i think basketball will get ugly. what it really comes down to, how long can the players hold out without the checks coming in? deep down, they're way far apart. >> from "sports illustrated," author of the book called "sportscasting." thank you. the "cnn newsroom" starts right now. i'm don lemon at cnn headquarters in atlanta. 7:00 on the east coast. the day's headlines. starting with the casey anthony trial until orlando. it could go to jury at any time. the prosecution and defense presented closing arguments attacking each other's case, then it got personal and the judge threatened to throw both lawyers out of the courtroom. a live report just ahead here on cnn. iran says it plans to prosecute 26 current and former american officials for human rights violations. iranian lawmaker said today the officials will be tried in iranian courts in absentia

before they're referred to international tribunals. the country didn't name names but iranian tv said it may -- in may that parliament planned sanctions on americans including former defense secretary donald rumsfeld and commanders of the detention center at guantanamo bay, cuba. an apology from exxon/mobil after as much as 42,000 gallons of crude oil leaked into the river. exxon-mobile cleaning up the spill. it started leaking near the town of laurel about 100 miles downstream from yellowstone national park. about 200 people were evacuated when the spill was discovered friday. they're now back at home. a new wimbledon men's champion celebrates. center court. today in london, just talking about this. novak djokovic, who just earned the world's number one ranking beat defending champ rafael nadal in today's men's final.

djokovic has just lost one match all year. lady liberty looking lovely now on this eve before our nation's 235th birthday. you're looking at a live picture of the statue of liberty. many celebrating enduring serious heat. you can see the haze around the statue of liberty right now. still the parade, showing pomp and circumstance already in full swing this holiday weekend. check out the festivities from st. louis along the mississippi riverfront. a happy independence day to everyone. now let's get to the casey anthony trial. jurers in that trial could get the case at any time now. today was closing arguments, but in the middle of the defense's presentation, a spat erupted between the prosecutor and the defense attorney. that brought the trial to a sudden stop and a screeching halt, really. cnn's david mattingly is covering the trial for us in

orlando. david, hello to you. before we get into the dust-up between the attorneys, what's happening right now in the courtroom? >> reporter: right now the jury has gone out for the day, back to their hotels. back sequestered has they're have been for over 30 days with this trial. the judge says he wants them bright eyed and bushy tailed for tomorrow as they continue with the closing arguments. both sides weren't able to finish up today, because we had a couple of other things intr e intruding on the timeline set up today. >> we're not talking about fancy forensics inmore. evidence that points to one person. one person only. he can sit up here and lie all he wants, and dance around the truth, but the truth is the truth, and he -- and depending on who's asking the questions. whether it's this laughing guy right here or myself. >> objection. >> approach the bench.

>> reporter: don that was the dust up you were talking about, that costs us time today. you saw the defense attorney, jose baez, in the middle of an emotional point in his closing arguments before the point, looks over see the jeff ashton smiling off to the side. he got mad about that. called him laughing guy, right there in front of everyone. so the judge had to talk with him privately, when everybody came back, he said, look, these are my rules. you know you can't do that. if you do it again i'm kicking you out of the courtroom and you're done with this trial. very stern words from the judge to make sure he restores order. keeps order at this very late hour. don? >> usually, there are antics outside of the courtroom. today, the judge is not standing for it. any indication, david, when the jury's going to get this case? >> reporter: well, we know that the prosecution could have a couple of hours left, possibly, to finish up with their closing arguments.

the way it works, the prosecution starts. the defense goes and then the prosecution finishes up again. so we could be looking at a couple of hours more when they get started in the morning, and then the judge is going to be going through some very lengthy and detailed instructions to the jury telling them what they should consider, how they should consider it and what they need to do when determining what their decision is. so it's anybody's guess right now, but we're looking at the jury getting this sometime tomorrow. how much time they will have left after all that deliberation tomorrow is anybody's guess. >> david, get your rest in the now. it's going to be -- you're going to be a busy man. tomorrow at 10:00 p.m., a cnn special report in the casey anthony trial. a panel of guest whose have been following the case from start to finish will break down the closing arguments from both sides, including the uncomfortable moment when the judge threatened to throw both lead attorneys out of the courtroom. our jane velez-mitchell from

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seen a surge in her iowa support in recent week as he pursues the republican presidential nomination. her new line against president barack obama include a jab about the tough economic conditions and an offer to help the president find a job after she defeats him in 2012. >> they need to do their jobs. now is the time to go ahead and make the tough choices. that's why they're calmed leaders. >> tough talk from president obama, going after republicans in congress over ever the looming deadline to raise the federal debt ceiling. harold lewis is here a cnn contributor and political anchor for new york one. hello, harold. what's the strategy behind the president's change in tone now? >> good to be here. well, the president has to do what his presidential counterparts are doing. go through not a tough primary season but get the faithful out there. get signing checks making contributions, getting organized

for what is going to be a very, very tough re-election bid. there's no better way to do that than talk about the guys with the corporate jets, the guys that took the bailouts all of the folks that the democratic base has always been a little angry about. >> he's getting it from republicans and democrats. democrats saying, stick with it. you heard bill clinton say the same thing and republican, getting it from them as well. always the opposition. >> totally. i mean, look, the republicanless say this is class warfare, class warfare, the numbers are on the president's side. corporate done well. industries bailed out, doing extraordinarily well, and he wants to make the case they need to give a little more back. make the case of letting the bush tax cuts expire would actually take $4 trillion off the deficit over the next four years, he's got every reason to do so. >> you heard the president's tone and others. carrying over the media when mark halperin used a four-letter word to describe the president's

behavior at this and got suspended at msnbc. take a look. >> and the precedent has been set. >> kind of a [ bleep ] yesterday. >> there's a lot to say about this. with that remark, would it have been okay had it been bleeped? >> no. not at all. in fact i hope -- you know, look, i'm friendly with mark halperin and have a lot of respect for him. i think he does a good job. he has a slr gaffe four years ago. he did a disservice to everybody in this business. a lot of people are suspicious that folks are hashering secret agendas and have con ten shoous views of public officials they're supposed 20b analyzing. he ripped the cover all that and showed skeptics and cynics that that could be what's going on with a lot of -- >> he really didn't -- i saw it happening live. he was egged on a bit. rhyme not sure he knew. delay it, beep it. i'm not sure if he knew.

the thing you have to say about mark halperin. he made a mistake. this is the way you do it correctly. he apologized quickly and said, i made a mistake. no ifs, ands or buts, he moved on. we don't hear much about it. that's how do you it. >> that is how you do it. unfortunately, on sirius radio, he said back then he was sorry, apologetic, it would never happen again. four years later it happened again. also, look. i got to say, he's been in television a lot longer than i have. at abc before his current job. we all know what can and cannot happen when somebody's supposed to push a button back stage. so -- >> i agree. >> the fact they kind of set him up is not -- >> i understand. nobody's perfects. doesn't matter, whatever political party, who you report to -- >> a great analyst -- >> apologized, moved on. that's the way to do it. e we reported on michele bachmann, about her finding a

job when he loses his job and it's almost as if the primaries started already. right? >> absolutely. in fact, what we have right now is what i would call the pre-primary. what you've got are a group of candidates, clustering to try and claim the centrist wing or the center of the republican party. that's what romney is doing. effectively what huntsman is trying to do what pawlenty wants to do and michele bachmann, doing a mini tea party primary trying to get the hearts and minds of the conservatives and tea party wing. and that's who herman cain wants to attract, who ron paul is trying to talk to. if he gets into it, what rick perry will talk about and certainly rick santorum. michele bachmann is the leader among those trying to win the pre-primary for the hearts and minds of the tea party. >> great seeing you last week and thanks for having me on your show and turning the tables. >> enjoyed it a lot. >> thank you. a woman drowns in a public swimming pool and is not found

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pool for days before she was discovered. now the little boy who says he saw her go down is traumatized. his loved ones say, well, he pleaded for help, but he was ignored. our affiliate wbz has the story. >> he's going to have some problems. you know what i'm saying? he's crying all the time. >> reporter: she says her 9-year-old grandson is devastated over the death of maria joseph. >> my grandson she went down the slide, maria came down under him. she was stuck a little bit and he went to the life guard and told them that someone is drown, and they didn't do nothing. >> reporter: autopsy showed joseph drowned in the veterans memorial pool and investigators are trying to figure how her body went unnoticed at the bottom for days. the d.a.'s investigation revealed the water was so murky you couldn't see a diver 3 1/2

below. joseph's body was emerged under 12 feet of water. the boy wishes he could have done more. he now has trouble sleeping and is seeing a counselor. >> why should i -- my grandson have to suffer because of someone else's negligence. that's not right. he went and did what he was supposed to do. >> reporter: the entire pool staff is on leave and so are two city detectives who checked the pool monday and tuesday. but they're blaming the life guards. >> she probably would be with us if they were doing their job. >> reporter: a makeshift 34578 memorial at the pool decorated for the movie that will be missed. >> it's hard. i talked to her sunday. you know. here today, gone tomorrow. >> reporter: dealing with the pain of her death by keeping her memory alive. in fall river, for wbz news. the final space shuttle launch is just days away.

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nasa is pulling the plug on the program. as we end an era, john zarrella did time traveling with a cnn exclusive. he sat down with the two astronauts that were there when it began and actually manned the first shuttle mission in 1981. >> reporter: did it perform differently than you thought it would? had you guys, was it -- >> well, it worked. it worked like we did in the simulators. it worked great. >> the story was, your heart rate, when you guys -- everybody said, every article i read talked about how, john, your heart rate was like, hardly went up at all. bob's went up to about 130, on a -- >> i was excited. >> the crew is now moving across -- >> going through the countdown like john and i had done many times before and only when we got inside a minute, i looked at

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that is something that all of you should have an opportunity to experience. it is really fun. you know, you can do that in your living room without breaking your legs, you sure would. >> you guys were packed with testing. >> yeah. testing, testing stuff out and making sure that the payload door worked right. checking to make sure the radiators deployed and stuff like that to make sure we'd operate okay on orbit. we were throwing switches. >> doing lots of stuff. we didn't really have time to concentrate too much on -- hey, i finally did it. >> everything worked. that was the amazing part. >> columbia houston, you guys did so good we're going to let you stay up there for a couple of days. you're good for on orbit d. that amaze you, that everything worked smoothly? >> yeah. >> what a way to come to california. >> two, one -- touchdown. >> we didn't even wait for the doctor?

right? the story is you stayed on, but you jumped off? >> oh, yeah. didn't need a doctor to walk around. >> and zero and liftoff. spate shuttle "atlantis." >> is it time to move on? >> time to do something different, but the shuttle should still be flying. >> we ought to keep the shuttle flying. that's important. >> you can catch john zarrella's special "beyond atlantis" in just about 30 minutes here on cnn. on friday, coverage of the final shuttle launch, "atlantis" the lifoff and coverage begins about 90 minutes before that at 10:00 eastern right here on cnn. want to go now to the philippines where a political argument got physical, very physical, in front of tv cameras. watch this. [ speaking in foreign languag ] language ]. >> that furious woman is the mayor. the target of her anger is the

sheriff. she lashed out after he reportedly ignored her order. she apologized for the incident and is now under investigation. the casey anthony trial almost in the hands of the jury. tonight at 10:00 eastern, join us for a "cnn newsroom" special report. a panel of guests following the case from start to near finish will break down the closing arguments from both sides today, including that uncomfortable moment when the judge threatened to throw the lead attorneys out of the courtroom. that's tonight at 10:00 p.m. eastern. i'm don lemon at cnn headquarters in atlanta. i'll see you back here then. thanks for watching. [ female announcer ] now at red lobster a complete four course seafood feast for $15. start with soup then have salad and biscuits followed by 1 of 7 delicious entrees and finish with something sweet all for just $15. right now at red lobster.