okay. so, back with you here on, is it thursday? is that true? how can that be? well, thursday is connected to friday. i m robin meade. here is what s going on. a new jersey father what fought for five years to get custody of his little boy is on a plane to pick him up. could another court date get in the way? legal or illegal. what kids say is the drug of their choice and what parents need to know. 13,000 this morning, then 9,000. so far, 20,000 letters. the busiest post office going. why is so many letters flooding this tiny town? first, an american father is flying to brazil to reunite with his kidnapped son in a custody battle. david goldman should get back his 9-year-old son sean. sean s mother kidnapped him in 2004 and took him to brazil. she died last year, but his step-father fought to keep him. cnn is traveling with david goldman and took these pictures on the plane. he called anderson cooper and said he hopes it s his last trip to brazil. i can only do the
a new jersey man is in brazil where he may finally be able to take his son back home. find out why he s not getting his hopes up. after 35 years in prison a convicted child rapist walks free as an innocent man. how he proved he was wrongly convicted of the crime. and a 2-year-old s expressway lights up like a christmas tree. wait until you see what he s carrying around in his body. thank you very much for your time. let s get started. an american father who s been fighting for five years to bring his son home from brazil may finally do just that today. a brazilian appeals court awarded custody of the 9-year-old boy to david goldman. the boy s mother took him to her home country, got a divorce and remarried. when she died in childbirth her brazilian family claimed custody of the boy. cnn is traveling with goldman and took pictures on the flight to brazil. goldman looks forward to seeing sean for the first time since june. i have been down this road many times. i have to ke
good morning. welcome to news4 today. the news is just ahead. quick look at that time day s forecast. chuck bell is standing by in storm center 4. good morning. you are standing. okay. i am actually standing these days. it is true. good saturday morning to you. welcome to your weekend, everybody. don t expect much of in the way of nice treatment for mother nature. you need to find your favorite book and favorite thing to do and do it inside this weekend because it is going to be wet and miserable out there. temperatures on your way out the door this saturday morning, well, i wouldn t actually recommend going outside. in the low to mid 40s now. 44 in washington. 43 in fairfax county. 43 in frederick, maryland. 39 in martinsburg right now. here s a check of doppler. you can see nothing but rain around the capital beltway. most of the metropolitan area sock in with rain. half to three-quarters of an inch across most of the area. don t expect anything in the way of sunshine f
pay their bills. a report out today says the number of families on the verge of losing their homes jumped nearly 15% in the first half of the year, and actual foreclosures rose 11% this spring to an all-time high. here s ben tracy. i you re going to build a house? reporter: a house is all amanda augue wanted for her daughter jasmine, but now she s lost her job and her southern california home has lost half its value, dropping from $39 5,000 to $180,000. foreclosure seems like a foregone conclusion. it s depressing. i want help. we re trying the best we can. i m doing everything i can to get help. reporter: amanda s original mortgage payment was nearly $3 this month she paid $600. i m making the payments because that s what we can afford. i want to show good faith that we want to pay down our loan. reporter: she is not alone. the current wave of foreclosures are hitting once stable homeowners who can no longer pay their mortgage because they aren t getting a paycheck
always on. captions by: caption colorado, llc 800-775-7838 email: comments@captioncolorado.com couric: tonight, the new wave of foreclosures in america. people losing their homes after losing their jobs. i m katie couric. also tonight, the taliban threaten to execute an american soldier, while the u.s. tries a new strategy to win his release, delivering an ultimatum to his captors. cross roads of history. america s first black president marks the centennial of an organization that helps pave the way. and sign of the times, future warren buffetts learn how to manage their money at summer camp. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with katie couric. couric: good evening, everyone. we begin tonight with a shattered dream: the dream of owning a home. because more and more americans are being forced to give it up. their homes are being foreclosed. and it s not just a sharp increase in a mortgage rate that s forcing them out, now it s soaring unemployment.