sonya gavankar has that for us. sonya? >> well, factcheck.org is one of those great sites that we like. it's a nonprofit from the annenberg center at the university of pennsylvania. they monitor the whole political scene--television ads, debates, interviews--and check them all for accuracy. but let's say that you want to contact them. well, go to "burning questions," where you can get some of those questions answered. let's say you get an outrageous e-mail and you want to see if it's true or not. they will tell you. or is there a law against false advertising in political ads? oh, trusting citizens. factcheck.org strives to be a consumer advocate for voters, and their reporters and their scholars really cut through the spin. the other site that we like is politifact.com. they are a pulitzer prize winner from the "st. petersburg times" newspapers. they have a lot of fun things, too, like the truthometer, the obameter that answers the call that president obama made during the campaign of wanting to be held accountable, the f

. >> sonya is concerned about the affect her arrest is having on her family. for violating her probation. on a cocaine possession conviction. >> i have two girls and i don't want to be a role model thinking -- having my girls thinking it's cute to use drugs, or go to jail or depend on a man. i don't want them to make the mistakes i've made. there's no way in hell. >> tell me what keeps bringing you back here. >> the drugs to be honest with you. >> sergeant sarah herman takes a personal interest in many of hillsborough county's female inmates and wants to discuss her plan to get back on track. >> i'm ready for a change and ready to be with my babies and my family. >> how old are your children? >> my daughter is 4, my other one is 3, and my son turned 14 thursday. >> what is going to keep you from not coming here again is >> i'm willing to change. >> what's your plan? >> to complete my ged and finish school to find a job and keep my busy and occupied. that's the key, i realize. >> she says she didn't start taking drugs until she was 24 and addiction quickly took

school students do understand that a college education is the key to a good job, but to get there, sonya caesar worries students take on more debt than they can afford. >> it's kind of like if you warn your child, "don't touch that stove, it's hot." you keep saying, "don't touch that stove, its hot. you're going to get burned, you're going to have to go to the hospital," and you keep telling them that over and over again, and what do children tend to do? they walk right over and touch the stove. >> reporter: darren gersh, nightly business report, dundalk, maryland. >> susie: here's what else we're watching for tomorrow: the september reports on new home sales and durable goods are released, and it's another big day for earnings. we'll hear from boeing, conoco- phillips, merck, visa and ford. speaking of ford, c.e.o. alan mulally joins us to talk about those results and what's driving the company's future plans. u.b.s. will pay $12 million to settle accusations that it failed to oversee millions of short-sale trades over the last five years. the financial industry regulatory authority, or

>>son sonya thomas also known as the black widow has taken on wings and hot dogs. was able to eat 183 wins in 12 minutes. -- wings in 12 minutes. then there is juliet lee a mother and a salon owner from germantown who 8 13 pounds of cranberry sauce in eight minutes. ben's chili bowl is providing the ground. >> how does she get to the name peaches? [laughter] >> competitors have six minutes to put down as many bowls of chilly as possible. -- chili as possible. they are preparing this 30 pound pot of chili for each person. that is about 60 regular servings of a bowl of chili. >> how many do you think you can eat? >> 60. >> that is a lot. >> abc7 news. >> that is a lot. that contest will be a week from tonight, october 9. first prize is more than $1,200. still to come, an announcement that outraged customers a fee hike for bank of america debit card holders. more details on that coming up. [ female announcer ] at verizonfios.com you can choose your chanl package. ♪ ♪ you can choose your own internet speeds. ♪ ♪ you can even choose to chat with a live person. ♪ ♪ and y

. >> i want to thank sonya davis, one of our peacemakers in the community.ealer, civil rights attorney, and she has been a member of the restorative justice for youth program in oakland. linda. [applause] >> good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the koret auditorium of the san francisco public library. i'm a member of the african- american interest committee here at the library. it is our hope that you will be profoundly moved and inspired by what you hear and see today. social justice is concerned with equal justice, not just in the court, but in all aspects of society. this concept demands that people have equal rights and opportunity. everyone, from the poorest person on the margins of society to the wealthiest, deserves an even playing field. every race, every color, every culture. what happened in 1955 is not unlike what is exploding out of the headlines today. it was a young person's death that started the uprising in tunisia. it is young people on the front lines in egypt. slowly but surely, the young people in sudan are following suit and rising u

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. >> just a few more recognition sprint we're joined by current commissioner, signed a, -- sonya, as well as a representative from the office of nancy pelosi, the san francisco political committee. they do women's policy summit in september. for gin and harman, former director of the human rights commission, and galena -- helena. thank you so much for joining us. >> our next award goes to the unsung heroine, carol ito. she is bed a passionate advocate for women of all levels of the community. she was one of the founding members of the national asian pacific women's movement in the late 1970's, which resulted in the development of the local bay area group, pacific asian american women. the have been running 30 years. she recently completed three terms as a san francisco airport commissioner. please join me in welcoming carol ito. [applause] >> thank you. i am very humbled this afternoon to join all of you. i want to thank shelly's committee and everyone who made this happen. i am honored to share many of these honors. many of us have work together for the various causes and policy cha

>> reporter: crews raced to the passengers as they hung to the helicopter's skids but 40-year-old sonya marah nicholson who was celebrating her birthday with her family died after being trapped inside. federal officials are already on the ground here in new york and collecting information and they will be looking at several things. weather conditions, the helicopter itself, and the pilot. >> we will be looking at his training, any previous accidents or any other aspects that could help form the investigation. >> reporter: the pilot managed to swim to shore and was actually friends with the passengers. the group was in new york taking a private tour. >> they had family come here to see the experience, the best of our experience, and end up in a tragic accident like this just breaks your heart. >> reporter: officials say it could take months to figure out what was supposed to be a fun sight-seeing accident ended in tragedy. the pilot of that helicopter, paul dudley was involved in another incident in 2006. he was flying a cessna 172, a light plane. he had engine trouble and had to make an

three of the passengers and the pilot were able to be rescued, but one woman, sonya mara a 40-year-old from syd any australia was trapped in the back seatshe did not survive. i want to bring in two of the first people on the scene. this happened yesterday. let me bring you in. both at the office of emergency management. i'll start with you, frank. both of you were in the area. you heard what had happened. got here at the scene. tell me what you saw and what happened. >> we arrived on the scene, and when we arrived, there was a helicopter with two men holding on to the skids. one was the pilot and the other a passenger up floont wront in aircraft. wes and i grabbed a life vest with the crew onboard and rescued them, was able to tie off -- >> reporter: wes, term about that. >> i was able to run out to the helipad, and get what was, deploy it out to the individual about 20 yards out and then i had to climb down to the pylons and lay down on my chest to bring them in and get underneath him so he wouldn't sink. his jacket kept coming off. myself, the deputy commissioner and a police officer

sonya thomas of alexandria, as the black widow. -- joey justnut not plans to eat two gallons of .hiliompetitors will have six minutes to read as much as possible. see isat to 60 regular bowls chili. >> i will hold all my comments goingerything that is through my head. sinking what everyone else is thinking. let's talk weather. >> let's keep going, that's right. cool mornings and warm afternoon. will see that into the weekend. chili.e gallons of these are the coldest temperatures i could find. degrees in woodbine and in would -- inwood. 41 in rockville, 43 in stafford. frederick at the regional airport, 39 degrees. quantico, 50. 44 at dulles airport. ander this morning yesterday morning. darkness thanore get coolero you morning, but comfortable afternoons. you need a light jacket in the sleeves inen short the afternoon. areas of fog or divisibility especially west of the metro. as visibility at 0.3 miles. similar story in culpeper. this will burn all around 7:09.e, we will have a similar weather .attern this jet stream stretches into hudson bay. that's pulling the warm air from northpo

but sonya maur mick -- nicholson died after being trapped inside. >> reporter: last year, the federaln administration posed tighter restrictions. it resulted -- previously it resulted in deaths of 88 people. >> reporter: he was friends with passengers from portugal and australia. >> all new yorkers feel for this family. and we wish it had not happened. >> reporter: the ntsb says the fact that the chopper remained intact, should help them understand exactly what happened. in new york, drew levinson, wjz eyewitness news. >> now, dudley was uninjured. the three surviving passengers are all in the hospital. >>> another day of fiery protests in the heart of new york, as hundreds of protestors autopsied wall street. and today, they have reinforcements. >>> vic, those protestors are now getting help from powerful unions and community organizations. they're getting support from organized labor and community groups, including the transit workers union and move on.org. demonstrators began 19 days ago, in lower manhattan, as people protested what they're calling a culture of greed on wall street

juan carlos, president obama pointed to sonya sotomayor, is that enough to pin on hispanics at this time? >> this hispanic community, they're upset the reform didn't happen. they've been signaling the white house for that. they're also upset about the deportations. the obama administration has already deported about 1 million people in the three years. the figures for 2011 are almost 400,000, more than any republican president. but the interesting thing is that even though hispanics are upset and feel that the president hasn't delivered on that promise, he did name sonya sotomayor, he does have members in his cabinet. he's done a lot of things. they're not hearing a message from republicans saying they'll do things differently. on the contrary, the impression we get speaking to people is they feel pushed away from the republicans. >> quickly, mark, if you can answer this. a short time left here. will the eventual nominee need somebody like mark rubio for the hispanic vote? they have different issues, they don't all vote the same. >> that's absolutely true. juan carlos knows this better t

but sonya maur-nicholson, who was sill celebrating with her family, died after being trapped inside. >> reporter: last year, they proposed tighter safety regulations for helicopters. over a 14-year period, there were 75 commercial helicopter accidents in the united states. those resulted in the deaths of 88 people. >> reporter: fellow pilots call dudley an experienced flyer. he was friends with the passengers who were in from portugal and australia. >> all new yorkers feel for this family. and we wish it had not happened. >> reporter: the ntsb said the fact that the chopper was intact, should help them understand what happened. in new york, drew levinson, wjz eyewitness news. >> dudley was not injured. the three surviving passengers are all in the hospital. >> a small, disorganized protest in new york, turned into something much bigger. some of the city's most powerful unions are joining in the occupy wall street demonstrations. protestors insist that wall street's greed led to the nation's economic collapse. and they want lawmakers in washington held responsible for their role, too.

sonya nicholson, who was celebrating her 40th birthday with her family, died after being trapped insideear, the federal aviation administration posed tighter safety regulations for helicopters. the faa says over a 14-year period, there were 75 commercial helicopter accidents in the united states. as a result, 88 people died. >> fellow pilots called dudley an experienced flyer. he was friends with the passengers who were in from portugal and australia. >> all new yorkers feel for this family. and we wish it had not happened. >> reporter: the ntsb said the fact that the chopper remained intact, should help them understand exactly what happened. >> reporter: a weather- reporting station at nearby la guardia airport, reported wind gusts up to 20 miles an hour, around the time of that crash. >> the pilot was uninjured. the surviving three passengers are all in the hospital. >> the search for a missing baby girl from missouri continues tonight. 10-month-old lisa erwin was reporting missing from her kansas city home around 4:00 yesterday morning. that's when her dad came home from work and not

that, in a sense, the system betrayed him because his sentence for the same crime of the murder of sonya rosenbaum was, in his mind, much greater than his cohorts. in actuality, everybody took a plea bargain. he went to trial, so he ended up getting a more severe sentence. >> i vowed that wherever i got out of jail, i would pay frank rizzo and his party back for what they did to me. >> we have criminals walking our streets that will never be rehabilitated, cannot be rehabilitated and should be put in prison. >> the overarching focus for him was frank rizzo and for 24 years in prison, that feeling festered. >> in 1993, he died of a heart attack on the campaign trail. i felt the mixed pleasure of both pleasure that he died, finally he died, but also felt cheated. and i still had in me this desire to get back at him. >> if mcfadden's vengeful, it's not apparent. he seems to become a model prisoner, converting to islam, taking college courses, and helping guards restore order during the camp hill notorious prison riots. is >> he's a bright guy, he understands how you manipulate the system so

dramatic rescue, emergency crews were able to save the pilot and three other passengers, but they found sonya mara dead after being trapped for an hour and a half underwater. it was her 40th birthday. two of the passengers are in critical condition. >>> in california, the conrad murray trial is entering the next stage with testimony from investigators and detectives. parts of murray's police interview conducted two days after michael jackson's death will be played in court as well. >>> and home at last. amanda knox back in seattle after her four years in an italian jail. a tearful knox was fwregreeted applause from supporters as she arrived back home. >> thank you to everyone who has believed in me, who has defended me, who has supported my family. >>> the chairman of the house oversight committee, darrell issa, says attorney general eric holder failed to tell the whole truth when he testified back in may that he only just learned about a controversial program, a program that ended up putting guns in the hands of the mexican drug cartel. that program was called fast and furious. here's what i

more than an hour later, divers pulled the body of sonya mara nicholson to the surface and rushed hershore. she was pronounced dead at the scene. the group was celebrating her 40th birthday. so what went wrong? the ntsb is already on the scene investigating. >> we'll be looking at the human, machine, environment, we talked about the pilot. machine, looking at engines how it was equipped. >> reporter: it was a tragic day that could have been so much worse. when the bell 206 plunged into the east river moments after takeoff. it will be several months before investigators come up with a final cause for this crash but they may have a pretty good idea much sooner than that. the pilot in this case was not seriously hurt and has already had a chance to give his perspective on what went so tragically wrong over the east river. for abc news in new york i'm jim dolan. >>> sad story there. another dangerous dust storm has rolled through the arizona desert and this time it triggered three deadly pileups. the crashes on interstate 10 involved more than 20 cars. one man was killed. more than a doze

. >> reporter: sonya mara was found an hour later, trapped inside the fuselage. michelle miller, cbs news, new york. >> joining us is laer seras who jumped into the water moments after the crash and jason gregory who helped in the rescue. you come up on the scene. you get the call. luckily you happen to be somewhat close to the helipad down on 34th street. when you first arrive what do you see and how do you process it? >> when we first arrived, there was a lot of people pointing in the direction of the helicopter and we had a lot of equipment that we needed to shed, tactical gear and when we actually reached the water's edge, all you could see is the skids of the inverted helicopter barely visible above the water line. and we knew what we had to do. >> you see those skids. did you see any of the passengers at that point? >> as far as i can remember, i saw the pilot. he is the only one i saw at the surface initially. and then after we jumped in and began swimming, then two more people surfaced. >> you guys were on a counterterrorism exercise at that particular ti