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suzanne. you have a good weekend. hello to you all. i am the aforementioned t.j. holmes in today for randi kaye. lets start with allegations at a university but we are talking about a different university this time. we are talking about syracuse. listen to this now. associate mens basketball coach bernie fine is on administrative leave while police investigate claims of child molestation that now date back to the 1980s. two step brothers say fine touched them inappropriately when the...

police through a private entrance. her murder conviction overturned yesterday. knox sobbing uncontrollably when this verdict was read. so emotional, she had to be helped from the courtroom. her friends say the first thing she wants to do when she returns home to seattle is lie down on a green field. lets get the latest from becky anderson live in perugia, italy this morning. do we have a timetable for knox departure, becky? >> reporter: yes. we believe shes gone. its now mid-day local ...

newsroom" begins right now. all right. straight ahead were going to talk about the cnn debate, the tea party republican debate. well talk a little bit later about this this hour. but first we want to let you know that the president of the united states is expected to speak in just a few minutes on this, the tenth anniversary of the september 11th terrorist attacks. youre looking live now at the kennedy center in washington, d.c. this is going to be a concert for hope in washington ...

ground zero where it was heavily damaged. the white spots turned gray. it had rips and tears. all this year jeff and his group, new york says thank you, have been going around the country repairing it spot by spot with flags that have flown over other disaster sites and things like that. this portion of the flag flew over pearl harbor when it was bombed. this section right here, this flew at martin luther king jr.s funeral. that was the georgia patch. you can see on the far side there ...

last sunday. dozens of families have lost their homes to wildfires. in oklahoma city alone, fires destroyed 25 homes just this week. and in texas, crews are still battling 14 separate wildfires. they have been making some progress, but a weather system is expected to bring high winds to texas to tomorrow. and that could turn the embers back into flames. politics and sarah palins latest appearance in the critical early voting state of iowa. the former alaska governor and former vp c...

suzanne malveaux. i want to get you up to speed for wednesday, august 31st. firefighters are calling in air tankers to battle wildfires outside of dallas. more than two dozen homes have burned in palo pinto county and firefighters say the fire is 25% contained. several hundred people had to pack up and run as fires spread. texas is in the middle of an epic drought and heat wave that is dragging all summer long. >> reporter: more than 100 homes are in jeopardy and those who lost their h...

though, who want his job. plus, the tea party movement dealing with new divisions while stirring up red hot anger among liberals in congress. why some democrats see the tea party as their worst enemies. and a state of alert as the nation prepares to mark the tenth anniversary of 9/11. were digging for information on the fbis latest concerns and whether americans should be worried. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." we now know that president obama wants to deliver hi...

more than 2.5 million homes and businesses are still without power. the death toll has risen to at least 43. and thousands of people have evacuated from flooded neighborhoods and communities. yet, flood advisories are still in place for portions of seven states. one of the towns hardest hit is little falls, new jersey, along the passaic river. mary snow is there with the latest. mary, this is the worst flooding in a century there. are things improving at all? >> reporter: its hard to...

irene. >> north texas is burning. im ali velshi, about 30 homes already destroyed bay wildfire. 100 more in harms way. its going to get worse before it gets better because officials say this fast-spreading fire is 0% contained. and im carol costello. new developments out of aruba in the disappearance of american robyn gardener. her traveling companion and the chief suspect may be about to walk on this "american morning." good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, august 31st. welcome...

parts of it are gone. the town of about 600 people, parts of it washed away. everyone got away safely, but they dont have much to return to. this is what it looks like at ground level. a correspondent who shot this compared it to joplin, missouri after the tornado. she was stranded there by rising floodwaters. she joins us shortly still stranded there, actually, tonight. irene dumped as much as a foot of rain on the northeast onto already waterlogged ground onto already full rivers and...