the epidemic of obesity is killing people. an exclusive interview with emmy award-winning celebrity chef and activist jamie oliver. then we need help. katrina, politics and the economy. analysis on our roundtable with george will, democratic strategic donna brazile, susie gharib from the nightly business report and richard haas, president of the council on foreign relations and the sunday funnies. a big controversy in the miss universe contest, miss iran, yes, disqualified for hello again, everyone. and consider this, students returning to class this week are less likely to finish high school than their parents and they re falling behind students in other countries scoring lower in science than their peers in 28 nations and ranking 35th in math behind countries like estonia and azerbaijan. the obama administration is attempting the most vicious and ambitious school reform in a generation but it s also sparked battles with teachers unions over accountabi
car and you re talking to me one on one when you ve become that is criminal. the men are accused of trying to fund terror groups. one of them has allegedly been trained in bombmaking overseas. incredible story. meanwhile, former president jimmy carter has won the release of the american. i hope i m saying that right from north korea. he s scheduled to arrive in boston where he will be reunited with his family. he was teaching in south korea when he crossed to north. he was sentenced to hard labor. protesting the decision want to honour mother teresa on her 100th birthday. the owners say they don t honor religious figures. they call that insulting considering that they honored communist china. we re seeing what life is like for 393 miners trapped 2,000 feet under the ground in chile. newly released video showing the men in apparently good spirits. the men had been trapped for 11 days now and they may not be rescued until christmas. the company that owns the mine says the r
i m ann curry. and i m carl quintanilla. matt is on assignment. meredith has the morning off. it s great to be with you this morning. economy s been a big story all week long. now new home sales are painting an even bleaker picture of the real estate market and the overall economy. that s right, carl. sales of new homes dropped more than 12% nationwide in july to the lowest point ever recorded. that s much lower than expected. we re going to have more on this and what it means for you straight ahead. also ahead, we recently told you about one of the richest women in the country who has not been to her mansion in 20 years. she now lives exclusively at a new york hospital, and authorities have launched an investigation into two people handling her affairs. we ll get the latest on that mysterious story in a moment. it is a really mysterious story. plus we ve got tiger woods going on record for the first time now about his divorce from elin nordegren after she spoke out a
casino. remember, he s also the prime suspect in the 2005 disappearance of american natalee holloway in aruba. dana? the 33 workers are trapped inside a mine in chile cheered, applauded and sang the national anthem in their first verbal contact with officials. they are receiving food, water and medication through a small hole. before that, they survived on just small amounts of tuna and mackerel and a jar of peaches. the temperature down there in that their shelter, about 90 degrees and getting the miners out could take until christmas. something they have not yet been told. that s rough. meanwhile, ladies and gentlemen, the new miss universe has been crowned! runner-up is jamaica. you are universe 2010? miss mexico take the crown. her name is jimena navarrete from mexico. she is mexico s second miss universe. she will take home an
good morning to you as well. we ll be watching all these races and we ll be watching florida as well. the democratic confest for senate and republican coon contest for governor there, both are experiencing the late arrival for challengers. democrat jeff green and republican rick scott, both have spent a lot of money to gain big lead over former frontrunners but they now appear to be faltering a bit against unsavory allegations against them. green, for example, over allegations of sleazy conduct as a real estate speculator and hedonistic parties on his yacht. then there s scott over claims of medicare fraud against his current and former health care companies. also going on in florida in the sunshine state, former house speaker, marco rubio is expected to win the republican nomination for the u.s. senate. that will sett up a three way race, rubio, governor charlie crist who is running as independent right now and whichever democrat win today, rubio tells fox news he has no p