and what inspired her to create this summer s biggest hit. we hope you had a good weekend. robin is off this morning. we re happy to welcome elizabeth vargas back. i hope robin is having a great vacation. she s earned it. it s an answer in the southwest, as the search for two escaped convicts takes on new urgency. police say the few tifrs hiding out in the vast yellowstone national park are, quote, very dangerous and very desperate. especially after one of the men was linked to the murder of a couple in new mexico last week. and the first lady and daughter, sasha, are back home at the white house after the vacation in spain, but they re coming under fire this morning for taking such a luxurious trip during the hard economic times. should 53 some splurged. we ll go in on the debate. and also, can the food that you give your pets make you sick? we ll have a story on the salmonella outbreak. there s a massive manhunt under way for two arizona prisoners who have escap
workplace rampage. hundreds of mourners paid their respects last night at a vigil in manchester. truck driver omar thornton shot eight co-workers to death at a beer distribution company before turning the gun on himself. he d accused employers of racism. bp says it is nearing the end of its mission to seal off that blown-out well in the gulf of mexico. but the cleanup will continue as long as necessary. and the next big project will be reviving that region s public image. tahman bradley has details. reporter: with the permanent cap in place and no more daily images of leaking oil from bp s well, the obama administration hopes to show it hasn t lost sight of the enormous cleanup and recovery effort that remains. it is a catastrophe. catastrophe for the people of the gulf and it requires our attention until we get the job done. reporter: what more needs to be done? more cleanup. the government says about 25% of the nearly 5 million barrels of spilled oil remains. shoppe
jewelry but is now trying to guide youngsters down the right path. the amazing and riveting stories on this edition of huckabee. thank you for joining us. [ applause ] our director used to say something i ve often quoted. we lock a lot of people up that we re mad at. not the ones we re really afraid of. unfortunately, that is the truth. we put a lot of people in prison. i understand, crime should be punished. but is the ultimate goal to punish the criminal or is it to protect society? is it to get revenge or to bring restoration to all involved, both victims as well as those who commit the crime? the victims of crime understandably aren t in for a lot of discussion about the second chances, but there has to be some discussion. is there redemption for people or not? is there an opportunity to find a way to give people pathway back to life if they meet rules of society? is there consistency? i don t think we want ridiculous leniency. but do we want a system with no second cha
to a special memorial ceremony in connecticut to honor the nine people killed in a shooting in a hartford area beer distributor last week. a large crowd now gathering at center memorial park in manchester to mourn the victims. police say omar thornton, a driver at the company shot nine people and then turned the gun on himself. this after managers confronted him with evidence that he had been stealing beer in a chilling 911 call released thursday, thornton accused the company of being racist and treating him poorly. the company officials and the family members of the victims deny that claim. a tribute for a missing boy, hundreds of balloons released into the sky for kyron, horman. and crews conducted a search near the elementary school, he was last seen after a tip. the seven-year-old disappeared
weeks paid vacation, getting $1.5 million a year to be city manager. the guy on your right the police chief was getting three quarters of a million a year to be police chief of a blue collar town not even scraping by. this is an outrage. they should go to jail for a long time we hope. moving on. maybe it is a troubling coinsurance sense iincidence ie noisy outages are a racity, no, you are, debate that our nation has suffered two of the most vicious raced based murder sprees in recent years. omar thornton s sickening racist rampage that killed 8 white coworkers around wounded two others up in connecticut and the up until now not as notorious but just as racist serial killing spree in and around flint michigan where a still unidentified burly white guy with a goatee and a pierced