confinement. it s important to remember that there still are two american male hikers who are in prison in tehran, but also, a former fbi agent, robert levenson, who was last heard from who hasn t been heard from in more than two years, all pawn necessary a larger game, jon. jon: just a programming note, sarah shourd, the woman whose two companions are being held but herself was released after more than a year, she s going to be our guest on happening now on friday. jenna: we re looking forward to having her. also new information in the death of denver broncos wide receiver kenny mckinley. sad story, harris. do you have more information? reporter: the broncos coach has made a statement recently and is expected to meet shortly with reporters. he said kenny had a promising future on the football field but more importantly he was a great team ate whose smile and personality could light up a room.
her face. she is still hospitalized, by the way. then she admitted she had done this to herself, she possibly wanted to commit suicide, decided she at least want to change her appearance. of course she had no way to know this is how she d turn out. nevertheless the prosecutor in clark county said you know what, people donated, then you gave a news conference that somebody attacked you, you spent a whole lot of taxpayer dollars, too. per hair her parents agreed to repay the mope but that doesn t reverse the charges against her. bethany, first a victim, and now under an arrest warrant when she gets out of the hospital, according to a clark county prosecutor. jenna: thank you, harris. jon: happening now , a decision that could affect the food you put on your table. the federal government is considering approval of a new genetically modified supersalmon that would be of course for human consumption. it would mark if approved the first time a designer
of the remnants of hurricane karl, still getting that moisture in towards texas. look at some of the storm totals, incredible over ten inches at the corpus christi airport, over ten inches at the national weather service office and close to ten inches in rockport. a lot of these storms with bring incredible amounts of rain. lisa isn t going to do any damage, we re watching computer models. matthew could affect florida, in seven to 12 days. we are days out. the tropical season is still in null swing. this is something we will monitor from the fox weather center. tomorrow is the first day of fall. can you believe it. jon: is it? reporter: a hundred degrees in memphis, tennessee. jenna: it doesn t sound or feel like fall. reporter: it doesn t. jenna: keep an eye on lisa as well as matthew, hopefully the
senator susan scholar insurance. she favors the repeal of don t ask don t tell but she took the florida with an impassioned plea saying listen i am asking you not to push this vote or bill through without considering all the amendments that republicans and others that you may object to want to offer. it s an important bill. she is calling on senator harry reid and others saying she is at the horns of a dilemma. she wants to vote for the bill but doesn t agree it should be rammed through without debate that allows everyone to have their voice heard, jon stphaot other key figure in this nasty debate is john mccain. he has pretty serious allegations. what is the latest on that. reporter: he does. he says the democrats are playing politics with this very important bill. here is his take from the senate floor. i understand that it s not that far between now and elections, but to use the defense bill that has to do with defending our national security interests when we are in two wars
thank you very much. reporter: where do i go with this. jon: i don t know. the f.d.a. is holding hearings on what some are calling frankenfish. controversial genetically engineered salmon. could they end up in your supermarket? are they safe to eat? what about other engineered foods out there? speaking of food when you think about baby carrots it probably doesn t conjure up a vision like this. baby carrots! baby carrot skhrabg. baby carrot! jon: yeah he s okay. america s carrot growers want to sell more of them. they are actually putting vending machines in school.