him. he was on a detective s report, but he had apparently never been questioned until wednesday. this is a guy who supposedly years ago had confessed to family members that he had done a bad thing in his words, had killed a child in new york, but it wasn t until last month when the nypd and the fbi dug up a basement a block from etan s home that someone close to hernandez contacted the nypd to report that pedro might be the real killer. on wednesday hernandez reportedly confessed. he told detectives, as you heard, that he lured etan to the store, strangled him in the basement and left his body in a trash pile. he, um, spoke to our detectives. we have a confession, a written confession, a signed confession. he spoke for three and a half hours, videotaped statements. so, obviously, we believe that there s probable cause to go
i don t know what to think really. reporter: police say they ve told etan s parents about all of these developments. parents who never moved from the home they shared with him, hoping their little boy would one day find his way back. and today, john and diana, is the 33rd anniversary of etan s disappearance. thank you, scott. let s hope we finally have some closure. you never know. i was watching abc s legal analyst dan abrams earlier. he was saying, you know, you can confess to the police and then turn around and get in court and say i m pleading not guilty and that was, you know, i made that up, so nothing is a done deal here. and it s been so long that there s really no physical evidence right now. they have everything that they need, you would think. they have a written confession, a video confession and even want to give him a lie detector test. even though that isn t admissible in court, i think they just want to cover everything just in case that does happen and he does
really. reporter: police say they ve told etan s parents about all of these developments. parents who never moved from the home they shared with him, hoping their little boy would one day find his way back. and today, john and diana, is the 33rd anniversary of etan s disappearance. thank you, scott. let s hope we finally have some closure. you never know. i was watching abc s legal analyst dan abrams earlier. he was saying, you know, you can confess to the police and then turn around and get in court and say i m pleading not guilty and that was, you know, i made that up, so nothing is a done deal here. and it s been so long that there s really no physical evidence right now. they have everything that they need, you would think. they have a written confession, a video confession and even want to give him a lie detector test. even though that isn t admissible in court, i think they just want to cover everything just in case that does happen and he does turn
category 2 hurricane. we re going to have the latest track of the storm for you. and for the first time in history, a commercial spacecraft linking up with the international space station. let your geek flag fly, folks. we are going to take you live to outer space in just a moment. hi, everybody. welcome to early start. i m ashleigh banfield. look who s here! good morning. nice to have you here. i m alina cho. zoraida has the day off today. it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. on this friday before memorial, we ve got lots of news. we do, so let s get right to it. this is a big story. for the first time in 33 years in fact, the anniversary today new york police may finally have their man in the murder of etan patz 33 years ago. he is 51-year-old pedro hernandez. he is under arrest and is expected to be charged with second-degree murder. he was 19 at the time that 16-year-old the etan patz disappeared while walking on his bus stop in 1969. hernandez was working in a
is billionaire aubrey mcclendon. he s the outspoken, charzmatic scion of one of america s founders and a founder of chesapeake. chesapeake could be the next enron, or worldcom. chesapeake energy is second only to exxonmobil in drilling for natural gas in this country. more than 13,000 americans work for mcclendon, enjoying perks, which according to reuters includes on-site botox treatments. chesapeake also boasts a campus with three restaurants and a 70,000-square foot facility with a rock climbing wall. it may have been among the first signs that something doesn t end up. mcclendon has often made grandiose promises that aren t backed by reality. at a minimum, i think they can create a million jobs over the next few years. the they he s referring to is a fund chesapeake was launching. now, mcclendon is not a household name, but what he s fighting for is. even as natural gas prices have plunged by 50% over the past year, he s been a believer in gas as the fuel of america