nightmare happening on thursday night near alpine, mississippi, chisholm 75 miles south of their tennessee home where they were abducted from at the end of last month. their captor, 35-year-old adam mayes, hiding out with the sisters until a tip from the public led investigators right to them, but instead of surrendering mayes took his own life. officers immediately issued commands to adam mayes to show his hands. mayes pulled a semiautomatic pistol from his waistband and shot himself in the head and was later pronounced dead at a local hospital. other agents moved in to rescue kyliyah and alexandria who were lying on the ground nearby. police believe adam mayes shot and killed the little girl s mother, joanne bain, and their older sister, 14-year-old ad treen bain at their tennessee home on april 27th.
same-sex marriage is paying off for his re-election hopes. a democratic source saying the president raised $2 million in the first 24 hours after making his remarks. that comes as a new usa today/gallup poll shows that a majority of americans, 51% of the approve of the president s position. let s bring in athena jones, where a law allowing same-sex marriage is taking effect next january but opponents hope to stop it from becoming reality. good morning to you. give us a little more about the voter reaction there to president obama s comments. what are you hearing? reporter: good morning, randi. there s going to be a farmers market later today so we re hoping to be our stwoeinformal polling here but the first national poll since the president made his remarks on wednesday shows that 51% of people approve of the president s position on same-sex marriage, 45% disapprove so that s still fairly evenly divide e. but if you look at it by party, you ll find that 71% of democrats app
pistol from his waistband and shot himself in the head and was later pronounced dead at a local hospital. other agents moved in to rescue kyliyah and alexandria who were lying on the ground nearby. the girls were hungry, thirsty, and dehydrated. the head of the biggest bank in the country is admitting to a trading mistake that cost jpmorgan chase $2 billion and counting. jamie dimond made the surprise announcement during a conference call yesterday. he said the loss was a case of, quote, bad judgment. we ve more work to do, but it s obvious at this point that there were many errors, sloppiness and bad judgment. we re going to management it. we re not going to do something stupid. we re willing to hold as long as necessary inventory and we re willing to bear volatility. the improving economy is actually not good news for some americans who have been out of work for a long time. they re going to lose their unemployment checks as of this week. as the economy actually gets