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Toddler's Grandmother: "I Cannot Give You Names Of People"

The grandmother of missing toddler Caylee Anthony talked to Eyewitness News on Thursday morning and said the family is sharing what they know with investigators. Meanwhile, the lawyers for the mother of the missing 2-year-old girl will continue their fight to get her out jail.


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Caylee's grandmother was a bit defensive while she talked briefly with reporters after returning to her home Thursday. She asked the focus be maintained on her missing granddaughter Caylee Anthony.

"This is what it's all about, okay? This is what it's all about," Cindy said as she displayed a photo of 2-year-old Caylee.

But Caylee Anthony remains missing. Cindy Anthony said her husband and son met with investigators for six hours Wednesday.

"Our whole family spent the entire day yesterday sharing things with the authorities. So, again, we cannot impede their investigation," she said. "I cannot give you names of people potentially linked to this thing."

Meanwhile, Casey Anthony doesn't appear any closer to getting out of jail. Following an appeal court's denial of bond reduction, Cindy Anthony said Casey's attorney is now working on a federal appeal.

Casey's real loss, though, is coming in the court of public opinion, because she won't tell investigators exactly where she thinks Caylee is or lead them to who might have her. But Cindy maintains her daughter has good reason.

"She's leading you to a place, but she's not telling you to the exact right apartment, because she's afraid, if someone walks in, something may happen to Caylee. That's all I can say without jeopardizing this case."


NEW JAILHOUSE PHONE CALL RELEASED

The Orange County jail released a recording Wednesday night of a new phone call between a missing 2-year-old's mother and uncle. Casey Anthony gave her brother Lee information about people who may know the whereabouts of mysterious babysitter Zenaida Gonzalez.

"How is everything going as far as you're concerned?" Casey asked her brother in the jailhouse phone call.

Casey Anthony called her brother to get an update Wednesday night. The last time the two talked she had given him information about people she said may know where the mysterious babysitter is. Lee Anthony said the information she gave him didn't lead anywhere, so he asked her for more.

"If there's ever anything particularly that I should look into or attempt to follow up on," Lee Anthony asked his sister, Casey.

"Yea, I'll definitely let you know as things come up if anything does at all," Casey responded.

Phone calls and jailhouse visits are the only way the Anthony family has been able to talk to Casey. Earlier Wednesday, the grandparents of missing 2-year-old Caylee spent nearly 45 minutes inside the jail visitation center talking to Casey by video conference, but unlike her conversation with Lee, her parents didn't ask her for leads about their granddaughter's whereabouts.

"We didn't ask her for any information except how she's feeling and what she wanted me to tell Caylee. She continues to say she loves her with all her heart and she's okay," Cindy Anthony said of her conversations with Casey.


APPEALS COURT DENIES BOND REDUCTION REQUEST

A court of appeals denied Casey's request to reduce her $500,000 bond. Casey's new attorney, Michael Walsh, said that he's frustrated with the decision and they'll keep trying to get Casey's bond reduced.

In an earlier response to Anthony's request for a new hearing, the Florida Attorney General's Office wrote that her attorney "had failed to show the trial court abused its discretion."

"A trial court's determination will be upheld by the appellate court 'unless the judicial action is arbitrary, fanciful, or unreasonable, which is another way of saying that discretion is abused only where no reasonable man would take the view adopted by the trial court,'" the Attorney General's Office wrote in the response. "The court set out what it determined to be reasonable conditions for Petitioner's release, and Petitioner has failed to show that such action by the trial court was 'arbitrary, fanciful, or unreasonable.'"

Attorney Jose Baez wanted the appeals court to step in and help him get Casey Anthony out of jail. He hoped to get another bond hearing for his client to drastically reduce Casey's current $500,000 bond..

Eyewitness News learned the results of Casey's psychological evaluation were turned over to the Fifth District Court of Appeals and they were the ones who ruled Wednesday afternoon that she would not get another bond hearing. The results of that evaluation are sealed.

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