richelle?you might think they have to be swimming in the cash. that is not the case. in their announcement yesterday they have 300 million people on facebook, they say they are now for the first time cash positive. if you say is that the same thing as being profitable. it is not. it means their regular income is outpacing the standard expenses. most of their revenue comes in from ad sales. >> because facebook is free. yes, it's the ads. >> this is coming on top of statistics that came out a couple of months ago about twitter. they have, shall we say, older population than a lot of us expected. >> wow. i love all this information. i think most people do because they are on facebook. >> i'm friends with you on facebook. i always get great stuff from you. >> thanks, reggie. >>> a.c.o.r.n. in trouble since last year's elections. they are announcing changes in light of a conservative filmmaker's release about the group. ring ring ring ring. hey, your chicken noodles ringing. ring ring. progresso. hi

richelle? >> 100 people. clearly, they're leaving no stone unturn and i know the many students and parents and particularly annie's family. thank you very much. >>> hollywood is mourning the death of actor patrick swayze. he died yesterday after a long fight with pancreatic cancer. he was 57 years old. he plaued the romantic leading man in the movie "ghost" and also, of course, "dirty dancing." ♪ >> no. >> come on. look at me. ♪ ♪ hey, hey, baby >> recently he was in the tv series "the beat" cancelled in june because the cancer was getting worse. >> it's a sad night, and he was -- he was a very lovable, dear, accomplished person, and he did as much as anybody could. he fought a very brave fight. i'm sorry he had to lose it. >> barbara walters interviewed patrick swaz any january. here's what he told her then about his fight with cancer and also the tabloids who were reporting on his struggle. >> you know, hope is a very, very fragile thing in anyone's life, and people i love do not need to be having that hope

hello, stephanie. >> hello there, richelle. less than 1% each. a rally in some key commodity prices helped to fuel a rally. gold prices rushed past $1,000 an ounce to the highest level since march of last year. gold has been rising for months as the safe haven investment during these tough economic times and gold was not alone. they had the company with oil. oil prices followed suit, surging 5% on the day and closing above $71 a barrel. the move comes as the dollar continued to lose value against other currencies, richelle. >> thanks, stephanie. good to see you. >>> let's talk about some good news even in this bad economy, it actually happens. your electric bill could go down this year. that doesn't happen very often, but we're seeing a historic drop in energy usage. electricity and the use of electricity is down for two years in a row. that hasn't happened since 1949 because of the recession, said it enough, i should know how to say it, americans aren't buying as many gadgets. the weather is another reason why electricity rate

i'm richelle carey. welcome to hln "news and views." thanks, as always, for your time. this first story will break your heart and probably make you mad. stomped on, kicked, beaten to death with long wooden planks. police are questioning four people in connection with the brute and deadly attack caught on video. 16-year-old derrion albert was viciously beaten on his way home from school and he later died because of his injuries. his family says he was targeted because he refused to join a gang on chicago's south side. here's jay miller of affiliate wgn. >> reporter: the investigation is ongoing right fou. we are still conducting interviews. we still are trying to put pieces together right now. chicago police asking for the public's help tonight in identifying the group of people who savagely beat 16-year-old derrion albert thursday in the roseland neighborhood. the fanger high school junior was on his way home from school when a grouped armed a2 x 4s attacked him near this community center on the block of

also think about, it richelle.t your mother, who your mother is and then you're putting out your maiden name which a lot of people use as passwords or as identification, tests you know on certain things. what's your mother's maiden name? also pet's names. people put pictures of their pets and their pet's names on there. a lot of people use those for passwords as well. so think about that before you put the information out there. also, all of those polls that you take. some those third-party applications, not very safe. you don't want to put that information for anyone to be able to get. and if you want some tips, richelle, on what you should or shouldn't be doing on facebook, because i know you're on there a lot, you need to go to cnn.com/tech, and there's a list for you, for you, just for you. >> made for me specifically and all of my 300 million facebook friends. >> reporter: there you go. >> good advice, katherine, as always. appreciate it. all right, let's continue with the day's news. the u.s. and its allies a

ooibl richelle carey welcome to "hln news and views." hope you're enjoying your labor day. >>> the white house is hoping to put fears to rest. post and the white house website at any moment. some conservatives are threatening to pull their kids out of school tomorrow so they will not be exposed to the president's address. the speech will be broadcast in schools on the internet right wing radio. the president is trying to indoctrine nate kids with an agenda. white house officials stay is silly. he just wants to tell kids to stay in school and get good grades. i-reporter, sharing their views on the president's back-to-school address. 14-year-old from georgia and another from washington both had this to say. let's listen. >> as a student i believe that president obama may be trying to push his political view, opinion and agenda on us. also, students will be able to vote in the next election and i think mr. he wants a chance to win their votes. in fought, i stand corrected. i don't believe we should go through the experience of not going to

if you go to baylor, we don't do that. >> oh, richelle, richelle. >> i went there, reg. i went there. >> i have so many stories to tell you about my time at northwestern. not the time or the place. >> wrap! check it out, cnn.com. good stuff, reggie. >>> check this out, cnn and hln want to make sure you've got the news you want wherever you are. so technology is changing. we are, too. cnn's unveiling the new cnn iphone app for $1.99. go to cnn.com/iphone or go to the ap story. this is just a simulation. but you can program it to bring you the news you care about. breaking news alert, your weather, your traffic. this is an iphone simulator, rather. your experience or your iphone might be a little different but it's so cool. >>> where do convicted sex offenders go after they are released from prison? and what happens when the state law leaves them nowhere to go? share your views on their catch-22. >>> i'm jane velez-mitchell. and here's my issue. when are we going to realize the face of alcoholism isn't just that bum on the corner with a brown paper bag? another innocent ci

let's go to prime news correspondent richelle cary. >> a lot happened today, mike.w minutes ago, prosecutors announced they will seek the death penalty against melissa huckabee. also in court today, she requested a new attorney, and we're told kind of a little reaction there, she smiled at her family. also sometime today, a judge is expected to rule on when her case will go to trial. that's all thely stuff. we're also getting new details about huckaby's behavior while she's been in jail. strange things last month. here's the report from august 12th. custody officer wrote this. i found huckaby laying on the floor next to her bed. she said she felt dizzy and passed out. half hour later, an officer wrote this. i saw huckaby sitting next to her bed with a trash can. when i asked her what she was doing, she replied, i took pills. then august 16th, 4:45 in the afternoon. this is what a report said. inmate huckaby hiding behind the mattress with the blanket behind her neck. she was taken to a safety cell. minutes later she refused dinner. remember, huckaby was said to be s

richelle, again i keep coming back to this.ing, jon, this interview, you are feeding the frenzy. >> he said sweaty palms or did i imagine that, he said that, right? >> sweaty palms. >> that's infatuation but let me stop. talk about how others are receiving this interview. let me stop. >> yeah. some of the "show biz tonight" viewers, from both sides, first a strong detractor karen writing on our facebook wall, give me a break grow up, jon -- she wouldn't let me jump with the kids on the bed. i couldn't drag dirt in the house. get a life. you don't deserve to be kate's husband, she already has eight kids. she certainly doesn't need a juvenile delinquent, too. however he has a defender in sin dree writing on the facebook wall. i agree some of the things kate did to him can and should be counted as abuse. if i ever spoke to my husband the way she spoke to him, then he should leave, too. i do not think it appropriate for anyone to be treated as one of the children the way she did to him. and i actually find that interesting. what ci

. >> reporter: hi, richelle. just behind me, the garrido home where jaycee dugard was held captive 18 years, repeatedly raped, gave birth to two of garrido's children, and then raised them. the question, first and foremost in people's minds, has been, how is she doing now? obviously, the family wants to protect her privacy as she begins to heal. we can tell you she has been reunited with her mother and on an fbi website, now there is an account by one of the fbi agents who actually witnessed that reuniting. >> when i called her, she was beside herself with joy, and i was present when she was reunited with jaycee yesterday morning. it was a very emotional scene. both of them were just overjoyed to be with each other again, and there's going to be a period of adjustment, no doubt, but they are -- they're doing very well at this point, and the two daughters are probably -- as happy as jaycee is to be part of this family as well. >> reporter: now, for the past four days a search underway at the property behind me. th

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let's bring in our correspondent richelle carey with that.th that. >> mike, five 911 calls. nathan lee spoke on cnn's "larry king live" last night about his wife, denise. last week jurors recommended her killer get the death penalty. nathan is talking about what happened that tragic day. six hours of terror for his wife. he says the charlotte county, florida sheriff's department botched one 911 call in particular. we said there were five but there's one he really takes exception with. he said if they botched this call he wonders if denise would be alive today. so, let's listen to a piece of that call. >> obviously, there were, you know, multiple agencies scrambling to search for denise the entire time. there were be on the lookout notices for a green camaro and denise and the suspect which was michael king. they actually got 911 call with the motorist saying she saw them in an area that was actually specific to one of the bolos. and so, i mean, they were looking for, they finally found her. a motorist was in real time giving crossstreets of w

okay, richelle. thanks for that., nikki's parents are in the middle of a legal fight to stop these pictures from spreading. this affects all of us. it could happen to any of us. anything goes on the internet. i spoke with nikki's parents, and also their attorney. our condolences from prime news. that wound still has to be fresh. thank you for telling your story. and thank you for fighting for what we should all have the right to privacy in a case like this. cristos, what is so horrifying, as a father myself, to think that someone would e-mail me pictures, or e-mail-e-mailed you pictures days after your daughter died. what came your way? >> an e-mail came, but it started off where there was thousands of e-mails sent out. and i got an e-mail, the one that i opened up was, oh, daddy, i'm alive. but, yeah, it was -- there were e-mails all over the country. >> and these were the -- >> the pictures attached. >> these were the crime scenes, the crash scene photos, right? >> correct. they were police evidence pictures that b

correspondent richelle carey explains what matters. >> reporter: mike, the bigger problem you're referringican women in abusive relationships. it's higher for black women than for white women. which begs the question why is it to prevalent? randi kaye from our sister network cnn went looking for answers. >> reporter: this woman lived a nightmare for six long years. day in and day out, she was abused by her husband, emotionally, physically, and sexually. >> he would want to have sex, and i'd say no. i would have to, i would say, fight for my life to try and keep him from raping me. >> reporter: like so many women, she stayed in the relationship. she had four children and wanted to keep her family together. how bad did it get? >> after i left him, he took a crowbar and broke into the house. i was asleep. when i woke up, he was standing at the door with a crowbar, and he said, i should hit you with this. >> reporter: she never reported her husband's abuse, and he was never arrested or charged, which is why we're not identifying her. help me understand why you didn't go to the police. >> for a

let's bring in richelle carey. ahead. >> usually stories about the video but really are this time. police have a tough job. they go on a drug raid. they never know what they are going to encounter. we see some officers rushing into a suspect's home, this is polk county, florida last month. they discovered the drugs, weapons, stolen property and right there a wii video game. clearly having a ball. jumping up and down one seeing getting a strike and thrilled to death. the sheriff calls it embarrassing. embarrassing. and wii's kinds of hard. >>> another astonishing video. keep looking at this, a little girl. >> whoa. >> yes, right there on the screen. this driver lost control his car trying to back into a space ended up slamming into the wall of a stroer. they missed the child, she's okay that's why we are showing you this. those little parking poles you see saved this kid's life because the car hit the pole and then went air-borne just inches above this little girl's head. wooen this incredibly dramatic video, nobody

granted richelle, millions still watch the show.mmed up exactly the reasons why this makes a lot of sense. now, let's get to this reaction. combing through some facebook posts. let's get to this. >> it's interesting. i put this up on our facebook page last night when the news broke, within minutes hundreds of reactions pouring including jill, i love ellen but not sure she's qualified to judge a singing contest, dancing maybe. natalie writing, i think ellen will make "idol" worth watching. we know what we like and i think that's exactly what she's going to bring to it. >> absolutely. >> obviously a lot to dig into on "showbiz tonight" with us. what does paula abdul think about it and what about randy jackson? we have his first reaction at 11:00 p.m. -- >> ellen has much star power as simon, that's going to be good. >> no, no, no, no ellen has more. >> well said, a.j., good stuff. all right talk to you later. >> you got it. >> the police have clear surveillance pictures of this guy, they know his name but some ishow, a suspected bank

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richelle carey explains in our weekly feature "what matters." >> mike, the bigger problem that you're-american women in abusive relationships, domestic violence is 25% higher for black women than white women. which pegs the question, why is it so prevalent. randi kaye went looking for answers. >> reporter: this woman lived a nightmare for six long years. day in and day out, she was abused by her husband, emotionally, physically and sexually. >> he would want to have sex, and i'd say no, and then i would have to -- i would say fight for my life to try and keep him from raping me. >> reporter: like so many women, she stayed in the relationship. she had four children, and wanted to keep her family together. how bad did it get? >> after i left him, he took a crow bar and he broke into the house. and i was asleep. and when i woke up, he was standing at the door with a crow bar and he said, i should hit you with this. >> reporter: she never reported her husband's abuse, and he was never arrested or charged. which is why we're not identifying her. help me understand why you didn't go to the

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hi, i'm richelle carey.g his wife and his five children. mesac damas is facing six counts of first-degree murder for the deaths of his family. that's after police found his wife and children dead in a town house in naples, florida, saturday night. damas is a u.s. citizen but had taken off to haiti where he was arrested monday. he was taken back to the u.s., and is now in custody at the collier county jail. this is what he told a reporter as he left jail in port-au-prince. >> mr. damas, anything you want to say? >> yes. -- >> did you kill them? >> yes, i did. >> why? >> only god knows. >> you don't know? what happened, mr. damas? mr. damas, do you want to be sentenced to death or do you want life in prison? >> i want death. i think my family probably buried in saturday coming up. i want the jury to give me death with them at same sometime why, why did do you it? what possessed you do it. >> her mom made ne do it. her mom, her mom spit, whatever she is serving -- >> why in such a brutal way, why children, your

richelle carey is "on the go." >> reporter: bargain hunters can make the most of traveling off-season fall is usually the best time of year to travel. the cheapest flights on tuesdays, wednesdays, and saturdays. the opposite is true at hotels. weekday rates are very high, but on weekends you can find very good deals. >> reporter: you can also sail away at a fraction of the cost in the fall. >> a lot of travelers are cruising during the hurricane season. when that demand goes down, this forces the cruise lines to cut their fares to the bone. you can expect to find really good caribbean cruises as low as $50 a nigh including room, food, and entertainment. >> reporter: but these deals may come at a price. some airlines like delta and us airways are planning to cut many nonstop flights. >> travelers will still be able to get nearly everywhere they went before but they'll have to take one or two stops in a small town that's not an airline hub. so maybe we can't control menopause. but we can control sagging, dulling skin. (announcer) now l'oreal's age perfect serum, our first for menopausal

. >>> i'm richelle carey. welcome to hln "news and views."et's get started right now. >>> the man in the center of a cross country terrorism investigation pleaded not guilty to plotting an attack on new york city. najibullah zazi pleaded not guilt any a courtroom. he did not speak during the proceeding. his lawyer entered the plea for him. he later told reporters the case against his client amounts to a rush to judgment. not conspiracy. >> now, i'm not saying that i've seen all the evidence in this case, but just what i've seen so far, mr. zazi traveled to pakistan, which is not illegal. mr. zazi purchased certain products that contain chemicals that allegedly could be used to make a bomb. those acts were not illegal. and i have not seen any evidence whatsoever of an agreement mr. mr. zazi and anyone else that is the essence of a conspiracy charge. >> prosecutors say zazi was planning to use homemade products to plan an attack on the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks. his father and a new york man also arrested. zazi ordered without bail. his n

richelle carey has ways to handle some of the worse case scenarios in today's "on the go" segment. >> reporter: severe weather, medical emergencies, getting lost. travelers need to be prepared for anything. >> there are many unexpected things that can happen when you're traveling and in particular with regards to weather. travel insurance will help reimburse expenses and help bring you home. >> reporter: take extra care when traveling overseas. >> many people worry about losing their passport when traveling. make a color copy of your passport and leave it in the hotel safe. this way, you will be able to prove your citizenship at the u.s. embassy with less hassle. >> reporter: make sure you can get cash when you need it. >> before you leave for a trip abroad, change your atm pin to a four digit code. most foreign atms only accept four digit codes and this will help if you need cash while traveling. he ran off with his secretary! she's 23 years old! - oh, come on. - enough! you get half and you get half. ( chirp ) team three, boathouse? ( chirp ) oh yeah-- his and hers. - ( crowd gaspin

our "prime news" correspondents richelle carey, we know the government's looking at. this what are they talking about doing here to get the roads safer out there. >> they will have a summit, mike, to see if they can come up with some solutions because texting while driving, it is a problem. it's going to be the focus of a two-day distracted driving summit, that's what they call this. it is going to be in washington, safety experts, leaders from across the country to try to focus on this. organizers are hoping to raise public awareness and reduce these crashes. some of the studies floating around at the summit the virginia tech transportation institute found a truck driver's risk of an accident 23 times higher, 23 times higher, while text messages. also a study from the university of utah found a driver with a blood alcohol level of .08 obviously legally will drunk in most states four likely more times to cash but eight times more likely to it have an accident while texting. the transportation secretary ray lahood says after the summit organizers will work closely with

coming your way richelle and i in ten minutes. >> what do you think about that?ican champion sprintr has both male and female organs, track officials won't confirm or deny the reports but some say they're concerned about the impact this is going to have on caster semenya. remember she's 18 years old. her gender was questioned after she won the women's 800 meter last month. reports about her medical evaluation suggest she may not have been aware of this. track officials won't make a decision until november either way she probably won't lose her medal boss they say this is not an issue of cheating. >>> people are taking part in drills to test new waves of keeping in touch during an emergency. a national safety group says texting and social networking sites could be an important tool for families after a disaster. the safe america foundation laurnlging a campaign to train people about using text or websites like twitter if traditional communication methods aren't working. more than 200,000 participants are preloading emergency messages on cell phones and websites. t

i'm richelle carey.al qaeda leader threatens american allies in europe. he asks europeans, this is what he says, how do you think you will fare after america pulls out, referring to afghanistan. we cannot confirm it is bin laden. al qaeda is threatening attacks in germany, where voters are headed to the polls on sunday. >>> we are keeping an eye on two unrelated terror plots targeting two u.s. cities. federal agents say the suspects in both were ready to pull the trigger. there were arrests in illinois and texas. investigators say neither case is connected with the alleged plot undercovered -- uncovered, rather, in colorado or new york. first, let's tell you what happened in springfield, illinois, where fbi arrested arrested 29-year-old michael finton on wednesday. finton is also known as talib islam, which means "student of islam." he's charged with trying to detonate a truck bomb outside a federal building. the justice department says finton actually tried to blow it up with a remote control. he was ar

>> not today, richelle.the dow fell 41 points to close at 9107. nasdaq dropped 23 points or 1%. s&p 500 off as well. oil prices continued their recent slide. so far this week, oil prices down $6. sales of previously owned homes held 2.7% last month backing off from a big improvement in july. analysts had been expecting sales to rise for a fifth month in a row. fewer people lined up for jobless benefits last week. the number of americans filing for unemployment claims for the first time fell by 21,000. the decrease was much better than expected. be right back on hln. this is one way of getting vitamins and minerals. this is another., new total blueberry pomegranate cereal gives you 100% of the daily value of 12 essential vitamins and minerals. and is truly delicious. how are you getting 100%? >>> president obama is in pittsburgh for a meeting of the world's top economic powers. not everyone in the steel city is happy to see him or any of the leaders. the g-20 summit will focus on efforts to revive the global