>> the situation we have seen in the south florida is not unique. i was in san diego which is a place i had grown up thinking of being almost a model community and in the recent years they have flown into the same corruption pet to that we are facing in this community. parts of it is a function of what we were talking to rotor the year which is the mobility of the transitory nature of the population and people who do not frequently know the candidates they are approaching four and they can be persuaded to vote for someone who is clint and attractive on television but may not how much moral foundation and underneath. again, that goes back to journalists that play a key role in giving this is a sense the information that they can try to sort that out. investigative journalism is important is that it what keeps public officials on their toes. if you think nobody cares what you will do and nobody will report what you will do it creates an environment that can be addictive to inappropriate behavior. third, we have to encourage more good people to feel th

florida state up 40-18. and sometimes statistics don't tell the whole story, but evening if you look at the stats from the first half, great defense from florida state. >> the seminoles have brked eight sh blocked eight shots and it's hard to score if you're having all your shots blocked. eight blocked shots really relate to that field goal percentage from mercer. 14%. we talked about the fact that they needed to make threes and they make five, but those were the only field goals they made and that blocked shot a key stat for florida state. and it's been up and down the board. chris singleton blocked three -- excuse me, two, solomon blocked three. ryan reid blocked a shot. so they've had a number of different guys blocking shots. they've made life very difficult inside for mercer. just a very, very good defensive effort. >> rich: and chris singleton with a couple blocks and eight points, four assists and has eight rebounds, as well. he's a little bit of everything, mr. singleton. and florida state is up big

. >> it is a happy ending on that front in chipley, florida. it is also frightening. cops said they found baby shannon lying in a cedar box, sta stashed the stashed under a bed for 12 hours and the baby-sit hears a violent past and now we're hearing cops filed charges against baby shannon's mom, the one earlier reported her missing. and former criminal prosecutor with us and robin saks, sex crimes prosecutor. i will start with you. clear things up for us. as we know, thankfully, little baby shannon is okay. >> thankfully. >> thankfully, mom and aunt baby-sitter were in on this. tell us about it. >> they were in on this the whole time, mike, what i learned about it from investigators. there was a meeting that took place, october 30th, the night before halloween. they decided, shannon's mom and the step -- well, it's a little bit complicated, susan bake e also in relation to the family as well as a half sister. they decided they were going to pass off not custody but i guess visitation to be able to take care of this child to susan baker. at that point, they decided thi

i live up the road in hollywood, florida. i wrote a book called hollywood gambler thomas story about the unsolved murder of dust gus guo. we all now know there were no massive weapons of mass destruction. i would like to comment on your experience and how that may relate to our current conflict in afghanistan. >> as i indicated, i was chairman of the intelligence committee at this time and beginning in the late part of 2001 with our counterparts in the house we lost a congressional inquiry into 9/11. that had been all-consuming through the summer of 2002. at that point it became obvious that the administration was starting to sound the drumbeats for of war in iraq. the president had made a very highly publicized speech in cincinnati. the vice president had been speaking before every group that would invite him to say bad things about saddam hussein. so we put aside for three weeks 9/11 and held a series of closed-door sessions on the situation in iraq. the head of the cia at that time was george tenant. george presented us wi

florida state would qualify. the seminoles are off to a 2-0 start. it's florida state, mercer. hi, everybody. i know there's a lot of then going on in sports right now, but keep us on speed dile for the next two hours. i think this has the potential to be a very good college basketball game. >> i don't think there's any question this is a ter l. team that is experienced. a florida state team that is one of the intriguing teams in the atlantic coast conference. >> weapon number one for mercer and a guy that plays big, james lawrence. >> james lawrence is a guy who can really score the basketball. mainly he's good taking the ball to the goal. he's an excellent driver. but he can also shoot the three-point shot. on the other side if florida state, we used the word intriguing. ofrp will ofrp a sophomore but extremely effective on the inside. an outstanding shot blocker. >> last year mercer knocked off a couple of sec teams. they would love to put a feather from florida state right in their cap. >> they were up by 18 against georgia tech right here, so they are capable if they can m

i was chairman of the florida committee on education. we were holding our pre legislative session hearings in schools around the state. on this particular day we were at wilson high school in jacksonville. no family relationship. when students were asked if they would like to come and tell us anything they came in large numbers. they had a complaint, and it probably was a complaint that many of you experienced. that was battered in the cafeteria. i wasn't surprised that the food was bad. i was surprised that they came to the state legislature to get a solution. i asked them, will we be the first people you talk to? and they said, no, you are actually the third. that made me feel better that they had exhausted the more obvious efforts and had turned to us in despair. well, i asked, who was one into? number one was a man named bandstands were. he said, i agree that the food is probably bad, but it's not my responsibility as mayor. the next person was dealt person who was the sheriff. he said the food is no doubt that, but it is not crimina

florida. florida has been called the toughest state on teens. these teens in this florida case are dealing with that possiblesy of a very, very long sentence. could these teens get life and would that be unconstitutional? >> they're being charged with second degree attempted murder, but really, the adult system is not set up appropriately to deal with teens. it should really stay in juvenile court. juvenile court is just for that, to deal with individuals not attached to move on to a felony-type crime. these teens should have been charged in juvenile court. the out that the judge will have in the adult court system, he could sentence them as juvenile to a lesser sentence, but it will follow them for the rest of their lives, as opposed to in a juvenile court. >> michelle, i am so torn about this case because i am so nauseated over what the kids did, but never the less, we're going to see it in a little bit, there was a picture of them today in court, they look like kids. like 14 and 15-year-old kids. i just don't know how to reconcile that act wi

florida state in control. on top of mercer. ♪ ♪ tell meho's watching. ♪ i always fe like somebody's watching me. ♪ (announcer) it's right here. it's easy. ♪ i always feel like somebo's watchg me. ♪ it's the mey youould be saving th geico. announcer 1: fresh, never frozen north american beef. >> rich: florida state has taken all the air out of homecoming here in may cin macon, georgia. the seminoles showed up and it's been downhill since. >> dan: seminoles won't get vofted back for home coming. mercer has dug themselves a hole. they're shooting 14% in this game. i think the lepg and quickness of florida state really has presented some problems for the mercer bears. >> rich: mercer will get a chance to redeem themselves in about five or six days when they go up to atlanta and take on georgia tech. mercer would like -- if could you have one do over from last year's season for bob hoffman, it has to be that second half late against georgia tech in this building. >> dan: i have a difficult time hamming

florida has harsh laws in this area. the question was, does the age amendment prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment bar states where the federal government from locking up somebody without the possibility of parole? this challenge to get say it ruins all hope. that tells a young person that for this adolescent mistake, their word, this adolescent offense, you are no longer fit to be part of society. the ruling that they are using to bring the challenge is 820051 from the supreme court in which the justices said -- is today 2005 one from the supreme court which said it is illegal to execute a juvenile for a crime committed. the talk about the age of maggiore has been set for many things at age 18, -- the age of majority has been set for many things, but have these competing theories of showed juveniles be treated in a special way even in noncapital cases, life without parole, or is that cutting slack to the juvenile and it only matters and death cases? it was interesting, because this is one where justice kennedy wa

take my state of florida. approximately -- and i'm rounding these numbers -- approximately 50% of our people in florida get their health insurance from their employer and they're in a group policy. another 16% in my state get their health care from medicare because they're eligible at that age. another 10% in my state get their health care from medicaid because they are either qualified under the income level or they are disabled. now, add that up. that's 76% right there. of all the people of florida. that includes children. okay. now, what about the remaining 24%? about 4% or 5% of our people also have health insurance, but they pay through the nose because they're buying an individual as opposed to a group policy, and if you're buying it individually where all the health risk is on one life, the costs of those premiums are very, very high, and the remaining 19% are the uninsured. that's the population of my state of florida. now, that will vary with different states. obviously, in florida, we have more aged

another young man was in jail, from florida -- in florida, 38 years and 11 years longer than mandela, was freed by dna and we still that he have right, to fight... and it is different than the president's position and of course we'll have different positions and we are free to have positions that enhance the environment that even he operates in. to put this another way, when i was a little younger, i really tell my age when i hired our college... college sweetheart, she graduated from and got a job as a flight attendant for eastern airlines, it was a big deal and made front page of the school paper and local paper and she was a flight attendant, eastern airlines and another brother got a job who was a ball player, as a driver for trail ways bus. i mean, like that was moving on up the road, and then, another brother got a job as an airline pilot. and he could fly a plane. and there was great excitement because we found we had a pilot but let me tell you, his being a pilot did not make him the comptroller of airline passage. it did not affect the price of gas. it didn't affect the safet

it's 330 miles to the south-southwest of pensacola, florida. let me show you the path over the next day, day and a half. we'll continue up towards the florida panhandle, getting back in towards the alabama area. somewhere around that region overnight landfall possibly as a hurricane, maybe as a strong tropical storm. either way makes a hard bee line to the right and a big hook because of a cold front dragging in some moisture and it's going to get absorbed into that and spread on through the atlantic over the next couple of days. i'll have full details in just a bit. new number, down to 80 miles per hour. that's good news. continues to weaken in just a bit. more in five minutes. >> but that's still a category one. >> yeah. >>> now to the fort hood shootings. 16 of the victims are still in the hospital at this hour. 7 in intensive care. the suspect ed shooter, nid nidal hasan is off a ventilator and investigators are asking for help from anyone that was there because they may have inadvertently left the scene with evidence, like firearm residue

florida state against florida. lsu hosting arkansas at 7:00 on espn. tennessee and kentucky, a fun one at 7:00 eastern. coming up later, the sec says good-bye to tim tebow. there's a lot of head coaches who will pat him on the back and say good riddance, move on. but what impact has this guy had on college football when it's all said and done do you think? >> just the run that they've been able to put together. this is the most accomplished senior class in the history of the southeastern conference with the number of wins that they've peopled up. steve spurrier talked about tim tebow and what he means to this football team. he said his ability to make plays in critical moments and convert third downs, and he looked that's tape of that sec championship game last year and the national championship against oklahoma when tim tebow had he ball if his hands in critical situations. >> same steve spurrier who initially did not vote for tim tebow as the sec preseason number one quarterback, but it's not just tim tebow, it's the whole cast of seniors. >> the rec

florida's brandon spikes, gouging a player's eyes? he got suspended for half a game and then he was the one who lengthed his own suspension to a full game. is this a double standard? go to cnn.com/robin, click on the facebook icon and leave a comment. we'll read them on air later. >>> hideous creamsicle throwback jerseys. here is the irony. they wore these uniforms from '76 to '96, they stunk. they had 18 losing seasons and were a laughing stock. >> why bring them back out, right? >> they got their first win in 2009. >> it worked. >> and it worked. washington player is still steaming after a sideline squirmish after washington safety landry hit matt ryan. deangelo hall says mike smith was throwing elbows in the nfl. he's going to file a complaint. nfl might look into it. that's sports. >>> next time you hear a baby cry, take a listen. researchers are finding interesting patterns >>> the first hurricane to threaten the united states this year, atlantic hurricane season, anyway, is due to hit the gulf coast tomorrow morning. forecasters

host: why is south florida so attractive? guest: part of it is that there is a significant senior population there. health-care fraud is byviral. people learn how easy this and their brothers, cousins, and friends get in on it. south to florida has become the nation's hot spot for health care fraud. for certain parts of the committee, everyone is doing at. host: do people go to jail? guest: more and more people are going to jail. one of the successes of the strike force model is to get people off the streets and into jail. we have put over four hundred people into prison in the last year as a result of the strike force model could we also throw out a lot of people from the medicare and medicaid program based on misconduct. be excluded them -- we exclude them. host: west virginia, you were on witare on with lewis morris. good morning. caller: good morning. i was reading an interview with malcolm sparrow. guest: i have a signed copy of it. caller: in this interview, he said that you folks estimate 3% is fraud, which is $60 bill

a lot of this has to do with what happened down in florida. realistically, what we need to do is deregulate the election process, get government out of politics. first, repeal all ballot access laws. modern technology it seems to me can cope with many candidates. in the unlikely event that suddenly everyone wants to run for the presidency of the public office, we could set reasonable limits for ballot access, say, you had to get 500 signatures and have a modest filing fee, say $2500 or so and had the filing fee refundable if you get say, a thousand votes or whatever. repeal sore loser and intuition laws. three, repeal all restrictions on campaign finance. all donations would be legal, you know, despite the source of the amount. but i would suggest we require prompt and public disclosure on the internet. under my scheme of politicians to still be bought with at least know who was doing the buying. and all party subsidies for the taxpayer. and i think bill redpath, in his afterword has a wonderful idea about initiating instant runoff voting. ins

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

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 girl, 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 we had happen here today. >> reporter: shannon was found in a box under the

lot of this has to do with what happened down in florida. realistically what we need to do is to regulate the elections process and get government out of politics. first, repeal of ballot access laws for the modern technology can cope with many candidates in the unlikely event that suddenly everybody wants to run for the presidency, we can set reasonable limits they have to get 500 signatures and have a modest filing fee of $2,500 and have a refundable if you get 1,000 votes or whatever. repeal of the sore loser lot. number three, repeal of restrictions on campaign finance for all donations are illegal despite the source, but i would suggest we require prompt and public disclosure on the internet. politicians can still be bought but at least we would know who is doing the buying and all parties subsidies for the taxpayer. i think a bill read pathe has a wonderful idea about initiating instant runoff voting nassetta picking one candidate voters would express preference by ranking 12 or three their resolve said it would be transferred this wou

the south florida "sentinel" reports they have another hearing in january. he has burns over 2/3 of his body. >> i know i couldn't do what he is doing. if think had happened to me, i probably wouldn't be here. he is incrededly strong. he is my hero. he really is. i tell him every day. >> the other day he wanted to talk to his uncle danny. he said, hey, dan, i got burned. i'm in the hospital. >> the two 15-year-olds and one 16-year-old accused in the attack are charged as adults. there are two other boys charged as juveniles. they poured alcohol on michael and set him in fire in a dispute over $40, a video game and a bicycle. we hear more from his parents in just about 30 minutes. >>> the first congressional inquiry into the massacre at ft. hood began on capitol hill. the senate homeland security committee held a hearing whether the tragedy was as a result of federal agencies not sharing intelligence information. they looked into the threat posed by homegrown terrorists. 13 people were killed in the shooting. the suspect major nidal hasan faces murder charges

. >>> plus, a florida gators linebacker appeared to be trying to gouge another player's eye. now the victim is saying that he shouldn't be suspended. >>> a convicted rapist is now accused of keeping at least ten bodies in his basement, his backyard and living room. police in cleveland, ohio, found four more corpses and a skull at his home yesterday. the bodies were found there last week. firefighters today will search the walls and floors of the home. police spoke with nancy grace about the investigation. >> well, we're working right now with the coroner's office to identify the victim. >> stacho is sowell didn't havee right to go into his house but would stop by to make sure he was up there. >> if the offender answers the door, says, yes, the sex offender does live here, he does reside here, he does sleep here, that's all that we are allowed to do by law. >> we didn't know anything. i've been here all my life. >> police first searched sowell's house thursday. the bodies have not been identified yet. >>> republicans may be feeling a bit better about their party's future right

once you get older in jersey, you automatically move to florida. i know. that's what happens. let's show you what's happening. if you're doing any traveling, tropical storm ida we have our eyes on now. i put it on safer flight explorer with the planes on top of it. you see that going all the way through alabama and georgia, atlanta, right now heavy rain and we're going to see the delays pop up shortly. right now still early but you can see the radar and how expansive it is. what do we have? atlanta, new orleans or more. morning 0 fog, 30 minutes to an hour. charlotte, orlando, be rain and wind. 30-minute to one-hour delays. if you're trying to travel around florida, tampa, jacksonville, maybe even miami into orlando, i think you're going to get a half hour to hour long delays. out west, low clouds. robin, more on that in a little bit. >>> thanks. well, more news. @@@@@@@@ >>> heavy rains and strong winds are already whipping the southeast as tropical storm ida creeps towards the gulf coast. it is expected to make landfall this morning nerp the mississippi/alabama borde

heaviest rain in the country is still onshore right across florida. that should move in to ft. pierce and down to miami by late today. we'll look at that coming up in a little bit. >> bob, thank you. so actor ted danson took on the religious right last night on "the joy behar show." why he says rush limbaugh and others are exploiting their listeners. >>> those are the people that really piss me off. i understand people who are angry and fearful, be i understand church is a huge part of their life. i understand people not wanting their daughters. i understand and have empathy for all those people. the people that come along and make use of those people's fears and insecurities to make money or to make something, a position for them, you know, more palatable. those people. >> want to name some names? >> rush. we're talking rush. >> who else? >> pretty much the religious right does that by and large. >> they're extremists. >> yeah. >> and they prey on people's fears. there's a lot of that. >> and you totally understand. i understand that. i understand wanting to go to a mega churc

the south florida impeachment coalitions brought david swanson down to speak. they invited me to come down as well. and that's when i first met david swanson, and since then i've been lucky enough to consider him a friend even though it's the only second time we've met in person. but he has been on my raeder show many times both on the old days and lightly on air america. which by the way just launched a new website today. air america.com. i am on live from 11 p.m. to 1 a.m. so you can stream them. we still need a station here in south florida but at least you can stream and listen to it in podcast the next day. but were not here to talk about that. maybe another they will talk about getting good progress arroyo back in south florida again. i do not know how he had time to write this book. because this man is the busiest men i know. i refer to them on the air as my favorite activist vicky is to give my go to guy. when i need to know what protests are happening, where there is an action. people standing up to the powers that be, and for we the people. i know i c

i think fundamentally, all of the talk that it was created from the 537 vote differences in florida. a lot of people -- it's a good thing when people started paying attention to what was going on in their boards of elections. they started thinking about, how do we register people to vote? why is it that we have an opt-in system? way that the local voter will still match the ones in the state capitals? why is it that there is chaos and everything is done at the last minute to enter new registered voters? why don't we have same-day registration? what is this system into his being attention? why do we have uniform standards of what counts as a vote? is in a ridiculous we have to be holding up punchcards delight in seeing if it has two hanging chad or three dimple or pregnant or whatever? and it was really almost a mockery of our system of governance that people looked at all around the world, say what are they doing there in the united states? how come they can't determine what the vote? alchemy can determine who is registered to vote? how come they can't determine what grounds count as

donald from tallahassee, florida, good morning. -- donald from tallahassee, florida, good morning. caller: i would like to hear the president stepped up and make this one comment, we are bringing back the press. once these republicans, who love to say -- once they hear the draft, you will end this war in two minutes. what we have are just a few boys just going over there and dying while they sit in their health arspot and going into these juie bars and getting juiced up and feeling so good about this war. but if you bring back the draft tomorrow this war will stop. host: if you are just joining us, we're talking about the president a intuits -- to announce early next week his decision on sending more troops to afghanistan. there will be various groups testifying before congress. we will likely hear from secretary of defense for gates as well as secretary of state have agreed clinton. -- secretary of defense robert gates as well as secretary of state hillary clinton. peter, bruce become arizona, good morning. caller: i would like to make maybe one or two comments. president obama is

live to florida. exclusive enclave, ponte vedra coast. a high-powered money man comes home to find his wife, the mother of his two little girls, gone, vanished. left behind, a handwritten ransom note demanding $50,000. after the $50,000 paid in cold cash, the cops nab the alleged kidnapper and accomplice. kicker? it's mommy. mommy herself, along with her brand new lover. that's right. they faked the whole thing. bye-bye, good times. hello, hard time, mommy. >> so at some point, either at the get-go or somewhere in between the beginning and the end, the boy toy, 25-year-old lover, starts taping mommy. 37-year-old quinn gray. during their sex session while they are discussing the fake kidnap plot, discussing blowing the head off of her husband, the father of her two little children. to ellie jostad, our chief editorial producer on the story, we've learned a lot since last night, when we first started the story. >> mm-hmm. that's correct, nancy. a lot of details in this police affidavit that we received. quinn gray apparently first aroused s

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

says she hid in the dark fitting room for three hours with no idea what was going on and police in florida, they're still looking for two men who went into the store tuesday night with guns taking six people hostage then. one hostage was face-to-face with one of the suspects. take a listen. >> before i knew it, the gunman was in our face and he asked me to get on the floor and put my hands behind my back. and proceeded to tie my hands together. >> police now think the suspects were already gone by the time units arrived on the scene. none of the hostages was seriously hurt. they did not get a good description, though, since the gunmen were wearing masks, hoods and gloves. so it's now a felony to drive drunk or under the influence of drugs with a child in the car in new york. the state toughened its dwi law after a crusade by a grieving father. his 11-year-old daughter was killed in an alleged drunk driving accident last month. he cried as the child passenger protection act named after his daughter was signed into law. >> october 11th i lost my only child as a single parent. she was my hear

we are seeing it with florida. there is a revolt among some conservative grassroots against established republicanism. in new york resawed conservative voters that wanted nothing to do with a liberal republican that had been put on the ticket by the party establishment and backed by the republicans in washington, d.c. something similar is happening with charlie crist. the most of -- the most enthusiastic voters right now are on the right, the people that show up for the tea parties. they are going to have to find a way, the republican party, to keep those voters involved and active. this same thing happened with that the democrats after the 2004 election. lots of people were saying that they would hurt the party. but the democratic party was able to incorporate the network voters while reaching out to the middle. then we have 2006 and 2008, with barack obama in the white house. host: democratic line, good morning. caller: i am listening to what your saying about sarah palin being down to earth, but we should not co

i'm focusing on florida. the national rifle association is pushing for a new law in florida. what this is about is in florida, if you want to adopt a child, you have the right on these forms to ask do you have guns in the home? there's one couple that to be exception to this, richard. they said, hey, that's really not your business and we actually wonder what your motivations are there. clearly the department of children and family in florida think they have the right to ask this. they have been asking it. seems there hasn't really been a problem with this. but the nra is pushing for a bill to make that illegal to ask perspective parents this question because they say this agency is actually an arm of the government. >> if they're registered. >> and they think it's a round about way of the government trying to get a registry of guns in the state. so they say you're overstepping your bounds when you're asking these questions. so they're trying to get this law passed to say you can't ask these questions. what do you think about this? should adoptive parents have to tell the ado

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 girl, little baby shannon. >> we are the proud papas of a little girl. this is shannon lea 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 we had happen here today. >> haddock said shannon was found in a box under

lisa nowak will be in court in florida. prosecutors say the deal has some conditions but they're not giving the details. nowak pleaded not guilty to attempted kidnapping and other charges. the woman she allegedly attacked is expected to be there today as well. that ought to be interesting. >>> new this morning, basketball legend kareem john allan muhammad has -- kareem abdul-ja has revealed he has cancer. >> he was not only one of the greatest basketball players of all time but also a star in movies like "airplane" and tv shows. it was shocking to hear the 62-year-old saying he has a rare form of blood cancer called chronic myeloid. leukemia. the good news, his doctor says he has a very good chance of living a normal life with the disease and won't impact his life much at all. he's trying to raise awareness and wants to give hope to others that have it. he approached a pharmaceutical company to launch an educational campaign. he's working as a paid spokesman for them. in other news you may remember lagarret blunt punching a

bradford cohen, most of them are in florida. florida has been called the toughest state on teens. these teens in this florida case are dealing with that possibility of a very, very long sentence. could these teens get life and would that be unconstitutional? >> no, they're being charged with second degree attempted murder, so they're looking at 15 years apiece. but the adult system is not set up to appropriately deal with teens. it should really stay in juvenile court. juvenile court is just for that, to deal with individuals not attached to move on to a felony-type crime in adult court. these teens should have been charged in juvenile court. the out that the judge will have in the adult court system, he could sentence them as juveniles to a lesser sentence but it will follow them for the rest of their lives as opposed to a juvenile court where it may be sealed once they turn 18. >> michelle, i am so torn about this case because i am so nauseated over what the kids did, but nonetheless, we're going to see it in a little bit, there was a picture of them today in court, they look li

thunderstorms off the coast of florida. the miami radar as it sweeps around, having a tough time getting inland, little daytime heating, you broke a record high yesterday of 89 degrees in miami, close to that number today. warm to hot in southern florida, rain coming in later today, off and on showers. little farther to the south, still tropical season. let me show you what it looks like down by panama and costa rica. we were watching this yesterday with about a 30% chance of this turning into something. you can see the middle part of your screen, that's where you have the chance of seeing the action turning into a tropical depression. that's central america. hopefully it doesn't turn into anything. it will be a rainmaker no matter what. it could become ida later today. they'll fly into it and see if it has circulation at all. something we're watching no doubt about it. hurricane season for the atlantic goes through november 30th. out to the west we go, high pressure sitting over the four corners. more cloud cover into sout

look down south across florida. here's the way it goes. frontal boundary by the florida straits. another one up towards the north. rain and thundershowers. we'll find them once again today. mainly from a line of miami towards west palm. most of these are inland right now. we'll see more of this action later today. that's something we're watching. also, we're still in hurricane season, lasts through november 30th. tropical storm ida right now, 70-mile-per-hour sustained winds. actually 75, turned into a hurricane about two minutes ago. glad i had the auto update on. hurricane ida, category 1 storm, 75-mile-per-hour sustained winds, moving inland right now. tremendous amounts of rain. that's what we'll find over the next couple days towards nicaragua, honduras. if it survives this land mass, it may get back into the open water sometime over the weekend. something we'll have to watch if it makes it to the gulf by next week sometime. it's something we're watching. we're not done with hurricane season yet. a brand-new hurricane, 75-mile-per-hour winds. >> kind of feels like it's been

it's heavy when you get down to florida. there's that miami radar and looking at decent rain just offshore. it will build back in to west palm. tropical storm ida is out there near nicaragua. >>> so no waiting and no lines. however, professional sports teams got the h1n1 vaccine while thousands of ordinary folks had to sit and wait. and morgan harrington's parents are not giving up searching for their daughter. they have a message for her and also the person who may have her. >>> morning, sunshine. i'm robin meade. let's salute our troops together. today's salute is from allison hernandez. it's to her husband, army sergeant luis hernandez. allison says he is truly her soul mate and is extremely missed. >> this is allison hernandez. i'm sending a salute to my husband out in afghanistan, sergeant luis hernandez. he's serving with the 10th mountain division. i'm so proud of you, babe, and you're extremely missed. i love you and i'm so excited to see you on r&r. you are my soul mate, my love and my best friend and i can't wait t

. >>> 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

that's right around florida. you get back down south of new orleans, 31-mile-per-hour sustained winds and these have been coming up steadily and slowly, though, for the last couple of hours. before when it first start td was in the 20s, now up to 30 miles per hour. the winds starting to come up there. also dolphin island, alabama, now you're having the water coming over the western edge. they're asking if you want to evacuate this island do it now before the conditions deteriorate even farther. whatwhat about the rest of the region? we have tropical storm warnings. they've all been replaced by the hurricane warnings that were there before. some good news. now it's just a tropical storm warning. but you're still going to get the rain, the wind, the wave action that's going to start up in a couple of hours. here's a steady swirl in the action. that's the actual tropical storm. back up to the west rain south of houston. that's a trough of low pressure that's ahead of that cold front, and that cold front takes all th

the news now, the son of the florida prison inmate said he never had reason before to be proud of his dad until now. his father was among the group of inmates who rushed to help a prison guard after another inmate attacked him. well, the inmate was a 64-year-old guard. he put him in a chokehold. >> proud of him. seeing him struggle has been hard but this is something that's good. change things up, give him a second chance. >> indeed. the jail said that the guard, ken moon, was not seriously hurt and is at home recovering. it's 48 minutes past the hour. business travelers want to come home and some of you want to go away for the weekend. here's bob. >>> a little windy for you now, robin, specifically across new england, down through new york city and kind of touching off around philadelphia with some gusty winds but not quite as bad when you get south of ny. we're looking at about the hour or more delays around the new york city metros including newark because of that gusty north wind. on the other side looking at chicago. winds up out of the southeast or southwest, too. winds of about

and we're seeing it here in florida. there is a revolt among conservative grassroots against establishment of public msm. and so in the case of the new york 23 race, we saw the conservative voters had wanted nothing to do with the liberal republicans who have been put on the ticket by the party establishment and local party bosses. and backed by the republican and d.c. something similar is happening with charlie crist and mark rubio. the most enthusiastic voters right now are in the right, people who show up at tea party, the people who do the marches. and if the republican party wants future, they're going to have to find a way to get those voters involved and active. remember it's the same thing that happened with democrats after the 2004 election. at first a lot of people saying about the numbers, they're going to hurt the party. well, the democratic artie was able to incorporate it but also reaching out to the middle. and then we have 2006 with iraq obama in the white house. >> host: democratic line, good morning. el

>> to sergeant scott haines, sheriff's officer, florida. sergeant, i've never seen -- well, actually i have seen a few cases like this. he got stepsed to 15 years. he did the full 15. that's my understanding. and that is extremely rare. they did not let this guy out. and he did all sorts of classes behind bars, like cage your rage. they made him go through that. they made him go through anger management. clearly they knew he had a severe problem. >> absolutely. somebody who does the full 15 years doesn't get paroled, or out on probation, and kept that entire time, they're a dangerous person. they're not going to be rehabilitated. and they had a responsible to follow this person closely. >> what about it, pat brown? >> absolutely. i mean, this guy probably committed lots of crimes before he was 30 when he went in, and we have seen he's committed lots of crimes when he came out. >>> six of them are described as african-american women, and at least five of them appear to have been strangled. they were all found in and around the house of 50-ye

snee >>> espn's game day crew in gainsville, florida today for fsu at number one-florida. the mascot mover, the crudest over the gators. please, everyone, tim tebow has pleased a lot of folks in gatorland through his wonderful >>> tim tebow in pursuit of a second heisman trophy. he is the sec leader in touchdowns. he'll be honored by the fans today have whoa have been asked to

live to florida. exclusive enclave, ponte vedra coast. a high-powered money man comes home to find his wife, the mother of his two little girls, gone, vanished. left behind, a handwritten ransom note demanding $50,000. after the $50,000 paid in cold cash, the cops nab the alleged kidnapper and accomplice. kicker? it's mommy. mommy herself, along with her brand new lover. that's right. they faked the whole thing. bye-bye, good times. hello, hard time, mommy. >> so at some point, either at the get-go or somewhere in between the beginning and the end, the boy toy, 25-year-old lover, starts taping mommy. 37-year-old quinn gray. during their sex sessions, while they're discussing the fake kidnap plot, discussing blowing the head off of her husband, the father of her two little children. to ellie jostad, our chief editorial producer on the story, we've learned a lot since last night, when we first started the story. >> mm-hmm. that's correct, nancy. a lot of details in this police affidavit that we received. quinn gray apparently first aroused

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 handwritten 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? >>

he sent andrew jackson and a small army to seize florida from spain. then forced spain to redraw the western boundaries of the louisiana territory to extend into the rocky mountains. and northward to the pacific ocean. for the first time since they declared independence americans were secure of attack by foreign troops and they streamed westward over the appalachian mountains into the wilderness to claim their share of america buying up wilderness land from the government and carving out forms, harvesting firms, timber, ore, in an era when land, not money, land was wealth. the land rush at its six states to the union and produced the largest redistribution of wealth in the annals of man. never before in history had a sovereign state transferred ownership of so much land and so much political power to so many people bought of noble rank. and with land ownership americans gained the right to vote, to stand for office, to govern themselves, their communities, the states in the nation. you couldn't vote and couldn't stand for office if you didn't owned lan

castro engaged me a couple of hours and he wants his spice back from florida. i remember telling him i said mr. castro i'm sure you are very proud of these men come and they are cuban patriots and you will get them back eventually win a we have normalized relations, and of quote. i find that regrettable. , mr. mccaffrey that he would refer to the stevan spice convicted in our u.s. fair criminal justice system and whose cases were reheard again and whose convictions were once again reaffirmed as patriots and that you focus on returning these supplies to the cuban regime yet you do not mention cop killers like joanne and other fugitives of u.s. law and justice to have given refuge by the cuban regime also in your testimony from april of this year you noted and i quote there is no question there are lots of drugs floating around cuba, and particularly washing up on shore. bundles of cocaine and marijuana but there was clear to me that they were not on a government basis but part of an international conspiracy to threaten the regime and threaten their sense of comm

we close to those down and cut down substantially on the fraud in south florida. unfortunately, the equipment suppliers are very sophisticated. they set up a new operation almost instantaneously. host: you make it sound like it is almost easy to defraud medicare and medicaid. guest: i'm afraid we make it easy. the program set up based on trust. unfortunately, the criminal element has taken advantage of the tremendous amount of money in the medicare program. one of the things we believe needs to be done is that we need to move from trusting to having people establish their credible suppliers. we have got to make it more difficult for the bad guys to get into the program and the first place. was there in, we need to do a better job of monitoring their behavior. it is still pretty easy for those to be exploited. host: your office provided this map to us. you have some hot spot locations. why california? why houston? why detroit? guest: they were each based on data analysis. we determined to these were places where medical equipment suppliers were exploiting our progr

that's not a time to be comfortable if you are along the gulf coast, louisiana, alabama, into florida. remember, the hurricane season ends at the end of november association if you have that hurricane preparedness kit, you need to get it ready. the season's not over. this storm may come calling. what we'll see around the nation is pretty nice, in the southeast high pressure the feature which is is going to give you pretty nice condition, plenty of blue skies, sunshine, nice mild conditions through much of texas. when you get to the western half of the great lakes, scattered showers possible for the upper midwest, and of course back to the pacific northwest may see heavy snow falling in parts of the cascades. that is a look at your forecast. i'm reynolds wolf for hln. >>> what do you think, can you get in trouble for throwing paper during a ticker tape parade? some people did just that during the yankees parade here in new york, but they may have picked the wrong paper to throw. ♪ o christmas tree your branches green ♪ >> the capitol hill christmas tree has begun its joran tee wash