last night mike galanos talked with "showbiz tonight" cohost brooke anderson about michaels' overall health. >> he's been a diabetic sense he was a kid, right? >> yeah. since he was age 6 struggling with diabetes his entire life. he is 47 years old. recently, about a week and a half ago, in fact, mike, he was rushed to the hospital in san antonio, texas, where he underwent an emergency apen detective my. after that surgery he seemed to be in really good spirits, he posted a note to his fans in which he wrote, they told me that if i had gone on stage like i wanted to my appendix likely to be ruptured and i could have died and said it hurt but got a good threshold for pain and seemed to be in good spirits then. but apparently taken a turn for the worse. >> the 4-year-old michaels is probably best known for fronting the '80s hair band poison. recent years michaels is in vh1's "rock of love." >>> prosecutors wrapped up the case in the sarah palin e-mail hacking trial after calling the former governor herself to talk to the jury. 22-year-old david cornell is charging with hacking into pal

. >>> welcome, i'm mike galanos. four police officers have been success pinnspended in a maryla beating last month. it's pretty tough to watch. march 3rd, he joins a rowdy campus celebration after a big football win, maryland beats duke. then you see riots and police beating him. at first he pressed charges, and then the charges were dropped. >> let's take a look at the incident one more time as we see your client, jk mckinna. he's celebrating a win, and he comes up to the horse, the officers. what has he described happened to you? what has he told you? >> as you can see from the video, he's skipping down the road. we have another audio source. there was someone with a cell phone down on the sidewalk, and you can actually hear the audio. he's singing a fight song, and he clearly doesn't see the police line, and you can see that from his body language and his demean or. he actually stops, and before the police assault him, he takes a step back, and obviously, they jump him and start clubbing him. >> again, there is no

mike galanos got the update on hln's "prime news". >> natisha, do we know anything about evidence pulled from this body of water? >> well, what we know, mike, is that investigators did pull items of evidentiary value from the st. john's river, although they're not sure if those items are connected to haleigh cummings at this point. those items have been shipped off to different labs and they are doing testing on them. they are not giving us a time frame on when those items will be returned to them. >> 5-year-old haleigh cummings was reported missing from her father's home last january. her father's girlfriend, misty croslin, was babysitting the 15-year-old at the time. croslin is in jail on unrelated charges. croslin's cousin, joe overstreet, was questioned immediately after haleigh went missing and again this week. croslin's grandmother told hln another relative as accused overstreet of taking haleigh from the home. >>> call him the new eyes of the law, some police departments around the country have started attaching cameras to some of their officers while on patrol and the cameras cat

eastern, mike galanos taking a look at whether her celebrity affects this trial. >>> not good news forsaying it violates the right to free speech the supreme court today struck down a federal law to stop the sale and marketing of videos showing dogfights and other acts of animal cruelty. the 1999 law limited internet sales of crush video which shows women crushing to death small animals with their bare feet or high-heeled shoes. in an 8-1 move the justices included the scope and intent of the statute was overly broad. animal cruelty and dogfighting are illegal throughout the country. free speech advocates are happy, but animal rights groups call this one a defeat. >>> and pittsburgh steelers' quarterback ben roethlisberger taking part in teamworko workou like nothing happened. nfl commissioner roger goodell making it clear he's in serious trouble with the league. goodell is dropping pretty clear hints here he will suspend roethlisberger over allegations. the quarterback was not charged with a crime, remember, but the commissioner says roethlisberger did violate the league's rules of co

richelle carey discussed this case with ryan smith, host of "in session" on tru tv and mike galanos ofln's prime news. >> first of all, i want to know, ryan, you've worked for the nfl. is this what you expected? >> well, i -- i will tell you what i thought might be appropriate, which was eight games. i am not surprised he got six. and that actually fits with the way the nfl usually does things. because in these cases in the past, things like this, these kind of bigger penalties they want to give out from the commissioner, it's usually around four games. so to give him six, it shows that roger goodell sees this as being a very extreme situation so, he is going to give out a harsh penalty. for nfl this is a harsh penalty. >> are you satisfied with this? do you think this is right? >> i said on my program i thought it was going to be four with conditions of two. i think end up being four after ben roethlisberger fulfills conditions. they'll monitor his behavior. yes, i think they got it right. four games, that's a quarter of the season for one of the best quarterbacks in the nfl. and we'l

get any of the latest developments on that story with prime news with mike galanos at 6:00 p.m. eastern right here on hln. >>> we know exactly when tiger woods is going to return to golf, we have his tee time and we know who he's playing with tomorrow and rafer is in augusta and he got to watch tyker practice. tiger will be one of the last ones to start on thursday. >> well, we now know when tiger will tee off and with whom he will play. matt kuchar a former champion and k.j. choi will tee off weather permitting wednesday at 1:42 in the afternoon. live coverage doesn't start officially until 4:00 p.m. but we will be here live ourselves giving you up to the minute updates. tiger took in practice rounds yesterday and i followed him and he believes he can win this tournament and he has tremendous support. fans were following him chanting, we love you, tiger. welcome back, tiger. both men and women, couples taking pictures of the guy. so, he figures to have a lot of support around him. incidentally last night was the champion's dinner and the past winner gets to choose the menu. his

former sports reporter mike galanos. appreciate it. wpxi there in pittsburgh is saying an official announcement is forthcoming today. as soon as we get that, we'll pass it along to you certainly. >>> another story we've been watching. an oil rig still burning off the louisiana coast in the gulf of mexico. flames have been shooting out of the drilling platform since an explosion last night. the coast guard is searching the gulf for 12 people who are missing. the deep water horizon rig is 52 miles southeast of venice, louisiana. there were 126 people on board at the time this blast occurred. coast guard helicopters airlifted seven critically injured workers ashore. here's video of that. a coast guard spokesman says most of the crew got safely off the rig and into a work boat there. >>> former illinois governor rod blagojevich is calling federal prosecutors, and i'm quoting here, cowards and liars. they filed racketeering and fraud charges against him. blagojevich says they are trying to stop jurors from hearing all the fbi recordings of

." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> welcome, i'm ryan smyth in for mike galanos, and this is "prime news." incredible stories starting out today. a produce wer a hit reality show "survivor" has been released from the police custody in his wife's death. now, her body was found yesterday in a sewer at the moon palace hotel in cancun, mexico and staying there with her husband and their two kids. right now the prosecutors say she was possibly strangled. her husband has not been arrested for crime, but he has been detained and we are getting new disturbing details about what happened before she vanished. witnesses say there was fighting hours before she was killed and his face seems scratched up. what does this sound like to you? suspicious? give us your call at 1-877-tell-hln. joining us is reporter for radaronline.com, so alexis, fill us in. >> well, the wife who was murdered is the wife of the "survivor" producer who is unhappy with him. and according to the sister, she found out he was having an affair and she was furious and took all of the money out of the account, and went

talked to prime news host mike galanos. >> he is the legal child of ms. hanssen.he facts. just like if he was born to her biological biologically. he is her child. that's what is so troubling about this. if any of this, i had two children of my own. if i put one of my children on a flight to russia by himself, i would be in a lot of trouble. >> the sheriff in tennessee where the boy was living with his mom and grandmother asked for medical information about the boy as well as any records that the boy may have been abused in tennessee. >> interesting to see what happens. richard, you're hearing charges near washington, d.c., how will that work if no federal laws were broken? when was the 7-year-old boy near washington, d.c., even? >> it's all about the airport, natasha, that the boy left from. because the child flew alone out of dulles international airport which is just outside of washington, d.c. in virginia, charges might be filed there and airport spokeswoman said the county attorney's office in virginia in that case. coming up, natasha, we'll talk about the ad

i'm mike galanos and this is "prime news."an you adopt a child and then send the child back? that is what happened in tennessee. a mom put her adopted child on the plane to rush sharks and the mom says he had mental problems and now this could stop many people who are waiting to adopt here in the u.s. she is not facing charges, but should she? the sheriff is about to hold a press conference on the case, and we will go there live to find out whether or not she is facing charges. joining me is cnn reporter mark savage, and with us, an adoption attorney who is knowledgeable, because we have so many questions about the options. let's start with martin savage, and what is the latest? do we believe that the mom is going to face child endangerment charges here? >> well, it is a real question right here, mike. are we going the see charges coming out of the investigation. no question that a lot people think that the family's parental obligations were overlooked, and being the parents of a 7-year-old boy should have stuck it out longer

once again, this is "prime news" and i'm mike galanos, and the latest on misty croslin coming up, andfrom tommy who says he knows what happened to haleigh and he didn't do it. first this one, how do you walk by and do nothing? as a man literally bleeds to death on the sidewalk. check out this video from the "new york post," the man in queens collapses on the sidewalk and he had been stabbed several times after saying really saving a woman from an attacker and he was her hero, but this man didn't have one. then this scene, you see the people walking by, looking, and move on. no help at all. one even took his picture. he laid there for more than an hour before anyone called police and arrive and by then it was too late, he was dead. how has this happened? have we grown that cold as a society? we take your calls at 1-877-tell-hln. joining me to talk about this and welcome back to hln law enforcement analyst mike brooks and also stacy kaiser our psychotherapist, and midwin charles our prosecutor from our sister station trutv. how does this happen, stacy? >> well, there are all kinds of pe

mike galanos is here to talk about this. your first initial reaction to some of what egan wrote.e at any time. he is right on the money. let's playing it clear, that's been nike's policy. they wait until somebody gets convicted of a crime, i.e., michael vick with the dog fighting. when you talk about ben roethlisberger and all the accusations, what we do know and what commissioner roger goodell really set in on, it wasn't about the alleged harassment. it was about the underage drinking. that he is feeding shot to underage kids who were probably highly intoxicated. he being drunk himself, putting everybody at risk in this situation. on that alone, you could go after ben roethlisberger. then you throw in three separate allegations of sexual harassment. you have a civil case. a woman claiming rape in lake tahoe. he denies the allegations but it is there. and you have two incidents in georgia. the 20-year-old, those charges dropped but we know all the details and another woman claiming sexual harassment. so my question to mike, what do you have to do to drop him? >> it sounds like wh