does that send back, thomas? sadly, for the investigation there has not been a body found of david hartley. in your estimation and through your professional experience on this story, how hard will it be to recover the body so the hartley family has closure? i think the chances are slim to none. after he was shot and killed i think the drug traffickers grabbed his body, the jet ski and took it inland, disposed of it. they don t want him to be found and they don t want the evidence to be there. thomas, they had five days before the mexican authorities geared up an investigation. i mean, had this american been killed in san francisco bay, you could have gotten his body off the coast of new york in that period of time. so i don t think he s going to be found. and unfortunately, i don t think the family is going to have closure. clint van sant, thank you, sir. good to see you this morning. the fda approved botox for the treatment of chronic migraine headaches in adults. patients who
marijuana possession in california no matter how voters decide on prop 19. the measure would decriminalize possession of an ounce or less of marijuana for people of drinking age. a new report in this morning. the san antonio express says mexican state police suspended indefinitely their search on a border lake for an american man after his and his wife were attacked by mexican pirates. that contradicts reports that u.s. officials in the missing americans family that the effort were stopped only temporarily. tiffany hartley said her husband david was killed while on the mexican side of falcon lake on september 30th. i have clint van sant here. on tuesday a mexican commander involved in this case was found dead. he had been decapitated. now there are reports that the mexican authorities are stopping the search for david hartley because they are worried how the investigation can proceed. is this sending the message that the drug gangs are winning and taking control of mexico?
hi, everybody. great to have you with us today. i m thomas roberts. alex witt has the day off. new today president obama back on the campaign trail 17 days out from midterm elections. he ll be in massachusetts lending support to governor duvall patrick. and the president is not the only big name putting on miles. former president bill clinton in california last night along gubernatorial candidate jerry brown. the two democrats waged a really tough campaign against one another during the presidential primaries back in 1992. new jersey governor chris christie was campaigning for senate candidate linda mcmahon. early voting begins in nevada this morning. and the key race there is harry reid against sharron angle. and christine o donnell is trying to deep out from a deep hole in her senate race despite trailing in the polls. a new reports say o donnell outraised chris coons by a 2 to 1 margin. we ll bring in mark here. christine o donnell, really staggered financials, $3.8 mill
the kids trying to get home, you know, following their school day and frankly i don t know what the update is on that. maybe we can get our desk check and see what s happening with montgomery county schools and are any schools in this area locked down as a result of all of this? all right. thank you very much. again, we re waiting on a news conference or a police update. it was supposed to start about five minutes ago so we re keeping and eye and ear, of course, and tom costello is on the ground as soon as they give us an update. let me send it over to thomas. what do you have? a great point that tom is making about schools as most of the kids are going back to school for their first day of classes this week. want to check in now with clint van sant, a former hostage negotiator. this suspect, james j. lee, a protester with serious intent, but that intent has shifted now in a dramatic fashion that s shifted to the violent or potentially violent, so what do we say if you were the per
the individual has been side fied as james jay lee. he goes by the name of lee. he s organized lengthy protests outside the discovery channel for about two years. he was recently arrested on charges of littering and d disorderly conduct in front of the building itself. he has a myspace page and a websi website. at one point he notes in his demands on the internet that humans are not necessary. we ve got with us, derek bartlett, a former s.w.a.t. team member and sniper team member. hopefully the information is correct. everyone is out of the building. this is not a hostage situation. if that is the case, you have an individual, he s armed, he may have explosives. how the s.w.a.t. team who s in contact with him hopefully get him out of there safely and end this? well, if things are where they are right now, hopefully you contain him, you contact him, you talk to him. and you give him a chance to air whatever grievance he has and hopefully give up peacefully without injuring a