a minor team somer team. the buffalo blitzers and tell those guys i will be happy to go to a game. i will be in buffalo, i m giving the commencement address at niagra university and it will be on the campus of the university of buffalo. so i ll look forward to seeing all my fellow buffaloians. go have some wings, some pizza, have a little fun there while you re in buffalo. right now the senate is moving closer to a vote on a controversial piece of the financial reform bill. from everything from mortgages to auto loans. dealers say the measure could devastate them and they are waging a massive lobbying campaign to get a special exemption from any new regulation. dana bash is here, she s been watching this debate going on and the president, everybody else is being lobbied on this right now, but tell me what s going on specifically. well, it s not only the president taking on auto
let s see if we can hear what they re saying. in the face of such fear and loss, a community s solidarity emerged. as we all wrapped our arms around the family of somer thompson and each other, to grieve. the outpouring of support and generosity and collective resolve to bring somer s killer to justice was the light in the darkness caused by this tragedy. i stand before you today surrounded by this group of law enforcement professionals that we all team somer, to announce to you, that jared harold has been formerly charged with the murder of somer thompson. the filing of these charges would not have been possible without the dedicated and tireless work done by these individuals that you see here
all? we don t know that as of yet. but investigators at this point, you know, now that they re able to sort of zone in on him, realize that etches the person that was, in fact, living in the neighborhood when somer wept missing and then her body was found just a few days later about four months ago. at this point there s no rush to forward those charges. if he is the man responsible, they ve got him behind bars. they re able to continue their investigation just as they ve always done. they ve assembled team somer, fbi agents, u.s. marshals, also other investigators from clay county. they ve done an excellent job. all right, michelle, thank you very much. excellent reporting. the latest on the murder of little -year-old somer thompson. i know you ll update us on any information on this arrest. thank you. and new court documents are giving an eerie look into jayice dugard s 18 years in captivity at the hands of her alleged kidnappers. phillip and nancy garrido are said to have kidn
reporter. michelle, somer vanished on her way home from school. her body was later found in a landfill. this is back in october and now maybe a break in this case. what can you tell me about this harrell guy? maybe. just yesterday in mississippi harrell was arrested and charged with 29 counts of child pornography. and at the press conference last night around 7:00 p.m., the sheriff of clay county did, in fact, announce him as a person of interest. i do have the arrest warrant in front of me. how investigators were led to him was after he moved out of an apartment that he was sharing with some roommates, he left behind a computer and some disks and when he left the roommates actually went onto the computer and the disks because they heard he had bull pen viewing child pornography before and that s when they found the images. they immediately contacted police. an investigation took place, and here we are now. and he s being held on a $1 million bond. do we know if he s talking at
and then seemed like they lost power and couldn t move and the train conductor came on and said emergency crews were on the way. the train, we are told by passengers, was quite full because of the fact that we have this delayed opening for work today with many federal employees allowed to show up late because we are dealing with so much record snow here in the d.c. area. again, this is an underground metro train. in other words, a subway here in the d.c. area, in the heart of d.c. it is below ground not aboveground. two cars derailed. so far no reports of any injuries. we re getting a little bit more now. we ll be back to you as soon as we have more. thank you, tom. and new this morning, mississippi authorities have arrest add man they are calling a person of interest in the kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old somer thompson. 24-year-old jerrod harrell used to live in somer s florida neighborhood but has not been charged in her murder. joining me live from washington, d.c., is invest