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. >> what we are lead to believe is that it is an absolutely unorthodox approach to a western religion. >> reporter: authorities had actually received a call about the group hours before they were reported missing. a deputy encountered them praying in a school parking lot at 3 a.m. on saturday. >> benign, very coop rative. the kids seemed very happy. the deputy obviously querys what are you doing here, what is going on. when they realized that the situation was not a threat in any way, they went on their way. >> reporter: but concerns about a mass suicide pact suddenly evaporated as deputies received good news. >> ladies and gentlemen, we just found them. they were discovered alive and well in this palmdale park. >> reporter: they said they were simply praying. >> i'm okay. my son, the dogs, everybody's okay. >> reporter: leader of the group was being sent for psychological evaluation and police breathed a long sigh of relief. cbs news, los angeles. >> pinkston: this. >> mitchell: this month a tradition of friday night football games was bam in high school games but with it a startling

a very unorthodox practice. and then he received an additional loan to buy a luxurious villa on the beach in dubai-the-that he then sold for something like a $800,000 profit. so he's clearly had a financial stake in all of this and has benefited. the question is by what connection is there to the president? we do know that the bank played a key role in helping to finance president hamid karzai's reelection bid last year. >> warner: that's right. the two top official there is were chief financial advisors to the campaign. now, to what degree does this situation offer a window into the broader problem of afghanistan corruption which we read a lot about and we hear alleged lot a lot but rarely are there actual particulars that are easy to understand. >> well, i think what this shows us is that corruption is endemic in afghanistan. it not only affects the largest banks but a whole series of other institutions, public and private. and it's sapping public confidence in the afghan government which leads directly to the

but even as she preached a return to fiscal conservatism, o'donnell's own unorthodox spending habits were starting to come under heavy scrutiny. staffers on her previous campaign for senate and o'donnell's own financial filings reveal that the unemployed o'donnell used campaign funds to pay for meals, gas, bowling trips, and personal rent, even long after the campaign had ended. >> i've never seen a candidate who just stole all their campaign money and used it for personal use. what it seems like here is christine o'donnell had no other way to support herself so she thought, okay, i'll run for u.s. senate. >> reporter: the nonpartisan watchdog group citizens for responsibility and ethics in washington is urging the u.s. attorney in delaware to open a criminal investigation. >> it's not sloppiness, it's out-and-out theft. >> reporter: but today o'donnell waved off her critics. >> will they attack us? yes. will they smear our background and distort our records? undoubtedly. >> reporter: republican senate campaign leaders scheduled their first face-to-face meeting with o'donnell today b

. >> reporter: in freemont it's simple, unorthodox and it just might work.paces that you have to back into. >> you make it look so easy. >> it is. >> reporter: the city has put in a few dozen of them on capitol avenue in front of city hall as part of a pilot program to maximize both parking and bike safety. why not parallel parking? well, it takes up too much length. perpendicular parking takes up too much width and head first diagonal parking? too dangerous for bikers. the law does not allow bike lanes because drivers can see cyclists when they back out. how hard is it to park in reverse? let me just say it's going to take some practice. >> i should turn to back in. people may not expect you to back into a diagonal parking. so there might be some fender benders initially. >> reporter: city engineer norm hughes gave us a demonstration when all of a sudden the driver behind him got confused, hit the brakes and started honking. hughes said this is all new and drivers will learn eventually. >> this doesn't exist in downtown freemont and probably was wondering w

terrorists it's due to the fact that north a city has strongly supports russia in fighting terrorism its unorthodox region it housed russian military bases during the chechen war its people are strongly against terrorism especially after the beslan of and this republic has suffered a lot from terrorist and last a great number of children in that terror attack no such actively fights terrorism and as a result suffers further terror attacks. as law mcclave isn't russia have criticized that claiming it was deliberately times to cause maximum insult to muslims will build over the ugly. this act of terror is an attempt to scare the people and it's aimed at the denigration of islam as a religion of the uk with muslims around the world and in russia with them in waiting for the end of ramadan and these people just carried out this attack that wanted to overshadow people's feelings ahead of this holy celebration and they have succeeded in doing this in northern syria and it's now in mourning and these people misbehaved what they've done yes you know much you were doing what i mean your security analysts sa

. >>> reporter: in fremont, it's simple, unorthodox and it just might work. diagonal parking spaces that you have to back into. >> you make it look so easy. >> it is. >> reporter: the city has put in a few dozen of them on capitol avenue in front of city hall as part of a pilot program to maximize both parking and bike safety. why not parallel parking? it takes up too much length. perpendicular parking takes up too much width and head first diagonal parking too dangerous for bikers. the law doesn't allow bike lanes because drivers can't see cyclists when they back out. >> so how hard is it to park in reverse? let me just say, it's going to take some practice. >> i should turn to back in. people may -- as you turn to back in people may not expect you to back into diagonal parking so there might be some fender-benders initially. >> reporter: the city engineer gave us a demonstration when all of a sudden -- [ beep ] >> reporter: -- the driver hind him got confused, hit the brakes and started honking. hughes says this is all new and drivers will learn eventually.

palmdale area, and again, they initially went to the same church and then broke off and started these unorthodox practices. and i think what's most concerning to police right now is that they feel as though a lot of the people who are missing are incredibly vulnerable for one reason or another. a, the children are vulnerable because of their age, but any believe some of the adults don't have a lot of education, and might be really susceptible to believing things easily. so that is why there is so much concern, and that's why they want to find those 13 missing people. alex? >> understandably so. what a story. thank you very much. >>> it could be the first shot fired in the battle for the white house in 2012. and a leading conservative just got an influential group's blessing. peer into the future. there's a nurse who can access in an instant every patient's past. and because the whole hospital's working together, there's a family who can breathe easy, right now. somewhere in america, we've already answered some of the nation's toughest healthcare questions. and the over 60,000 people of siemens a

well, your--your art to date has been unorthodox, in the view of some. would your film work be the same? do you have a vision of film that might be different from what other people are doing currently? you know, it would probably be in line with a lot of the ideas and thoughts and feelings that have gone into my own work, you know, into my photographic work. and so it would not be so off-base, you know. but it would be film, which is different. but you also make precious objects. that is, you make limited editions of photographs. and when piss christ became a controversy, people thought it actually was a work, an object in three dimensions they would see. and they were startled to see a photograph. when you look at a technique or a medium, is it something for you that is changeable in film from photography-- in intention--as well? would you take us in a new direction or dimension through film? i'd certainly try, of course, you know. definitely. i--i find that--you know, i don't create too many art objects, but i have. and even though they will not, you k

correspondent james rosen profiles the unorthodox figures who stand both inside and outside the g.o.p. >> not going to beat them up or anything, right? >> no wonder jim demint half expected a sock in the face from colleague john cornyn share of the campaign committee with the tea party ties and conservative fund, demint has become a potent counterweight to the own party leaders in the choosing of winning and losing candidates. >> i hope i am a threat to the so-called establishment here in washington. i see press reports of anonymous staff members, cowards, saying things they won't say to me. but actually, a lot of republicans here will whisper to me that keep up the fight. >> demint in this cycle has thrown his weight behind 12 g.o.p. candidates, nine of them winners. most audacious was the early backing of senate nominee rubio at a time when rubio, the races's front runner was the underdog. now the south carolinaen is vowing to raise by next week $174,000 for delaware christine o'donnell. part of the demint pack $4 million in receipt and expenditure for the cycle. >> people can come

for the ones that got it, it was an organ -- unorthodox way of approaching the system. it is not that steve is really smart, because michael knows a lot of smart people, but if i did not know steve, i would find it hard to believe what he wrote about on paper because the guy is different. >> you mentioned selling short. define that. >> that is when you bet a gus -- a company's stock price is going to go down. >> why would they allow that to happen? >> there is a market. there is a buyer and seller. a good reason that that trade exists, oftentimes the short sellers contend to see a witness before anyone else does and ends of shining the like. it is the greatest disinfectant on an otherwise dubious company or story. >> as you know, i actually have analysis that was done by a law firm on the dot/frank financial situation. you keep the -- i wanted to go back to where you started in this business. how did you train yourself and the first place and why did you get into it? what i was a history major in college. i went to brown university. in college, i studied what was intere

. >> appears to be an unorthodox approach to western religion. i think that would be a generic and as accurate as i can be right now. because we don't know what exactly their specific beliefs were. >> but here is what maybe does not pass the smell test. family members and police have been worried after the group left a bag before going to a prayer meeting early yesterday morning. that bag, it contains cell phones, i.d.'s and letters that said that they were going to see jesus, deceased relatives and they were waiting for an apocalyptic event and even saying goodbye. now, when reporters questioned them why they left those items hyped, we were told that this was a common practice when they attended these particular retreats in case the rap tour happened while they were away, but authorities aren't so sure and in fact, the group's leader says that they may in fact been put under a seek trick evaluation. authorities are take that these letters read more of a last will and testament which is why she has been placed under psychiatric evaluation for at

very unorthodox and almost falling apart as it's moving now off shore of cuba and hopefully stay that way. the rains right now haven't been heavy enough to cause the flooding and cars moving along pretty well as far as what we can see with the track. this morning in miami-dade enough to cause a few traffic accidents and that's what we heard so far with respect to this. school's in session and government office is open and everyone is pretty much going about business as usual as what is really going to be an all-day rain here in south florida. should end about the time the sun goes down this evening. so, storms go, hopefully this one will go pretty well for florida as we look down the road, though, another risk into early next week of this area possibly being affected by a tropical system. we will keep you posted on what happens next week. i'm meteorologist jim cantore, back to you. >>> let's go to bill karins. heading up the east coast. >> florida is like a sponge, sandy soil, it could rain all day in florida for the most part. that's not the case when you go up through the eastern se

his own money in and a little unconventional or someone who has a different type of biography, unorthodox, some say it's checkered past and some say it's a the llot of questions in background like christine o'donnell. it won't be the kind of resume that these folks are used to and maybe i'm used to. that's what's going on. i think she can win. >> there's no doubt this year is different than any year i have seen since i've been working in political analysis. that people and i think you hit it. people will say look, may not be the perfect candidate but this other guy is going to spend this money. >> it's going to be a disaster. obama care, stimulus spending and bill, bill, i am going to say and predictions are always tough to make and i thought new hampshire was going to come out a different way but i actually think in this mood, in this country, i think she can even pull it out in a place like delaware if folks on the right actually kind of unite behind her and say look, she's going to vote the right way on these critical issues. >> depends on how she campaigns, laura. >> she's got to camp

church and then they broke off into a separate group they believe and started practicing these unorthodoxeligious beliefs and family members have been concerned apparently about those beliefs for a long time and now of course this weekend they are incredibly concerned. alex? >> and it's not entire families that have gone, right? aren't husbands the ones that have been left behind and sort of tipped off authorities? >> that's right. two husbands were actually the ones who went to the authorities and said that our family members are missing. they believe that these 13 people may be members of three separate families who know each other. they're still looking into that. but you're absolutely right. these are not entire families and that speaks to the fact that they believe some of these people are incredibly vulnerable especially the young people, these eight children who are missing. so really a massive search under way here in southern california and we should point out that palmdale is about an hour north of los angeles, alex. >> and there are a lot of places to go. it's right on the edge

don't know the religious affiliation, but they met in church and branched out, practicing more unorthodox beliefs and practices. alex? >> and three may be sisters? >> reporter: that's right. we're learning a little bit more about who these people actually are. three of them may be sisters. we believe they might be just from a small community. neighbors are starting to speak out and are reportedly saying that these are simple people, they're people who don't have a lot of education, possibly didn't graduate from high school, and investigator are describing a lot of the missing as vulnerable. so that's one of the reasons why they're so concerned. in addition to these eight children who are missing, they believe that many of the adults are really in a vulnerable place right now. alex? >> all right. kristen welker, thank you for the update. >>> she's a rising star of the tea party, but it's what chris tonig teen o'donnell said years -- christine o'donnell said years ago that's creating buzz. >>> and when can bp say the well is sealed. maybe you want to provide meals for the needy. or maybe yo

how she makes these decisions and the timing of the decisions as well as some the more unusual unorthodox ways that she makes the announcement. for example with terry brantad who is runing are for governor in iowa, more of a face pick t is good to have the future governor of iowa in your camp if you have any president 58 as pris operations but there a quirky story about how she called the campaign office. couldn't get them on the phone. he ended up finding out from an aide without saw her endorsement on facebook. so it's not always an orthodox method. and then her picks are kind of across-the-board. very many tea party candidates, of course. but there have been-- . >> woodruff: not all. >> absolutely, john mccain, a loyalty pick. there are others i mentioned terry brantad in iowa, not a tea party guy. and the tea party has come out, tea party sort of supporters, there is no official tea party mantle but those who are part of the group have come out on her facebook page and been up set at some of her endorsements. but it adds to her maverick tendency, she's not following a script and i thi

she has an unorthodoxed background. last night and today she looked great on the morning shows. she looks inexperienced but she looks like a young sarah palin. megyn: her folksiness and the way she deals with the criticism about the lame stream media, that what's they are going to do, and they will attack me for this rather than deal with me on the issues. that's a message sarah palin has used have much to her benefit. >> chris coons is a very experienced candidate. he's a moderate. people like him in delaware. so he's going to be tough to beat. but i think it's such a volatile year, we as democrats would not be smart to take anything for granted. i think that the tea party activists have to be give and lot of credit. i wish the democrats were nominating people to run as democrats who were such real fundamental change candidates. i thought one of the most interesting things, the "new york times" about 10 days ago when they put out endorsements for the state legislative races in new york state, said that in the new york

. >> it appears to be an unorthodox approach to western religion.nk that would be a generic and accurate -- as generic and accurate as i can be right now. because we don't know what exactly their specific beliefs were. >> reporter: now, family members and police had been worried after the group left a bag before going to a prayer meeting, early yesterday morning. that bag contained cell phones and i.d.s and letters that said they were going to see jesus and wait for an apocalyptic event and also saying good-bye and when reporters questioned them about why they left those letters and property deeds in fact in that bag they said it was a common practice they did when attending these particular retreats, in case the rapture happened while they were out on location. but, authorities aren't so sure and they say after reading these letters they sounded like more of a last will and testament and the group's leader has been put under medical care for psychiatric evaluation again as they try and sort through the information but, julie, the other members that