i don't know that she's been celebrityfied as demonized. >> thomas wright, you're a knox family friend. it's been a trial by media as much as trial in a courtroom for amanda knox. very tough for her and her family. how have they all been baerg up? >> it's been incredibly difficult, piers. one of the things i'd like to do is correct the record. amanda knox is not a liar. this is an outstanding young woman. those of us who have known her for years know that. number one, we don't know what took place in the police station because it wasn't recorded as required by italian law by the prosecutor. it's very curious that that prosecutor didn't record it considering that he'd already been convicted and has been convicted of illegal wiretap of public officials and sentenced to 16 months. he's on appeal now. in terms of the defamation, it's also very curious that he would go out and arrest pat lumumba and keep him incarcerated for two weeks if he had an ironclad alibi. in terms of the coercion, i would say it's suggestive of coerce that over 12 police officers kept her in a room and 12 police off

now out to thomas wright, a close friend of the knox family, plans to celebrate with them this eveninglet me say for you and all close friends and family of amanda, an incredibly emotional and exciting day, i would imagine. >> yes, piers, a very moving thing to see. what strikes me more than anything is the bond that she mentioned with her family was really the thing that carried her through here. they made a commitment at the very beginning of this ordeal when they saw it was going to get very complicated and difficult to make sure there was a family member in perugia at all times for her so that the two days a week when they were allowed one hour to visit her, there would always be a family member who would come into the prison, who would hold her hand, would talk to her about how she was feeling. the other thing they did that was quite remarkable, they negotiated a weekly phone call. this will really help her transition to the re-entry process because every saturday morning, a phone call would come to the kitchen, edda mellas, her mother's kitchen and it would come from amanda. aman

. >> reporter: weston and thomas and wright were arrested saturday night, after the discovery of fourbled adults in a locked basement. police say weston claimed to be a caregiver, but was, in fact, taking their social security checks. authority says there may have been as many as 50 victims. it doesn't appear any of the children were held captive. but several were found malnourished. police say more kests -- tests are needed to figure out who their parents are. two of them could have belonged to tamara breeden, one of weston's alleged victims. >> police identified one of the those arrested as the daughter of the ringleader linda weston. >>> lindsay lohan is back in handcuffs. lohan just posted $100,000 bail. the judge says she must work at a county morgue, 16 hours a week, until her next court appointment in november. >>> the life and accomplishments of apple ceo steve jobs are celebrated today at the company's headquarters. employees gathered at the outdoor amphitheater. the private service was also broadcast to employees at apple stores across the country. speakers the at memorial r

helicopter patrolling the coast, in the wake of an attack of a great white who killed american diver thomas wright>> there will be a helicopter off the beaches tomorrow, a temporary arrangement until surf life savings arrives in november. >> reporter: after the third fatal shark attack off western australia in a matter of weeks the state premier ordered fisheries to hunt and kill a great white. this shark seen in the area shortly after the attack could be the very one who killed thomas wainwright. he had come to texas to work in oceaneering. >> people don't realize they're trying to fly something around the size of a car. >> reporter: seen here in this corporate video from his previous job with bp oil company, wainwright explains how he worked with rovs to help cap the well at the heart of the april 2010 oil spill in the gulf of mexico. >> growing up where i did and i spent a lot of time enjoying the gulf, and to be able to know we're going to get that under control and get things cleaned up and back to, you know, some resemblance of normal. >> reporter: wainwright originally hailed from the flori

they traveled with them from pennsylvania, texas, virginia and florida. >> reporter: weston, thomas, and wrightally disabled adults in a locked basement. police say weston claimed to be a caregiver but was in fact, taking their social security checks. authorities say there may have been as many as 50 victims. it doesn't appear any of the children were held captive but several were found malnourished. police say more tests are needed to figure out who their parents are. two of them, however, could have belonged to one of the weston's alleged victims. linda weston was convicted of murder in the 1980s and she served eight years in prison. she is now facing multiple charges, including kidnapping. her bail has been set at $2.5 million. >> cbs' elaine quijano in philadelphia for us this morning, thank you. >>> we go to new jersey now. . a case of dial 911 for murder. on friday a man called 911 and said he had shot and killed a colleague in a real estate office in mot lakes. police say he made the call from his car. >> i just killed someone. >> what do you mean? >> exactly what i said. i'm armed and d

weston and two other suspects, gregory thomas and eddie wright, may have taken the victims to severalup here, victims transported in the middle of the night in an suv. each suspect is being held on $2 1/2 million bail accused of kidnapping and assaulting those who are most vulnerable. >> turns out weston is a convicted murder and was found guilty in a starvation death and had 50 i.d.'s in her possession. >>> a missing baltimore teenager has been found stabbed to death in curtis bay. ryan jackson was reported missing last friday. family members found blood at a home where they thought he would be. no arrests have been made. >>> family, friends and a lot of ravens were in atend dance to say good-bye to pat modell. the wife of former ravens owner art modell was laid to rest. she will be remembered. >> charming, you know, devastatingly beautiful, smart, had a lot of opinions about football, which she was always right. >> pat modell last week after being hospitalized for five months. she was 80 years old. >> a shocking revelation from a vet ran radio personality. ron smith telling his audi

earlier on "american morning" we spoke to thomas wright, the founder of the group called friends of amandaa when she's touching down in seattle, he is determined to make a splash when she arrives. >> we're joking that we're going to have a flash mob celebration. that is, at the very last minute, they'll tell us where to go and we'll be there with bells on and balloons and have a great celebration. >> the city of seattle preparing for a long-awaited homecoming, one day after the murder conviction was overturned by an italian court, amanda knox is on her way home. drew griffin standing by in seattle for that homecoming. any closer to knowing when that is going to be, drew? >> looks like some time between 3:00 p.m. and 6:00 p.m. pacific time. the family, what we're gathering from representatives here a news conference or welcoming ceremony at the airport. we will hear from the attorney and we will hear from a spokesperson and we also hear from amanda knox's parents. whether or not amanda herself reads a statement, ali, that will be entirely up to amanda. a decision that they are going to leav

gregory thomas, eddie wright and linda ann weston and that weston had documents.ntification documents, for about 50 people, including social security cards, documents, these types of things. how did this group get ahold of these individuals? i understand there's something like a daily website that was involved? >> one of the people we recovered saturday was -- that's how he met her. but we don't know about all the others. we have to track down each individual, and many -- we don't believe -- are here in philadelphia. virginia, texas, florida. perhaps north carolina. i mine, we've got a lot of work yet to do and we've put together a task force to assist in this. so we've got to track everybody down and find out what took place. some may be victims. some may not be victim. we don't know at this point. this keeps growing. >> thank you so much. such a disturbing story and we are getting more and more details about it. i want to bring in our own sarah hoye here who has been inside of this boiler room where these folks were kept. you've also been to the community talkin

people unfettered by the government, but ruthless business people, look at thomas edison, a shrewd business person. look at the wrights, at the start business people. and disney wanted to create this huge things to make money and people point to our defense industry, we have the greatest industry in the world, and why? because we have ruthless contractors coming up with innovative products to make millions of dollars. it's nothing to do with government mandates, that's why government needs to back off and let the entrepreneurial spirits rise. >> more ruthless capitalism. >> brenda: you don't agree? >> i'm sorry, the idea that steve jobs did all of this without a dime of government money is a fairy tale. >> come on. >> the government enforced his patents. the government subsidized the purchase of many of his computers for schools and he pushed especially hard for that. the government sued microsoft and apple benefitted and states offered subsidies to semiconductor companies and benefits apple. steve jobs is terrific and i love my ipad as much as anybody else, and yeah, he went to public school, he he benefitted enormo

. >> weston, along with wright and thomas are charged with kidnapping.ng at a hospital. >> hillary clinton continue arriving in tripoli this morning. she's going to meet with the leaders of the transitional national counsel sil, the interim government. this is her surprised trip, aimed at improving civilian ties between the united states and libya. and an autopsy revealed indycar driver, dan whelton died from a blunt force trauma to the head. he was going more than 250 miles an hour. they honored him by hanging a banner over the entrance. some played tribute with flowers or even milk. he was 33 years old. >>> to the case of missing baby. her parents just hired a high profile lawyer. she said the mom has nothing to hide even though she revealed to fox news she was drunk the night her baby disappeared. >> talk about a strategic decision to make. the facts are the facts and the facts remain that she had nothing to do with lisa's disappeared. >> mr. tacopia will join us live on the next hour of fox and friends. and those are your headlines. that story contin

death after locking him in a closet in the 1980s and arrested her boyfriend gregory thomas and third suspect, eddie wrighthomeless. they have been charged with aggravated assault, kidnapping and conspiracy. police said they were stealing their victims' social security money. >> to know you would take advantage of a fellow human being like this makes you sick. >> reporter: philadelphia police found a 15-year-old girl from florida missing since july 4. her boyfriend apparently the son of one of the suspects. rob and yunji? >> beyond chilling. >>> police have now obtained a warrant to search the home of deborah bradley and jeremy irwin of course whose baby daughter lisa was last seen more than two weeks ago now. police say it has been 11 days since the parents last sat down with investigators. they say the parents' cooperation is critical to the efforts to locate lisa. she was 10 months old when reported missing from her crib. >>> now to a story about nasty neighbors. some people in the city near tampa say they were terrorized by a neighbor and even feared for their lives. wfts reports. >> reporter: the coup

as we told you last week, investigators say linda westin, eddie wright and gregory thomas held the adults captive to collect their social security checks. they are charged with kidnapping, assault and false imprisonment. the attorney for eddie wright says his client will plead not guilty at today's hearing. >>> 7:23. well, today, arizona congresswoman gabriel giffords begins two weeks of very intensive therapy p -- therapy in north carolina. she'll be working with a therapist who helped her while she was in the hospital in arizona after that shooting rampage. she's still recovering after being shot in the head. the staff is not releasing any other details about her treatment. >>> let's check in, once again, with sal who is covering a number of problems. we mentioned the situation in morgan hill and san francisco. that's right. northbound 101, we'll start in morgan hill. there is a crash that spilled all of its load on northbound 101 at morgan hill. it's a is sig-alert. the chp says it's gonna be there for a while. they are waiting to, basically, get get all of that debris on another truck

the first time, we're getting a look at the suspects, 47-year-old thomas gregory, 51-year-old linda ann westin and 49-year-old eddie wright facing a number of charges including false imprisonment. police say they were shocked by what they found when they arrived at the scene. ben simono has more on the investigation. >> reporter: the steel door on the long shore avenue alley led to a basement, but the police say the room barely high enough to stand in was a prison. >> we get in the basement, the subbasement, this is what we find, four mentally challenged adults. >> reporter: inside the room, measuring 15 feet by 15 feet, the size of a bedroom, police say they found four malnourished mentally handicapped adults in prison. police say they were in their 40s but had the mental capacity of children. >> that's the thing that is heart breaking to me, that somebody would have to suffer or individuals would have to suffer that indignity. >> reporter: police blocked off the building for the investigation. the tenants were allowed to come and go. rob hoey lived here for seven months and can't believe what he's hearing. >> it is craz

thomas gregory, linda ann weston and eddie wright, what do we know about them and hopefully somebodyndividuals that could help you find out more about herbert, one of the victims. but tell me about these three and why the fbi is now looking into this case. is it bigger than we think? >> well, it could be bigger than we think. the fbi is looking into it because we know that they were in at least two different states at different periods of time. texas and florida as well as pennsylvania. so we need the fbi's assistance to track down a lot of leads that are really going to take us even beyond those three states. one of the things we were able to recover in a search of one of the offenders, linda weston, we have about 50 different ids of people. social security information, power of attorney information, those kinds of things which we now have to track down each and every one of these people to get their status. we believe that she's been involved in this for a period of time. we don't know how many victims, however, are part of this investigation. >> commissioner, how did these suspect

wright, she'd never go against israel. it would mean what happened to hellen thomas; right?ou, sir. >> a tweet, the arab spring is a strong topic and into the near future now because we're in the middle of it. next call, chicago, what's your thoughts? >> caller: i missed the particular conversation, but i think it's so wonderful that entirely in the book review you're having these days is so much is about the middle east, and the freedom in this country is a gift to the arabs if they can just use it. >> thank you, caller. that was from chicago. next, florida, winter haven, florida, you're on booktv on c-span2. >> caller: yes, good afternoon. >> hi. go ahead with your comment. >> caller: uh, yes, the panel is absolutely excellent. we have to understand we're all human, and rather whether we are red, black, white, or red, we come from our mothers, and for us to be as critical as we are towards the arabs because of 9/11, that's like saying we are against our historians from world war i, and god bless the panel that you have because the more the education that we give, the peopl