New Developments in the Natalee Holloway Case
ROBERTS: Well, there's a shot of dawn breaking over New York City. That's the Citigroup building there. Remember Lex Luther's lair in the first "Superman" release.</s>CHETRY: Yes.</s>ROBERTS: It's in the 50s right now. But it's going to be beautiful for the early part of the morning going up to 63 today. It's completely clear. The wind is still.</s>CHETRY: Thank goodness.</s>ROBERTS: That'd be good for the Thanksgiving Day Parade here as they try to fly those balloons.</s>CHETRY: You remember last year, boy, it was windy, rainy, miserable.</s>ROBERTS: Oh, it's just -- it was awful. I was watching the parade on a rooftop in Broadway. Oh, just -- it was bad. It's Thursday, November 22nd. Welcome to AMERICAN MORNING and happy Thanksgiving. I'm John Roberts.</s>CHETRY: And I'm Kiran Chetry. Glad you're with us. New this morning, Asian markets closing up after a volatile day of trading. Japan's Nikkei average index up 1.1 percent but it bounced back from an historic low during the day. The Hang Seng ahead .4 percent. The Asian Markets reflected some economic jitters on Wall Street because of the Dow losing 211 points yesterday, closing at 1279 and that is a seven-month low. U.S. Markets are closed today for the Thanksgiving holiday. Iran is holding firm on its nuclear program but is willing to talk. Iran hosted a conference with researchers from 12 European and Asian countries this morning. Iran's top nuclear negotiator will meet next week with EU's foreign policy chief. The U.N. though continues to insist that Iran stop enriching uranium, a step Iran's president has said he is not willing to take. In Germany, police diffuse a hostage situation. A man held another man at knifepoint for more than two hours. This happen at a train station in Berlin. There you see, the police then moving in, they rushed the man, pinned him to the ground and got him into custody. He was not injured and neither was the hostage.</s>ROBERTS: Well, the date is set. New Hampshire will hold the nation's first primary on the 8th of January. It's going to come just five days after the Iowa caucuses on the 3rd. State officials announced the date yesterday, hours after Michigan was allowed to hold its primary on January the 15th. There had been a chance that New Hampshire might have moved its date into December but thankfully they left it in January. Dozens of homeless in New Orleans are getting some shelter this morning. The nonprofit group Unity of Greater New Orleans provided hotel rooms for the less fortunate. They had hoped that 100 people will take the offer. But so far, only 61 showed up. Some homeless have said that staying in the rooms would hurt their chances of getting permanent housing. The city estimates that its homeless problems have doubled in New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina hit a couple of years ago. Internet harassment is now a crime in one Missouri City. Officials in Darden Prairie, that's suburb of St. Louis passed the measure yesterday after learning that it caused a local teenager to take her own life last year. 13-year-old Megan Meier committed suicide after she was tormented by an Internet user. Her parents say, one of their neighbors, a mother created a fake profile of a boy on MySpace trying to see if Megan was gossiping about her daughter but the boy "turned on Megan" leading to her suicide. Megan's mother wants state federal leaders to push for more action against bullying but she is thankful for the local law.</s>TINA MEIER, MEGAN'S MOTHER: No matter how hard I try, I can't bring her back, so obviously I 100 percent want justice for Megan.</s>ROBERTS: The Darden Prairie measure makes Internet harassment a misdemeanor, punishable by 90 days in jail and up to a $500 fine. Is a keeping kid safe or violating civil rights? The town of Lexington, South Carolina, wants to ban all registered sex offenders. The plan would keep them from moving near places like schools and day care centers. But the American Civil Liberties Union calls it unconstitutional and a similar plan in Georgia was overturned by that state's Supreme Court -- Kiran?</s>CHETRY: Well, there are some stunning new developments in the Natalee Holloway case. Three men previously detained a suspect in her disappearance two and a half years ago are now back in custody. Holloway, you may remember, vanished on a school trip celebrating graduation to Aruba back in 2005. Joran Van der Sloot and brothers Deepak and Satish Kalpoe were the last people seen with Natalee Holloway. Prosecutors say there is new evidence in their involvement of her death. Natalee's father, Dave Holloway, told "Headline News", this Nancy Grace show that he's encouraged by these new developments.</s>DAVE HOLLOWAY, NATALEE HOLLOWAY'S FATHER: You know, all along we've known that they've been the three primary suspects or the three persons who were last seen with our daughter, Natalee. The Dutch and the prosecutor in Aruba, I think, you know, their on the right track and I think they're committed as well as we are to finding answers for Natalee, and getting justice.</s>CHETRY: The three men maintain they had nothing to do with Natalee Holloway's disappearance. And joining us now on the phone is Aruba's chief public prosecutor, Hans Moss. Thanks for being with us this morning.</s>HANS MOS, ARUBA'S CHIEF PUBLIC PROSECUTOR: Good morning.</s>CHETRY: Can you explain for us exactly what these new arrests mean? Because they were arrested before, held for a time and released.</s>MOS: That's correct. They were arrested about three and a half years ago and they stayed in custody for a few months. The two brothers a bit shorter than Van der Sloot. Then they were released because of lack of sufficient evidence at that time. Unlike the idea that was going on all around the world, but the investigation stopped, the Aruban police never stopped investigating this case. But we came to sort of a standstill in 2006 and we didn't see any more leads in this case. And then there was a request from the Aruban authorities to the Dutch to help them out and see whether they could review the whole investigation and that's what happened last year, earlier this year, and during the last few weeks. And this investigation led us to new evidence that is so important that we think we should have arrested these three guys, which we did yesterday.</s>CHETRY: I know, you have to protect your case in this instance, but can you give us any word on what this new evidence may be?</s>MOS: That's a bit hard for me to do, because it's important that we confront the three suspects with this new leads in this case, this new evidence, and in the interest of the evidence, I am not to comment on that.</s>CHETRY: I got you. Now, there are some different reports, because Joran Van der Sloot's mother is denying he's been rearrested. She says he's only been wanted for questioning.</s>MOS: Well, I can only say what I asked for to the Dutch, for the Dutch authorities, because he was in the Netherlands and I asked the judge here for an order to have him detained. The judge gave that order on the basis of the new evidence. We send that order to the Dutch authorities, the national prosecutor's office in Rotterdam in the Netherlands and they executed that by arresting Van der Sloot. And he will be brought over to Aruba, I guess, somewhere later this week.</s>CHETRY: All right, well, Hans Mos Aruba's chief public prosecutor joining us by the phone to talk more about the new arrest. Same people but new arrests in the disappearance of this teen, Natalee Holloway, from Aruba. Thanks for being with us.</s>ROBERTS: It would be fascinating to hear what the new evidence. He is playing it very close to the vest today until they get them down there.</s>CHETRY: Yes and he said he wants -- be able to talk to them about it and interview them about what they have to say before giving more information. He -- Joran Van der Sloot, by the way is not in country. He has about a week to eight days to get back over there.</s>ROBERTS: Yes, he's going to college in Holland, right?</s>CHETRY: Right.</s>ROBERTS: If you don't want to deal with the mess at the malls, stick around. Some great holiday gift ideas that you can create right from your home. At the army's real heroes campaign. A new computer game puts a face on some of the exceptional soldiers on the front lines. You'll meet one of them, a real life action hero, ahead on AMERICAN MORNING.</s>KIMALA COX, BALAD, IRAQ: Hi, I'm Sergeant First Class Kimberly Diane Cox. I'd like to give a holiday greeting out to my son, my baby, Malik Cox. Hi, mom and dad. Happy holidays and I'll see you soon. Love you.