how one man was rescued just hours from death. good morning everybody. i'm randi kaye. we start this hour with a historic credit card settlement that could have you paying more out of your pocket. if you're just joining us, here's the deal. visa, mastercard and some of the country's biggest banks have agreed to a massive settlement with retailers that totals a whopping $7.25 billion. the lawsuit centers around credit card swipe fees. merchants allege credit card companies were fixing the price on those fees, but the proposed settlement now gives retailers the green light to tack on a surcharge if you use plastic, which could mean a bigger tab for you. and there's much more when you read the fine print. douglas canter, a lawyer for the national association for convenience stores has read all the fine print and joins us now from dc. doug, you have said it is not the retailers or the consumers, but actually visa, mastercard and their banks that win out in this one. why is that? >> unfortunately, this agreement -- and i want to emphasize that it's not a done deal yet. this would allow visa and mastercard to keep fixing the fees, the banks not to compete and the fees to keep going up. we pay them now to the tune of $50 billion a year. and we just don't know it. unfortunately, that's going to continue if this gets pushed through. >> $50 billion a year. that is a number we don't hear very often. but the credit card companies agree to reduce the swipe fees for retailers for eight months. what else isncluded as part of this settlement? >> well, you have to read the fine print when you deal with credit card companies. and that's true here too. when you read the fine print, it's eye-opening. they're not going to reduce the fees even for the eight months. what they're going to do is give merchants the equivalent of that amount of cash and keep raising the fees. the cruel joke is by the time any merchant gets some of this money, they will have raised the fees on the merchants more than what they paid out in the first place. so merchants are paying for it themselves. >> so the bottom line here then, what will this actually mean for any of us who like to use our credit cards? >> the sad thing is it will mean nothing other than those fees keep going up. we still won't know we're paying them. and we'll all walk around wondering why we don't have the spending power we think we should have. unfortunately, it will be in the pockets of the biggest banks and the credit card companies. >> so if nothing's going to change, why the big hoopla about this massive settlement? >> well, it's in the interests of the banks and credit card companies to say that this settlement does something and takes care of the problem, a problem that has hounded them around the world for years. unfortunately, it doesn't. and that's why my client has rejected it. and other merchants will now have a chance to choose whether to accept it or reject it themselves. >> well, doug kantor, i'm glad you read the fine print and had time to share it with us. thank you. >> thank you for having me. now to the end of a long manhunt. this is the u.s. marshal's 15th most-wanted fugitive. he's now behind bars. walters was captured in mexico after 24 years on the run. he was wanted for the 1998 kidnapping and murder of a woman in san diego. we head now to egypt where we are watching a developing story. details continue to come into cnn. but here's what we can tell you right now. two americans have been kidnapped along with their tour guide in the sinai peninsula region. the third such kidnapping in that region this year. the region is popular among tourists. cnn foreign affairs reporter is on the ground in cairo and joins me now. elise, tell us what is different about this kidnapping when compared to the other ones? >> reporter: well, randi, what's different is usually these kidnappings are about criminal activity, trying to make a little money, so they kidnap americans and usually there's a steep ransom paid and then released after a short period of time. this time the kidnappers have some demands. they're trying to get some relatives detained in alexandra, egypt, on some drug charges. so they're trying to trade these hostages, if you will, for the relatives. egyptian authorities say they're working on it. u.s. embassy is kind of leaving it up to the egyptian authorities. obviously want to get those americans home safely. >> there are very specific demands that they're making. >> very specific. they want to trade the release of their relatives for these hostages. i mean, in the u.s. you don't trade or negotiate with a terrorist. but what the egyptians are going to do remains to be seen. >> why is it that the kidnappings do seem to be increasing? >> well, randi, since the fall of hosni mubarak last year, it's been an area of trafficking and militant activity. but since the fall of hosni mubarak, the egyptian authorities are usually pretty good about patrolling the area are focused more on the domestic issues in the city. they haven't been paying enough attention according to u.s. and israel on their borders. so this kind of activity is continuing. right now egyptians just don't have the ban width to deal with it. >> we certainly hope these folks from here in the u.s. make it home quickly. elise labbott thank you very much. the search on and off, four people still missing this morning. the landslide destroyed three homes and damaged several others on thursday. geologists don't know the cause of the landslide, but a record amount of rain in the area may have been a factor. kerry kennedy has been charged with dwi for her role in a hit-and-run incident. the daughter of robert f. kennedy was found behind the wheel of her vehicle after 911 calls reported that the suv operating in an erratic manner just before colliding with a tractor-trailer. but a spokesman for kennedy denies these charges saying several tests show that no drugs or alcohol were in her system. texas is getting slammed by torrential rain. and there are widespread reports of flooding especially around neighborhoods in houston. according to our affiliate, ktrk, dozens of homes have flooded. rescue crews in houston scrambled to save a tot of 37 people from the flash floods including children from a baseball day camp. now to an incredible story of survival. a helicopter pilot spotted william la fever, the man on that gurney, in a shallow river bed. he had been missing f more than a month after going for a hike with his dog in june. the 28-year-old who is autistic managed to survive on frogs and roots. >> he was in tough shape. i don't think he had another 24 hours left in him. >> i'll be speaking with the pilot who rescued william live in less than 30 minutes. you will not want to miss this interview. it's really an incredible story. a possible breakthrough in a cold case. for 30 years investigators have wondered about a girl known only as princess doe. so why do they have new hope now? 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[ chirp ] welcome back. ten minutes past the hour. all morning we have been talking about murder in america. crime trends and now the latest technologies that could free thousands of wrongly convicted felons. this week the fbi and justice department announced it will review criminal cases dating back to 1985. in all cases the guilty verdicts were based on forensic methods that no longer stand up to scientific scrutiny. the justice department did not estimate how long it will take to get through, but even with the frantic breakthroughs and technological advances, there are still countless gruesome murders that have never been solved. cases like princess doe. in 1982 her body was discovered beaten beyond recognition in a cemetery in a rural farm town of blairstown, new jersey. this is a sketch of what investigators believe she may have looked like. police determined she was between the ages of 14 and 18. but that's really all they know. in 30 years they've never discovered her identity, background or who might have killed her. joining me now is lieutenant steven spears, the lead investigator on this case. and author of "the untold story of princess doe." guilty or not guilty to both of you. >> good morning. >> now, i know you have something new, never-before-seen information that you hope will crack the case. you're going to share that with us, lieutenant, in just a moment. let me ask you, lieutenant spears, can you tell us more about the story of princess doe? >> princess doe's body was discovered in the cedar ridge cemetery in blairstown, new jersey, which is in warren county northern part of new jersey. at the time she was discovered she was beaten severely. her identification has not been something we were able to do. throughout the years there have been a number of investigators involved in this case. i took the case in 1999. and my focus then and continues to be trying to identify princess doe. and we are trying to do that now that we are armed with a dna profile of princess doe. >> one of the first things you actually did back in 1999 was have the body exhumed. why was that? what were you looking for? >> at the time i needed a reference sample from the victim. and speaking with experts in 1999, they indicated to me i needed a femur bone or long bone from princess doe at the time. of course she wass inturned at the cedar ridge cemetery. so i had to exhume her body in order to retrieve that femur born. >> and, kristie, you were born in 1982 shortly before princess doe was found. what drew you to this case? >> i think what drew me most to the case was the fact it happened in my hometown. >> you've had unprecedented access to the case file and inspired you to write this book about her life. why write the book? >> the reason i wrote the book was twofold actually. the first was because i felt that just like everyone else, princess doe deserved a life. she deserved a name. she deserved an identity. and the second reason was because i hope that this book will help raise awareness on the case. and finally figure out who she is. >> lieutenant, have there been any key suspects over the years? i mean, anyone that you've looked seriously at? and is there a person of interest at all at this point? >> throughout the case even prior to me being assigned the case there were persons of interest. there were several psons of interests developed since i've had the case. the unfortunate thing is we do not have any physical evidence at this point to connect any of those persons of interest to the case. and quite honestly, without the identity of princess doe, it's quite difficult to connect the dots, so to speak, with any persons of interest. so we need to identify her. >> and still no leads in finding princess doe's identity. but after your research, kristi, do you have theories of your own about who she might be or what happened to her? >> i do have several theories. just from doing the research, i think that what's -- what i wrote in my book, that's what my theory is. >> do you want to share that theory with us? >> yes. my book follows the life of a girl who was from long island. and she just had a family tragedy and fell in with the wrong people, which ultimately led to her demise. >> all right. certainly a lot of theories out there trying to get this case solved. thank you very much. princess doe has been nameless for decades, as we said. but thanks to the latest techniques and forensic science, investigators now have some new information that may just help finally close this case. we're going to show you some images of what princess doe looked like before her death. they've never been seen before. and we have them first right here on cnn. and detective speirs will be back with us. fight back fast with tums. calcium rich tums goes to work in seconds. nothing works faster. ♪ tum tum tum tum tums the global ready one ? 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how do you put this to use? >> well, using the media, thank you, and getting it out to the public, we have some other tests that we are doing right now or using hair samples from princess doe with a company called isoforensics in salt lake city, utah. they're taking those strands of hair and they're able to extract elements from those hairs, the isotopes. and with a reasonable amount of scientific certainty, give us a point of origin, a location of origin where she may have come from. having that composite and with the assistance of the national center, we can take that composite and saturate that area that is identified through these hair samples and isotopes. >> why is there after 30 years -- i mean, tomorrow will mark 30 years to the day that princess doe was found. i mean, why such a strong desire to solve this case after so many years? >> it's been my focus from the beginning to identify her. again, i can't say -- stress enough it's so difficult to solve a case like this without having the identity of the victim. and from '99 when i did the exhumation until now, that's always been the focus. ironically enough 30-year anniversary is here and now i'm with christie writing the book. with this new technology i was able to come across with the assistance of the national center, it's just perfect timing to do this. >> you think about why -- i would like to know what some of the challenges have been over the years because, you know, we didn't have very good or very strong dna capabilities all those years ago, 30 years ago. and now we certainly didn't have the technology that you're talking about. how much of a difference do you think all of that makes? >> it makes a huge difference. the technology that is accessible to me today wasn't even available five years ago. think going back 30 years, dna wasn't even spoken of when you went to a crime scene. it was just starting in the early '80s. so as time has gone on, we can take the most minute amounts of trace evidence now and extract dna from that. that certainly will be helpful for us in identifying persons or persons of interest. >> something else so fascinating about this case though, was she ever reported missing? was there ever a girl matching her description? was there ever family that came forward? >> there's been families in the past that have come forward thinking that possibly princess doe was in fact their daughter, sister, et cetera. and now of course we have the dna from princess doe in the data base with the assistance of the university of north texas doing the dna work for us. so we can take those reference samples, any familyhat comes forward and says i believe princess doe may be my daughter, and then we can do the comparisons. we've eliminated many. we have a potential match list on our princess doe website. that list is ever-changing because we are eliminating and unfortunately then we sometimes have to add continually to that list as more missing persons come in. but to answer your question, randi, you made a comment about maybe she was never reported missing. that has always been one of my fears in this case. maybe she was never reported missing, so we have no reference to go to to find her. >> and no clue as to what might have brought her to that cemetery. do you know if she was killed there? or maybe brought there afterwards? >> we don't know that at this point. that's why, again, it's most important to get this out to the public. in my opinion, it's the public and media that are going to help us solve this case. >> certainly that with a little bit of good work from some great technology as well. lieutenant stephen speirs, thank you so much. >> thank you, randi. >> do keep us posted on any movement in solving this cold case. >> i intend to return as soon as we get the results. >> all right. best of luck. thank you. a mother returns her adopted child to russia and is forced to pay nearly $250,000 in child support. controversial story straight ahead. well, here's something you might not have believed. while he was ripping into him at the debates, but rick santorum, mitt romney's toughest gop rival, is now stumping for romney. and we have the proof for you. we just got this video of santorum in greensburg, pennsylvania, at his first romney campaign event. santorum is there helping to open a campaign office for his ex-campaign foe. a mother who adopted a boy from russia and sent him back home on a one-way flight is ordered to pay almost $150,000 in child support. you may remember this story in 2010. just six months after adopting the 7-year-old, a tennessee woman put him on a plane back to russia all by himself with a letter saying she didn't want him anymore because he was "mentally unstable." now a judge has ordered the mother in this case, torry hansen, to pay for his care in russia. she was slapped with a $150,000 fine plus a $1,000 payment every month until he's 18. that amounts to $246,000. i've been asking for your th