Immigration Official Arrested; Obama's Back to School Speech; FBI Gets Man on the Run 41 Years
KAYE: It is about half past the hour. Here's a look at some of the stories that you may have missed. We have just learned that the Pentagon is on the verge of beginning its trial of the suspected mastermind of the "USS Cole," a Saudi-born former millionaire is charged in the 2000 bombing in the Yemeni Port of Aden that killed 17 sailors. The trial will take place at the U.S. Navy Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. The head of Immigration in Customs Enforcement for South Florida has been arrested on child pornography charges. The Justice Department says that Anthony Mangione is charged of transportation of child porn, receipt of child porn and possession of child porn. If convicted, he could face up to 20 years in prison. Last hour, President Obama gave his third annual back to school address to students across the country. In it, he encouraged students to be the best that they can be and to work hard at their studies. While the speech was intended to be non-political, some school districts did not broadcast the address live due to objections from parents. It took 41 years, but the FBI got a long-time fugitive. They got him, all right. George Wright escaped from prison in 1970 driving off in the warden's car. He allegedly hijacked a Delta jet in 1972 dressed as a priest. The FBI says Wright forced agents to deliver $1 million ransom dressed only in swim trunks to prove that the agents had no guns. Wright flew to Algeria and vanished until Monday. The FBI found Wright now 68 living the good life in a Portuguese resort town. He is fighting extradition. Mexican drug gangs appear to be stepping up their grizzly threats against school teachers. Five severed heads were found in a sack yesterday near an elementary school in Acapulco. No one has actually claimed responsibility. The threats warned that teachers will become targets if they don't pay part of their salaries to the drug gangs. Some schools have actually closed due to the threats and the lack of security. The decision to release a controversial jailhouse videotape to the public is in the hands of a Florida judge today. The Orange County superior court judge who presided over Casey Anthony's murder trial wants to hear arguments on whether the videotape should be released. Previously the judge ruled the footage was, quote, "highly inflammatory" and kept it sealed ahead of Anthony's trial. An Orlando media outlet filed a motion to get the footage unsealed in July. Coming up, the battle for Gadhafi's hometown. Our reporter is there. You will find this story only on CNN. That's next.