Transcripts For HLN Morning Express With Robin Meade 20090803

and, you know, what kind of life would he have led being a prisoner of war? >> well, speicher was shot down on the first night of the first gulf war. his children were just toddlers at the time. his faechlimily issued a statem thanking everyone involved with the search. how did i make it here so searche quickly? good morning, sunshine. searchers found him after iraqis i'm robin meade. gave thechl a tip that they had we always appreciate your time. let's jump right into the news here. witnessed his burial. lawmakers are trying to dig will congress put in more up billions more to keep the money in the cash for clunkers cash for clunkers deal alive, program? jennifer westhoven is looking but new developments could stop into that. you from cashing in on the deal. the developments were over the >> i dreamed of -- the night weekend, right, that the house supposedly found some money. before i went to the white house, i dreamed i got arrested >> they d but they need the at the white house. >> he gave his joking about his senate to agree before it arrest now. you have to hear what he said about the officer who handcuffed becomes reality. for those of you trying to get the papers together, if you got him. plus -- >> they saved my life. it, great, because cash for i probably would have died, i clunkers probably burned through think, and not came back to its billion-dollar budget, and life. >> incredible. a teen wakes up after months in if they don't get the senate approval, it's probably over. a coma. the inspiring story about how taking a step back and looking her family and friends never at the big picture, could this gave up. be a sign that the economy but first, our top story itself is on the me understand? this morning. that's what alan greenspan said we just learned moments ago that swiss diplomats are trying to on abc this week. meet three americans who are >> it's a very important indicator that the state of being detained in irans from the confidence in the economy is beginning to pick up. swiss embassy. the three crossed an unmarked if we had been -- if the clunker iranian border while hiking in program had been put in place northern iraq on friday. iraqi officials identified them six months ago, it would probably have been a dud. as shane bauer, share ra shores >> though he's saying either way and joshua patel. the fact that so many people were out there ready to spend is their friends say they spent time or lived in europe or the a good sign, will the program middle east. get extended? here's a reaction. we'll be watching washington >> the hardest part is not being very closely to see what able to communicate with the happens, robin, because i know there's a lot of people out people detaining them. that's the scariest part. >> another american who traveled there who think, that was a good deal, i wish i got it. with them stayed behind in iraq. >> what do you think, though, about the cash for clunkers he's now at the u.s. embassy here. program? your feelings about it? iran's media says that the three did you get a car? were arrested for illegally were you turned away? entering the country, and that an investigation is under way. tell us about it. ron in south carolina, cash for now, switzerland represents clunkers is nothing but a american interests there because the united states doesn't have bailout for the automobile diplomatic relations with iran. industry. you're going to hear more details about the three hikers but paul in north carolina said including whether anyone warned the program was an immediate success. them about hiking near iran's if the government says we're out of money in only a week, typical border. that is less than ten minutes away. many anxiously awaiting to politics! you got a thought on it? find out if congress is going to go to cnn.com and hit the little put more money into the cash for clunkers program, but there is a contact us button. debate over this wildly popular incentive. remember, they blew through the money in like a week. give us your ne we give you the news, you give us your views. i think my mom was ticked off jennifer westhoven is looking into that. more, more, more, give us more. because her car gets one mile per gallon too much. cut off right there. >> we don't know what will happen. if you rushed out and you got i know different people have different experiences. yourself a deal over the so e-mail away. the weather today on a weekend, good, because cash for monday morning, bob is going to start where we have the rain clunkers probably burned through action. >> we're going to start in its billion dollar budget northern michigan, rob, and stretching down through chicago already. this afternoon with it might get extended. thunderstorms developing across northern missouri. the house said they found another $2 billion for the let me get to that real quick. program, but they need senate look at the thunderstorms chopping over the border into approval. republican senators are northern missouri itself. threatening to kill it. dripping to the southeast about republican senator jim demight 35 miles an hour. not calls the program an example these should rain themselves out later this afternoon, but they of the stupidity that comes from washington, so if you got it, will refire in the wake of that action by late today. up to the north, you can see that's great but it's not clear what will happen. chicago you're dry. we're going to have to watching a couple scattered showers to the north. washington on that. you have a real slight chance of a thunderstorm right now. >> here's what's interesting. a better chance coming in this a lot of people would watch that and go, what do you mean afternoon mainly south of the city, but the heavy rain from stupidity for washington? it was the one stimulus people this morning has now jumped into northern and central michigan. could latch onto and say it makes a difference in my daily here's detroit, you're dry. heavy rain in saginaw to grand life? >> the senators say you're paying people to buy a new car, rapids. i think detroit might get but it's not necessarily helping the environment but helping the clipped a little this morning, car companies and it's just too but that's about it for you expensive for the government to guys. as for that severe weather sect, pay for that right now. >> some other people make a point, of course, the government a little daytime heating, some is interested in it because the government owns like gm and that thunderstorms jolting out there later this afternoon. look to south, though, rain stuff. did you cash in on the cash for showers coming in when you get clunkers program? to the outer banks to the how did you work out for you? did you get a car? did you get turned asfwwaaway? carolinas, and fog in central georgia to the carolinas, but not slowing down in central florida. we want to know. it could be an interesting if you're traveling to miami, 91 story. 18 years after he was shot degrees. down in iraq, we find know what look at these nice cumulus clouds coming in. happened to captain michael just a slight chance of a thunderstorm today. scott speicher. typical weather for you. it's going to feel like 98 to he was the first american shot down during the first gulf war 100 with the humidity, but what in 1991. the pentagon says his remains a great shot of miami there. have been identified and recovered from a grave in the enjoy. the harvard prof who had a desert. beer with obama is now joking the discovery ends years of about his arrest. speculation speicher was being he also cracked a few jokes about the officer who arrested held captive. >> it's a bittersweet ending. him. we have alarming news for tens of thousands of people. it's great that we have finally the emergency action being taken to make sure their unemployment accomplished an ending, but it does not run out. is bittersweet. you always hope he's going to be found alive, but yet on that end if he was found alive look what he missed. his children are in college now, and you know, what kind of life would he have led being a prisoner of war? >> speicher was shot down on the first night of the first gulf war. his children were toddlers at the time. his family issued a statement thanking everyone involved in the search. searchers found his remains after getting tips from iraqis who remembered his jet crash and witnessed his burial. president obama's top money men won't rule out higher taxes in the future. over the weekend national economic adviser larry summers said that they would have to find funding for health care reform somewhere. in an interview on abc's "this week" tim geithner said tax increases might be necessary at some point to get the budget deficit down. >> we're going to have to look at -- we have to do what's necessary. remember, the critical thing that people understand is when we have recovery established led by the private sector, then we have to bring these deficits down very dramatically. what the country needs to do is understand we have to do what it takes and what is necessary. >> alan greenspan said the government will impose some kind of value-added tax to raise money. those are added to the production process and usually translate into higher prices for the rest of us. michael jackson's mother will fight for control of his fortune today. a judge in l.a. will consider who should handle jackson's estate worth half a billion dollars. right now it's controlled by his lawyer and a friend. katherine jackson has demanded to know what's done with the money. the judge is expected to give her permanent custody of jackson'kids. henry gates made a personal appearance about having a beer with president obama, and he joked about his recent arrest by a harvard police officer -- or cambridge police officer. at a book signing at martha's vineyard he said he was interested with meeting with sergeant james crowley again sometime. >> you know what? i liked crowley. i thought we would like each other, and that -- yeah, i don't today's a lieutenasalute tos know what we'll talk about. i asked him if he would have lunch with me one on one, maybe is from a newlywed. go to a red sox or celtics game her husband was deployed to together, maybe have dinner with our families, you know. afghanistan two weeks after they got married. >> hi, robin. why not? i offered to get his kids into i just wanted to salute my husband. i want him to know there is not harvard. >> that got a reaction. one day that goes by that we're on a more serious note, not thinking of him and praying professor gates said that he had for him, and i can't wait for received death threats. he's had to change his cell him to get home so we can begin phone number and e-mail. our lives together. i love you so much, baby, and i miss you and i can't wait to see okay. big breath of fresh air here. you again. what kind of weather are you so be safe. i love you. going to have this week? >> so sweet. i know for some people in if you have somebody in the service, we'd love to offer you new york and other parts of the northeast, it's the summer that the same thing where you can wasn't. >> indeed. salute your loved one in the >> hi, bob. >> rough weather yesterday, too, military. across that same area from philly to new jersey and cnn.com/robin. engineers have building new york. demolition down to a science that was all ahead of a cold front. now that the boundary has these days. except here's what happens when passed, high pressure building they miss the mark! in. a better day for you across the mid-atlantic to the northeast, but that frontal boundary goes this is new for you in about 25 into georgia with some showers developing later this afternoon and a couple of lines of thunderstorms overnight last minutes. oops! that's one tough building. night holding together right now harvard professor henry through iowa and wisconsin. you see the watch box right gates made his first public appearance since having a beer here. most of the action outside of with president obama, and he joked about his recent arrest by the watch. zoom into des moines, iowa. a cambridge police officer. you see the radar picture. at a book signing in martha's most of the action is off to the vineyard, he said he was west. severe thunderstorm warning west interested in meeting sergeant of des moines. james crowley again sometime. that's quarter-sized hail and >> you know, i liked crowley, winds gusts to 60 miles per and i thought that we would like hour. that rain goes into northern each other, and that -- yeah, i portions of that wisconsin coastline, so watch for showers out there. don't know what we'll talk later today that front sags to about, but i asked him if he the south, and severe would have lunch with me one on thunderstorms possible. kansas city through st. louis one. i asked him maybe to go to a red towards chicago late today. i think most will fall to the sox game together, maybe a south, but notice some rare offshore to the carolinas. it will bleed back in today. look at the fog. that's what's developing right celtics game together. why not? here. this gray shade as it expandzs, i don't think his kids will get into harvard. >> he's had death threats and atlanta hartfield jackson will get the big delays with poor had to change his cell phone and visibility first thing in the morning. e-mail address. look at that thunderstorm complex around oklahoma city. a stage collapsed at a zero in towards your action. most of it right overhead. country music festival, trapping it's a loud start for oklahoma actor kevin costner. city. that falls apart later this it collapsed right before costner and his band were about afternoon. more thunderstorms late today. we have more on that in a half to perform in alberta, canada. hour. good to see you on this monday morning. he wasn't hurt. >> thank you. workers canceled the rest of the >> it's like we were just here. >> yes. show. they issued a statement and >> summertime heat for you. said, we're sorry about the >> you're tired of seeing me injury on a day that held so bob? >> no. baking my brain with the heat is much promise but turned wicked all. time is ticking for a lot of so quickly. we hope to return to alberta in people collecting unemployment, but it may be a while before the future to help with the healing. the unemployment benefits jobs bounce back. what the white house wants to do are going to run out soon for a to keep the lifelines from lot of people, and the job drying up. market, as you've noticed, isn't getting much better. so money expert jennifer westhoven is here. are these people going to get any help? >> some lawmakers are really concerned about this. the white houseworki, working w congress, to see if they can extend it for 13 weeks. >> what we did was greatly extend the duration, increase the payments. that was an unprecedented increase. absolutely, as it's running out and we get to the end of the year when that program would naturally end, thinking about what to do going forward and absolutely on the table and something we'll be working with congress. >> we've reported how come august and september, for many people those benefits are going to run out, and those are people who lost their jobs in some of the first waves of mass layoffs of the recession. since then, very hard to find a job, and planet research tells the new york times that more than 1.5 million people by the end of the year could be out of jobs and out of benefits, and that could further stabilize a lot of neighborhoods already struggling. hondas are being recalled because of airbags that could be deadly. maybe you know someone who has a 2001-2002 accord, civics from 2001. the airbags can overpressurize and that can send shrapnel coming out. if you don't have one, don't wait for the mail to come out. contact your dealer directly. you can go to cnn.com/robin and we have a link with all the details in case you didn't catch it. >> i've heard of a lot of recalls, but shrapnel? that's serious business right there. we were talking about san francisco earlier this morning. delays about an hour. right now it's averaging 81 a salute for the troops is minutes because of the low from a newlywed. clouds moving in. her husband deployed to look outside sfo. afghanistan two weeks after they got married. you can see why you're waiting this is for lance correll right now. looking for delays around matthew dutton. >> i'd like to salute my atlanta. husband. i want him to know there's not 30 minutes due to the fog. chicago, the wind picks up one day that goes by that we're specifically in the afternoon, not thinking about him or so watch for hour-long delays praying for him and that i can't there. more thunderstorms developing in st. louis and orlando. wait for him to get home so we detroit is wind, and san francisco, there's your fog. can begin our lives together. it's actually over an hour now. i love you so much, baby, and i miss you and i can't wait to see i guess you can call this a you again. so be safe. i love you. gold mine for classical music >> kylee, thank you so much. lovers. some music that never saw the i'm sure he misses you, too. light of day just released. go to cnn.com/robin. back to the top to her about the three american hikers detained in irans. they were arrested friday for illegally entering the country from iraq. richard lui has more details on them. i think a lot of people are going, why were they hiking in iraq in the first place? >> of all places. what we know right now is all three are seasoned travelers. first up is joshua fattal. a friend described him as fiercely intellectual. he worked with him at a sustainable living center where they grow their own food and generate their own energy. shane bauer is a photographer. the news service director saying he's a remarkably talented guy. and then on a travel website the third, sarah shourd, described herself as a teacher/activist/writer from california currently based in the middle east. >> now we know who they are. richard, exactly where were they hiking? did anyone warn them saying, hey, make sure you don't cross over into iran? >> they were hiking through the kurdistan region before they crossed an unmarked border near iran. they stayed at a hotel. the hotel owner repeatedly warned them not to hike in the area because it is not safe for u.s. citizens. a former u.s. intelligence officer saying it's lush areas with caves and water falls, though. he says the border is not clear my marked there and people have wandered across before. >> richard, thank you very much. we'll talk about what's needed to get them back home. a lottery ticket worth $500,000 slipped out of one man's hand. how his incredible stroke of good luck was followed by a heart-breaking loss. unemployment benefits are about to run out soon for a lot of people who cannot pay the bills, and the job market isn't . back it our top story about getting any better. the three american hikers our money expert jennifer detained in iran. westhoven has this information. state-run media reports that are these people and there are a iranian security forces arrested lot of people going to get any them friday for illegally more help? entering the country from iraq. >> that's what we look for, robin. there are members of congress richard lui has more details on sounding the alarm. they want an emergency 13 week them. i think a lot of people would of extensions of benefits. wonder, why were you hiking in iraq in the first place before? we're talking about states that >> we're going to get to that, have dramatically high jobless rates where people need extra robin. more details on the three, though, that did go hiking. help here. we've reported on the show how they are all seasoned travelers, come august and september, so we hear. unemployment benefits are going first up is joshua fattal. to run out for tens of thousands of americans. friends describe him as fiercely many people who lost their jobs, intellectual. he works at a sustainable living it's a very first wave of mass center where they grow their own food and make their own energy. layoffs we saw at the beginning of the recession. an employment research group then there's shane bower, a tells "the new york times" that another 1.5 million americans by the end of the year could be without a job and without benefits. so they're looking for ways to photographer. the third hiker, sarah shourd help those people. honda is recalling almost half a describing herself as a teacher, million cars because there's a activist, writer from potentially deadly defect with the air bag. california. we're talking about some honda >> the owner says he repeatedly accords, civics and acura tl warned them, hey, don't go hiking in that area. it's not safe for americans. what about that area? what do we know about it? sedans. they're from 2001, 2002 and >> think lush, caves, waterfalls 2003. the driver's side air bag can in that area, so says a former u.s. intelligence officer. overpressurize and rupture, and then metal fragments can come he says people wandered across this border region before, and flying out. honda says at least one person the area looks to be slightly they know already died because of this, and six people were mountainous on that right-hand hurt. side. then we pull back once again. if your car is affected, watch the tourist town the hikers your mail. started from, this is the you'll get a notice in the mail. something we wanted to let you know about so you can get your kurdistan area. unlike the rest of iraq that you car fixed up. >> these are older cars, but who can't get into, you can get isn't driving an older car unless they took advantage of packages into kurdistan where the cash for clunkers program. they were, according to a travel jen, thank you so much. expert telling cbs. the cigar boom of late night >> all right, richard. may have purned out, but innoefb thank you very much. tiger woods pulled out another win, but he said it was thinking have given a texas bittersweet. but you won! cigar company a reason to here's rafer. celebrate. we have the smoking story in the >> i know. it's the last buick open. small business success. at least, that's what they're saying. you know what, he really seemed >> oh, life's simple pleasures. like he was enjoying himself. he was interacting with the >> cigar smokers are the best people in the world. fans, kind of having a good you can enjoy a cigar. time. woods said this being the last i watched the lava flow, take a buick open may have motivated him a little bit more. couple of deep breaths. the associated press saying gm not going to be sponsoring this >> and exhale. the cigar company is breathing tournament after this year, easy during a tough economy saving about $7 million a year. selling more cigars than ever before. tiger played like a million this popular puff house is bucks. this was a major rebound after located on austin's famous sixth he bombed in the british open. street. for nearly a decade this to the gallery, then a bit of location was enough to bring in drama on 18. big business. normally when tiger hits a shot but now the hot spot is having like this and it does -- it to identify new techniques to keep their flames burning flips up -- he usually gets strong. really angry, but he was okay >> we had to come up with a because he won. couple of different projects to and you know who else won? enlarge or prifary of business. olympic champion michael phelps. >> it includes custom-branded he and teammates walked away. cigars and live cigar rollers you can watch on the internet. he finished the meet by helping >> if you don't change, you're the u.s. former meter relay team going to be left behind, and not only win but set a world innovation is something that we record. he won the butterfly, said he are very, very keen on. was motivated by his mom being >> no fear of being left behind there. he didn't want her to fly all for this small business and no the way out to italy and not worries the surgeon general worries gets smoking. >> it got started a long time win! you know what happens when mom isn't happy with him. ago and it will be here for a she was happy. thousands expected to attend long time to come and we'll be the funeral for slain boxer here with it. vernon forrest. >> if you're a small business owner, he'd like to see your this champion was shot by rob success story, too. go to cnn.com/robin. up load a video i-report about your business, and you could be be featured right here on "morning robbers who wanted his express." 16 minutes past the hour. you can call this a gold mine championship ring and his rolex for classical musical lovers. watch. they said he was such a wonderful man, it's just a huge some works by mozart buried for loss to the boxing community and many years just saw the a lot of to this community as well. day. on a more positive note, this 18-year-old deaf woman won the x-games. ashley fiolek came from the back of the pack to win. talk about making a grand entrance! she is continuing to gain national attention. lastly, it is presidents versus pierogies. what? that's right, the presidents were racing and a pierogie takes out president roosevelt. in pittsburgh, they raise pierogies, in washington, they raise presidents. this was in pittsburgh. they put them together on the fields and it did well for teddy roosevelt. >> wolfgang amadeus mozart is adding to his repertoire. recently some music discovered by composers was uncovered, and we give it to you now. [ music playing ] they were found in a book compiled by mozart's father that were used for practice. he wrote the pieces when he was only seven or eight years old. a mother got an e-mail telling her picture of her seven-month-old were being offered on the enter neinternet adoption! inches breaking news this morning. continental airlines jets from rio to houston made an emergency landing in miami. these are the pictures that you're seeing here. you see the wing of a jet basically in that shot, and the emergency crew surrounding it here. our affiliate wplg with the picture we're getting right there said flight 128 from rio to houston had to be diverted to m.i.a. because there was a lot of turbulence on board. in fact, several of the passengers were reportedly hurt, and that's the reason that the plane landed in miami. so we're just getting the details of this. we're going to watch this story and watch this live feed here. i'm looking, and i see some emergency crews with a stretcher here. i can't tell if anyone is in the stretcher just yet. it doesn't look like it. it looks like they're approaching the aircraft, and we'll be watching that story to see how many injured passengers thet get out of the body of the plane here after it made an emergency landing because of turbulence. tiger woods pulled out another win, but this was bittersweet. why? >> because it may be the -- it looks like it's the last buick open. buick and tiger woods have been synonymous. the ap is reporting that gm will no longer sponsor the event after this year. spending $7 million at a golf tournament probably not in their best interests, but for tiger just knowing that could be his last time pushed him a little bit more. he played excellent. won by three strokes. that's his largest margin in a long time. he tosses a ball in the gallery to the fans. it was a major win after he rebounded after bombing at the british open. strange things happen at this tournament. we're going to have more in the next half hour. michael phelps walked away with five gold at the world championships in rome. he finished the meet helping the relay team win and set a world record swimming the butterfly leg. started out the meet with a surprising loss, but walked away with fife gold and one silver. his mother was very proud of him. today thousands are expected to attend today's funeral for slain boxer vernon forest outside of atlanta. the former champion was shot and killed during a robbery last saturday over his rolex watch and championship ring. his murder is one of several high profile crimes in atlanta lately. the next day a city councilman was carjacked at his mother's house. lastly, it was the president versus peroges at pnc park in pittsburgh. watch him take out teddy roosevelt. that's not good. poor teddy. that's a slavic dumpling. that's a look at sports. >> thank you. a girl who spent months in a coma is okay now and expected to make a full recovery. hear what she says helped her make it through the ordeal. lll morning. the new york stock exchange is open for business. the stocks are headed for gains on a positive sales report from ford. we're going to check back in a moment to see if that is the case. three americans are being held in iran after crossing an unmarked border on a hike. a fourth person who was traveling with them stayed behind because he fell ill that day, and we're told that the last time his friends were in touch was friday afternoon, and they said that they were surrounded by iranian soldiers. the corruption trial of a former congressman who had $90,000 in his freezer could end today. former louisiana congressman william jefferson is accused of taking more than $400,000 in bribes and soliciting millions more to brokerage business deals in africa. jefferson is facing more than 235 years in prison if convicted. the family of an american shot down over iraq 18 years ago finally knows what happened to him. the pentagon says it's identified the remains of captain michael "scott" speicher. he was the first american killed in the 1991 gulf war. searchers found his remains in the iraqi desert after getting tips from iraqis who remembered the jet crash and witnessed his burial. michael jackson's mother will fight for control of his fortune today. a judge in l.a. will consider who should handle jackson's estate worth at least half a billion dollars. right now it's controlled by his lawyer and a friend. the judge is also expected to give katherine jackson permanent custody of jackson's kids. those are some of our top stories. if you just woke up and are just now joining us, where have you been? i'm robin meade. the white house is considering moving all guantanamo bay detainees to a single prison in the united states. that's from a senior administration official who says possible locations include a soon-to-be closed maximum security prison in michigan and a military penitentiary in fort lef enforth, kansas. they would have a courtroom for the detainees' trials. president obama ordered guantanamo to be closed by november 2, 2010. what a story. a half a million dollar lottery ticket just disappeared from his pocket. he stashed the ticket in his pocket while he got directions to west palm beach, florida. on his way there, he realized the ticket was gone, and he thinks a pick-pocket got him. >> he was getting too close to me, so i says, would you like to go first? he said, no, no, go ahead. okay. and then i left there thinking my lotto and pay mi papers were still in my pocket. i left. i came home and it was gone. >> isn't that sad? since tolentino did not sign the ticket, anybody can turn it in now. i'm just wondering if when he went to get directions he was a little bit too happy and someone caught on to what was going on? >> either way, what a horrible situation. >> i hope he gets it back. 33 minutes past the hour. okay, so who has got the heat this week? >> i know it's a desert, i know it's august and i know it's phoenix, but yesterday they tied a record, rob, at 113. morning, breaking news to today you'll be right around start off. a continental airlines jet made there as well. 112 to 113 will be your high an emergency landing this morning in miami international temperature. excessive heat warnings. airport, and they're using an look for about 115 just outside innovative way to get injured phoenix off to the west, and that's going to be like this for passengers off the jet and into at least the next four days. the back of an ambulance. you see this truck? let me show you some of the this truck is one of those current temperatures coming in, and really no relief overnight. things where they put the foot onto the truck and lift it up you can see some of the readings popping up here. onto the airplane, the food and you're talking about 89 degrees, beverages. now, they're actually putting still. the injured passengers onto that's really low for you. that, because it's a lift bringing them down to the ground pretty comfortable in san level, putting them on the francisco. stretchers, and then wheeling 57. you're not going to get much them as you see right now into above that today. the waiting ambulances. thundershowers going to be a really something i've never seen possibility mainly across the before. we have word that possible 10 to midwest. you can see a nice line of 15 people on the flight are showers through and out of iowa, injured because of severe turbulence. it's flight 128 going from rio. stretching into sections of missouri. i don't see any thunderstorm warnings, but the lightning is supposed to go to houston, but definitely popping out there, this morning it had to make an driflting down to the southeast emergency landing at miami at 30 miles per hour. international airport because we are told because of turbulence. to the southeast just north of the picture is live, and it's chicago, could get a couple courtesy of wplg. thunderstorms this afternoon, but the heaviest rain by far is checked in here about two minutes. i'll keep watching this for you. three americans are being held in iran after crossing an northern sections of michigan, unmarked border on a hike. but the severe weather south of a fourth person who was chicago, into st. louis and traveling with them stayed kansas city. that's the best chance of seeing behind because he felt sick. any kind of severe weather. now, we're told that the last time his friends were in touch gusty winds maybe at 60 to 65 was friday afternoon. they said that they were surrounded by iranians soldiers. miles per hour. the carolina coast, all fog the fami the family of an american shot down over iraq 18 years ago around atlanta. delays for the morning, then it finally knows what happened to him. they identified the remaining of will burn off. atlanta getting a little bit captain michael scott speicher. better. check out the blue skies trying to poke on through. once that ground heats up a he was the first american killed little bit, that fog will disappear. in the 1991 war. more on that, robin, in a bit. they found his remains in the >> a little sticky. usually when we show you a iraqi desert after getting tips. building being demolished, it the corruption trial of that former congressman with $90 crumbles the way it's supposed thousand thoul in his freer to, but not in this case. an old factory building in could end today. turkey didn't collapse, it just former louisiana congressman william jefferson is accused of taking more than $400,000 in rolled over. bribes and soliciting millions and then it stopped a few feet more to broker business deals in short of another building. and nobody was injured, the africa. he's facing 235 years in prison engineers were trying to demolish the thing to make space if convicted. "funny people" was no joke for a shopping center. somebody should hire the person at the theater over the weekend. who original the built the it topped the box office building because look how strong bringing in $23 million. it was! >> it could withstand tons of "harry potter and the half-blood tnt. look at that thing roll. prince" finished second making 17 million. last weekend's top movie "g-force" slipped to three. july was a hot month on wall those are some of the headlines this morning. do we still have the live street, and we don't mean the picture out of miami temperature. international airport? consider this. want to see what kind of the dow surged more than 8.5% progress they're making. in plane had to have an emergency landing there after last month. coming from rio. it was supposed to go to that was the average last july houston, but they had severe turbulence. do you see the truck there? in 20 years. susan lisovicz, you'd never know that truck is on a lift. they use that. we're in a recession. it lifts up. >> remember, the stock market is see the door on the plane, the a leading indicator, robin. side door? when it starts to see signs of that's where they're taking improvement, encouragement, it injured passengers out and putting them on the back of that rallies, and that's what we saw in july, and the best news of all, first trading day of truck. this is a take. here is how it's working this august, we're seeing some morning. the lift is up, they're bringing positive mo. injured passengers out and putting them on the cargo area the bank of america reported a of the caters truck. they step on, and that's a lift 10% profit due to strength in which then comes back down to investment banking. ground level and they're taken ford motors set to deliver a off to the ambulance. sales increase this afternoon. really interesting. we're watching and we'll bring a ford executive tells cnn the you new developments about the automaker will report an passengers. the white house is increase in july sales, marking considering moving all guantanamo bay detainees to a single prison in the united the first year increase since states. now, that's from senior the financial crisis began two administration officials who say years ago. there are changes in the board room at apple. possible locations include a soon-to-be closed maximum security prison in michigan, and s schmidt resigning as director of a military penitentiary in apple. he said in a statement that there could be potential conflict of interest. and finally, there is some kans kansas. president obama ordered new girls in town, and parents guantanamo closed by january might be a little happier with 22nd of 2010. their appearance. our top story today or it mta entertainment is rolling out has been what we're working on. iran detained three american its new moxy girls dolls to take hikers. swiss diplomats are trying to meet with them today. richard lui joins us now. place of its bratz line. the u.s. most of our viewers the moxy girls have, shall we say, a subtler look? know doesn't have relations are ir iran. how do they work to get them released? >> that's the concern right now. lavish, expensive, material we talked about this situation things, whatever. with cnn earlier, don lemon on mta lost the bratz girls to our sister network. take a look. mattel, so now they're putting >> strategy number one is to out bratz lites, and the one shut up, to not talk publicly about it. number two, is to talk to anyone that attracted me is two sets of who is talking to the government hair. of iran, and that is the prime don't you wish you have that every day when you go to work? minister of iraq has good you don't like one, go to the relations with the government of second set of hair. iran and the swiss have >> you have two hairdos, one represented our interests there called bedhead and one is post for sometime. this is a real opportunity for the iranians to have a public relations coup that they can glam teen. the cash for clunkers somehow that they are still program could get a second wind. participatary in the community of nations by simply confirming lawmakers are trying to scramble they're students and releasing them. that would be their smart move. for billions of dollars to keep >> robinson said that border it going if you felt left out. area is very ill-defined and tough to tell when you're crossing the line or not because it's so lush. >> iran has faced a lot of international tensions or internal tensions, he should say, since the presidential election in june. you hear about new developments there. >> state-run media reports says that iran's supreme court leader endorsed mahmoud ahmadinejad for a second term today. he will be sworn in on wednesday. iranian opposition leader mousavi has called the election results a fraud. iranian media reporting more than 100 people went on trial this weekend for arrests made during post-election demonstrations. a half a million dollar lottery ticket disappeared from the winner's pocket. louis says he stashed his scratch-off ticket in his pocket while he got directions to the nearest lotto office in west palm beach, florida. on his way there he realized the ticket was gone. he thinks a pickpocket got him. >> he was getting so close to me, so i said would you like to go first? he said no, no. okay. and then i left there thinking my lotto and my paper was still in my pocket. i left. i came home, and it was gone. >> well, since he didn't sign the ticket, anybody can now turn it in. this is when a man hurts is appropriate, right? >> that's true. if he's telling the truth, i feel bad for him. >> i feel bad to him. >> maybe someone will find it and give it back. that's what i hope, anyway. bob's here. west pauch beach. good morning. >> one line of thunderstorms dropping down out of the upper midwest through the great lakes right now. most of the rain into northern michigan. you see that swaul up towards lake michigan itself. that's right outside of des moines. look at this severe thunderstorm warning. that's the orange box right here. sliding to the southeast at 35 miles per hour. dime-sized to quarter-sized hail a possibility out of that. up the line a little farther, heavy rain right around sheboygan towards green bay. the yellow watch is still the severe thunderstorm watch from overnight last night. it's about ready to expire. later today at the kvrt cold front sags south wartd we have more humidity into the south. st. louis and he kansas city and chicagoland might see some powerful thunderstorms today. on the ground in miami. gusty winds, and watch for that later this afternoon. we're waiting to find out when the rain is offshore for the the plane will head for houston. carolinas. the poor people who had to wait. later on today the sea breeze the "cash for clunkers" comes back on in, the humidity is out there, daytime heating. program is in limbo as we wait to see if the senate is going to watch for heavy rainmakers down approve another $2 billion to fund it. the house approved those funds there. downpours at charleston towards riceville beach. on friday after car dealers just look at the satellite picture ripped right through the $1 right now. all the dull-shaded gray clouds, billion set aside in less than a week. the wildly popular incentive that formed last night from credits you up to $4500 when you macon to augusta and atlanta, too. live to atlanta. trade in your old car for a more look at all the clouds over us. fuel-efficient one. here's what it looks like on the >> it would probably be a good idea for the government to get tower cam. it's a tough go for you early this morning at the airport. haven't seen a delay there, but thesis last few cars off the they will certainly be out there for atlanta's hartsfield-jackson. beautiful city. cloaked in low clouds and poor road. >> it would give me more money than my car is worth, and i visibility. don't have 4500 to put down on a temperatures today at about 90 degrees and still humid. >> it's because it's hot. >> i think i lost 10 pounds new car. >> what do you think about the playing golf on saturday. "cash for clunkers" program? i'm not even joking. did you get a car or were you turned away? ronnie from florida says, i am if i look gaunt to you right now, that's why. the manager of a used car >> a little depleted, huh? dealership. now that the trade-ins are being mozart is adding to his destroyed, where am i supposed to get cars? repertoire. huh? well, researchers have unveiled two piano pieces recently al frayed oedo in new york says identified as childhood creations by the legendary finally, the government is doing composer. come here and listen. something right! ♪ go to cnn.com and hit the little contact button on the page and that will send us an e-mail. >> pretty good. richard lui has a story the compositions were found in a book compiled by mozart's father that's new for you in the next that was used for practice. half hour. what's going on? experts believe that mozart >> the two suspects we're wrote the pieces when he was only 7 or 8 years old. talking about here allegedly wanted to ransom off three >> wow. >> what were the rest of us people who were kidnapped in doing at 7 or 8? >> i have to start yelling at my texas, but apparently dozens of relatives had other ideas and lots of baseball bats as well. 5-year-old. what have you done? >> slacker. we'll keep you updated on thank you. ford is seeing a big jump in that continental flight that had to be diverted to miami after sales. what has happened for the first two dozen passengers were time since november of 2007. injured in the air. we'll watch as that plane tries to make its way to the original destination. something happened on friday with the health care system, and what's happening this week, the senate just walked away from its summer recess. thousands of people paid tribute to a woman considered a woman of democracy. aquino died of cancer over the weekend. her supporters wore yellow. it was her favorite color and became a symbol of uprising. ferdinand marco was in power and aquino was 76 years old. one web site now puts money back into students' wallets. hln money expert clark howard tells you where to find that deal. >> i'm going to be a spoilsport. here we are in the middle of summer and i'm going to talk about back to school. how could i do that? because i have an opportunity for you. if you are an incoming college freshman or you're already in college and you see your wallet just disappear year after year when you go to the bookstore to buy the books for your classes, what if i could save you a lot of money on that? maybe not for every textbook for every class, but there is a business that's been quietly out there for a couple years. i talked about it back when it first started, chagg.com. it didn't seem to have much impact then but now seems to be growing pretty quickly, where you rent your textbooks for the quarter or semester. think about that. when do you ever need them again, anyway? so you can rent them and turn them back in. that could save you a fortune in money over a four-year degree! the web site you go to is chagg.com, c-h-e-g-g.com. go to cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> clark will tell you to save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. catch him at noon eastern on saturdays and sundays right here on hln. forget ethanol. one inventor in new mexico said you can use mountain dew to fuel your automobile. it can connect to any engine, but some gas has to be mixed you know an island madonna with the mountain dew to work. how in the world? a cop says a man wrestled once sang about is burning. his taser gun away from him, so now the police department is 4,000 people have been investigating how the man ended evacuated. up dead. that is a fierce fire. the mayor of one town said at least 50 homes have been destroyed. wind has made things almost impossible for the firefighters. several fires started suspiciously at the same time. it's been almost six months since president obama announced $75 billion mortgage relief plan, and jennifer westhoven joins us. a lot of people are saying, hey, what's in it it for me because the program isn't working for them personally? >> we heard about these programs. so many e-mails were people that couldn't get anything to change. nobody wrote in to say no problem, that worked out. the white house is pushing mortgage companies tootd better when it comes to helping american at risk of losing their homes. "the new york times" reports that the white house called in a group of mortgage executives to find out why it seems so few americans are able to modify their loans. industry experts say --s in in the "new york times" -- that lenders are dragging their feet because they get to collect all those late fees, and they say that's why nobody is getting their mortgage changed. companies deny it. they say they lose money when loans are late, but pretty interesting and something we'll keep our eye on as the white house kind of tries to hold the flames to the feet of the mortgage companies. good news for ford. it was christmas in july last month. car sales jumped for ford for the first time since the financial crisis last fall according to a ford exactivecut. they say cash for clunkers made a huge difference. they didn't take any bailout money. we'll see if it helped gm and chrysler which are in some ways wards of the state. you probably hear about twitter all the time and hear about it on cnn. now some airlines are trying to use it to sell last-minute se s seats. they send out tweets, and they could come at any time. get this. they sometimes only last an hour or two and they give them silly u.s. marshals have seized skin names. the marketers i'm sure got paid sanitizeers and other skin products made by a lab in utah. thousands of dollars for calling the fda is warning the public them tweets. not to use any clarcon products they call them cheaps. because they contain harmful it's like a text message but bacteria. over twitter. clarcon recalled several of its >> can you basically buy these own products in june after an seats online? you can't go running off to the fda inspection found a high level of disease-causing bacteria. airport. >> i think it's hard to buy it no reports have been reported to through your phone. the fda. one of the things you can't do an off-duty cop said he had right now is get a lass-minute seat. right now they kind of have you to shoot a man who stole his hostage. taser. the officer was working security if you buy at the last minute you have to pay a high price. in an apartment complex when he airlines probably want to get tried to break up a fighting rid of them, so that's a way to couple. the couple said a man got his get rid of a little bit without taser -- the cop says that, i'm advertising. >> all right. sorry. a mother got an e-mail he says he shot and killed the telling her that pictures of her man because he feared for his life. 7-month-old were on the the police are investigating. internet. what she did when she found out that her kid was being offered michael phelps and a cancer for adoption. survivor lead the u.s. men to victory. here's rafer with the tape. good morning. >> good morning, robin. we've been talking so much about phelps and these swimming championships, but there are other guys on the team, and his teammate, eric santo was fighting and overcame testicular cancer. he's on the left side of the screen, the shorter one. he swam the breast stroke leg to win his first major gold medal. he's out in front there almost, and then phelps swam the butterfly. so the u.s. men not only win, but they set a world record in the process as well. congrats to those guys. and congrats to tiger woods. he also rebounded from, shall we say, a loss. he bombed the british open and came out here and tore up the buick open. he won it for the third time. it could be his last. the ap is reporting that gm will not sponsor the event next year, and knowing that, tiger said it moe motivated him to do well. there he is throwing a ball into the crowd. speaking of the crowd, a greenman dancing around in the background, and i love how nobody is paying attention to him. it's just like he's kind of there. he looks at himself dancing. did you notice that? >> which is actually how i dance. i just kind of off in the corner. viewers tell us this is a character from a tv show. we are not condoning this behavior. something else you don't often see on the course. this guy, craig stadler, on the u.s. senior open in indiana after he sinks this long putt, he does what bob does when he misses a shot, throws his club in the lake. what? that's expensive. and then he goes and gets his ball and throws that in the lake as well. >> throw you in the lake. >> all won the tournament and set a scoring record doing it. you're looking at baltimore and pittsburgh the only teams vick you know what? could go to. if you post any of your family he could play in the upstart united football league. pictures on the internet, you might want to hear this story. lastly, this is how you don't a massachusetts mom was drive. well, unless you're a horrified to discover that a professional and you're in picture of her baby taken from finland, which is where the her family's blog was used in an raleigh cars races were this apparent adoption scam. weekend. that's pretty cool. the ad on craigslist said for this, oh, no, geez, that's not 33 good. yeah -- we did that. hundr0$00 she could sign up to a they call him the flying fin. baby boy. that's a look at sorts. the cash for clunkers program is in limbo right now as oh, god, darn it. >> yeah, that's not like driving we wait to see if the senate will approve another $2 billion into a bail of hay. that's a tree. to fund it. the house approved the funds on friday after car dealers blew through the 1 do$1 billion sed >> yeah. travelers, this is, travelers, a lot of you getting to work today, so let's see how the getting is going. aside in a week. >> we're talking about san it will credit you 4500 bucks to francisco, 81-minute delay. trade in your old car for a more that's the average because of the low clouds coming in, fuel efficient one. hanging out over sfo. >> it would be a good idea for th the government to get these last 2:00 p.m. your time. fuel efficient cars off the road here's what we have for the rest of the day. if you're traveling out, look at and reduce our dependence on foreign oil to some extent. atlanta, the clouds beginning to break out for just a bit. >> it gives me more money than the morning fog delays, just what my car is worth, and i about over with. good news there. for the rest of the day, don't have 4500 to put down on a chicago, you'll start seeing delays with wind and more new car. thundershowers developing when >> well, one republican senator you get towards st. louis and orlando. also, detroit, windy conditions, and right now, san francisco, calls the program an example of the stupidity that comes from 81-minute delay. washington. more on that, rob, in about a half hour. >> thanks. after a rough start, michael a beach in cancun has been shut down after the mexican phelps got added incentive from government said that the sand his mother and walked away a was stolen. a hotel has been accused of champion. this is the same mom when he did poorly, she cut him no slack. illegally pumping sand from the this is what she did on video. ocean floor and putting it on their beach. several beaches in the area were wiped away by hurricane wilma in yeah. hi, rafer. >> he said he didn't want want 2005. the hotel hasn't even commented on the allegations. a girl who spent two months mom to come to rome and not see in a coma is now okay and him win and he didn't want to expected to make a full see that anymore. recovery. he and his teammates not only you're going to hear what she won the 400 meter relay but set said helped her make it through that ordeal. a world record while doing it. walked away with five goad medals and unsilver. the world record say red line right there. before that another american overcam test particular cancer and won his first medal in the breaststroke. we'll have more on that in the next hour. there's mom right there. tiger woods won his third buick open, and it could be his last. the ap reports gm will no longer sponsor the event after a 50-year partnership. woods was like -- treating it like a fathrewell tour. he was interacting with the fans and throwing balls in the gallery right there. i hope someone caught it. there were some weird sightings at the buick open. look in the background, look at the green guy dancing around in front of people. what the heck is that? we don't know what this was. nobody is paying attention to the guy. he's just there doing his little dance. it's just very, very -- >> very ungolflike. >> and slightly psychotic. michael vick is running out of options. the new england patriots many thought would sign him say no, we're not interested. this is according to the owner. he said so on his satellite radio show. we're looking at three possible destinations for vick. pittsburgh or baltimore or with the upstart united football league. an 18-year-old deaf teenager won the women's football leagu. ashley filek, this is in her x-games debut, and she is gaining national notoriety for h h h win. this is near robin's lake house. that was me driving home. that really wasn't me. he won the event on his home soil. they call him the flying fin. >> when you wreck on that kind of racetrack, you're really wrecking. >> nobody was hurlt, though, that's the good news. the fda is warning the public not to use any clarcon products because they contain harmful bacteria. clarcon recovered some of its products in june after they found high levels of a potential disease-causing bacteria. no reports have been given to the fda. two people were killed and 11 others were wounded saturday night when a masked man stormed a center for gay teens and opened fire. demonstrators worry that the attack could mean or what it could mean for the country's gay community. >> you know, i think any decent human being, whatever religion or belief, can't accept it. my kids, who are the authorities, will do enough to catch these people. >> they said the killer will be found and brought to justice. a stage collapsed at a country music festival, and actor kevin cost ner was one of the dozen. time for you to rise and shine. monday morning. how was your weekend? that good, huh? i'm robin meade. welcome. you know, lawmakers are trying to take up billions of dollars to keep that cash for clunkers program alive that was so popular, but some new developments could stop you from cashing in on the deal. >> the night before i went to the white house, i dreamed i got arrested in the white house. >> harvard professor henry louis gai gates is joking about his arrest, but you have to hear what he had to say about the officer who handcuffed him. >> if they wouldn't have prayed, i probably would have died, i think. and i came back to life. >> a teen wakes up after months in a coma. the inspiring story of how her family and friends never gave up. we've been watching a breaking news story this morning, and this is the latest on it. live pictures right now of a continental airlines jet. they had to make an emergency land ng miami. it was going from rio to houston, but they had to go to miami about an hour ago to make an emergency landing. a miami dade fire official was telling cnn that 26 people were hurt on this plane after severe turbulence they experienced. 22 are reported to be in stable condition right now. mostly you got back and neck injuries. four people, though, are in serious condition. not critical, though. there were 168 passengers on board. you can see some of the ambulances that remain. the airlines has to figure out, what do we do with a non-injured passenger that we have on this plane now? this is flight 128 from rio to houston. it looks like they're still trying to check out some of the passengers. i want to show you this video. the cruise got injured rescue workers off the jet. they put them onto the lift truck that you would normally get your catering from into the plane. they took them out the side door, put them into the lift of this truck and then they were taken to ground level and then loaded onto waiting ambulances. i've never seen anything like that. we'll bring you more details as we get them. we've learned that swiss diplomats asked to meet three americans detained in iran. that's from the swiss embassy. they're accused of illegally crossing an unmarked border into iran while hiking in iraq on friday. iraqi officials identified them as shane bower, sarah shourd and joshua fattal. here's someone from joshua's home town. >> not being able to communicate with the people detaining them, that's the scary part. >> another american who traveled with them stayed behind in iran, and he's at the embassy there. you're going to hear more details about the three hikers, what we know about them, including whether anyone warned them about hiking near iran's border. that's less than ten minutes away. i know many of you are waiting anxiously to find out if congress is going to pult more money into that cash for clunkers program. there is a debate shaping up over that widely popular incentive. jennifer westhoven is looking into that. good morning. >> so popular, robin. the dealers were scrambling. the bottom line is if you got a deal over the weekend, good for you, i'm glad you rushed and did some of your homework because it's probably burned through its $1 billion budget and we just don't know if it's going to get more. here's the big picture whether cash for clunkers is a good thing. could this be a sign that the economy is on the way up? >> it's a very important indicator that the state of confidence in the economy is beginning to pick up. if we had been -- if it the clur program had been put in place six months ago, it probably would have been a dud. >> so he's saying whether or not it gets any more money, it's telling us something good about the economy, that people are ready to buy. will it get more money? we'll see. the house okayed another $2 billion for it to happen. the senate has to agree, and senate republicans are threatening to block it. robin? >> thank you very much. something we will certainly watch. let me ask you, what do you think about the cash for clunkers program? i mean, did you get a car? were you turned away? do you want to get involved? go to cnn.com/robin. hit the contacts button on the the bottom of the page. 18 days after a shut-down in iraq, we finally know what happened to captain speicher. the pentagon said the remains have now been identified and recovered from a grave in the desert. the discovery ends years of speculation that speicher was being held captive. >> it's a bittersweetenedi endi. it's great we finally accomplished an ending. but it is bittersweet. you always hope he is going to be found alive, but on that end, if he was found alive, look what he's missed. his children are in college now, and what kind of life would he have led being a prisoner of war? >> well, speicher was shot down on the first night of the first gulf war. his children were only toddlers at the time. his family issued a statement thanking everyone involved in the search. searchers found his remains after getting tips from iraqis who remembered the crash and witnessed his burial. president obama's top money men won't rule out higher taxes in the future. over the weekend, national economic advisor larry summer said they would have to find funding for health care reform somewhere. in an interview on abc this week, secretary treasurer tim geithner said taxes might be necessary somewhere to get the budget down. >> we'll have to do what's necessary. the critical thing is that people understand when we have recovery established led by the private sector, then we have to bring the deficits down very dramatically. what the country needs to do is understand we're going to have to do what it takes. we have to do what's necessary. >> alan greenspan said the government would probably impose some value-added tax to raise money. they usually translate into higher prices for the rest of us. michael jackson's mother will fight for control of his fortune today. a judge in l.a. will consider who should handle jackson's estate worth at least half a billion dollars. right now it's controlled by his lawyer and a friend. katherine jackson has demanded to know what's being done with the money. the judge is also expected to give her permanent custody of jackson's kids. six minutes past the hour. in the chicago area, it's not going to start for a very nice morning, i can tell you that. hi, bob. >> some rain pockets around chicago, but the heaviest rain is going to fall basically north into michigan and all the way towards iowa, too. it's a little bit dry when you get into northern indiana. northern illinois, these strong thunderstorms not holding together, but you get down south, you can see des moines, the radar picture still picking up a decent thunderstorm cell. it's not severe, but it's a heavy rainmaker and we had severe lightning just about half an hour ago. rain right around sheboygan into green bay. it's going to get into madison today. a squall over lake michigan now into central michigan itself. it is not severe, but winds probably gusting to 40 miles an hour. not much lightning with it but heavy rain is out there. that's what you have the first part of the day. later this afternoon, a trigger for the severe weather today is going to be this cold front and it's going to ride to the south this afternoon. so anywhere south of chicago, into st. louis, most of missouri, southern half of iowa, parts of nebraska and kansas, too. might see some severe thunderstorms. gusty winds out of that. across the deep southeast, we've had a lot of rain the last few days. rain continues to fall right off this shoreline, but i think a little daytime heating today will get those sea breezes worked back in. the fog is thick. it includes atlanta, rob. we'll get more on that and air travel in just a couple minutes. clouds just got lower in the last half hour for atlanta, so we will definitely see delays in ha hartfield-jackson. >> don't touch! >> difficult august for you. >> it is august, you're right. all right. time is ticking for a lot of people who have been collecting unemployment, but it may be a while before jobs bounce back. so what the white house wants to do to keep the lifelines from drying out. today's salute to the troops is from a newlywed. her husband was deploid to afghanistan only two weeks after they got married, so this is for corporal matt dutton. >> hi, robin. i'd like to salute my husband. there is not one day that goes by that we're not thinking about him or praying for him. i can't wait until he gets home so we can begin our lives together. i love you so much, baby, and i miss you and i can't wait to see you again. so stay safe. i love you. >> kylee, thank you so much. if you have someone in the service, go to cnn.com/robin so you can salute them, too. back to the top story about the three american hikers detained in iran. state-run media reports that iranian security forces arrested them friday for illegally entering the country from iraq. richard lui has more details on them. i think a lot of people would wonder, why were you hike ng in the first place in iraq? >> they are all seasoned travelers, so we hear. first hup is joshua fattal. they worked with him at a sustainable living center where they grow their own food. then there's shane bower, a student of many cultures, and sarah shourd describing herself as a teacher, activist and writer from california. >> the owner says he repeatedly warned them, hey, don't be hike ng that area. it's not safe for americans. what did that area? what do we know about it? >> think lush caves, waterfalls in that area says a so-called u.s. intelligence officer. people wandered across this border area before, and the iraqi tourist town the hikers started from, this is in the kurdistan area, the southern part of the section. unlike the rest of the iraq, you can get travel packages into some of the area where they were, a travel expert told cbs. >> richard, thank you very much. we'll watch the story. this is a scary situation, i think, for a lot of our viewers, that unemployment benefits are going to run out soon for a lot of people who cannot pay their bills, and the job market doesn't look like it's getting any better. so money expert jennifer westhoven is here. jen, those people, and there are a lot of them, going to get any more help? >> hold your thought there. we're having some mic issues. it's the gremlins in the system. >> are we all done? >> you look good. there you go. >> mine is on but it's just not working. some members of congress are really sounding the alarm that they're worried because there are a lot of people who are going to be running out of benefits, and chances of getting a job right now really tough out there. so they're talking about a 13-week extension only in states where there is already high unemployment. unemployment is going to run out for tens of thousands of people coming up soon. and remember, we talked about this. we talked about this, that people were going to start running out of their monbenefitn august and september. they're going to be recalling half a million cars because of a potentially deadly airbag defect. we're talking about honda acc d accor accords, civics, acura tls. we're talking about 2001, 2002 and 2003. we'll have a link for that soon. there is a bag not working properly and it can actually shoot out shrapnel. what you want to do if you have dealership. you can find out about that there. if you are traveling this morning, turbulence isn't everywhere, right? >> it's not. it seems to be in the tropics. so far, so good. when you get towards atlanta, let me show you what it looks like on the tower cam. low clouds settling in. fog, low clouds, we have it at atl. we'll see some delays the early part of the day but that will burn off the rest of the afternoon. windy conditions in the great lakes. chicagoan hour or more. st. louis, same thing. some works by mozart that were buried for many years just saw the light of day. . an outdoor stage collapsed in a sudden storm, killing one person and trapping actor kevin costner. the stage caved in saturday right before costner and his band were going to perform in l alber alberta, canada. he wasn't hurt. organizers canceled the last day of the country music concert. tiger pulled out another win, but it could be the last for this tournament, anyway. here's rafer with more on that. >> it may not mean much to the non-sports fan, but it's bittersweet to us that it's potentially the last buick open. now the ap is saying the car company will not sponsor the event after this year, spending 7 million on a golf tournament probably not in their best interest. but for tiger, he said knowing this could be his last time playing it says it pushed him a little more. he bombed at the british open, so he need ted this win. we had some strange sightings at this tournament. that in the next hour. olympic champion michael phelps and his team walked away world champions after phelps suffered his first major loss. he finished the meet after helping the u.s. win the 400 meter relay and he finished the butterfly. his mom was very proud. a funeral for slain boxer vernon forrest. he was shot and killed during a robbery attempt last saturday when they were trying to get his ro lex watch and championship ring. he was carjacked at his mother's house. an 18-year-old deaf teenager won the women's motor x super x at the examine games. she came back from practically the back of the pack. this woman is gaining national notoriety for her racing. amazing. watch the per owing i take out teddy roosevelt. the pittsburgh pirates raised pierogies, which is a slavic dump ling. the two apparently collapsrashe. literally. we got the nascar minutes. nascar and nationwide insurance teamed up this week to bring awareness to a problem that is all too common: distracted driving. the brooifr r driver showed just how dangerous it could be while he tried texting and driving a simulator. it just goes to show how hard it is to drive at this speed when you're not highly focused. the research shows truck drivers are 20% more likely to have an accident if they're texting. only 14 states have passed a law prohibiting texting while driving a car. >> what do you in your own car, that's one thing. but when it starts affecting other drivers on the road, we've got to do something. >> and i'm rafer weigel and that's sports. a girl in a coma is going to be okay, but you've got to hear what helped her make it through it all. i'll clean the pool if you clean the windows. pick the windows, pick the windows! anything but the windows. deal. oh! new windex outdoor all-in-one... cleans outdoor glass fast. just spray with water, wipe with a windex cleaning pad, and rinse for a streak-free shine in half the time. you're done? 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( laughs ) new windex outdoor all-in-one. a streak-free shine in half the time. s.c. johnson, a family company. three americans are being held in iran after crossing an unmarked border on a hike. a fourth person who was traveling with them stayed behind because he felt sick. now, we're told the last time his friends were in touch was friday, and they said they were surrounded by iranian soldiers. the family of an american shot down over iraq 18 years ago finally knows what happened to him. the pentagon said it identified the remains of captain scott speicher. he was the first american killed in the gulf war. he was found after getting tips from iraqis who remembered the jet crash and witnessed his burial. the former congressman who had $90,000 in his freezer, that trial could end today. william jefferson is accused of taking more than $400,000 in bribes and brokered deals in africa. he is facing 25 years in prison if convicted. funny people was no joke at the theaters this weekend. the adam sandler drama topped the box office bringing in more than $23 million. "harry potter" made 23$23.4 million. we have breaking stories this morning, and there are new details about a continental airlines jet that made an emergency landing about 5:30 a.m. eastern. now, it landed in miami. it was going from rio, supposed to go to houston. a fire department official was telling cnn that 26 people were hurt when the flight 128 hit severe turbulence, and four are in serious condition. the plane was on its way from rio to houston, texas. this is what you're looking at here, a piece of tape showing you an unusual way they got the injured passengers from the plane level down to ground level so they could wheel them over to the ambulance. did you see they were using a catering truck which has a lift on the back. the white house is considering moving all guantanamo bay detainees to a single prison in the united states. that is from senior administration officials who say that possible locations include a soon-to-be closed maximum security prison in michigan and a military pen itentiary in leavenworth, kansas. well, iran detained three american hikers. swigs d swiss diplomats are trying to meet with them today. diplomacy, that's going to be tough because the united states doesn't have relations with iran. how are they going to get them out identify ran? >> they said the first step here is to just stay quiet. take a look at what he said. >> strategy number one is to shut up, to not talk publicly about it. number two is to talk to anyone who is talking to the government of iran, and that is the prime minister of iraq has good relations with the government of iran and the swiss have represented our interests there for some time. this is a real opportunity for the iranians to have a public relations coup that they can show they are still participating and these are students and they need to release them. that would be the smart move. >> if you were noting there it goes back to the 1970s during it rainian hostage situation. >> it may be difficult because of iran's political situation right now. how would that factor into the development. >> iran has faced lots of struggles certainly since its presidential election in june, a state-run media reporting it endorsed ahmadinejad for a second term, though, today. mousavi called the election result a fraud. also iranian media reports that more than 100 people went on trial this weekend for arrests made during those post-election demonstrations. former alaska governor sarah palin headlined a gun collectors seminar over little weekend. gun collectors group presented her with lifetime memberships and she received the national rifle association's golden medal award of merit for promotion of gun collecting. a half a million dollar lottery ticket disappeared from the winner's pocket. he said he stashed his scratch-off ticket in his pocket while he got directions to west palm beach, florida. on the way there, though, he realized his ticket was gone, and he thicnks a pick-pocket go him. >> he was getting too close, and i said, would you like to go first? i left there thinking my lotto was still in my pocket. i came home and it was gone. >> ah, since he didn't sign the ticket, anybody can turn it in. 35 minutes past the hour. we're going to talk about what's going on in your backyard today. but we brought you earlier a breaking story about a plane that made an emergency landing. bob is going to show you the weather it apparently went through. good morning. >> indeed, robin. it was a little farther north than an inter-tropical convergence. let me zoom to the tropics, show you the dominican republic. you can see haiti right there, there's puerto rico. i don't see much out there, but when you go a little farther, this is the tropical wave right over puerto rico, and you can see the clouds ahead of that. might have had a little disturbance right there. the plane is about 50 miles north of the dominican republic when it encountered that massive turbulence, so it may be that tropical wave, but right now it does not look like it was a huge thunderstorm complex. across the region, high pressure dominating in the mid-lank, but when you get here, a lot of rain coming in from wisconsin into michigan. it will slide into illinois later this afternoon, but the stronger thunderstorms have been south of des moines. you can see a few thunderstorms popping there, aulgs in sheboygan. otherwise the heaviest rain is flying into michigan. more on that in a half hour. >> i have more information on that plane that would be flight 128 from rio to houston that had to make an emergency landing in miami. it is departing soon to go to houston. apparently the passengers who were not hurt are going to be going to houston now. there's the picture of them trying to get some of the injured passengers into the ambulance. today ford is announcing something that has a lot of people in the industry giving high fives. . an island that madonna once sang about is burning. check out the video from the spanish island of la palma up in west africa. 4,000 people have been evacuated. the mayor of one town said at least 50 homes have been destroyed. wind has made things almost impossible for the firefighters who say that several fires started suspiciously at the same time. it has been almost six months since president obama announced his $75 billion mortgage relief plan. but jennifer westhoven, always looking out for you here, a lot of people are saying, where did it go, because it didn't help me! >> yeah, nearly all the reports are people saying, i've been on the phone, i've got all the paper, i've made a hundred phone calls, i can't get any help. what's going on? so the white house really trying to push mortgage companies to do better when it comes to all those americans who are at risk of losing their homes, and a huge number of them, and that could be a big weight on the economy. the white house rounded up the mortgage executives, said come in. why? how come so few americans are having success with their loans? one of the things that, when i read this, really got my ire up, and i thought, i hope this is not true. the new york times is quoting mortgage experts who say they believe the reason they're dragging their feet so much is they can collect so much when it comes to late fees, that the late fees are juice ier than any of the help out there. they say they deny this, that they lose money when loans are late, but i think it certainly raised some eyebrows there. it was christmas in july for ford. ford is saying car sales jumped last month for the first time, at least since the financial crisis last fall. official july numbers for all the industry come out later on today, and experts say they are expecting to see a pretty good jump from the "cash for clunkers" program. you hear about twitter. now airlines are trying it to sell last-minute seats. they are sending out tweets that can come at any time. sometimes it's only for an hour or so. they came up with words like cheeps and twares. >> you're right. somebody sat around and thought about that. a mother got an e-mail telling her pictures of her seve seven-month-old were on the internet. what she did when she found out her kid was being offered for adoption. the cash for clunkers program is in limbo as we wait to see if the senate will approve another $2 billion to fund it. the house approved the funds on friday after car dealers burned through the $1 billion set aside in less than a week. the wildly popular incentive will credit to up to $4500 to trade in your old car for a more fuel-efficient one. >> it would probably be a good idea for the government to get these less fuel-efficient cars off the road and it would reduce our dependence on foreign oil to some extent, you know. >> they'll give me more money than my car is worth, and i don't have the 4500 to put down on a new car. >> so what do you think about the cash for clunkers program that apparently is so popular? did you get a car or were you turned away? what's your thoughts, what's your experience? mark from florida e-mails us, a lot of people won't be able to pay for these cars later. are the same people who gave out those home loans now giving out car loans? philip from utah wrote, the cash for clunkers program could pay for itself. the car industry gets more business, the consumers get more business, even the car crushers are getting more business. we give the news, you give us your views. you give us the business. text your comments to hln. you need to go to cnn.com/robin. there's a button that says "contact us." michael phelps won his first gold medal. >> michael phelps of a big story at the world championships, but this was also a big story. eric santo, an american swirm s, he overcame testicular cancer. phelps swam the butterfly leg, so they not only won the gold but set a world record at the time. phelps comes home with five gold and one silver. tiger woods was also victorious this weekend, rebounding from his troubles at the british open. he won the buick open for his third time and it could be his last. gm won't be sponsoring the event after this year. woods said knowing that, it could be his motivator to do well. it was his 69th pga win. but there was some weird stuff happening at the tournament. look at the green guy there dancing around in the background. now, a viewer e mailed us and said this was a character from a tv show, and that would be the reason why he's out there. we are not condoning this behavior. >> apparently he's a mascot for a local morning show. >> there is all kinds of dispute over who this green guy is. >> i want a mascot. >> robin, we're all your mascot. something else you don't often see on the course, craig stadler, after he swings this nice, long putt, stadler does what i do usually after i miss a putt, throw the puter in the lake. dude, you're going to need that! after they hand him the ball, he throws that in the lake, too. okay. whatever, pal. michael vick is running out of options. every team has pretty much said they're not going to sign him. add the new england patriots to that list. a lot of people thought he would go to the patriots, but the owner said, nope. that's pretty much every team that's passed on him. baltimore and pittsburgh have not publicly said they're not interested. look at that jump! all weekend long in finland, these guys go tearing through the woods. there was nobody to see it, so if a car crashes in the wood and nobody hears it, does it make a sound? i guess if you pick it up on video and the person cursing, it does. the guy who won, nico hervanon won the event. they call him the flying fin. my apologies to hervanon. lawyers for o.j. simpson will ask a judge to let him out of prison today. you may remember that simpson was sentenced up to 33 years behind bars for an armed confrontation in 2007. today his lawyers will argue that he should be released while he appeals his conviction. simpson is not expected to appear in court. well, college students, you know, spend a lot of money on textbooks every year. one web site puts money back into the students wallets. hln money expert clark howard tells you where to find that deal. >> i'm going to be a spoil sport. here we are in the middle of summer and i'm going to talk about back to school. how could i do that? well, because i have an opportunity for you. if you are an incoming college freshman or you're already in college and your wallet just disappear year after year when you go to the book store to buy the books for your classes, what if i could save you a lot of money on that? maybe not for every textbook for every class, but there's a business that's been quietly out there for a couple of years, i talked about it back when it first started, cheg.com. didn't seem to have much impact back then but now growing quickly, where you rent your textbooks for the quarter or semester. think about that. when will you ever need them again anyway? you can rent them and turn them back in, that could save you a fortune in money over a four-year degree. so, the website you go to is chegg.com. i'm clark howard. for more ways to save, go to cnn.com/clarkhoward. >> clark will teach you to save more, spend less and avoid getting ripped off. catch him at noon eastern on saturday he is and sundays, right here on hln. all right. business travelers going back to work today, bobby. >> monday morning early, better day to travel in and out of the big cities in the northeast. live to new york, a round of severe thunderstorms go near the area yesterday that has essentially cleared out the skies just a touch, i don't think we will see delays weather-wise, but not the same down south. now a ground stop in atlanta and charlotte until 8:30 because of the fog that in atlanta, probably extended. chicago wind-relateded da delays this afternoon, st. louis, orlando, thunderstorms, detroit, wind, san francisco, that pacific maritime fog, rolls in, out by 1:00. 30 to one-hour delays there more in a bit. a stage collapse at a country music festival and actor kevin costner was more than a dozen people who survived after being caught in the wreckage. all right. top of the morning were did the weekend go i ask you? monday, morning, sunshine, i'm robin meade. you know, the cash for clunkers program could get a second wind. lawmakers are scrambling now to add billions of dollars to keep that program going. lots of people across the country may have to brace for higher taxes too, and why the obama administration is not ruling out a hike. and two newly found pieces from mozart have been released for the first time and you will get a chance to hear it right here. and then -- this is what happens when a building demolition goes so very wrong. breaking news right now. a continental airlines jet that was forced to land in miami is back in the air right now. the airline says that 28 people were hurt on that flight when flight 128 hit severe turbulence. the plane was flying from rio to houston, texas. miami rescue officials say that 22 people are in stable condition, mostly with some back and neck injuries. four people are in serious condition, but not critical. passenger who were not hurt should arrive in houston, finally, at 9:35 a.m. eastern. cash for clunkers program is going too well, apparently. the government is using up all the money that it set aside for the program but will congress put in more money? well, our money expert jennifer westhoven is going to give that to you shortly here, because the question is, hey, for a lot of you, friday, when you went on the weekend, you know, we had word that maybe the program was done for now. but then late word came over the weekend that congress was hunting for the money. the senate as well, to make that last. what do you think about the cash for clunkers program? did you get a car? did you get turned away? we want to know. go to cnn.com/robin, a little contact button. hit that and write your e-mail. there is a diplomatic effort under way to meet face-to-face with three americans detained nish rin iran. the swiss embassy asked for that meeting. the americans are accused of illegally crossing a border into iran while hiking in iraq friday. iraqi officials identified them as shane bauer, sarah showered and joshua fattal. here is a reaction from fattal's hometown. >> the hardest part is that not being able to communicate with the people that are detaining them. i think that is the scariest part. >> friends of the three americans say that they spent time or lived in europe and the middle east. another american who traveled with them, shon meckfessel, stayed behind in iraq. he is at the u.s. embassy there switzerland represents american interest in iran because the u.s. doesn't have diplomatic relations with iran. you are going to hear more details about the three hikers, including whether anyone warned them about hiking near iran's border, less than ten minutes away. michael jackson's mother will fight for control in court today. a judge in l.a. will determine who will handle jackson's estate worth half a billion dollars. right now, it is controlled by his lawyer and friend. katherine jackson demanded to know what is being done with the money. the judge is expected to give her permanent custody of jackson's kids. 18 years after he was shot down in iraq, we finally know what happened to captain michael scott speicher. he was the first american shot down during the first gulf war in 1991. the pentagon says his remains have now been identified and recovered from a grave in the desert. the discovery ends years of speculation that speicher was being held captive. >> it's a bittersweet ending. i mean, it's great that we have finally accomplished an ending, but it is bittersweet. you know, you always hope that he is going to be found alive, but yet, to on that end, if he was found alive, look what he's missed. i mean, his children are in college now and, you know, what kind of life would he have led being a prison over war? >> speicher was shot down on the first night of the first gulf war. his children were just toddlers at the time. his family issued a statement thanking everyone involved in the search. searchers found speicher's remains after getting tips from iraqis who remember the jet crash and witnessed his burial. seven out of ten kids in the united states don't get enough vitamin d and could be at risk of bone and heart disease, that is from a new study in the journal pediatrics. levels were especially low in african-american and mexican-american girls who drank milk less than once a week and were not active. another researcher told the "washington post" that more studies are needed. a northwest airlines jet blew five tires upon landing. well, it happened at the minneapolis-st. paul airport yesterday. that plane just had 15 northwest employees on t everyone appears to be okay. an airport rep says the pilot reported the brakes were overheating. it is still being investigated though. get this wolfgang amadeus mozart is adding to his repertoire. huh? researchers unveiled two piano pieces recently identified as childhood creations by the legendary composer. come here and listen. ♪ the compositions were found in a book compiled by mozart's father used for practice. experts believe mozart wrote the pieces when he was just 7 or 8 years old. as for the rest of us, we are slaerks. >> makes you feel inferior, doesn't it? holy cow. >> five minutes a after the hour. weather-wise today, who has the rainy stuff? >> across the country, robin, severe weather earlier yesterday afternoon around philadelphia through new york into the rest of new england. that is now off the coast, look at what is coming in you from the west, another wave of low pressure, cold front jacking down to the south. heavy rain across northern michigan, into the area, you had tough weather overnight last night as well with, severe thunderstorm warning for central iowa. now beginning to fade apart just a bit but it is headed into northern missouri out of the des moines area, flashing lightning here, get back into northern wisconsin, eastern wisconsin, dry out just a touch but you get toward northern parts of michigan and here is your heavy rain shield now, racing in toward saginaw, see it there. detroit will get a couple of showers a possibility this to align itself right around that cold front. areas i put in red, chicagoland city, a good shot of seeing severe thunderstorms this afternoon. the most, gusty winds huge tornado day, obviously, good news, have to watch the skies for that most of the rain across the carolinas offshore, behind, the fog is really in place now, the i-85 corridor, atlanta, all the way in toward charlotte. note the gray-colored skies right there where you're looking at the low-level cloudiness, low clouds and warmer, so you know it's fog. we have bad advice billet down in atlanta and charlotte. ground stoppages at the airports. and that will last through the better part of the next couple of hours. be watching for that a couple of showers and storms in oklahoma city, a dying complex as it rolls on through the heavy rain and the flashing lightning down toward your south. you open up the picture bit, we have heat warnings for phoenix, traveling out there for the week, going to average 110 to 115 next three to four days. more on that that, robin, in the next half hour. >> thank you. >> all right. hundreds of thousands of car does have a deadly defect and it is in a part of the car that is supposed to make you safer. what you need to know if you drive one of them. today's salute to the troops is from a newlywed. her husband deployed to afghanistan only two weeks after this he got married. this is for lance correll matthew dutton. >> i'd like to salute my husband. i want him to know there's not one day that goes by that we're not thinking about him or praying for him and that i can't wait for him to get home so we can begin our lives together. i love you so much, baby, and i miss you and i can't wait to see you again. so be safe. i love you. >> thank you so much. if you have somebody in the service, go to cnn.robin. back to the three mike hikers detained in iran. iranian security forces arrested them friday for illegally entering the country from iraq. correspondent richard lui has more details on that what do we know about them? >> not novice travelers, experienced according to what we are hearing. of the three, more background for you, joshua fattal, a friend described him as fiercely intellectual. he says he worked with him at what is called a sustainable living center where they grow their own food and generate their own energy. the second person, shane bauer, is a photographer. a news service director saying he is a remarkably talented guy with a wanderlust for travel and a student of arab culture can. the third person, sarah shourd a teacher activist writer from california. >> the hikers stayed at a hotel in iraq. the owner there says he warned them, hey, don't be hiking in this area. tell us more about that area. >> this is what is kind of interesting, robin it is not hard to fly into kyrgyzstan where they are actually at. kyrgyzstan is part of iraq but the area autonomous since '91. why you can't get flights into the rest of iraq, travel packages are available to this northern region we are looking at here. you look at this area think sort of lush caves, water falls in this area, according to a former u.s. intelligence officer, we kind of zoom in on this area. he says that people have wandered across this border section before and from our google map, as you can see here, the area looks to be slightly mountainous there, robin. >> richard, thank you so much. we will follow the story here, any new developments. lawyers for o.j. simpson will ask a vegas judge to let him out of prison today. you may remember that simpson was sentenced up to 33 years behind bars for an armed confrontation in 2007. today his lawyers will argue that he should be released while he appeals his conviction. simpson is not expected to appear in court. so, will there be a new cash for clunkers program or money into it? i know of you are waiting for the answers. friday, we have word it was $1 billion, it was so popular. there is a debate shaping up over this big incentive. our money expert jennifer westhoven has that good morning. >> good morning, robin. the good news if you are somebody be who rushed out, you know, you hearted experts said you better hurry to get a deal, you got it, good, because it may have burned through a tax. we are going to be watching closely for any developments in washington that let us know if it will be extended, but outside of that, could the big sales we have be a sign that the economy itself is on the mend? that is what former fed chief alan greenspan said on abc's "this week." >> it is a very important indicator that the state of confidence in the economy is beginning to pick up. if we had been -- the clunker program had been put in place six months ago, it would probably have been a dud. >> so, no matter what he says, has been a good sign. now the question all right program get extended in the house has said, hey we found $2 billion we can put toward the program but senate republicans may be saying this is too expensive, which is not necessarily helping the economy, and they are threatening that they are not going to approve that money. we will see what happens. all we really know is that it is probably paid for through the weekend. >> it is interesting, not necessarily an easy program. i heard something like hundreds of pages of documents for every car. >> you have to go through and make sure that it really fits in and that you are eligible and you qualify. there is another advance in congress happening for a lot of people who may be worried about their jobless benefits. such a tough time to get a job. some lawmakers want an emergency 13-week extension of unemployment benefits. this is only in states with dram malmatically high jobless rates. we have reported how come august and september, unemployment benefits going to run out for tens of thousands of people, people who lost their jobs in the first wave of mass layoffs. almost half a million hondas are being recalled for an air bag defect that can be deadly. i want you to listen this, drive one of these cars, you know somebody who does, 2001 or 2002 accord, civics from 2001 or acura tls from 2002 and 2003. what's happened is that the air bag inflaters can overpressurize the bag and then shrapnel comes flying out. yeah, they are supposed to keep you safe but they could be dangerous. honda says at least one person has died. if you have one of these cars, don't wait for the letter to come in the mail, just get in touch with your dealer immediately. you can get it fixed up if your car is one of the ones affected. this is an expansion of a similar honda recall from last year. robin? >> good inform fufgs one of the cars, for sure. thank you. alternative energy is one of the few industries that is growing right now and colleges are taking note. the new green degrees that are sprouting up all over the country. that will wake you up. 17 minutes past the hour. colleges are catching to on to the green trend. usa today reports that more schools are offering classes and degrees focusing on the environment. arizona state school of sustainability just graduated its first class. several business schools added classes on running an ecofriendly company and community colleges are training students in green technology. one high-demand job is wind turbine technician. tiger woods pulled out another win and could be his last, at least for this tournament by this name. hi, rafer. >> good morning, robin. the buick open and tiger woods so intertwined, general motors so intertwined with golf but a sign of the times as more companies are pulling sports sponsorship. the associated press says gm will stop paying its roughly 7 million to sponsor the tournament and knowing that could be his last it kind of motivated him, this win was a page rebound for him after he -- well, he bombed at the british open. and there he is tossing the ball into the stands. he would win this tournament by three strokes. and a bit of drama on the 18th hole. look at this long putt for birdie this wouldn't stop. all right. still won. you know who else won? michael phelps. he and team america walked away as champions in rome. femes suffered his first major floss years to start tournament and then finished the meet by helping america's men win the 400 meter relay and set a world record, set the butterfly. he was motivated by his mom. she was there. wanted to do well for her. >> have you seen her when he doesn't do well? >> shakes her head. >> does not approve. >> she was happy then. thousands are expected to attend today's funeral for slain boxer vernon forest, the former champ was shot by robbers trying to get his rolex watch and championship ring. this is is a guy will be definitely missed in the area known for charity work and his murderer is one of several high-profile crimes in the area. officials are blaming it on an increase on gang violence. june a 18-year-old deaf woman won the motor cross at the x-games. she came from the back of the pack to win as she crossed the finish line this girl pumps her fist in the air there she continues to gain national attention, incredible and heck of a racer. president versus perogie. let me explain. look at if it you are listening to me. the president was racing and perogie slammed to the ground. teddy roosevelt takes one to the team that is a bad pierogi. for those that don't know, pierogi is a slavic dumpling. teddeddy roosevelt was a former president. wove to say that. >> that isn't fair. >> no it's not. get this u.s. marshals have seized skin sanitizers and other skin products made by a lab in utah. the fda is warning the product not to use any claar con products because they contain harmful bacteria. i know, skin sanitizer, harmful bacteria. claar conn recalled several products in june after an fda inspection found disease-causing bacteria. no cases have been reported to the fda. a new strain of the virus that causes aids was found, according to french researchers. a 62-year-old woman from cameroon tested positive for hiv five years ago. researchers now say the strain that she has is different from the three known strains of hiv and that this new one is similar to a virus recently discovered in wild gorillas. harvard professor who had a beer with president obama is now joking about his arrest. >> i dreamed of -- the night before i went to the white house, i dreamed i got arrested at the white house. >> hear how he joked about the officer who arrested him. three americans are being held in iran after crossing an unmarked border on a hike a fourth person traveling with them stayed behind because he felt ill that day. we are told the last time his friends were in touch with him was friday afternoon and they said they were surrounded by iranian soldiers. the corruption trial of that former congressman who had $90,000 in higg freezer could end today. former louisiana congressman william jefferson is accused of taking more than $400,000 in bribes and soliciting millions more to broker business deals in africa. jefferson is facing more than 235 years in prison if convicted. the family of an american shot down over iraq 18 years ago finally knows what happened to him. the pentagon says that it's identified the remains of captain michael scott speicher. he was the first american killed in the 1991 gulf war. searchers found his remains in the iraqi desert after getting tips from iraqis who remembered his jet's crash and witnessed his burial. funny people was no joke at the theaters weekend. the adam sandler drama topped million. har"harry potter and the half-blood prince"" brought in 17 million. last weekend's top movie "g-force" went to three. those are the headlines. look at you up so early on a monday. breaking news, a continental airlines jet forced to land in miami is back in the air. the airline says that 37 people were hurt when it hit severe turbulence. nine people had to go to the hospital. the plane was going from rio de janeiro to houston, texas, the passengers who were able to stay on board should now arrive in houston at 9:35 a.m. eastern a. become to that story about the three american hikers detained in iran. swiss diplomats are trying to meet with them today. now, correspondent richard lui joins us. diplomacy, going to be an issue because the u.s. doesn't have diplomatic ties with iran or relations with iran there. how do u.s. officials work to get the hikers released safely again? >> good morning, rob. former u.s. military intelligence officer talked about the situation with our sister network's don lemon and he says the first step is to stay quiet. take a listen. >> strategy number one is to shut up, to not talk publicly about it. number two is to talk to anyone who is talking to the government of iran, and that is the prime minister of iraq has good relations with the government of iran and the swiss have represented our interests there for some time. this is a real opportunity for the iranians to have a public relations coup that they can somehow that they are still participatory in the community of nations by simply confirming they're students and releasing them. that would be their smart move. >> as you said, robin, united states has not had formal relations with iran since the '70s after the hostage crisis. >> diplomacy might be difficult because of the of iran's internal situation. how might that impact that? >> iran faced lots of internal struggles since the presidential election in june. now, state-run media reporting that iran's supreme leader supported president mahmoud ahmadinejad for a second term today. he had to get that endorsement before he is officially sworn in. that will happen saturday. mir hossein moussavi called this election result a fraud and also iranian media reporting more than 100 people went on trial this weekend, robin, for arrests made during those postelection demonstrations. >> we will watch the situation certainly with these three american hikers. thank you, richard. >> sure. if you post your family pictures on the net, listen to this a massachusetts woman was horrified to discover a picture of her baby taken from her family's blog being used in an apparent adoption scam. the ad on craigslist said for $300 she could sign up to adopt a cute baby boy. well, she has called the fbi and restricted access to that blog now. the white house is considering moving all guantanamo bay detainees to a single prison in the united states. that is from senior administration officials who say that possible locations include a soon-to-be closed maximum security prison in michigan and a military penitentiary in fort leavenworth, kansas. now, the prison would have a courtroom for detainees' trials. president obama ordered guantanamo closed by january 22nd of 2010. president obama's top money men won't rule out higher taxes in the future. now, over the weekend, national economic adviser larry summers says that they would have to find funding for health care reform somewhere. and on abc "this week" treasury secretary timothy geithner says increases might be necessary at some point to get the budget deficit down. >> well, we are going to have to look at -- do what's necessary. the critical thing is that when people understand we have recovery established led by the private sector, we have to bring the deficits down very dramatically. what the country needs to dounder stand we are going to have to do what it takes dork what's necessary. >> former fed chief alan greenspan says the government would probably impose some value-add tax to raise money. those are added to the production process and usual belie translate into higher prices. a half a million dollar lottery ticket disappeared from the winner's pocket. louis tollentino stashed the scratchoff ticket in his pocket while he got directions to the nearest office in west palm beach florida. on the way there he realized the tick was gone and he thinks a pickpocket got him. >> he was getting too close to me, so i said would you like to go first? he said, to, no, go ahead, do what you gotta do. okay. and then i left there thinking my lotto and my papers were still in my pocket. i left. i came home and it was gone. >> since tollentino didn't sign the ticket, anybody can now turn it in. i wonder if that person was behind him as he did the scratchoff. >> horrible story. horrible story. >> yeah. >> you get a winning ticket like that you got to run home like you're charlie with a willie wonka golden ticket in your hand. >> don't be putting it in a back pocket. >> "run, charlie, run, go home, charlie. ". big changes in the atmosphere across the great lakes here, cold front, decent rain across northern parts of illinois, heavier when you get toward northern missouri. stretches into northern michigan what it looks like this part of the country can. the heat is going to build again on the southwest. phoenix metro area today, yeah, your highs about 110 to 115, under excessive heat warning today, and i think the heat builds all the way through till thursday before it finally dies down to the 108, 107 mark. excessive heat for you in that reege. not much going on across central iowa but stretching into northern parts of michigan, lake michigan itself, here is the big squall line racing across the northern half of that state, heavy rain, no severe thunderstorm warnings out of it later today, your cold front, watch thunderstorms to erupt in the daytime heating, cold front is the trigger, start kicking everything up in the atmosphere, kansas city, st. louis, even southern parts of chicago might see powerful thunderstorms this afternoon. the main threat, gusty winds, away from that all rain, all fog from the coast of the carolinas, interior sections of georgia, too. more on that, robin in a half hour. a beach in cancun has been shut down, listen, bob, after the mexican government says the sand was stolen a hotel has been accused of illegally pumping sand on the ocean floor and putting it on their beach. you know, several beaches in the area were wipe aid way by hurricane wilma in 2005. the hotel hasn't commented on the allegations. >> smart. until they get caught, i guess. >> i guess a lot of work. it is a lot of work. unbelievable. do what you have to do, i guess. the white house wants to help people stay in their home he is and jennifer westhoven, always looking out for you, it was a big deal when president obama announced this plan about mortgages. yeah -- >> nothing happened. i mean some, of course, but $75 billion committed to slowing down foreclosures but that allel assumed that the mortgage companies would cooperate. 20 minutes until the hour. an offduty cop says he had to shoot a man who stole his taser. houston police say the officer was working security an an apartment complex when he tried break up a fighting couple. the man got his taser and threatened him him. the officer says he shot and killed the man because he feared for his own life. an outdoor stage killed one person and trapped actor kevin costner when the stage caved in saturday before costner and his band were going to perform at the big valley jamboree in alberta, canada. he wasn't hurt. two people were in critical condition. organizers canceled the rest of the show. costner says he is saddened by the loss of life and hopes to return to help with the healing. it has been six month since president obama announced that had 75 billion mortgage relief plan but jennifer westhoven, always looking out for you here, a lot of people saying this program, i have not seen mission of it in my neck of the woods. >> rare for people in politics to agree on anything. the money is out there, but nobody is seeing it. what is happening? the mortgage companies called the white house saying you have to do a better jobs to help americans at risk of losing their homes. they called the mortgage executives in to hold their feet to the fire, how come so few americans are able to modify their loans? we hear all these terrible store writes people about papers and papers spending hours on the phone. well what some industry experts say is that they believe that the mortgage companies are deliberately dragging out the process because they get a lot of late fees. the companies deny that you should know they say they lose money when loans are late but still, certainly something that causes you to raise some eyebrows to think that maybe they are just dragging their feet on purpose. car sales are coming today and ford is giving some hints that it was christmas in july. it says at a car sales jumped last month for the first time since the financial crisis last fall. now, official july numbers for really all the automakers are coming out later on today and it looks like the cash for clunkers program is going to give them a big jump. hear about twitter all the time right, everywhere. now airlines are trying to use to sell last-minute seats. they are sending out tweets. they can come at any time, only last an hour or two according to "usa today," you know, tweet isn't silly enough, calling them cheap, but you know, if you do need to fly last minute, right now, you pretty much can't get a deal, robin, you are stuck paying some of the full fares out there. so this might be an interesting reason to sign up for twitter, if you are somebody who would ever need the last machi-minute. strange sightings on at golf course yesterday, rafer weigle has the video. >> important to stay focused on the golf course, tiger woods able to do it in spite of the green guy there, standing off to the side. woods still pulled off the win but who is that guy? knorr get ethenol, one inventor in new mexico says you can use mountain dew to run your car. he created a fuel booster system that uses that soda and create no, sir pollution it can be used on any engine but some gas has to be mixed with mountain dew to work. does it have to be mountain dew or any caffeinated soda? i do not know. the cash for clunkers program is in limbo now as we wait to see if the senate will approve another $2 billion to fund it the house approved the funds on friday after car dealers burned through the initial $1 billion set aside in less than a week. the popular incentive credits you up to $4500 to trade in your old car for a more fuel efficient one what do you think about the program, huh? have you had experience with it? did you get turned away? did you get a a car? jim from ohio writes, not only did i take advantage of the clunker deal on saturday, i bought a new truck for the same price that i paid for my clunker ten years ago. wow. did jim get a deal. john from massachusetts, i was turned down by several car dealers because my '95 sable gets 1 mile per gallon more than the requirements allow. bruce from arizona, we purchased a car for our elderly parents last weekend, trading in their 1991 pickup. it is the first new car that they will own since 1959. we give you the news, you give us your views, e-mail us about your thoughts or experience with the cash for clunkers program. go to cnn.com/robin. right there is a contact us button that will set up your e-mail for you. michael phelps and a cancer survivor lead the u.s. men to victory. here is rafer with more on that tape. >> good morning, robin. >> morning. >> talking a lot about fem that is meet but there is another storyline a great one. his teammate, eric shan'tle, this man overcame testicular cancer and won the first gold medal on his career, he is the left on the screen, the shorter one, part of the 400 relay team, swam the breaststroke leg there he is in second place, neck in neck with the leader. phelps on the other hand, swam the butterfly, the u.s. men not only win but set a world record as well in the process. great job, guys. great job for tiger woods, he won, rebounding from a bad showing at the british open. won the buick open for the third time and it could be his last. the ap reports general motors will not sponsor the event after this year and wood as well says knowing that motivated him to do well, his 69th pga tournament win. impressed he could win he was able to concentrate in spite of this weird distraction in the background, the green guidancing around, getting conflicting reports. some say that was a promo for a morning show, others say it is for a tv show, i just say it is just plain weird. i'm not condoning this behavior but we are laughing at him, not with him. don't do that at home, kids. something else you don't of then see on the golf course, craig stadler on the u.s. open, sinks the long putt. he celebrates by doing what i do by missing a putt, throws his putter into the lake that is the lucky putter. they give him the ball, says, no you can give him that he was tied for 36. funk won. michael vick running out of teams, the patriots many thought would sign him, said nope, not interested. bob kraft said so on the radio show, looking at baltimore and pittsburgh the only two that come out and said we are not taking him. co-play in the upstart united football league. said, no, we won't take him. we end with some rally car video. these guys racing through finland, and some of them didn't fare too well. like this guy here. oh, geez. that's going to be expensive. the winner, nico hervanon won on his home soil. they call him the flying fin. that was not him. that's it for sports. >> thank you, appreciate it. for our business travelers today or anybody else going, oh, july is over, my vacation ends now, here's bob. >> i know that feeling, too, but we're looking at fog right now. that's the only thing that's going on and that usually burns off by afternoon. so 15 to 30 minutes late in atlanta currently. the bigger cities across the northeast, look at the white house. lots of sunshine over you right now. a much better day than yesterday. here's what we have for the day, though. there's your morning fog in at lant a. chicago, wind days this afternoon. could be about an hour or so and more thunderstorms rolling through that region. look for st. louis to slow you down this afternoon. detroit and san francisco, wind and fog there, too. when we show a building being demolished, it crum bells the way it's supposed to. not in this case. an old factory building in turkey didn't collapse. it just rolled over! and then it stopped a few feet short of another building! can you believe that? nobody was injured, thankfully. but come on! engineers were trying to make space for a shopping center. >> if i was the engineer, i'd be like, yeah, i meant for that to happen. i knew it was going to come within an inch of the other building. there was a huge celebration this weekend by a tennis team for a person who woke up from a coma. more on that story. morning! rise and shine there, sunshine. i'm robin meade and we're so glad to have you. it is monday. maybe the first day of work for you in august. here's what's going on today newswise. three american hikers apparently strayed across the wrong border and now they're being held in iran. dozens of people got hurt during a continental airlines flight. what happened during their frightening trip. and the cash for clunkers program might be a victim of its own success. why its future is up in the air right now in the senate. for our top story, there is a diplomatic effort under way to check on what is happening to three americans detained in iran. the swiss embassy said it asked iran to meet them face to face. they are accused of illegally crossing an unmarked border in iran while hiking in iraq on friday. iraqi officials identify them as shane bower, sarah shourd and joshua fattal. here is reaction from sarah's home town. >> not being able to communicate with them while they're being detained, that's the scary part. >> another american who traveled with them stayed behind in iraq. he is now at the u.s. embassy there. and remember, switzerland represents american interests in iran because the united states does not have diplomatic relations with iran. you're going to hear more details about the hikers, including whether anyone warned them about hiking near the border of iran. that is less than ten minutes away. new this morning, a continental airlines jet that was forced to land in miami is about half an hour away from reaching its original destination. the airlines says that 37 people were hurt when flight 128 hit severe turbulence and got diverted. nine went to the hospital. the plane was flying from rio to houston. passengers who were able to stay on board should arrive in houston at 9:35 a.m. eastern. michael jackson's mother will fight for control of his fortune today. a judge in l.a. will consider who should handle michael jackson's estate worth half a billion dollars. right now it's controlled by his lawyer and a friend. katherine jackson has demanded to know what is being done with the money. the judge is expected to give her permanent custody of jackson's kids. 18 years after he was shot down in iraq, we finally know what happened to captain mike speicher. he was the first american shot down during the first gulf war in 1991. the pentagon said his remains have now been identified and recovered from a grave in the desert. the discovery ends years of speculation that speicher was being held captive. >> it's a bittersweet ending. it's great that we have finally accomplished an ending, but it is bittersweet. you know, you always hope he's going to be found alive, but yet, on that end, if he was found alive, look what he's missed. his children are in college now,

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