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and if you need to split your assets, we'll protect you under the state laws of texas. it doesn't say, if and when, there's no qualifiers. >> and when a judge ruled in your favor, what was your reaction? >> after ten months, some of it is relief. some of it is sadness and some of it is overwhelmed. because, the flood gates opened again. >> this is such the emotional opposite of couples beaming on the courthouse steps in massachusetts or iowa. but did you take time to celebrate this as a victory? >> i don't think the end of anyone's marriage can celebrated as a victory. >> gay marriage advocates are celebrating this as an interesting way to get the whole issue in front of state supreme courts and then possibly the u.s. supreme court. how much of that motivated you here? >> from the beginning, i have said this is not a test case. i'm not the poster child. in reality, for ten months, there have been two people on the plane. the pilot and myself. in the cabin alone. if anybody else wanted to bring their cause to the table, they could have been there. some of the greatest ne

in towards texas. it's a slow mover acting like a conveyer belt to draw rain out of the gulf of mexico and throw it toward texas, louisiana, arkansas, with heaviest rain stretching toward missouri and illinois. i'll show you where flash flood warnings are in just a couple minutes. >>> the senate finance committee will vote tuesday on the long awaited health care reform package and right now it looks like it may be the closest bill yet to try to reach the president's goals. congressional budget office says it provides coverage for 94% of those who are eligible and would reduce the deficit. but there is still major opposition from republicans. >>> to doctors who got suspicious when man walked into a hospital claiming he had accidentally shot his hand. his wounds did not match his story. police went to his house and they could not believe what they found. >> we were able to find that there was a bomb manufacturing some type within the home. as we looked further we come to find out also that there's an act

texas christian versus sm. curly in the second quarrel with a punt return, 71 yards for the touchdown. watch what happens along the way. watch number 35, brock, there, he doesn't have a helmet, and yet he goes in, hits the block, goes head on helmet against the defender. that springs curly free for the return. gets up later after he was down for a while and gets a congratulations. tcu gets the win and this guy here a tough kid. that's sports. >>> hey, are you looking for way to get out of debt? be careful who you pick to help you. hln money expert clark howard warns about firms selling broken promises. >> are you overwhelmed by credit card debt? well, what if one call could do it all. that's the promise of tv and radio ads that are running all over the country if you go to the internet, you see one ad after another for it. if you put in anything in a search engine like debt trouble or credit card problems or whatever, these ads pop up saying, call us, we'll negotiate for you, we'll wipe out your credit card deb

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now these pink cleats will be work by ryan molt in houston, texas. involved in a controversial traffic stop by police while his mother-in-law was upstairs dying of breast cancer. the pink shoes idea belongs to de'angelo williams, the panthers running back heard about the promotion and made the suggestion to league officials and they said okay. his mom has been diagnosed with the disease and she has had three sisters die of breast cancer. >>> 161 games and the twins and tigers are all tied. minnesota won again on saturday. the tigers lost leaving them atop the a.l. central division on the final day of the regular season. a tie breaker if needled would be on tuesday, a delay due to the brett favre bowl. vikings versus the packers on monday night. >>> a reporter erin andrews has been ordered to los angeles for a hearing monday morning to determine if a man can be freed on bond. 48-year-old michael david barrett faces federal charges of making illegal videos of andrews through the peep hole of her hotel room, put it on the enter sunset and attempt to go

the heaviest rain now right around the panhandle of texas. you can see there by amarillo, showers and thunderstorms developing and then moving due to the northeast right around kansas city, some rain and that stretches down i-70 right in towards st. louis. so here is your heaviest belt of rain in the morning. the leading edge of it working to indiana, ohio, detroit gets it later this afternoon, too. you see most of it is confined to a little bit of a parallel between springfield and st. louis. that's the heaviest rain this morning but it will blossom out later this afternoon so all these areas you see shaded in dark green under a flash flood watch, three to five inches of rain between today and tomorrow afternoon and that rain shield is going to stretch into the southeast by the weekend. a tough go. the next 24 hours, a lot of rain right around springfield, missouri. that purple shaded color six to eight inches of rain probably pretty accurate, too. now on top of that some severe thunderstorms later this afternoon. a little daytime heating pl

who was dragged to his death in texas the same year. shepard's parents have been trying to get this legislation passed since he died a decade ago. >>> secretary of state hillary clinton is in pakistan as the top u.s. diplomat. a car bomb exploded in the capital. look a the smoke. clinton is in islamabad 100 miles away reassuring the pakistani government the u.s. is standing with them in the fight against violent extremism. she says those who staged this bombing are on the losing side of history. >>> sales of new homes dropped unexpectedly last month. the commerce department says they fell 3.6%. the first decline since march. analysts blaming the waning interest in the temporary tax credit for first-time buyers. >>> looks like taxpayers will step in to bail out gmac for a third time. the treasury department in talks with the lending arm of general motors about another loan. in the two previous bailouts gmac borrowed $12.5 pl. the government is set to gift the company between $2.8 and $5.6 billion more. >>> the house judiciary committee h

agents say he's a texas hit man for a drug cartel.he list as well. >> that's right. joe sigh enz, the fbi saying he is trafficking drugs across the border, but he first got on their radar back in 1998 when with he allegedly killed two rivals of his gang. saenz was out of sight for a decade but at least spotted him on surveillance last year at a murder scene. >> if you look at the video, he's rubbing his hands before he goes in the house and he's smiling. he looks like he really enjoys what he does. he enjoys killing people. >> well, mad to the gang-related murders, investigators say scenes kidnapped raped and murdered the mother of his child because he thought she, robin, might turn him in. >> isn't that frightening? what are the chances that authorities are going to be able to track down these guys now they're on the top ten list? how much of a difference does that make? >> if you're a criminal, you don't want to be on this list. j. edgar hoofer started the most wanted list 1950. almost a 95% track record of catching the top ten most

started around 11:00 texas time. moving westbound on 635 toward theed theed theed a addison, the suspect tried to drive away from a gas station without paying. that's how this whole thing started. collin county sheriff's office says as the suspect was being pursued, he or she tried to run over a law enforcement officer. so at some point near loop 12 and interstate 45, we saw some of the officers throwing out stop sticks trying to get the driver to pull over, trying to maybe flatten out some of these tires. but as we can see, the attempt failed. we've been talking it to former nypd supervisor wally zimes. he's been talking to us on the phone and watching it with us. i guess it's impossible to tell, but we can tell this car is flying by the other cars. what are we, 90 plus miles an hour? >> he would say he's over 75 miles an hour considering that the speed limit there is about 6 60. it's bertha he's on that straight path than going in and out of the city streets. and, again, keep in mind, soon schools will be getting o

today, going down to abilene, texas. your guide country music star aaron watson. >> i'm aaron watson. they call me the honky tonk kid. ♪ i live in abilene, texas. i want to show you some of my favorite hangouts. we're here at the app lean zoo. this is one of my favorite spots to take my two little boys. it's rare for a town of this size to have such a fantastic zoo. my favorite attraction here at the zoo is our new white tiger. what's he say? here we are at bogie's downtown abilene, texas. you can order something off the menu or they can help you build your own sandwich. it's an enjoyable eating experience. it's the "cheers" of downtown abilene. this is the historic paramount theater. we did the cover for my album here. when you first walk in you're just overwhelmed with the detail and how fancy everything is. it's always been a place that i enjoy to not only see movies in but to have my own concerts. those are my city's secrets. now show me yours. go to ireport.com/mycitymysecret. >>> just got new information for you. o

look at the rain driving up out of texas.nd it's been heavy at times over the last couple of hours, proving itself to be a heavy rainmaker from northern missouri into iowa too. check out this satellite picture from yesterday. typhoon parma is headed for the philippines and it was about a category one storm on the scale and it's a typhoon with 90-mile-per-hour winds. right now 140-mile-per-hour winds. that's the area that just got slammed over the weekend with heavy rain. they're going to get more. but this beautiful shot. when you're above it, it looks fantastic. below it, not so much. >> good point, bob. thanks so much. >>> 13 years old and already a breast cancer survivor. a girl is battling against a rare form of the disease. >>> plus, here's one way to get 12 angry men and women. how people wound up on jury duty without ever getting a notice in the mail. >>> a 13-year-old arkansas girl is a breast cancer survivor. taylor thompson says that she was in class when she felt a lump. her doctor says the type of tumor she had is

it's going through texas and to new mexico, straight into colorado.ng into heavy snow here, too especially in the higher elevations of northern new mexico, lower parts of colorado, almost by denver you're also in the winter storm warning. the area shaded in red, 10 to 18 inches of snow as it moves through the lower parts of the four corners and into texas this afternoon. the heavy shield coming out of austin in towards dallas. some of that will be heavy at times for as much as an inch to an inch and a half of rain here and then that whole rain shield stretches out to the gulf coast so flash flood watches and warnings. watches are dark shaded green. the warnings are light shade of green one to four inches between today and tomorrow afternoon so it's going to be nonstop for you once it begins around dallas over the next couple of days. look at rain getting back on in to nebraska and the whole rain shield itself gets one shot in towards chicago for the morning. another one near minneapolis and parts of south dakota, too. it's a soggy start, robin. more o

the police chief in texas described what the man is accused of doing.escription is quite graphic. some viewers may find it disturbing. >> a young girl only 8 years old at the time was abducted from the bedroom of her apartment located not too far from here. once inside the apartment the abductor grabbed her from her bed, picked her up and took her to his car. eventually this local giittle g tone to a field just a couple miles from this office. this individual then sexually assaulted her violently cutting her throat from one side to the other and left her there in that field to die. this little 8-year-old girl defied all of the odds through her strength, determination and with the help of nearby citizens who found her some 14 hours later, she survived this brutal attack. >> the victim is now 27. she's come forward to tell her story of the ordeal. jennifer schuett attended the press conference with investigators saying she wants to make sure no other child has to endure what she did. >> throughout this journey i've had two main goals and they were to find

rivers running high in texas. a lot of rain possible for eastern texas. mainly north of houston. this is sabine river near long view. already overflowing its banks. watch for an additional one to two inches of rain just today. more on that in a little bit, richard. it's a cuff couple days here. i will detail it in a half hour. >> good padding if you like to ski outside colorado. >> so far. even boulder, 17 inches of snow. you have to love it. >> my word. we will talk more about the weekend. it's thursday. >> getaway day. >> everybody's getaway day. thanks, bob. >>> right now for the second straight day, hundreds of thousands of people in the bay area are struggling through a nearly impossible ride to work because of that stuff right there. those are crews working in gusty winds to try to fix the bridge linking san francisco to oakland. 5,000 pounds of metal broke off and fell into traffic on tuesday. here's some of the live pictures coming from our affiliate kgo. it's about 7:07 a.m. local time there. pretty typical, but when you have hundreds of thousands of cars that can no lon

this is tabby from texas. i would like to salute my brother johnstone and my cousin robbie miller, army boy, i love you. i miss you you. i can't wait to see you when you come home soon and you've got to take me riding in your new truck. and, rob, you you are the best soldier. you are a fantastic husband. you have grown a lot, come a long way. we just cannot wait for you to come home and be with us for good. sarge out. >> tabbie, i love your energy. thanks for the pictures. if you have somebody in the service, we're happy to help you salute them. >>> hln host jane velez-mitchell is going to join you us live this morning. she's got a new book coming out about her battle against an array of addictions including alcohol and work and people. the book is called "i want," but she also wants you to learn something from it. she'll be here in about 30 minutes. >>> she does not survive a storm. >> with the way she's on the beach. i'm teasing it a little bit. like maybe she just survived a shipwreck. >> we don't have vide

the attorney for tim miller of texas equisearch. how did he come up with the concept, mark nejame, in response to marc klaas' questioning, to plant someone undercover against misty croslin? >> what's outrageous is mr. klaas' statements. tim miller is here to help find missing people. >> if you can just focus on the question. >> and he's found his 102nd person today. you think outside the box. law enforcement was at a dead end. every effort being made to find this child who was either dead or missing was utilized, and to find a child, you use any legal means necessary. there's not a rule book that says you can only do it one way. he should be applaud for doing whatever it took to help find a missing or dead child. to be criticized for that is wrong and outrageous. >> i want to go to our producer on the story. ellie, i want to go back also to what ronald cummings allegedly said. publicly he stands beside his new bride, misty croslin. privately, according to sources, that would be miller, he threatened to blow her head off if she was i

it is coming down in sheets from texas through arkansas, the same spot as yesterday. it's that cold front that hasn't moved far to the east, just with thunderstorms training along that. we have all kinds of flash flood watches, warnings, flood warnings, too. here is what it looks like with the warning. you see the dark shaded green. dallas in a flood watch. to the red shaded areas, those are flash flood warnings, so you see what it looks like here. an additional two to four inches today before it all moves to the northeast and down across the deep southeast. more on that radar picture in a couple minutes, richard. >> thanks a lot, bob. >>> the house is expanding its ethics investigation of congressman charlie rangel. rangel has already admitted serious mistakes on financial disclosure and tax forms. now investigators say they need to find out if he has more unreported assets. republicans have tried to remove rangel as chairman of the house ways and means committee which overlooks the tax code and the irs, which is accused of violating there. last night on our sister n

. >>> in texas a 14-year-old girl died after being denied tamiflu. her family says it started as a fever. a trip to the doctor's office confirmed that the girl had the flu, possibly even the swine flu. >> i was scare for them to put her to sleep. i was afraid she would never wake up. and she didn't. they just kept telling me it would get better but it didn't. i wish now that i might have listened to my instincts a little bit better. >> doctors sent the teen home without medicine since the cdc advises not to give it to normally healthy people. >>> put down those cell phones today. it is against the law to text while you're behind the wheel of a car. let's go to anne arundel county. officials showed us why they are so serious about this. community members were invited to try a free live simulation on what can happen if you you text behind the wheel. no surprise here. there were a number of crashes. >> the airbags came out and we had to -- and i started freaking out. i thought the car was going to explode. >> i'm not taking that chance ever again. it's

>> they do everything big ner texas. you've got the two giants on the republican side running against each other in this gubernatorial primary. clearly there are no -- this gets into the more conservative candidate for this race, kay billy hutchinson is considered a moderate conservative. she's running even more conservatively since it's a republican primary. they will be spending incredibly 50, $60 million in this primary race. now, normally that would cause problems for a party in november; but, of course, texas is pretty heavily republican. the democrats don't have an obvious candidate. one possible candidate is ambassador tom shaffer which is bob shaffer's brother. he was actually an ambassador for president george w. bush. as always in texas, the lines are fuzzed. >> well, the next year should be an interesting one for all of us political junkies. thank you for breaking it down for us, larry. >> thank you so much. >> civil rights leader are calling for an end of violence after a chicago honor roll student was beaten

one example is a texas tacoria that makes the best in houston. melissa long serves up their recipe in this small business success. >> reporter: yolanda inherit add texas tacoria from her mom 30 years ago. her restaurant enjoys success despite a troubled economy. >> quality, consistency and personal ray tension. hi, how are you? >> reporter: it is a business that prides itself on treating customers like family. serving overstuffed tacos and homemade tortillas. >> they know from a pricing standpoint they're going to get full. we're not skimpy, i will say that. >> the best tacos in houston. >> we're an institution for the area. a lot of people make tacos. few like we do. >> reporter: this was not an overnight success but grew steadily and now enjoys long lines. >> know what you're doing. love what you're doing. have people that are committed to you. >> reporter: their recipe for success would not be complete without one more thing. >> it's great food. that's what keeps them coming. >> be authentic not just in your food, in your personality. if you'r

has waived extradition and will face charges in texas. dennis earl bradford was in a courtroom in arkansas today. he could be back in texas, possibly as early as tonight. the victim jennifer schuett she's 27 now. and she's talking about what she has been through. she was snatched from her bedroom, taken to an overgrown field near a school and raped. and again, i said she was 8 when this happened to her. the attacker slit her throat with a pocketknife. and left her lying on an ant hill to die. police used new technology to test dna from the crime scene and make an arrest. >>> police are looking for a black suv involved in a daylight drive-by shooting in washington d.c. two teenagers were killed two others hurt. and the shooting. this happened on a busy street. police say hundreds of people may have seen what happened. and this all probably they think, grew out of an ongoing neighborhood feud. >> it's time for this -- for this kind of drive through a neighborhood and opening fire on people outside to stop. and we're already getting calls in

you're the attorney for tim miller of texas equusearch. how did he come up with the concept, mark nejame, in response to marc klaas' questioning, to plant someone undercover against misty croslin? >> what's outrageous is mr. klaas' statements. tim miller is here to help find missing people. today he found his 102nd person. >> if you can just focus on the question. >> and he's found his 102nd person today. you think outside the box. law enforcement was at a dead end. every effort being made to find this child who was either dead or missing was utilized, and to find a child, you use any legal means necessary. there's not a rule book that says you can only do it one way. he should be applauded for doing whatever it took to help find a missing or dead child. to be criticized for that is wrong and outrageous. >> i want to go to ellie jostad, our producer on the story. ellie, i want to go back also to what ronald cummings allegedly said. publicly he stands beside his new bride, misty croslin. privately, according to sources, that would be miller

a copy of his texas driver's license valid at the time was obtained from the texas department of publice. adjacent to the sketch made by lois gibson on august 14 1990 from jennifer's description of her abductor. if you would, captain. you can compare this for yourself. we find them remarkably similar. based on all the evidence it is with great satisfaction and great pride that i announced to jennifer and our community that at 6:50 this morning detective tim chromy and agent reticent with the fbi with the assistance of the local police and the fbi in little rock arkansas, arrested dennis earl bradford without incident. mr. bradford is charged in gal verifyton county with attempted capital murder in this case. my only recigarette that jennifer's grandfather is not here with us today. i've known him for some time. jennifer's grandfather, there wasn't a month that went by that jennifer's grandfather didn't come by my office or run into one of the officers in the community and want to know what else had we done? what have you done lately about my granddaughter's case? for 19 years, and mr. s

owner of the lodge, gentleman's club in dallas, texas, thank you both for being here. i can't apologize on behalf of newt gingrich but i'm sorry dpe this mean thing and good luck with your business. >> stop by sometime. >> i don't get to dallas much but thank you. coming up on "countdown." the latest criticism from glenn beck. coming from lindsey graham of all people. coming up, the story with the same kind of acronym that the tourism association used to use. >>> we turn now to our acronym evolution correspondent, mr. kent jones. >> good evening. our language is always changing. words that may have been inoffensive a few years ago now have an sboorly different meaning. i think this is a good example. >> for years interesting wisconsin tourism federation has toiled to introduce the world to the wonders of manager's dairy land. the finest milk, cheese and butter in the world.

the second biggest gator ever killed in the state of texas.on joins us this morning along with his parents and the hunting guide who was at his side. good morning to all of you. simon, this is quite a shot here. you with just the head of the alligator. you weigh 44 pounds? >> yes. >> how much was the alligator? >> 800. >> chuck, set the scene for us. simon had a shotgun. the alligator was on a hook. >> the hook was set the day before. checked it sunday morning. the line was in the water. i got simon down there. we pulled and pulled and couldn't get the alligator up. had to hook it up to a winch. we got it up out of the water. didn't realize how big it would be until it came up. we got it calmed down you could say and simon took his shot and he did really well. >> before i get you to talk about this, people will be astonished not only that he was able to kill an alligator but 5 holding a shotgun. >> simon has been shooting for a while. we went shooting with him a few times myself. he does well. handles a gun very responsibly. for his size and a

this is happening in texas. he's a year old. his name is maliki. he was taken from his home in the middle of the night, police say by his father. his mother was asleep. he was last seen at 111:00 a.m. monday morning in denton county in the town of justin. police believe the person who took him who, again, they believe was his father. they believe he's possibly armed. they say he took the cell phones from the home and also disabled the land line so that no one could call for help, no one could call 911. i hope you've been looking at his picture. his name is malakai and they're working with texas right now. >>> you might remember we told you about a 3-month-old named alex layne. he was denied health care coverage because they said he was too fat. but as we're told, the company has now changed his mind. >> reporter: this afternoon he and his wife kelly are on the other side of the news talking about how the health care crisis has affected them. >> i'm not sure ha they expected us to do. >> reporter: at four months their son weighs 17 pounds putting hi

heavy rain in texas. in strong now in the pacific northwest. >> should we be worried about flooding in texas, louisiana? >> absolutely. the warnings are out there. rain has been in and out of the region. today this squall line is dropping tons of rain. that's something to watch. >>> some police officers apparently think it's a crime if someone doesn't speak english. dozens of police in dallas have given tickets because of that, but one woman's case could put an end to this. >>> bill cosby turned down the mark twain prize twice, but tonight he'll finally accept that award at the kennedy center in washington. it's regarded as a top honor for the median. he refused this award in the past to protest the use of profanity and racial slurs by many performers. jerry seinfeld and chris rock will honor him. congratulations. >>> a texas woman got a traffic ticket for not speaking english. she was also cited last week for making an illegal u-turn and not having her driver's license. she wants a deeper investigation f

right now most of the energy is focused toward central texas, northern texas, oklahoma in toward arkansas's mainly around that frontal boundary and below it it's real warm and humid. we'll watch thunderstorms off the gulf coast now from houston and galveston. it's moving up due north but thundershowers will fill in across the entire gulf coast later today and around dallas more heavy rain and it's been prolific when you get west of ft. worth over the morning hours moving toward the east. you'll get affected around dfw trying to get in or out of dallas this morning you'll run into problems. we'll have delays in a bit. areas shaded in bright green. atlanta is in there. birmingham toward eastern texas flood warnings are out there. the reason why is because of all of the rain we'll see over the next couple of days. 48 hours watch the rain stretch on through tennessee and alabama and mississippi all of the way in toward northern georgia. the yellow shaded colors is 3 to 5 inches of rain in 48 hours. that's something we're real concerned with again for the northern half of mississippi, alabama,

he's the founder of texas equusearch.y croslin during that polygraph that he set up, after that layered voice analysis, he says that she keeps insisting that haleigh is alive, which makes him think that haleigh is actually dead and they're not going to find her. >> to marlaina schiavo, when she says that on the lie detector, that the child is alive, was that proven to be a lie? >> according to tim and his polygrapher, yes. i mean, they said that it was full of deceit, all of the answers that she was giving. but at the same time, nancy, we have to keep in mind that as much as tim miller doesn't have any evidence that she's still alive, he hasn't really given us much evidence that she is dead. >> absolutely correct. and that is the point made by grandmother teresa neves. i want to go to ron shindell, former nypd deputy inspector. what, if anything, can police do now? they seem to be at a dead end. >> nancy, they have to keep going out doing standard, good old-fashioned detective work. keep shaking the trees, keep interviewi

four texas children also died this week from complications resulting from the swine flu. two of the children had underlying health conditions, two did not. and the largest supplier of seasonal flu vaccine says it is running behind on shipping vaccine for the regular seasonal flu due to the crunch to produce millions of doses of the swine flu vaccine. >>> and a texas school district is reopening today after a high rate of absences for students with flu-like symptoms forced it to cancel classes for more than 6,000 students this week. john debrock, superintendent for the huntsville school district, joins us by phone. we appreciate your time. >> caller: you're welcome. >> was this swine flu, sir? do you know? have any of the students tested positive? >> caller: we were notified by several parents that the doctors told them that it was swine flu. we don't have any official confirmation of that. >> so, you closed the entire school district for two days. 6,300 students told to stay home. have you ever had to do anything like this before? >> caller: no, ma'am. >> we just heard al

in the bigger scheme, this extended from the great lakes down to the eastern shores of texas and into the gulf. most of the moisture lifted to the north. we are dealing with a bit of a break up and as you see, there is not much more to deal with out of this. we will see the clouds stay with us and this moves through late tonight and tomorrow morning. as it starts to move out of here, we see the improvement quicker than initially thought. we stay in the 70s. we are looking at high pressure bringing us clear skies saturday into sunday. we have a small craft advisory for saturday night. the sun will set at 6:46. with that said, look for a chance of showers tonight. 59 degrees is the overnight low. mostly cloudy. 75 degrees tomorrow. a bit of morning rain and if you are going to on the sidelines like i know you will with the team, partly cloudy and breezy and 1:00 for the kickoff. they will have the same forecast that we will have. a nice day in new england. >> except the patriots don't want to think of it as a nice day. >> let's hope they don't. >>> a reminder, tune in to prime time. "nu

texas time. i believe that's central.ng on ever since and we believe this driver, according to police, is accused of somehow assaulting a police officer. we don't know if that happened right before this pursuit. i mean sometimes these things happen because of a routine traffic citation. so you really just never know. you never know. let's see if i can pull up the highway. this is westbound 635 in dallas county, texas. let's see. the driver, again, accused of assaulting a police officer according to the local affiliates, continuing -- take a look at all these police cars. one, two, three, four, five, six, seven i'm assuming, eight possibly on the bottom right-hand corner of the screen. nine. so a growing fleet of patrol cars behind this gray truck that is flying along westbound 635. i am told toward the addison area. i assume that's right around dallas somewhere. do we have this motorcycle cop on the phone? we are efforting a motorcycle cop who we're trying to get on the phone who perhaps can just explain to us what may be

he says it's just a round-about attempt to challenge texas's ban on same-sex marriage. >>> two off duty law enforcement officers say they came to the rescue of a 13-year-old georgia girl. they were at a park where a sheriff's deputy said she saw a man's feet sticking out from a stall inside the women's restroom and she heard a child. >> the child sounded like he or she was in distress. i yelled hey, come out of there. he let the girl out. she was a little disheveled and shaken. i grabbed her and i said, are you okay? >> the girl said she was okay. meanwhile an off duty georgia bureau of investigations agent who was also at the park detained the man. he is charged with aggravated child molestation. >>> if you wanted to say kanye west and lady ga ga in concert, you'll have to wait. just days after announcing the tour, "fame kills," it canceled. concert promoter live nation didn't give an explanation. it says if you bought tickets, you can get a refund. >>> for the city that wins the 2016 olympic games, huge prestige and billions in potential economic benefits are in store. that decision i

. >>> the suspect in a vicious attack on a little girl 19 years ago in texas is there in texas, make that to face charges. dennis bradford arrived from arkansas. he is accused of kidnapping raping and slitting jennifer schuett's throat when she was just 8. she's now 27 and went public to help find her attacker. the fbi says dna testing led to the arrest. >>> a 10-year-old texas boy used his cub scout training to save his teacher's life. sherry lowe says she was choking on a piece of apple when kyle forbes used heimlich maneuver to save her. >> i was choking and he squeezed me like that. that was the first time i've ever saved someone's life in an accident. that's the first time i've ever done it. >> well kyle is also autistic and his father says this is proof kids with autism can do anything others can do. >>> kids 10 and under may need two h1n1 shots to be fully protected. that's from the maker of the vaccine. a federal health official says this backs up their tests. what you're seeing in the video are kids getting the nasal spray version. the manufacturer tested the vaccine in almo

this is in texas.e'll tell you the story of why they are all dolled up in pink. >>> this time now 5:14. controversy on the campus of johns hopkins. after a candidate running for student government referenced that deadly samurai sword attack. is it censorship or freedom of speech? linda so with reaction near the campus. good morning. >> reporter: the reaction is mixed. some people think it was a clever way to get peoples' attention while others feel it was in bad taste. the poster we're talking about references the incident last month where a hopkins student killed an alleged intruder using a samurai sword. the poster says "nine out of 10 hopkins samurai are voting wyatt larkin for president" larkin is a freshman here. he won the election for class president by just 15 votes this past weekend. he says he focused on meeting as many of his fellow students as possible and he didn't focus on that poster. that is what helped him clinch his victory but he's offering an apology this morning. >> it was a joke.

into texas, too. and the north side there are some rain showers. that's where the area of low pressure will be moving to our north as we go through the next 24 hours. look at columbia, missouri. over two inches of rain. there's where the cold stuff is and where some of the foliage is up in the far northern parts of new england. the adirondacks this weekend, near peak also far northern parts of new hampshire and maine. a bit of a way to drive. this is in the tippy top of new hampshire. pittsburgh, new hampshire. here's how it looked earlier today. nice color. overnight tonight for us that area of low pressure will be moving to our north. tomorrow, we'll be having southwesterly winds so that will be bringing in a little bit milder air and then as we go through the day, that area of low pressure moves to our north and then by the time we get into saturday morning some rain showers coming through but anything will be light. i think we'll be right back into some milder air and tomorrow, too. pretty mild and warm compared to the last couple days. so for

hail, gusty winds, isolated tornadoes from texas to tennessee. in southern california and scattered showers in the northeast. >> high of 65 in new york, 62 in boston. new orleans hits 83, dallas 87. it's 63 in chicago and omaha and 56 in the twin cities. phoenix get up to 92. sacramento 84 and pore land a rainy 65. >> got a real estate bargain for you this morning. a real steal. looks like a palace made for an ancient king but it's just a stone's throw from chicago and it's never been lived in. >> this posh 30,000 square foot mansion in an upscale community is about to hit the auction there is a 2,500 square foot master sweet and garage. i toll you it was a bargain here, the starting bid yow, just 6 million. >> paefrntly this was a doctor who is moving his plate a florida. >> i'm trying to fill out the signs of that nature. >> houses. we'll be right back with more "world news now." assistance getting around their homes. there is a medicare benefit that may qualify you for a new power chair or scooter at little to no cost to you. stay tuned for th

heavy rain in texas. much needed rain south of houston. you're going to get a lot of it today and tomorrow. here's what it looks like. dallas watching for an hour or more delay to pop up here shortly because of low clouds and rain. houston with showers and thunderstorms developing, watch for an hour or more delay. chicago with the light rain in place already, watch for a 30 minute to an hour delay, midway and o'hare. and seattle, rain all day with snow in the mountain tops. you'll see a lot of that as well. we'll talk about that, robin, in half an hour. >> thank you. >>> the friends and family of a connecticut football player are gathering today in his hometown of miami for his funeral. here is rafer with more on this story. this is a follow-up to an investigation we've been covering. >> which is still ongoing. police are optimistic about that investigation, but still nobody is coming forward with any video, which i can't understand. this whole thing is capping off an extremely emotional week for jasper howard's teammates. they honored how

a 14-year-old texas girl was dead after being denied tamiflu. her family says it started as a fever. a trip to the doctor confirmed the girl had the flu, possibly even swine flu. >> i was scared for them to put her to sleep. i was afraid she would not wake up. and she didn't. they just kept telling me it would get better but it didn't, and i wish now that i might have listened to my instints a little bit better. >> the doctor sent the young girl home without the medicine since the cdc advises normally not to give to it healthy people. for more recommendations from the cdc log on to abc2news.com. >>> it's 5:03. it doesn't matter if you're young or old, if you have a flip phone, palm pilot or blackberry, starting today if caught texting while driving you're breaking the law and could face a fine of up to $500. yesterday, in anne arundel county officials showed us why they are so serious about this. community members were invited to try a free live simlation of what can happen when you text behind the wheel at the anne arundel community college. no

look, i'm in texas and i'm in texas where people love their freedom and they love bragging about the fact that they had 78 tea parties taking place at the same time. i would hate for janene garofalo to come to us and say publicly with the kind of stuff she says on the show. >> i'm always struck when i hear her and it seems as though she doesn't get out much because in railing against bias and narrow mindedness, she accidentally reveals her bias and narrow mindedness. but i think the question today is, why do we care what janene garofalo has to say? who is listening to her? >> because i want to be amused. that's why i care. look, somebody once said wisely, the only thing worst than the charge of semitism is the false charge of semitism -- sent semitism of the the only thing worse than the charge of racism is the false charge of racism. gentleman mean garofalo is a racist in her own right when she makes these kind of accusations and she believes -- she's absolutely convinced that george bush stole the 2000 election. fine. she also believes unquestionably that he also then turned around

inside a gmc yukon with texas license plates. romero, also the husband of mitchell's mother and victim, veronica romero. >> weave been talking to family members on both sides, so it's just a matter of time before we're able to talk to them. >> three of veronica's sister visited with police. a sister back at their home told us 33-year-old mario romero abused veronica in the past and said it's, quote, a sure thing he's her murderer. >> romero is considered a person of interest in veronica's murder. reports surface romero may be trying to take mitchell across the border. >> good evening oop. i'm nancy grace. thank you for being with us. live, colorado. the whole country on pins and needles. a little 6-year-old boy's life hanging in the balance. a beautiful, silver space-like balloon soaring through the clouds. tonight, apparently it will all end in felony charges. bye-bye reality show. hello, cell block. >> these people are actors. the way they met and established their relationship was in acting school in hollywood. so needless to

because we miss our little baby. >>> also tonight, to texas. day five. a 3-year-old little boy in extreme danger. stolen from his own home after the boy's young mother found murdered on her bedroom floor. why? you know what? i don't care why. i just want to know tonight, where is 3-year-old mitchell romero and why did cops take down the amber alert? >> her husband who very well may have murdered her in cold blood still on the run, apparently has their 3-year-old child with them. police very eager to speak with him. >> just after 6:00 denver city police arrived to 212 east 10th street to find 29-year-old veronica romero dead inside. >> police say romero is considered a person of interest in veronica's murder and is wanted for questioning. authorities in mexico are also on the lookout as reports surface romero may be trying to take mitchell across the border. >> last time he was seen was last week sometime. they don't know if he was with that child. they live together in the same house. how do we know that? because earlier this year he pled guilty to beati

there's been a stunning development in the death penalty case from texas. we told you about a couple weeks ago. the issue, did texas execute an innocent man in 2004 when cameron toddillingham was put to death for the arson murder of his children, a crime he denied to the very end? yesterday, just 48 hours befe a texas government panel was to hear testimony that the original arson evidence was deeply flawed, governor rick perry suddenly replaced three of the eight members of the panel with his political allies. the new chairman canceled that hearing. and says he may not look further into this case. perry's decratic opponent said the governor was simply trying to squelch an investigation that might show he sent an innocent man to death, adding, no one in public life should ever be afraid of the truth. and that is our report for tonight. "jimmy kimmel live" is up next. for now, i'm terry moran. for all of us at abc news, good night, america. have a great weekend. >> jimmy: hi, i'm jimmy kimmel. you know, every day, guillermo, yehya and i drive to and from work

the rig's on the move and leaving the well from hell in the west texas dust.-offs, injuries and delays, there is one thing every roughneck agrees on -- >> [ bleep ] this hole. >> this bitch is done with. >> i don't kwhar they do out there. they can take a dump on it. i don't care. been nothing but a pain in the ass for all of us. >> [ bleep ] you well from hell. i'm out of this [ bleep ]. >> [ bleep ] well -- >> well from hell. >> at the new location, the derrick goes up. and the $60,000 drill bit goes down. big dog 28's finally starting their fourth and final well. to save their jobs, they've got to hit total depth before the lease runs out in 12 days. the well from hell took twice as long. ought autry stephens right-hand man is on there to tell them what's at stake. >> you know the last well took too long, the whole nine yards. we have to get those day back. some way or other. this well, we got to get her knocked out, 12 days, we'll meet our deadline. it's really important that we meet that deadline. just do your job right the first time and don't have to do

the rig's on the move and leaving the well from hell in the west texas dust.ffs, injuries and delays, there is one thing every roughneck agrees on -- >> [ bleep ] this hole. >> this bitch is done with. >> i don't care what they do out there. they can take a dump on it. i don't care. been nothing but a pain in the ass for all of us. >> [ bleep ] you well from hell. i'm out of this [ bleep ]. >> [ bleep ] well -- >> well from hell. >> at the new location, the derrick goes up. and the $60,000 drill bit goes down. big dog 28's finally starting their fourth and final well. to save their jobs, they've got to hit total depth before the lease runs out in 12 days. the well from hell took twice as long. autry stephens right-hand man is on there to tell them what's at stake. >> you know the last well took too long, the whole nine yards. we have to get those day back. some way or other. this well, we got to get her knocked out, 12 days, we'll meet our deadline. it's really important that we meet that deadline. just do your job right the first time and don't have to do it

it will be stoy from texas to tennessee today. hail, gusty winds and isolated tornadoed in places like dallas, little rock, kansas city, st. louis and memphis. heavy rain and flooding from bismarck to des moines. and leftover snow in wyoming and colorado. high fire danger in southern california. scattered showers in the northeast. >> highs in the 60s from boston to baltimore. 74 in st. louis. 63 in chicago. and 56 in minneapolis. phoenix climbs to 92 sacramento 84. a wet 59 in seattle. 65 in portland. and 62 in salt lake city. >>> coming up, why today's communist celebration in china has outraged people in the u.s. >>> the end of the line for one brand that was one the future of general motors. >>> a truly amazing rescue, as a >>> another general motors brand is about to disappear. be eliminated, after a deal will collapsed to spin off the company. once advertised as a different kind of car, saturn was created to compete with japanese imports but never made a profit. 13,000 saturn employees is affected. >>> bank of america is sear

from the midwest all the way to texas. right around the dallas area, we're seeing some of the worst storms, and unstable air will continue throughout the evening, so we cannot rule out anywhere from dallas to tennessee seeing an isolated tornado war two. it is possible for tonight. otherwise, just hail and very heavy rain. a brand new front is moving in from canada, going into effect the rockies and parts of montana. if you remember this weekend, it was over a foot of snow, so this is an additional 1 inch to 6 inches of snow that will come down through the rockies and parts of mantegna, and part of it could reach as far south as denver. that would make it the first snowfall of the year. it will not get going until late tonight, the heaviest coming by tomorrow afternoon. shepard: great to see you. thank you. eric colder today called it the most serious terrorist plot since the attacks 9/11 that changed all of our lives. tonight, we are learning new details about how the fed scott this suspect on the right, a suspect that th