warren weinstein was kidnapped in pakistan more than two years ago. in a video, he says he feels abandoned and forgotten by the obama administration. the state department says it is working to authenticate the video and it is calling for weinstein s release. now to california. and news in the natalee holloway case. an appeals court ruling in favor of talk show host dr. phil mcgraw in a defamation suit over his coverage of the case. the suit was filed by the kalpoe brothers. they claim dr. phil s show showed them as guilty. 18-year-old natalee holloway holloway disappeared during a graduation trip to aruba. her body was never found and no one has been charged in her death. now to the news that is outraging people across the u.s. two of the nation s biggest package shippers under fire for not making christmas deliveries on time. u.p.s. and fedex now scrambling to deliver boxes that missed the holiday deadline. shippers blaming delay on
dave holloway had met the presumption of death in this case and it was up to someone else to prove she did not die on the graduation trip. the day ironically after the prime suspect in her disappearance pleaded guilty of killing another young girl on the same day and about the same age. bill: the latest must-have gadgets making their debut this week and this is quite a show. the consumer electronics show las vegas. adam housley is there to check it out. what have you found that peaked your interest. reporter: more stuff that i don t need. stuff you might want in new york. we have an acer computer paper lynn. you push one button and it pulls right up in the back it has the inputs and keeps the fan onto keep it cool. with one button it goes up and down to make it thin. this comes out second quarter. this is called the raspberry computer. as powerful as you had back in the early 2000 s $25 that little thing plugs in.
travel to libya on thursday, the first heads of state to do so since the rebel uprising. natalee holloway s father is asking a court to declare his daughter dead six years after she vanished during a graduation trip to aruba. let s get you back to hardball. welcome back to hardball. there was bleak economic news out there, bleak numbers released just this week by the census bureau that shows poverty, a word we haven t hear lately, is increasing here in our country. 15.1% of americans are living in poverty, a statistical number, defined as a family of four making less than 22,000 a year. that s four people in 22 or an individual making under 11,000 a year. that percentage is up from 11.3% just a decade ago so it s gone up about half. 50% higher than it was when this when president bush went into office. that s bad news for the average
asking a court to declare his daughter dead six years after she vanished during a graduation trip to aruba. let s get you back to hardball. welcome back to hardball. there was bleak economic news out there, bleak numbers released just this week by the census bureau that shows poverty, a word we haven t hear lately, is increasing here in our country. 15.1% of americans are living in poverty, a statistical number, defined as a family of four making less than 22,000 a year. that s four people in 22 or an individual making under 11,000 a year. that percentage is up from 11.3% just a decade ago so it s gone up about half. 50% higher than it was when this when president bush went into office. that s bad news for the average family. the median household income fell to just under 50,000.
project. but on the other hand, they have an opportunity to act it out a little bit. something like play. but it s not quite like that. but i commend the photographs in the sense that i think it does raise the consciousness of everyone including adults and including parents that children are being affected by the events around them. i want to by war, by disasters, by earthquakes. i want to bring in miss etherington, if i can. your daughter and son posed in one of the photos. your daughter was 5 at the time. your son 3, i believe. this is a re-enactment of the disappearance of the alabama high school student natalee holloway, who went on a trip to aruba, a spring break trip a graduation trip, met up with joran van der sloot, who was suspected in her disappearance. her body was never been found. your daughter in this picture is posing as holloway. one of your sons as one of the i m assuming the frat boys that she partied with.