the sandringham murder investigation is not over now that police have identified the body.hey want to know who did it. david? >> jeffrey kofman from london tonight, thank you. >>> and a day of groefing tension and tough talk with iran. iran says it is pushing ahead with its nuclear plans, ready to start enriching uranium. defense secretary leon panetta says iran is not yet building a numer will bomb but says the u.s. will take action if it tries. >>> meanwhile, it's the u.s. coast guard to the rescue tonight. a coast guard ice breaker is cutting a path through the frozen bearing sale to a russian tanker loaded with a million gallons of fuel can make it to people in alaska, who are iced in and running low on fuel after a pre-winter delivery was scrapped by a huge storm there. the ice breaker and tanker could arrive by tomorrow. >>> and now to a very, very close call. a 22-year-old tourist who wanted to start the new year big so she traveled to one of the most spectacular spots on earth, africa's victoria falls, to bungee jump. and what happened next was all captured on camer

what happened at sandringham. >>> deep freeze. bitter cold about to shatter a 112-year-old record. even the florida oranges are frosty. >>> the rookie hero. we meet the young volunteer cop who single handedly nabbed the man accused of setting all those fires. >>> royal wedding. miss about ree that franklin, queen of soul, heads down the aisle at 69 years old. >>> and bringing america back. a band of brothers who are winning right here at home, reviving one neighborhood at a time. >>> good evening. and tonight, it begins. from sea to shining sea, the presidential election of 2012. and first up, as always, the voters of iowa. streaming tonight, into more than 1700 locations. living rooms, churches, general stores, barns. all to cast their votes for the republican who will run against president barack obama. the six contenders in iowa were out in force today, shaking that one last hand, making their case to voters for the very last time. so, will former governor mitt romney, with his razor thin lead, seal the deal? will former senator rick santorum turn his late surge into a surprise

what happened at sandringham? >>> deep freeze. bitter cold about to shatter a 112-year-old record. even the florida oranges are frosty. >>> the rookie hero. we meet the young volunteer cop who single handedly nabbed the man accused of setting all those fires. >>> royal wedding. miss aretha franklin, queen of soul, heads down the aisle at 69 years old. >>> and bringing america back. a band of brothers who are winning right here at home, reviving one neighborhood at a time. >>> and good evening to you. tonight, it begins. from sea to shining sea, the presidential election of 2012 and first up, as always, the voters of iowa. gathered in more than 1,700 precincts, living rooms, churches, general stores and barns, to cast their votes for the republican who will run against president barack obama. and we have some breaking news about the very early entrance poming results. prelim name to be sure. but "good morning america" co-anchor george stephanopoulos, anchoring election coverage. >> a three-person race, diane. mitt romney, ron paul, rick santorum bunched up at the top. right now, ron

sandringham is huge and sprawling. most of it is open to the public.nd what baffles me is that why was it only stumbled upon on new year's day? >> reporter: found here, just a stone's throw from the royal stud, where the queen oversees the breeding and training of racehorses. and less than two miles from the queen's main residence. when the royal family was wowing the crowd and the christmas at sandringham, have a traditional christmas dinner, what they didn't know was remains of a human would be discovered. it's a mystery the one and only great detective, sherlock holmes might try to discover. what are the clues? this isn't the first time it happened. in march last year, the body of american robert james moore, described as a loner, was found 100 yards from buckingham palace. so will members of the royal family be questioned in this case? >> i doubt the royal family will be questioned. i doubt anybody will be questioned, really, except the person who found the remains. >> reporter: more than 200 people also live here, including barbers, gate keepers a

the sandringham estate is about 20,000 acres.here are lots of sitting tenants, cottages, villages, even, that are run by the royal estate. there's a lot of public toing and froing, especially this time of year, when tourists come to catch a glimpse of the royal family. >> where do we go from here? what do you think will happen next? >> as you said in your report, there will be a postmortem later today. what we still don't yet know is how long the body has been there. i find it inconceivable that the body was dumped there whilst the royals were in residence. it would be one of the most crazy places to hide a body if you murdered somebody. i think you would try to take it somewhere more discreet. really, we're waiting to find out how long it's been there. >> excellent point, duncan. thank you, as always, for your reporting for us. we really do appreciate it. you take care. >>> it is now 7:36. and time for the weather. let's get outside to ginger zee, our meteorologist. oh, you're inside. >> i'm inside. >> you were outside. >> neede

. >>> now to the murder/mystery unfolding at the sandringham estate of queen elizabeth. a woman's body was found on the grounds earlier this week. now police are treating the case as a homicide. michelle kosinski is there with details. >> reporter: the body of the woman found less than two miles from the queen's home. the palace has not commented and police are revealing very few details. they had an autopsy done on the remains yesterday but still won't say why exactly they believe this was murder. the queen went for a ride on horseback, through the grounds of her beloved sandringham estate, where the whole family, including the newest princess, catherine, spent christmas together but that same night, the queen and husband prince philip, recovering here from minor heart surgery, got some most disturbing news. from police. >> a member of the public had been walking their dog in the area and had found the body of a female in a wooded area. >> reporter: the body of a young woman, found on the grounds of their estate about a mile and a half from their main residence, and pol

. >> reporter: just yesterday, queen elizabeth was on horseback enjoying the grounds on the sandringhame royal family spent christmas together. by nightfall, she and prince phillip got some most unwelcomed news from police. >> a member of the public had been walking their dog in the area and had found the body of a female in a wooded area. >> reporter: the body of a woman, apparently murdered, found on the estate less than two miles from the queen's residence. >> what do you know about what's happened to her? >> very little at this time. >> reporter: police do say the unburied remains have been there for up to a month in this divider between farm fields. sandringham is enormous. 30 square miles including both towns, farms, woods, a 500 acre park and pathways, accessible to the public all the time. it's been a favorite royal retreat, deep in the countryside since queen victoria's reign. queen elizabeth's ancestors hunted here, her father died here. it's where the family could always escape the public eye. now a murder mystery on royal land that has investigators delving into cold cases a

sandringham, though, is enormous. 30 square miles including both towns, farms, woods, a 500-acre parknd pathways, accessible to the public all the time. it's been a favorite royal retreat, deep in the countryside, since queen victoria's reign. queen elizabeth's ancestors hunted here, her father died here. it's where the family could always escape the public eye. now, a murder mystery on royal land that has investigators delving into cold cases and the muddy woodlands for clues, while the queen remains in residence. michelle kosinski nbc news, london. >>> and we're back in a moment with tonight's obsession on this side of the atlantic. [ kyle ] my bad. [ roger ] tell me you have good insurance. yup, i've got... [ dennis ] ...allstate. really? i was afraid you'd have some cut-rate policy. [ kyle ] nope, i've got... [ dennis ] ...the allstate value plan. it's their most affordable car insurance -- and you still get an allstate agent. i too have... [ dennis ] ...allstate. [ roger ] same agent and everything. [ kyle ] it's like we're connected. no we're not. yeah, we are. no...we're not. ♪

"the sandringham murder investigation is not over.ow that police have identified the body they want to know who did it. jeffrey kaufmann. abc news, london. >> try to find out any suspicious activity in that area, august and september of last year to see what might have happened here. such a bizarre story. especially the proximity to the royal family. again they went be questioned in all this. >> the royal family won't be questioned. grounds keepers and those on the premises workers will be questioned to figure out what happened. sad for her family. >> young girl. in lighter news, elvis would have turned 77 years old over the weekend. thousands of fans were at graceland to remember the legend. record number of visitors expected at the home this year. marks the 35th year since the king of rock 'n' roll passed away. his fans still spend a lot on the idol. "forbes" magazine estimated that elvis earned $55 million last year alone. >> not bad elvis. to a major recall involving popular medicines. listen up, everyone. the drug maker novartis

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a body found on queen elizabeth's estate sandringham. she was found sunday.ld have been there for up to four months. the estate itself is some 20,000 acres, including a 600-acre park open to the public. royal correspondent max foster joins us live from london with more on the mystery. dna came back today inconclusive. where does that leave the investigation? >> this is the big problem. you described the details that we've got here, a young white female effectively. what they're trying to do, the police, are link that body to unresolved cases. reopening all of these files, examples of women who have gone missing. they haven't been found in the area, but also nationally. they need the dna profile from this body to match them. they're not managing to get it. the police are being quite cryptic about why they haven't got this information. they don't want to give too much information to journalists. they're going to carry out more extensive tests on thursday, anderson, hopefully to bring up a batch for several women, two or three women actually focusing on right no

a man walking his dog found girl's remains on new year's day in the sandringham estate. were atending church services at the time the body was discovered. investigatorsen the body was there for at least a month. >> i think the circumstances indicate that she is probably the victim of murder and we'll continue our uninquiries over the scene of the accident days and week to establish who she is and how she came to be here and who is responsible for her being here. >>> dna from the autopsy is expected later today. sandringham covers an area large are than manhattan in new york city and part of the estate is don't public. >>> the rumor mill heating up in baseball. could a big bat be coming to washington? >> probably would be welcome. prince fielder to the nats? could happen. we'll see what the junkies think coming up next. up next. walking 60 miles... in three days. (woman) we're united. (woman) a family. (woman) a coming together of thousands. so that one has to suffer the agony of a loss. the agony of my loss. we're going to erase breast cancer once and for all. (woman) wa

the body was found miles from the royal family's country home of sandringham in eastern england where they celebrated new year's. >>> today the first votes in the 2012 presidential election candidates hoping to unseat president obama are going into the iowa caucuses with no clear front-runner and a large number of undecided voters. katie marzullo joins us with a break down of the race. >> reporter: the caucuses get underway at 5:00. the results could be dramatic even mitt romney the most consistently presumed front-runner says the race is hard to predict. with many so of the candidates unsure of their chances it is no wonder voters are undecided. >> it is hard to find somebody that stands out in that crowd. a lot of them seem to be similar. >> i don't think there is a good person or a contender somebody who can beat obama >> reporter: mitt romney sees it differently. criticism of his gop competitors and went straight for the president. >> this has been a failed presidency, i will go to work to get americans back to work and make sure job one is concentrating on jobs for americans not

the body was found miles from the royal family's country home of sandringham in eastern england wherehey celebrated new year's. >>> today the first votes in the 2012 presidential election candidates hoping to unseat president obama are going into the iowa caucuses with no clear front-runner and a large number of undecided voters. katie marzullo joins us with a break down of the race. >> reporter: the caucuses get underway at 5:00. the results could be dramatic even mitt romney the most consistently presumed front-runner says the race is hard to predict. with many so of the candidates unsure of their chances it is no wonder voters are undecided. >> it is hard to find somebody that stands out in that crowd. a lot of them seem to be similar. >> i don't think there is a good person or a contender somebody who can beat obama >> reporter: mitt romney sees it differently. criticism of his gop competitors and went straight for the president. >> this has been a failed presidency, i will go to work to get americans back to work and make sure job one is concentrating on jobs for americans not ju

locally to the sandringham estate but nationally to link up that to the body but they need the dna testults. >> what more can you say about the victim or potentially who the victim might have been? >> using traditional techniques, as they call them, the police have manage odd work out this, the body is described as a young white adult female, aged between 15 and 23, and as you said the body would have been there between a month and up to four months. and what they are doing is looking at these previous cases. they have given us photos, for example, of two women of east european origin who have disappeared in the area. they have matched that. trying to link it up and still need the dna but obviously the families of these young women, you know, they must be extremely concerned at this point wondering if this is the body. the police just don't know at this point. >> thank you very much. max, pretty amazing story just to watch and the queen and prince philip are still at their palace just a couple of miles away. well, where is baby lisa irwin. three months from her disappearance from her mi

locally to the sandringham estate but nationally to link up that to the body but they need the dna test. >> what more can you say about the victim or potentially who the victim might have been? >> using traditional techniques, as they call them, the police have manage odd work out this, the body is described as a young white adult female, aged between 15 and 23, and as you said the body would have been there between a month and up to four months. and what they are doing is looking at these previous cases. they have given us photos, for example, of two women of east european origin who have disappeared in the area. they have matched that. trying to link it up and still need the dna but obviously the families of these young women, you know, they must be extremely concerned at this point wondering if this is the body. the police just don't know at this point. >> thank you very much. max, pretty amazing story just to watch and the queen and prince philip are still at their palace just a couple of miles away. well, where is baby lisa irwin. three months from her disappearance from her missou

their royal hideaway has become csi: sandringham. police say they might have a positive identification of the victim within the next few hours. robin, they are scrambling as fast as they can to solve this royal murderer mystery. >> no doubt, nick. thank you. >>> we're going to bring in abc news contributor and royal editor of "the sun," duncan larcombe. we just heard from nick watt, duncan. what more can you tell us other than being a white female, 15 to 23. we could learn her identity shortly. what else do you know? >> well, robin, the rumor locally yesterday when this story broke, was that it was a girl that went missing. a 17-year-old girl that went missing in august last year. just down the road in a local town. but we've spoken to her grandmother this morning. and her grandmother is claiming that she's been told by police already that they do not believe that this body is their child. >> and the cause of death, duncan, as you know, has not been released. they say she was not appeared to be stabbed or shot. but they said it is a

her body being found a couple miles from the queen's sandringham residence. they are expecting to brief the media more fully in the morning. so maybe then we'll have these latest test results back. the likelihood is this is a lithuanian woman or latvian woman. she went missing the end of august from a town close to the queen's residence. the lithuanian woman is outside of the profile it, a white woman age 15-23 years old. she was found in a wooded copse, two miles from the queen's sandringham estate. it's where there was a shooting party over the christmas period. but they did not find her body. the body was found by a dog walker new year's morning. megyn: our thanks to darren little with our sister net swork sky news with that report. the 2012 candidates aren't just fighting with each other. the close split in the iowa caucuses, they are fighting for the soul of the republican party. the republican party chair joins us next on what that means. a teenaged mother shoots an intruder inside her home to save her baby all while on the phone with a 11 dispatcher. n

. >>> police in england identified the human remains found on queen elizabeth's estate in sandringham. they belong to a 17-year-old who vanished from a nearby town in august. police say they still don't know how the remains got there or exactly how the girl died. the girl's family has asked for privacy so they can grieve in private. >>> today people living in detroit will need to check the clock before going to a police precinct there. starting today all police precincts and districts in detroit will close at 4:00 in the afternoon. that means people who need to file a police report, buy a purchase permit or any other business, must do so during regular hours of 8:00 a.m. and 4:00 p.m. officials decided to stop 24-hour public access to get more officers from behind the desk and out on the streets. not everyone is happy with the move. >>> a new year's eve bungee jump over a river in zimbabwe almost ended in tragedy. the woman's cord snapped after jumping off the victoria falls bridge. she was about 360 feet above the water when she jumped and plunged about 65 feet into the rapids. the w

the queen and several members of the royal family have been spending the holidays there at sandringhamis report from london. >> reporter: authorities are calling it a murder here in the wooded area on the queen's sprawling sandringham estate. a manhunt underway for a killer who left a woman's body less than mile from where the royals spend their christmas every year. the area is now sealed and turned into a crime scene. the detective in charge of this investigation says they're examining cold cases nationwide for potential links. >> there are forensic experts currently working the scene, looking at anthropology, endermologie, and will be working in pathology, they'll be working here. >> reporter: her remains were found on new year's day. not by security or police but by a member of the public walking their dog. close to the queen's residence on the estate, just hours after the queen and prince phillip went to church last sunday. >> i personally find it inconceivable that the body would have been dump thursday while the royals were in residence. it would have been the craziest place to

>>british police say that the body found a new year's day at the queens country estate in sandringham may be that of a missing teenage girl a man walking his dog made the discovery on the grounds and informed authorities dna results will not be back for a few more days but investigators have determined that the body belonged to two women between 15-23 years old if they believe it could be a 17 year-old girl who went missing last year the girl was last seen 10 mi. from royal crown's the royal family has not spoken publicly on the discovery but there reportedly be updated by police >>a serial killer appears to be targeting homeless people in southern california officials in orange county and their flashlights and whistles to help homeless people protect themselves after three men were stabbed to death in north orange county and meantime people are being encouraged to sleep in groups and stay in shelters authorities arrested for the public's help in the search for the killer the fbi has been brought in to assist with the case they are reviewing surveillance video from the area where the

>> very little at this time. >> reporter: sandringham, though, is enormous, more than 19,000 acres of sprawling countryside north of london, including little towns, farms, woods, a 500-acre park with foot paths, which is accessible to the public. it's been a favorite retreat of the royal family since queen victoria and where many of its members have come to peacefully spend the end of their lives. queen victoria's grandson, heir to the throne, died of illness here as did queen elizabeth ii's grandfather portrayed in "the king's speech" movie. also her father, king george vi. this place where elizabeth relished the outdoors growing up. princess diana was born at a house on the estate. now the public watches a murder mystery unfold on royal land, stunning here, the police delve into cold case files and a muddy underbrush for clues, while the queen remains in residence. so what do we know up to now about this victim? she was young, her body here between one and four months and police say the autopsy reveals no sign of accidental injury, shooting or stabbing. matt? >> all right, michelle

the body of a woman found at sandringham has been there between one month and four months.ot disclose the cause of the bdeath. >>> it's 13 degrees in rockville. >> that was not a typographical error. >> id is cold. >> making the s.a.t. mandatory. d.c. leaders want every city student college-ready. >> kissing and telling. what michael bloomberg said about a new your skills with lady gaga. >> first, doug hill will have the cold forecast. >>> " combat, 6:40, -- welcome back. 15 degrees in oxon hill. >> 68 degrees inside where i am. stokowski's numbers. nine degrees but now in winchester. these are the coldest readings locally on the weatherbug network. if a degrees in a market. nine degrees in -- what you're noticing is the wind chills are about the same as the air temperature. look of these numbers. the 10k day vera, 19 in quantico 17 degrees at reagan national. the cold air is overhead all across the mid-atlantic. we have low temperatures there and in the northeast. [no audio] >> thanks. having a little trouble with the audio. we want to get lisa baden to find out what's hap

. >>> new details about the death almof a woman found at queen elizabeth's sandringham the state.s a murder. >>> the pentagon will open an office in the persian gulf nation of qatar in order to hold talks with the u.s. u.s. and taliban representative snitchler and several times over the past year. >>> a man is under arrest in connection with a string of arson attacks in new. york on new new. the islamic cultural center and four other sites were targeted. police arrested the man yesterday on a hate crime charge and took him to a hospital for psychiatric exams. he confessed to the attacks, that he had personal grievances with all the targets. >>> the man suspected of setting a series of arsons in the los angeles area is due in court today. 24-year-old harry burkhart went on a tirade during the court hearing for his mother last week shouting obscenities. the fires began two days later and he was arrested on monday. >>> news of another increase in medication shortages. the university of utah and drug information service says 267 prescription drug shortages occurred last year, up from

eastern england some walking in the 600 not acre public park that is part of the queens estate in sandringham discovered the body on sunday shortly after the queen and prince philip attended in years to a church service nearby police have sealed off the area while forensic investigations are being carried out an autopsy is expected to be done today >>and aggressive statement from iran today as u.s. and european union economic sanctions take their toll i ran said that it will take action if the united states navy moves an aircraft carrier into the persian gulf where iranian naval exercises are underway that country's currency has fallen 40 percent against the dollar this past month many iranians are scrambling to buy dollars to protect their savings and iranian army chief said the u.s. aircraft carrier has moved to the sea of oman out of the persian gulf and not recommending it will not return western countries are concerned about iran's nuclear program tehran said its peaceful but the west claims it wants to build an atomic bomb >>negotiators for israel and the palestinians plan to meet today

. >> the body of after 17-year-old girl in sandringham has been identified.death, only that they're investigating the murder. i spoke with cnn international correspondent max foster. max, the girl whose body was found, what do we know about her? >> reporter: we know she moved from lat tee -- latvia in 2009 about 30 miles away from the estate. we're told she was out-going and fun loving what the police have told us. ask they're quick to scotch any rumors that said she was involved in the sex industry, said that's not true at all, ready to start college on a beautician's course in september, around the time she disappeared. >> do police have any idea how long ago she died? >> she went missing around the end of august, beginning of september, all we know, the body has been in situ up to four months in sanderingham. she was last seen the 31st of august in a car with two men. the police managed to find those two men, questioned them but haven't arrested them. in the meantime, they're focusing their efforts on the estate and combing that area and trying to find out

on new year's day, a dog walker discovered the body in a young woman at the forest of sandringham.ristmas every year. the body was found in part of the public grounds of the 31- mile estate. the royal family is not considered part of the investigation. >>> the state department played a big role in arresting the suspect in the los angeles arson case. the police arrested german harry burkhart after the feds recognized him in the security video. he's accused of starting dozens of fires causing millions in damage. he had an angry outburst in immigration court last week and a state official remembered him. it shows a man launching a firebomb in the new york home. he's suspected of arson attacks. at an islamic center, a store and home used as a hindu worship site and police are questioning the man in connection of the attack. the man was kicked out of the store and most of the bombs were made with that bottle. >>> and coming up, dr. oz joins us live with tips to keep you motivated in 2012. >>> and if you're trying to lose weight, give this a try. we're going to take you inside a local sp

. >>> british police are investigating a possible murder there at sandringham estate.ocal dog walker discovered the body there on new year's day, just two miles from the estate's main residence where the entire royal family, including prince william and catherine spent their christmas. >>> an awe inspiring debut this weekend for two twin polar bears as a zoo in china. visitors couldn't get enough of the cuddly pair, born in finland two months ago and given to china as a gift of friendship and coming up a little bit later on in this hour, why the science of cute -- why we can't help but gush over the cute animal babies. >>> it's seven minutes after the hour. let's go over to al for a check of your weather. so cute. >> in nine months they'll kill you. >> so cute though. >> anyway, let's show you what's going on right now. we've got the temperatures in iowa awfully cold, teens and single digits right now, by the time people start caucusing we're talking about temperatures in the mid-30s, windchills though will be much colder, making it feel like below zero throughout much