a charity that we, along with the tampa bay times and the center for investigative reporting have identified as the absolute worst charity the rock bottom when it comes to how little out of each dollar raised it spends helping the sick children it claims to be raising money for. while they were reporting the story, drew griffin and david fits patrick tried to get an interview with the folks who run kids wish nench they didn t want to talktous. they kid in their offices, lied about being there. now the report has aired, however, they suddenly have a lot to say about us. they have a letter on their website bashing our reporting and one of our sources. we stand by our investigation. drew will join me in just a moment. but first a recap of what we found. drew griffin with cnn. nice to see you. nice to see you. can we ask you some questions about the ratings that have come out? i m sorry. there s been so many misleading
mother for more information there. at this point, the issue of forcing her in to talk to us isn t even on the table. we re hoping sky is out there alive and well and we re conducting this in-person investigation, and wee feel judy can help us with that and we re hoping she will come in and talktous. bill: where is this boy? dan spring ser live in bellevue, washington. the latest this morning is what, dan? reporter the latest is that the boy also mother s story continues to fall apart. we talked yesterday about the fact that that 1998 acura did, in fact, have gas in it, so she didn t run out of gas as she told police, but then police said she wanted to test-drive that car that would have mechanical problems that caused it to break down. last night the local news crew followed the police as they did that test-drive and determined it looked like that car had no mechanical problems so, that part of the story also does not make sense. the tips keep coming in, but there s been no break i
martha: all right. we are going to get an update on this florida shooting issue from the school board. the police are going to come out 15 minutes from now and will talktous. we re going to get tape out of that. we re also going to get a school board live news conference from the people on that school board and that is going to be something to see. that happens at 10:30 eastern. so it s all happening in america s newsroom . also going to talk to the woman who tried to knock the gun out of the man s hand. she s going to be here for this unbelievable story that is developing this morning. bill: are we tone-deaf? are we stricken with amnesia? what is going on here? bill: senator john mccain sounding off on a trillion dollars spending bill with some $9 million in earmarks, debt clock, ticking away,
home, dr. petit all along had said he would reserve his comments until after we have the verdicts in this case. we all know how difficult this must be for him but he did not want to say anything about this case. he did not want to risk having anything for the defense to use as an appeal in until after the verdicts were read. our cameras are set up, you can see the action behind me. we have cameras that are set up, we are going to hear from dr. petit, he said he would talktous today, the jurors are being polled, they re being questioned. we were told, as everybody who watches court cases knows, we always wait to see what the jurors are going to do when they show up every day for deliberation as far as how they dress. today, they were dressed up, today, the men were clean shaven, the women had their hair and makeup done a little more despite the wind and cold and wearing better clothes than yesterday. that was the early sign there was going to be some kind of a movement on the verdicts i
because of what it actually might show us about the tone of voters as we get into mid terms. 3-term democratic senator russ feingold, once thought to be a shoe-in, is fighting to seufb his job against likely republican challenger ron johnson fpb johnson who is favored to win the primary. steve brown is live with more on this. most political observers say this race is a toss-up. why is that? well, if you take a look at the polling it might surprise folks that haven t been take passengers paying attention because the wisconsin race hasn t gotten a lot of attention nationally but if you take a look at the polling, the average of the last several polls going back to june shows that feingold is up, but if you factor in the plus-min us, it s a dead heat and late in the race it could be trouble for mr. feingold. talktous more about feingold. 3-term democratic senator. where is he right now in the race, and what does he have ahead of him? typically, russ feingold