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But first, tonight the nation's financial institutions are on high alert for possible terrorist activity.
Fox 2 News at 9 starts now, one hour earlier.
And first on Fox tonight, employees at financial institutions on the East Coast return to work to find tighter security.
Extra security measures have been taken at the buildings and surrounding streets.
The precautions were taken after the government received credible information that Al-Qaeda has been watching those buildings.
Fox's Catherine Harridge with the latest.
This morning the opening bell rang at the New York Stock Exchange, one of five financial targets in Al-Qaeda's crosshairs.
The Secretary of Homeland Security Tom Ridge explained the significance of the current threat environment.
The detail associated with these particular sites was far in excess of anything else related to any other site or location.
So we thought it was very important to alert the public.
Homeland Security officials described the level of detail as quote, startling.
Thorough and methodic surveillance was conducted by Al-Qaeda on the World Bank headquarters and international monetary fund in Washington, D.C.,
the Prudential Building in Newark, New Jersey, the New York Stock Exchange and Citigroup Center in New York City.
Nobody is safe. We live in a different world.
We have to have a level of security every place that everybody has to learn to live with even though it is expensive and sometimes intrusive.
Sources tell Fox the surveillance conducted before and after the 9-11 attacks include the suspense of traffic patterns,
the incline of garage ramps as well as the explosives needed to wreck the buildings.
Washington's police chief said he does not believe the threat will abate anytime soon.
We do know that we're in a period of time right now when our awareness needs to be heightened because of the impending elections.
It could go to the election, could go as long as the inauguration or beyond.
In a Rose Garden event earlier today, the president described the domestic threat as grave.
It's serious business. I mean, we wouldn't be contacting authorities at the local level unless something was real.
And what this points up to is that there's an enemy which hates what we stand for.
Though no time or type of attack was described, sources tell Fox they believe a car or truck bomb, similar to this attack on the U.S.
embassies in Africa six years ago, is the preferred method.
Fox News has also obtained a law enforcement bulletin sent by the FBI and Homeland Security Sunday night,
which indicates mass transportation near these sites is also a concern.
It says possible modes of attack may include improvised explosive devices, quote,
in subways and other public transport systems in close proximity to these targets, adding,
we have limited information indicating terrorist intent and plans to conduct computer network attacks against U.S. financial institutions.
U.S. officials say much of the recent intelligence comes from two arrests.
The most significant is that of Mohammed Khan, a computer engineer who was picked up overseas in mid-July.
U.S. officials say his computer yielded the bulk of the information, as it is mined for new lead sources say more warnings and bulletins could be issued.
In Washington, Catherine Hirage, Fox News.
And here in New Mexico, state officials say while no specific threat has been made to financial institutions here,
they have decided to raise the threat level to orange, which means high risk of attack.
Eric Connert with more.
Millions of Americans started the work week on edge after a fresh terror threat points to a car or truck bomb
hitting financial targets in the New York City and Washington, D.C. area.
But here in New Mexico, state Homeland Security officials are worried as well.
Our officers are looking at our infrastructure closely.
They're looking at our transportation systems much more closely.
And we're looking at our financial institutions.
New Mexico and Massachusetts are the only states to join New York City, Newark, New Jersey, and Washington, D.C.
in a heightened terror alert for financial institutions.
The Albuquerque skyline is decorated with large buildings like the Bank of Albuquerque, the Wells Fargo building, and Bank of America.
Whether those banks have taken the state security suggestion is unknown at this point.
But passerbys who frequent the banks have mixed feelings on the raised alert.
I don't think anybody's going to come here to Albuquerque to blow anything up.
It's kind of scary, you know, because I work over here at the Galleria, and that's one of the tall buildings around, you know,
so just hoping they don't get over here.
My own gut feeling is pretty soon they're going to start just hitting individual people rather than the things we'd expect them to do.
They're looking to outdo themselves from 9-11.
They want to, you know, do something bigger and better.
But just in case financial institutions in Albuquerque are a target, the city says they're taking appropriate safety measures.
Our patrols and our officers have been advised to be a little bit more judicious in what they're doing.
We spoke with several people downtown who work here, and some said that the increased security is unnecessary.
Others say it's better to be safe than sorry.
Reporting from downtown, Eric Connor, FOX 2 News in Narnia.
And just one day after those security levels were raised at New Mexico financial institutions,
Albuquerque police were called to investigate a suspicious package left at a mortgage company.
And then several hours later, police found an empty box near Spain and New Bank.
As Mindy Meisel reports, police were not taking any chances.
Bomb squad units positioned outside two financial institutions in Albuquerque this morning.
I think it's probably nothing, but they can't be too cautious, you never know.
And we do get some high-rate customers sometimes.
Employees at Charter Mortgage found this suspicious package at the front door, a large cardboard box.
No one knew what was in it or where it was from.
The box was immediately under the large American flag that's inside of the window of the business.
So we were concerned about that as well.
We were concerned that there may be a statement being made.
Any time there is an announcement of a heightened state of alert, we can always expect to see individuals
that decide they want to play games with this.
We treat every one of these reports seriously, however.
You're looking at an image right now from one of two robots used today by bomb squad units
to go up to the box and make sure it was safe.
We used the robots to go down, open the packages, tear them apart, and determine that they were actually empty and safe.
The only thing inside, more cardboard and paper.
The Promenade Shopping Center reopened three hours later, and employees returned back to work.
But no one said police overreacted.
In light of everything that's going on, it's probably necessary. Costly, but necessary.
In Albuquerque, Mindy Meisel, FOX 2 News at 9.
Albuquerque police are asking for your help in tracking down a murder suspect.
Today, police released a sketch of the light-skinned black man who shot 29-year-old Alex Gomez several times as he left an Albuquerque bar.
It happened at the pub at Wantebo in Candelaria after a fight inside the bar nine days ago.
New Mexico Republicans are calling for one of their own to resign after an arrest of a domestic violence charge.
Albuquerque State Representative Rory Ogle is accused of throwing a bad headboard and a mop at his wife during a fight earlier this month.
Ogle's wife says her hand was injured during that argument at their house.
Now, Republican Party Chairman Alan Way is formally asking for Ogle's resignation and not to run again in November.
An Albuquerque woman is killed by lightning while on a hike.
28-year-old Mary Weiper was hiking near Breckenridge, Colorado yesterday afternoon when she was struck by a bolt of lightning.
She was dead when paramedics arrived. Weiper worked for the Sierra Club here in Albuquerque.
I got a phone call from a friend and I was like, that's not right. I have to pick her up from the airport tomorrow night.
She's coming back. Don't worry. It just wasn't real. I mean, it doesn't happen to people you know.
Mary Weiper had just moved here from Montana last year.
Scientists at Kirtland are working on a non-lethal weapon that heats the water in your skin, making it feel like your skin is on fire.
It's called the Active Denial System. It works by heating the water molecules in the skin with microwave energy.
Its main use would be for riot control.
Officials say the device has pinpoint accuracy. Whichever side of your body the weapon points is where you'll feel the pain.
So instinctively you know where that pain is coming from and you want to go in the opposite direction.
They also plan to have a system mounted on the Humvee by the end of the year.
Bureau of Land Management officials discover hundreds of Indian artifacts in a Bloomfield man's home.
But now his mother says her son has not done anything wrong.
Carmen Considine and her son David Major just live a few yards from the Salmon Ruins, an ancient Native American settlement in San Juan County.
Considine says her yard is full of old pottery shards and arrowheads.
A BLM officer is investigating whether her son stole hundreds of stone tools, arrow points and cutting edges from federal or public land.
But Considine says the BLM investigator has changed his tune after a phone call this morning.
And he said that David wasn't in any trouble over the artifacts because David didn't dig them up.
And we had talked to Mr. Tracy. He knows that we found arrowheads out here in our driveway even.
And so far no charges have been filed in this case.
Police in Salt Lake City say they have their man in the case of a missing pregnant woman.
And could a pill help alcoholics slow their drinking?
And an athletic grandmother gets ready to head to Athens.
But first, tens of thousands have died in Sudan, more than a million now displaced from their homes.
That story at about 916.
At about 930, a phony security guard handcuffs people and barges into their apartments.
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Salt Lake City police say they have their man in the Lori Hacking case.
For the first time saying that Mark Hacking is the suspect in his wife's disappearance.
Fox's Adam Housley has the details.
Exactly two weeks to the day he reported his wife missing here in Salt Lake City.
Mark Hacking has been arrested on charges he murdered his wife Lori.
Salt Lake investigators say from day one the focus was on Mark because his story was full of holes.
And a massive amount of evidence was found in his wife's abandoned car, the couple's apartment,
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Detectives of the Salt Lake City Police Department have arrested Mark Hacking for the murder
in connection with the disappearance of his wife Lori.
Both families are said to be devastated, but they realize the investigation was focusing on Mark several days ago.
Of course, a member of the family is said to have provided substantial information to help detectives.
Lori was last seen late Sunday night over two weeks ago.
Detectives are confident her body is now in an acre area of the Salt Lake County dump.
The search resumes there Wednesday with cadaver dogs.
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Mark was arrested when detectives learned he was going to be released from the hospital this morning
where he's been nearly two weeks.
They now have 72 hours to file formal charges.
In Salt Lake City, Adam Housley, Fox News.
The death toll from this weekend's Paraguayan supermarket fire is now over 300.
People in the city of Ascension are still trying to find survivors and clean up after Sunday's tragedy.
An inferno ripped through a multi-level crowded supermarket.
There are countless numbers of seriously burned people recovering in area hospitals today.
Authorities have detained two of the supermarket's owners.
Some survivors say the supermarket doors had been locked to prevent looting.
Management is denying that fact.
More catastrophic flooding in Bangladesh claims over 500 lives today.
Heavy rains have flooded nearly half of the streets in the capital.
Officials say this is the worst flooding they've seen since 1998.
The water mixed with sewage is undrinkable.
Experts say deforestation and the heavy rainfall have created a disaster.
Throughout South Asia, more than 1,500 people have died.
Fighting in Sudan has displaced more than a million people and killed tens of thousands.
The pro-government Arab militias known as the Janjaweed continue to violently drive out African farmers.
Stuart Ramsey takes us to one of the largest refugee camps.
They're never far away.
The nomadic tribesmen from whose ranks the Janjaweed militia are drawn
move freely through the towns and camps of Darfur.
All the major towns we've passed through for days now
are swollen to bursting point by hundreds of thousands of displaced.
Khartoum's acceptance of a UN resolution to provide security, assist aid and demobilize the militias
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Daily they arrive, often to make home in horrendous conditions.
This is by no means the largest camp that we've visited, but it's certainly the worst.
It's right in the center of town.
People are living right next to one another and the conditions are utterly appalling.
They've been offered places in other camps, but so far they've refused to leave and they've been here for months.
The government says they can leave any time they like and that their villages are now secure.
They simply don't trust the government.
And of course the longer they stay here, the worse conditions are going to get.
The scale of this crisis is what's so staggering.
So many people over such a huge area, all suffering the same problems.
If the end is in sight, it doesn't feel it.
When peace does return, many won't have lived to see it.
Stuart Ramsey, Sky News, Darfur.
Iraq's Taif Shiite Muslim cleric is condemning a series of church bombings.
At least 10 people were killed.
The Iraqi government believes that Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is behind the suicide attacks,
which took out four cathedrals in Baghdad, one in Mosul.
Officials say the terrorists hope the bombings will drive Christians,
which compose only about 3 percent of the Iraqi population, out of the country.
Osama bin Laden and Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist networks are giving Italy an ultimatum.
Get troops out of Iraq in 15 days or the country will face, quote, waves of earthquakes.
It is the fourth threat in just two weeks against the key American ally.
The Italian prime minister says troops will stay in Iraq until democracy takes its course.
The prime minister has received a lot of opposition for his pro-U.S. stance,
and many are calling for a withdraw of troops.
Survivors and ancestors of the Holocaust met today at the former Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland.
It was 60 years ago today that the final victims were gassed at the site by the Nazis during World War II.
Today's anniversary was marked with music, speeches and a symbolic dance amid the ruins of prisoner barracks.
More than 6.5 million Jews and Gypsies were killed by the Nazis during World War II.
Former chess champion Bobby Fischer is applying for political asylum in Japan.
Japanese authorities detained Fischer last month when he tried to leave the country using a U.S. passport, the United States says, is invalid.
Japan plans to deport Fischer.
Fischer has been wanted by the federal government since 1992 when he played a chess match in Yugoslavia in defiance of U.S. sanctions.
Fischer is appealing the Japanese government decision to deport him.
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An Albuquerque man poses as a security guard, but it's what happens next that may shock you.
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A man who police say was posing as a security guard is in jail accused of taking things too far.
Officers say he barged into apartments, handcuffed people, and even touched a woman where he shouldn't have.
Around 930 last night, a couple was approached in the Arbor's parking lot near Carlisle in Candelaria by a man wearing a security uniform.
Residents say what happened next was shocking.
Fox 2's Elena Darvo with the story.
If somebody knocked on your door who looked like a security guard, would you follow his orders?
Well, he came in, he knocked on my door and told us we had to turn down the TV.
And I told him, no, our TV's not even that loud.
And he's all, well, it's too loud and I'm the security here. And he was in a security outfit.
Audrey Cooper says 18-year-old Joey White forced his way into her apartment.
Vicente Alarez saw the whole thing from down the hall. He says he's known White for about a year.
I found out it was him. I went downstairs and I tried talking some sense into him.
But with him being drunk, there's no talking to him.
But that's not the only incident. In the parking lot, Cooper says he handcuffed a couple and touched a woman inappropriately.
She's all, well, he just accused me of stealing a car and I told him it was mine and I would show him the title.
And that's when he put her in handcuffs, her and her husband, and he frisked both of them and then told them they were fine to leave.
It turns out the Arbor's apartment doesn't even have a security guard.
And White does not work for them, but he has been living there for a few weeks.
As for the uniform, residents say he used to be a security guard, so that may be where he got it from.
In the newsroom, Elena Darvaux, Fox 2, News at 9.
When you think of Olympic athletes, the image of a 56-year-old grandmother doesn't usually pop into your mind.
Annette Woodward is a mother of six, a grandmother of two.
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But now that most of my children have left home and none of them are, they're all 21 and none of them are my responsibility,
it doesn't mean that you don't look out for them, I mean, but those things now can be a second place and shooting can be the all-in first for me.
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There's still more news ahead on Fox News at 9, but first we go to Tom Joles in the Eyewitness News 4 studio.
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A helicopter crash in Florida and David and Goliath taking the bronze in Texas.
Fox's Shepard Smith takes us across America.
Florida, a small helicopter crashing in the Everglades.
Both people on board flown to the hospital but no word on their conditions.
The cause still under investigation.
Texas, a Humvee armed with Stinger missile launchers causing commotion when it shows up in northeast Houston.
Several neighbors feared some connection with terrorism.
As it turns out, a driver hired by the military to take it to Mississippi just parked it while he took a break.
The Army says no worries, both launcher codes and rockets are needed to make the launchers work.
But there was a problem of judgment. Another driver will finish the job.
Colorado, a big dragon boat race a long way from China.
52 teams competing on Sloan's Lake outside Denver.
Looks like a lot of people rowing a boat but each of the teams has a specific strategy for winning.
Texas, David and Goliath in bronze.
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New Mexico's tribes and pueblos have been given new resources to improve early literacy skills among American Indian children, thanks to $700,000 in federal funding.
Kandame TV will use the money for programs for the Pueblo, Apache and Navajo populations.
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Well, it's business as usual as new terror threats fail to put a damper on the stock market.
Fox's Stuart Varney with your nightly business report.
Music.
Wall Street shakes off terror threats and finishes on the plus side.
Let's get right to the numbers.
The Dow Industrial is gaining nearly 39 points, reversing earlier losses.
The Nasdaq and the S&P 500 up nearly five points on the day.
While the security was stepped up outside the New York Stock Exchange, a big show of support inside.
New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg opened trading on the big board, joined by New York's Governor George Pataki and the state's senior senator Chuck Schumer.
Security also beefed up at the other financial targets named, including the Citigroup building in Midtown Manhattan and Prudential's headquarters in Newark, New Jersey.
Prudential shares losing 1 percent, while Citigroup was up a half percent.
Procter & Gamble leading the blue chips to their fifth straight winning session.
The maker of well-known brands like Crest Toothpaste and Folgers Coffee saw its profits jump 44 percent in the latest quarter, beating expectations.
Sales soaring 19 percent in nearly $13 billion.
With the terror threat rising in three cities, the spotlight is now on companies who make their living protecting Americans, like Armor Holdings.
The company makes bulletproof vests, flak jackets, as well as hard armor like helmets and shields.
Shares jumping 8 percent today, the stock up 169 percent in the last 12 months.
Terror worries keeping oil on the front burner, though.
Crude hitting another record high today of just under $44 a barrel before sliding back a little.
Investors did receive some comforting news on the economic front.
A new report said the manufacturing sector grew for the 15th month in a row in July.
But the number's not as good for construction.
As spending slipped three-tenths of 1 percent in June, a stream of rainstorms across the nation being blamed for cooling off of that sector.
That's a look at business. I'm Stuart Varney.
Fans are paying top dollar for some famous movie paraphernalia.
And could you be the next American Idol?
And Mexicans will have their chance to take the stage. Your entertainment news is next.
Bill Clinton may best be known as a political player with plenty of clout, but does he have what it takes to be a comedian?
According to TV Guide Online, the former president has been offered a chance to host a long-running late-night skit comedy series.
A decision about whether or not he'll host is expected this week.
Clinton is set to appear on The Late Show with David Letterman exactly one week after he addressed the Democratic National Convention.
It seems everything that television stars and film stars touch turns to gold.
Even the cars they drive on the set are considered high-valued artifacts.
At least the viewers of Knight Rider and Magnum P.I. think so.
Fox's Bill McCuddy has more in the Fox slide.
Many times, probably wish we were a little less up close and personal.
Here's your Fox slide.
The 1979 Ferrari 308 GTS used by Tom Selleck in the 80s hit Magnum P.I.
It fetched 57,500 coconuts at a Beverly Hills auction Friday.
One car dealer in Tony Southampton, New York says, Magnum P.U. to that price.
Todd Silvera of Aventura Motors routinely sells classics like the Ferrari 308 and says,
In top condition, it's only worth 35 grand.
Hey Todd, maybe you came with a shirt.
Even more unbelievable, the modified 1983 Trans Am used in Knight Rider went for just under 55 grand.
Yep, Kitt went for almost as much as Magnum's ride.
Does the buyer know it doesn't really talk?
Maybe the seller threw in a Hasselhoff Greatest Hits 8-Track.
More than a million bucks was raised by a company called Profiles in History
that claims people love whatever famous people have touched, worn or driven.
A Mike Myers pinstripe psychedelic suit from Austin Powers went for just under 10 grand.
Yeah baby, yeah!
But Spock's Vulcan Ear prosthetics from Star Trek bringing 7,500 bucks?
That's only logical if you're a very big fan.
That's the latest action from Hollywood and I did all my own stunts.
Bill McCuddy, Fox News.
Robin, looks like the clouds were going to explode with rain today in Albuquerque,
but just a little, little, little bit of rain.
A little bit in the city, around half an inch though in Rio Rancho and farther south in Belen.
And some areas of the state still getting quite a bit of rain this evening.
Doppler radar across New Mexico showing an area of slow moving showers and thunderstorms
stretching from Socorro through Torrance and into southern Santa Fe counties.
Moving toward the northeast, National Weather Service has issued a royal and small stream
flood advisories through 12-15 for Socorro and Torrance counties.
The water is going to be running in places that it normally doesn't.
Elsewhere around the rest of the state, really it's the central portion of New Mexico
that's only seeing the activity.
Radar across the rest of New Mexico showing just some scattered showers
across the central portion of the state.
Thank you very much.
Showing just a few showers across the central portion of the state
with fair skies across eastern and northwestern New Mexico.
High temperatures today across much of the state.
Clouds and showers holding many readings down into the 60s and 70s across the north,
but warming into the 80s and 90s across the south and the eastern plains of New Mexico.
Right now, our high temperature in Albuquerque was 85.
We're down to 68.
That's as cool as it's been all day with southeast winds at 7.
Elsewhere across New Mexico, we're looking at the 60s and 70s right now
across northern New Mexico, but it was pretty warm across the eastern plains,
and temperatures are still holding in the 70s and 80s there.
For western New Mexico, 60s and 70s in the four corners,
70s and 80s across the southwest.
Well, monsoon season sort of eased off a little bit over the weekend,
but rich plume of moisture has moved back across almost all of New Mexico,
and that translated into showers and thunderstorms this afternoon.
Now, the reason for the return of the moisture is the position of the high-pressure system
that's been waffling back and forth across the southwest.
Right now, it's sort of parked across the Oklahoma-Texas border,
and the circulation around it, which is almost due south,
is bringing in rich moisture across the entire state.
Now that it's here, there doesn't seem to be a lot of indication
that it's going to move away.
Showers and thunderstorms each day for the next several days,
though some days may be a little bit more active than others.
Across the rest of the country, this moisture is moving northward
across much of the central and northern Rockies,
some severe weather possible across South Dakota.
And what will be Hurricane Alex is due to graze the outer banks of North Carolina tomorrow.
Right now, a tropical storm, but due to become a hurricane
with just a glancing blow across the eastern U.S.
Now, for tomorrow, the high-pressure system remains close to New Mexico,
but plenty of moisture and another round of showers and thunderstorms.
Now, there is a front to the north of us.
It's going to get a little punched southward toward Wednesday and Thursday.
It's only going to increase the moisture and the chances for showers and thunderstorms.
For tomorrow, remember today, look for that again for tomorrow.
With showers and thunderstorms in most sections of the state,
steering currents are light, so at least some areas are due to get some good soaks.
Lows for tonight across southern New Mexico with some showers easing,
dropping down into mainly the 50s and 60s, a few 70s as well,
and then tomorrow's highs ranging from the 80s and into the 90s.
For northern New Mexico, once again in the Royo and Smallstreams,
Flood Advisors, Socorro and Torrance counties, 40s and 50s and few 60s overnight,
the 70s through the 90s for tomorrow.
The 50s in Espanol, Los Alamos and Santa Fe,
look for highs in the mid to upper 80s for tomorrow and for the east mountains.
Look for low temperatures from the upper 50s to close to 60,
mid to upper 80s for tomorrow with late day showers and thunderstorms.
The 60s again from Placidas to Belen for tomorrow, the upper 80s through the low 90s.
And then the Metro for tonight, still a chance for a sprinkle though.
It's pretty well tapered off.
Lows ranging in the 60s, tomorrow's highs from the upper 80s through the low 90s.
Yellow drop is up, not everybody got much rain as Jeremy pointed out.
Showers and thunderstorms though continue in our forecast through the weekend
into early next week.
So if you didn't get some today, you might get some later on in this forecast.
Jessica?
Robin, thanks.
American Idol is coming back for a fourth season.
The hit reality show that crowns America's next pop star
doesn't kick off until January, but auditions already start this week.
Fox's Trace Gallagher has a preview.
Fantasia Barrino.
Just two months after Fantasia Barrino became the third American Idol,
thousands of hopeful crooners will begin lining up again this week
as Idol Four auditions get underway.
My girl, my girl.
Idol Four, baby, come on people, Four, come on, grab the ring.
There's a kangaroo.
One thing that doesn't change, potential contestants range from the talented
to the tone deaf, trying to make it past the initial screenings
to perform for the big three.
That was appalling with a capital A.
You're going to see the good and the bad still, but I'm just hoping for great beyond great.
I just think it just keeps getting more interesting.
All I'm asking is for the respect.
This year the age limit goes up, increasing the talent pool and the pressure.
For a start we are going to change the age group to 28.
Try and make it a little more emotional, so 16 to 28.
At 21 and 22 if somebody says you're not going to make it in this business,
you can pick yourself up, dust yourself off.
At 28 somebody says you're not going to make it in this business.
It hits home a little hard.
Do not miss a chance to blow, cause opportunity comes.
The search spans eight cities this time around, including Cleveland, New Orleans,
Las Vegas, even Anchorage, Alaska.
But wherever you're from, Randy Jackson has some good advice.
Find out who you are and be original.
Don't copy, don't come in wanting to be Stevie Wonder, sounding just like Christina,
sounding just like Mariah, sounding just like Celine.
Don't sound just like anyone. Sound like who you are.
Bring your uniqueness, your own personality and style in, but be great.
Like the window, you ain't got nothing to say.
In Los Angeles, Trace Gallagher, Fox News.
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For the details, the winner and the guest will receive airfare and accommodations
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Also, five finalists will get tickets for the Clay Aiken show that night at 8.
And if you'd like to buy tickets for the show, all you need to do is go to ticket,
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People are going to love that.
Eddie's been practicing, let me tell you.
I just can't wait to see Clay Aiken.
In the shower, rocking you.
You'll be there.
All right, we're talking about isotopes and trading.
Good thing for some.
Trade deadline last week, it all trickles down to the isotopes.
We'll tell you how the Major League Trade deadline affected the isotopes last week.
Also, they are the longest hitters on the PGA Tour and they teed it up in prime time tonight.
We'll check in on Tiger, Phil and John Daly next in sports.
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Last week's major league trade wins blew all the way down to Albuquerque.
When the Marlins and Dodgers pulled off their big six-player swap before the trading deadline, it affected the roster of the Isotopes.
The Topes get catcher Matt Traynor back. With the addition of Paul LaDuca, the fish no longer needed Traynor, and optioned him back to Albuquerque on Sunday.
He hit 250 and 52 at bats with the Marlins this summer.
Traynor can't be happy about returning to AAA, but his return helps the Topes.
It's all a part of the relationship between the major league club and AAA affiliate.
Anytime a major league team starts getting rid of guys at various positions, you start thinking of, okay, how is this going to affect us?
The Marlins acquired a catcher, so they're not going to carry three plus a guy in the DL, so that was pretty much obvious that somebody was going to be coming our way.
The Isotopes trying to not go into uncharted territory tonight.
They are sitting on a franchise record tying five-game losing streak in Tacoma right now.
Topes lead it 3-2 in the six.
The people have spoken, and they say Orbit is the best mascot in the PCL.
He beat out Dinger of Sacramento for first place on PCLBaseball.com, getting more than 200,000 votes.
Orbit will be honored at Thursday's game when the Topes host Sacramento.
Boston and Tampa, one of only two games in the big leagues tonight.
D-Ray's up 2-0 in the second, but David McCarty hit a laser over the wall and left.
Three-run shot, both Sox take the lead, and they go on to win it 6-3.
When you talk about the Air Force defense, defending the country is always more important to the Falcon football team than defending the pass rush.
As another season gets ready to roll, the Falcons must try to focus on their ground game and the air attack many of their former teammates are now involved in, flying combat missions in Iraq.
In the balancing act, the head coach Fischer-DeBerry says his players perform well.
In the back of their minds, they know that a lot of their former teammates from just a year or two ago are over in Afghanistan or over in Iraq and in the thick of things and doing their job and their mission.
I'm sure that at times they lay in their rooms and in their beds thinking, well, in a year's time, if this thing's not cleaned up, then hey, I'm going to be right over there in the midst of it.
The NBA schedule makers know what they are doing.
Shaq and Kobe will meet for the first time next season on Christmas Day on national TV when the Heat face the Lakers in LA.
The U.S. men's Olympic basketball team is still prepping for Athens by going to Europe for two weeks of exhibition games.
Allen Iverson, LeBron James and Amari Stoudamire are back in the good graces of Larry Brown.
They were suspended for Saturday's scrimmage with Puerto Rico after missing a team meeting, but that's behind them now.
Something that I want in my life is something that I want for the country, something that I want for my teammates, something that I want for my family and friends, all the coaches and teammates that I ever had, you know, because without those people, I wouldn't be here.
Finally tonight, Tiger Woods and Hank Keeney taking on Phil Mickelson and John Daly in the battle at the Bridges.
They are four of the longest hitters on tour, no one longer than Long John Daly on 14.
He flew at 300, then he gets 40 yards of roll.
Woods and Keeney were one up on 16, and then Tiger had this for Eagle, and he reads it like an Archie comic.
They go two easy, they go two up heading to 17, they went four of the last five, and they win it two and one, and that sports.
Thank you Ed. Nice putt. Tiger's good. He's been known for having a pretty good day.
Thanks Ed, thanks for joining us. And thank you, we'll see you right back here tomorrow night where all your local news one hour earlier. Take care.