I am in the airport in Madison and an employee in uniform just came up to me and said, ‘you did not hear this from me but we can’t watch Fox in this airport…we are not allowed to but we sneak it in an office…we can only have the other cables on the airport televisions..by direction of one of the members of the Board of County supervisors…”

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In case you missed last night’s On the Record, we interviewed Julie August, the sister of Mindy Jordan - who fell overboard from a cruise ship last weekend under questionable circumstances.

Watch this interview, and you’ll see why August and her family are confused and desperately want answers about their loved one’s death:

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Go ahead…blog…take over GretaWire!!

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I am pressing “post” and heading to the airport to go back to Washington, DC…but in the meantime, check this out:

When we are “on the road,” we have to figure out where to do ON THE RECORD. Sometimes we do along side of the road (with a satellite truck) and sometimes we rent a studio. Last night we rented a studio - Madison’s WISC. They could not have been better to us! They were really helpful and really nice (and coincidentally my cousin works there and I have seen him one other time in 30 plus years.)

Here are some pics from last night’s show — the behind the scenes — the pics will give you a bit of an idea of how the show is done and you will also see that WISC did some special things to make us feel at home (eg the ON THE RECORD background to the show):

In the above picture is my OTR Producer Kerry O’Connor …she lives in NYC but traveled with us because she is the producer on the special we are working on here in Madison. I took this pic right before ON THE RECORD started last night — so this is what I saw during our show (while you watched me!)…and the pic below? well..I did say we are in Madison…and since I am a Badger I needed to include this pic for you:

The above pic is the set they created for ON THE RECORD.  Note the “ON THE RECORD” behind the chair where I sat. This is a great studio — the high ceilings are something I wish we had in our studio.

The above is what was directly behind me that the studio created to make our show feel more like our show ….this is a special touch which makes a big difference….and below is WISC newsroom……and as noted, they really made it easy for us to do our show in their studio…and they made us feel at home.

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Just got this email from my executive producer Meade Cooper….read and POST YOUR COMMENT

From: Cooper, Meade
To: Van Susteren, Greta; Howard, Cory; Watts, Stephen
Sent: Fri May 16,2008
Subject:

22-year-old defends Peterson relationship
May 16, 2008
By JOE HOSEY  The Herald News
BOLINGBROOK — The latest lady in Drew Peterson’s life - a 22-year-old he rescued from a Naperville traffic stop last week - is keeping an open mind about her older male “friend.”
“I’ve always been the kind of person, I’m not going to judge someone,” said the young woman, who asked that she not be identified.
The woman said she met Peterson about three weeks ago through their mutual friend, Steve Carcerano, who tans at the salon where she works. Since then, they have spoken often and she has spent the night at his home - but nothing physical took place, she said. Peterson did not seem so sure about that.
“Never ‘nothing’ physical,” Peterson said enigmatically.
The woman lives with her mother, who must not have approved of whatever was going on between the 54-year-old, four-times-married Peterson and the woman 32 years his junior.
“My mom called the police,” she said.
State police have identified Peterson as a suspect in the disappearance of his fourth wife, 24-year-old Stacy Peterson. They have classified the case a “potential homicide,” and also are investigating the March 2004 death of his third wife, Kathleen Savio, which was recently deemed a homicide.
The young friend of Peterson said a state police investigator gave her an earful about what he thinks of Peterson’s involvement in the disappearance of Stacy and the death of Kathleen.
“They’re like, ‘We’re 100 percent positive he killed them. His family thinks he killed them. You’re going to be next,’” she said. “And I’m like, ‘Then why isn’t he in jail?’”
When pressed about the nature of their relationship, Peterson said, “No comment,” and added “She has parents to be concerned with.”
The woman, a Benet Academy graduate, said her relationship with Peterson has caused her some grief.
“It sucks,” she said, “because I’m not a hooker.”
Apparently, Peterson is worth the hassle.
“He’s just a nice guy,” she said. “He’s been nothing but nice to me.”
Sun-Times News Group

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By the way….I figured you want to know who Susan Geary is (and so do I), so I told her to email me a fun pic…and she did:

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I can’t be everyplace….and yesterday City Hall in SF was the center of a major news story….the blog entry right before this one explains the big news story (and join the debate on that blog!)…..GretaWire reader Susan Geary sent me a bunch of pics…here are some more from her. I have never seen the City Hall in SF …

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Gay marriage is a very controversial topic — it seems like people are really for it …or really against it. Yesterday one of our regular GretaWire bloggers emailed me a bunch of pics from the news yesterday in California about gay marriage. I am on the road so could not post them all yesterday….and I am still on the road…but I am trying to post a bunch now…and also to generate a discussion about it. So check out Sue’s email AND start blogging!! (and a special note from me - this should be a vigorous debate and not a mean one….)

From: s.geary
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:26 PM
To: Van Susteren, Greta
Subject: IMG00140.jpg

One more for the road…someone congratulating Mayor Newsom- I admire his courage and he is so handsome also! Looking forward to the replay ofc OTR tonight!

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(Sgt. Drew Peterson story update…check out the email from GretaWire blogger Alec Wasserman….I am on the road and Alec sent me this - below - to keep me up to date on the Sgt. Drew Peterson case_

From: Alec J Wasserman
Subject: FW: Kathleen Savio’s sister testifies before grand jury (Lisle Reporter)

A sister of Drew Peterson’s deceased third wife testified Thursday before the grand jury investigating Kathleen Savio’s death and the disappearance of Peterson’s fourth wife, Stacy.

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This is an Open Thread…I am going to read the newspapers on the blog roll (right hand side of blog) and you should blog!! Open thread…

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