BLOOMINGTON - Twenty-year-old Lauren Spierer had just completed her sophomore year when she disappeared after a night of drugs and drinking with friends near the IU campus in Bloomington during the early morning hours of June 3, 2011. Lauren Spierer This year marks the 13th years since her disap .
cory rossman with another roommate and apparently they left the apartment or left the bar together, stopped by lauren s apartment, some sort of altercation took place, left there, went back to another apartment building, possibly cory s apartment with other friends who were there, and it s from that point that lauren goes missing. we don t know where she went after that. we know that she may not have had her shoes on. her cell phone. a couple other items were missing. she was in black spandex pants and she s so tiny, thomas. se s only 4 11 , 100 pounds. so we really need the information. step forward, folks, if you have anything, please. michelle, it s great to see you this morning. michelle, thanks for your time. thank you. prosecutors in the casey anthony murder trial are pushing forensic evidence to prove that single mom killed her 2-year-old daughter, caylee. an fbi hair and fiber expert was first on the stand today in the trial resumed this morning after weekend testimony ab
resign his post. are these new pictures really the last straw for those people on the hill? it s been a slow drip drip drip, thomas, with pieces coming out that anthony weiner has admitted to and then this late ers series of photos taken in the house gym which could complicate matters for him. one of the things, an ethics committee could take a look at is was there any improper use of government property? that seems like a small thing in the big picture but it makes it tougher for him. we have seen his colleagues calling for his resignation publicly on saturday, still insists he will not resign. sources we talked to say he will consider all options. we really don t know where he is today. aides had said he would be getting evaluated for possible treatment and then make decisions on that, so it s unclear if he s at some facility or waiting to take those steps. we don t know. among republicans there s been criticism but from speaker boehner, no specific call for anthony weine
i m alex witt. welcome to msnbc saturday where it s precisely 10:00 a.m. on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. out west. the casey anthony murder trial is back in session right now in a florida courtroom. this morning, a professor of forensic science is on the witness stand. his testimony is following two days of dramatic and disturbing evidence, including photos of little caylee s remains. nbc lilja luciano is live for us in orlando. what s happening in court right now? good morning to you, alex. we re hearing the cross-examination of alex i m sorry, kneneil haskel, the expe in entomology, the study of bugs. he is studied the bugs that appeared in the trunk and the area around the remains. he concluded that the body had been deposited in those woods between june and july. the earliest june or the latest july, which certainly pokes holes in the defense s theory that it was roy krunk, that meter reader that grabbed the body from somewhere else and placed it until the woods. they
captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning. welcome to today on a saturday morning. i m lester holt. i m amy robach. we ve had a lot of extremes here in new york weather-wise. it was hot and now it s cool and rainy here. it s a far cry from what s happening in arizona. they would welcome rain right about now. that massive wildfire continues to burn out of control. let me show you these pictures. the fire has already consumed more than 600 square miles. crews are doing everything they can to battle the flames. this weekend s forecast may only add to their troubles. we re going to tell you more about what s happening there in just a moment. also, a new revelation in the anthony weiner scandal. the new york congressman now admitting that he had on-line contact with a 17-year-old girl in delaware. police investigated. reportedly found no wrong doing. weiner says their communications were neither explicit nor indecent. he adds, once again, that he will