mistake in florida trees seven- year olds as an adult, florida is free to treat seven-year olds as adults and to put them in jail for the rest of their lives. >> certainly under a strict proportionality analysis without the benefit of the previous case does not provide the court within out, i think the answer is probably yes. the likelihood of that happening is 0. >> and many countries around the world allow for juvenile to go to jail for life without parole? >> not many, your honor. there is no question about that. i don't know the precise answer. much of the united states and somalia have declined to ratify the treaty that prohibits it. there is good reason that mr. graham dinners that argument in the last page and a half of his brief. under its trade disproportional the analysis, we are never getting there because he never pasha's the threshold. even if the score was to consider international opinion, which i do not think it has ever done, this would require an extrapolation from roper. you would only be as the court said able to confirm when you have learned in the united states. >> w

he did just that for number one florida. second quarter tebow nearly sacked twice, somehow gets away for an eight-yard gain. unbelievable, the former heisman trophy winner, won a national championship for florida last year, now a senior, touchdown pass here. florida gets the win over lsu to remain undefeated and assume the nation's longest winning streak, 15 games. >>> did you see the wild ending to the army/vanderbilt game? watch this. in the final minute. this is vanderbilt. the field goal, the bank shot, it goes in. we go to overtime same end of the field, army, oh, come on, come on. no! same upright, same bank shot, this time army gets the win. wow. >>> it's so much easier to play basketball outdoors when it's warm. the second straight year of an outdoor nba exhibition game went off much better with temps this time in the 70s at stadium in indian wells, california. the golden warriors beat the phoenix suns. it's a good thing they didn't try to play the game in denver with all that snow. that's sports. >>> there's a new w

but i'm in florida, florida has a death penalty. duvall county, where there is from, will prosecute more than likely. and they have a history near florida and they will charge murder one, plus kidnapping, which would cause not only death but an additional 50 years a prison would never get out of jail and i agree with herman. >> okay, number one, it's wade county, not duvall. >> excuse me. >> but number two, another legal theory for it to be handled in florida, which i believe has a better death penalty record than georgia does, would be that even if this child was murdered in georgia, even if the crime began in florida? >> the crime did become in florida. i think from forensics where they found the body they're going to find other things that will tire to that community where she was abducted and it will be in florida and as you said, we have a history in florida of bringing these death penalty cases one of the largest in the country. >> yes you do, and richard herman, correct me, it's clay county. but richard, right now, what would

you work down there in florida. are these extremely liberal sunshine laws in florida which are described sometimes as the most liberal in the entire country, helping or hurting justice in florida? >> well, let me defend florida. we don't have the kind of crime that people think based on what we see every night on this program and others. the bottom line is the media will not show something unless there's something to see. so if the story was well, we heard someone overheard him acting inappropriately, that wouldn't be on the news. so the fact that there's a videotape with him, casey anthony and the other examples you gave, makes people then see and thus, they think erroneously we have more crime here than others. >> yeah, but don't blame the media, lisa bloom. don't blame the media for that. >> thank you. >> we're reporting what we see. >> that's right. >> if we were to keep this quiet. people would say well, you wouldn't show this because he's a rich guy and -- >> i'm not blaming the media. >> if he's a poor guy --

kim is with us in florida. a comment or question here. >> caller: hi, mike. >> hi, kim. >> caller: i listen to you every day i work in the court system here in palm beach county, florida and i'm an incest victim. and this is just a remarkable story. we do not get to see the results, the end results of a case like this, where you find somebody, you know, after all these years. i know that she's going to have tremendous, you know, mountains to climb to get past it. but, you know, you look at her face and, um, there's this glow about her. >> yeah. >> caller: and i know that, you know, in my heart, because i've been through, you know, something in my past, you know, you're able to get past it. that's the point. >> yeah. >> caller: and i don't know how long it will take her, but i'm just -- i am just so thrilled for this, you know, this result. >> kim, it sounds like it. it sounds like you have a glow about yourself, as well. thanks for watching. thanks for calling in. want to read one more facebook comment from sal

>> well, let me defend florida. we don't have the kind of crime that people think based on what we see every night on this program and others. the bottom line is the media will not show something unless there's something to see. so if the story was, well, we heard, someone overheard him acting inappropriately, that wouldn't be on the news. so the fact that there's a videotape with him, casey anthony and the other examples you gave, makes people then see and thus they think erroneously we have more crime here than others. >> yeah, but don't blame the media. lisa bloom. don't blame the media for that. >> thank you. >> we're reporting what we see. >> that's right. >> if we were to keep this quiet, people would say, well being you wouldn't show this because he's a rich guy. and if he was a poor guy -- >> i'm not blaming the media. it's a fact. i'm not blaming the media. i'm just saying i understand your function and you then show it on the news. >> lisa -- >> but listen, listen, the judicial system is a branch of govern

florida authorities are looking for a missing florida girl in a georgia landfill. somer thompson disappeared while walking home from school. investigators are checking the landfill near georgia. they're looking for her body. no word yet what led anymore the them there but somer's mom talked about the last time she set eyes on her daughter. >> i did her hair for her. i can't remember if i told her i loved her. i went to work and told them to have a good day. she wasn't feeling well. i told her just to try to go to school. if you need me, call me. can you imagine? officers have expanded their search in the orange park area near jacksonville. they say they have interviewed dozens of known sex offenders in a five-mile radius of their home. volunteers scour the woods and officials say they need one single break in this case. they expect to update us later this afternoon on the search. we'll bring it live right here. keep it on hln. >>> another story from another mom. the mother of missing virginia tech student morgan harrington said she was excited about going to see th

this all began today at the university of south florida, the tampa campus, in tampa, florida. there was a call that came in to the campus police about an armed intruder in the library. so the campus police arrived on scene. they sent out a campus-wide alert telling people to stay in their rooms to keep their doors locked, that the campus bus service would be suspended, not picking up any passengers until they were given the all-clear. and then we saw officers moving to this bus depot. this is where the bull runner, the campus transit system apparently keeps its buses. we saw police go in and free a whole lot of people, release them from a particular bus. they ran out of the bus depot to a grassy area and then we watched unfold as police had their weapons drawn, surrounded a particular bus and then we saw them take three people. it looks like they were coming off of a bus, walking backwards, their hands behind their heads. the police officers have them on the ground, handcuffed. we saw one gentleman handcuffed and taken to the squad car, put in the back of the squad car. and no

in parts of florida, it's still summertime. tick a look at that, 90s we can expect for tampa and miami. when you get back in the northern plains, billings, montana, 19 for your high today. 44 in minneapolis. 52 in kansas city. 70 in dallas. 74 in houston. 88 in phoenix. some upper 50s in parts of san francisco, mid-60s for l.a. and as we make our way to the east, new york and boston mainly in the 60s and 70 degrees at our nation's capital. that is a wrap on your forecast. i'm reynolds wolf for hln. >>> a woman took florida deputies on a wild, high-speed chase with a 7-year-old girl in the backseat. she was clocked at speeds topping 110 miles an hour. and at one point was driving the wrong way, weaving through traffic. she finally crashed into a guardrail after deputies laid black strips on the interstate to puncture her tires. and even after getting out of her car, police say she refused to respond to their commands so they finally tasered her. the child was not hurt in the wreck and was turned over to child protective services

now behind bars and facing florida police interrogation. what do we believe she told the mom versus what she's told to the morning shows, what she's told to the husband, ronald cummings? she's tripped up on her own story several times that we know of. >> well, nancy, she has gone over what happened that night in that she woke up, saw a light on in the kitchen and went in to check and then turns around and saw haleigh missing. so there are some specific steps during that night that she took that are a little off than what she said before. >> take a look at misty croslin and her debacle on national television. how does what she say he says here line up with what she told her own mother at the time haleigh went missing. >> the last time you had seen her before then was when? >> 10:00 when i laid down for bed. >> you had put her to bed? >> uh-huh, she went to bed at 8:00. >> but your brother had told police that when he went to the trailer that night that you were supposedly putting hailey to bed, you weren't there. did you go somewhere that ni

also joining us there in florida is teresa neves. she is the grandmother of the missing 6-year-old, haleigh cummings, and father -- and mother of father ronald. miss neves, thanks for joining us again. >> thank you for having me. >> look, what is going on with this family feud? and i'm not talking about the tv program. >> okay. which family are you speaking about? >> with the cummings family. you know, with ronald and misty. what is going on down there? >> there's a lot of tension. it's very tough, strain on a relationship when there is something that you think maybe needs to be told and you're not getting that information. you know, it puts a very big strain on a relationship. >> recently you spoke to nancy and she says, and i have to agree with her, the facts of what's going on and her actions, everything just doesn't fit together. >> i agree with you. it does not fit together like it should. and we are working to cure that i hope. >> i want to go to ellie jostad, nancy grace producer, joining us from the control room. ellie, when

florida state law requires owners to have permits. officials say they can't take any chances with this latest crackdown. people turned in their pets over the weekend with no questions asked. >> when new legislation even just gets mentioned on tv, people tend to misunderstand and start to release animals. >> reporter: some of the other groups urge that people have run out of space to house their growing animals. places like florida's garret land will probably take in many of the reptiles. licensed handlers will adopt the rest. >>> would you like to take home a dinosaur? an auction house put one up, fossilized t-rex for sale in las vegas, one of the most complete tmt-rex skeletons ever found. the auction house is hoping to get at least $6 million for t so far the best offer is $3.7 million. the auction house says it's still confident that's going to find a buyer. >>> i'm larry smith. give it up for the nfl. known for a well-deserved reputation as fashion police, they are allowing players to wear pink today in recognition of breast cance

trace: we are still covering breaking news from florida. apparently they are still looking for an armed intruder on campus. there were reports that the gunman was actually in the library area. they send a text message telling students to stay inside their dorm room, and if they were not on campus, not to come. we are still waiting for the pictures to come in. what are we seeing as far as gunmen on campus? >> campus security has been on this, searching meticulously. they have searched the entire library, and efficiently -- and officially they have not given the all clear. they have shut down the campus bus system. this is the first time they had used this text message system. but again, the campus is locked down. police are being very careful, as well as what they are telling us, so we do not have a very good sense of what is happening there. there was a call from off campus that was transferred on campus, and that is where the search started. trace: the library is the focus. thank you. this text message was issued campus wide. that was abou

but i'm in florida, florida has a death penalty. duval county, where this is from, will prosecute more than likely. and they have a history near florida and they will charge murder one, plus kidnapping, which would cause not only death but an additional 50 years a prison would never get out of jail and i agree with herman. >> okay, number one, it's wade county, not duval. >> excuse me. >> but number two, another legal theory for it to be handled in florida, which i believe has a better death penalty record than georgia does, would be that even if this child was murdered in georgia, even if the crime began in florida? >> the crime did become in florida. i think from forensics where they found the body they're going to find other things that will tie her to that community where she was abducted and it will be in florida and as you said, we have a history in florida of bringing these death penalty cases one of the largest in the country. >> yes you do, and richard herman, correct me, it's clay county. but richard, right now, what would

tonight, a day in the life of a florida employment office. i'm paul kangas. this is "nightly business report" for thursday, october 1. "nightly business report" is made possible by: this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. thank you. >> susie: good evening, everyone. a sharp sell-off in stocks on this first day of october as investors got the jitters about the nation's job picture and the economic recovery. the dow tumbled 203 points and the nasdaq fell almost 65 on worries about tomorrow's release of the september employment report. and in washington, ben bernanke offered no comfort. testifying on capitol hill today, the federal reserve chairman told lawmakers that even if the economy grew at a pace of 3%, that would not be enough to bring down the unemployment rate. darren gersh reports. >> reporter: it is the kind of concern you can expect to hear more often from members of congress. the federal reserve's own forecast calls for unemployment of 9% next year. new jersey's leonard lance asked fed chairman ben

portia in florida, hi, portia. >> caller: hi, nancy. i'm actually calling from california. >> good to know. portia in california. thank you for calling, dear. >> caller: thank you for taking my call, miss nancy. >> yes, ma'am. >> caller: my question is has anyone, the police or mr. cummings himself, have they -- i understand that little haleigh has a medical condition. have they looked into whether or not she was given her medication that night, and if so, perhaps that would give them a better time frame of the last time, you know, that she was in the home. >> now, portia in california, that's an excellent question. to ronald cummings, he is taking your calls tonight on the heels of a divorce announcement in the last hours. he is splitting from girlfriend turned stepmother, the last person to see haleigh alive. her story has come under fire. misty croslin. ronald, was she on medication for the turner syndrome? >> miss nancy, she was on medication, but at the time the only medication she needed was her albuterol treatment, which came in

i think in general it was a conservative game plan offensively for florida. statistically not overwhelming. on the defense side of the ball they were dominant. shutdown lsu throwing the football. shut down lsu running the football. dominant performance that you can have on that side of the football. because of that florida got this one. >> tim tebow has his heisman, the guy that's the leader is colt mccoy of texas taking on colorado. this is actually a tight game early on. then colt mccoy and jordan shipley took over. >> this is a perfect slant and go route from gordon shipley and colt mccoy able to get the numbers. >> baylor finished oklahoma and sam bradford, last year's heisman trophy winner was back after that shoulder injury. hans off from chris brown to a yard out. 7-0 was the lead and bradford in the back of the end zone. first touchdown pass beginning of the season. >> statistically sam bradford's numbers look really good. there was a lot of sloppy play from the offense in oklahoma. >> triple "r"s next week. red river rivalry. oklahoma against texas i

bob is cause us from florida. bob, let her rip. >> i think that the taxpayer, the president represents all the taxpayers and we should let him take care of it and get back some of these billions that these people are taking. >> he said earlier today in fact that this offends our values. quick answer do you agree with that? >> i agree. >> okay, bob. thank you for your phone call. from new orleans, denard, do you think the government should be medaling in this because they took taxpayer money or do you think it's a slippery slope we shouldn't go down. >> i think the government does deserve -- the emphasis on the bonuses. you're supposed to be rewarded for doing a good job. it's obvious these guys didn't do a good job so why should they be rewarded. >> okay. >> i think the government should mandate they take pay cuts or whatever. >> okay. thank you for your input. i got a lot of comments on hln facebook. how many current executives were with these companies before and during the failure and bailout? we should not pun

it's being processed by the florida deparent of law enforcement. no new details or anything substantial coming from there or the bag of trash that came from a bathroom at a nearby park. here's what's interesting out of the news conference at 4:00. investigators say they're also looking at the trash that was found near somer's body at the georgia land fill. it's producing information that will help them narrow down where her body may have been dumped. >> to natisha lance, nancy grace producer standing there live at the scene. investigators are very focused on an abandoned home that witnesses say was one of the last places that little, somer thompson was seen. what is that investigation including? >> that's right, jean. multiple witnesses placed somer here the last time she was seen. workers worked late into the night. they had on full jumpsuits. they were looking through a construction dumpster that was on the sight. that dumpster, what investigators are telling us, has not been emptied since the time somer went missing and still has not been emptie

knows he's got florida next week. he's down with under a minute left. until charles scott busts this up the middle. >> scott got off to a slow start this year. hadn't had a rushing touchdown until this game. two late scott scores was the difference for lsu. >> it sets up a huge one next week. number 4 lsu against number one florida. the game is plbeing played at l. if tim tebow can't go, can they win. >> a lot of people wonder what the florida offense will look like with or without tebow. assuming he's ready to go you have to remember florida averaging 308 yards a game on the ground right now. that's second best in the country. tim tebow, such a big part of that offense. do they risk letting him carry the football and risk him getting hurt again? if brantley has to go and this offense looks so much more like the 2006 national title offense, more convenienceal running plays big questions in gainesville. >> for jesse palmer, i'm john saunders. this has been the ford wrapup. and then there's the twin-turbocharging, 365-horsepower-generating, ecoboost™ en

a jillian: live in florida, there are raccoons, -- i lived in florida, there are raccoons but they are not in marauding gangs. bill: the way that they went after this woman. jillian: in florida many of these communities are encroaching into what was bill wild life. bill: it happens everywhere. jillian: especially in florida. not really surprising. bill: we hope that she recovers jillian: soonjillian definitely. -- recover soon. jillian: definitely. bill: have you check your -- have you checked your property tax bill lately? çójillian: it might look like a scene from a movie, gunpoint and a shootout in the street. hopefully things will change before the olympics. we all live in rio, coming up. or diabetics on medicare! i'm a diabetic and i want you to know over 230,000 u.s. doctors have authorized their patients to receive their diabetic supplies through liberty medical. and that begins with the one touch®ultra2 meter. easy to use, fast results... at no additional cost! liberty helps keep you on track by delivering diabetic supplies to your door... and filing your claims. i never fee

marie marie's calling from florida. where do you stand? >> caller: i live in south florida. i've been here for 24 years. i worked in a public school and i worked in the department that was english for speakers of other languages. what i've found is i would say the majority -- not the majority, okay -- but the majority expect of the spanish speaking people expect to us automatically speak spanish. they would rather do that than speak english. i have found that a lot of them just automatically expect you to speak spanish and when you tell them that you do not speak spanish, it's like they're made very uncomfortable. >> okay. let me ask you the question though that we're trying to focus on. i appreciate your real-life experience that you're giving us but let me ask you the question -- how do you feel about a government -- the government or a business forcing someone to have to speak english? not whether or not you think people should learn to speak english. how do you feel about a government or business forcing the issue? >> caller:. i worked in an office of a huge corporation.

you work down there in florida. are these extremely liberal sunshine laws in florida which are described sometimes as the most liberal in the entire country, helping or hurting justice in florida? >> well, let me defend florida. we don't have the kind of crime that people think based on what we see every night on this program and others. the bottom line is the media will not show something unless there's something to see. so if the story was well, we heard someone overheard him acting inappropriately, that wouldn't be on the news. so the fact that there's a videotape with him, casey anthony and the other examples you gave, makes people then see and thus, they think erroneously we have more crime here than others. >> yeah, but don't blame the media, lisa bloom. don't blame the media for that. >> thank you. >> we're reporting what we see. >> that's right. >> if we were to keep this quiet. people would say well, you wouldn't show this because he's a rich guy and -- >> i'm not blaming the media. >> if he's a poor guy --

from west palm beach, florida. once homeless himself. roy now helps other veterans overcome addiction and homelessness. i'll be back in an hour with our next top ten cnn hero at 11:00 p.m. go to cnn.com/heroes and start voting for the cnn hero of the year whole win $100,000. >>> tonight, a 5-year-old florida girl tucked into bed. five hours later she's gone. vanished. the back door propped wide open. daddy comes home from the night shift to find not a trace of little haleigh. police say the last person to see haleigh alive refuses to give straight answers about the night the child goes missing. unable to account for crucial hours surrounding the alleged kidnap. in a stunning twist, the brother of girlfriend-turned-stepmom, misty croslin confesses he goes to haleigh's house the night she goes missing. pounds on the door repeatedly. nobody home. croslin's own mother and father also publicly state they doubt her story. as girlfriend-turned stepmother, misty croslin flunked another polygraph. where is little haleigh? >> how are you doing rig

florida joined the powerball in january. this is the first jackpot ticket sold there. >>> a florida university locks down. police respond to reports of a man with a gun and bomb. we'll show you what they've found so far. police are getting people -- people that is are getting the very first swine flu vaccination today. would you be one of them? share your views on the new vaccine. >>> the man accused of making secret videos of sportscaster erin andrews is out of jail but a long way from being free. find out the condition of his release. >>> hln "news and views." i'm richelle carey. i hope you're having a great, productive day so far. let's get you to the news. police are searching for a gunman at the university of south florida and now have two people in custody. the tampa school issued a lockdown this afternoon. someone called in a report of seeing a man armed with a gun and a bomb near the library. then a little while later a passenger on a bus said he was the suspect they were looking for. the bomb squad went through his

now she's back in florida. come back, we're going to talk about what tommy told police and did misty's mom talk to police and what did she tell them? >>> ronald cummings, did it ever disturb you that misty cummings story changed? >> yes, ma'am, it did. >> they were in the media spotlight for months. they can't go to the grocery store together, to the supermarket, they can't go out to eat. they get scrutinized. i don't know of any married couple -- >> no offense, you have a wonderful reputation, but nobody gets divorced because somebody looks at them in the check out line. you guys don't want to tell me why the divorce or if cummings doesn't want to admit it. that's their business. >> i can't recall the changes. she pretty much tells me the same thing each time i ask her about it, so, there might be a difference in the way it's worded. >> there's a lot of tension. it's very tough strain on a relationship when there is something you think maybe needs to be told and you're not getting that information. you know, i

. >>> a florida teen in the hospital after someone set him on fire. police are holding three juveniles in connection with the attack. 15-year-old michael brewer was doused with gasoline and set ablaze. he ran through an apartment complex and ran into a pool to put out the flames. he has burns on 80% of his body. >> this is the worst thing you could do to a 15-year-old kid. >> to anybody. even an animal. you don't do this. you cannot put fire -- you feel every single bit of pain. >> the victim's family said the attack was in retaliation because he stopped someone from stealing his dad's bicycle the day before. >>> a county safety official says a sweat lodge where people became sick and two later died did not have needed building permit. he said the structure at the resort was taken down before it could be inspected. the sheriff is looking to see if criminal negligence played a role in the death. they're used for cleansing rituals. most hold up to a dozen people. this one held as many as 65. the owner of the resort where it occurred would not comment. >

the entire team flew to florida to be there. a viewing for howard, that was held yesterday, he was fatally stabbed during a fight outside a campus dance last sunday knop one has been charged in his death. >>> a few hours from now the public will get a kplans to pay respect s to respects to thompson. yesterday her neighborhood held a festival that doubled as a fund-raiser for somer's grieving family. went missing last week walking home from school and her body found later in a landfill in georgia. here's our jacksonville affiliate wjxt. >> reporter: from the bouncy houses smiles. face painting singers and performers onstage even puppies. driving by the orange park town hall this might look like a big party, and while the kids here are having fun, the adults have a purpose. >> we had to make sure we showed our support here. me and my family. >> we all have children and we can all relate and we're all hurting for the thompson family and we just want them to know that we love them and we're praying for them. >> reporter: running cam

. >>> tips pouring in from across the country as florida tries to figure out who killed 7-year-old somer thompson. how the family is asking the public to remember their little girl. >>> this might look like a movie chase. how this patrol car ended up in this precarious position. >>> this is hln's "news and views." i'm virginia cha. >>> at least 132 people were killed, more than 500 wounded. the bombs went off in quick succession outside two government buildings. one was iraqi justice ministry where the u.s. ambassador to the united nations briefly stopped yesterday. both are warning of a possible increase in violence as the country moves toward national elections scheduled for january. >>> another u.s. service member was kimmed in a bombing in southern afghanistan yesterday. the military has not yet identified that service member. at least 34 members of the u.s. military have been killed there this month. this year has been d deadliest for u.s. forces in afghanistan since the war began eight years ago. >>> happening today, a massive landslide has shut down i-40 near the tennessee/north c

this girl ended up in florida. she claimed she was afraid her muslim father would harm, possibly even kill her because of her religious conversion. a florida judge has signed an order saying the girl has to go back to ohio. she'll be returned to the custody of an ohio children and family agency. meantime, her father has denied her claims and an investigation did not uncover any evidence of abuse. >>> and an insurance company restoring its coverage for a severely disabled florida man we told you but a couple days ago. guardian life has issued an apology to this man. ian pearl for his internal document related to his case. in it, an executive referred to his case and cases like his as dogs, that the company should get rid of. guardian announced you it was restoring his plan even as his mom was on capitol hill lobbying for health care reform. the company has not said though what will ham to the hundreds of other policy holders like pearl who lost their coverage when it discontinued their policies. >>> pregnant women a

florida. that is more than four times the number that closed last year, and the highest tally since 1992. yesterday's bank shutdowns are expected to cost the federal department insurance fund more than $356 million. >>> we are getting reports of two missiles that hit a village in afghanistan killing 16 people. it's not clear if the people were militants are civilians. a militant hideout was hit and the u.s. does not comment on the suspected drone attacks that causes friction with pakistan. >>> a proposed bill to fight global warming would cost you about $100 more a year. that's what the environmental protection agency is saying. it looked into how much the bill would bump up an average home's energy bill. they said the increase could be as much as $3,000. the bill is promoting energy, and not made from fossil fuels to cut greenhouse gases. >>> last night neighborhoods held another vigil of the 7-year-old florida girl that was killed. somer thompson's mother and neighborhoods sang her favorite

tonigh a day in the life of a florida employme office. i'm paul kangas. this is "nightly busess port" for thursday, october ightly business report" is made possible by: this program wasade possible by contributions to yourbs station from viewers like yo thanyou. >> susie: od evening, everne. a sharp ll-off in stocks on this first day of october as investors gothe jitters about the nati's job picture and the onomic recovery. the w tumbled 203 points and thnasdaq fell almost 65 on worries about tomoow's releasof the september employnt report. and in washingto ben bernanke offered no comfort. testifyi on capitol hill toda the federal reserve airman told lawmakers that even if the econy grew at a ce of 3%, that would not be enou to bring down the unemployment rate. darren gersheports. >> reporr: it is the kind of concern you can expect to he moreften from members of coress. e federal reserve's own focast calls for unemployment of% next year. new jersey's leonardance asked fed chairman ben bernanke whether more could be do to put americans back to rk. >> ian't

>> yes, i made it here to florida. >> you're there. in fact, you're joining me now from jacksonville. >> that's right. >> what are cops telling you? i mean, it all happened so fast. and you and your wife were doing everything right. she was not alone. it was broad daylight. she was with a group of little friends and she just ran ahead. that was it. boom, she's gone. >> you know, whoever did this had to be watching and waiting for his moment, because, like you said, just briefly she ran ahead and was out of sight. so there were, what, a two or three second window of somebody to grab my child and take her away from us and brutally murder her and throw her in the trash like she was nothing. so if this doesn't wake everybody up in america to know that when you feel secure that your children are okay, you need to think again. and you need to protect your children. you need to watch your children. you need to know where they are. don't take anything for granted ever again. we get complacent as americans and we get in our comfort zone, but no

. >>> an unregistered python killed a 2-year-old florida girl earlier this career. officials are pushing to get exotic animals out of people's homes. florida state law requires owners to have permits, but officials say they can't take any chances with this latest crackdown so people turned in their pets over the weekend, with no questions asked. >> when new legislation even gets mentioned on tv, people tend to misunderstand and start to release animals. >> some of the other concerns are that people have run out of space to house their growing animals, places like florida's gatorland will probably take in many of the reptiles. licensed handlers will adopt the rest. >>> would you like to take home a dinosaur? an auction house put one up being a fossilized t-rex, for sale in las vegas, one of the most complete fossils it ever foun. the auction house is hoping to get at least $6 million for it, but the best offer is $3.7 million. the auction house is still confident it will find a buyer. >>> i'm larry smith. you've heard of the saying don't count your chickens before th

porsche in florida. hi, porsche. >> caller: hi, nancy. i'm actually calling from california. >> good to know. porsche in california. thank you for calling, dear. >> caller: thank you for taking my call, miss nancy. >> yes, ma'am. >> caller: my question is has anyone, the police or mr. cummings himself, have they -- i understand that little haleigh has a medical condition. have they looked into whether or not she was given her medication that night and if so perhaps that would give them a better time frame of the last time, you know, that she was in the home? >> now, porsche in california, that's an excellent question. to ronald cummings, he is taking your calls tonight on the heels of a divorce announcement in the last hours. he is splitting from girlfriend turned stepmother, the last person to see haleigh alive. her story has come under fire. misty croslin. ronald, was she on medication for the turner syndrome? >> miss nancy, she was on medication, but at the time the only medication she needed was her albuterol treatment, which came in

at one time, i used to like to snow ski, but can't do that here in florida. frequently, we do see people sitting on the exterior of motor vehicles. >> whoo! >> it is against the law to ride on the windowsill or fenders, even the sunroof. it's just not safe. >> narrator: in panama city beach, florida, deputy rubel knows that front beach road is the place to be if you're looking for kids, cars, and cruising. >> it's like fishing. i'm waiting for the big fish to come by. >> narrator: as if on cue, deputy rubel reels one in. >> beer can. do you believe that guy? yeah, he's getting a ticket. giving me the thumbs up. i'm gonna stop him and cite him. [ siren wailing ] you gonna stop, or are you gonna hide the beer? taking forever to stop. something's going on. how you doing? what are you hiding underneath the seat? why are you taking forever to stop? you didn't want to stop? suddenly? took you about 100 feet to stop. the reason why i'm stopping you is your passenger is riding in the sunroof, okay, with a cup in one hand and a beer in the other. sir, do you have your

florida news 13 explains why. >> reporter: if mike looks upset carrying this gym bag it's because max and zora are inside. he told his children this morning he was giving away the burmese buy thpythons. >> they cried. they don't see them as snakes but as family pets. >> reporter: after a 2-year-old was killed by her python, fish and wildlife officials started cracking down. state wildlife authorities require permits. but safety has a reverse effect sometimes. >> what we often find is new legislation gets mentioned on tv people tend to misunderstand and start to release animals. >> reporter: so fish and wildlife partnered with gatorland on a amnesty day. the only questions were ones about the snakes. >> and the diet? >> what has happened is that people have been purchasing these things for pets over a long period of time, many years, and the animals have grown. they're either running out of space -- >> reporter: certainly the largest snake brought in today was this 13 1/2-foot-long 80-pound python. he worried about the fines and jail time that permit violators would face so it's time f

florida house majority leader adam hausner, republican from florida. representative, thank you for joining us. we appreciate it. >> thank you. >>> do lawmakers need to tone down the rhetoric of this health care debate? house minority leader john boehner thinks so, and here's what he said when asked if congressman grayson should apologize for his die quickly comment. >> i think it's time for democrat leaders and the speaker of the house herself to rein in some of the rhetoric that she decried just several weeks ago. and if he's not going to apologize to the american people and to republicans as he should, really, it's the democratic leadership's responsibility to have a conversation with their own member. >> well, here's what house speaker nancy pelosi said about it this morning -- >> apparently, republicans are holding democrats to higher levels than they hold their own members, because you have seen the statements that are regularly made by the republicans on the floor about issues that relate to death. >> well, joining us now to face off, mark walsh

now behind bars and facing florida police interrogation. what do we believe she told the mom versus what she's told to the morning shows, what she's told to the husband, ronald cummings? she's tripped up on her own story several times that we know of. >> well, nancy, she has gone over what happened that night in that she woke up, saw a light on in the kitchen and went in to check and then turns around and saw haleigh missing. so there are some specific steps during that night that she took that are a little off than what she said before. >> take a look at misty croslin and her debacle on national television. how does what she say he says here line up with what she told her own mother at the time haleigh went missing. >> the last time you had seen her before then was when? >> 10:00 when i laid down for bed. >> you had put her to bed? >> uh-huh, she went to bed at 8:00. >> but your brother had told police that when he went to the trailer that night that you were supposedly putting hailey to bed, you weren't there. did you go somewhere that ni

and extreme southern parts of florida. getting in towards kentucky, it moves all the way into great lakes, and it just fans out, we're talking a lot of rain, maybe one to two inches when you get into areas lining pittsburgh later this afternoon, but it's pouring into michigan, coming out of chicago. you see the delays at the airports are already there, we'll talk about them in a bit. look at the snow coming out of nebraska, ultimately on path for the northern parts of wisconsin and the u.p. of michigan. for the weekend, the rain heading into the northeast. it's on the light side, but watch it spread out, the next 48 hours you'll see even two, tloo, even four inches of rain pop up. something we're watching. getting away from there, go to the pacific northwest. the rain is headed in across northern parts of washington state, dropping down through seattle into portland, too. take you live to seattle, trying to get in our out of the city will be tough. the roads are wet. it's still dark. once the sun comes up, you can see the

rain also from the floridas to the carolis. the floridas? there's only one florida last time i checked. and showers in northern new england. >> a seasonable 66 in boston. 70 in new york. cooler than normal for most of the country. just 47 in fargo and 55 in minneapolis. low 50s in boise and salt lake city, and 50 in colorado springs. >> a nice day in the floridas. >>> a tiny town in iowa suddenly growing by leaps and bounds. but the new residents are stiff. >> the population boom is due to an influx of mannequins. a local businesswoman is putting the life-sized dolls on newly installed benches. why, you ask? just for fun. >> too much time on her hands. >> she started setting out the mannequins at the end of july but figures she'll have to stop in two weeks because she's running out of benches. >> our office manager has gotten into mannequins. she has a man mannequin in her office now. >> weird. >> i occasionally mistake him for a real man when you walk by. >> strange. >> we'll be right back. diabetics on medicare! i'm a diabetic and i want y

lauderdale, florida. we appreciate it. a lot of you have been deeply affected as you were of derrion. do you think kids are more violent now? do you think it's in the media more? what role do you think parents play in all this? there's a lot to discuss. call us now at 1-877-tell-hln. e-mail us at cnn.com/hnn. you can comment on my facebook page at richellecary. >>> the last time jaycee dugard was seen publicly, she was an 11-year-old girl. take a look at what she looks like now. she's 29 and she's opening up about her 18-year captivity. she talks about the joy of finally being home. got a quote that jaycee gave to the magazine. she says -- >>> in an interview on the "today" show a family spokesperson said the family is adjusting surprisingly well. >> i have seen a family that i think if you didn't know the circumstances, it would just seem like any other family, just, you know, the love between jaycee and her mother and her sister, shanna, who was an infant really when jaycee was taken. and they have just formed a very, ve

broward county, florida cutting property assessments in infected areas. a final thing you can do, talk to a lawyer. see if you can get in on the class action suit. i'm jennifer westhoven looking out for you. >>> you can get great money advice from jennifer westhoven each weekday on "morning express with robin meade." >>> some firefighters got themselves in a dicy situation when they tried to educate the public. >>> look at this. to make matters worse, one of them didn't even seem to notice that he was burning. >>> that's a quick check of your saturday headlines. welcome back to hln. i'm holly firfer. an undercover operation has revealed how easy it is to buy a gun at a gun show. no questions asked. it's a loophole in the law that basically side steps background checks. randi kaye looks at how it works and who's riled up about it. >>> so things went horribly wrong when some firefighters tried to do a sprinkler demonstration. look at this. two firefighters' suits caught fire after plastic dripped on them. but the firefighter in the middle didn't seem to rea

it's being processed by the florida deparent of law enforcement. no new details or anything substantial coming from there or the bag of trash that came from a bathroom at a nearby park. here's what's interesting out of the news conference at 4:00. investigators say they're also looking at the trash that was found near somer's body at the georgia land fill. it's producing information that will help them narrow down where her body may have been dumped. >> to natisha lance, nancy grace producer standing there live at the scene. investigators are very focused on an abandoned home that witnesses say was one of the last places that little, somer thompson was seen. what is that investigation including? >> that's right, jean. multiple witnesses placed somer here the last time she was seen. workers worked late into the night. they had on full jumpsuits. they were looking through a construction dumpster that was on the sight. that dumpster, what investigators are telling us, has not been emptied since the time somer went missing and still has not been emptie

we already know florida has to prepare for hurricanes, maybe a pandemic or two, but how could anyone be ready when zombies attack? well, actually the university of florida does have a plan ready just in case there's a night of the living dead in its future. this video is from iowa city, iowa. but down in florida, the university website has a chapter on how officials would respond to and we quote, attacked by flesh eating apparently life impaired individuals. aka, zombies. now it also notes that a zombie outbreak may include documentation of moaning, because zombies always moan and it's not in a good way. the spokesman wanted to lighten things up. >>> we want to hear what you think, send your e-mails to mcginty's mail bag. the address, mailbag@wusa9.com. 9news now will be right back. i thought it was crazy feeding in the fall. i always feed in the fall. but, it's the best time. feed your lawn in the fall. the fall feeding makes all the difference in the world. what the fall feeding does is build the roots. that's when the roots sorta want nutrition. i give my lawn scotts winterguard.

you know there is a law in florida the kids have to say it every day? the supreme court heard the case. what did they decide? it's a part of "crossing the line." >> and later in the show, trying to set a world record on a very, very crowded way. you don't want to miss this video. >>> welcome back. in today's "crossing the line," the supreme court, a pledge of allegiance law in florida, and one student willing to take the law on. today the supreme court has rejected an appeal to review a florida law that requires public school students to recite the pledge every day, unless their parents give written permission to excuse them. the law was passed in 1942, and apparently gone unchallenged until 2005. that's when cameron frasier, a jr. at boynton beach high school had this exchange with a teacher after he refused to stand or recite the pledge. the teacher said, quote, you clearly have no respect. you are so ungrateful and so unamerican. do you know who is out there fighting our war, that flag you refuse to show respect to. the kid's response, reportedly, wa

tonight, live, florida. a beautiful little second-grader looks like an angel, walks the ten-minute walk home from school with her sister and her twin brother, all their little friends. she gets separated momentarily, broad daylight. 7-year-old summer thompson never seen again. 4:00, only an hour later, mom rushes home, flags down police. no good. now we learn of a kidnap attempt on a little 5-year-old girl also in broad daylight just one week before. are they connected? it's only been 24 hours. she could still be alive. but where? >> a massive search right now is under way for this little girl. she is from north florida. she is 7-year-old sommer thompson. and officials are asking everyone to be on the lookout. the second-grader vanished walking home from school. >> somer's family is tormented. they have no idea where their little girl is. >> mom is not doing very well. you know, as each hour goes by, she gets less and less hopeful. >> the clay county sheriff is asking for information about a blue sedan seen

she's about to be brought down to florida. i clearly think they will approach her and say, do you want to get out of jail? you need to tell us something. her husband is gone. her friend is a plant from tim miller's equusearch. i think it's getting close to her cracking. >> doug burns, my question was, is there a way these people, if they know something, can be charged with not giving up information? >> you said it perfectly. you are not required to come forward. if you conceal information, it becomes a felony. the point is, the police ask, did you speak to mr. a, b or c, no i didn't. >> what if you don't say anything at all. >> you are right. >> quick break. over 1 million people are victims of stalking every year. nearly always by somebody they know. if somebody repeatedly calls you, follows you, sends you unwanted e-mails or letters, shows up where you are, leaves unwanted gifts, you are stalked. if you are in danger, call 911. otherwise, document the incidents, save the voice mails, letters and correspond dense. tell everyo

in parts of florida, it's still summertime. take a look at that. we've got 90s we can expect for both tampa and miami. when you get back up into the northern plains and big sky country, billings, montana, look at 19 for your high today. 44 in minneapolis, 52 in kansas city. 70 in dallas. 74 in houston. 88 in phoenix. some upper 50s in parts of san francisco. mid-60s for l.a. and then as we make our way back out to the east, new york and boston, mainly in the 60s and 70 degrees at our nation's capital. that is a wrap on your forecast. i'm reynolds wolf for hln. >>> a woman took police on a wild and dangerous and dangerous high-speed chase. take a look at this, there was a child in the backseat. take a look at what police had to do to stop her even after he crash canned her van. >>> a woman took florida deputies on a wild, high-speed chase with a 7-year-old girl in the backseat. she was clocked at speeds topping 110 miles an hour. and at one point was driving the wrong way, weaving through traffic. she finally crashed into a guardrail after deputies