New Lead in 40-Year-Old Mystery
BALDWIN: All right, breaking news. Divers have found a female body in a river not too far from the home of 11-year-old Celina Cass. She is the young girl who just vanished from her bedroom in New Hampshire one week ago today. Reporter Adam Harding from CNN affiliate WMUR is outside that command center in West Stewartstown, New Hampshire. And, Adam, just bring me up to speed. What can you tell me in terms of the details about this body found today?</s>ADAM HARDING, WMUR REPORTER: Well, today marks day seven of this investigation. And investigators had pretty much stayed tight-lipped as for how their investigation was moving forward. I can tell you, though, the attorney general here for New Hampshire just a few minutes ago did release a statement saying that they found what appears to be a body in the Connecticut river. A source is confirming that it is that of a female. But any identification, that has not been made public yet. This is where the media will be addressed. We understand it should be relatively soon from the state's attorney general. But to bring you up to speed, so to say, was earlier today, investigators within minutes at around 11:00 a.m. just swarmed around this dam on the Connecticut River, which separates New Hampshire and Vermont, because think about this. This town is about a mile from Vermont and about a mile from Canada. So we're talking a lot of agencies, state and federal level agencies working this investigation, and really within minutes, the most activity this small town has ever seen in this investigation now on day seven here.</s>BALDWIN: I'm going to go ahead and presume obviously it's too early, the body hasn't been I.D.ed yet. You said it was found right around 11:00 a.m. And I think this is interesting. I was speaking to the assistant attorney general last week and she made the point to me that every single person in this town, Adam, I think she said it was 800 people, every single person was being questioned. Talk to me a little bit more about the search here and the fact that I imagine there are neighbors talking. I know now that the father of this young girl is talking. What are you hearing as far as that?</s>HARDING: Yes. Well, investigators really have been back and forth across this town, up and down. In fact, they were in a pond yesterday and they said the bottom line is, they weren't considering it a recovery mission. And it's not the same body of water where today's developments came from. They just wanted to make sure that every stone, as they put it, did not go unturned. You mentioned the community, a town of 800. I will go one step further. There were only nine students in the fourth grade class. That's where this little 11-year-old girl, Celina Cass -- she was in the fourth grade, just finished up the fourth grade, heading into the fifth.</s>BALDWIN: Wow.</s>HARDING: And you might see this little ribbon that I'm wearing. This was actually made by one of the nine students who really there's been such a grassroots effort to get her name, her face, her picture. And you did talk about the biological father.</s>BALDWIN: You spoke with him, didn't you?</s>HARDING: No one in the family had made any public -- yes, we spoke with him last night. Now, this case was interesting because there had not been one public plea from any family members up until last night. And the father, the biological father was in the hospital in a medically induced coma just days ago. He found out his little girl was missing on Tuesday of last week. He was still in the hospital. He said it was his faith that really got him healthy. And he wanted to make a public plea for any information. It was very hard to listen to this man, very heartbroken. And a lot of people are confused and angered as well because they just -- they want closure. And right now, authorities still have not ended this investigation up here.</s>BALDWIN: Quickly, Adam, do we know yet when the next briefing will be held? We want to stay on the story too here at</s>CNN. HARDING: We are hearing, but it's unconfirmed, anywhere from 4:00 to 5:00 this afternoon. Again, that could easily change. A lot of the times, they say 5:30, it's ended up being 6:30, closer to 7:00.</s>BALDWIN: OK.</s>HARDING: So we're all still waiting. As you can see, there's a podium here. And we're just waiting now for authorities to make official statement.</s>BALDWIN: Adam Harding reporting for me from New Hampshire, from our CNN affiliate WMUR, Adam, thanks so much. And there's another podium we're staring at here. This is on Capitol Hill. We're waiting to hear from Speaker Boehner any moment now. CNN's John King was just telling me that the Senate -- did you hear this? The Senate may actually delay the vote on this deal all the way potentially until tomorrow. We know it's going to the House first, then the Senate. So what's going on up there? What's going on in the House? We're going to hear pretty shortly. Also coming up, Donald Trump, he is going to call in to the show. He called the debt deal earlier today a joke. He accuses the president of maneuvering for political gain. What's he thinking about all this? We're covering the story from every angle -- be right back.