but this was a statement from terri horman and her team.ll, the divorce proceeding has been orchestrated by the investigators and the district attorney, to keep pressure on her, to harass her and annoy her. it's her message of saying, i'm not going to be fazed by any of this. she didn't have to appear. but she did anyway. and ironically, kaine, the petitioner in the court case, he didn't even bother to show up. this was her saying, she's in control. this was always about terri horman being in control of everything, including her surroundings. it was a powerful message. and it seemed to have gotten to the parents a little bit. >> and yet, where do you think police are in this investigation? what will it take to crack this case? he's been missing for three months now. >> unfortunately, bianna, it will take some kind of a break. kaine told your abc affiliate in portland here yesterday, he feels like he's stuck on june 4th over and over again. and that's the best summary of where this investigation is. of 12 weeks of kyron being missing, invest

and she says terri horman did not hurt the 7-year-old.view with "people" magazine, terri horman's close friend, dede spicher, describes kyron's stepmother almost as if she is the victim. there's this horror that my friend is going through, she says. if i thought for a second that she was capable of foul play, i would not have been there. she would not have been my friend in the first place. >> dede didn't really talk about what she thinks the police are looking for. she just said that she has been questioned really intensely. >> reporter: while not calling either woman a suspect, police have clearly focused on horman and spicher. recently passing out a flyer, asking residents if they saw the two together the day kyron disappeared. the flyer includes a picture of horman's white pickup, which terri was reportedly driving that day. spicher says, authorities are out to get her friend. they wanted me to tell them that terri did it. or that terri knew something, she says. i told them everything i knew, over and over again. but i didn't tell the

appreciate it. >> thank you, harry. >> latest talk, terri horman's friend dede spicher tells people.comd terri did nothing wrong. that she herself never left that property the day of kyron's disappearance. what is your reaction to all of this information? >> well, it's interesting that dede spicher would tell her story to "people" magazine but yet she's unwilling to tell it to the local community here. the words she used, by the way, if a way kind of put herself in a bind because she's claiming she never left this 38-acre parcel she was gardening on that morning and yet she knows terri horman was not involved on the same morning, which would be impossible for her to prove. the big issue here is that dede spicher initially, when she first popped up on the public radar, she distanced herself from terri horman saying she's cooperating and has nothing to do with terri, et cetera and now she seems to be joined at the hip as a part of the terri horman fan club. >> right. is there something in this that indicates something -- was she not contactable, a three, four-hour time period where people

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in its place a smiling face of terry horman itself. ds, there is not one piece of physical evidence that proved that terri is involved with kyron disappearance, only rumors innuendo and speculation. in the first sit-down interviews in weeks, kyron's biological parents, kaine and desiree said they believe she's responsible. you believe without a doubt that terri has something to do with this? >> yes. >> reporter: if terri did this, what could her motivation be? >> i have tried to put my head inside hers, and i can't. >> it's difficult in a situation too because you have someone so close to you basically betray you. you try to put a logical sense or even a thought process behind it and the next event comes up and it completely just blows it away. >> reporter: court documents say terri horman allegedly tried to hire a landscaper to kill her husband, kyron's father. and she's accused of sending sexual photographs of herself to his former hi school classmate just days after the boy's disappearance. police say she is not a suspect but was the

engaged in suspicious behavior that's making police look closely at the both of them. >> reporter: terri hormannamed a suspect in the case but kyron's parents believe she's involved in their son's disappearance. kaine horman says he's living with the burden of guilt for bringing her into kyron's life, adding, quote, it's my job to protect him and someone got him on my watch. >> bring kyron home. >> reporter: saturday, hundreds of people gathered at kyron's school, releasing balloons with messages of hope that the lost boy might soon be found. priya david clemens, cbs news, los angeles. >> joining us now from portland is attorney bruce mccain, former captain with the multnomah county sheriff's office. good morning to. >> you good morning, chris. >> let me ask you this, two new search this is weekend. so, what is behind these searches? what are they looking for? >> again, we should not confuse these weekend searches with the ones happening nine weeks ago. the initial search was massive search and rescue looking for presumably lost and alive 7-year-old boy. this is a different type of search. this

>> reporter: could i on oig's parents say dede spicher, one of terry horman's friends, is among those who should be talking. after be subpoenaed to testify in front of a grand jury, investigators circulated her picture on a flyer hoping to verify her whereabouts the day kyron vanished. kyron's parents also have a message for her. >> cooperate. we still have yet to see her cooperate. sit down with police and cooperate. do what you need to do. come forward. >> reporter: a parent's pleas a weeks turn to months, desperate to bring home their little boy before his 8th birthday in september. >>> time now for a check of the weather with bill karins. good morning, bill. >>> good saturday morning to you. it's a beautiful day out here in new england. p of the country is going see a change in the weather pattern. let me bring it down for you so you can plan the end of your weekend and beginning of your week. we'll see a big jet stream switch across the country. the east which has been cool, a beautiful start to our weekend, the heat will be returning and then the cooler air moving back into the

the police are now circulating flyers hoping to find someone who may have seen his stepmother terri horman and one of her friends together on the day kyron disappeared. >>> plus the gluten-free craze. chelsea clinton opted for a wedding cake without gluten but there are important things to think about before you decide to cut wheat out of your diet altogether. we'll weigh the risks and rewards coming up. >>> we'll begin with the tragic plane crash in alaska and what may have caused it. miguel almaguera is in alaska for us this morning. >> reporter: good morning. with all of the survivors brought to a local hospital here in anchorage, the focus of this investigation has shifted to what caused that plane to go down. investigators say it could take several days for them to reach the remote wrecking site. shrouded in fog, the de havilland otter plane that killed nine people slammed into the ground so hard a 300-foot gash was left in the side of the mountain. miraculously the aircraft sits mostly intact. five passengers, including former senator ted stevens, are among the dead. the four survivo

police have released new e-mails that terri horman sent the day after the little boy went missing. as they step up their search of a local farm. we'll have all of those details, george. >>> but let's begin with the alleged meltdown of a jetblue flight attendant. it all happened at new york's jfk airport. just after the plane la andrea canning is at jfk airport this morni andrea, good morninu. >> reporter: good mornin such a bizarre steven slater appeared to be the model employee and even helped design the flight attendant uniforms one but colleague said he had a huge temper and would storm off when he didn't get his way. >> what happened up there? >> reporter: with a bruise on his head and a smile on his face, america's most infamous flight attendant was taken to jail after allegedly going on a tarmac tirade in front of a hundred passengers. >> something you want to say to the passengers? >> reporter: steven slater once looked like the picture-perfect jetblue employee in his myspace photo, proudly telling friends, chances are i'm flying 35,000 feet somewhere over the rainbow. but a

there's been so much talk since day one, the focus on terri horman, the stepmother.is an arrest imminent? is could happen in a case like there there are never charges. >> criminal investigators tell you more time that goes by, the tougher it is to make a case. that's logical. doesn't mean all the time. generally speaking you have a grand jury sitting now that's investigating, but it doesn't mean because there's a grand jury in place this they are definitely going to come back with some charges. it helps in the investigation because grand jurors can subpoena witnesses where sometimes witnesses might not want to talk to police. if you get subpoenaed you have to go in and answer questions. this grand jury, they can wrap up saying we don't have enough evidence to charge anybody yet. they could charge somebody. even if they say now we don't have enough evidence doesn't mean down the road another jury can be impaneled if there's new evidence and could get charges. >> when lou at this, kyron disappeared on june 4th. more than two months have passed now. cases you've covered

dee dee spicher and terri horman have been close friends for years. in fact when kyron's father moved out of the home he shared with his estranged wife, dee dee spicher moved in for several days. ann. >> all right, thank you. it is now 7:20. once again, here's matt. >> all right,ann, thank you. >>> now toeanup crews in the gulf that are touching lives all around the world. nbc's anne thompson is in venice, louisiana, to explain this for us. an anne, good morning. >> reporter: good morning, matt. the war in afghanistan and the oil disaster are some 7,000 miles apart. two major news stories with seemingly no connection. until a bottle was discovered along the gulf coast. amid the tar balls on the beach of horn island, mississippi, cleanup workers found a weathered sambuca bottle filled with memories of a young man gone too soon. >> all the letters inside were individually wrapped. >> reporter: and each written to 21-year-old james prosser. the young man from wales died fighting in afghanistan last year. the letters told of james's courage and his family

sources for kgw, the nbc station in portland, say terri horman was shopping here.they want to know is who else might have been with her in the truck. information about the truck could open the door to other clues. investigators also asked for help about the possible involvement of horman's friend dedespicher. she was reportedly unreachable by cell phone for about three hours on the day of kyron's disappearance and police have searched several properties with which she has a connection. >> i was completely blown away. >> reporter: spicher's former boyfriend said being out of contact was unusual for her. >> not like her to answer her phone. she answers her phone -- she answers her phone. >> reporter: neither spicher nor horman have been named suspects but officials say they are slowly piecing to the what happened to the child who went to school and never came home. >> the investigation is most certainly productive. it's just one of those cases that just isn't going to fall into our lap. >> reporter: now, investigators are still operating under the assumption that kyr

we've learned that terri horman sent a private e-mail two months before he vanished suggesting that kyron'sold son that she sent him to live with parents. >>> and finally, the popular comic strip cathy is coming to an end. during the 34-year run, "cathy" chronicled the life and swimsuit dra mamas of its creating ekraey guisewite. and now weather with marysol castro. i'm going to miss her foibles and insecurities. >> after my own heart. >> of course, of course. i happened to find these friends at 50. where are you from? >> ft. wayne, indiana. >> what are you doing to celebrate? >> we're celebrating our 50th birthdays coming to new york. >> are you going to get bent over and kissed like that statue, maybe? you never know on "good morning america," it could be george clooney or our stage manager, eddie. it's a grab bag around here. stick were me, as we talk about the weather. the nation's capital getting severe weather, 3 to 5 inches of rain and gusty whippeds. elsewhere in the nation, it starts to cool down in the mid-atlantic and northeast. that cool front starts to move through later this a

they are convinced stepmother terri horman is involved in the disappearance two months ago.fore the grand jury. >>> a king of the sing along mitch miller has died. ♪ >> don't just sit there, come on and sing. ♪ >> long before the days of long before the days of karaoke he hosted "sing along with mitch" from 1960 to 1966, wearing his trademark beard. mitch miller was 99 years old. >>> all right. now, back outside to dave price for a check of the weather. also still standing. >> thank you very much, sir. nice to see you, jeffrey. we have got a lovely group of -- all right. if you can't calm down, i'm going to call authorities. we've got a great group of people. high energy. we want to say hello to everyone at the austin fire department, engine 24. we've got a firefighter with us. nice to se >> announcer: this weather report sponsored by prevacid, treat frequent heartburn with prevacid 24 hour. this weather report sponsored by prevacid. same medicine, new location, the shelf. >> yeah! yeah! >> yeah! hold this. hold on. there we go. 's b there we go. that's better. now, let's go

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terri horman has been the focus of an investigation into kyron's disappearance. say they will soon be dispensing antidepressants to the 33 men trapped in an underground mine. that's because the miners are just learning how long the rescue operation will take. jeffrey kofman is at the mine in chile. >> reporter: now, they know, the 33 miners trapped underground here, have now been told that rescue may not come quickly. they may have to wait 90 days or more to be brought to the surface. that was confirmed to abc news by chile's minister of health, who says a natural leadership structure has emerged underground, with a spiritual leader, medical leader and group leader. those are encouraging signs for psychologists, who say this has become an unintended massive psychologist experiment in group survival and group dynamics. rescue efforts are moving ahead. the giant drill that's meant to bore a hole down to free the miners is in place. it will begin work on saturday. they don't know how long it will take because the ground here is so fragile. for "good morning america,