mirage that belonged to the vice president of sales for adaptive computing. the sales team got to blow up patrick as a reward for surpassing their 2010 revenue goals. all company employees and their families were invited out for the explosive celebration. the boss letting them blow up the car. and now to wolf blitzer for a look at what's coming up. good to see you. we've got lots coming up. we've got a major interview with tony blair, the british prime minister. we talk about that. but we also talk about what's happening in syria. we has very strong words for bashar al-assad. the issues unfolding in britain, as a result of what's going on over there. was he ever hacked, his phone? what did they do to his wife.

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host: republican line is next in macon, georgia. caller: thank you for taking my call. i want to make a couple of quick points. i really resent the word ' entitlement' in reference to social security and medicare. i paid into those systems for 38 years from the work force and now i have a myriad of health problems including leukemia and i am counting on that to provide for my family and i would be disappointed with our congress if they decided to cut or do away with social security, medicare. there are so many areas in a government that can be cut where there is wasteful spending. i served in the military for eight years and was proud to do so. i worked hard and did not ask for these medical problems. i need that assistance now and having paid into it for 38 years, i feel like i am entitled to it. host: we will continue with calls here on c-span and we are waiting to hear from senate democrats after their caucus meeting this morning. we're also waiting to see if the house will come back in today. it is likely they will and we will have live coverage for you here on c-sp