doug peters was taken into custody at his ex-wife's home in a louisville, kentucky, suburb. police say he put a fake bomb around the neck of an australian teenager as part of an extortion attempt. it took ten hours for the bomb squad to free the girl and that bomb turned out to be a hoax. >>> a chlorine leak at a california water park sent 20 people to the hospital. nine children were among those who were sickened. 400 people were evacuated from the raging waters papark while hazmat crews tracked down the problem which was near the wave pool. a fire department official says it appears a mechanical failure caused a pump to release a cloud of chlorine gas. >> scary. >>> a maryland man will spend at least 16 more days in custody in aruba as police investigate the disappearance of his companion. >> prosecutors tell abc their decision to detain gary giordano is based on his past record here in the u.s. craig cropper is joining us here with the very latest. >> reporter: good morning, rob and diana. this case is eerily similar to the natalee holloway disappearance back in 2005. tha

stormy in louisville, indianapolis, cleveland and pittsburgh. cooler and late-day showers and thunderstorms from boston down to d.c. lingering extreme heat across the south as you just heard. also some heavy rain around albuquerque, phoenix, denver and salt lake city. >> 93 in boise. 84 in colorado springs. phoenix and dallas as you know remain in the triple digits. 80s from fargo to detroit. 95 in new orleans. 99 in hotlanta. 86 in new york. >> 86 sounds good compared to the rest of the country. >> it does. we're really lucky. >>> we told you about the naked alleged burglar. now a story about stripping down but for a good cause. >> thank goodness for that. thankfully these guys didn't go all the way in houston. they kept it tasteful while participating in an annual suit drive for men's wearhouse. >> the idea here is pretty easy. the donated suits go to charities which hand them out to unemployed folks who can wear them on job interviews. great cause there. like that. just hanging out in boxers, really not a bad idea given the temperatures they'

well, an arrest has now been made right here at home in louisville, kentucky. who is the wealthy businessman accused of being the master mind behind the strange crime? here's abc's sharyn alfonsi. >> reporter: paul douglas peters might be the last person you'd expect to be charged with such a chilling crime. a well educated investment banker from a privileged background. the father of three daughters, including one believed to be the same age as madeleine pulver. >> is there anything you want to say to the pulver family? any word for madeleine? >> i hope she is w wl. >> reporter: but prosecutors bebeeve the australian businessman terrorized 18-year-old maddie inside her family's sydney mansion. >> how a a you feeling, maddie? >> i'm fine, thank you. >> reporter: pulver was studying for exams in her bedroom, when a masked man walked in. according to just released court documents, her told her, "sit down and no one needs to get hurt." forcing a black box against her throat, looping a device like a bike chain around it and locking it to her neck. then attaching a

louis to pittsburgh and i-64 from louisville to charleston, west virginia. wet on i-10 along the gulf coast and on 95 and 75 in florida. drenching downpours in the d i-10, 15, 25 and 40. >> and if you're flying, airport delays are possible in salt lake city, denver, kansas city, washington, d.c., new york and philly. >>> disturbing new videos have been released in connection with the case of phillip and nancy garrido. they are the california couple who kidnapped and held jaycee dugard for 18 years. >> the videos were released along with a report blasting the state parole board for its failures in the case. here's abc's david wright. >> reporter: the chilling videotape is from the backseat of nancy garrido's van as she coaxes a young girl to demonstrate gymnastics. >> that's it. can you go all the way down? >> yes. >> let me see. i bet you can go down really easy, huh? >> yeah. >> reporter: that video was taken less than a week after convicted child rapist phillip garrido got out of jail for violating his parole. jaycee lee dugard was already a prisoner in th

i was at the fells in club in louisville working at the fells and historical society in louisville working on a different project and i had asked an archivist to retrieve some other materials, totally unrelated, and while they were back in the stacks i was just browsing through the catalog and i happened to see the had this collection of letters from fanny ballard to her escapes leave living in canada, and from that moment i thought well, when i finish this first project will come back and look at those letters. i never finished the first project but i wanted to come back and look at those letters and that set me off on the kind of chase to map out both their lives. >> how long did it take you to put the book together? >> wait too long. i started when my son was in preschool, and he will be entering eighth grade. is probably eight or nine years. now there was another book in between, so i took a two year break, but it was eight or nine years of plugging away at it. >> and the book is out now? >> it's not out yet. it comes out in october, but you can pre-order now so it is available for ord

the union army was being fed by a line of supply that began at louisville and extended down the railroad tracks through bowling green and then from bowling green to nashville, and that line of supply is what was keeping the union army but the call the army of the cumberland outside of nashville and at murfreesboro who was keeping alive, supplying it with horses and mules and fodder and subsistent stories and equipment and ordinance and what have you, and if the union army couldn't rely on the railroad to get the supplies to national, they relied upon a water system the would go from louisville down the ohio river to the cumberland river and in the cumberland river to national, or if that was not possible, they would rely on of water route that would go down from louisville down the ohio to the green river and then at the greenup river all the way to the river and bowling green and then at bowling green they would try to pick up the connections. so they had multiple avenues that the union army could be supplied. morgan directed one command of 900 troopers to go back into kentucky and dest

between louisville and elizabethtown. these were enormous trestles 800 feet long. each won 80-100 feet tall that went through the escarpment. between louisville and elizabethtown. it would take six months for the union army to rebuild those trestles. so it was shut down between louisville and bowling green. the traffic supply was coming up the green river to the bear river to bowling green and the union army was putting them on trains at bowling green and sending them to nashville. so the object here was to destroy all the traffic on the green river. once you destroy one thing and the enemy goes another route you go after them there. this command destroyed a steamboat on the green river, disrupted the locks on the green river and then john m. porter relates the story house south of bowling green at a little village called wouldburned than the lnn was still running. they thought this train might have on it andrew johnson who would become vice president, tennessee senator. that would be a good catch. they could catch him. i

it's shut down between louisville and bowling green. so the traffic of supplies was coming up the green river to the barren river to bowling green and then the union army was putting them on trains at bowling green and sending them to nashville. so the object here was to destroy all of the traffic on the green river. you know, once you destroy one thing and the enemy goes another route, you go after them there. this command destroyed a steam boat on the green river, disrupted the locks on the green river, and then john porter relates this story of how just south of bowling ingredient a little village called wood burn. the l & n was still running south of bowling green international. they intercepted a train. now they thought this train might have on it andrew johnson who, of course, would become vice president, tennessee senator. that would be a good catch. they could catch him. it turned out not to have andrew johnson on it. but rather an entire right train filled with mules. and there must have been 15 cars behind this locomotive with

i was at a club in louisville working on a different project. and i had asked an archivist to retrieve some of the materials totally unrelated. and while they were back in his back i was just browsing through a catalog and i happen to see that they had this collection of letters from fanny to escaped slaves living in canada. and from that moment i thought, well, when i finish this first project i'll come back and look at those lives. well, i never finished the first project but i want to come back and look at those letters. that set me off on kind of a chase to map out both of their lives. >> how long did it take you to put the book together and? >> way too long. i started when my son was in preschool, and he will be entering eighth grade. so probably eight or nine years. i wrote another book in between there. so i took a two year break. but it was eight or nine years of plugging away at it. and the book is out now? >> it's not out yet. it comes out in october. but you can pre-order it now. it is inevitable for pre-order but it is not published

, kuk, -- louisville, kentucky, and was the prototypical young man in a hurry and caught the notice of nondenominational leaders, and at a young age was tasked because of his writing skills with being the editor of a major baptist periodal called the baptist standard or the texas baptist standard, and it's during this particular time that he develops a flair for public controversy, and he decides to write a series of articles against racetrack gambling in dallas and in ft. worth, and is credited for leading the way to see gambling banned in most of texas for the next 20 to 30 years. and he likes that crusading kind of stuff. well, he becomes the pastor of a church that was celebrated church called the first baptist church in ft. worth texas in 1909. one of the wealthiest congregations in texas. known as the church of the cattle kings. there were 12 millionaires in the church, and norris was one of the highest paid clergymen in america. one newspaper voted him the best dressed pastor in america. and he began a ministry that was at first pretty sedate but eventually he decided he would t