foster family took him in and the rest is history, as they say. >> i just believe that god does everything for a reason. he puts people in your life for a reason. he takes people out of your life for a reason. and i took that and i moved on with my life. and the people that he put in, i stuck with them and they stuck with me. and look where it got me. >> as i hand it over to fredricka, there are so many stories, all those young men had good stories. but this one stood out. here's one you want to root for. >> and we all will be. that's a great story. >> we'll be watching you for the next, how many hours now? >> who's counting? let's take it minute to minute. >> minute one starts right now. >> it's right now. you have a great day. thanks very much. let's begin this hour with same-sex marriage now being law in the land of new york. state senators approved a bill

legalizing same-sex marriage making new york just the sixth state where gay couples can wed. let's turn to our reporter who's covering the story from new york. david, give me the back story on how this came to be. >> reporter: well, what we find is that there really had to be a concerted effort here by andrew cuomo, the governor here in new york, who made it a priority. previous democratic governors in the past have raised this, in prior years, it had always failed. but this time, last night -- actually at the stroke of midnight, andrew cuomo signed this bill into law. and there were celebrations here in new york city where a pride parade is set for this sunday. let's listen in where we were last night to see some of the celebrations.

>> this is just incredible. it's really amazing. >> it's just really great to know that finally here that everyone else can have the same rights and be able to get married and show the love that they have. . it's amazing. >> ever since i was a little girl, i didn't think that marriage was possible for me at all. and now, just hearing that you can get married. >> reporter: and yet it wasn't all smiles after this bill was passed. up in albany, opposition lawmakers and religious leaders had other things to say. >> there will be two men calling each other husband and husband. and there will be two girls calling themselves wife and wife, i guess. i don't know how it's going to work. but i just feel sad for our children because the next

generation is going to have to deal with a culture where gender doesn't mean anything. >> reporter: and that's where we stand, fred. just ahead of the pride parade this weekend. and the significance of this bill -- i think it's important to note this -- new york becomes the sixth state and the largest state, but the amount of people when this bill goes into effect in about 30 days will have doubled, of those who will be living under same-sex laws. >> david, thanks so much. i know you were getting a lot of feedback in your earpiece. great job on that. let's talk about a case that has a whole lot of people watching out of florida. another shocker in that murder trial of casey anthony. we were getting ready for more testimony today when all of a sudden the judge said there would be no court in session today. david mattingly is outside the courthouse. exactly what happened?

>> reporter: well, that's what everyone would like to know, fredricka. everyone, the attorneys on both sides, went with the judge behind closed doors, which was unusual. usually all the discussions they have are in sidebar there in the courtroom for everyone to see. but this time, they went behind closed doors to keep their discussion private. they brought the court reporter in there. and then they emerged about a half hour later and the judge told a very surprised courtroom this very short notice. listen. >> as both sides concur that a legal issue has arisen unrelated to the issue that we talked about first thing this morning dealing with dr. ferdin that would necessitate us recessing for today. >> reporter: afterwards, after court when everyone walked out, neither the prosecution nor the defense, everyone trailed by reporters asking questions, would offer any sort of explanation about what happened today. of course, opening up a whole

new world of speculation behind this already highly speculative case as people continue to watch very intently the daily proceedings behind the trial of casey anthony. >> so it sounds like it's difficult to know exactly what may take place monday when court is back in session. is it the expectation that the defense still might be calling more witnesses? or is it time now for prosecution rebuttal? >> reporter: well, we do know that there were several witnesses for the defense outside in the hallway prepared to be called today. that didn't happen, of course, when the court recessed. so we have to wait now to see who will be called, if anyone, to the stand on monday and what kind of legal issue this is that they're talking about. it could be something as simple as needing the services of someone who's not available today. it could be something as serious as a problem with a juror or a witness or someone participating in this trial. we just don't know, fredricka.

>> mystery continues to surround this case unfolding there in orlando. thanks so much, david mattingly. appreciate that. and our legal guys are getting ready to weigh in on today's surprise move and talk about some of the other elements that have taken place involving this trial during the week. we'll hear from them in about ten minutes from now right here in the "newsroom." coming up, we'll check in with reynolds wolf as well on extreme weather. having a lot of nasty weather right now. and then later -- >> what's it like to go speeding around this charlotte motor speedway? i'm about to find out with jason leffler right there. ready. now, we can watch a newspaper,

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blaze near the new mexico/arizona border. more than a dozen homes are threatened there. it's possible even more could be threatened. reynolds wolf keeping a watch on these extremes. you have the drought and the fires and way too much water in other areas. >> i know, extreme opposites. very tough time battling these fires in poorts of the four corners. mother nature has not cooperated at all from start to finish. they still have a long way to go. much of the progress has been made just by the hard work of the men and women battling this blaze. conditions are rough today. the winds will intensify this afternoon. in terms of the humidity, it's going to remain very low, very dry and breezy. not much cooperation. in terms of the rest of your forecast for the rest of the nation, expecting dry, hot conditions to continue for parts of the desert southwest. no surprise this time of year. 108 for el paso. 97 in dallas, 93 in houston.

hot conditions in parts of oklahoma. then going a little bit further north, running into cooler air. but at the same time, you'll run into a chance of scattered showers and even some thunderstorms. the two areas you see shaded in red for the north central plains and also parts of the midwest, that's where you have your best chance of strong storms, especially into the afternoon. you have a very, very humid air mass, very unstable as we make our way into the afternoon. things begin to heat up and the frontal boundary drifts into the region, things could get bumpy. if you're taking a flight from dallas to chicago, might have a few jolts. in the southeast, humid with a chance of scattered thunderstorms. rain in parts of the northeast. out towards the west, very dry from all the way in seattle to san diego. fred, that is a look at your forecast. let's pitch it back to you. >> nice and comprehensive, thanks so much, reynolds. no testimony today in the casey anthony try by order of the judge. we'll check in with our legal

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testimony in the casey anthony trial ended before it ever started today. let's bring in our legal guys. afterafteris in cleveland. and richard herman, a new york criminal defense attorney and law professor joining us from vegas today. good to see you. >> hi, fred. >> avery, you first, what reason

do you suppose the judge had to say, you know what, we're just not even going to have session today? >> well, that's the $64,000 question. my belief is that there was certain evidence that the prosecution should have turned over. it goes to a material question of what the expert was about to say. and therefore because it's a legal issue, we'll never know until the case goes to an appeal chshgs it will. the bottom line, is i've heard wild ideas about incompetence on the part of counsel, a whole bunch of different reasons on why the judge stopped it for today. but the bottom line is that it probably had something to do with the failure to turn over some evidence, an effort to rectify. the case will proceed starting at 8:30 on monday. >> it could be anything from maybe there was an unexpected witness, maybe it meant a witness is no longer available when at first they thought that person would be. or could it be a problem with a juror? >> yeah, it could be a problem

with a juror. that's one thing it could be. i don't think it's a witness issue because i understand there were like 15 witnesses in the hallway ready to go today. so for the judge to stop everything, this is very serious. whatever it is -- avery's right, wild speculation out there. it's very serious for this judge to put this jury back into sequestration for two more days, not good. >> let's talk about what did happen or try to figure out what did happen earlier this week, namely, just thursday and friday, you had the defense calling forth witnesses. they called cindy anthony again. she was a prosecution witness. called her again. and spent a lot of time, avery, on the clothing of little caylee, the 2-year-old who was murdered and is at the center of this case, the clothing that was at the home, the ladder at the swimming pool. what do you suppose the defense accomplished by calling her back?

>> well, cindy anthony has been a very powerful witness in this case, probably up to this point, the most dramatic witness for the defense. the difficulty in what happened on thursday and friday is that i think cindy anthony understands her granddaughter is gone, her daughter faces lethal injection with a conviction and she has taken off in a wild blue yonder on this issue of chlorophyll versus chloroform. >> right. she looked it up -- she testified and also said in deposition that she thought her dog was sick, maybe had eaten some bamboo. so she went to look for a component of bamboo which is chlorophyll and chloroform popped up. do you think the jury will buy that? >> it's so odd. ongs. chloroform was deleted from the computer 84 times. and there was no inquiry about that with cindy anthony. it's really a preposterous part

of the defense. again, we understand cindy. we understand the loss of her family. we understand the motive for not being forthright about that. but it just is not working. it has not worked at all. >> what's interesting is that then the prosecutor spent a little bit of time with cindy trying to establish, here are the dates you may have been at work. might the prosecution be trying to figure out, if she was at home, they have some time stamps of when the searches took place of the chloroform versus chlorophyll. if she was at work at that time, it couldn't have been her even though she said, the computer could have been on and i'm not sure what the computer's doing when i'm at work. >> listen, fred, the bottom line here is, yeah, there may have been a punch-in at the office when she went there. she testified the records are gone. nobody can verify her work records, whether she was there or not then. but this was devastating evidence to the prosecution. i'll tell you why. their entire chlorophyll theme,

chlorophyll, chlorophyll, that was the murder weapon, that's what did it. premeditation was that casey looked it up. she told them years ago in a deposition, she was the one that did it. so for the prosecution to get up in their opening and be so disingenuous and ignore this bombshell which cindy gave -- and you can't have it both ways. you can't say she's a great prosecution witness but she's a horrible defense witness. the prosecutor has to be very careful when they cross-examine her. she was one of their star witnesses. this was her testimony. she looked up chlorophyll. i think it's believable. i think the jurors that are still open-minded, there may be three or four left that are, they're going to take this information and run with it. it's very, very powerful. >> could it be that the prosecution is preparing for a rebuttal witness that might in some way poke a hole in that theory of being at work or searching for that material at home versus at work?

you have to think or you would want to think that there is a plan, there's a reason why the prosecution would take a stab at that one more time. >> oh, sure. what's going to happen -- what you're going to see is the police going back, getting work records, establishing that she may have been at the gas station, she may have been at a convenience store. the prosecution is going to say this was motivated by trying to save her daughter and it was untruthful. i don't think it's a bombshell. it's dramatic but it's lacking in credibility. ting prosecution will show that on rebuttal. >> richard, last word on this. >> the problem is at the time the chlorophyll searches were taking place, they were also logging on to casey's myspace account at the same time and cindy does not have a myspace account. so that is not good. that doesn't bode well for that testimony. but it's very powerful. it takes away the premeditation, if a juror is going to believe that. she also testified with respect

to the stairs going into the pool that she recalls them being up. she recalls taking them down but maybe george put them up or maybe casey put them up. but her recollection was they were up and that feeds into the defense theory that caylee walked up those stairs and -- >> all over the place. >> okay. we'll see what happens monday since today there will be no court proceedings on that case. gentlemen, i'll see you again in 20 minutes. we'll talk about a man who is actually suing a woman for alleging that he is gay. and in these tough economic times, the last thing financial advisers might recommend is quitting your office job and starting a business known to have a high rate of failure. but that's just what a couple in boston did. and so far, their upscale restaurant, journeyman, is paying dividends. christine romans has their story

in this edition of "smart is the new rich." >> reporter: this couple married, never went to cook school and never owned a business. >> my parents were horrified that we were doing this because she has a ph.d. and i'm at least a college grad. >> it's a waste of education. >> yeah. >> reporter: but the two wanted a hands-on project they could do together. >> the interest rates were very low. so that helped. we had good jobs for quite a while before starting that. we did have savings. >> reporter: they cashed in nearly $200,000, took out a second mortgage and taught themselves to cook using friends as taste testers. it took a year to launch a plan that integrated low-fix costs. for starters, they found cheap rental space down a back alley. >> keeping it a bit quasiunderground makes it cool. >> reporter: they did repairs

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withdraw 30,000 troops by next september. and there's a sudden recess at the casey anthony murder trial in orlando. it resumes monday now. our david mattingly calls the judge's surprise actions significant. casey anthony is accused of murdering her 2-year-old daughter caylee. after meeting with attorneys behind doors, judge belvin perry said another issue had to be resolved first. supporters of gay marriage are celebrating the legalizing of same-sex marriage in new york. language was included in the bill to provide legal protections for religious institution, a demand of several republicans. hours after the bill was passed, governor andrew cuomo signed it into law. it goes into effect in about 30 days. a mother has lost custody for spanking her child. when does spanking become abuse? our legal guys weigh in.

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the pop icon died two years ago today in los angeles where he was preparing for a comeback concert. a coroner's report blamed sedatives and a surgical anesthetic allegedly administered by jackson's physician. the physician, dr. conrad murray, is charged with involuntary manslaughter and is scheduled to go on trial come this fall. remember the super bowl ticketholders who lost their seats earlier this year after some temporary seating was declared unsafe in the new stadium? well, they, those ticketholders, now want to be compensated for lost income. will that happen? our legal guys are back. afterafterin cleveland and richard herman in las vegas. gentlemen, this is very interesting because they were compensated, right? they may have gotten a refund on your tickets because the seats they were going to be there were not there. now they say, i want lost income. avery, how do you argue this and

get your way on this one? >> not successfully, i'll tell you that. >> i had a feeling you were going to say that. it's just mind-blowing to me. ultimately if the case goes to trial, everyday texans are going to have to decide if these people who spent thousands to come to dallas should get, among other things, lost income. they're asking the jury to put themselves in the rich people's shoes to award this and punitive damages and everything. look, the nfl and the cowboys' jerry jones did the right thing by offering money. a little bit too stringent, somewhere between actual loss and the fortune they're asking for is how this case will be -- it won't go to trial. it will be settled. >> but what's interesting, this argument is a rit solid one when you hear from these ticketholders in this class action suit who say, wait a minute, the nfl, jerry jones and others knew these seats weren't

going to be available when i showed up. why didn't all those who are now the defendants, why didn't they better inform these ticketholders that they could make a decision about whether they wanted to make the trip and be there? >> that's the argument, i guess. >> what do you think, richard? >> the nfl and jerry jones are saying, we were working frantically on the day of the super bowl to make those seats acceptable to pass inspection. and it was only moments before the game began that those seats were declared unsafe and therefore we couldn't let the people in or there was obstructions. so it wasn't -- we didn't know about this in advance. but they made offers to them. they offered them double the ticket price. they put caps what they paid for, the hotel, the air. these people are saying, i took off a week of work to come out there and i want compensation for that. fred, avery's right. it will be tried in dallas. i just came back from dallas.

that stadium is a shrine. not going to find a jury in dallas that's going to find for these people. guarantee you that. >> all right. let's talk about something else taking place in new york in broom county. very interesting. your back yard kind of, richard. talking about a man who is alleging defamation because he says someone called him gay. and for that, he is paying a price. what does he mean and where does this case go? >> isn't that incredible on what just happened in the state of new york? >> exactly this is the complete antithesis now. >> it goes back to a point in time in new york where defamation -- where homosexuality was illegal. so therefore a motion to dismiss was dismissed. the case lives, it survives. it's going to litigate. at the end of the day, truth is

a defense. and i just don't know -- i don't think it's going anywhere. this guy should toughen up a little bit, especially with what's going on in new york. >> avery, how do you see this one? button it up for us. >> the guy lost his girlfriend is what happened. kelly geller was the girlfriend. her mother said, you know the guy you're dating is gay. and therefore you may want to break up and she broke up with the guy. there's suits all over the place. but richard is right. back in 1888, there was a case that was decided when indeed homosexuality was a crime. and therefore until such time as either the folks in albany change that, the judge is obligated to move forward. so who knows what's going to happen? i think it will actually have to be tried in order to get it resolved. >> okay. now let's move on to texas -- going back to texas now. very different situation. this involves a texas mom who was convicted of spanking her

child too hard, to the degree that she lost her 2-year-old, lost custody of her 2-year-old. and then is facing five years probation. so, avery, help explain, how does a court -- how does the system determine whether this is spanking, this kind of discipline is okay, or whether a parent or a guardian has gone too far? >> well, i've never understood this argument that by slugging a kid or hitting a kid or spanking a kid is really a smart way of parenting. but the problem is so serious in texas -- listen to this -- the attorney general has a website and tells people who live in texas, you may use force but not deadly force. apparently in texas, there's some question in people's mind whether you can use deadly force. in this case, the child was discovered with red marks. the judge certainly did the right thing. it was excessive behavior.

it doesn't answer the question of whether or not you can slug a kid. but apparently in texas, it's okay. i think the judge did the right thing. >> richard? >> fred, what the judge -- the judge did a blanket "no spanking." that's what the judge relied upon. this was a felony conviction here, fred, ridiculous. texas allows spanking on the buttocks as long as you don't leave a mark. apparently the child had a mark. child went to the woman's mother. the mother brought the child to the hospital. and that's why the charges were brought. but, you know, you can't mess with texas. they say you can spank on the buttocks but you can't leave a mark and you can't use an instrument to do it like a switch or a stick or a fly swatter. you can't use that. >> that's right. >> but you can spank and that's okay. this judge says, oh, no, i'm not going to allow spanking anymore, that's archaic, if you spank anyone, felony conviction. that's ridiculous. come on, fred. >> five years probation for the

mom. the 2-year-old is in the custody of the grandmother now, by the way, who noticed the marks in the first place. >> as she should be. >> avery, richard, always good to see you gentlemen. have a great weekend. >> see you soon. >> bye, fred. >> i have a question for you guys, have you ever wanted to be race car drivers? >> yeah. >> didn't you want to be a race car driver when you were growing up? this kid did, too. the tomboy in me wanted to know, what is it like to be in a race car, a stock car, in particular, going around the motor speedway, what does it feel like? i decided to find out by reaching out to nascar star jason leffler. this is a little taste of what it's like face to face. whose idea was this? i'm in great hands with jason here. if i'm going to have a first-time race car experience, this is the way to go. we're in a richard peddtty nasc

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i'm about to find out with jason leffler right there. you see i'm not going to actually be driving, but the passenger. i'm in good hands. >> come right on in. just like the dukes of hazard. you have your standard car. your "h" pattern manual transition. >> generally, you're very close on the steering. generally when you drive a regular car, you get to extend your arms. is that comfortable. >> yes, it is because of the duration of the race. this one is not set up for me. >> it's really about endurance? >> yeah. >> being able to have the wheel so tight. >> yeah. it's physically demanding in racing. people don't realize that. the heat -- there's a lot -- wrestling these heavy cars

around is not easy. >> does this ever get old hat or do you get the rush every time? >> you get the rush every time. it's what you live for. it's the only thing i've ever done is drive race cars. it's exciting, doesn't get any better than that. people ask what it's like to be a race car driver? i say it beats working for a living, that's for sure. who has idea was this? i'm actually really excited and i know i'm in great hands with jason here. so if i'm going to have a first-time race car experience, this is the way to go. we're in a richard petty nascar experience vehicle. so here we go. let her rip. ready to roll? >> ready. >> all right. yeah, ready.

whoo! okay. i'm hooked. i want to be a race car driver. >> that was just a warm-up. >> that's awesome. >> that was just a warm-up. >> that is so awesome, wow. i thought maybe i was going to close my eyes but then i didn't want to miss anything. that's so wonderful. i was thinking to myself, okay, here we are, the only ones on the track. but the proximity to all the other cars, that's the real danger, that's the real risk involved. >> oh, yeah. >> and the excitement, too, right? >> yeah. and that's where the skill is.

you've got a lot of variables when you have other cars on the racetrack. obviously they're probably in the lane you want to be in. you're getting dirty air, which we call dirty air. you're getting their wake off their car, which is making your car handle different. it's all how you work traffic and set your car up for traffic. it's not as easy as just pulling up behind somebody and driving. >> it seems like one of the hardest parts is not to touch another vehicle. >> yeah. it's tough, especially when you get 42 other cars out there. it's 42 other competitive race car drivers. so everybody's fighting for the same piece of real estate out there. >> right. >> that's when you see the wrecks happen. >> better yet, you don't want to be trading paint. >> no, you really don't. you have to do what you have to do when it comes down to the end of the race. but you definitely don't want to be -- the ideal thing is not to be running into each other. >> yeah, yeah. have you counted the wrecks that you've had? >> i couldn't count the wrecks.

>> that numerous? >> that many times. i couldn't tell you how many times i've been upside down. not in a stock car but the other forms of racing, the dirt track racing i did before, i really couldn't tell you how many times i've flipped. >> jason leffler, what a gentleman. he's a great guy. and there's more, as you heard right there. he said that was just the warm-up. beginning at 2:00 eastern time, back in the car with jason leffler. we're going to go 170 miles per hour. that time, it was just about 100 or so. alongside leffler, sat down face to face with joey logano. i sat down with both to talk about their passion for stock car racing. let's take a listen. so take me back, where this passion came from. you and your family are living in connecticut, and somewhere this spark of go-kart racing and dreams of something bigger comes

along. what's the evolution of that? >> it's crazy. my family wasn't into racing. my father played baseball and basketball through high school. those are the things i tried first. but the fact that i wasn't good at any of them, i found something i was pretty good at. that was the fact that -- i enjoy winning. no matter what it is. if it's not racing, it's playing a board game, whatever it is, i want to win. so i think i found something that i was good at and i was able to win at. i just liked it. i was the kid with the race car bed and all the matchbox cars. with all the racing gear, all the nascar stuff. i was just fortunate enough that i was able to follow my dream. i never, ever thought i'd be racing in the spring cup series against jeff gordon and tony stewart and all these guys that i watched on tv. mark martin, i watched him on tv. i had his gear. i wore mark martin stuff around and here i am racing door to door with him.

i remember the first time that happened, i thought, this is crazy. >> more face to face with joanie logano and jason leffler throughout the afternoon beginning at 2:00 eastern time.

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