2400 people on the michigan border. one other note, shep, police are still asking if anyone saw skelton s blue 2000 dodge caravan either thanksgiving night or the next morning. shepard: those kids were in the middle of a nasty custody battle. we know the boys mother tonya filed for divorce in september. that ended a 10-year relationship. the judge awarded her custody of the boys and the visitation with the father was court ordered. we also know skelton is an out-of-work long hall truck driver and his mother told the detroit free press that her son wouldn t hurt his kids. police clearly aren t so sure of that shep. shepard: clearly they are not. rick leventhal in new york tonight. thank you. sure. shepard: one state has so many prisoners and so little money it reports it may have to set free tens of thousands of convicted criminals. now the supreme court is considering this case. we will get a live report from d.c. straight ahead. plus, watching movies online so
since august of 2009, drug-related violence there has killed more than 4200 people. now our own steve harrigan was in ciudad juarez earlier today. during studio b, he told us more about just how dangerous a place this really is. the war right now in mexico is not just drug cartels killing each other. 13 mayor s have been killed in mexico alone. just this year. so it s really a battle in some places between those drug cartels and the state itself. i can tell you places like juarez the drug cartels are winning. we have been there the last two days with a police radio. it is murder after murder. shepard: according to the officials in mexico, the latest victim was a woman police chief. somebody shot her while she was driving to work south of ciudad, juarez near chihuahua city. police say they believe hit men from a drug cartel are behind that murder. well, a sudden setback today in the elizabeth smart kidnapping and rape trial. the judge sent everybody home for the day after the susp
sense that a short time ago i spoke with judge andrew napolitano. he confirmed my assessment as well is that this is really a holding charge for assange. this is a way to take him out of circumstance if you will. there are a couple of critical questions. is assange hiding in a country that would not extradite him to sweden? it is reported he is believed to be hiding in switzerland and ecuador. countries that may offer him asylum. the other critical question is whether sweden has new investigation in their sex crimes case against assange which has prompted this red alert or this red notice or whether there has been pressure on sweden, also on interpol by the united states and others as a result of wikileaks documents. i would assume it has been the latter, shep. shepard: i was going to ask you if there was a sense if he does get extradited to sweden if, in fact, svedaline hold him. this is one of the interesting points that judge napolitano made. he said that sweden has very liberal