the latest from lexington, missouri, right on the missouri river. >>> we have this report. an i-report for you along the mid-atlantic coast it's a storm for the record books. one of our i-reporters brings us up close and personal with that nor'easter slamming virginia beach. we have seen nothing like this before. we'll get you all of it just ahead. >>> welcome back. one of our i-reporters in virginia beach says he's not seen anything like this in years. william bernstein took video as the mid-atlantic coast was slammed by downpours and remnants of tropical storm ida and strong winds from that nor'easter. counterclockwise wind direction as that storm marched up the atlantic seaboard. he saw a lot of flooding and down trees in the area. when he got to the beach he realized how strong the winds really were and the storm as he put it was one for the record books. >> this is absolutely spectacular here, folks. what a difference a few hours makes. the surf has come all of the way up here. i can't turn around. it feels awful. my gosh. if you could just -- it's bad here. it's blowi

. >>> small town missouri caught in the heated civil rights battle. how confrontation at cutting a line at walmart led to an accusation of bigotry. >>> this soldier says her responsibility as a mother overruled her military responsibilities. what the army is saying and who is taking care of her baby. >>> everyone is talking about this. a government panel of doctors and scientists issued a new recommendation for breast cancer screening and they have set off a huge debate. the u.s. preventive services task force says most women don't need mammograms until they're 50. for years doctors have urged women to start getting them every year at age 40. the panel concluded that frequent screenings lead to false alarms and unneeded bioppositeibiops biopsies and they say that self-exams don't do any good. >> the task force did find screening women in their 40s does save lives. they went on to do some calculations that we disagree with and estimate you have to screen 1,900 women in their 40s to save one life and 1,440 women in their 50s to save one life. it leads m

coming up a missouri woman is accused of cutting a line at walmart. now she is facing up to 15 years? how is that? we'll lay it out for you in our weekly feature "what matters." >>> a woman faces 15 years in prison for cutting in line at a walmart. it sounds harsh but that's how the case against heather ellis is playing out. prosecutors say she jumped the line at walmart and then that led to an argument. police were called in. they say ellis assaulted them. she denies that and refused to sign a plea agreement. >> we tried to resolve this thing early on and there was no indication of any desire to do so. >> ellis was charged with trespassing, disturbing the peace, and two felony counts of assaulting an officer. the case has gotten national attention. joining us now dr. boyce watkins, professor at syracuse university, who is planning a rally for ellis later this month. what was your reaction when you first became aware of this story that heather ellis is facing charges for an incident that stemmed, not technically for cutting in line but for something t

martins, missouri, peggy florence, the olten family spokesperson. ms.rence, thank you for being with us. >> hello, nancy. >> ms. florence, please tell me how the olten family is doing tonight. >> well, the family is doing as well as can be expected. the family is a very strong and loving family, and they're pulling upon each other and supporting one another in this terrible time. >> ms. florence, according to all of our sources, this was an extremely safe neighborhood. that the mom did everything right. she knew where her daughter was. just down the street with a playmate. it was about 1,000 feet away. it was daylight. she had a cell phone for elizabeth to stay in touch with her all the time. >> yes. it was a very safe neighborhood. she did everything right. she was a very loving and concerned mother. >> peggy florence, the family, the olten family, knows this 15-year-old girl. is that correct? >> the children played together, yes. >> we are taking your calls. out to lakisha in indiana. hi, lakisha. >> caller: hi, nancy, first of all, my family and i th

his brother and four sons have been arrested in missouri. mohler says he's grown apparent from his relatives and has nothing to do with them. >>> general motors reported a loss of 1.2 billion from july 10th, the day it came out of bankruptcy to september 30th. this is a bit of good news, however, because gm will start repaying government loans early, anticipating it will pay back $1 billion next month. since the end of 2008 we as fax payers have forked over $50 billion to help gm. >>> it looks as though we're opening our wallets a little bit more. not just good news in a bad economy. it could certainly be a sign that the economy is recovering. retail sales rose more than expected in october. the government reports a 1.4% rise. nearly half a percent more than analysts had expected. homeowners in financial trouble can save their homes and their credit. acting fast is the key. hln money expert clark howard tells us how. >> i get a lot of questions from people wanting to know if they negotiate a deal with their mortgage lender, how is that going

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

a woman in missouri on trial after cutting in line at a walmart. today jurors got a closer look at what went down. heather ellis attacking police after cutting in line at this walmart in missouri. it happened three years ago. this is surveillance video, the alleged incident that jurors saw today. ellis says customers shoved her and used racial slurs when she changed lines. the video shoes people at a checkout counter pushing back items and others in their place. police were called. you'll see police in a minute. ellis claims an officer told her to go back to the ghetto and another roughed her up. police say she was belligerent, she kicked an officer and she split another's lip. if convicted ellis could face up to 15 years in prison. she was offered a plea deal a couple years ago but turned it down. >>> if you're taking a flight today, you may be in for a wait. you may have already experienced this and got to your destination finally. the airlines and this morning and critical and air trans and at one point they were two hours ahead of schedule. so

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

martins, missouri, peggy florence, this is the olten family spokesperson. ms.rence, thank you for being with us. >> hello, nancy. >> ms. florence, please tell me how the olten family is doing tonight. >> well, the family is doing as well as can be expected. the family is a very strong and loving family, and they're pulling upon each other and supporting one another in this terrible time. >> ms. florence, according to all of our sources, this was an extremely safe neighborhood. that the mom did everything right. she knew where her daughter was. just down the street with a playmate. it was about 1,000 feet away. it was daylight. she had a cell phone for elizabeth to stay in touch with her all the time. >> yes. it was a very safe neighborhood. she did everything right. she was a very loving and concerned mother. >> peggy florence, the family, the olten family, knows this 15-year-old girl. is that correct? >> the children played together, yes. >> we are taking your calls. out to lakisha in indiana. hi, lakisha. >> caller: hi, nancy, first of all, my family and i th

i don't know how long it would run missouri, a little bigger state, but a while. probably run alabama for a little while, too. south dakota could run for 200 years, for all i know. it's a lot of money, $800 billion-plus. but that is not the cost of this bill. that is not the cost of this bill. the way that number was arrived at -- and i think the american people need to understand, because if that number was so honestly arrived at and -- what does the rest of the american people not know about. the way that number was arrived at was that they don't start spending money on this bill until the fourth or the fifth year. they couldn't get the score they wanted. they couldn't get the score they wanted from c.b.o., so they changed the year. they moved back another year in the ten-year cycle. they went from four years to five years as to the starting point of most of the spending in this bill. what they claim to the american people is that a ten-year bill is going to cost about $800-plus billion. what they don't tell the american people is they're not spending anything i

here is your upper level low, right around the missouri area in towards kansas and northern areas of arkansas, too. your surface low generating a lot of rain in towards kentucky, indiana and illinois. you can see illinois getting decent rain but it is falling shy of chicago so you get a couple of showers coming in later today. right now you're dry. here is kansas city that white is all snow and it's heavy at times in areas but the thing is temperatures are right around freezing but just a little bit of fog. it's having a tough time sticking on the road here. you have a winter weather advisory until 8:00 this morning lo local time for you around kansas city and then emporia. it will make things slick for you especially on the bridges and overpasses for the morning. here is that kansas city radar picture. 40 degrees into extreme western missouri, but into the 30s around eastern parts of kansas. you can cito peca, light snow. heavier snow around kansas city and levin worth, too. temperatures right around 40 right there. the steady precip out of the south, that's all rain indiana in towa

sex crimes in missouri. a father and his four sons accused of abusing younger relatives. >>> welcome back. i have to warn you, as we deal with this story, very traumatic, warn you about kids in the room because we're talking about allegations of child rape, incest. one of the worst sex crimes we've had to deal with on "prime news." six family members arrested in western missouri. a father and his four adult sons. cops have now arrested dad's brother, darrell moehler, 72. accused of having sex with two girls, ages 5 and 9. he said he's innocent of the allegations against this family, forcing children to have sex with relatives, fake marriages. one victim, a woman, came forward, now 26, said that they were told to bury bad memories in glass jars. so there's a search going on for that as well. and she said she was forced to have an abortion at age 11. bill grady at knbz radio. also withes, stacy kaiser, our psychotherapist. first off, the new arrests. darrell moehler, the father's brother. he's claiming innocen

. >>> police arrested a sixth member of a missouri family accused of sexually abusing kids for years. derek mohler was found in florida where he lives. his brother and and others were arrested tuesday. six alleged victims who are now adults told investigators the suspects sexually abused them when they were children. >>> some strong reactions out there about the decision to bring the 9/11-related trial to new york. attorney general eric holder said five suspects with alleged ties to the attacks will be tried in a civilian court in manhattan. the courthouse just blocks away from ground zero. the suspects include khalid shaikh mohammed and four other guantanamo bay detainees. >> i care about the fact that these people are war criminals, they're terrorists, they do not deserve the full panoply of u.s. protection of law. and most important of all, they did terrible, horrible crimes against the human race and they're given a forum to make america seem bad again and to criticize and mock america. it's just extremely unseemly. >> this may turn out to be an opportunity for some people to get

. >>> police have arrested a sixth member of a missouri family accused of sexually abusing kids for years. 3 % them wthe en % >>> some strong reactions out there about the decision to bring the 9/11-related trial to new york. attorney general eric holder said yesterday, five suspects with alleged ties to the attacks will be try in a civilian court in manhattan. the courthouse just blocks away from ground zero. the suspects include confessed 9/11 mastermind, khalid shaikh mohammed and four other detainees. >> i care about the fact they're war criminals, terrorists, they do not deserve the full panoply of u.s. protection of law. and most important of all, they did terrible, horrible crimes against the human race and now they're going to be given a forum to make america seem bad again and to criticize and mock america. it's just extremely unseemly. >> this may turn out to be an opportunity for some people to get some of the justice they've been looking for for a long time and may show that the civilian court system can succeed in certain cases where the evidence is clear, is overwhelming, an

a 9-year-old missouri girl has a play date, walks home, still daylight. only about 1,000 feet. never makes it home. the search for 9-year-old elizabeth olten comes to an end. her body found in a wooded area just houses from her own home. murder suspect tonight in custody. not a registered sex offender or a parolee. it's a 15-year-old girl. we confirm suspect is the big sister of elizabeth's little playmate. bombshell tonight. youtube and twitter uncover a previously well-hidden dark side to the 15-year-old accused child killer. listed hobby on her youtube profile? "killing and cutting." repeat. "killing and cutting." that's her hobby. this along with freakish video of suspect electrocuting herself and her little brothers on an electric fence. we have the video. >> stunning developments today in the case of 9-year-old elizabeth olten, whose body was found in a heavily wooded area behind her home. social networking sites are allegedly painting a dark portrait of the 15-year-old teen girl accused of murdering elizabeth olten. ♪ >> ah! >> the teen suspect's alleged youtube profile

heaviest rain by far falls around central and southern illinois in towards missouri. we're going to see problems because of that. delaywise, chicago an hour or more because of the wind. gusting to about 35 miles per hour. it's going to be out of the east-northeast. tough direction. new york city metros, dallas, 30 minute to one hour delays. gusty winds once again. houston and seattle looking at more wind. seattle, the rain heavy at times as well. 30 minute to one hour delays. scattered showers, brings in poor visibility at a low level. memphis, st. louis, same thing. kansas city showers, 30 minute to one hour delays. this is what i'm anticipating from later today. >>> the space shuttle "atlantis" should be on its way to the international space station this afternoon. nasa plans to launch it from the kennedy space center about 2:30 or so. 100 shuttle fans will get to see it close up so they can tweet about it. they're expected to reach about 150,000 twitter followers. can i listen in right now? are they talking? filling time there at nasa? it's a live picture. nothing.

at least here in missouri. >> all right. lisa? >> caller: they'll take a report, but i mean, the child -- >> we hear you. i hear what you're saying. good question. lisa, i'm going to give you the last word. >> but you've got to do it. you've got to do it anyway. and you've got to follow up. and you've got to call the police, and you've got to do everything humanly possible. it does take a village to raise a child and it takes all of us to save children who are in jeopardy. imagine being 5-year-old shaniya, her last moments being carried off by this man into a hotel. we know for what purpose. we know what happened to her afterwards. that's why you've got to make the call. that's why you can't give up. >> but i think the caller makes an important point u our system is broeb. it never works. i've never called a government agency and get a response. i either get a busy signal, or this number is not in service. the system is completely broken. and we need to fix it. thank you, fabulous panel. >>> an innocent move in the checkout line w

those five banks were based in california, michigan, minnesota, georgia, and missouri. this is the highest number of u.s. bank failures in one year since 19 2. a federal fund to cover failed banks is running low. >>> a florida jury has convicted a man who said he was too fat to kill. jurors rejected the lawyers' claims that he was too fat to run up a flight of stairs to shoot his former son-in-law. edward ates weighed 285 pounds. he was in a custody battle with ates daughter. ates' lawyer plans to appeal the murder conviction. >>> everybody wants to save more and spend less. clark howard has ways to help you save more spend less and avoid getting ripped off. the clark howard show, noon eastern here on hln. >>> so, what do matt dillon and jay leno have in common? they probably have been on the show together. but they were born in the same town. a slightly less famous resident, though, takes us on a tour for "my city, my secret." >>> hi, i'm debbie nigro. and this is my city. new rochelle, new york. this is the queen city of the south. i'm going to show you the sights aro

cindy is calling us from missouri. you sound upset. >> caller: i'm professionally a social worker. i have on and off over the last 20 years worked with the homeless. i also find myself after coming out of a marriage being homeless in a strange community. i've been on both sides of it. i also lived in an upstanding neighborhood. i have remarried and everything is fine. what i want to point out is face of homelessness is not criminal drug dealers. right now it's veterans. it's families down on their luck. it's people who no longer have the mental health services they need. they're not violent. they're not able to maintain their lives. these are not people who will prey on people. i want to make sure that communities understand that. right now there is a -- this is a grossly neglected section of humanity. people need a place to go. there is a way that they can craft organized transportation in and out of the neighborhood so that there's always somebody hosting them for pick up and drop-off points. they get there. they leave. idea of putting the church on the outskirts, that's not a ba

officers in missouri city, missouri, found pickup trucks, farm equipment, brand-new appliances, in a field outside a dilapidated house. deputies were checking out a report someone there had shot at a neighbor's dog and found an 8-year-old boy living in the home with a loose python. deputies arrest add woman and are looking for a man they saw get away. >>> a sex tape of former miss california usa carrie prejean apparently led to her sudden legal settlement with the pageant according to a source close to the case and the story is getting a lot of attention on cnn.com right now. tmz says it got the home video in the summer but it was too racy to post on its site. the managing editor indicate that had prejean was alone on the tape. her lawyer would only say the settlement was confidential and he could not discuss it. >>> you know, just when i thought they settle, bob, the story keeps going on and on and now we have a new chapter. >> this one took an interesting turn, though. >> it did. hey, bob. >> let me show you what's happening. if you're doing any traveling tod today, same deal as ye

officers in missouri city, missouri, found pickup trucks, farm equipment, brand new alliances in thisutside a dilapidated house. deputies were checking out reports that someone there had shot at a neighbor's dog. and get this, they also found an 8-year-old boy living in the home with a loose python. deputies arrested a woman and are looking for a man they saw get away. >>> our money expert clark howard, he expert clark howard serves in the georgia state guard. clark and robin teamed up to help soldiers and you to save more, spend less, and avoid getting ripped off. >> i have about five more working years that i'm going to invest. i don't get my reserve retirement until i'm 59 1/2, but we'll still have extra money to invest during that time. what would be the best thing to look into for end of career type investments? >> okay. let me ask you a tough question, if you quit working at 59 1/2, you know the odds are you'll live maybe another 30 years or so. are you confident that you're going to have enough money five years from now that you will be able to carry yourself the rest of your l

. >>> unbelievable catch in the missouri game. the watch this. the tigers routed colorado thanks to plays like this. the gerald jackson, the one-handed catch. look at this. it's a bad pass. jackson makes up for it. could be the play of the day if we were choosing that. but we're not. very nice. that's sports. >>> it seems things are always bigger in texas, including hometown pride. country singer aaron watson shares some of his favorite hangouts in abilene for "my city my secret." >> howdy, folks. the i'm aaron watson. they call me the honky-tonk kid. ♪ i can still see you standing there ♪ i live in abilene, texas, and i want the to show you some of my favorite hangouts. the we're here at the abilene zoo. this is one of my favorite spots to take my two little boys. the abilene is a hidden gem because it's rare for a town of this size to have such a fantastic zoo. my favorite attraction here at the zoo is our new white tiger. what does he say? here we are at bogie's, downtown, abilene, texas. you can order something off the menu or they can help y

susan in missouri. >> caller: hi, nancy. my question is regarding the school.e discussed school, the child was not in school. >> right. >> caller: my question is, was anybody from shaniya's family on dad's side calling or seeing her, contacting her within this five-week period, if the mother was so drugged out all the time? >> what about it? what do we know? >> we have been hearing the aunt would take her on the weekends o occasionally during the five weeks. >> when you say the aunt, you mean the biofather's sister who we saw speaking earlier. yeah, she took her often. >> there were allegations while shaniya was in the home, there were burns she suffered. the father denies that. she suffered from eczema. it appeared to be burns, but was not burns. >> to cocoa in alabama. hi. >> caller: i want to tell you i love you so, so much. i have been trying for so, so long to get ahold of you. thank you for being an advocate for the holloway case and caylee anthony and all the cases you do. after today, i worked at a telephone company for almost ten years. i'm going back

his brother was already living in saint louis, a partner in the missouri for company.merriweather lewis had a great deal to live for, and the broken chap on the column on his monument says it all. a life cut short, and untimely death at the age of 35. some people feel that he could have become the president of the united states if he had lived. he was, as jefferson so aptly wrote, of courage undaunted, possessing a firmness and perseverance of purpose, which nothing but impossibilities could differ in each direction. we owe it to his memory to try and establish the cause of his death. i would like to invite you to visit our books website and sign up for my e-mail newsletter which i put out about once a month, if you want to stay current with developments. thank you. now we can have fun and just talk about what is on your mind. >> why do you think, i mean, clark had a lot of power later on. why do you think, if he believed the lewis had been murdered, that he didn't conduct an investigation? >> that's a good question, and it is a natural one. i think the answer is that

by 1987 if you wanted meth and you lived in southern iowa or in northern missouri, you went to the bar that lori arnold now owned, the wild side. there the increasingly beleaguered ottumwa police whose numbers were shrinking alongside county and city tax revenues had little chance of interrupting lori's profitable crank business. at that point, says lori, in addition to floyd she had a dozen runners going back and forth to long beach to buy meth from multiple so-called super labs which could produce up to 20 pounds of meth every 36 hours. an astounding amount of crank in those days. because the cars that lori's runners used were a drain on her profits, lori bought a car dealership. [laughter] that way she could have access to as many vehicles as she needed. she could also have her runners trade the cars and their tags with car dealers at any state along the way thereby making themselves harder to follow. then to house her employees and further launder the money that she was making, lori bought 14 homes in o ottumwa. this was just the beginning of the means by which lori, who had not ma

authorities are scouring the grounds of the family's property in western missouri.hey're looking for glass jars with notes written by children allegedly abused by relatives from 1988 through 1985. the lafayette county sheriff says authorities believe one or more bodies could be buried on the property. one of the victims came forward in august. other siblings corroborated the claims of the abused. >>> prosecutors say he beat a little rock tv anchor to death last october. yesterday a medical examiner testified anne pressly's face was crushed during the attack and her jaw was forced to the back of her head, cutting off blood to her brain. on monday jurors heard a tape of vance telling police he beat pressly with a piece of wood he found in her backyard. >>> a college student's military i.d. may have saved his life. how he went from mugging victim to military inspiration. >>> hi guys and girls. thanks a lot for your sacrifices and being away from your families. we love you and take care. >> big amen from all of us. thanks for your service. all the troopses on veterans d

she writes my name is sarah downing and i am a practicing community planner in kansas and missouri. i was doing some research and came across an article in your book. i felt compelled to get in touch with you and express my interest in your research and ideas. i am from rural northeast kansas and i was raised in a working family farm. my father, mother, myself and two siblings ran the form growing soybeans, sunflowers and mylar. within the last ten years or so many of our farming neighbors sold or lost their farms. my father is still operating his farm. i left colby to go to college where i received a b.a. in political science and a master's degree in regional community planning. my master's degree is from kansas state where another graduate was one of my professors. being from a rural area and seeing the plight continuing and the continuing decline of understanding rural population decline in the deaths of these communities. i wrote my master's paper on this topic focusing specifically on the eight northeast can these -- counties in kansas. and came to kansas city to work and have

those five banks were based in california, michigan, minnesota, georgia, and missouri. this is the highest number of u.s. bank failures in one year since 1992. a federal fund to cover failed banks is running low. >>> a florida jury has convicted a man who said he was too fat to kill. jurors rejected his lawyers' claims that he was too fat to run up a flight of stairs to shoot his former son-in-law. edward ates weighed 285 pounds. the 40-year-old victim was in a custody battle with ates' daughter. ates' lawyer plans to appeal the murder conviction. >>> the suspect in a shooting spree at an orlando office tower has been charged with first degree mur. jason rodriguez arrested a few hours after the incident. police say he surrendered and apologized. witnesses say he shot and killed one person, and wounded five others at an engineering firm. the company says he worked there until he was fired for poor performance two years ago. police say he blamed the firm for having trouble receiving unemployment benefits. >>> mater's race in iowa ended in a tie, but that's just the first

how about this story, a woman is facing 15 years in prison over a racially charged incident at a missourimart. check out this newly released video because it might shed a little bit more light as to what happened here. you are looking at heather ellis, she's this woman. she's moving another customer's items off the conveyor belt. well, witnesses say she cut in line and she was swearing. ellis says customers, show though, shoved her and she switched lines to join her cousin. the manager says ellis brought race into the scuffle. >> she looked at me and she told me that i wasn't anything but a stupid, white quarterback uneducated walmart employee. and she called betsy an old gray-headed lady, the cashier. and that's when i said, wait just a minute. i said, you don't know me and i don't know you. >> so the video goes to show police arresting ellis. officers say she kicked them, she hit them. ellis says she was assaulted and police told her to quote/unquote go back to the ghetto. a jury will get the case today. >>> the pentagon could do a intensive interview in the case of the ft. hood shootin

. >>> plus, the nightmare escalates in the missouri house of horrors. fast-breaking developments in. a new victim's stepped forward claiming these men locked her in the basement repeatedly raped her and buried her newborn child alive. and that's just the beginning. three of the victims now claim they were forced to kidnap and murder a complete stranger. of all of the toxic families ever uncovered, is this the worst? "issues" starts now. tonight, a father's worst fear's confirmed. the body a small child has been positively identified as that of his precious 5-year-old daughter, shaniya davis. devastated dad, bradley lockhart, choked bacters just hours ago. >> i'm very appalled and disgusted to that fact that anybody can bring themselves to that. however with the faith of the lord that we could cleanse ourselves and ask for forgiveness and forgive those who've done this disgusting act. >> amid this devastating news, outrage, grief and disbelief has swept the north carolina community and the nation. police are accusing this little girl's mom of the unthink

they were based in california, michigan, minnesota, georgia, and missouri. this is the highest number of bank failures since 1992. the fdic said their funds are running low but that your money will be kept safe. >>> a computer error nearly wiped out the bank accounts of 60,000 retired teachers. 189 million dollars was with drawn from retirement funds by mistake. many retired teachers are worried about their scheduled payments, how they will get through the weekend with no money. most of the money will be returned by today and the rest should be back in teachers' accounts by monday. >>> a price war is on. this time it's dvds just in time for the holidays. online retailers are slashing prices. walmart got the ball roling saying they would sell new dvds online for just 10 bucks. then amazon slashed and target followed suit. and walmart cut prices again to $9.98. walmart started a similar price war in books last month. >>> so you hear a crying baby or you think you hear a crying baby. scientists hear the language of the babies' parents. new research suggests tha

. >>> coming up, a missouri woman accused of cutting in line at wal-mart, now, she's facing up to 15 years. how's that? the weekly feature, what matters? >>> facing 15 years in prison for cutting in line at a wal-mart. it sounds harsh but that's how the case against heather ellis is playing out. she jumped the line at wal-mart. that led to an argument. police were called in, say ellis assaulted them but she denies that and refuses to sign a plea agreemen agreement. >> we tried to resolve this thing early on. there was no indication of any desire to do so. >> ellis was charged with trespassing, disturbing the peace and two felony counts of assaulting an officer. the case has gotten national attention. now, joining us, the professor from syracuse university planning a rally later this month. what was your first reaction when you became aware of this story that heather was facing charges for something that stemmed from her cutting in line at wal-mart. what was your first reaction? >> i didn't believe it. i said, that's impossible. there's got to be more to it. tell me more about this yo

coverage by washington, the senior out of missouri city, texas. >> andre: yeah, they slide him down inside. the last think you want is for a line backer in space with dexter mccluster, and marcus washington does a nice job of making a nice tackle and stopping mccluster short of the first down marker. >> i was wondering why they're going for it, but they're not. pass complete down at the 20- yard line! it was intended for reggie hicks, and he caught it! billy capps came in, a backup quarterback, took the snap. i was, like, two yards, and you're kind of in four-down territory. >> watch this, the play fake, going to hold the linebackers to allow hicks to get just in enough space, and charles mitchell mistimes his jump. nice job of concentrating. better pass there, and ole miss right back at work. >> dave: mccluster. >> andre: watch reggie hicks the tight end, nice little delay, and boy this ball is well throne. >> dave: andre, they were co snead which allows them to make th at the line of scrimmage. not much happening. swarmed by four marine jerseys. >> andre: mississippi state answering the

. >>> five men from one family remain in jail in missouri. all are suspected of participating in child sex abuse for years. this group is a 77-year-old father and his four adult sons. they appeared in court yesterday as charges against them were read. they include rape, bestiality, and forcing a child into a fake marriage. this all happened reportedly between 1988 and 1995. word of the alleged crimes left neighbors horrified. >> we've lived in this neighborhood for years. he's been a neighbor for years. and who would ever suspect that? it's amazing. >> the mohlers are held on cash bonds ranging from $30,000 to $75,000. they have another court hearing on tuesday. authorities continue to search an area where the family once lived for additional evidence and meanwhile a sixth suspect, an associate of the mohlers, was arrested yesterday on suspicion of child rape. >>> the man accused of kidnapping an 11-year-old girl and holding her captive for 18 years has apologized from his jail house cell. phillip garrido wrote to a california tv station sayi

. >>> police have arrested a sixth member of a missouri family suspected of sexually abusing kids for year. daryl was arrested at his current home in florida. he is the brother of the father in the case who was arrested with his four sons charged with rape and child sex abuse. more charges could come next week. six alleged victims told investigators that they were sexually abused by the suspects when they were kids. >>> i want to warn you that the pictures you are about to see can be disturbing. a police chief says he was just trying to keep people safe. northeast arkansas for animals show the police chief shooting seven or eight dogs to death at the pound. that is not the normal procedure. animals are usually unitized by a vet. but there were signs that the dogs had rabies. >> i went down there and i seen them foaming and all messed up, fighting one another in the ben. >> do you think you did wrong? >> i done it in good faith and thought i was probably helping the dogs. >> the mayor says that a local vet told him to have the dogs unitized. the only vet told tv she was never contacted

first off, sixth man in missouri, in a missouri family is accused in a child sex abuse case. darryl moeller said he is devastated. no idea about the rape allegations against him. he was arrested in florida friday. six alleged victims said when they were children children, they were forced to participate in sex acted. police picked up another person but let him go friday. >>> pep are upset nothing has been done with property seized for them under eminent domain. you might remember in 2001, town of new london, connecticut, bought up 90 acres of land for private development meant to support a massive new pfizer plant. the case went to the supreme court. that lapd is still undeveloped this many years later. the city remains the recession. now pfizer announced it's closing the planned. the city said the land grab was a waste but the development said the land will still be put to use somehow. >>> today a tour of a prison that could house detainees from guantanamo bay. it sat empty five years. it's still element empty now but state officials say this plan could pump up to a billion

you have the upper level low still sitting right over missouri.y generating all the rain at the surface but it's only going to sit here a couple more days so it's a slow mover, no doubt about it. look at kansas city, all the white is all snow, the blue is all rain. it's mixing in and out with you but you still have a winter weather advisory until 8:00 this morning central time. so all of kc and the surrounding areas because of the snow on the road. a little on the tricky side, especially on those bridges and overpasses. take it a little easy out there. look at the temperature slowly riding up. 37 in topeka, kc 34. it's all snow coming down. a little leafly texture to it is a good indication of the snowflakes. this is pure liquid right around central parts of indiana and towards illinois. it's dry in chicago for the time being. you'll get rain breaking away and also wind up around chicago. wind in milwaukee too but the heaviest rain is just north of champaign drifting over towards the west on the upper side of that low. behind that you can see rain

the car was found abandoned at a strip club in southern missouri. the vehicle was taken to the crime lab for processing. it's unknown, what evidence, if any was found. >> good evening, i'm nancy grace. i want to thank you for being with us. live, north carolina, a 5-year-old little girl vanished without a trace from the child's own home. mommy tells cops, she left the girl on the sofa at 5:30 a.m. one hour later, the baby is gone. a 5-year-old goes missing from her own sofa. bombshell. her favorite blanket covered in feces found discarded in the neighbors trash. what does it mean? >> where is little shaniya davis? police say the 5-year-old girl reported missing. she's in extreme danger. mom says she put little shaniya on the couch and reported her missing an hour later. >> investigators arrived on the scene a little after 7:00 in the morning. >> they told me they were taking off my trash can because they found a blanket in it. >> there was feces spread across the porch and rail at their house. the blanket was covered in feces. >> police are looking

a 9-year-old missouri girl has a playdate, walks home, still daylight, only about 1,000 feet.search for 9-year-old elizabeth olten comes to an end. her body found in a wooded area just houses from her own home. murder suspect tonight in custody. not a registered sex offender or a parolee. it's a 15-year-old girl. we confirm suspect is the big sister of elizabeth's little playmate. bombshell tonight. youtube and twitter uncover a previously well-hidden dark side to the 15-year-old accused child killer. listed hobby on her youtube profile? "killing and cutting." repeat. "killing and cutting." that's her hobby. this along with freakish video of suspect electrocuting herself and her little brothers on an electric fence. we have the video. >> stunning developments today in the case of 9-year-old elizabeth olten, whose body was found in a heavily wooded area behind her home. social networking sites are allegedly painting a dark portrait of the 15-year-old teen girl accused of murdering elizabeth olten. ♪ >> ah! >> the teen suspect's alleged youtube profile page lists her hobbies, in

. >>> newly released video is now at the center of a racially charged incident at a missouri walmart.urveillance tape shows a woman repeatedly moving another customer's items off of the conveyor belt. witnesses say that heather ellis cut in line and was swearing. but ellis says her cousin had saved her place. the manager says ellis brought race into the scuffle. >> she looked at me and told me that i wasn't anything but a stupid, white, uneducated walmart employee and she called betsy an old gray headed lady, the cashier and that's when i said, just a minute. i said, you don't know me and i don't know you. >> officers say she kicked and hit them. she says she was assaulted but it's not shown on the tape. the jury could get the case today. she faces 15 years in prison if found guilty. >> there are so many people out there that are tired of putting money in an envelope. it's so boring. this way this is a nice gift for the givers. >> the flowers in these cash bouquets might never wilt but they probably won't last that long either. that is new for you in about 20 minutes. fascinating idea

heavier rain back later today right across central areas of illinois and missouri. flood watches and warnings. the warnings are all the areas shaded in green and you can see them there and the pacific northwest. you're getting slammed again today. a lot of wind and a lot of rain and a lot of snow. we'll talk about that in the next couple hours. >> look at the cloud cover there. >> there is a cold front blowing it ashore and it is heavy at times. >> all right, thank you. >>> the u.s. and russia could reach a deal by the end of the year to begin reducing their nuclear weapons stockpiles. that came out of president obama's meeting with dmitry medvedev. >>> a dog so disabled that it moved on its wrists is finally learning to walk and she's been adopted. a georgia veterinarian operated on spirit and gave her months of therapy after somebody dumped her on the side of the road. her new owner says she's doing fine. >> i don't want people to feel pity. what i want people to feel is look what can happen to a dog that somebody thought was useless. she's definitely not useless

it's actually centered right now near missouri into illinois with just some steady rain moving into central ohio. it's dropping down all the way into the carolina mountains. more rain coming in right across the south carolina beach. here is that charleston radar right out of south carolina. look at the heavy slug of moisture north of the city all moving inland past myrtle beach and that will go all the way in to the central carolinas and watch that rain up to the north as that impulse rides the great lakes and the northeast. where you see this yellow shading coming in, northern virginia, parts of west virginia and maryland, 2, 2 1/2 inches of rain. most of that falls overnight tonight through tomorrow as that whole thing moves up to the north. look at the radar picture coming right on in towards ohio. again, some decent rain. here is that chicago radar, too. light scattered showers out there. the clouds are in. watch for the delays out there at the airports, midway and o'hare. i'll have more on that in a bit. the pacific northwest, here is your cold front. that's what came in yesterday and

john chafee from rhode island and john danforth from missouri where good examples of people you could talk to and reason but today instead of 33 i doubt there are 15 and that category and most of the movement is into the end zone. and things of happen in the institution with the advent of what i would call reapportionment on steroids we ended up with a system where 90% of the members of the house of representatives are vulnerable to attack in a general election. the only way they could be deposed is if they are far enough to the left of the democrat or republican and to avoid an opponent in the primary purpose of that condition does not encourage people to seek out ways to be more compatible and compromising in trying to find a reasonable center. those are all contributors to what clearly is a system that is in distress. >> [applause] one of the things that you said would help the bill of citizenship and create more participatory is journalist i happen one for many years and it is frustrating for us as much as it is 4v spectators and cynics among us because i feel very adamant about t

there were people and i will mention several republicans like rhode island and john danforth from missouri who were good examples of people you could talk to and reason together but today instead of 33 i doubt there are 15 in that category and most of the movement has been to the end zone. in institutionally things have happened with the advent of what i would call reapportionment on the steroids we ended up with a system where 90% of the members of the house of representatives are almost mobile to attack in a general election. the only way they could be deposed if not far enough to the left with or to the right to of those eight opponent in the primary. that condition does not a encourage people to seek out ways to be more compatible and compromising to find a reasonable center. those are all contributors to what is clearly a system that is in distress. [applause] >> one of the things that you said that was going to help build of citizenship and create less the satori and more action is journalism and journalist. i am a journalist and have been one for many years. and it is frustrating fo

. >>> two generations of a missouri family accused of sexually abusing children and now they face newrges. why prosecutors have filed 15 new counts against a man and his four sons. >>> well a connecticut man is accused of setting his girl frechbd on fire and trying to do the same thing to her 12-year-old daughter. 50-year-old howard stewart was arraigned yesterday on arson and assault charges. he's being held on $2 million bond. police say the 12-year-old was able to escape the flames and rescue her 3-month-old sister. now, her mother's in critical condition with burns on about 40% of her body. a police report says the 12-year-old girl told her mother that stewart inappropriately touched her. she threatened to go to police and that's what reportedly led to a fight. >>> five members of a missouri family are appearing in court today to face charges of sexually abusing children. prosecutors are filing 15 additional charges against burrell mohler sr. and his four son, all in custody. the original charges accused the men of sexually abusing children between 19 88 and 1995. the new charges

. >>> a sixth man arrested in a disturbing child abuse case in missouri. a 77-year-old father and his four sons are already in custody. they did not enter a plea yesterday. according to court documents obtained by khsb the alleged victims are adults now and came forward in august. also, the sheriff is continuing searching for possible bodies linked to the case. thank you, facebook. a man arrested for armed robbery is out of jail because of an unusual alibi. he was updating his facebook status. when the robbery happened rodney bradford was 13 miles away on the computer at his dad's apartment. bradford was picked out of a lineup. but his lawyers were able to use witnesses and the facebook time stamp to prove that he's innocent. >>> a coach is having to eat his words after three players were arrested for attempted armed robbery. hi, rafer. >> on thursday, three of his recruits were arrested for attempted armed robbery. police say two of the men approach ad marked car, one with a gun demanding money. cops allegationedly pulled the car over where the men were i