picture of her uncle. my father made a comment about his long-lost brother, my uncle l.d., and said that he thought he was still alive but hiding from the fbi. and i questioned why he would be hiding. he said, don t you remember, he hijacked that airplane. reporter: she did remember. it was 1971. right after the hijacking. her uncle l.d. showed up for thanksgiving. and he was bloody and bruised and a mess. and i was horrified. reporter: she was told he had been in a car accident. in hindsight, she doesn t buy it. my two uncles were planning something very mischievous. i was a nosey little kid, i was 8 years old. reporter: her uncle disappeared from her life soon after. marla s mother said that vanishing act has her convinced. i ve always had that feeling, just a gut feeling, that it was l.d. reporter: marla was told her uncle died in 1999. and what happened to that
this morning on world news now, air anxiety. the faa s partial shutdown leaves thousands without jobs and our runways without safety what it means for millions of american travelers and what it s costing american taxpayers. it is thursday, august 4th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. good morning, everybody, i ll rob nelson. and i m tanya rivero. the faa shutdown has sidelined thousands of contractors at a time when the government says it is trying to create jobs, not take them away. it s also stopped the faa from collecting millions of dollars in airline ticket taxes. we ll explain the political roadblock that is making so many people angry. first the political clash over the debt ceiling, now they re clashing o or the faa. just another mess. if it isn t one thing, it s another.
celina cass may be w wking with some new clues. they hauled away her stepfather s pickup truck from the family s home yesterday and authorities re-entered the home with warrants seeking some sort of evidence. celina disappeared ten days ago without a trace. her body was recovered from a river near the home monday. the search for a missing indiana university student has now turned to a nearby landfill. it s been two months since lauren spierer was last seen alive. thousands of volunteers have combed that city of bloomington for clues with no luck. now the fbi plans to search through the city s trash which is sorted at a landfill not too far away. and pardon the pun but new york yankees slugger alex rodriguez is dealing with some serious off the field issues. major league baseball is now investigating whether a-rod has been involved in some illegal poker games. the three-time mvp will be interviewed about it by the commissioner s office. a-rod s publicist is denying reports he partic
subsidies be cut, prompting an objection from senator jay rockefeller, the morgantown airport in his home state of west virginia would be cut. when we asked him about it, watch how the democratic leader jumps to his defense. you have blocked it. are you really willing to partially shut down the faa? to protect the subsidy we re not answering that question. reporter: their bottom line, it s all the republicans fault. you know, jonathan, here s the issue. you and i say this respectfully the way that we have america going today, there s no penalty for outrageous conduct. reporter: the cuts republicans want would save $16 million a year. but this impasse is costing much more. $30 million every day. democrats say they just want the house to work out a compromise. good luck with that. they re already gone for the rest of the summer. jonathan karl, abc news, capitol hill. and investigators looking into the death of 11-year-old
only bring one pistol to the market. all right, this is a crazy story. this is kind of funny. to me. pro tennis player frfr serbia, i m going to botch the name, bojana jovanovski, something like that, there she is right there, she gets to the airport for a tennis tournament and she s waiting for her bags, late sunday night. a man comes up to her and says, what are you doing here? are you playing tennis? she s like, yeah, it s a tennis tournament. he s like, here? after waiting 15 minutes she called the tournament, where s my driver? i m the only person here, how can you not see me? well, guess what. the tennis tournament was in carlsbad, california. her agent booked her on a flight to carlsbad,d,ew mexico, by accident. it s a good thing that her next tournament is in toronto and it s the one in canada. yeah, yes. that s the one. awful feeling. there are other torontos out there. i know, that is scary. i never heard of that happening before. it makes sense but that s weird t