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mark whitaker. he works for a fork 500 company that makes chemical corn byproducts. very successful, good job, great life. he risks all of that by going to the fbi to tell him his bosses are in cahoots with other manufacturers around the world to fix prices, talking about billions of dollars. the fbi conducts a massive sting operation with the help of damon's character who fancies himself a real 00 7. >> who else did you tell about the raid? >> i told my secretary. i told her months ago. all i said was, liz, i'm doing some work with the fbi, i might be out of touch for a while. >> see, that's the problem. he can't keep his mouth shut and he also lies all the time. and there's this interesting twist, from the trailers you think he's a god guy, he's really not. >> i hope you're not ruining it.

>> i won't but there's a real twist to the story. matt damon and ben affleck, they started in the great place. damon makes great decisions, affleck has not. >> two names that won't be mentioned in the oscar race, jennifer aniston -- you say actor for everyone. aaron ebbinghart plays a successful motivational speaker who does national workshops. one dihe cease a florist, runs into her again in the lobby and tries to hit on her and she, as you're about to see, makes it look as if she can't understand, that she does sign language because she's si of guys hitting on her. they decide to go on a date. it's very awkward. take a listen. >> so then i'm your first since the divorce. >> you are the first -- >> well, that's good because that explains a lot. because that in there really

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painting. >> it's monday, september 21st. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> it's a very sweet story about toys. in fact, his wife gets so upset he's selling them, she starts to tear up in the story. they have like a four-story room filled with all these toys. toy lovers. i'm jeremy hubbard. >> i'm vinita nair. a father an held in connection wit terror plot ar in court l today in denver. mohamed and najibullah zazi are charged with making false statements. >> here's our chief investigative correspondent brian ross. >> reporter: 24-year-old najibullah zazi has been in this country sense 1999. the fbi and cia has tracked him as he twice traveled to pakistan for explosives training from al qaeda. agents secretly copied zazi's computer and found nine

handwritten pages on the manufacture and handling of explosives, detonator and fusing systems. he was charged with lying about the bomb notes. >> when he was questioned about whether or not he knew anything about the written notes and it was showed to him, he denied that knowledge. >> reporter: his father was also arrested in denver on charges he lied to the fbi. >> he's arrested because he lied about the phone call that he made to his son when he was in new york. >> reporter: the third person arrested was the prominent leader of a new york city mosque who also worked as an informant for the new york city police. the fbi documents say ahmad afzali tipped off zazi and then lied about it to the fbi. his lawyer says the police were wrong to use him in such a sensitive case. >> and now they have to blame someone. instead of coming in and saying we messed up, you know, we shouldn't have had afzali conducting an investigation for

us. >> reporter: so far authorities say they have no specifics on potential targets but they say zazi's computer had images of grand central station and he researched football and baseball stadiums as long as sites used for the the well attended fashion festivities in new york city. security will be even tight they are week, especially as president obama and scores of other foreign leaders come to the city for the opening of of the u.n. general assembly. brian ross, abc news, new york. >> in washington state a sigh cot being killer who escaped while on a field trip to the county fair last week has now been recaptured. there are questions about why phillip arnold paul was allowed to go on the trip in plain street clothes in the first place. he was found insane after the brutal murder of an elderly woman in 1987. >> we have learned several

things throughout this investigation, one of those that mr. paul was noncompliant in taking his medications. mr. paul appears to have been planning this for at least the last several months. >> an investigation into the escape has been ordered and there's an immediate halt to any future field trips from the state's three mental hospitals. >> a horrific story from florida this morning where an entire family has been murdered. a mother and her five young children were found dead inside their apartment in naples. the children range in age from 11 months to nine years. investigators believe the father fled to haiti where he has relatives. his car was found at miami's airport. the couple had a history of domestic violence. >> president obama delivers an economic speech today in upstate new york, a day after an unprecedented media blitz. his remarks centered on health care but some are saying it wasn't the best idea. rachel martin reports. >> reporter: in five interviews on five networks, the president

hit everything from afghanistan -- >> we lost that focus for a while. >> reporter: -- to race relations. >> are there people out there who don't like me because of race? i'm sure there are. >> reporter: but the purpose of this morning's marathon was to convince americans that health care reform has to happen this year. something he admitted hasn't been easy. >> i've said to myself somehow i'm not breaking through. >> reporter: but analysts say inundating the airwaves is risky. >> if you're doing five shows as president of the united states on a sunday, it's four too many. >> no president wants to become video wall paper. people do tune you out because they simply assume you don't have anything new to say. >> reporter: barack obama is about even with george w. bush and bill clinton on the number of press conferences he's given but when it comes to interviews, clinton had done 46 by this point, bush 40, president obama 124.

there was only one network the president didn't make an appearance, fox news. it was the only network that didn't air the president's health care address. coincidence? not likely. we figured fox would rather show "so you think you can dance," the show they aired instead of the president's speech. the president is facing increasingly vocal opposition which some say leaves him little choice. >> what happens if he doesn't talk? then that space to discuss the issue is going to fall to his critics. >> reporter: overexposed? maybe. but in a health care debate that's complicated and emotional, underexposure could be just as risky. rachel martin, abc news, washington. >> new york governor david patterson is attending mr. obama's speech today as he's feeling political pressure in his bid to stay in office. patterson's low popularity has obama administration officials fearing he can't win next november's gubernatorial election. patterson said he is staying in and he intends to win.

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fills you up and has a little fiber. >> reporter: just not the kind you find on most shelves of the supermarket. get a box of fruit loops in his hand and the sarcasm comes flowing. >> first of all, who invented the spelling? >> reporter: but the worths "smart choice" they drive him in this context can we say bananas? >> fruit loops have no fruit in it, just to set the record straight. it has more sugar per serving than many cookies. >> reporter: we went hunting the other day, mark and i, hunting for check marks. i was confused because i'm seeing this is smart could ises, this is what we're talking about. in facts we found plenty. for about a month this logo has been showing you on hundreds of items. it signifies the food in the package or the box or the jar that it's met a certain standard. it's not a government program. it a rating system jointly

agreed to after two years of talks among food companies ashes panel of leading nutritionists and others. the question is what's the standard? those fruit loops again. >> when sugar is 40% by weight of the product, what is the product ♪ product is dessert. >> reporter: and further on down the aisle, we went looking for who does not greta check mark. here's peanutbutter. >> here's a check mark on skippy, you know, america's favorite peanutbutter, right? it has peanuts, hydrogenated vegetable oils, which have trans fat, sat and sugar. four ingredient, two of which are not things you want to be eating too much of. then you have this store brand, no check mark and it contains peanuts and salt. so if you want -- >> reporter: you're arguing this is better than that but because stop and shop hasn't -- isn't paying to be part of the check mark program, they don't get the check mark. >> yeah.

it's not an argument. this is a fact. >> reporter: actually, there is an argument, just not one that mark bitman is ever going to accept, ever. >> no, i'm not going to cut them the benefit of the doubt. >> reporter: but puzzled by smart choice fruit loops, we went with an open mind to talk to one of the nutritionists behind the smart choice check marks and one of the first things he said is -- >> fruit loops has been unfortunately the poster child for the critics. >> reporter: he was chief medical officer for the american diabetes association, because the smart choice program is about so much more than fruit loops and is a god thing. >> we believe the smart choices label can move people away from high-fat foods, high -- foods with high sugar con ten, foods with high cholesterol in them. i think we can move people by gradually saying this is a smarter choice than you've been taking before. >> reporter: here's the point: americans eat lots of processed

foods so give them a way to know that certain processed foods are, we can put it this way, less lacking in nutrition than others. >> one of the goals is to get companies to reformulate their foods. >> reporter: companies that agree to the program and most of the major food makers are in it now, they apply to be certified for the check mark on the basis of what's in their product and they pay an application fee, up to $25,000 for product and as low as $5,000. >> we go to the u.s.d.a. food guideline, government sanctioned guyline and say that's going to be the fundamental foundation and crux for what we did. fundamentally all the criteria are based on the food guideline. >> reporter: so fruit loops. we have mark telling us things like this. >> if i take a pile of sawdust and inject nutrients and add sugar and turn it into something that tastes good, is that okay?

>> reporter: versus richard who says, yes. >> the fruit loops of today are better because the company reformulated the product so it could get the smart choices. that's what we want them to do. >> reporter: fruit loops has an upgraded ingredient list. it has less sodium and fat and transfat and cholesterol zero than are established by federal guidelines as a maximum per serving. it has added vitamin a, c and fiber that exceed what is guidelines say should be in a product. >> it represents 5% of the total amount of sugar consumed by the average child in the course of a day. i'm not here to advocate for fruit loops. >> reporter: that's right. this cereal is 41% sugar, which is more than you'll find in a serving of nulter butters or chips a poi hoye but that just meets the federal guideline. and besides, said kan, it's

where the -- >> it will get people to eat breakfast. >> reporter: i'm john donvan in new york. >> fruit loops as a smart choice. it doesn't entirely pass the smell test. as john pointed out, these companies are behind this logo, this label. they're the ones who fund it. >> it's interesting they have a nonprofit running it, though. if you do a little research you think, oh, it's a nonprofit and you look further in, forbes magazine said it was 14 corporations that all got together and said let's shell out some money. >> spent tens of thousands of dollars doing it. >> when we return, the big winners from last night's emmy awards.

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>> here are sotories to >> here are some stories to watch today on abc news: president obama visits an upstate new york community college today to discuss the economy. tonight he appears on the david letterman show. >> two of the men accused of plotting a terror attack on new york city -- three of the men are due in federal court today. the suspects were arrested over the weekend and charged with lying to investigators. >> and john travolta may testify today in a bahama courtroom. two men accused of trying to extort millions from travolta after his son's death are on trial. >> finally from us this half

hour, the new england man who collected so many rare toys. >> his multi-million dollar collection is hitting the auction block. john berman check it is out. >> reporter: fire truck, mail trucks, ice cream trucks, big cars, small cars, old cars, new cars. if there's a toy heaven, it might just be in pittsfield, massachusetts. >> people always ask me how many toys you have? well, i don't know. >> reporter: try about 7,000, stacked floor to krooeling in a four-story addition to the back of donald kauffman's house. >> it makes a lot of noise. >> reporter: that had to be fun. >> his family founded the kbee toy chain. for him, toys have never been business. >> if toys could talk, i always think of that. i'd love to know where it's been, who played with it, who made it. >> reporter: he began

collecting antique toys at fairs and auctions like this one in 1950. it became his passion. >> to me toys are art. each one is like a valuable painting. >> reporter: this 190s motorcycle with mickey and mini mouse is worth up to $60,000. >> you trs me with it? >> oh, i trust you with it. >> reporter: but now don is putting his entire collection up for sale. the first part of a five-part auction already brought in more than $4 million. he doesn't need the money. just says it's time to pass them on to other people. that doesn't mean it's easy. this is his wife, sally. >> oh, i miss them already. it's hard for me to talk about it. you know. >> reporter: 7,000 toys, 7,000 stories. and if there's one lesson don kauffman wants the world to learn -- >> this is a great one right here. reallyin joyed that one. >> reporter: is that there's always room for one more toy. john berman, abc news,

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>> new det this morning >> new details this morning on a foiled terror plot targeting new york city. who's behind bars now and could there be more arrests? >> then controversial concert. a latin singer's family receives death threats. why some cuban americans are so angry. >> you don't cheat freedom by saying you're having a concert and ignoring the situation in cuba. >> and flying high. a little boy's dream nearly grounded. who stepped in to make it come true. it's monday, september 21st.

>> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> another week, another monday. good morning, thanks for being with us. i'm vinita nair. >> i got a case of the mondays myself. we'll try to get past those this half hour. first off, we are learning more about the government's case against three men charged in a terror plot aimed at new york city. >> a father and son are due in court in denver and an informant in the case goes before a judge in new york. with details, here's richard davies. >> mr. zazi, do you have anything to say? >> reporter: federal agents picked um najibullah zazi and his father and led them away in handcuffs from their home in aurora, colorado. the leader of a mosque in queens, new york, ahmad afzali was also arrested. >> soap of this case has been so overbehind by the government and the media that this is their way of showing, see, we're really serious.

>> reporter: they're charged with making false statements to federal agents in an ongoing terror investigation. >> it is a federal crime to lie to a federal investigators. the allegation is that mr. zazi lied when he said he had no knowledge of nine pages of handwritten bomb making material on his computer. >> reporter: but there is more. according to court filings 24-year-old najibullah zazi admitted to the fbi he received weapons and explosives training at an al qaeda camp in pakistan. officials believe they may have disrupted what could have been a major bomb plot. >> america is constantly under threat. we are a target and particularly new york city. >> reporter: authorities found potential terrorist targets on zazi's computer, images of sports stadiums in new york and sites like these of fashion week last week also in new york as well as videos of grand central terminal. the investigation into an alleged terrorist plot is

continuing. no actual terrorism charges have been filed so far. the lying to the governments agent charge carries a potential eight-year prison term. richard davies, abc news, new york. >> three more u.s. troops were killed this weekend in afghanistan. two died in a noncombat related incident on sunday. the other died in fighting on saturday. meanwhile the top u.s. and nato commander in afghanistan is warning without more troops the mission there will likely fail. general stanley mcchrystal 's assessment is being reported morning in the "new york times."^ >> tomorrow the president meets with palestinian leader mahmoud abbas and benjamin netanyahu. >> it's the economic recovery that the president will address today in a speech at an upstate new york community college. vice president biden's wife, jill, will attend. she teaches at a washington, d.c. area community college.

president obama will tape an appearance on david letter man's show. >> in washington state a mental institution escapee who has committed murder has been caught. phillip arnold paul slipped away from a group at the spokane county fair last wednesday. he planned his escape. he had extra clothes, a back pack and $50 with him. >> funeral plans are being finalized for yale graduate student annie le. she was found dead in a yale laboratory building last week. a co-worker, raymond clark, has been charged with her murder. he remains in custody. >> in cuba hundreds of thousands gathered for a free concert for some of latin music's biggest stars. but it sit a sour note with cube and americans who watched on tv. jeffrey kofman report with this controversial concert from

havana. >> reporter: it's the biggest event cuba has seen since the pope was here in 199. by official count, 1.2 million people came to havana's revolution square to hear 14 of the biggest acts in latin music, braving sweltering humidity and 100 degree heat to see superstars not normally seen in cuba. although this man lives in miami, he is not a house holted name in the united states yet but there's no one bigger in latin america. he and other performers organized and paid for this free concert called peace without borders. >> just go there and try to open a little window, a little door with music. >> reporter: juanes and the other musicians putting on the concert insist it is just about music, it is apolitical. but when the subject is cuba, it is hard to escape politics. just ask the hardline cuban americans in miami who very

publicly smashed juanes cds. >> you don't achieve freedom by saying you're having a con srt and ignoring the situation in cuba. >> reporter: but the once powerful cuban american community could not stop this concert. all the equipment on stage was shipped from miami with permission from the state department as the obama administration soft i don't knows the bush hardline on cuba. and references to politics could be heard. >> it time to change. >> reporter: as we walked through havana with juanes, cubans were just happy to see him, interrupting for kisses, autographs and photographs. it may not bring peace but it sure made a lot of people here happy. >> here is a look at your monday forecast: downpours and flooding from michigan to florida, drenching detroit, pittsburgh and atlanta. heavy rain from minnesota to

texas. thunderstorms in the central rockies with snow in the colorado mountains. >> just 52 in colorado springs today, 75 in boise, 77 in seattle, 70s also along most of the east coast today. 90 in dallas, 89 in new orleans. phoenix still 105, though. >> very warm as always in phoenix. >> it looked like a scene straight out of a hollywood horror flick but it was a blood and gore on a goodwill mission. >> more than a hundred people shuffled and moaned on the street of iowa city dressed as the living dead. it was the fourth annual zombie march. an open gashing wound wound. it raises money for a god cause. >> this year's proceeds will be used to fight flesh-eating disease. >> that is pretty ironic. >> it is. it reminds me of "night of the living dead" and the line

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>> if you flipped through the channels checking out the sunday morning talk shows, you may have seen something unprecedented. >> president obama was interviewed on five programs, an historic move discussing the economy, defense and the huge political issue of health care reform. >> announcer: "this week" with abc news chief washington correspondent george stephanopoulos. >> if you're saying to people you got to get health insurance but they can't actually afford it and they have to pay a penalty if they don't get it, that's a pretty big burden on middle-class families. that's a concern i share, making sure this is affordable. if we don't do anything,

guaranteed americans' costs are going to go up, more people are going to lose health care coverage, the insurance companies are going it continue to prevent people from getting it from preexisting conditions. those are burdens on people who have health insurance right now. and so just to close the loop on this, the principles i've put forward very clearly when i spoke to the joint session of congress is that we're going to make sure that, number one, if you don't have health insurance you're going to be able to get affordable health insurance; number two, if you have health insurance, we're going to have insurance reforms that give you more security, you know what you're going to get. you know that if you're paying your premiums, you're going to have coverage when you get sick; number three, it's going to be deficit neutral, not going to add a dime to the deficit now or in the future; four, it's going

to drive down costs now and in the future. >> not only are jobs figures the last to catch up, they're the lagging indicator, but the other problem is we lost so many jobs that making up for those that have already been lost is going to require really high growth rates. and so what we're focused right now on is how can we make sure that businesses are investing again, how can we make sure that certain industries that were really important like housing are stabilized. how can we expand our export markets? that's part of what the g-20 meeting in pittsburgh is going to be about, making sure there's a more balanced economy. we can't go back to the era where the chinese or the germans or other countries just are selling everything to us, we're taking out a bunch of credit card debt or home equity loans but we're not selling anything to them. that's how all of this is going to fit together. but i want to be clear that probably the jobs picture is not going to improve considerably and it could even get a little

bit worse over the next couple of months and we're probably not going to start seeing enough job crease to deal with a rising population until sometime next year. >> announcer: this is "meet the press" with david gregory. >> just to be clear, though, it wasn't just president carter. there are others in the congressional black caucus who have said they agree there is racism out there in that opposition to you. are you saying to the former president and others to speak this way is is counterproductive? >> i'm not saying race never matters in any of these public debates that we have. what i'm saying is that this debate that's taking place is not about race, it's about people being worried about how our government -- i think a lot of those folks on the other side are wrong. i think that they have entirely mischaracterized the nature of our efforts and i think it's important that we stay focused

on solving problems as opposed to plucking out a sentence here or a comment there and then the entire debate which should be about how do we make sure middle-class families have secure health care doesn't get consumed by other things. and unfortunately we've got, as i said before, a 24-hour news cycle where what gets you on the news is controversy. what gets you on the news is the extreme statement. the easiest way to get 15ments on the news or your 15 minutes of fame is to be rude. >> announcer: "face the nation" with bob schieffer. >> you announced yesterday a major change in american strategic strategy when you said that we would not go forward with the missile defense system that would be there on the border of russia. the russians saw that as a poke in the eye from the very beginning.

but even people who agree that that missile system is out of place are asking questions shouldn't you have tried to get something from the russians in exchange for doing that? >> we're not eliminating missile defense. in fact what we're doing is in putting in a system that's more timely, more cost effective and that meets the actual threats that we perceive coming from iran. russia had always been paranoid about this but george bush was right, this wasn't a threat to them. and this new program will not be a threat to them. so, you know, my task here was not to negotiate with the russians. the russians doesn't make determinations about what our defense posture is. we have made a decision about what will be best to protect the american people as well as our troops in europe and our allies. if the biproduct of it is that the russians feel a little less pair for identification and are now willing to work more effectively with us to deal with threats like ballistic missile

from iran or nuclear development in iran, you know, then that's a bonus. >> a look at the unprecedented media blitz on the sunday morning talk shows by president obama. he'll do something more unprecedented today. he's going to actually be on david letterman's show continuing this media blitz after he gives a speech in upstate new york. >> i saw a statistic that said at this point in his presidency he's done three times as many interviews as president bush and president clinton. the white house did not invite fox news sin they didn't cover the health care reform speech. >> when we come bark, the tall enged 12-year-old who is getting international attention. >> he has no country to call home. that's n y

the physicians committee for responsible medicine. i, i feel better! >> create itch boy who has a remarkable talent for making paper airplanes nearly missed out on an international orgamy

competition. >> the 12-year-old got caught in the middle of a passport predicament as he tried to fly from thailand to japan. margaret connolly explains. >> reporter: it was a tearful farewell as his family and supporters said good-bye at the airport in thailand. the 12-year-old paper plane champion made it to the next level, an international orgamy airplane competition in japan. getting here took more than talent. he is stateless, born to ethnic parent who is fled burma, he has temporary residency in thailand, as is the case with nearly 12 million stateless people in thailand, to leave the country means no return. >> you have no rights being stateless, you have no right to access the right. >> reporter: his story made local headlines. the thai government stepped in and granted him a one-time

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>> announcer >> announcer: "world news now" delivers your "morning papers." >> we start this morning with a really cool video. imagine you are in a bank and you see someone. >> i'm imagining. >> follow me here. you see someone trying to rob the person, the teller. i don't know what you would do. this is not what i would do. take a look at what happened. you can see the guy is about to come into the screen. >> there he is. and then another guy kicked him.

>> we did add those sound effects for your benefit. this happened in wisconsin. it shows a customer, he stopped the bank robber just by tackling the suspect. i think there's a kick thrown, which isn't very nice. but the guy says he feared that his wife was going to be in danger bus she was standing next to the guy who was in there robbing it. he wanted to make sure his wife would be okay. i've often heard this is what you are not supposed to do but it makes for cool video. >> it's chivalry to be sure. i'm sure he got a nice big smooch from his wife that night but i'll bet the cops -- >> notice the teller. she's like i am out. >> you can tackle him all you want. i'm going to the break room. >> you really got to hand it to this gardener. you'll see what i'm talking about in a minute. you know how we're supposed to have five servings of vegetables in a day? >> yes. >> here's a guy who did it all in one. that's a carrot and it looks

exactly like a hand. given it's a slightly swollen, disfigured hand but a hand nevertheless. you would think he would hold on to it or sell it on e bay. no, he just snapped the picture and just cooked it and ate it. >> that makes me like him more. >> there's no mary visage in here, nothing worth any money. i'm just going to eat the thing. >> take a look at this guy. he is the professional eater who ate 33.5 burritos in ten minutes winning a title of the 2009 world burrito eating champion. he walked away with $15 lune. >> are they hot? are they really like warm, spicy? >> he says they're spicy. he said he didn't eat for two days to prepare for the competition. he said they're filled with beef, beans and green chiles.

>> i wonder if he's a member of the international federation of competitive eaters? >> right after the wedding i am so enrolling. >> so right after the wedding we can count on you in competitive

>> serious >> serious questions after a criminally insane killer is allowed to go on a field trip to a county fair. the man's escape and capture. >> then family fight. the parents in the middle of a legal battle involving wal-mart and nude pictures of their children. >> and insomniac theater. from jennifer aniston's new love story to matt damon's film about corporate espionage. it's monday, september 21st. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now." >> i know you're surprised.

jennifer aniston in another romantic comedy. >> yeah. matt damon, though, terrific. >> he gained a lot of weight for that role, didn't he? >> he's so funny. we'll have the details minutes from now. >> good morning. thanks for being with us on this monday morning. i'm vinita nair. >> i'm jeremy hubbard. there's outrage in washington state as a psychotic killer escaped while on a field trip for mental patients >> phillip arnold paul managed to get away while on a field trip to the county fair. >> police captured him about 200 miles away. >> the question remains, how did this happen in the first place? here's neal karlinsky. >> reporter: after a massive man hunt, phillip allen paul was captured 15 miles outside of goldendale washington while trying to hitchhike.

>> i have a concern because i don't feel that he's in a good mental state right now. >> reporter: paul is a 47-year-old criminally insane murderer who was allowed to go on a field trip in street clothes to all places the spokane county fair. he slipped the chaperone and wandered into families who had no idea such a field trip was going on. the mental hospital didn't call authorities for help for two hours. >> it's frustrating we weren't put on notice immediately. >> reporter: he had been committed by reason of insanity for the 1987 killing of an eld most state hospitals allow supervised outings but the key is determining who should go and how they should be handled. an employee's union official said it never should have happened because hospital staff

warned supervisor washington's secretary of social and health services has now ordered a critical incident review of the event and an immediate lockdown on future outings at any of the state's three mental hospitals. now that paul is in custody, state officials can breathe a little easier that no one was hurt while he was on the loose. the focus now will be on preventing something like this from ever happening again. neal karlinsky, abc news, seat >> three terror suspects are due in federal court later today in connection with an unfolding terror plot allegedly targeting new york city. two suspects, a father and son, were taken into custody in the denver suburb of aurora. for more here's our denver affiliate. >> reporter: as colorado muslims celebrate the end of ramadan, many are concerned about a possible backlash against their community following the latest reports of two arrests and four more people suspected in a denver-based terrorist cell. >> it is something that you're always worried about.

>> reporter: the president of the colorado muslim society. >> 99.9% of these muslims are good, peaceful, loving people. and just like any other community, you'll find one or two that are not good people. >> reporter: this as more details come out about najibullah zazi's statements to the fbi be. warrants allege he didn't come clean about what was on his laptop, handwritten notes about how to make bombs and that he admitted to taking explosives classes at an al qaeda training facility. >> sometimes you have to connect the dots. remember after 9/11 the whole issue that emerged was it wasn't that we didn't know things but no one connected the dots. >> reporter: but much remains unknown still about zazi's role in any sort of terrorist plot. while colorado's muslim leaders say they don't condone any violence, they do support the principles of the constitution. >> our only wish is that the person is given actually a fair chance before the person is convicted whether by the media or by the authorities. >> reporter: zazi and his father are expected to make

their first appearance in federal court monday afternoon. jacqueline allen, abc news, denver. >> secretary of state hillary clinton kicks off a busy week in new york today. she's holding a long series of meetings with officials around the world. it all leads up to president obama's address at the u.n. wednesday. this morning clinton rings the opening bell at the new york stock exchange. >> new york's governor david patterson isn't getting any love from the white house in his bid to stay in office. the race will be decided next november. as andrea canning reports, a defiant patterson is refusing presidential pressure for him to step aside. >> reporter: the pressure is mounting on new york's governor. >> everybody take a step back! >> reporter: at this parade in harlem, david patterson said he has no plans to bow out of his bid for reelection, despite word president obama himself wants

him to step aside. >> i'm running for governor. >> reporter: how do you feel about the president getting involved? senior white house officials tell abc news the president fears patterson will cost democrats a key governorship. >> democrats are poised to take a beating in the 2010 mid-term elections. the white house knows it and they're trying to put their best foot forward in the places they should one. new york is one of them. they can't win with david patterson on the ballot. >> reporter: it's not just falling poll numbers but a series of missteps. from his poor handling of caroline kennedy's failed senate bid to recent comments he made that the critics were out to get him because of his race. >> we're not in the post-racial period. the reality is that the next victim on the list and you see it coming is president barack obama. >> reporter: patterson is seen as vulnerable and democrats are especially worried about former mayor rudy giuliani. the republican is t

jum at least one top de rallying to pat do you think the governor should step aside >> of course n that is stupid, it doesn't make any sense and i don't believe it ever happened. >> reporter: patterson may get the chance to ask the president himself when the two are scheduled to share the same stage monday in upstate new andw >> there are mo details in the growing edw a former aide claims in a new book proposal that edwards did father the baby and he claims edwards promised to marry hunter after his wife, elizabeth, died. the wedding would tack place in a rooftop ceremony with the dave matthews band playing. while there are reports that edwards plans on admitting paternity soon, a source tells abc news that is not likely. >> wow. >> a tawdry story that just gets more and more strange. >> here's a look at your monday weather. stormy with heavy rain and flooding from michigan to florida. heavy downpours and severe storms from texas to arkansas. rain in the colorado mountains.

>> a chilly 52 in colorado springs. snow boarding weather soon. stoked about that. 80 in albuquerque, 68 in salt lake city, fargo to 65, st. louis 82 today, 70s from boston all the way down to atlanta. 90 today in miami and dallas and 89 in new orleans. >> of course it is the biggest night in television. this year it was marked by a number of repeats. >> nevertheless the 61st annual primetime emmy awards is being called one of the best in years thanks in part to doogie houser. mad men and 30 rock were at the head of the pack. >> lead actor in a comic series went to alec baldwin in "30 rock," while toni collett won for lead actress. >> again close was a repeat winner for her role in "damages." >> outstanding comedy series went to "30 rock." "mad men" picked up the best drama series.

>> i have not seen mad men at all this year. >> this year seems different. the plot is different than some of the other seasons now. >> well, times are progressing. >> the daughter is now much more involved. >> we'll be right back with more "world news now."

>> some extreme weather to tell you about. flood watches posted at >> some extreme weather to tell you about. flood watches posted at least through tonight for portions of northeast georgia and north carolina after downpours over the weekend. >> here's american landscape coverage from our atlanta affiliate wsb. >> announcer: live, local, late breaking, there is channel 2 action news night beat, coverage you can count on. >> another night of heavy downpours here in metro atlanta leaves some businesses and roads under massive amounts of water. >> here is a live look at storm tracker 2 hd. right now several flood watches and warnings are in effect for north georgia. heavy rain is so bad police are urging people to stay off the

road tonight. we continue our coverage. >> reporter: the rain has been heavy all evening here in palding county. you can see the effect, enough to flood several businesses here. with so much standing water, police have had to close several roads. >> i've never seen it like this. i've never seen it this bad. >> reporter: cars are underwater, an entire gas station is flooded. so much rain fell so fast, the water inundated storm drains. enough water to cut off sop subdivisions. we caught these people trying to make their way through it. have you seen a lot of people try to drive through this? >> oh, yeah. >> a couple made it. a couple stopped and thought about it first, which is what they should have done. one van got about halfway and it died.

>> reporter: all evening police have responded to rescue calls from people who found themselves stranded by the fast-rising waters. some drivers decided the standing water was too dangerous to risk going any further. >> when you're driving down the road, i started to hydroplane real bad. >> reporter: there are several road closed signs out. if you run into standing water, police advise don't drive through it and have asked people to stay home until the storm lets up. channel 2 action news, night beat. >> our american landscape coverage from drenched atlanta this morning. when we return, uproar over family snapshots of children at bath time. >> when a wal-mart photo technician called police and the parents' big local battle. that's next. al battle. that's next.

>>ack. >> welcome back. some naked photos of children at bath time developed at a arizona wal-mart have raised new questions about parenting and privacy. >> a photo lab technician saw the pictures and called police. the parents say their kids photos were cute but investigators disagree.

here's ron claiborne. >> it was a nightmare. it was unbelievable. >> reporter: for anthony and lisa demarie, it's been the hardest year in their lives. it began a year ago when they dropped off some digital photos to be printed at this wal-mart in peoria, arizona. among the 144 family photos, the developer spotted eight that shocked her. she turned them over to the police. according to the police report, the photos show their three young girls in provocative positions, their genitals exposed. >> one of the photos is three of the girls laying down on a towel with their arms around each other. we thought it was so cute. they're still bath time photos. but it's right after the bath. >> reporter: investigators went to the home to question them and search the house. demarie said he could understand why the police were there but said the pictures were innocuous

photos of his kids goofing around naked. abc news acquired four of the photos in dispute. their lawyer would not release the others for fear of criminal charges. >> our family is very open and comfortable. we don't want our children to feel inhibited if their own house. >> reporter: the police saw it very differently. the girls, age 1 and a half, 4 and 5 were placed in child protective services. it would be a month before they would regain custody. a medical examination revealed no signs of sexual abuse and the judge ruled the photos were harmless. >> the authorities need to prove sexu intent. once a judge reviewed the situation and a psychological evaluation took place, everyone agreed there was no such sexual intent. >> reporter: from the demarie's perspective, the damage was already done. >> we even went on to a central

registry for sex offenders. >> reporter: lisa who works at a school was suspended from her job for a year while the investigation was under way. they've sued peoria and state attorney general's office for defamation. and they sued wal-mart that failed to tell them of their unsuitable print policy that allows them to give the prints to authorities without their knowledge. police and prosecutors feel they did what was appropriate. >> as crazy as it may seem, what you consider to be the most beautiful, innocent pictures of your children can be perceived as something very perverted. >> you heard the family say she was suspended there. they were never actually formally charged but the lawsuits sort of say there was a lot of defamation of our personal character and of course the time off from work i'm sure cost her. >> you sort of feel like the wal-mart employee is damned if she does and damned if she doesn't. you would want as a parent, you would want that reported you would think, just doing her job. >> i'm sure we'll hear more about that story.

>> the newspaper business is struggling as readers and advertisers turn to the internet. >> coast to coast newspapers big and small downsizing and closing. in a detroit suburb, there's a fight to keep a community paper in circulation. barbara pinto reports. >> reporter: for more than a century the birmingham eccentric has chronicled the history of this detroit suburb. that's why word the publisher was pulling the plug hit so hard. >> the thought of being the last editor of the birmingham eccentric newspaper is horrible to me. >> reporter: greg watched ad revenue and subscriptions drop. he worried about losing his job and that his city would lose even more. >> i think it loses its soul to a degree. >> a community newspaper when it does its job right is really the conscience and the choice of a community. >> reporter: but this community fought back. >> it's very important to the fabric of birmingham. it keeps us connected and informed and i didn't want to see that go away.

>> reporter: david bloom, a long time reader, pleaded with the publishers. his assignment, find 5,000 new subscribers to keep the eccentric alive. celebrity photographer linda solomon who started at the eccentric came back to work for free. >> i'm fighting because i love the paper. >> reporter: school children are helping, too, supplementing the paper's tiny three-person staff. how did the first assignment go? >> it went good. >> it was really fun. >> reporter: this massive grass roots effort has recruited more than a thousand new subscribers so far but that still may not be enough. >> we are not out of the woods. we need many more subscriptions. >> reporter: jay grossman's first job as a kid was delivering the eccentric. now he's its only reporter, covering a community coming to the rescue. >> they've gone through so many challenges either keeping their

job or watching their job go away and still through it all they're sticking with the paper. >> reporter: the eccentric's fate has become its own headline and for now the news is good. barbara pinto, abc news, birmingham, michigan. >> up next, a drama and a chick flick are in this morning's insomniac theater. kruse: if you have a hard

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mark whitaker. he works for a forbes 500 company that makes chemical corn byproducts. very successful, good job, great life. he risks all of that by going to the fbi to tell him his bosses are in cahoots with other manufacturers around the world to fix prices, talking about billions of dollars. the fbi conducts a massive sting operation with the help of damon's character who fancies himself a real 007. >> who else did you tell about the raid? >> i had to telled my secretary. i'm the head of the biodivision. i told her months ago. all i said was, liz, i'm doing some work with the fbi, i might be out of touch for a while. >> see, that's the problem. he can't keep his mouth shut and he also lies all the time. and there's this interesting twist, from the trailers you think he's a good guy, he's really not.

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>> home grown terror. three men arrested in an alleged terror plot are due in court today. why the investigation is far from over. >> food facts. a closer look at our food supply bearing the smart choice logo. is it all smoke and mirrors? >> and toy chest. the multi-million dollar antique collection that's up for sale. >> to me toys are art. each one is like a valuable painting. >> it's monday, september 21st. >> announcer: from abc news, this is "world news now."

>> it's a very sweet story about toys. in fact, his wife gets so upset he's selling them, she starts to tear up in the story. they have like a four-story room filled with all these toys. >> even at his age, life long toy lovers. i'm jeremy hubbard. >> i'm vinita nair. a father and son held in connection with a terror plot are due in court later today in denver. mohamed and najibullah zazi are charged with making false statements. >> officials say there is much more to the investigation. >> here's our chief investigative correspondent brian ross. >> reporter: 24-year-old najibullah zazi has been in this country since 1999. the fbi and cia has tracked him as he twice traveled to pakistan for explosives training from al qaeda. agents secretly copied zazi's computer and found nine handwritten pages on the manufacture and handling of

explosives, detonators and fusing systems. he was charged with lying about the bomb notes. >> when he was questioned about whether or not he knew anything about the written notes and it was showed to him, he denied that knowledge. >> reporter: his father was also arrested in denver on charges he lied to the fbi. >> he's arrested because he lied about the phone call that he made to his son when he was in new york. >> reporter: the third person arrested was the prominent leader of a new york city mosque who also worked as an informant for the new york city police. the fbi documents say ahmad afzali tipped off zazi and then lied about it to the fbi. his lawyer says the police were wrong to use him in such a sensitive case. >> and now they have to blame someone. instead of coming in and saying we messed up, you know, we shouldn't have had afzali conducting an investigation for us. >> reporter: so far authorities

say they have no specifics on potential targets but they say zazi's computer had images of grand central station and he researched football and baseball stadiums along with sites used for the well attended fashion festivities in new york city. security will be even tighter this week, especially as president obama and scores of other foreign leaders come to the city for the opening of of the u.n. general assembly. brian ross, abc news, new york. >> in washington state a psychotic killer who escaped while on a field trip to the county fair last week has now

been recaptured. there are questions about why phillip arnold paul was allowed to go on the trip in plain street clothes in the first place. he was found insane after the brutal murder of an elderly woman in 1987. >> we have learned several things throughout this investigation, one of those that mr. paul was noncompliant in taking his medications. mr. paul appears to have been planning this for at least the last several months. >> an investigation into the escape has been ordered and there's an immediate halt to any f state's three mental hos >> a horrific story from flori family ha a mother and her five young children were found dead inside their apartment in naples. the children range in age from 11 months to nine years. investigators believe the father fled to haiti where h r his car was found at mia the couple domestic violence. >> president obama delivers an economic speech today new unprecedented media blitz.

his remarks centered on health care but some are saying it wasn't the best idea. rachel martin reports. >> reporter: in five interviews on five networks, the president hit everything from afghanistan -- >> we lost that focus for a while. >> reporter: -- to race relations. >> are there people out there who don't like me because of race? i'm sure there are. >> reporter: but the purpose of this morning's marathon was to convince americans that health care reform has to happen this year. something he admitted hasn't been easy. >> i've said to i'm not breaking th >> reporter: but analysts say inund risky. >> if you're doing five shows as president of the united states on a sunday, it's four too many. >> no president wants to become video w people do tune you out be they simply assume >> reporter: barack obama is about even with george w. bush and bill clinton on the number of press conferences he's given but when it comes to interviews,

clinton had done 46 by this point, bush 40, president obama there was only one network the president didn't make an appearance, fox news. it was the only network that didn't air the president's health care address. coincidence? not likely. a white house spokesperson told abc news, quote, we figured fox would rather show "so you think you can dance," the show they aired instead of the president's speech. the president is facing increasingly vocal opposition which some say leaves him little choice. >> what happens if he doesn't talk? then that space to discuss the issue is going to fall to his critics. >> reporter: overexposed? maybe. but in a health care debate that's complicated and emotional, underexposure could be just as risky. rachel martin, abc news, washington. >> new york governor david patterson is attending mr. obama's speech today as he's feeling political pressure in his bid to stay in office. patterson's low popularity has obama administration officials

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quaker produces oats, right? >> reporter: mark bitman likes food. >> if an apple is something that fills you up and has a little fiber. >> reporter: just not the kind you find on most shelves of the supermarket. get a box of fruit loops in his hand and the sarcasm comes flowing. >> first of all, who invented the spelling? >> reporter: but the words "smart choice" they drive him in this context can we say bananas? >> fruit loops have no fruit in it, just to set the record straight. it has more sugar per serving than many cookies. >> reporter: we went hunting the other day, mark and i, hunting for check marks. i was confused because i'm seeing this is smart choices, this is what we're talking about. in facts we found plenty. for about a month this logo has been showing up on hundreds of items. it signifies the food in the package or the box or the jar

that it's met a certain standard. it's not a government program. it a rating system jointly agreed to after two years of talks among food companies ashes panel of leading nutritionists and others. the question is what's the standard? those fruit loops again. >> when sugar is 40% by weight of the product, what is the product? product is dessert. it's not breakfast cereal, it's dessert. >> reporter: and further on down the aisle, we went looking for who does not get a check mark. here's peanutbutter. >> here's a check mark on skippy, you know, america's favorite peanutbutter, right? it has peanuts, hydrogenated vegetable oils, which have trans fat, sat and sugar. four ingredient, two of which are not things you want to be eating too much of. then you have this store brand, no check mark and it contains peanuts and salt. so if you want -- >> reporter: you're arguing this is better than that but

because stop and shop hasn't -- isn't paying to be part of the check mark program, they don't get the check mark. >> yeah. it's not an argument. this is a fact. >> reporter: actually, there is an argument, just not one that mark bitman is ever going to accept, ever. >> no, i'm not going to cut them the benefit of the doubt. >> reporter: but puzzled by smart choice fruit loops, we went with an open mind to talk to one of the nutritionists behind the smart choice check marks and one of the first things he said is -- >> fruit loops has been unfortunately the poster child for >> reporter: he was chief medical officer for the american diabetes association, because the smart choice program is about so much more than fruit loops and is a good thing. >> we believe the smart choices label can move people away from high-fat foods, high -- foods with high sugar content, foods with high cholesterol in them. i think we can move people by gradually saying this is a smarter choice than you've been taking before.

>> reporter: here's the point: americans eat lots of processed foods so give them a way to know that certain processed foods are, we can put it this way, less lacking in nutrition than others. >> one of the goals is to get companies to reformulate their foods. >> reporter: companies that agree to the program and most of the major food makers are in it now, they apply to be certified for the check mark on the basis of what's in their product and they pay an application fee, up to $25,000 for product and as low as $5,000. >> we go to the u.s.d.a. food guideline, government sanctioned guideline and say that's going to be the fundamental foundation and crux for what we did. fundamentally all the criteria are based on the food guideline. >> reporter: so fruit loops. we have mark telling us things like this. >> if i take a pile of sawdust and inject nutrients and add sugar and turn it into something that tastes good, is that okay? >> reporter: versus richard who says, yes.

if you leave out the sawdust. >> the fruit loops of today are better because the company reformulated the product so it could get the smart choices. that's what we want them to do. >> reporter: fruit loops has an upgraded ingredient list. it has less sodium and fat and transfat and cholesterol zero than are established by federal guidelines as a maximum per serving. it has added vitamin a, c and fiber that exceeds what guidelines say should be in a product. >> it represents 5% of the total amount of sugar consumed by the average child in the course of a day. i'm not here to advocate for fruit loops. >> reporter: that's right. this cereal is 41% sugar, which is more than you'll find in a serving of nutter butters or chips ahoy but that just meets the federal guideline. and besides, said kahn, it's where the flavor is.

you mean the cereal is the bait to get the people to eat breakfast. >> yes, because the american people are not eating breakfast. >> reporter: i'm john donvan in new york. >> fruit loops as a smart choice. it doesn't entirely pass the smell test. as john pointed out, these companies are behind this logo, this label. they're the ones who fund it. >> it's interesting they have a nonprofit running it, though. if you do a little research you think, oh, it's a nonprofit and you look further in, forbes magazine said it was 14 corporations that all got together and said let's shell out some money. >> spent tens of thousands of dollars doing it. >> when we return, the big winners from last night's emmy awards.

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someone would have to be abducted to compete with kanye. i want to know who is going to pull a kanye. now it's like a word. amy winehouse. >> she's back in the skinny. it's been a while. >> it has been a while. it's good we're not rolling the train wreck graphic. >> wait, maybe we should. is that the before? amy winehouse is in constant pain because she wanted to fix her teeth. she's had a series of fillings and extractions over recent weeks. she said it's been really bad and painful. she's still out there doing what she does best. >> i think the teeth pain was from drug use. >> it was from drug use. i should have mentioned that. she says it was from drug use. her teeth were in a pretty gross state, they were brown and stained and needed work and she was determined to get them back to their sparkling best teeth. >> those are some are teeth,

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>> here are some stories to watch today on abc news: president obama visits an upstate new york community college today to discuss the economy. tonight he appears on the david letterman show. >> two of the men accused of plotting a terror attack on new york city -- three of the men are due in federal court today. the suspects were arrested over the weekend and charged with lying to investigators. >> and john travolta may testify today in a bahama courtroom. two men accused of trying to extort millions from travolta after his son's death are on trial. >> finally from us this half hour, the new england man who

collected so many rare toys. >> his multi-million dollar collection is hitting the auction block. john berman check it is out. >> reporter: fire truck, mail trucks, ice cream trucks, big cars, small cars, old cars, new cars. if there's a toy heaven, it might just be in pittsfield, massachusetts. >> people always ask me how many toys you have? well, i don't know. >> reporter: try about 7,000, stacked floor to krooeling in a four-story addition to the back of donald kauffman's house. >> it makes a lot of noise. >> reporter: that had to be fun. >> his family founded the kbee toy chain. for him, toys have never been business. >> if toys could talk, i always think of that. i'd love to know where it's been, who played with it, who made it. >> reporter: he began collecting antique toys at fairs and auctions like this one in

1950. it became his passion. >> to me toys are art. each one is like a valuable painting. >> reporter: this 190s motorcycle with mickey and mini mouse is worth up to $60,000. >> you trs me with it? >> oh, i trust you with it. >> reporter: but now don is putting his entire collection up for sale. the first part of a five-part auction already brought in more than $4 million. he doesn't need the money. he just says it's time to pass them on to other people. that doesn't mean it's easy. this is his wife, sally. >> oh, i miss them already. it's hard for me to talk about it. you know. >> reporter: 7,000 toys, 7,000 stories. and if there's one lesson don kauffman wants the world to learn -- >> this is a great one right here. reallyin joyed that one. >> reporter: is that there's always room for one more toy. john berman, abc news,

pittsfield, massachusetts. >> while that story was going jeremy saw pop eye and