one of the hot spots was tallahassee at 97. this morning it is still warm. the air mass hasn't changed. it's still rather humid out there too. we had showers and storms that popped up from the ohio valley through western new york and pennsylvania. a few strong storms out there near westchester county and over long island last night. that hot weather will remain with us through the day today. the showers and storms will cool us off in most areas this afternoon. the forecast, another 90-degree day from new york, philadelphia, and boston. there will be more clouds this afternoon. a chance of showers and storms, including there in boston. should be a beautiful day in chicago, 82 and sun pef that's the a look at your national forecast. here's a look at the weather outside your window. chance of showers and storms today, many hours, including concord, new hampshire. a chance of showers around d.c., baltimore, new york city. carry that umbrella today in case you get caught in one of the heavy downpours late this afternoon. >>> this is the last big day of heat for t

tallahassee, storms are starting to push towards the coast. appalachia, pensacola, you may get storms later in the day. it will move with the sea breeze over central florida. beautiful today. it's going to be nice. 79 in boston. can't complain about that. sun and clouds mixing in new york, 84. d.c., 86. clear blue skies through the great lakes. starting to feel a little warmer. that's nice nor the summertime. that's a look at your friday forecast. now a look at the weather outside your window. showers and storms, we'll call it coastal virginia. areas around richmond will remain dry. as we go down the coast south carolina, georgia, florida, numerous showers and storms today. we'll be dry in maine up through michigan. christina, it's friday. that means your weekend forecast is coming up a little later. >> all right. and it certainly can't start soon enough. thanks so much, bill. >>> unemployment nujs higher, sales tick down, and another regional airline is gobbled up. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, if buzz al

just showers and storms in the southeast fr tallahassee to orlando. chicago, rain for you.ut pretty nice an summer ke in many areas. that's alook at your national forecast. now hre's a look at the weather tside your window. northern new englandad that cold front move through last night. you're going to wake up to almost chilly temperatures. highs in the 60s and 70s in northern new england. a beautil day from new york to philadehia. enjoy. well, christina, i'll give you the latt on danny when i come back. >> all right. thanks so much, bill. >>> new home sales jump, taking a bite out of app, and the bottom line on cash for clunkers. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, ndsay lohan turns out even wn she's the victim a crime she can still get herself into trouble. >>> mark sanchez has a new gig, and david ortizas so nice he did it twice. youe wahing "early today." >> good morng, and welcome back to "early today." i'm christina brown. here are some of your top headlines this morning. >>> in surprising move, taiwan says it has agreed to l the dalai

the areas that have the umbrella, tallahassee, savannah, orlando. everybody in the deep south. tuesday, two good summer days in a row. most locations very warm. well, if you're watching channel 3 in cleveland, ohio, discover how human beings have adapted and continue to evolve at the cleveland museum of natural history exhibit, surviving the body of evidence. that's me on the right, dan on the left. that's your eastern event of the day. >> good job. thank you for that, bill. >>> now an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. hollywood may be the only place you can win but lose badly all at the same time. funny people was number one at the box office with a little more than $23 million. but funny people was the lowest earning number one film of the year, adam sand her's lowest in five years. it did not score well with the critics. add to that it cost $75 billion to make. it's being greeted as the winner that was the loser. the family comedy aliens in the attic opened fifth with a $7.8 million. they expected double-digit millions for this. remember katherine heig

tallahassee getting heavy rain. lot of this rain will bomb the panhandle and lower alabama or los angeles. that will be the story overnight and really the leading edge. two storms at sea. anna, bill way out there. has the greatest possibility to be a major hurricane and move eventually into the ocean. we will see if it becomes a threat or not. wap watch out for bill. it'll be muggy. slight chance for a shower in the next hourer or two. sunday 92 degrees. that's where we are going right now. haze, passing thin clouds. if we get more cloud cover that would hold the temperature down. seven day forecast now again it's a hot trend here for the next three to four days. carbon copies, better chance for showers and storms as we go into the next few days. watch out for that and again later in the week and next weekend we cool it off back into the mid80s. >> thank you. gas prices took a break. the average national price now $2.65s. in maryland paying about $2.05s even though you can find it lower than that. analysts say don't

we're watching heavy rain across the gulf coast, places like mississippi, alabama, tallahassee can see drenching rains from claudette. across the northeast the big story will be the heat. temperatures in the 90s in those big cities. if you're watching us on wcnc tv in raleigh, north carolina, come out of your shell to learn about turtles when you meet the animals at the museum of natural sciences. that's your eastern event of the day. christina? >> thanks so much. >>> now here's an early look at this morning's headlines in entertainment. when is number one at the box office the double bonanza? when it costs more than to produce. "direct 9" featuring a first time director and cost of unknowns opened at number one than a better than expected $39 million. the $39 million budget may have cost-conscious studios rethinking big budgets. g.i. joe came in second at $22 million. "the time traveler's wife" opened third with more than $19 million. women not interested in explosions made up the audience. jeremy piven in the used car comedy "goods" came in sixth. finally, so much for the drawing pow

. >> reporter: off the coast jean picked up her daughter from work and took off inland to tallahassee because the river was rising. >> we've had a couple of small trees already blow down across the road my husband had to move. our crooked river is already rising just with the rainfall. >> reporter: in port st. joe shoppers swamped the piggly wiggly to get flashlights. camille wilson lives in safety harbor and came all the way here to vacation. >> we're going to stay here for the duration. tomorrow the sun will be out. >> reporter: on apalachicola bay you can barely stand here. there are people who will try to tough it out in boats tied up to the dock. there's a lady that walked down here -- this guy says he's going to stick it out in the storm no matter how much his boat bobs. that is nothing compared to the boat right next to it. that is where paul fridell fought claudette as best he could. >> you almost have to lay down to keep from getting blown off. i don't know what kind of wind we got. 40, 50 miles? >> we'll keep track of the claudette here this morning with susan. we'll have al

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another navy flyover is scheduled in tallahassee during the florida state miami game on september 7. scott speicher graduated from fsu in 1980 with a business administration degree. scott speicher tennis complex was designated in 1993. he will be buried in a private ceremony after this motorcade. defense officials originally declared him killed in action. he was then said to be missing or captured. the military recovered to the bones and multiple fractiofragm. navy capt scott speicher is home. let's listen. shepard: capt. scott speicher to be laid to rest. he is home in florida at last. we got word from secretary gates the rebuilding of afghanistan is a decade-long process. two wars still under way. this american hero is finally home. brand new safety measures are coming to airports across the country. what you will hear now. i was in the grocery store when i had a heart attack. my daughter was with me. i took a bayer aspirin out of my purse and chewed it. my doctor said the bayer aspirin saved my life. please talk to your doctor about aspirin and your heart. i'm going to be grandma

near tallahassee. check out tallahassee's radar picture. most of it offshore.oving offshore. the areas like atlanta getting in toward tallahassee too. heavy downpour, maybe two inches or so as well. look at the showers coming in.ño we have a towercam to show you. let me show you what it looks like around the east coast. live atlanta. here's the way it goes. yeah. we had heavy downpours overnight last night. you see what it looks like in atlanta now. we're dry. showers return though. traveling down toward atl, we'r going to see thunderstorms f. i hear it in my ear. we have a towercam. i was talking so loud i didn't hear which one it was. in atlanta, i know we're going to be around 85. more storms. be prepared for that. >> it's a humid one right now. >> tough stuff. >> thanks, bob. >> all right. >>> before you pack your next bag for your next trip, wait until you hear how much it's going to cost you to check it. @d >>> get this. one college wants to get all of its 12,000 students trained in cpr. practice session at emory university started at freshmen orientatio

there, they beat him, they tortured him, then they shot him in the head and they threw him in the tallahassee river. >> emmitt till, that story really galvanized the civil rights movement that was set in motion. there's an african-american president of the united states, would you have ever have believed that. >> i said never in my lifetime. i went on tv in the chicago area, i said, look, i said it would never happen, but things have changed so much. >> when we reported that he had won, how did you feel at that second? >> i tell you, i feel like michelle obama, proud to be an american. and the press can take it any way they want to, i'm proud to be an american. >> do you like working for cnn. >> i love working for cnn. >> will you give me an internship? >> damon weaver and me, he asked me some tough questions. (announcer) the same rapid response you expect from brink's home security... you can now expect from broadview security - for home and business. call now to get the proven technology of a broadview security system installed for just $99. day or night, broadview is on the job, ready to r

tallahassee, florida, tied a record that 53 degrees. and here we are with our dew point at 60. we're still seeing that drier air continue to come in. tomorrow, dew points into the 50s. unlike friday, i'll show you great pictures lateron. really things are quiet. early this morning, there were showers for our friends in southern maryland. ocean city, a pretty good week coming up. look at the monthly rainfall in ocean city. four inches. later on in the week and the weekend, folks will have to keep an eye on perhaps another tropical storm. here is what's left of hurricane bill. you can see that it's now become just a nasty storm in the north atlantic heading toward ireland later on tonight and torrow. and what a job forecasting. this was the track of bill. i wanted to show you the forecast from the folks at the tropical prediction center. back on wednesday, a week ago, here was the forecast for the next three days and here was the -- there was the actual track. there's the forecast. so this started on wednesday and you can see how bill's actual track was well within that cone of u

panama city and elsewhere, even in tallahassee being they are seeing some rainfall right now.k of the rain has yet to move onshore. i'll show you the rest of the tropics in a moment. first, let'stake a look at what is happening close to home. our temperature says 74 degrees here. we have some readings saying 7 # degrees at this hour. 69 up in baltimore. winchester, virginia is at 65 degrees. here is a look at the tropical map. tropical depression ana is closest to us but we are not expecting much because of winds at 35 miles per hour. what we are looking at is bill. bill no longer a tropical storm. bill is a hurricane now, just became a hurricane a short time ago. maximum sustained winds are now 75 miles per hour. we'll update this for you. the national hurricane center believed that bill, which is way out to sea, will likely become a major hurricane. it is the first hurricane of the season and we'll change that for you as that is outdated information. >>> here is a look at the satellite-radar composite for the region. here, we have a little bit of cloud cover over us. we don'

right now, look at the surge of moisture continuing to go into spots like tallahassee. our rainfall, as i mentioned, four inches below average. meanwhile, they've been on the dry side, spots like georgia. so all of this rain, the tropical rains, are beneficial. they certainly can help things there. and you can see that moisture continuing to come in from the gulf. not much coming our way. we are now getting into the peak seas yasor lr,t ea yas l -- off the coast formed in july. here we are now with the season really getting going. just over the weekend. there is bill. you can see that circulation. it is now developing an eye. the other one, anna, is not going to be doing anything. it's just a very, very weak system. right now, bill is getting stronger. winds are now at 90 miles an hour. here's the track. i'll get out of the way so you can see how far it is from washington before you worry too much. this is from the folks at the hurricane center. even with the uncertainty that the risk for being a threat to the eastern united states right now, right now, is minimal. by l

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they move in just north of tallahassee.ne extends all the way into atlanta. we'll see an additional one to two inches of rain at atl in the next couple hours. more showers and thunderstorms blossoming ahead of a warm front in philly. it's coming in through lancaster county, york county. atlanta city, hugging the jersey shore toward cape may. a couple inches outside chicago, now toward northern indiana. lower parts of michigan, all seeing the rain. rain and thundershowers near houston and extremely hot temperatures for southwest california, arizona and nevada. looking at some highs today. they're calling for a high in death valley of 121. las vegas tonight, excessive heat warning for you in las veg vegas, 109. 114 in phoenix, excessive heat warning. >>> bizarre incident in atlanta. four students jump right off their moving school bus while it's moving. video from a gas station shows a 23-year-old guy behaving quite strangely, crouching, fij eting. police say he runs out, jumps through a bus window, overpowers a bus driver an

been seeing that already pushing into the area, very heavy at times, over toward apalachicola, the tallahassee area. occasional occasionally, been seeing the thunderstorms wrapping around with the outer bands, tampa bay also into the orlando area. we could see anywhere between three to five inches of rainfall along with those gusty winds. this is going to be enough to cause some localized flooding. in addition, we could even see some power outages. i want to show you a couple of the winds we have been seeing across the area because they are starting to gust pretty strong. there you can see, sustained winds 13 miles per hour, 14 over there, up to 27 now near panama city. down here near apalachicola, sustained winds, 20, 25 miles per hour, then getting some of the stronger gusts in the 20s toward, over toward the tampa bay area. we do have a tower cam i want to show you from pensacola, from our affiliate, wear-tv and a wind gust at the top of the hour, 40 miles per hour here. you can see a little bit of the wave action and certainly some very dark, threatening-looking skies. we will watch those

in and around tallahassee, are people battening down the hatches there all over the area?ea is a little further inland. mainly what we're seeing is outer rain bands from the center of the storm to our west right now. the main impacts we're seeing right now are down in the coastal areas, bay, gulf and franklin counties. >> talking about panama city and destin, two of the most beautiful peaches in the country, white sand, beautiful blue water, and just after hurricane katrina and rita came through, i would hope, sir, that people take these warnings seriously and more serious each time. do you feel they're doing it this time? >> we feel like there's been a real good response. i think one of the things in florida people are really familiar with is a couple days ago we had the anniversary of hurricane charley. that storm proved things can rapidly intensify at times. we've learned lessons in florida that make floridians more prepared than ever. >> again, it's going to make landfall sometime soon and we're going to be here covering it for you. and john cherry will update us with

. >> the name is ashley kenney and she joins us from tallahassee, florida.is agreed and why does it cost controversy? >> the front has rip the constitution this is a quote by president reagan. the one what sort of reaction has your shirt cotton? >> i first worked with tea party of course it was all support. these are people who think like me. i give it to jack kingston and the town hall meeting and the picture goes about his log. after that some loggers take it but upon a site and just attacked me. not anything political just personal attacks. >> dave: how do you feel that the constitution is under attack right now watching the. >> when i made this shirt, cap and trade, health care were were being pushed through. i felt smothered like the government. you can't know what's in either bill and diesel have an overwhelming impact on everyone of us. so i felt that the constitution is meant to ensure that the government is never greater than the people and i think the government is smothering the people. >> alysin: what you think about the catcher clunkers program

he is talking to the department of families, as well as the legal team, going down to tallahassee fromthe hearing. basically, the governor does not want the runaway sent back to ohio until all of these allegations are resolved to his comfort. we have a girl claiming that if she goes back, she will be the victim of an honor killing because her parents are muslim and she is now muslim -- christian. you have for parents saying at this is not the case, we want her home, she is being brainwashed by this christian couple, the pastors of the global revolution church in orlando. she ran away from columbus, got on a greyhound bus, called the pasteur, and she was staying with him for several days. he wholeheartedly supports her contention that she is in danger for her life. there is no evidence that her life is in danger, that it was threatened, that she has been abused before. ohio's department of judge and families do not have any reports of abuse. so we have a 17-year-old girl claiming this, and at 3:15 we will have a meeting with potentially hundreds attending. jane: we want to know what you

>> he has the legal team heads down from toss the to -- -- the legal team is heading down from tallahasseeo. they want to keep it going until all of it is resolved, one way or another. they want to make sure the judge has not sent her back to ohio this afternoon, because it is very unlikely that in a 2.5 hour hearing, all of these attorneys from all of these factions will be able to make their cases and get some sort of resolution as to whether or not this girl is facing a threat from her family. she has gone on record as saying that there is no threat, we do not want to kill her, we just what are our daughter to come home. and they are of course alleging she is being brainwashed by these christians down in orlando. so it should be very interesting, to say the least. jamie: we know you will fall the developments, and we will check back with you. and we wanted you to weigh in. ask you to go to our website and tell us how you think the courts should handle the case. should this girl be sent home, or should she be allowed to stay in florida? here is what you are saying. seven % say she should

. >> i grew up in tallahassee florida where captain speicher attended school at florida state and theennis center is named in his honor there. folks across there and across the country have continued to follow the story for years. how does it feel after 18 years so finally be getting some resolution. >> i thought for the family as they are overjoyed. i'm en route to where bethany speicher lives. they are overjoyed yet sad at the same time. they are able to bring this to a conclusion to the children won't have to wonder the rest of their lives if their father is alive. >> and how tough was that uncertainty? i know that you pushed for the search to continue for some kind of resolution to be reached. i imagine that had to be a harrowing time for 18 years of just not knowing. >> there were so many false rumors. there were supreme that claimed that he was in prison. i went to iraq right after the invasion and went in and traced the initials mss in the prison cell and it is what started, you know, just another piece of evidence that folks thought that he might be alive. but year after year

and he showed them because during that road trip he stopped in tallahassee, i believe, and purchasedve something to present to them when they asked. >> reporter: now in jail, robert began a sort of private pr campaign. he sprivg elled his accusations against leslie, his version of the story, through long, convoluted letters, sent them off to lawyer herbert, reporter douglas, even rosemary's friends rosemary caught her and they had fight and that's when rosemary fell on her knife. it was really bizarre. i read it and put it down and had to have al gofass wine. i picked itas back up again, i' like, did i just read this? and read it again. >> reporter: yes, robert was true to rosemary, heartbroken by her death. leslie was the villain. leslie was no rose. >> i loved rose and even if we were to have separated i would still love rose. but i would have never stopped rose from leaving me. i wouldn't -- you couldn't give nd leslie, reporter: and leslie meanwhile, though she designed our interview request, continues to claim that her version of rosemary's death is the real one. still, there it

. >> reporter: up the coast, jean picked up her daughter from work and took off inland to tallahassee rising. >> we had a couple small trees already blow down across the road that my husband to go and move. our crooked river is already rising just with the rainfall. >> reporter: and shoppers here swamped the pigly wigly. one of those shoppers was camille wilson who lived in safety harbor and came all the way up here for vacation. >> we're hunkered in and are going to stay here for the duration. tomorrow the sun will be out. >> you can barely stay up on this docking yet there are people who are going to try and tough it out in their boats tied up to the dock. there's a lady walk down here, this guy says he's going to stick it out in the storm no matter how much his boat bobs and that's nothing compared to the boat right next to it. that's where paul fought claudette as best he could. >> almost have to lay down to keep from getting blown off. i don't know what kind of wind we got, probably 40, 50 miles. >> reporter: those 40, 50 mile-an-hour winds have caused some power outages up and d

campground near tallahassee, a motorcyclist pulled in a few hours later. >> real friendly.i assumed he had a laptop with him, needed internet access. >> reporter: owner, caroline hastings, said the motorcyclist went online for awhile, then began to act quite strange. >> reporter: back in indiana, tom britt was checking his messages. >> i checked my e-mail, and there was an e-mail from marcus schenker. >> reporter: there it was, an e-mail from marcus. he wrote that he really did have a window implode in flight, said he lost consciousness. said he still loved michelle and how sorry he was for treating her so terribly. he also said, "i have embarrassed my family for the last time and by the time you read this i'll be gone." so, what you think? >> well, my initial reaction was i have to assume the worst, and he's really gonna take his life. i know the walls have been caving in around him. and the first thing i do is i call the police. >> reporter: at the k.o.a. campground the next day, caroline hastings and her husband drove by the motorcyclist's tent. >> my husband pulled up o

continuing to take your calls, we go to tallahassee.caller: sure. he needs the tv turned down. okay. >> okay. you're on the air. >> caller: i'm a 35-year-old lady from tallahassee and i'm a republican. i did vote for barack. the company that i want to think about is i think it is overrated. i think people have just gone by hearsay and haven't really fully read the bill itself. i'm also in political science as well. and i was looking at the commercial that the aarp put out. it says a lot. everything is blocking the wrecker car. we think we are really overlooking the fine details. think we should start taking them out. i think people are getting bent out of shape. >> thanks for your thoughts. atlanta on the democrat line. >> caller: yes. i just want to be able to say that i think this is a -- thing that barack obama is doing for us. based on the fact that i'm 39, i'm diabetes, i'm unemployed and don't have insurance coverage. based about what he said about the previous administration, it's about time we have a president who fake -- takes

morning and just heavy rain up to ten inches possible and a stormy day across much of i-10 from tallahassee west. in the northwest we're dealing with a lot of sunshine and the heat is big problem across the major city. temperatures back into the 90s. heat indices close to 100 in many spots. heat advisory in effect for new york city today going for a high of 93 degrees warm and steamy. now, across the midwest, we're dealing with severe weather in places like chicago, st. louis and even kansas city and, of course, the soaking rainfalls across the gulf coast. hot in sacramento, 97 with sunshine there and 108 in phoenix and pleasant day in seattle 77 degrees with lots of sunshine. back to you. >> raphael, thank you very much. >>> here's how you do it, he's a pro. never insults my wife. >>> we have a big show this morning. >> we have governor howard dean. can't wait to talk to him. >>> we'll go to phoenix where president obama makes his next stop on the health care swing and we'll check in with todd, chuck todd. >>> we have new york magazine hen drik and an exclusive look at the story politico i

well, anyway, mary al lebanon joins us now from tallahassee. good morning to you. >> hi.ning. steve: so the aclu has really cracked down on your school. they struck a dole. they hauled your school into noah court. we told about the school and athletic director who said grace before a meal and they face jail time now. >> yes, sir. steve: who told you, mary, that as president of the senior class you could not speak because you might say something religious? >> well, actually i heard it for the first time on my local news with the rest of the community. i got home and watching the 10:00 news the school board attorney let out a press release this day. they decided this year only the valedictorian and salute would be able to speak at graduation. gretchen: on the face it sounds so absolutely ridiculous which i am sure is the reaction you h the school new -- knew you were a christian and they thought you might. >> after i heard that on the necessary -- news the -- 9 page document of rules and regulations of all employees have to abide by. one of the new rules says student speake

heavy rainfall this morning along the gulf coast from pensacola stretching all the way to tallahasseeflorida. you can see intense rain bands. in some of these rain bands, i would not be surprised if you saw a few weak tornadoes spinning around here, so you have to keep a weather eye, say, from appalachia cola. stretching up into parts of alabama and mississippi where three to five inches of rainfall going to be possible. winds are generally out of the south to southeast, but they're only about five to 15 miles an hour. it's possible we could see gusts along the coastline of 35 miles an hour. strong thunderstorms going on in parts of the midwest. you expect them to fire up this afternoon. they're going on now, so you're getting awakened. these storms moving back up into illinois, parts of indiana. chicago, you are dealing with showers and thunderstorms today. it's raining right now across chicagoland. meanwhile, you're looking at heavy rainfall stretching its way across parts of kansas. that's making its way across the kansas city area. this part of the country going to remain wet. int

state seeing some showers and thunderstorms already this morning as we make a look here toward tallahassee, back on down toward apalachicola. down off the coast of tampa getting wet this morning, across pennsylvania, dense fog is the issue. across central parts of pennsylvania, i'd say harrisburg back toward college park. the other store, we have severe weather across this area. large hail and damaging winds, parts of minnesota, parts of north and south dakota and parts of montana. we're going to continue to talk more about the weather and keep you posted with the very latest. robin? >> thank you so much. >>> if you suffered through a pay cut during poofrt this recession, there's a chance you may get some of your paycheck back. that's great news in a bad economy. plus -- whoa. they got the world on a string. we're going to take you to the world yo-yo contest. <ó<ó<ó>> time for our salute to the troops. today's salute is from a proud dad to his son. wade wants to tell his son matt keep his eyes and ears open and e change his sock often. >> good morning. i wanted to give a sharp air

host: tallahassee, florida, you are up now. nathaniel, independent caller, you are on with joel simon from new york caller: i would like to ask two questions, and then i will take my answers off the air. $600 million from the bush administration, allocated for journalists going over iranian borders, and the election going on in iran. it seems to be an attempt in the area between the money that was allocated, and it isn't it coincidental that the two countries -- they are the two countries that we have journalists continually going over the borders. host: let's hear from our guest. guest: there is a certain -- i think this is largely coincidental. you know, iran and north korea, the dynamics are so totally different. let me try to take a couple of different points that the caller may. you know, one of the things about these countries is that it is hard to get information. it is virtually impossible to get information from north korea. it is a totally closed society that we once labeled the most closed countries in the world. --

as you can see, right here from tallahassee all the way across i-10 towards mississippi, we are getting frequent, heavy downpours. that's why we're tracking the threat for flooding. also the thunderstorms are riding up to atlanta, georgia. winds are strong here at biltmore beach. we have a flood watch for alabama. that will continue. flood warnings as far to the west as louisiana. take a look at the first hurricane of the 2009 season. the first hurricane may turn out to be a major hurricane, getting all the way to category 3 status. that is bill. on track possibly towards the u.s., but it looks like most of the models are turning it. we still have to monitor the storm. still aways away from knowing exactly what it'll do. one thing we can tell you now is ana is pounding the caribbean islands. all facing the wrath of ana. possibly even towards florida. i'll have more on that. we're monitoring all this weather here on hln, richelle? >> we appreciate it, bonnie, very much. >>> listen to this. a possible tornado ripped up trees and tossed around cars. this is southern florida. according to l

shortly after they were sent to that is where i suspect i was -- to stall la has see and then onto -- tallahassee and then on to georgia where my father went into fighter training and waiting to be calledded into active duty. this is a picture of my mother and father on the -- on sunday the go down and watch the pilots take and take rides. but my mother suspected she was pregnant at this point and opted not to get into the plane. this is the last-known photo of my father. mom went home in early november, knowing my father would be shipped out any day. she was two months pregnant with me by this time. she describes the last time she saw my father as he turn today say good by at the train station. my father was shipped out late in november, and on christmas day 1943 he found himself in papua, new guinea assigned to the 35th fighter group, 41st fighter squadron. he was sent directly to navgav. this is the 41st symbol that he had, buzz saw. fate had intervened so i would know my father only as a sepia-to end man in uniform confined to a picture fame. his silence was deafening. whenever the subject of

shortly after they were sent to that is where i suspect i was -- to stall la has see and then onto -- tallahassee and then on to georgia where my father went into fighter training and waiting to be calledded into active duty. this is a picture of my mother and father on the -- on sunday the go down and watch the pilots take and take rides. but my mother suspected she was pregnant at this point and opted not to get into the planeÃh@ @ my mantra, "my father was a fighter pilot who went missing in the war before i was born. i never knew him." whenever i thought about the man who was my father i became extremely frustrated that there was no information, that i would never know what happened, that it was a problem i could not solve. i spent most of my life wondering if he had been taken by natives or had amnesia and was wandering the world looking for me. one day i saw a young man in uniform standing on the corner and desperately wanted to ask him if he was my father. but at eight, i was too shy. for years i felt guilty about not saving my father that day. when i was very young i had a brown light rad

host: tallahassee, florida, you are up now. nathaniel, independent caller, you are on with joel simon from new york caller: i would like to ask two questions, and then i will take my answers off the air. $600 million from the bush administration, allocated for journalists going over iranian borders, and the election going on in iran. on in iran. it seems to be an a between money allocated, and isn't it a coincidence that the two countries we claim are active are the ones we continually are having? guest: i think it is largely coincidental. iran has -- iran and north korea, the dynamics are so totally different. but let me take a couple different points. one of the things about both of these countries, it is hard to get informations. it is a totally closed society. information is hard to glean. so there's a tendency to try and figure out what the goal is of these journalists. we fell into the hands of authorities, and we know what happened there. you know, the dynamic that has led to this crackdown is complicated and has as much