disappearance. he was declared dead in 2001 as part of a civil case. at the time a judge found a convicted sexual molester responsible for the boy s ket. no word whether george zimmerman will be released from jail. he has to come up with 10% of that in cash. now the attorney says the family does not have the collateral needed to get him out. zimmerman is facing second degree murder charge in the death of trayvon martin. john edwards fraud trial begins tomorrow in north carolina. the former presidential candidate is accused of breaking campaign finance laws by allegedly using more than a million dollars to cover up with a sexual affair with filmmaker reele hunter. and he denies any wrongdoing. two popular florida prigss are praising each other just days after former governor jeb bush named marco rubio as an excellent vp choice for mitt romney, rubio returned the compliment. well, that s very nice of jeb. i hope he ll say yes if future-president romney asks him. chuc
to why they suspended that search? reporter: they ve been very tight-lipped about it, fred. it is a very curious development, however, because after working here all day long, i would say early in the afternoon, all of a sudden we noticed some movement. and one of the crime scene units from the new york police department pulled up in an apparent attempt to block our view from down the street. but we ve been able to look down there. we noticed the fbi was taking down a blue tent that had been covering the entrance to the basement where they had been doing their excavation work. when we peppered them with questions to find out why they were stopping their work, they simply said, we re suspending operations for now, and we will resume them in the morning. but they would tell us nothing more. so we re left to wonder, is there a development? have they found only that suspicious stain that we ll tell you more about? or were they simply knocking off for the day? fred? it s clear
also, should sugar be regulated lie alcohol? find out why some medical experts argue the sweet stuff could be just as bad for you. from the cnn center in atlanta, this is cnn saturday morning. great to see you. i m susan hendricks. we start with this in syria. no one is being snared. government activists say snipers and bombers are killing women and children as well. it s hamming in. cnn is ahhs not independently confirmed the results. here s what one activist told our anderson cooper last night. these aren t animals. they re human beings being bombed by mortar shells and tank shells. no one s doing anything about it. they re sitting here and getting killed. there s one message i need to get out. they re not going to stop. they re going to kill millions. that was a man who called himself danny. he said he didn t mind showing his face if he were to help other people. at this hour united nations security council will be meeting. we ll have a live report from the u.n.
it slammed some of the most populated cities and new york is in the path. its category 1 hurricane and crossing about 85 mile-an-hour winds. bill: hundred miles an hour earlier and a little less than that. there are tens of thousands of people out of their homes. more than 400,000 without power. emergency officials warn those outages could last for days. there are other it s mats that already suggest 750,000 people, three-quarters of a million without power at the moment. we are watching this here off the coast of north carolina. this has taken a shot today. that is our symbol. that pier has been hit hard. we do have a situation where you have five people who lost their lives in this. you have varying degrees of people thinking it s a big deal. obviously we have a loss of life that is bit difficult and that
unfortunately, so we will continue to deal with the heat for a lot of this week and there will be breaks. look at the weather map. obviously, it is warm already, 84 in kansas city and people are not getting a break during the overnight hours when you get your house to cool down, it is not happening, and that is adding on to the exhaustion. it will remain hot but there is relief headed to the north. you can see a lot of humidity with scattered showers and we have significant showers and this morning around the chicago area toward the quad cities and through fargo toward minneapolis and some could be severe. across the west we will continue to deal with the moisture moving in across the southwest, and it will be enhances by what was hurricane dora and the moisture will move and the southwest the next couple of days. and the high temperatures today: still hot but a break. you can see the greens in northern minnesota and that will sneak down throughout minnesota. hot today, but, tomorrow,