meredith? >> lee cowan, thank you very much. it is 7:05. once again, here's matt. >> meredith, thanks. >>> on a much lighter note, we turn now to the star-studded campaign to bring the 2016 olympic games to chicago. president obama heads to copenhagen, denmark, later today. he will join his wife and some other heavy hitters who are already there pushing for the windy city. "today" national correspondent natalie morales is also in copenhagen. natalie, good morning to you. >> reporter: and good morning to you, matt. you know, it doesn't get any better in terms of pr blitzes than this. the president and first lady tag-teaming here to help boost chicago's chances for that olympic bid, and it looks like it may be working. the red carpet is out in copenhagen, ready to greet the world's power players, a full-on ground invasion to try and gain those crucial votes in the close race between host city hopefuls chicago, rio, tokyo and madrid. first to arrive for chicago, michelle obama. >> chicago is a won

meredi meredith? >> mick, thank you very much. 7:04. >>> now to the latest on the alleged blackmail plot that's exposed david ledder man's sexual relationships with members of his own staff. we'll talk to the lawyer representing the cbs news producer in the case in a bit, but peter alexander has more. >> reporter: this morning we've seen many late show employees arriving here at work. letterman's stunning admission has revealed a series of still-unanswered questions, like how many women were involved in did all the relationships end well, and did any of those women feel pressured by their boss' advances or were they all happily consensual? in the meantime, the man accused of extorting david letterman faces first degree grand larceny charges and if convicted, severe punishment -- up to 15 years behind bars. >> i have had sex with women who work for me on this show. >> reporter: it was no joke. david letterman's stunning confession last thursday revealing a bizarre story of interoffice sex, crime and mo

meredith? >> thanks, al. >>> and still ahead, we will have much more on that extortion plot targeting david letterman and his admitted sexual encounters with workers from his show. -n( music playing )kers from his - we know technology can make you more connected. but now it can make you more connected to your doctor through e-mail. test results from home. check records. change appointments. now doctors, nurses, techs, pharmacists are all digitally connected to each other. and ultimately connected to you. at kaiser permanente, we believe that if knowledge is power, shared knowledge is even more powerful. kaiser permanente. thrive. >>> just ahead, jon gosselin forces his family's reality show to stop production. kate's legal adviser speaks out. >>> plus, mariah carey after your local news. ♪ >> live, local, and late breaking. >> good morning, everybody. the time is 7:26. baltimore city police are searching for the man forced his way into a home in west baltimore. he held a woman at knifepoint and

meredith, first off why is this case moving? is the florida judge saying all is well or is this a jurisdictional issue? >> it is a jurisdictional issue. she ran away from florida and taken into custody by children services there but the attorneys for her parents up here in ohio have said all along it doesn't make sense for the case to be down there. she's an ohio girl. jurisdiction needs to be in ohio. the judge down there said we can't have jurisdiction in ohio. there is no case up there. now there, is a dependency case up here to determine where rifqa should live and a judge in ohio and florida both decided the ohio girl's case should be decided in ohio. >> okay. at the part of this, meredith, the investigations to find out whether or not there are claims and whether or not these threats are real, right? >> yes. >> where do you investigations stand whether or not her father, indeed, really threatened her? soinchts f >> so far the only agency that will say explicitly they conducted an investigation the florida department of law

meredith sat down earlier with kate and kate decided to stick around. there's some more things that she's got to say and meredith's going to talk to her to let people know what life is like now that the cameras are not on. got to be tough. >> it is pretty tough. >>> on a little bit of a lighter note, on "today's style," as the weather is cooling, the popularity of tights is growing. >> i'm wearing some right now. >> i don't want to know that! we'll tell what you to wear, what to stay away from. apparently there are some rules of the road here. >>> but first let's get a check of the top stories from our own natalie morales sitting in for me at the news desk. >>> good morning, ann and al. good morning to you. a deadly weekend for u.s. troops has added urgency to president obama's search for a new strategy in afghanistan. nine americans were killed, including eight who died repelling a fierce attack. u.s. military now says there is proof that the taliban was behind that attack. >>> at least five people were killed today when a suicide bomber attack offices

. >> last year meredith whitney made a lot of news saying some of the things she said. a lost people didn't listen to her. he should said some things today and if you don't listen to her now it's at your peril. she said we're probably halfway through this credit crisis thing. she talked about credit being a -- >> actually, let's bring up her quote. >> well, bring it up. >> i believe we are only in the early stages of the second half of the credit cycle. i expect another 1.5 trillion of credit card lines to be removed from the system by the end of 2010. >> let me nail that down. that's not bullish. either you listen to her and agree -- >> wait, wait, wait, wait, wait. >> go ahead. >> i am not disputing anything she's saying. we've seen small companies that really are having trouble accessing the credit markets. the question is everyone knows there's a lot of losses coming. do the stocks already reflect that? have they already taken into account another year of significant losses? i that i lot of them have. so if you're a company looking to borrow money, you're in the mid

gary hilton is serving life in prison for killing meredith emerson last year. that's the wrong videotape, obviously. meredith was hiking with her dog near hilton's campsite when he abducted her and i think we do have a map of the area to show you. kristi and meredith were both kidnapped in union county, georgia, but suffice it to say, very close together. just miles apart. this is my illustration of the war on women. this is just a rural area in georgia and two women abducted just miles apart from each other in a very short period of time. richard, what about your search for a primitive campsites? >> well, we continue to fly over these remote areas of the tristate area and we monitor those campsites and try to determine whether these campsites are staying in one place a little longer than normal. >> how are you coping with this? when i read and heard about this story of your precious sister simply going out for a walk to get exercise near her parents' home, on the phone with her boyfriend who's all the way in atlanta, and he hears her getting abducted and then

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let's go back in to meredith. >> al, thank you. >>> and now to the latest on that international custody battle that has landed a tennessee father behind bars in japan. he is now speaking out from jail. christopher savoie is facing charges of kidnapping his two young children, isaac and rebecca, from their mother, his japanese ex-wife, noriko. a tennessee court awarded christopher full custody in august after new yorkie suddenly and illegally took the children 7,000 miles from her home in franklin, tennessee, to japan. on monday, christopher reportedly grabbed his children on their way to school. local police arrested christopher as they headed into the u.s. consulate. in a jailhouse interview, savoie is said to have told a reporter, "japanese people think she's the victim here. in the states, my ex-wife is the one who's in the wrong." "i want americans to know what's happening to me. i didn't do anything wrong. i'm so scared." earlier this week, christopher's current wife, amy, told me they feared noriko would take the children. >> she had always seemed to find christopher's love for th

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meredith wis whitney says that's expected. whitney says another $1.5 trillion in credit lines could be removed from the system by tend of next year. whitney says without access to credit, they can't grow, can't hire and too often end up going out of business. you can get more news, videos and blogs on all of today's market-moving news at cnbc.com. >>> coming up on "worldwide exchange," the u.s. jobless rate is expected to rise to a 56-year high in september. should we get used to the idea of a new economy? >>> plus, all eyes are now on the imf as they meet in turkey.  >>> hello, everyone. welcome back to the show. as you can see, we have an ensemble of experts joining us to help us understand what's going on around the globe. patricia is with us on the german markets, stephane on the markets, as well. before we get to those three, we're going to start off with joshua raymond for a bit of insight as to what's going on here in the uk. it wasn't an aus suspicious start to the quarter. how is it shaping up today? >> another prett

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cision recruiter meredith schaumburg says the companywanta experience and specific sales skills. >> we also want people who have experience in sales, selling different types of software, also intellectual property, perhaps. >> it's probably selling to similar clients that you're reaching out to now. >> reporter: professional head hunters are also having a tough time matching job candidates with companies. creative sourcing often gets up to 600 resumes for one job opening, but typically only a fraction of the candidates are right for the position. recruiting manager demetri georgiadis says, if a candidate already has a job, he or she may not want to make a move. >> to go to a new corporation, now you're the new person. you may be the first in and the first one to go. so, when you're ingrained in a company, it's hard to take that jump. >> reporter: many companies are also reluctant to hire over- qualified candidates, fearing those employees will look for better opportunities when the economy does improve. diane eastabrook, "nightly business report," chicago. >> paul: although yesterday's

it's a bad thing to tell your children to lie to the authorities, to tell your children to die to meredith vieira and wolf blitzer, but i also think it's a very big deal in the country to take children away from their parents, and based on what i have seen this does not rise to that level. >> heene supposedly took two weeks to put the plan together. they should be charged sometime next week. >>> regulators say more than 100 american banks failed this year. regulators announced seven new bank closures yesterday, including a bank in naples, p . florida. that is more than four times the number that closed last year, and the highest tally since 1992. yesterday's bank shutdowns are expected to cost the federal department insurance fund more than $356 million. >>> we are getting reports of two missiles that hit a village in afghanistan killing 16 people. it's not clear if the people were militants are civilians. a militant hideout was hit and the u.s. does not comment on the suspected drone attacks that causes friction with pakistan. >>> a proposed bill to fight global warming would cost you abo

william lee meredith, american hero. thanks to our guests but especially to you. i'll see you tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp eastern. until then, good night, friend. >>> tonight on "the joy behar show." we've got the latest on that shocking story in colorado where that little bow floated off in a homemade helium balloon. jane velez-mitchell will till me all about it. >>> new polls say women have more freedom, more education, more economic power. so why aren't we happier? i want answers. >>> anna won one of those genius grants. i hope i can keep up with her coming up next. xxxxxxxxe >>> she's a crime fighting lesbian vegan. cartoon superhero? no. reporter, television host, and author? yes. she's jane velez-mitchell and she'll be joining me tonight. >>> then president obama's having as much trouble with the left as he is with the right. is that a good thing? >>> joining me in the studio one of the stars of "nurse jackie" anna deavere smith. all that and more tonight. >>> i want to start with a story out of colorado. a giant, silver helium balloon raced across th

william lee meredith, american hero. thanks to our guests but especially to you.'ll see you tomorrow night, 8:00 sharp eastern. until then, good night, friend.

meredith whitney. she'll trash the whole darn group, no matter how great the quarters are. she does that for a living. wait for her before you do anything. the third is a special situation. it's c, citigroup. people are looking for a loss here. i think you might get a gain. this is a referendum not on citi's, but on me. if the number is good, the stock will inch higher and higher. don't forget my theme, 12 in 12. 12 to our price target for 2012. another terrible trust name, goldman sachs reports thursday. used to be gillette safety, you know that. can't really beat that. goldman sachs reports thursday. if they don't say they had the best quarter ever, honestly, they have to say it, the stock could get completely hammered. that's the opportunity. i think they are in the midst of a gigantic turn. if goldman sachs is bad, the whole market will go down, okay? if it's good, i think we can trade higher. goldman has been leading the market in either direction. it's the ultimate barometer of the stock market. we get an inkling on whether congress had its fill of health care. j & j,

and meredith whitney said today they can't get credit. no second mortgage loans, no credit card loans. how much trouble are small businesses in? >> i think the big problem is we don't have any customers coming in the front door. i don't know about second mortgages. those are certainly harter to get. first mortgages are harder to get than a couple of years ago. but they should do. the consumer, you and i didn't show up in the fourth quarter last year. 35 years of cost cutting we haven't seen employment reductions like we've seen. it's huge. >> i want to get to this because this is the theme. 50% of the new jobs come from small business. 35% of the gdp come from small business. if anything, i see numbers that say 70%, the new jobs come from small business. the credit card problem, besides the hoequity loans, you've got health care threats, you've got cap and trade threats. all this raises the tax costs of hiring, does it not? ma what does it say about the small business recovery which, in turn, whauz what does it say about the whole economi

meredith vieira. >> a bombshell from david letterman that he had sex with female staff members. othello's cbs employee tried to use the information to blackmail him. we will have the latest. also, in copenhagen they will decide today which city gets off the 2016 olympic games. president obama, will he be able to bring the games to chicago? also, mariah carey will perform live on the plaza right here on "today." >> 55 degrees on tv hill. >> we will have another look at what is it to lead? at pnc, it's doing what most benefits our customers. whether that's building more certified green buildings than anyone on earth. creating online banking tools for the next generation. or making a 10 year, $100 million investment in kids. it's how we've always done business. and will for a very long time to come. pnc. leading the way. >> you have a few things going on out there. >> there is a left side accident on the inner loop that at 70. if you are going on 795 and southbound direction from owings mills to the beltway, have been delays. there's an accident dundalk near wise. on 24 and 95 at b

is a bad thing to tell your children to lie to the authorities, to tell your children to lie to meredith and wolf. >> is that a crime? >> but it is a very big deal in this country to take children away from their paperrents and this does not rise to that level. >> the heenes took about two weeks to put this thing together. they could be charged sometime next week. >> arneighbors held another vigil for the family of 7-year-old summer thompson. her neighbors and friends sang her favorite song. she had been missing since monday. police have not made any arrests yet but they ruled out all 161 sex offenders who lived within five miles of the little girl's home. investigators are not revealing how she died. >>> a driver in a rush hour accident is lucky to be alive today. passing motorists stopped just in time to help him but one caught his truck exploding. are. >> talk about getting there just in the nick of time. several drivers raced to pull the driver out just before the truck exploded. someone recorded that fire with a cell phone camera. the accident happened during rush hour yesterday. th

great meredith whitney article in today's "wall street journal" and b, all these governmental programs may be stopping small businesses from hiring, they are worried about taxes and regulations. what's your take? >> well my take is the opposite, not surprisingly. the big banks are not lending. t.a.r.p., in my view, has bean failure. they are not lending to small businesses and small businesses are the life blood of the economy. rather than worry about government spending too much i worry quite frankly about government spending too little. as i said before the stimulus package is the thing that's keeping the economy up, keeping people employed. without government spending, without the stimulus package i'm afraid as the commerce secretary said we'll be in trouble. if we talk about health care reform, i'll tell you we got to get those costs under control. >> look at all the taxes. there are ten separate taxes. >> i can hear you. you talked right over me. >> i'm sorry, robert. there are ten separate tax hikes in the baucus package for health care. a lot of those will hit small businesses i

. >> coming up tomorrow on "today," kate gosselin sits down with meredith vieira for an exclusive livel see you back here tonight for "nbc nightly news." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> got questions about the swine or seasonal flu? plus, how to dress fr less and make a great first impression. >> temperatures climbing through the 50s. a nice day ahead. coming up.

. >> that is meredith viera interviewing heene.ened on another morning show and they kept on the interview, again. the boy is being ask ed to lion television and to police. the mommy breaks down to admit it's all a hoax. please tell me i'm wrong. i want to be wrong. is it true they are pointing the finger at the sheriff saying they are responsible for wrong doing? >> right. the heene's lawyer asked that the sheriff be investigated. >> wait, wait. richard heene, the daddy who taught the kids this filthy rap song and put it on youtube, he's claiming the sheriff did something wrong. did you say that? >> that's right. they are asking for a criminal investigation into the sheriff because they say that sheriff mentioned to the press that he had instructed cps to look into the case. >> child protective services. would he, john burris, the sheriff be derelict if he did not refer the case to child protective services? >> it's true. it doesn't mean he has to tell the world about it. >> whoa. whoa. burris, burris. please. let me have a little

for a look at what's next on "the today show," here's meredith viera. >> good morning.oming up on a monday morning, the taliban claiming it was mind behind a dead lay tack. -- deadly attack. eight americans died. we are in kabul with the latest. new details on david letterman's admitted affairs and the suspect accused of trying to blackmail him. and john gosselin reportedly cleans out a joint bank account days after halting production of his family's reality show this morning kate going lynn speaks -- gosselin speaks out that and more right here on "today." >> 6:53. 49 degrees. >> just ahead, another look at weather and traffic together before you head out to start your day. >> first, a look at last night's winning maryland lottery numbers. love to save? shop with your giant card and save on thousands of deals, like progresso vegetable classics -- 10 for $10, wisk ultra detergent -- buy one, get one free, and other weekly specials and real deal savings. enjoy more savings -- only with your giant card. tightening your purse strings? shop with your giant card and save on

i hope you had a chance to see meredith whitney's op-ed today in the journal that access to credit to small businesses. she said small businesses have never had a harder time getting a loan. what's the impact there? >> the impact is terrible. when you compound it with the fact that the stimulus bill basically leaves small business out in terms of assistance in the forms of tax credits, job credits, and targeted training grants, small business is in a very bad position right now except in those states where we have entrepreneur ral governors trying to solve the problem. >> what's going on? is the stimulus not working? questions that we posed to the labor secretary this morning. >> absolutely the stimulus is not working from the standpoint of small business. i talked about this for the last six months. small businesses have been left out of the package. and we're trying to solve the employment problem with the global fortune 500 instead of using the long theory and using the 6 million small businesses in america. if they each hired one person we would be cracking the back of this unempl

i'm isabella o'connor filling in for meredith vieira while she's away on assignment. >> i'm owen andoing to show you how video games can help us communicate by using technology. >> i can see we're going to have a hard time choosing between these kids. so, if you are a child -- well, maybe if you are a child or you know a child between the ages of 8 and 12 who has a bright personality and flair for the spotlight and an interest in journalism, have them send us a tape no longer than a minute. >> next wednesday, october 7th, is the last day we'll take submissions. it should be mailed to today's kid reporter, 30 rockefeller plaza, new york, new york, 10112. the official rules are posted on todayshow.com. >>> still to come this morning, however, we have a very talented actress in the house. drew barrymore is joining us about a movie she's directed. >>> plus, bobbie thomas on how to show off your shape. grandma, take me there. but with my occasional irregularity i wasn't always up to it. until i discovered activia and everything started to change. announcer: activia is clinically proven to

on the "today" show this morning, and she got really emotional when she explained her claims to meredith vieira, including why she doesn't trust jon with money. take a look at that. >> i'm sorry. the last thing i wanted was to do this show and end up not being able to pay my bills, so i put money aside, willingly brought it forward and split it with him when we had our meeting. so he took the 50,000 and did whatever with it. i paid bills with my $50,000. and once the court arbitrator stepped in, i felt like the money -- i had to put it back. i didn't feel like it would be safe, to be honest. and he took $230,000 of the $231,000 that we have liquid. and i have a stack of bills in my purse i can't drop in the mail. >> now, jon for his part is saying that he didn't take the money. that the claims are a complete fabrication. he tells "the insider" that he has taken about $177,000 bucks over the last year. that essentially is his paycheck and that kate is basically making all this up. i have to say, i think it's so sad, richelle, that they're communicating through the media, and apparently, a

meredith whitney says business is contracting for small businesses. she argues the government needs to provide more support. whitney expects another $1.5 trillion will be removed from the system by the end of next year. 82% all small. >> did you see her on that one shot of hers? it looks like she was headed into the academy awards or something. >> really? >> it was a red background. there she is. what is she up for, best supporting -- amazing. >>> the "new york times" says that the gooft will effectively have veto power over whomever the board chooses to replace retiring b of a boss ken lewis. interesting piece in the journal today about, you know, it's -- the government didn't limb out, ow, but he had to leave. it's for the good of the country but, you know, keep it quiet. if he is in the wrong here, there's a lot of entities involved. >> ammunition. >> yeah. it's just that he had a lot of -- he wasn't making all those decisions in a vacuum, i don't think. the gocht is a coconspirator, i believe. >> we did ask -- i forget which congressman if they fe

i think it's bad thing to tell your children to lie to authorities and lie to meredith vieira and wolfat's to be discouraged. but it's a big deal in this country to take children away from their parent ms. based on what i've seen, it's not the case here. >> 100 american banks have failed this year. regulators announced several new closures yesterday including a bank in naples florida. that brought the total to 106 banks. that's four times the number that closed last year. and the highest tally since 1992. yesterday's bank shutdowns are expected to cost the federal deposit insurance fund more than $356 million. they're all regional banks that did not receive hell from the federal government. >>> a proposed bill to fight global warming would cost you about $100 more a year. that's what the environmental protection agency is saying. it looked to how much the bill would bump up the average home's energy bill. some studies said the increase could be as much as $3,000. the bill is promoting energy not made from fos sit fuels to cut green house gases. senate hearings on the bills could begin

and the defense also argued that no forensic evidence from amanda was found in the room where meredithher was killed. >> there is no dna. no fingerprints. no anything of amanda inside that room. >> reporter: whatever the judges decide about examining the evidence, the next stage in the trial is closing arguments. but like everything else so far, that is expected to drag out. and even if amanda is acquitted, the long ordeal still may not be over. >> if she would have to be released. however, that doesn't stop a prosecutor from asking to detai her beuse once she is in america, it would be hard for her to be extradited. >> it's a foreign country that has an extremely different legal system than the united states. and until i hear those words of, you're innocent, i just need to hear that. >> reporter: amanda's parents hope to hear those words very soon. closing arguments could begin in just a few weeks, depending on what the judge decides either today or this weekend. >> elizabeth, thank you so much. joining us live from seattle, washington, is etta meles. she is the mother of amanda knox.

meredith vieira was apparently gunning for another guest spot on "30 rock" and asked tina fey who shed to make out with on the "today" show set. fair question, right? tina said, al roker. do we want to see this? let's see how it turned out. >> here we go. oh, my gosh, i don't even want to watch.. >> oh, my gosh! >> now, does that mean he gets the guest spot or i get the guest spot -- >> that was his guest spot. >> well, in other hot tina fey news, tina said she would definitely consider playing sarah palin again if she runs for office. >>> sarah silverman is under fire about her new idea of ending world hunger. >> i'm like, okay. how are you going to end world hunger? and then it hit me -- sell is vatican, feed the world. >> sell the vatican? guess what? not everybody's laughing. wait until you hear what the catholic league had to say today about sarah's new stunt. this is "showbiz tonight" on hln. >> time to roll out the "showbiz" news ticker. more stories from the "showbiz tonight" newsroom making news right now -- they said it would never last. but it's been two months, and you're

meredith adds it's terrible these kids can't complete their education without violence.ory tugging at your heart strings. go to our facebook page and tell us what you're thinking. >>> a flu outbreak is forcing some schools to close. right now an elementary school and two middle schools near milwaukee have canceled their classes for a few days. about 40% of the kids there have a fever, cough, and sore throats. many parents support the closings. >> they're germ factories. they come home with everything. pencils in the mouth, crayons in the mouth, fingers in the mouth. i think it's the right decision. >> during the closing crews will clean the schools. they should reopen early as friday. >>> the man in the balloon boy incident has been arrested before. the l.a. city attorney's office says richard heene pleaded no contest to vandalism charges in 1997. he got 30 days in jail, two years' probation. >>> 911 dispatchers also got a call from heene's colorado home earlier this year. the sheriff says it made authorities suspicious about possible domestic violence. no charges were f

when you were released, you were on with matt or meredith? >> matt came to my house. i got permission for him to be there. >> but you weren't supposed to do it. it was unapproved. >> it was approved in writing from the bureau of prisons. they said, we didn't know there would be two more people asking you questions than were there. they lied. >> listen to what you said in august. >> you have i lewded to me that you think because you're a ho homos homosexual that that implied to your case. >> i meant to state that definitively. >> okay, so what's the gay thing? >> when you select a jury, you can ask them questions during a process of voir dire. he's discriminated against in the country, he just got married in canada because he's not allowed to be married in the united states. >> your married? where did you meet him? >> i met him ingentiargentina. we asked the judge if we could ask how the jurors felt about homosexuals. we were not allowed to ask. that's evidence of bias from the get go. the judge exhipted his full bias. >> why didn't your lawyer say something? >> i wasn

when you were released, you were on with matt or meredith? >> matt came to my house. got permission for him to be there. >> but you weren't supposed to do it. it was unapproved. >> it was approved in writing from the bureau of prisons. they said, we didn't know there would be two more people asking you questions than were there. they lied. >> listen to what you said in august. >> you have alluded to me that you think because you're a homosexual that that implied to your case. >> i meant to state that definitively. >> okay, so what's the gay thing? >> when you select a jury, you can ask them questions during a process of voir dire. he's discriminated against in the country, he just got married in canada because he's not allowed to be married in the united states. >> your married? where did you meet him? >> i met him in argentina. we asked the judge if we could ask how the jurors felt about homosexuals. we were not allowed to ask. that's evidence of bias from the get go. the judge exhibited his full bias. >> why didn't your lawyer say something? >> i wasn't allowed to s

. >> that is meredith vieira interviewing heene while his kid vomits in his lap and then it happenedy just kept on with the interview again. the boy's being asked to lie, not only on national television, but to police. the mommy breaks down and admits it was all a hoax. to ellie jostad, please tell me i'm wrong. is it true the heenes are now pointing the finger at the sheriff saying they're responsible for wrongdoing? >> the heene's lawyer, the lawyer for richard heene, ask the sheriff be investigated. >> wait, wait. richard heene, the daddy who caught the kids this filthy rap song and put it on youtube? he is claiming the sheriff did something wrong? did you say that? >> that's right. they're asking for a criminal investigation into the sheriff -- >> of the sheriff? >> into the sheriff because they say that sheriff mentioned to the press that he had instructed cps to look into the case. >> child protective services. wouldn't he, john burris, the sheriff, be derelict in his duty if he didn't refer the case to cps child services? >> it's true. it doesn't mean he has to tell the world

. >> did you notice how ann and meredith didn't touch al's porn stash comment. >> i'm not a baby. i'm a man. i'm an anchorman. >> see the resemblance. ron burgundy in anchorman. pick up your copy on the issue of "people" magazine. it will be on newsstands friday. i have been posting lots of stuff on the "showbiz tonight" facebook page about jon and kate fighting over their mone. this struck a cord. there is a raging debate on our wall. erica n doesn't feel sorry for kate. she can't pay her bills. no one wants to hear that in a recession. people are losing houses and jobs and you are cry being you and jon fighting over money. give me a break. jessica said let them talk things out. what they need to do is go into a room and talk and talk and talk or yell until there is sense in both of their brains. i would love to hear from ow facebook and follow us on twitter where we can send you breaking news alerts. go to cnn.com/showbiztonight. this is what's coming up at the bottom of the hour. jon and kate, total hypocrites? >> i can't sit with someone i despise. >> i want us to mediate and

. >> the bottom line here is that meredith, the victim, was alive when the night began.le in the house. i don't know how amanda knox could be found not guilty. >> in addition to that, they've got her implicating a guy who is a bar tender who was absolutely not there. i think that he's going to be suing her. she's lied, she's changed her stories. there is a bloody foot print -- >> let me ask you this -- >> she heard the screams, but she thought she was dreaming. >> had she said from the beginning, you know what, i was high on drugs. the night is a blur. i feel horrible about what happened. this is a tragedy. would she be sitting in a better position? >> without a doubt because it's all about your mental state. it's all about whether or not did you intentionally try to kill this woman and apparently she was stabbed and almost decapitated. it was a very vicious, vicious homicide. if she had said, you know what, i was drunk or drugged and i didn't have the intent to kill her, then it's manns. it's not -- manns, it's not murder. >> is it too late for her to go that route? >>

to tick higher, yet consumer credit, both the supply of it as given by the banks and written by meredithhitney and the demand of it written by consumers continues to pull back. >> that was a pretty good showing on friday for equities, no? >> it was. but all things considered, equities performed pretty well. they did find their way to manage back close to uneven before giving back a little bit of those intraday gains going into the close. but again, i think it's going to be really tough here ahead of earnings season. and given the data points last week for money managers to come in and aggressively bid equities at these types of levels ahead of the coming weeks. you'll probably see a range trade. but a lot of protection, joe, was bought in the form of vix futures and put options over the course of august and september. looking for this historically challenging time. the downside maybe a little bit further lower. >> if you had to buy one or the other, the ten-year or the s&ps? >> can i say neither? >> no, i would probably be a better buyer of stocks, joe, but i'll tell you, i would do it -

reggie shaw and mccall meredith will share their stories. natalie hayford is a student activists who is trying to help us understand the dangers of driving while distracted. welcome to everyone. thank you. thank you for being here. i will lead a little q &a so we can understand what is happening. i will star with reggie and nickel. -- nichole. i am reggie shaw, i am now 22 years old. when i was 19, i was living at home with my parents in a small town in u.s. northern utah. one morning, i left for work. on my way to work, i made decision to text and drug. it was something i had done before, to text and drive. on the way to work i was sending and receiving when i steered across the center line and struck another car. in this other car, there were two men who were both killed on impact. two men that were fathers, or husbands, they care for their family and wanted the best for them. because of my choice to text and drive, i took their lives and changed the lives of these families. i change my life forever. since then, it has been hard for me. it