bargain the president tried to negotiate with house republicans earlier this summer. the cuts would come from medicare, medicaid and other so-called mandatory programs from reduced war spending in iraq and afghanistan and from interest payments that dropped as we borrow less. on the revenue side, the president wants to let the bush era tax cuts expire. we've heard that before. he'd also cap deductions for high earners and close a variety of loopholes. we should point out a chunk of those revenues would pay for the jobs plan the president proposed last week. mr. president obama chided house speaker boehner for ruling out tax hikes but then issued a warning of his own. >> i will not support any plan that puts all the burden for closing our deficit on ordinary americans. and i will veto any bill that changes benefits for those who rely on medicare but does not raise serious revenues by asking the wealthiest americans or biggest corporations to pay

their fair share. >> that brings me to what's being called the buffett rule, named for billionaire who says the super rich are undertaxed. the president is insisting people who earn is million a year or more pay as much in taxes or more as ordinary wage earners do. republicans are up in arms but the president says it is not class warfare -- it is math. gloria, does the president's math actually add up? >> well, what he did today really was lay down a political marker. this is a president who's been accused by his base of not participating enough in his own health care reform plan or of negotiating with himself too early. what he did this time he said, look, if this were a perfect world for me, this is what i would do, and you'll notice in here that there aren't real entitlement cuts to beneficiaries. there are some to providers in medicare.

so he largely left social security untouched. medicare cut-backs to providers. so what he's saying is, i'm leaving that off the table, let's talk about taxes now and in the end, i think you can see some kind of a compromise that people are looking to that would reform the tax code and have cuts in entitlements. but we ain't there yet. >> yeah. taxes and compromises. those two words don't go together very well in washington. this seems this puts the white house or certainly the president on a collision corps rs with house speaker boehner. he has said they will not accept tax increases. >> it does. i think what we're seeing now is the routine that you see. but the real deal is going to be cut by this super committee. that's what's really important here. i think you see the political posturing going on right now, but in the end, they've got something hanging over their

heads. if they don't agree to a compromise by christmas, then these draconian cuts are going to take effect because they weren't able to do their jobs. and conscienceal approval rating is down at what? 13% or 14%, congressional approval rating. so they know that they have a job to get done. if you reform the tax code and you lower the top rates for wealthiest americans but get rid of a lot of their deductions, will that be a tax increase or just leveling the playing field? we may be playing semantics here in the end. >> another question is is this just a complain platform or is this really a viable plan? because in some ways it seems as though the president is trying to i guess force the gop to look as though it is protecting millionaires. >> right. look. i think this is the opening bid. so in that sense it is political because this is the president's opening bid.

honestly, there isn't anything in here that's really shocking or surprising to me. but the president did go on the record saying this is what he wants and he would veto something that did not include some amount of tax increases on the wealthy if you had benefit cuts in entitlement programs. so it is political but again, opening round, it's not a piece of slgs telling the super committ committee where he stands. we know where the republicans stand. now the super committee has to do its job and come up with something that both sides can swallow. or else they'll really be in a political pickle when these other cuts take effect. >> opening round, round one. can't wait to see round two. >> oh, right. welcome to my world, right? >> i'll leave it with you. thank you. now to atlanta where five people are deciding whether troy davis lives or dies. davis is the convicted killer of

a savannah, georgia police officer. but in the years since he was sent to death row in 1991, 7 of 9 prosecution witnesses have recanted or change their stories. a campaign for clemency has spread around the world. and i am not exaggerating. but today the only views that matter belong to the georgia board of pardons and paroles. unless the board votes to spare davis' life, he is set to die by lethal injection 7:00 p.m. local time wednesday. my colleague david mattingly just outside today's hearing joins me now on the television. david, whom is the board actually hearing from today? >> reporter: randi, just a few minutes ago i spoke to davis' attorney. he says that they are now finished with their presentation before the board. so the board has heard everything that is going to be said in this case now in troy davis' favor. he said that the board members had been looking at this case, studying it for months prior to today. he said that they were taking it very seriously.

they asked a lot of questions. even questions about evidence, he says, that has not been submitted in the courts in the past. he considers this as an encouraging sign that they are working very hard on this and apparently very interested in all the details that his supporters have been talking about publicly so much now for the last 20 years. so that means that troy davis' case is done. there's nothing else to be said. it's now going to be in the hands of this board. the board will now hear from prosecutors. they will also hear from victims in this case if they wish to speak. again all of this behind closed doors but everything winding down so that this five-member board will be able to make its life and death decision. randi. >> david, do you expect we'd get an answer on that today? what is the time line here? >> it's hard to say. there is really no time line. everyone is very critically aware of the scheduled execution

wednesday evening. keep in mind though that this board did deny clemency to davis once before and this board has never, ever in its 30-plus-year history ever gone back on a decision like that. i pointed that out to his attorney. he says well this is an extraordinary case. it is a once in a lifetime case so it is difficult to compare or try to guess how this board is going to act from here. a lot of attention was being paid to three board members who were not on the board back in 2008 when davis was denied clemency and he said those three board members also appeared to have done their homework and were asking a lot of relevant questions. >> there is still the victim's family in this case, the dead officer's family, and also the d.a. from all those years ago who still insist that troy davis does deserve to die. >> that's right. and they now have the floor. they will have the last word before this board as the board starts to make up its mind. >> all right, david mattingly

continuing to watch that for us. david, if you get any news during the next couple of hours, please bring it to us. checking other stories we're following -- the man leading the charge for palestinian statehood arrived in new york this morning. palestinian president mahmoud abbas will attend this week's u.n. general assembly. he's due to speak on friday. afterwards he says he'll make a formal application for full u.n. membership. as expected, both the obama administration and israel have spoken out strongly against that move. if you're outraged over netflix's big price hike, the latest word from the company's ceo may make you hotter than ever. he apologized for "messing up." subscribers quit the service in droves, a backlash that caused netflix' stock to plunge. he unveiled a new name for his dvd by mail service to -- get this -- quickster. fet flix wi netflix will remain the name for the online streaming service.

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the impact killed ten people, including the pilot. close to 70 others were injured. >> the ntsb does a very comprehensive investigation. we're going to be looking at the human, the machine as well as the environment. in this case the environment is not just the weather but the oversight for example of the faa. it actually has a specific division that looks at air races and air shows. we will be investigating what kind of comprehensive plan was created for this particular show and race an then determine whether or not it was met and we're going to actually find out not just what happened but why. that's what will allow us to make recommendation is so something like this doesn't happen again. the ntsb has three investigators that were on site at the air race so they not only had a chance to witness the accident but were needily on scene obviously for the investigation. >> now investigators say there is new critical evidence that may help determine what caused the crash. joining us from reno now, dan

simon. dan, what evidence has been uncovered? >> reporter: well, a few things. first thing i want to talk to you about, randi, we know from the pilot's own words before the crash the plane was modified substantially where the wingspan was actually reduced by about ten feet and according to the pilot he wasn't exactly sure how the plane would perform so there is a lot of speculation that maybe those modifications may have caused something to go wrong. but in the meantime the attention is squarely focused on the tail of the aircraft. videos and pictures show that during his flight a part of the tail actually broke off from the plane, fell to the ground. crews over the weekend when searching the debris field actually found what they believe is part of the tail. it will be shipped off to the ntsb lab for analysis. some memory cards were recovered. not sure if it is from the camera on the plane but will be analyzed, nonetheless. we know plane had a crude black

box attached and wirelessly transmitted information to the flight crew. that's another key piece to all this. in the meantime we are still getting some very chilling accounts from eyewitnesses who were among the first to see the scene. we talk to a nurse who was among the first to arrive. take a look. >> the impact of the aircraft was significant and the debris field was wide and it was very traumatic. they have a long road ahead of them. they will have prosthetics. they will have therapy. they'll have to learn to reuse their bodies. we're train for this. but training is different than reality. and the reality is it's horrific. >> reporter: of the more than 70 patients who were taken to area hospitals, we know there were two dozen who were still there and several of the patients are still in critical condition.

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i want to take a moment now and head to pakistan for today's "undercovered." it is a segment highlighting news that deserves your attention but is, we believe, undercovered. the flooding in pakistan is a major concern right now for the united nations and other humanitarian groups. now keep in mind the country was ravaged by last year's deadly historic floods. now communities barely recovering from last year are getting hit again. take a look here with me.

this is actually a satellite image from nasa of the -- watch if it changes here -- okay. well, we -- all right. it doesn't want to work. we did have an aftereffect for you. you can see how much of the area is actually under water now. talking about 7.5 million people impacted. nearly 350 people have died there from the ground now this is what we are looking at. thousands of homes are destroyed affecting an area nearly half the size of delaware. this is the scene that's playing out across a number of cities in southeast pakistan. the country's national disaster agency says half a million people are living in refugee camps. nick payton walsh is monitoring the situation for us in islamabad. nick, has the situation gotten worse? >> reporter: the rain has

stopped but i think what we're seeing over the weekend is the numbers rise exponentially. last week we were talking 5.3 million people. it's now risen to 7.5 million people affected. that's not thes sarl because the damage has gotten worse over the weekend. maybe the numbers have caught up with the reality. last week we saw large amounts of water covering farmland which isn't normally used to draining that amount of water. the water is simply staying where it was. that's a huge concern. large parts of the countryside there rendered unusable by basically farmers, countryside people who can no longer live in their villages because the feet of water has suddenly appeared over the last few weeks. >> and which of the areas are hardest hit? >> well, karachi, 18 million people there.

the flooding ds pay thing quite quickly. but there are large, flat areas all around it. they've seen the rain land but also stay in place. the government really i think struggling to reach some of the areas we saw to deliver the scale they were talking about. just simply imagine that drinking water per person, the u.n. would like to see each person see five liters a day. simply imagine 7.5 million people being given that much clean water is a real issue, randi. >> we know pakistan's prime minister has actually canceled his address to the u.n. the u.n. is asking for $357 million in flood aid. what will happen if that aid doesn't find its way there? >> reporter: i think it is a strange thing when you see these people on the ground. they have a phenomenal coping mechanism. of course they'll go hungry, they'll be sick. but there seems to be a feeling amongst many of them they're not going to see help.

we saw instants of protest, blocking roads, people taking it upon themselves to stop aid from getting through as a political bargaining chip to get aid for themselves. i think people are not actually expecting the government to come. they believe maybe one day the government will provide a solution for them but i don't think they're really sitting there expecting large amounts of food to turn up on government trucks in the very near future, randi. >> such a tragic situation. i'm told now we have those pictures that i was trying to show our viewers before. so this is the before picture that i was -- showed you earlier. now take a look. you can see as we slide it. that the damage that's done. you can see the difference as floods have hit that area of southern pakistan. it's just been overrun by water there. coming up in "crime and consequence," the mother, two

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sentenced to death last year. today the trial begins for the alleged mastermind, joshua komisarjevsky. let's turn now to cnn's deb feyerick live outside the courthouse in new haven, connecticut. you were in court today. i understand the prosecution opted out of an opening statement? >> reporter: well, they did. they passed. they basically said the evidence speaks for itself. for that matter the defense agrees. they said it is not the evidence that's in dispute, it is the intention. they say the defendant never intended to murder anyone. he said to his accomplice when the police were on their way, we got to get out, i'm not killing anyone. later as they were apprehended as they tried to escape in the family's stolen suv, he said, "the family, they were compliant. they did what they were supposed to do." he of course referring to jennifer hawke-petit who went to the bank to remove $15,000 in cash. she's the one who tipped off the

police saying they were in a hostage situation. that's when the police showed up. you saw the blame change. basically now the defense is blaming the guy who's sitting on death row. they're saying it was steven hayes who strangled, and raped jennifer hawke-petit. he's one that bought the gasoline and then lit the house on fire. the two daughters afsphyxiating because of the smoke. basically saying yes, joshua cokomisarjevsky saw mrs. petit d followed her home thinking it was and good target for a home invasion, yes, he did hit dr. petit in the head with a bat, but the defense is trying to soften his image by pointing out had he a job in construction and had physical custody of his daughter really an interesting dynamic. remember so much has already been heard in the first trial that they're really going to

have to bring an energy so that the jurors will focus, pay attention so that it sounds fresh again. but right now the defense saying we will show that you cannot prove beyond a reasonable doubt that komisarjevsky intended to kill these people. >> it is interesting though to see how his own words, how komisarjevsky's own words might be used against him. because he has spoken about this case, he's written in a diary that cnn has actually gotten from credit. he actually takes credit for what happened in that house. i wonder how that will play at this trial. >> reporter: >> reporter: yeah. he spells out his role and even calls the youngest victim the angel of his nightmares. they're very sort of obsessive. don't know whether ramblings or writings, i guess. >> deb feyerick, appreciate it. a federal judge has just thrown out the sentence in a terrorism related case because

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let's get you caught up on some of the stories that you may have missed. a federal court in atlanta has just thrown out a 17-year prison sentence for jose padilla. you may remember padilla was accused of plotting to build the so-called dirty bomb but convicted of afding terror groups overseas. the appeals court nullified his sentence not because it was too harsh -- but because in the judge's view, it is too light. the court did not overturn

padilla's conviction. there will be another sentencing hearing. president obama released his $3 trillion debt reduction plan today. it includes $1.5 trillion in new taxes, primarily on the wealthy. mr. obama dismissed gop arguments that higher taxes on the wealthy are a form of class warfare. >> all i'm saying is that those who have done well, including me, should pay our fair share in taxes to contribute to the nation that made our success possible. we shouldn't get a better deal than ordinary families get. i think most wealthy americans would agree, if they knew this would help us grow the economy and deal with the debt that threatens our future. >> a nor weeken judge has decided that ander breivik will remain in solitary confinement for another four weeks and in custody another four weeks onthat. he admitted killing 77 people during a bomb and gun rampage in

july but has not pleaded guilty. today's ruling will keep breivik in custody until at least november 14th. dominique strauss-khan for the first time since may is telling his side of the story. he broke his silence in an interview with french television. he admitted that his encounter with a new york city hotel maid was a moral failing. but he denied that there was any sexual assault. he noted that prosecutors dropped criminal charges against him citing doubts about his accuser's credibility. >> translator: you need to read carefully the report of the prosecutor. what does he say? he says she lied about everything. not only about her past but about the facts. the report says that she gave so many different veshgss of facts that the prosecutor could not believe it any long person. >> the transportation security administration has fired 28 employees at hawaii's honolulu international airport. the move follows an investigation into reports that checked bags were not being

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time now to go beyond partisan talking points to the heart of the political debate where all sides are "fair game." today we want to dive into the prospects of the pros of the president's so-called buffett plan. apparently the president put buffett's name on his proposal to impose a new minimum tax on people who make more hand $1 million. joining me to talk about the plan and its prospects, cnn contributor will cain and

political consultant, will es pa know za. this a chance for the white house to make republicans look like they are squeezing the middle class and protecting millionaires? >> absolutely. a political ploy, randi. it doesn't substantive do what president obama gives lip service to doing and that's making a fair tax code. it's true that it's not fair millionaires often pay less in effective taxes as middle class people such as their secretary. but whatever category you pick, whether it is homeowners versus renters or peep that get their medical insurance through their company or buy it on their own, the tax code is chock-full of unfairness. the point i am making is the only way to make the tax code more fair is to simplify it and adding another line to the what? 500-page-more code of the irs to catch millionaires isn't going to resolve anything. >> ed, your take? >> well, this isn't about politics. this is about math. just like the president said. what the plan does do is it

restores a lot of much needed revenue. what it doesn't do is ask millionaires or anybody in the upper class to pay any more than what the middle class is already paying. now mitch mccobble came out and said that we've tried these things before and he's right, we have tried them before. we tried them in the '90s and things were pretty good. matter of fact, we had a balanced budget. >> i like ed a lot but this is so clearly a political ploy. it needs to be made exactly clear. in addition to this millionaire's tax, president obama is offering up the expiration of the bush tax cuts for the wealthy. he's offering up some medicare reform but only on the providers. the point is he's taking a tact to far to the left, so far outside the realm of popularity, there are only two interpretation. he's setting up for his re-election in 2012 or it is a negotiation tactic while after getting hammered by progressive

who always win the debate, he's now coming from so far from the left he's compromising back. >> what are the odds they can even get one republican to agree to this? >> i think it's probably not too far out of the question to think that republicans probably would want to vote for a jobs plan especially right now. but to will's point about -- where the politics are in this, i don't know that you can say one side plays any less politics on the others. there was a graph showing where our spending has come over the past ten years. nearly half of that was revenue that was lost due to the tax cuts that bush passed in 2001. you can say it is politics but what we are saying all along is it is math. >> if you look at numbers. i want to share a cnn/orc poll. we asked the question should deficit reduction include tax increases on businesses and the wealthy. 63% of those polled said yes. 36% said no.

if you look at the other side of that poll, the democrats, 80% said yes. independents 62%, republicans 39%. is this what the country wants? >>ed, you finish. >> i think it is definitely what democrats and independents want right now. as for republicans, well, i mean they've dug in their heels on a couple of things. sooner or later we've got to negotiate. there's got to be an answer. it won't come from cuts alone, whether that's entitlement cuts or programs or anything else. we've got to restore funding that we've lost. this is only one part of the proposal. >> will? >> that's fair enough. i totally agree with ed that we can't do this on the back of spending cuts alone. what i would say is we have to be smarter about the substantive way to affect the tax code here. yes, the rich could pay more in their effective tax rate.

but it is to really reform the tax code where quite honestly rich people can't manipulate it the way they do now. just make a fair, simpler tax code and we'll all understand what we have to pay. >> well done. both of you. thank you so much for taking part in "fair game" today. palestinians taking their case for statehood to the u.n. why the u.s. is vowing to block the move. a live report straight ahead. [ marge ] psst. constipated? phillips' caplets use magnesium, an ingredient that works more naturally with your colon

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a big showdown is shaping up at the united nations. the ramifications for washington, israel and the entire middle east are, quite frankly, huge. the issue -- palestinian statehood. no one is pushing for it harder than this man, palestinian president mahmoud abbas. he arrived in new york this mourned to attend this week's u.n. general assembly. in a meeting with the u.n. general assembly, he said he will apply for full membership on friday. the obama administration says it will block any stated move by the palestinians. of course the israelis also strongly oppose the bid. fin in fionnuala sweeney joins us. >> reporter: there are a plethora of high-level israeli officials who are in new york arriving today and throughout the week. benjamin netanyahu, the israeli prime minister, due to go there to really present their case.

what he says is israel's version of the truth. israel isn't opposed to palestinian statehood. it is opposed to this unilateral, as it sees it, declaration of a state without direct negotiations. that's really the issue. the united states is working very hard to try and dissuade those members of the u.n. security council who may be wavering on this issue not to vote for it. it is not expected, i should say, that it would go before the security council on friday when mahmoud abbas makes his speech. he will submit the application. and essentially what israeli officials are saying today here, that perhaps in new york that there might be actually the opportunity to have some kind of direct talks between the palestinian leaders and the israeli leadership on this issue. >> so it doesn't sound like there's any chance that this whole move is a bluff. is there? >> reporter: on the part of the palestinians? no. there's not a bluff on their part at all. they are saying that there is no

way that they can achieve a state at the moment because they do not accept that israel is committed to direct negotiations. they say the issue of settlement building is the stumbling block, continued settlement building. benjamin netanyahu will argue that israel offered to stop settle many building for ten months and that didn't acheefb anything in terms of the moving the peace process forward. really so for the palestinians they are operating against the backdrop, as are the israelis to a certain extent, of what has been taking place in the middle east over the last nine months or so, the self-determination that's been taking place in various countries by the masses and the palestinians now wanting to harness that momentum for themselves and galvanize the world's attention while the u.n. and general assembly is taking place. we have to see how it all pans out but on the ground here, both sides are prepared for potential trouble but hoping there won't be but taking steps in case there are. and also really looking ahead to

what both benjamin netanyahu and mahmoud abbas will be saying in their speeches on friday. >> fionnuala sweeney from jerusalem, thank you very much. no, it isn't a scene from the next terminator movie. two-legged machines with knees can run as fast as humans. stick around for more video and why these freaky things are being built. i'll be back. ♪

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machine battle humans for control of the planet. this is video of mable, one of the fastest two-legged robots in the world today. not exactly the same, no gun of course, no action here rose but still pretty freaky. right? it really looks human. look at her run around. mabel can run a nine-minute mile and can react to rough terrain. of course try doing that in high heels, trust me, not easy. mabel's creators say she's been built to save lives in search and rescue missions and create exsew skeletons for people who are paralyzed. pretty amazing. one of a professor it at the university of michigan. thank you, jesse, so much for joining us on the show and bringing mabel with you. first, mabel doesn't exactly are

sound like the amazing name of a futuristic row are bot. what does it stand for? >> it it's short for michigan an though poe morph ick -- with electric legs. but mabel is powered by four electric motors. when we were naming the robot, i wanted "m" nor michigan and "b" for bi-ped. the rest fell into place. >> i'm fascinated by mabel's knees. this is pretty rare for a robot to move like this? >> yes. what we're doing in this lab is working on the feedback algorithms, measuring the position and speed of all the robots' various joints. they do that once every millie second. we cal late what these joints

should be doing and then we adjust the power commands to the motor such that the robot plays out the right responses to various responses. so the general field is called feedback control. we apply these methods to robots like mabel. >> so mabel is really cool. we all agree with that, but it's also on a pretty serious mission. how would mabel help save lives say on a search and rescue mission? >> well, one scenario i kind of have in mind that motivates me is imagine a home is on fire and you're pretty sure everyone has gotten out. but there's a small chance someone is many. is it ethically right to send in a firemen when really there's 98% chance we're sure we got everyone out. but if there was a machine you could send in, then the ethical dilemma becomes much less. we want a robot that could go

into an environment occupied by humans, go in, step over the babies' toys, running up the steps, grab and open the closet doors, make a quick reconnaissance of the building, come charging out. having a robot that can function in a human environment is important. the reason we wanted it to be able to handle this very rough terrain is if if you're in a dangerous situation like a fire or an industrial building that has problems, then there will be smoke, dust and debris and cameras are easily fooled. so you want the robot that even if the foot placements are are not what the camera are tells it to be it won't fall flat on its face. that's what mabel is doing in a brilliant way. >> we're watching video of mabel at work. it's so humanlike, creepy but amazing to watch. what about helping paralyzed people? how would mabel help? >> there are groups of people that are taking the technology

that a whole wide community of us working in the robotics field are trying to push forward. so the idea with the ex-kpoe skeletons is you build a robotic structure outside of your leg, for example, so it it goes outside of your leg, that's why it it's called an exoskeleton. then the knee joints, hips, are powered just like on mabel. if you can take it the principles of having a machine that is able to maintain its balance and walk at a brisk pace, stop, change directions, else, then you can take those principles and apply it to this kind of murnerger of a human an machine. i do want to underline that people working on exoskeletons have a much more difficult problem than what i'm facing because you have all the complexities of the human body plus all the mechanical and

electrical complexities of the exoskeleton. >> it it's fascinating. she's fascinating. jessie, i'd love you to bring mabel to our studio one day it. we'd love to meet her. appreciate your time. thank you so much and good work. >> thank you, randi. >> for much more about it these bots, check out my facebook page. if you missed the big show last night, the one-word headline for emmys? "repeat." but if you're a cast on a certain show or two, that's a very good thing. we'll tell you what went down, including the fignight's big surprise appearance. [ male announcer ] be sure to talk to your doctor before you begin an aspirin regimen. talk to your doctor, and take care of what you have to take care of. talk to your doctor,

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well, repeats usually aren't a good thing in the television world, but at last night's emmy awards, repeats ruled. the casts of "mad men" and "modern family" mopped up the golden statuettes this year, but there was one big surprise of the night. kareen wynter was there. >> and the emmy goes to -- "modern family". >> reporter: the emmys celebrate the best it in original television but in the end it was all about repeats. "modern family" repeated as best comedy. >> thank you! >> reporter: the show about a nontraditional extended family has won tv's top prize in each of its first two seasons. >> "mad men". >> reporter: "mad men's" repeat was even more impressive. it won best drama for the fourth consecutive time, beating back "boardwalk empire".

>> for us and our families, an incredible dream. thank you. >> reporter: while the show was honored, "mad men's" leading man lost out as best actor in a drama. that went to kyle chandler of "friday night lights." best actress in a drama went to "the good wife's" julianna margulies. jane lynch was nominated in the comedy category and she also hosted the show. she pretaped a bid with the cast of "jersey shore" and tossed gentle zingers at the stars, including an 89-year-old nominee. >> oh, there's betty white. she's the reason we start the show at 5:00 p.m. >> reporter: lynch may have scored as host but lost the emmy to "modern family's" julie bowen. >> there are losers and i am one. it hurts. >> reporter: he paid tribute to his late father acknowledging he might find it strange that his son wears makeup at work.

>> dad, just think of me as a very masculine lady. and he would say, i do, son. >> reporter: one of night's surprises came not in an award but from a presenter. a subdued charlie sheen, fired from "2 1/2 men" last season made a surprise appearance to announce best actor in a come by. he offered best wishes to his old show. >> i know you will continue to make great television. >> reporter: best actor in a comedy went to jim parsons of the "big bang theory" in a repeat. best actress in a comedy went to a newcomer, melissa mccarthy who was jokingly topped with a tiara. >> my first and best pageant ever. in a billion years i didn't think that was going to happen, not at all. >> reporter: a night of all of tv's best to claim their crowns. kareen wynter, cnn, hollywood. it is 2:00 p.m. in the east,

exactly two days and five hours until troy davis is scheduled to be put to death. as you may know, davis is the convicted killer of a savannah, georgia police officer, but since he was sent to death row in 1991, seven of nine prosecution witnesses have recanted or changed their stories. a campaign for clemency has spread around the world, but today the only views that matter belong to the georgia board of pardons and paroles. the board meeting now in atlanta is davis' last real hope to avoid execution 7:00 p.m. local time wednesday. my colleague david mattingly just outside today's hearing. you told us last hour the defense testimony had ended. is the state's testimony still being heard right now? >> reporter: that's right, randi. they're taking the prosecution and any comments from the family of the victim as last. they will have the last word in this. but right now the people

supporting troy davis, after all that's been said, have finally said everything they he coucoul possibly say. the board has taken all of their evidence, all of their arguments, and they asked a lot of question, we're told, while this was going on. the attorneys for davis tell me that they were looking particular at three board members who were not on this board three years ago when this board denied clemency to davis. we know historically this board has thefr gone back on their decision so everybody was looking at what these three board members, new board members, would be saying and what they would be asking. he came away telling me they asked a lot of questions, they've done a lot of homework, been studying the case for months, which was a good sign, he said. he also said they asked a lot of detailed questions about information that has not gone into court, not part of the appeals system. this would include recent witnesses that have come forward

implicating someone else in that 1989 shooting. so they came away feeling like they had their full say, that a lot of good questions were asked. now they'll just have to wait. but, again, the final say is going to be had by prosecutors and by the victims in this case. the family of officer macphail. that's what's going on right now inside. outside you see supporters still out here. they've been going nonstop since before dawn this morning, nonstop messages of support for mr. davis. randi? >> david, i want to share with our viewers someone who it actu actually testify it for the defense, pastor of ebenezer baptist church. let's listen to what he had to say. >> i'm actually on my way to see troy later today. i have visited with him a couple of times on death row. i'm very impressed with his faith. he sent actually a message to my

congregation by letter the other day, and i read it to the congregation yesterday. he said that he believes that god is with him and that god moves slowly but that justice will prevail. >> david, from what i understand, troy davis' family isn't even thinking about an execution right now. they say that they are planning ahead, they're planning on days past this execution date. when will we actually know what the board decides? >> reporter: anytime between now and the execution time. everyone is very acutely aware that that is wednesday evening. this board has a lot to consider are, a lot to look at, but, again, this has been in front of them for a long time now. it's impossible to know what those five board members will -- how they will act and when they will act on this or what they are finding important as they go through this hearing. one thing is clear, randi. they do have the power of life and death in this case so you know they're going to be making

this very carefully. >> oh, i'm sure. a lot of pressure for those board members. david mattingly there in atlanta, david, thank you very much. now to washington where president obama has revamped his grand are bargain for bringing down the deficit. he's kept the grand but left the bargaining for later, if ever. while a bipartisan congressional super committee tries to find $1.2 trillion in government savings, the president unveiled a $3 trillion mix of spending cuts and tax reforms. the cuts would come from medicare, medicaid and other so-called mandatory programs from are reduced war spending and from interest payments that drop as we borrow less. now, on the revenue side, the president wants the bush-era tax cuts to expire. he also capped deductions for high earners and closed a variety of loopholes. we should point out a pretty good chunk of these revenues would pay for the jobs plan the president proposed last week. today mr. obama scolded house speaker john boehner for ruling out tax hikes but then issued a

warning of his own. >> i will not support any plan that puts all the burden for closing our deficit on ordinary americans. and i will veto any bill that changes benefits for those who rely are on medicare but does not raise serious revenues by asking the wealthiest americans or biggest corporations to pay their fair share. >> that brings me to what's being called the buffet rule as explained by cnn chief political correspondent candy crowley. >> reporter: the president's plan to pay for his jobs program includes the idea of a millionaire minimum tax rate, at least as high as middle class rates. the administration calls it it it the buffet rule for billionaire investor warren buffett. >> i have a lower tax rate, counting payroll taxes, than anyone in my office. >> reporter: if's a catchy monik moniker. >> when you pick one area of the economy and say, we're going to

tax those people because most people are are not those people, that's class warfare. class warfare will simply divide this country more, will attack job creators, and it doesn't grow the economy. >> reporter: opposition to tax rates for wealthy on par with middle class rate are s is tric politics. it it sounds completely sane and only fair when put in the hands of a master politician. >> if you look at the group that has had the biggest income increases and the benefit of most of the tax cuts of the previous eight years before the obama administration took office, those of us in that income group, we're in the best position to make a contribution to changing the debt structure of the country. >> reporter: republicans say they're all for tax fairness but as part of a major overhaul of the tax system that closes loopholes and lowers rates for everyone. they have a friend in this

republican budgetier. >> i am a fan of warren buffett, but the way to fix the tax code is to fix the tax code. >> reporter: the gop also insists there are plenty of places where are the rich can pony up, particularly when it comes to a republican pet project, medicare and social security reform. take a memo from mr. buffet. >> with regard to his tax rate, if he's feeling guilty, i think he should send in a check. but we don't want to stagnate this economy by raising taxes. >> reporter: given the republican house speaker's consistent opposition it to tax hikes, the buffet rule looks like a no-go. republicans suspect that's just what the president had in mind. >> i wonder if john boehner knows what it sounds like when he continues to say the position of the republican party in america is it that you can't impose one more penny in taxes on the wealthiest people. i understand if he understands how that sounds in ohio to working families who are struggling paycheck to paycheck. >> reporter: what looks doa on

capitol hill may have many lives on the campaign trail. candy crowley, cnn, washington. and checking some other stories we're following now, 17 years just isn't long enough. that is the decision on the sentence for jose padilla, convicted in 2007 for providing money and assistance to terror groups including sld sld. the court of appeals upheld the original conviction but said the sentence was too lenient. they sent it back to a federal court in miami for another sentencing hearing. padilla and two others were convicted in the case. originally padilla was accused of plotting to set off i dirty bomb at o'hare in chicago in 2002. former president bill clinton says he admires dick cheney and has a high regard for the former vice president's political skills. he's responding to cheney's recent comments that hillary clinton should run for president in 2012. clinton says he knows cheney is just trying to stir things up. >> well, you know, i'm very

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but the big question weighing over this session is whether the u.n. will recognize palestine as a state. let's go straight to our senior state department producer elise labott. we understand that the u.n. secretary-general and the palestinian president mahmoud abbas met today. do you have any details about the meeting? >> we're hearing from the palestinians and from the united nations president abbas told ban ki-moon he's making good on his promise to go to the u.n. security council later this week to apply for full statehood to the united nations. secretary-general said, well, i'm obligated, as secretary-general, to let the security council know and i'll do that. but, randi, a lot of negotiations going behind the scenes, trying to convince president abbas to go another route, to go that general assembly route that you discussed, which perhaps could upgrade the palestinians' status with the u.n. but also kind of

maintain -- contain the fallout, if you will, and preserve a chance u.s. and others trying to get together, back to negotiations. they say the road to a palestinian state isn't in new york here at the u.n., but at jerusalem at the table. >> how feasible, elise, do you think this really is for the palestinians to find statehood and be granted full membership as well? >> well, i don't think right now the full membership at the u.n. security council is in the cards. we're not going to see some magic moment this week. they could submit the application. there's a lot of talk that it could be delayed and perhaps give him that big victory he wanted to go to the u.n. security council but not really have a confrontation. the united states as we've been reporting has threatened to veto and perhaps the u.s. and others are going to even block, not even giving him a majority, which would really be political suicide for him. no one wants to see a big confrontation here this week so what they're hoping is that he'll go to the u.n. security council and upgrade his status.

also really unclear what he's going to do. last week in his speech, president abaub dbas said he wan to some kind of last-ditch attempt, some see as a tactical move to get as much as he can. but some say, listen, this is the pal stainians' moment. the palestinians certainly see this as a rendezvous with history. they're saying, we haven't gotten any jis massey at the table with the israelis. we want to seek international legit massey. they do have a lot of support within the next community. as you said, there with are 193 station naigss. there is a lot of support for palestinian statehood. >> another topic is the noncommunicable diseases. what do we know about that? >> the nations of the general assembly, a very high-level summit, heads of state and foreign ministers about how to deal with cancer, heart disease, lung disease. these are what they call in some way lifestyle diseases, which are affected by tobacco use,

alcoholism, and how do they start promoting a healthier lifestyle which could perhaps end some of these communicable diseases or at least decrease them and not have such a drain on worldpopulations? a lot of the deaths are in developing nations. they want to promote, better living, eating, these kialking these killers. >> a lot going on at the u.n. this week. >> exciting week. >> i'm sure. thank you very much. so a bus-sized satellite that's out of gas is threatening to hit the earth. i am not kidding. where it is expecting to land, the odds of it possibly hitting people, and how you can track its location, live. we'll have it all for you next.

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pacific, flies above north and south america before entering daylight near antarctica. by the way, those occasional flashes of light, yes, they are indeed light nings. speaking of outer space, a bus-sized satellite weighing six tons is out of gas, so to speak, and heading towards the earth's surface. nasa says the p upper atmosphere research satellite also called uars was decommissioned in 2005 and instead of adding it to the space junk orbiting earth, nasa decided to bring it down. as you see in this animation, uars were orbited in 1991. it it collected data, now that it's decommissioned nasa is taking it out of orbit. quite simple. the program integration manager tells "the washington post," rest assured that we have are it it it totally in control. but still the satellite is expected to hit the earth on friday. where is it going to land? of course we head to the man with all the answers on this

stuff, chad myers. tell me it's not heading south, is it? p of i can tell you from a weatherman's perspective, it has a 71% chance of hitting water. >> okay. >> is that good? the earth is covered in it 71% water. that's why. that's where the number comes from. there is no possible way that i could tell you where it's going to land without being able to tell you what quick shop would sell the winning powerball tonight. >> darn. i was turning to you for both. >> can't do either. even nasa says there's about a one day plus or minus when they know this will fall. even when they give this this two-hour window, warning, there's still plus or minus 25 minutes from that two hours. so hour and a half or two and a half hours from when they tell us. the only problem is it's going so fast, in that time this thing travels 7,000 miles. look at all the rest are of the space junk up there that has to fall down someday. 4,000 pieces of junk up there.

there's 1,000 satellites that are actually really working. there goes one fast. i love watching that. this is what it looks like, about the size of a bus. there will be 26 pieces that actually make it to the surface. i know a lot of it will burn up, but 26 pieces will not burn up and where will it it land? well, around and around she goes, where she stops nobody knows. there it is, over northern africa at this time. but the successful travels takes it one and then another and then another and it goes around the earth because that's what it it was supposedd to do. it was supposed to take pictures of the entire earth. it goes around, the earth spins under it it. when it falls down, we'll have a couple of hours. if it starts to go out of the atmosphere somewhere down in the south pacific and it it's running over the north atlantic coast or somewhere in here, we'll know right away. you can go -- this is another web site i want to get to you -- to nasa,@nasa on twitter box or

go to hash tag uars and nasa will let us know when it it feels it is falling oust the atmosphere. it was supposed to be saturday. but because of a little bit of solar activity, kind of a little solar storm over the weekend, they have pushed it ahead. the solar storm actually pished the satellite a little closer to its death. they don't have any control over this thing. they can't it turn it left or right, can't make it go down. there's the live tracker kind of heading on up. a bit ago it was over northern africa. now it's over the black sea. there you go, caspian sea. this thing will keep running around for the next couple of days and then come splashing down. the biggest chunk 600 pounds now, it will be 300 when it gets to the ground. and that could leave a mark. >> just a bit of a mark. i wrote down all those web sites so i'm going to track it, make sure it's not heading our way. >> we'll keep you up-to-date. >> i know you will.

the government says seaworld is to blame for this whale killing a trainer. seaworld calls the ail gaigss baseless. up next, all sides to this tragic and controversial story. but first, a high-tech executive is reinventing himself moving from flip cams to grilled cheese? dan simon explains in "the connection". >> reporter: jonathan cap plan was the inventor of the flip cam. >> my inventions have been to make consumers happy and develop products they love. >> reporter: he sold his company to tech giant cisco for $590 million. cisco abandoned the flip in today's era of do-everything smartphones, but kaplan's sense of what consumers want he thinks he still has it with this. yes, it's a grilled cheese sandwich. he's launching a chain of restaurants called "the melt." the first one opening in san francisco. quite a radical transition from those engineering rooms in

silicon valley. so how do you go from making camcorders to grilled cheese sandwiches? kaplan says there are some similarities. both he says are about creating a fun, easy experience for customers. you're a guy who could have happily retired, yet you chose to go into the restaurant business which may even be harder than the consumer electronics business. >> it's exciting. you know, i think to me the idea of making people smile and making them happy has always been what motivated me. and the idea of a grilled cheese and soup does nothing except bring a smile to your face. >> reporter: that may be the case, but as you might have expected, kaplan has a share of online skeptics. who does he think he is, ray kroc, referring to the man behind mcdonald's' success. i predict another empty store front, says another. but kaplan says, just wait. >> once you try the melt, you're, like, wow, this is the grilled cheese i wish my mom made, not the grilled cheese my mom made. customer reception so far?

lines out the door. >> i love it. i'm from wisconsin so i know cheese and this is good. >> reporter: it took customized cooking equipment to make the sandwiches quickly and get the right consistency. the melt is also big on mobile. >> we need to let people order on their mobile phones, pay and pick up with their mobile phones because that will be the way they want to do things. >> reporter: his goal is to open 500 of these restaurant ares in the next couple of years. maybe that ray kroc comparison will be true after all. dan simon, cnn, san francisco.

seaworld orlando is defending itself in federal court today over the death of a whale trainer. in february 2010 as park guests watched in horror, trainer dawn brancheau was pulled in the water and drowned by a killer whale named tilikum, the same whale involved in the 1991 death of a trainer in vancouver. the occupational safety and health administration investigated the incident and cited seaworld, including exposing employees to hazardous conditions when working with killer whales. seaworld has dismiss itted the allegations as unfounded and is contesting them. who, if anyone, do you think is to blame? let's take a look back. >> reporter: you're looking at video of seaworld trainer dawn brancheau. a tourist taped this, just

moments fr s before the killer took the veteran trainer into his mouth and dove under water. brancheau sways from side to side, he follows. she splashes him with buckets of water and feeds him fish. a reward for playing along. then, suddenly, his behavior seemed to change. the wife of the tourist who took this video described what happened on nbc. >> he grabbed her by the head in a very hard thrust she went down and i screamed and she screamed. then i started yelling to the other trainer because he wasn't he looking, i said, he just took her down, he took her down. >> reporter: look closely at this video, you can see brancheau's long ponytail swinging back and forth. but it may not have looked attractive to the six-ton killer whale until she got closer. the man who trained her said she made a fatal mistake. >> i think she made a mistake by putting her -- allowing herself to be that close to his mouth

and laying down. that's a pretty vulnerable position to be in with an animal like him. so i think -- i think even if dawn was sitting here with me right now she would tell you that that was a mistake that she made. >> remember, tilikum had killed before. in 1991, he and two other whales dragged a trainer under water in a park in british columbia. thad says that's why seaworld was more cautious with him. trainers were not allowed to swim with tilikum. >> he's not used to people being in the water. he was laying there looking at her. she was rubbing him down. and all of a sudden the ponytail was there. >> reporter: are on this video, you can see what he's talking about. brancheau is on a shelf that slides out into the pool, laying in about four inches of water. right next to the 22-foot-long or ka. >> the ponytail drifted there, he probably grabbed it and then pulled her in. then went, whoa, i've got to hen

the water. >> he has worked with whales for three decades. he is convinced that at first tilikum didn't think he was dog anything wrong or hurting his trainer. brancheau understandably panicked and that drama only got the whale more excited. >> reporter: the medical examiner says brancheau likely died from multiple traumatic injuries and drourning. >> i constantly remind trainers, never get totally comfortable with the animals. >> reporter: he says there's a reason these whales are called killer whales and what they may think is a game can be fatal. as we mentioned, seaworld is challenging those findings. we'll continue to keep you updated on that case. coming up -- attacking gadhafi's hometown, a cnn crew under fire. the incredible sights and sounds in a report you will only see right here on cnn. that's next. free 'cause that's how it ought to be my brother credit 'cause you'll need a loan for one thing or another

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for control of the libyan city of sirte, the hometown of moammar gadhafi. it's one of a handful of pro-gadhafi strongholds still left in the country. heavy fighting yesterday left more than 20 rebel fighters dead and dozens wounded. cnn's phil black and his crew came under fire for several terrifying minutes. here's his firsthand account of how it all went down. >> reporter: revolutionary fighters advancing through sirte. a commander sees movement in the distance. he calls for one gunman to fire. the rest of the unit joins in, shooting wildly. they come under fire. an ambulance is hit by a

rocket-propelled grenade. they and we are caught in the open. >> reporter: it started off -- seemingly taking a potshot across something in the distance. a lot of the fighters then opened up. then there was some big return fire. >> turn around! >> reporter: cnn producer ang

lee was hit. >> down, down, down, get down. >> go, go, go! >> watch the left. get down. right side, go to the right side of everything. go, go, go. that's it, good. >> reporter: we start to check ian's injury. it looks like there's still a piece of shrapnel inside. you can feel it? >> yeah. when he was moving around, i could feel it inside. >> reporter: at a nearby field hospital, medics help ian. while dealing with their own grief. a colleague of these men was

killed in the same attack just meters away from where we are, we think hit the ambulance that was near us. >> this is our colleague. he is paramedic and at the same time ambulance driver. >> reporter: what was his name? and how old was he? >> he about 27, 28. >> reporter: tell me about him. >> 9:00 morning, he wake up me and the hospital to tell me he go to the front line. we joking that ambulance -- we are coming here. suddenly he came to us. >> reporter: this medic was there, too. he saw his friend die. but he must keep working.

casual ties keep coming. on this it dday alone, more tha revolutionary fighters are killed in the chaotic battle for sirte. phil black, cnn, sirte, libya. >> incredible reporting there by phil black. as you just saw in his report, those gadhafi loyalists who are still fighting are showing no signs of giving up and rebel forces say some loyalist fighters are targeting civilians. a rebel spokesman says they kidnapped 18 civilians yesterday and executed 12 of them. he also accused the loyalists of firing from mosques and civilian homes. still to come -- predicting earthquakes, even for scientists it is still a stab in the dark. so why are six italian scientists being tried in court after a deadly earthquake two years ago? you won't believe the answer. that is next. but first -- following the death it of singer amy winehouse, her father has established a foundation in her

name. its aim? to help causes that had special meaning to her. mitch winehouse explains in in our "impact your world" segment. >> i was in new york city, and my cell phone rang and it it was andrew, our security guy, and he broke the news to me that amy had died. in my mind immediately was amy winehouse foundation. she loved children and one of her greatest wishes was to have children of her own. we're looking to help hundreds of charities. the mission statement is very much to help children who are suffering from economic disadvantage, who are ill, who are suffering with drug abuse. her legacy will be the foundation as well as her music.

it is one of earth's great mysteries. scientists have yet to fully understand, predicting exactly when an earthquake might strike. after last month's earthquake in virginia, workers at the

washington zoo animals began to act differently, somehow sensing something big was about to happen. call it a sixth or seventh sense humans don't have that gift. that makes next week's trial in italy on the surface baffling. officials have been convicted of manslaughter not predicting an earthquake that killed 309 people. the magnitude 6.9 quake devastated the city and came without much warning. fendzing on who you ask, of course. prosecutors say scientists are to blame for the little warning, giving residents there a false sense of security. scientists say the earth gave little warning claiming they can't possibly be held responsible for pinpointing the quake before it it happened. the question is, who is actually right? cnn meteorologist chad myers and lisa bloom attorney and author of "think" straight talk for women to stay start in a dumbed

down world. thank you both for joining me. chad, you believe actually that the plaintiffs have a case here. why is that? >> don't misunderstand. this is not a slam dunk by any stretch. but there may be a case because of some misinformation put out by some officials. there were 400 small earthquakes in this region leading up to this. there was one scientist -- i'll talk about this in a bit -- that was warning days in advance are, an earthquake is coming, an earthquake is coming. the other scientists said, it's possible but not probable. i think we're okay. then the official said, there's no problem, go have a glass of red wine. well, there was a problem, i suppose, for some people. if you're on one side of the aisle. >> so, lisa, let me ask you. what are your thoughts legally? did z the prosecution have holes in its case? >> well, it sounds far-fetched, doesn't it? i mean, in our country it's hard to imagine scientists being charged with manslaughter for failure to warn about an earthquake.

but as chad says, there are facts that make this unusual. there have been advance tremors and people have a little bit of warning, people have been able to get out and save their lives and lives of loved ones. here, if these officials said, don't worry, everything is fine, i'm a scientist, trust me, in fact, that was wrong information and over 300 people lost their lives. perhaps they should be charged. i think criminal court is a little extreme. there's a difference between failing to warn and giving false information that led people to their deaths. i think that's the key distinction here. >> chad, help us understand what scientists actually do know about predicting. i mean, if it they can't be absolutely positive, what can they tell us? >> well, we do know there are are foreshocks, sometimes there's aftershocks when an

earthquake happens. smil sometimes there's a smaller quake first. what happened in this case, and this is what the prosecution is looking at, there was a scientist that it knew about ground water radon. the earth had all of that shaking, 400 earthquakes had put some radon into groundwater wells. this scientist said, wait a minute, i've never seen this much radon in these wells. something is going on below the surface. this is my warning. but the problem was, he put out a 24-hour warning. it it's going to p happen, it's going to p happen. he told the mayor of the city. then it didn't happen in 24 hours so everybody went back to their old thing, thinking this it guy is a quack. it happens six days later. >> if you look at what's going on here, lisa, about 5,000 scientists around the world basically saying that science is on trial here. how do you get around that? does it sound to you that it it's really science that's on trial? >> well, i don't know exactly what that means. science is on trial in many cases here in the u.s. where we have battles of the experts over all kinds of things, including

the upcome being michael jackson doctor trial. that's not unusual, science being on trial. that may be a bit of an overreaction. whu first hear about the case, you think it sounds crazy, they're being tried because they didn't predict an earthquake. but when you drill down into the facts of this case, if they did not operate in good faith, if they told people there was nothing to worry about and 300 people lost their lives and that information was not given in good faith or given negligently, then you have to have are sympathy for these people. there is historical context. for hundreds of years they have been warned, relying on their local scientists. >> lisa bloom, chad meyer, such an interestareing case. thank you both. >> thank you. i want to show you something because this is really important for a lot of people and a lot of kids in schools these days. if you've been bullied or you're worry birthday someone who may have been bullied or may be dog the bullying, i want to show you a facebook app that could really

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every day on this show we take time out to point a finger at someone who's really skewed up. today, who better than dominique strauss-kahn, former head of the international monetary fund. he has been at the center of the he said/she said alleged rape of a new york city hotel maid case for months. but now, only after the maid accusing him, was successfully painted as a liar and charges against strauss-kahn dropped, he drops this bombshell. he says it was not only an inappropriate relationship, but

an error, mistake. strauss-kahn now admits he behaved badly. don't get me wrong, he's denying violence or aggression. he went on to say it was a moral weakness, moral mistake. no kidding. it took you this long to figure out making a move on the woman cleaning your hotel room was wrong? you could have said that weeks ago from your new york city apartment as police and prosecutors searched for the truth. strauss-kahn has paid a small price, lost his job and ended his presidency bid. oh, and the news anchor is a friend of his wife's and hardly raised an eyebrow when he said during this ordeal he felt trapped. poor guy. no matter what you did or didn't do, dominique strauss-kahn, it is time for you to "face the music". ♪ you keep losing when you ought

to not bet ♪ ♪ you keep saying when you ought to be changing ♪ ♪ now what's right is right but you ain't been right yet ♪

pf. we've been talking about president obama's deficit reduction plan. let's check in with peter hamby

for a political update. >> man's revenue enhancements are are another man's free enterprise crushing tax increases thaincrease s. that's the line from the republican presidential candidates today who came out swinging against the deficit reduction plan. the two front-runners put out these statements. mitt romney said, quote, president obama's plan to raise taxes will have a crushing impact on economic growth. higher taxes mean fewer jobs. it's that simple. this is yet another indication that president obama has no clue how to bring our economy back. and rick perry, the texas governor who's beating romney slightly in the polls said this -- president obama's plan is a bait and switch that offers more than a trillion dollars in higher taxes for a promise of temporary tax relief. you know, jon huntsman called it disappointing, ron paul calling it class warfare, really echoing some of the talking points you heard from mitch mcconnell and paul ryan on the sunday shows yesterday about president obama's plan to implement 1$1.5

trillion are in tax increases on the rich and corporations. so expect this to be a talking point on the campaign trail in iowa, new hampshire, nevada, florida. we'll hear these candidates i guarantee in the coming weeks saying that president obama wants to increase taxes on what they're going to say business owners, the job creators in this economy. and that's exactly the wrong thing to do. not surprisingly, the republican candidates are uniformly against the obama plan. >> these are the gop candidates who are obviously not inoffice. plenty of republicans are in office and sound like they're just are as unhappy. >> that's right. this is a collision course in the making with john boehner, the speaker of the house. he's vowed to not include any tax increases in any deficit reduction deal and president obama pretty aggressively said today that needs to be part of the pactage or he'll voeto it.