the florida panhandle. a newborn baby girl sleeping in the same bedroom with her parents, vanishes without a trace. halloween. the story becoming more distorted by the minute. bombshell, tonight in the last hours, cops blast into the home of the baby-sitter. and to their shock, discover a tiny baby shannon. just 11 pounds, trapped, hidden and locked inside a wooden chest. no bottle. no pillow. no stuffed toy. but miracle tonight is 7-month-old baby shannon, alive! behind bars, the baby-sitter whose own little stepson went missing without a trace 22 years ago. he's never been found. oh, yeah. and in the cell next to baby-sitter, mommy. that's right, mommy, who wanted to get rid of her own infant gir, little baby shannon. >> we are the proud papas of a little girl. this is shannon lee dedrick. >> relatives of baby shannon learned that not only had she been found but that she's alive. >> we do not usually get to the happy endings that had here today. >> reporter: shannon was found in a box under the bed of sus

a florida child missing alert initiated. local, county, and state investigators converge on the scene. breaking news. just moments ago cops say they've identified a person of interest but won't reveal who. why? reports the parents' home still sealed by deputies looking for valuable evidence. >> investigators in the panhandle of florida need your help. they're looking for a 7-month-old girl who disappeared and may be in danger. the washington county sheriff's department says shannon leah diedrick vanished from her home on saturday and a statewide alert was issued yesterday. her parents reported her missing. the sheriff said nothing indicates she was abducted. but he also said she didn't "crawl or walk away." the girl is two feet tall, weighs 11 pounds and has brown hair and, as you can see, blue eyes. >> the child obviously did not walk or crawl out of the home. that's why i don't understand why the police are saying there's no foul play. you have a 7-month-old baby lying there asleep in the home. this is on halloween. now sh

. >>> breaking news tonight, live, the florida panhandle. a close knit community reeling after a newborn baby girl sleeping in the same bedroom as her parents vanishes without a trace. halloween, the story becoming more distorted. as we go to air, is there a break in the case? police, as we speak, combing a grave for evidence. tonight, we want to know who took baby shannon. >> reporter: shocking revelations in the search for shannon. the family baby sitter alleges a pattern of abuse. that baby sitter faces allegations of abuse itself. >> something is not fitting together with the story. this is a 7-month-old baby girl. she cannot walk. it's my understanding she cannot crawl, yet. >> reporter: the parents have not made any personal appeals. i really believe this story is going to be solved or this case will be solved close to home rather than far away from home. >> children and family releasing information on two investigations. >> i think they are alleging foul play. they are pointing fingers directly at the parents. >> one investigation int

live to florida. exclusive enclave, ponte vedra coast. a high-powered money man comes home to find his young wife with cover girl good looks, the mother of his two little girls, gone, vanished. left behind, a hand-written ransom note demanding $50,000 in exchange for the life of wife and mother quinn gray. she allegedly suffers a horrific ordeal, kidnap, abuse, sex attack. tonight, after the 50,000 is paid in cold cash, cops close in to nab the alleged kidnapper and accomplice. kicker? it's mommy. mommy herself, along with her brand new boy toy. that's right. they faked it. tonight, secret audio between mommy and her boyfriend and police interrogations emerge. we have the tapes. bye-bye, good times. hello, hard time, mommy. >> sheriff's office, 911. what's your emergency? >> my name is quinn gray, and i was kidnapped and i'm not sure where i am right now. >> right now i definitely need you for five minutes. i'm going crazy about you. >> what? >> i'm going crazy about you. >> i'm not a slut, you know. >> does reid get this much action? >>

live, florida. exclusive enclave, ponte vedra coast. a high-powered money man comes home to find his young wife with cover girl good looks, the mother of his two little girls, gone, vanished. left behind? a handwritten ransom note demanding $50,000 in exchange for the life of the wife and mother quinn gray. she allegedly suffers a horrific ordeal of kidnap, abuse, sex attack. tonight, ponte vedra, after $50,000 cold cash is paid cops close in to nab the alleged kidnapper and accomplice. kicker? it's mommy. mommy herself along with her brand new boy toy. that's right. they faked it. bye-bye good times. hello hard time, mommy. >> sheriff's office, 911. what's your emergency? >> my name is quinn gray, and i was kidnapped, and i'm not sure where i am right now. >> she is not with me. she called me a second ago and said she was held by gunpoint by three men -- >> did she tell you where she was at? >> no. >> you tried to get the money from your husband? >> of course not. if i wanted $50,000, all i would do is take it out of the bank account.

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yesterday, in texas, today in florida. first, a muslim military psychiatrist upset about being deployed to afghanistan allegedly goes on a murderous rampage at ft. hood. he's accused of killing at least 13 people before he is shot and arrested. less than a day later, shots ring out inside an orlando office building. we watch, america watches, as the pandemonium and panic erupt. >> breaking news into the cnn newsroom. want to get you to the pictures right now in orlando, florida. we are getting reports of as many as eight people shot. >> shots reportedly fired at this downtown high rise office building. we're also hearing reports that there are multiple victims now, at least eight, and that the shooter is not in custody. >> multiple fire units out there working on them. we're told by authorities that basically many of those are serious trauma patients. we cannot confirm any deaths at this time. sergeant jones of the orlando police department says she will not do that. we are told that one of them did have a heart situation.

i shipd a puppy to him in florida. 2 the 1/2 years ago, i did a show in florida, i invisited him to come with his girlfriend and he brought the dog. >> don't call her a dog. >> i remembered her. hearing her sing, the new cd, the grace and gratitude, sit so healing. her whole life is about healing. i wanted to introduce her to some of the healers i met over the years. i invited her to go to peru. we fell in love on day two. that was it. >> do you share the belief in ufos the two of you? i read that? >> that is so funny. >> no. it was very funny. i believe there are unidentified flaying objects. i thought i saw one once. i don't though how that got so out of control. >> what is this? >> that's damu. >> zamu. >> i've been going to the amazon looking for treasure. i went in the '70s looking for lost cities of gold. over the keers, i found enough treasure to keep the trail going. it's evolved to botanicals. the rain forest is extraordinary. >> i'll put it on ice and drink it later. thank you for coming by. >> good to see you. >> olivia's special airs on thanksgiving day. . >>> well, my favori

. >>> and breaking tonight live, the florida panhandle. a close-knit community reeling after a newborn baby girl sleeping in the same bedroom as her parents vanishes without a trace. halloween. the story becomes even more distorted. but tonight we want to know who took baby shannon. >> investigators in the panhandle of florida need your help. they're looking for a 7-month-old girl who disappeared and may be in danger. >> cops say shannon's parents told investigators shannon slept in the same bedroom as they did. shannon allegedly snatched from that bedroom sometime between 3:00 and 11:00 a.m. on halloween. >> the sheriff said nothing indicates she was abducted. but he also said she "didn't crawl or walk away." >> the child obviously did not walk or crawl out of the home. i don't understand why the police are saying there's no foul play. you have a 7-month-old baby lying there asleep in the home. now, she's gone. >> they seem to be pointing fingers directly at the parents. >> neighbors now speaking out, saying they saw a gray van near shann

scott chief of police, boca raton, florida. andrew, thank you for being with us. there has been steady rain since yesterday across north carolina. of course, it's not going to help anything, but bloodhounds and cadaver dogs can pick up a scent, even though it's rained. >> that's correct. they are not having that scent. there's not been a scent out or about from the trailer. the other issue that might be collected is that the rain can and will contaminate the evidence. that's indeed a problem for the police now. >> to dr. titus duncan, specialist in his field. it's wonderful to have you on with us, again. doctor, if this child was killed in the home, what forensic evidence could be found there? >> if she was killed in the home, you could find things of a struggle, such as a hair. >> what if it was a soft kill, like a suffocation or affixuation? >> hair follicles, skin as well as saliva and things of that nature. anything to give you a forensic evidence to draw the dna from to match it to the data base you may have. >> doctor karen stark joining us out of new york,

. >>> i said we need to talk about what happened in florida. we need to talk about, i used the word rape for want of a better word. how you raped me. he said raped you? don't you mean when we made love? >> that was mackenzie phillips. we're talking about addiction with two people that have dealt with addiction. jodie you have written a memoir called "unsweetened." you document your addiction. talk about drinking at young age, then pot, coke and crystal meth. >> i had my first drink at 14. from the beginning, it was pretty clear i was not able to drink like a normal person. a craving, once i had one, 1,000 wasn't enough. you know, i continued drinking throughout high school. drinking before school, drinking at school. still managed to get good grades, went to college. i had a period of time in college where i quit drinking and quit using for a little over two years. when i went back to drinking, i got into crystal meth by people i was around. i found that easier to hide than the drinking. i was married to a police officer at the time. >> you wen

the years i was at the university of florida, steve spurrier was the heisman trophy award winner. i am the grandmother of six children and i feel like these people's grandmothers here, because i had been involved in football for so long. the one thing that i would bring to your attention that i think that i have a unique perspective on his -- mr. goodell spoke to the medical aspects and letting the doctors make this decision. one of the things that you as a committee need to understand very clearly is that the team doctor is hired by the coach and paid by the front office. this team doctor is not a medical advocate for the players. this team doctors role is to get that player back on the field. even if that means injecting the player on the field. i have seen a wall of players surround a player and seen his knees injected. sees his hip injected, and him back on the field. this is inexcusable. i want you to understand the role that the medical community has and facilitating these concussions. the players get to a point where they refuse to tell the team doctor that they have suffer

in florida, that with a big swing market. it was a very successful strategy. congratulations for that. they found a way to win a tough election. the president won reelection at a difficult time. there was not a lot of job creation during his first term, but they overcame that because they were very focused. but what i think they did most successfully was targeting the base voters and turn them out in large numbers. >> and jeff, did you want to get in on this? >> it is about turnout. i think it will begin in 2010, about whose base is more energized. i think the republican base will be more energized because of what has been happening with the economy, with the spending programs on the democrat side, and i think it was correct in 2004. you can call it a base for a turnout, but it was designed to get republicans out to vote in higher numbers than they have ever before. when you only have 60% of the electorate that shows up and boats anymore, it becomes -- and votes anymore, it becomes a base election. >> give me wondered to suggestions on reducing the poison in t

florida friends, brian and francis. here they are at spring vacation at a park on the kentucky side of the ohio river. and >>> we met with the district attorney, ed grantis, margaret russ. and after going over some facts of the case, the fayetteville will be filing the following charges against mario mcneill -- first-degree murder. first-degree rape of a child. >> could you just tell us where the young girl was killed? fayetteville? lee county? have you been able to point that -- narrow that down. >> due to the cause of death, that's a hard point to narrow down right now. >> you think it was at the motel or out in the field. >> no we don't believe that it was at the hotel. i really cannot say enough about the intestinal fortitude and the hard work and everything that's been done. not only by all of law enforcement agency but, really, the surrounding law enforcement, rescue. this one has really reached out and touched a lot of folks. >> a tough one for your guys? >> absolutely. >> that is a live presser we just brought y

interestingly, florida is one of those where when you look at both reading and math you see substantial progress for all groups of kids over the last eight or ten years, but much faster progress for latino and african-american kids than for white kids. which means basically the gaps are narrowing. the state of virginia has made substantial progress, the state of maryland has made substantial progress. again, these are states you see all the kids coming up the rate of progress faster for latino and african-american kids which is exactly what we want to see, everybody gaining but kids that have been behind gaining faster. >> [inaudible] >> i think there are a combination of approaches. but one of them that is horrible important is providing lots more guidance teachers about what to teach. one of the worries that parents and others have is our teachers just teaching to the text. what we are finding is that when districts and states provide more help to teachers, more guidance about how to teach the standards more curriculum, more assignments, that helps them and hire and because basic prob

even though you may be looking at somebody from california or florida. they are hearing the same thing. going back to the 2004 race, bush was out in utah and did some statements. yes, but it was on cable. you do not do something just in utah and assume it will stay there. it goes everywhere. the second thing that has been a surprise to a lot of folks has been met and main idea of when the story hits, it really permeates. when you take a look at supreme court nominees, all week into their nomination process, their name recognition is in the mid- 80's. and the third thing is that paid me get used to be your delivery system and used to be where you emphasize the message. i think you have now seen at moved to earn media. you're director of communications is a critical personal. >> how has the process of placing a story or shaping a story changed in all this? where does the story began it, if you have it -- the beginning on a blog now? do you begin it in print? does it matter? how does that change the front end of this? >> i think it used to be a direct proce

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