welcome back to "cnn newsroom." i'm brooke baldwin. the united states is back in the potential strike zone for the satellite that is plummeting now toward earth. the dead satellite is expected to break up in the earth's atmosphere into 26 different pieces, but some of those pieces could be hundreds of pounds. now, nasa has been saying so far that the upper atmosphere research satellite would bypass north america, but guess what, now that we're back in its sights, we thought you might be wondering about the odds of being hit. rest assured, we've been talking about these odds. too bad. there is a 1 in 3200 chance someone on earth could be hit by

the debris, but the odds of it actually hitting you, we took this a step further. that's one in several trillion, trillion with a t. chad myers, so the news today, we are now in the strike zone. is that for now or for good? >> that will be for good, until it falls out of the sky and we'll know. we were doing this little tweet thing back and forth a little bit ago about how the earth is not round. the earth is not round. it's fatter at the equator. so this thing will be closer to the atmosphere every time it passes the equator. every time it goes around the earth, it will start to drag. at one of those times it's going to get a little too close, touch the atmosphere, start to turn, burn up and that's when it's going to slow down enough to make the fall. there are several passes. i can show you coming up here. let me take you over to the wall here as well. we have kind of a different little plan here. the map as it's coming in right now, it's coming up and just to the south of argentina. it will pass over and then on up

into europe. it will pass right over italy in about 45 minutes to an hour. every 90 minutes it makes another pass and it's a little bit farther to the west. if they think that this is going to come down in six to ten hours, one of those passes will actually be very close to the u.s. one over texas, one over mexico and one over san diego. now, it's going to fall out of the sky somewhere along the equator because that's where the atmosphere is the highest. so the atmosphere is reaching out to touch it. as soon as it touches the atmosphere, that's when it's going to burn up. that's when it's going to slow down. that's its drag point. that drag point will make it eventually tumble and fall to the earth. will it fall far enough? will there be any potential for it to get far from the equator all the way to san diego? i don't think so. i think this whole thing is going to splash down in the ocean and nobody is going to see it. >> no one, no fireworks in the sky? hang on, hold your thought. joining me, i want to bring back in our fellow space geek at

space.com. you know, big changes today as we mentioned, that we're now in the strike zone. chad just outlined some of the potential paths. you wrote in your piece that one of the changes is that it's falling more slowly. why does that matter? >> well, it matters because nasa has been basically making its calculations based on a rate of descent for this satellite that until late thursday told them that it was going to skip north america entirely. what they announced this morning is that it's been falling more slowly because it is actually tumbling through space and its angle of drag that it's feeling from the very, very fringy, wispy parts of the atmosphere where it's at now just has not been what nasa thought it was. and so basically because of that difference between nasa's calculations and what is actually happening in space, it's falling slower than nasa thought. and it just keeps the satellite

up there a few hours longer than they thought. >> i also saw that the spacecraft is the largest nasa satellite to fall from space uncontrolled since 1979. but the news factor here is that one chunk of this could be something like 300 pounds. if we're talking that large in terms of weight, how large might this piece be, though, in and of itself? >> well, if it's about 300 pounds, you can maybe estimate it's going to be smaller than a car but it's going to be maybe larger than an -- it would be a big block of debris. it could be a tank, it could be a big metal plate used to kind of protect the outside of the vehicle. they have got some parts that are made out of titanium that are just really hearty when it comes to burning up in the earth's atmosphere.

>> stand by, i want to bring one more person into this conversation because she's kind of been there, done that. you're going to know what i mean in a minute. lottie williams from tulsa, oklahoma, she is one of the several trillion if we're talking odds here, she got hit by a piece of falling rocket back in 1997. lottie, i guess i read that you had some trouble sleeping some years ago. you took a walk right about 3:00 in the morning and wham. what happened? >> right. i started in 1986 walking with a group of retired people. and that morning there were three of us in the park when this big fire ball flew across the sky. and we just stopped where we were and just watched it, you know, and there was a spark that came from it also. and it just kept going south. >> we're looking at some of your

pictures, i just wanted to interject. this is the piece that ultimately fell on you or tapped your shoulder. but please continue. >> yes. the picture you're showing, i probably -- it's either the front or the back of it. when i -- about 30 minutes after we saw this fire ball go across the sky, i felt a tap on my shoulder much like when someone is trying to get your attention they'll tap you. that's what it actually felt like. i thought it was somebody tapping me, so i took off to run. and when i did that, it rolled off my shoulder and fell onto the ground and that's when i heard it. it sounded a little metallic because there's chat on the ground. >> so it wasn't some big loud noise coming toward you. i keep imagining like this loud hiss. but it was pretty quiet and quick? >> well, i heard the rustling in the tree, but that could have been someone hitting up against

the tree, so that was my first instinct. that's the reason i decided to run. when i looked back -- when it hit the ground and i looked back, i was really surprised to see that it was dark and just laying there still, you know. i went on and said i'm not going to pick it up right now. so i went on and walked around and i came back and my curiosity was getting the best of me so i decided to go ahead on and kick it into the light so i could see what it was. and that's when i saw that it was burned. and i looked toward that northeast corner of the park and i realized that it came off of thats are you know. that was my opinion. now, i originally thought it was a shooting star so you can only imagine what i thought i had. >> right. you actually have a piece of this delta 2 rocket. final question. considering the odds, lottie

williams, are you playing the lottery? >> i have played. i'm not lucky in that. i just don't know if i was in the right place at the right time that morning. with all the people in the park, i'm the one that got hit, so i don't know. >> lottie williams, thank you very much. quickly, i don't know if we still have tariq or chad, but bottom line if you do see this and it doesn't end up plunging in the water, don't touch it. essentially, what do you do, call police, call the government? it's their property. >> exactly. what nasa has been telling people from day one is do not touch the debris. it's not yours to keep, it's the property of nasa and the u.s. government. call your local law enforcement, the authorities will call the fbi or nasa, whoever they have gotten advice to do and then they'll recover the debris. the danger that nasa wants to stress is that it's not toxic or radioactive, it's just that its metal and sharp and they want the debris back. >> okay, thank you very much.

chad myers, keep a close eye on this path please, sir. >> still going 17,463 miles per hour so it's not coming down yet. >> not yet. chad, thank you very much. and now this. basically they have no case. there is no case left. and i'm very hopeful that by the end of the month we'll get to bring amanda home. >> amanda knox entering the final phase of her appeal. her father believes in her innocence, but will she really be able to now walk away clean? cnn caught up with her family. and then this. the palestinian authority pushing for united nations to recognize palestine as a state. mahmoud abbas, the leader, calling this a moment of truth. but will this end in disappointment for the palestinian people? back in two minutes. i want healthy skin for life.

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and i saved you money on brakes. that's personal pricing. nearly 20 years after their first peace talks with israel, the palestinians are now changing course. and as palestinians rallied today in ramallah to watch -- their president, mahmoud abbas, went straight to the united nations today to ask it to recognize it is an independent state of palestine, even though israel and the united states still object. >> translator: it is time for the palestinian people to gain their freedom and independence. the time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of palestinian refugees in the homeland. to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of

whom were forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world. >> let's go straight to the united nations to our senior correspondent there, richard roth. richard, mahmoud abbas calling this and i'm quoting this, a moment of truth. is this moment likely to end in disappointment for the palestinian people? >> perhaps, though it may be the next step in a gateway to two states living side by side, but obviously don't put your bets down yet because there's a lot of differences, as we've seen over the last half century plus. the palestinian leader, the israeli prime minister, it was almost if you watched that republican party debate last night, then you had these two almost candidates weighing in, lobbying, pitching the general assembly about their views. of course there's a lot of damage done in the past to each other. they both in effect said we would love to live side by side, but here's why we don't like each other at the moment, and

why we can't talk. netanyahu of the israelis saying we're in the building, we're in the same city together, let's do it now. the palestinians saying we can't do anything like this in effect when there are settlements, when there's occupation on our land. the so-called quartet, these negotiators representing the united states and russia, the european union, they're meeting now. they are trying to come up with some timetable to provide the next step of momentum here on the statehood thing. but really this is up to the security council now and the u.s. says it's going to veto if it has to the formal statehood application by the palestinians. >> right. i do, though, want to play just a moment from the u.n. g.a. mr. abbas was greeted by a very long applause at the u.n. watch this. [ speaking in foreign language ]

[ applause ] >> and then after that long applause, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu spoke. watch this. >> israel is the jewish state. [ applause ] president abbas, stop walking around this issue. recognize the jewish state and make peace with us. >> as you mentioned, though, richard, we know the u.s. has set they will veto. then what would the next step be and how long might that next step take? >> i would think it would be at least a month before we even know if there's going to be a

vote. the palestinians also need nine countries on the 15-nation security council to back their resolution bid. if the palestinians feel that with the u.s. veto and perhaps not getting the minimum nine b countries, they'll go to the u.n. general assembly where they'll get an upgraded status to their membership here at the u.n. but it still won't be a state. all of this by the palestinians is to shake up things and to get either negotiations or grievances aired and considered more. netanyahu said the region is growing increasingly more dangerous. i don't think people know what could happen here. there could be more violence if the u.s. veto does happen to occur. the palestinians are frustrated. the people have seen demonstrations topple governments elsewhere. israel is saying we left gaza an are still getting rockets supplied by iran. netanyahu denounced the u.n. saying that it's the theater of the absurd. how lebanon, a member of the security council, is really run by hezbollah, backed by iran and

thus a terrorist organization. in fact is the president of the security council, because that's lebanon's role for this month. and it will be lebanon, which has already received the statehood application as programmed and previewed. secretary general of the u.n. gets it from the palestinian leader, it's now in the hands of the council. >> okay, richard roth at the u.n. r richard, thank you very much. two chicken fried steaks, one triple bacon cheeseburger. blue bell ice cream. the guy that ordered all of that didn't eat a bite. did i mention it was his requested last meal on death row? and a funny thing happened last night at the gop debate. one guy who just a few of you probably even recognize, stole the show. that's next. good. you like trees. well, i like climbing them, but i've never been one. good point. ( captain ) this is your captain speaking. annie gets to be the princess. oh... but she has to kiss a boy.

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reid warns fema could run out of funds as early as monday. he said he will push for a new vote monday on a compromised measure but if lawmakers cannot reach some sort of agreement here, the federal government could partially shut down october 1st. death row inmates in texas will not get to request the traditional last meal anymore. why? because of the white supremacist, lawrence russell brewer. brewer was executed wednesday night for his infamous murder of james byrd who was chained to a pickup truck and dragged to death. brewer's last meal request, you ask? here we go. two chicken fried steaks. a triple bacon cheeseburger. cheese omlette with ground beef, fried okra with ketchup, three fajitas, pound of barbecue. half loaf of white bread. meat lovers pizza, pint of blue bell ice cream. slab of peanut butter fudge with nuts. three root beers. and the kicker, he didn't eat a

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american college student amanda knox could be mere days away from getting something she has wanted for quite a while, freedom. final arguments started in the appeal of her conviction for the murder of her roommate in italy. matthew chance was inside the courtroom as knox arrived. >> reporter: well, there she is, amanda knox, coming into the courtroom here to sit through the final phase of this appeal in the courthouse. the american college student, of course, convicted of killing her british flat mate and sentenced to 26 years in jail. she's just over there now. she'll be listening to the prosecutors summing up their case against her j. >> prosecutors asked the jury to

remember the victim and put themselves in her parents' shoes. we did get reaction from her mother just outside of the courthouse. >> reporter: your assessment of what your daughter looked like when she came to the court today. >> she's stressed. she knew it was going to be a hard day listening to people tell horrible lies about her, it's difficult and we knew it was coming. she was stressed about that. >> reporter: what did you make of the prosecution's summing up of the case today? >> well, it's amazing. i don't understand everything. but i understand that he talked about the fact that amanda has made some kind of a deal for a plane ride for an interview. ridiculous. if that's any indication of what was presented that's ridiculous because it's a total fak railwaycation and a total lie. >> reporter: do you think the prosecution was going for an emotional appeal. imagine that you're the parents of meredith. >> i think if you have no evidence, that's what you have. if there's no evidence to connect somebody to the crime, the only thing you can do is try to find some emotional angle to it. >> reporter: how optimistic are

you now? you're in the final phase of this appeal. how optimistic are you and the rest of the family that this is going to end well for amanda? >> we're more optimistic than we were before but it's hard to quantify that. we're not counting anything until the en. we're going to fight for her and not stop until he's out. >> this is the final phase of the appeal. amanda knox's lawyers are expected to give their final argument next week. will you invoke your fifth amendment rights in response to all questions here today? >> yes. >> then you are excused from the witness table at this time. >> solyndra executives stonewalling congress today, remaining silent over this investigation on how they blew through millions of dollars in taxpayer money before filing for bankruptcy. and then four decades of am meez ia -- amnesia, affairs, th credits roll for good today on "all my children." ♪

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i want you to listen here to what the top executives of this california solar panel company that recently defaulted on half a billion dollars in government-backed loans had to say to congress today. they were asked, you know, what happened to the company and what happened to the government's money, aka, your taxpayer dollar. >> on the advice of my counsel, i invoke the privilege afforded to me by the fifth amendment of the constitution of the united states, and i respectfully decline to answer any questions. >> i'd like to ask the same question to mr. stover. >> on the advice of counsel, i invoke the privilege afforded by the fifth amendment to the u.s. constitution and respectfully decline to answer any question. >> so those two menu just heard from, they are the ceo and the cfo of the solar company called solyndra. back in 2009 solyndra was the first green company to receive stimulus funds from the obama administration. the president actually visited the california factory last year, all presidential pomp and

pageantry, so what happened inside this company for it to go from really this white house darling project to an administration embarrassment? lisa sylvester walks us through the company's downfall. >> reporter: a growing scandal about what happened after solyndra received $535 million in taxpayer money. competition from china pushed the price of solyndra's solar panels way down, causing the company to lose customers and burn through cash. january of this year, solyndra went back to the obama administration and asked to restructure the department of energy loan, to give it more time to pay it back. new details from e-mail show senior staffers at the office of management and budget knew they had a major political problem on their hands. solyndra was held up as the poster child of green jobs when president obama toured the company. days after solyndra's plea for help, a staffer wrote to another urging the government to cut its losses and walk away from the deal. quote, if solyndra defaults down

the road, the optics will arguably be worse later than they will be today. at that point additional funds have been put at risk, recoveries may be lower, and the questions will be asked as to why the administration made a bad investment, not just once, which could hopefully be explained as part of the challenge of supporting innovative technologies, but twice, which could easily be portrayed as bad judgment or worse. representative cliff sterns chairs the energy subcommittee looking into the solyndra scandal. he says the entire deal was bad from the get-go and trying the last-minute save put the taxpayers in a worse position. >> they subordinated the $535 million of taxpayer money to the $75 million that the two hedge funds gave to help them survive. that's against the law at least the way i read it. >> reporter: what's more stearns says e-mails show department of energy staffers warned two years ago there were issues with solyndra's finances.

august 20th, 2009, a doe staffer wrote, quote, the muddle runs out of cash in september, 2011. even in the base case without any stress, this is a liquid tee issue. it simply won't stabbed up to review by oversight bodies. but less than a month later, september 4th, 2009, the original $535 million loan closed with energy secretary steven chu attending the ground-breaking of solyndra's new factory and vice president joe biden delivering a speech via satellite. the obama administration says with new green technology, not every company is going to be successful, but that's not a reason to stop investing in companies moving forward on alternative energy. >> we never thought and the department of energy never thought that every investment would succeed. but that is not a reason to simply throw up your hands and say never mind, let's let the chinese own this. >> reporter: white house spokesman jay carney says the process used to determine who

receives government-backed loans is merit-based and when it comes to cutting edge industries seeking this kind of government help, there is the potential for high rewards, but also for high risk as well. lisa sylvester, cnn, washington. we reach out to multiple members of the house committee that's investigating this company solyndra. no republican accepted our invitation, but diana did agree to join us, congresswoman from colorado. thank you so much for coming on. we saw the video of those two executives dayitaking the fifth today. they were in your office in july two months before they filed for bankrupt bankruptcy. was there any indication at that point in time, any inkling that they weren't quite as successful as many people thought? >> well, our investigation started this summer. i'm the senior democrat on the

oversight and investigation subcommittee. and so we were investigating solyndra as far back as this summer. and the solyndra executives asked to come in and speak with me, with chairman ranking member waxman and cliff stearns and the others. so i saw them in my office as a courtesy. they sat in my office. they told me that they were restructuring, that their business model was sound, that they had orders coming in and they expected to rebound from their financial trouble. so imagine my surprise when just five weeks later they filed for bankruptcy. >> so it was, for you, a total surprise here? >> it was a total surprise for everybody on both sides of the aisle in the committee. one of the reasons why mr. waxman and i asked the chairman to have the solyndra people come today is we were hoping that they could tell us what happened between the time they were in our offices saying that everything was great in the company and improving and then five weeks later when they

declared bankruptcy. of course then subsequently the fbi searched their headquarters. that's why they took the fifth amendment today. >> right, for possible fraud there as well. >> i guess. >> as we mentioned, we didn't hear from these executives as they invoked the fifth amendment rights against self incrimination, but i know you don't just want to talk to them, you want to talk to those who invested large chunks of money into solyndra. what are you hoping to learn from them? >> well, you know, we're all concerned about this loan because it was a $535 million loan guaranty. and because of the bankruptcy, now the taxpayers have lost that amount. so what we want to find out is what went wrong with the loan. was it something that the federal regulators could have seen at the beginning. was there some kind of fraud? what did the investors think? so mr. waxman and i have asked the chairman to have the investors in solyndra, the private investors, to come in to testify what they know and we've also asked them to get all the

documents they can so that we can get to the bottom of this investigation. what we're concerned about is this is one company, but we have a number of other companies who have received these loan guaranties, and with china flooding the market -- you know, china put $30 billion into loans for solar energy. we want to know is this program still viable? and if not, what can we do to make it viable, because we've got to support alternative energy in this country. >> what, though -- i'm certainly not going to ask you who you think is to blame because we don't know yet. the testimony hasn't really quite happened. so really the question is no matter what the outcome is, what is the takeaway here? >> well, we need to see what we need to do in this country to support solar energy. this loan guaranty program was a program that was developed under the bush administration and continued by the obama administration. even solyndra applied for the initial loan guaranty under the

bush administration and everybody was high on that. there are a number of other companies around the united states who have received these loan guaranties who are starting their production, starting their businesses. they have thousands of jobs, thousands of americans have been put to work under this program. we want to make sure that it's still solid. you know, whenever you do something risky like this, like a loan guaranty for a start-up company, you're bound to have some failures. the question is, with solyndra, was this just a regular business failure or was there something deeper here? we need to get to the bottom of it. >> a $535 million failure could be a costly one. congresswoman degette, thank you very much. the gop candidates are on the attack, but are they dishing facts or hearsay? we're going to check their facts from last night's debate. first dr. sanjay gupta has today's human factor. the first woman in the united states to have a double hand

transplant. >> reporter: imagine having to learn how to use someone else's hands as your own. >> how about this guy, pinch. pinch. >> reporter: that's the reality for sheila, the first woman in the united states to undergo a double hand transplant. >> i just remember being rush to the hospital, in the e.r. and that's it. i was out. >> reporter: her hands and feet were amputated eight years ago after she contracted a bacterial infection. >> they were so lifeless, you know, and so black. >> reporter: she got prosthetics for her hands and her feet, but the idea of a possible future hand transplant was always on her mine. when the opportunity came from the university of pittsburgh medical center, she went for it. >> i'm amazed by my own progress. i had no expectations. >> reporter: it's been a year since she got her new hands and already she has hit several milestones. she can feel temperature, pain, various textures. it's the result of a lot of hard work. she undergoes six hours of physical therapy five days a

week. >> for me to finally feel these things again, my hair, my face or even my jeans, that's something big for me. >> reporter: she says her ultimate goal is to live as independent a life as possible. >> this is actually my very first painting. >> reporter: she draws, she paints, she drives, he puts on makeup. finds her way around her kitchen, even clips her nails. >> i'm not able to pinch the l nail clipper yet so i was able to figure out how to do it for myself. that was my way of figuring out how to be independent. >> reporter: the last eight years have been difficult, but she's overcome so much by believing it all happened for a reason. no matter how painful, she tries to always be positive. >> i don't give myself much of a choice but to keep going, despite whatever obstacles i encounter in my life. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn, reporting. so who ordered the cereal that can help lower cholesterol

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did you see last night's republican debate? the candidates rattled off pretty good one-liners and tried to take one another to task, but how did they do in terms of sticking to the facts? let's go back to cnn's tom foreman in washington with a little bit more on separating fact from fiction. i was looking to see if you had your truthometer or whatever it is. >> that's the thing all politicians fear. >> let's begin with something we heard from texas governor rick perry last night talking social security. >> for those people that are on social security today, for those people that are approaching social security, they don't have anything in the world to worry about. >> okay, tom foreman, nothing to worry about, fact or fiction? >> nothing to worry about. that's a pretty profound statement. you have nothing to worry about, everything is fine. here's the problem, though, for

governor perry. he says you have nothing to worry about. he's reassuring all the elders, you don't have to worry about social security, you don't have to worry about me, i'm going to take care of you. same time, same day, look what he had on the fox.com website. social security's financing is broken aund unsustainable in th long run. the fablgt is the social security's financing system is broken. it must be fixed. look, politicians do this, they're always selling one message to one group and another message to another. but in the context of sort of looking for the truth in all of this, when you consider that, you have to say, look, really what you've got here is a case of something that is maybe true but incomplete, maybe actually over here in the zone of misleading, because the truth is you're giving part of the story, not all of the story. people want to understand his point of view, he can expand a little bit more. you're going to see a lot of campaigns do this same sort of thing where they want to shade for it a certain group. but the whole picture is he's

trying to reassure seniors but at the same time he's very much saying that he does not believe social security is sound. that social security needs a lot of work. >> okay. so mr. perry in the yellow zone with misleading. what about the other front runner in the race, mitt romney. at one point he went after governor perry's stand on immigration in texas. here is that exchange. >> four years of college, almost $100,000 discount. if you're an illegal ail yep to go to the university of texas. if you're a united states sit citizen you have to pay $100,000 more. that doesn't make sense to me. that kind of magnet -- [ applause ] that kind of magnet draws people into this country to get that education, to get the $100,000 break. >> so we heard the applause. but was that true? >> $100,000 break? that sounds pretty good. well, it depends on how you slice this thing up. he's saying it's a magnet for

illegal immigrants to offer these benefits. people believe that sort of thing, but let's look at specifically what he's talking about here. the university of texas, if you went to texas, you can go to a university if you're an illegal immigrant and gone to high school, you can go as an in-state student and pay that kind of tuition to go to their university. so the university of texas, about $25,000 a year. if you were an out of state student, you would pay an additional around $23,000 to go there, so over four years that, would add up to about $100,000 break as an in-state student. what he doesn't mention, however, is that texas is not alone. sure, he wants to punch rick perry with this. but california does this, new mexico does it, illinois, nebraska, kansas, maryland, i can't remember them all. >> so not just texas. >> a whole bunch of them. the bottom line, there are a good number who do the same thing. some states don't allow it. but for him to present it in a way as if it's just texas doing it, that's really one of those

things that's a little misleading and more along the lines of being true but incomplete. so i think we're going to see an awful lot of this as this whole campaign goes on. campaigns always cherry picking their information. the thing is, they often have a valid point to make, but they can't resist just shoving aside everything that doesn't fit. that's why we have this barbecue to throw them on later. >> keep that truthometer handy, mr. foreman. thank you very much. have a didn't weekend to you. after more than four decades, the curtains are going down on soap operas "all my children." the show which made susan lucci famous, that is now going off the air today. a lot of you were talking about it. it is trending, it is next. but first this. time now for the help desk where we get answers to your financial questions. with me is the president of consumer education at smartcredit.com. also a person finance expert. john, linda asks, i have approximately seven years left

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it is a sad, sad day for erica cain and the rest of the beautiful people in the fictitious pine valley. four decades of soapy drama of "all my children" ends today. that is what is trending. this has been a daytime staple for all of you for 42 years. maybe it is not the final curtain call for amc, because fans say it may come back in some form online and kareen wynter tells us that the decision to pull the plug on the soap is the part of the changing face of daytime television. >> it is the latest soap opera squeezed out of daytime. >> it is over. there is nothing left. >> reporter: abc's long running drama "all my children" which made the famous soap icon susan

lucci a household name. >> i am here to fight for us. >> reporter: and launched the talk show host for stars like kelly ripka. >> i feel so devastated. >> reporter: and also michelle geler who was stunned by the decision to can the daytime classic due to poor ratings. >> it seems to wrong to me. >> and imagine after all of those years. >> they won't get the same ratings. >> reporter: and soap opera digest's stephanie sloan says that it was on top for about a decade thanks to the smart storylines that pushed the controversial issues. >> the show had the first abortion and proest theed the vietnam war and dealt with aids and homosexualithomosexuality, ratings were dipping. they were forced to slash salaries and relocate the show's

production from new york to l.a., but it was not enough to save the soap. >> the era of the bored housewife are over. they catered to that type of woman. >> reporter: and they say that "guiding light", "one life to live" and "all my children" have a changing demographics over the years and not the mention the emergence of reality tv. >> who cares about erica cain when you have the "real housewives of new jersey" battling it out in a real life cat fight. >> operating the more inexpensive replacement for shows too expensive to produce. >> reporter: it is not just reality shows, but talk shows like "the chew" that are filling the landscape. fresh new programming that the viewers are hoping the viewers will sink their teeth into. starting next week, "the chew" takes over "all my children's"

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politics update. and we go to peter hanby, and coming off of the debate last night how did the candidates sound at cpac and start with governor perry, how'd he do? >> well, mitt romney came in here riding high and doing a victory lap and taunting rick perry, but rick perry came in trying to move beyond the debate last night and a struggle to respond throughout the night as he was on the heels. here is what he said to the cpac conference today in florida responding to mitt romney, brook. >> as conservatives, we know that values and vision matter. it is not who the slickest candidate or the smoothest debater that we need to elect. we need to elect the candidate with the best record and the best vision of this country. >> so, you know, rick perry is right, the best debater doesn't always win the republican nomination, but it is a bad storyline for perry that he is not good in primetime and he

would not be a good candidate against barack obama in a debate or general election and you saw him try to pivot away from it in front of a conservative audience and pitch a conservative message and we need to elect somebody with conservative values and convictions and not somebody who is good at delivering a sound bite or one-two punch in a sound bite, brook. >> thank you, peter. and now we go to hour two. watch this. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com solyndra executives stonewalling congress and remaining silent over this investigation and how they blew through millions of your taxpayer money before filing for bankruptcy. i'm brooke baldwin, and the news is right now. top executives for a solar panels company take the fifth. >> i invoke the privilege afforded to me by the fifth amendment. >> and the united states now in the strike zone for that falling satellite. >> it would be devastating. >> think of the victim's

parents, and that is the plea from the prosecutors of the amanda knox case in italy. will the jurors send this college student free? paycheck to paycheck and deal to meal, this former teacher and father of four was a member of the middle class, but more and more americans are hitting and passing the poverty line in this down economy. i will take you grocery shopping with one family who knows it all too well. >> i have paid my bills, and it is very difficult. >> and was albert einstein wrong about e-mc squared? a new challenge to what you learned in school. hi, there, and welcome back. i'm brooke baldwin and if it is interesting and happening right now, we will see it right now. rapid fire beginning with this. executives from the sew far factory solyndra appeared at a congressional hearing today, but they didn't have much to say. >> mr. harrison, will you invoke

your fifth amendment rights to all questions asked here today? >> yes. >> then you are excused from the witness table at this time. >> and another one invoked the fifth amendment as well, and solyndra once touted by president obama and received a stimulus loan went bankrupt earlier in the month. congress wants to know if they misled congress about its finances or got special treatment. and now a turndown of the millionaire request to investigate the deaths of his girlfriend and young son. and investigators say the woman killed herself at his mansion two days after the son had take anne turn for the worst after falling down the stairs under her care. her naked family falling from to a balcony with her hands and feet bound. scha schactny says he accepting the ruling today.

and a gun that was used to kill his wife says that ward shot his wife diane in the face this the master bedroom of the mansion. the defense saying that mrs. ward was shot accidentally as her husband tried to wrestle the gun out of her hand. the jury heard six days of testimony in this trial. and listen to this, ohio trooper john buehler conducting a traffic stop in front of the patrol car and watch with me, another car is speeding up from behind and take a look. speeding up, and there we go, speeding up from behind and slammed into the car and both the trooper and the man he pulled over were injured in that chain reaction crash, all caught on that dashboard video. and there is no place like home. there is no place like home. oh, with the click of your heels three times the ruby slippers

made famous by judy garland in the "wizard of oz" could be yours. the original 145shoes seen in t 1939 film are being actioned off as part of a memorabilia sale, and it is one of four pairs used on screen and known to have lasted since the film. th there is a pair on exhibit at the smithsonian, and the pair is estimated to fetch at action $2 million. and now talking about money, let's go over to wall street and felicia taylor and tell me that the markets are better than yesterday? >> oh, i can tell yu that definitely, brooke. i'm so happy to do so, but on the downside, this is the worst week for stocks since october of 2008. the dow has lost more than 700 points, but the good news is that we ended across the grain. the nasdaq is up one percent and

the s&p is up, and the nasdaq is up, but the truth is the fact that we didn't see a sell-off going into the weekend is a very, very positive sign, because all of the things that we are worried about are still there, are we headed for a double-dip recession in a? are the banks in greece in trouble? moody downgraded many of the banks there. and the market has not listened to the response, but the one thing that is a downer for the day gold off $100 and that is a significant drop for that, and we will see where it begins trading monday and copper down 20% this week which is an indication of a slowdown in manufacturing. i hope you have a great weekend. >> thank you and same to you, felicia taylor. we will take that news going into the weekend. and now this -- >> we need to see radical changes, because the outcomes for kids that are happening

right now are robbing them of their futures. >> today, president obama trying to shake things up by revamping, and changing central provisions of the law of "no child left behind" and michelle rhee who was once the chancellor of washington, d.c. public school systems, and we will get her thoughts next. ♪ [ male announcer ] we're not employers or employees. not white collar or blue collar or no collars. we are business in america. and every day we awake to the same challenges. but at prudential we're helping companies everywhere find new solutions to manage risk, capital and employee benefits, so american business can get on with business. ♪ and see katie before she goes home. [ male announcer ] with integrated healthcare solutions from dell,

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shane bauer had proposed to sarah shourd when they were in the iranian prison, but today more romantic for them not in prison, and this traditional engagement in oman, and josh fattal and shane bauer released a few days ago and shourd released a few months ago. and now, revamping the new "no child left behind" bill, and that was a bill backed by the bush administration to fix the flaws in the american education system, but today, the president is making changes saying that the states can opt out to help them deal with how to deal with troubled schools. the students must show proficiency in reading and math by 2014 and the states have to have accountability standards, but they will not treat all schools the same. the president says that parents,

you, too, have to get involved. >> we all know that schools can't do it alone. as parents, the task begins at home, and it begins by turning off the tv and helping with homework and encouraging a love of learning by the very start of our children's lives, and i'm speaking from experience now, and malia and sasha would often rather be watching "american idol" or "sponge bob" but, michelle and i know that our fir first job, our first responsibility is instilling a sense of learning, a sense of love of learning in our kids. >> michelle rhee knows a thing or two about love of learning. she joins me from nashville to talk about the changes here to this law. as former chancellor of the d.c. public school, a huge system, i know you know the law very well,

but i want to get your quick impression to the changes today. is it a good idea? >> well, in is a tough one. "no child left behind" did some important things in terms of bringing important data to light, and making sure there was strict accountability systems, but it also had some significant flaws that had to be addressed. so, given the fact that congress hasn'tt been making a lot of progress on this, i think that the waivers are a way potentially for the states to have their issues addressed, but the defl i devil is in the detad the question is, can the waivers be given and especially in the schools, and favorable for schools to be held accountable and around the edges and really implement some tough reforms. >> we will talk about the waivers in a second, but i did speak to secretary of education arne duncan and he used to run the chicago public schools, and this is what he told me.

>> when i ran the chicago public schools, i had to come to this building and go to my conference room and beg the government and the department of education to tutor my children after school. 25,000 people wanted to have additional tutoring and work harder and washington did not want to give me that flexibility, and it made no sense. >> michelle, i don't know if you can empathize, because you ran the d.c. public schools from a chancellor perspective, and will it give folks more flexibility at the state and local level, and is that a good thing? >> well, again, it really does vary from the situation to situation, and in some ways the accountability structure that "no child left behind" in place gave us the cover that we needed to be able to implement really aggressive reforms at the school level. you know, it said if a school is failing that you have to implement one of four restructuring options, and those were really aggressive options,

so it ensured that we were being as tough as we could be, and on the other hand like the secretary was saying, there are other pieces of it that you have a local jurisdiction wants flexibility around. so the question is, can you give flexibility, but at the same time hold the states accountable for reaching high targets and high goals? >> i know you say that the devil is in the details with regards to the waivers and all 50 states have the permission to apply for the waivers and help parents out there wondering and scratching their heads over the changes, help them understand what the waivers could mean to their son or daughter? >> well, this is the interesting thing about the whole debate. in our minds, you know, congress couldn't get this done. they haven't moved on this or made a ton of progress on it, and so what we are seeing at the new organization that i have founded students first, parents are saying that we want to make sure that the schools are great, and we are taking a grass roots

approach and we have over 600,000 members in the organization, and we have pushed these kinds of changes in states like nevada and michigan and ohio, tennessee, and indiana, to make sure that in a very bipartisan way, we were providing parents with exactly what they wanted which is strong accountable, making sure we had great teachers, but doing it in a way that made sense for the local jurisdictions. so, i think that at the end of the day, if we can't get this done at the national level, we have to get it done at the grass roots level. >> do it yourself. michelle rhee, thank you very much. i appreciate it. >> absolutely. >> paycheck to paycheck and meal to meal, and i know you can relate, because last night i went out and went grocery shopping with this father of a family of four, and out of work, and he has been looking for work in the last two years and how he makes ends meet grocery shopping in the down economy. ] [ crying ] [ applause ]

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all week here on cnn in our in depth series we have been looking at por ti in america and you know more than 40 million people in poverty watching every single dollar come and go. we have been sharing the statistics of the minutia with you, but today, i wanted to put a face on it. epsilon sttaylor has been laid f of his work and he gets food stamps to help feed his adopted children, and one in high school, and you can imagine they all like to eat, and they all go shopping together and they watch every ounce, every pound of food and last night, i tagged along. >> reporter: epsilon taylor is a single father of four, and he was a teacher, and then a social

worker until he got laid off two years ago, and he has been searching for work ever since. >> what first? >> reporter: and without steady income, he and his two remaining high school-aged sons get by with state assistance and food stamps which makes grocery shopping a challenge. >> we like that sign, buy one and get one free. >> yes, we need to start there. >> reporter: each trip they bring an envelope with coupons and no splurging most of the time. >> i have the menu whereby we won't look around and wonder what we are going to cook for a day, we know what we are going to buy. >> you know the second you walk in? >> exactly. we need to get some lettuce tomorrow, because we are making a green salad, because it is on the menu. the cabbage is high this week. usually we get the 10-pound bag of potatoes, but they are not on

sale, so we move on. >> reporter: how much of the food that you buy doesn't spoil? >> 1%. >> why are you laughing? >> 1%, because he is not going to let it spoil. >> reporter: epsilon is known in the community for being an educator an earning him a nickname. >> as a matter of fact, the young man, our neighbor, started about six years ago called me teach, and it has expanded now so they all call me teach. >> reporter: and now he is teaching his sons smart shopping habits starting with never buy food at eye level. why are we looking down, epsilon? >> because this is where they usually keep the cheaper brands on the lower shelves, and this is why we look down. we glance them all, but, yes, the trick is down. >> reporter: so store brand, less expensive is down. another money saver, buy store brand. >> they like tacos, so if you

want tacos -- >> taco night. >> yes, taco night, get that, mark. you see, he knows. >> food lion. >> he knows to get the food lion, and if we can find a cheaper one spaghetti, and that is $1.79 and $1.69, but $1.39 right here. >> reporter: there are limitations with the food stamps. there are items that you cannot buy with food stamps, such as -- >> laundry detergent, and dishwashing soap, and detergent, and mark, did you find chicken on sale? well, we can't buy anything down that aisle. that is taboo. we will get the ham and cheddar. >> reporter: the boys get their school lunches subsidized by the state of georgia and because other children had submitted applications in their county

alone, theirs has yet to be processed. >> they get free lunch normally, but today they had to charge them. >> reporter: for how long? >> they don't know. they said to keep calling. >> reporter: this is when you hope you are not spending more than you have got. >> hope is exactly right. >> reporter: while they wait for the total, they talk about the three house rules. >> god, education and common sense. >> yes. >> reporter: god, education and common sense? >> yes. i tell them god is first and once you get an education, success will come. >> says the teach. >> says the teach. those are my principles. >> reporter: so, i know you are out of the allotment of food stamps, and will you allow cnn to pay for your groceries today? >> we appreciate cnn so very much. here we go. although survival is a hard

lesson for the taylors. >> i pay my bills and i may have $150 left out of the month, and it is very difficult. >> reporter: difficult, but yet not impossible with his boys who help teach keep count and offer him inspiration. >> reporter: how much do you love these boys? >> words cannot say. they are my life. those are my boys, my babies and my only request is for them to be able to self-sufficient one day. >> epsilon, thanks for letting us tag along and by the way, he says he is nervous for christmas shopping and the boys want laptops, but he can't swing it this year. coming up, are we looking for another shutdown with regard to the government? >> listen, no threat of the government shutdown. let's just get this out there. >> the house passes a temporary federal spending bill, but the senate rejects it. can anything be done to avoid some sort of shutdown? we will get a live report on that. and could it be that albert

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okay. so before we talk politics, i have to say thank you, because so many have sent me tweets within seconds of that piece airing about epsilon and his sons buying groceries and clipping coupons and i have one tweet that says that how can i

get laptops to the boys? i knew that the viewers would come through. i will get you that information stat. and coming up with dan lothian at the white house. dan, it looks like the government, and we will call it a shutdown showdown getting heated, huh? >> well, that is right. it seems like we were just hear earlier in the year and the threat of the shutdown and now an impasse and both chambers have to come to some sort of agreement, but while you have the house that did pass its version, the senate has rejected it, and of course, the senate which is led by the democrats hoping to pass its version on monday. meanwhile, both sides are pointing finger e ers at each o >> this is why the people don't like washington. we have got the money in the bill. it is there in a responsible manner and get the money to the people who need it. >> the emotions are running high this week, because these are important issues. that is why i'm calling on my

colleagues, senor to mcconnell, speaker boehner, to take the weekend and work with us, cool off, and let us work together to find common ground. >> reporter: one of the sticking points in the house version is that they want $1 billion in disaster funding to be offset with cuts of $1.5 billion to a loan program for automakers during the an off camera briefing today with reporters white house spokesman jay carney said that he is confident that it will be resolved and he said that the republicans should not play politics this with, brooke. >> dan lothian, thank you very much. and up next, a neurologist studying boxing long-term consequences finds that the boxing can impact the brain. and now here is soledad o'brien with her special called "latino two, in the corner." >> this is showing atrophy or

shrinkage probably from the boxing. >> reporter: this is a neurologist who specializes in brain rehabilitation at a hospital in new york. his patient is mike "the blade" barkley, and once the world middleweight champion. when you were at the height of your career, when was that? >> 1988. you know, when i fought thomas haerns. >> you won? >> i won. >> and after years in the ring, he came to dr. jordan. >> well, there is problems with chronic memory loss, and trouble with walking. >> reporter: he started tracking more than 300 retired boxers to measure the long-term effects of all of the punches. >> this is a scan of a boxer compared to a normal control and you can tell that the colors are

not as robust. this is another scan showing the fibers between a boxer and a normal control. >> reporter: oh, my gosh, the boxer is missing so much. >> that is one thing that you can see, the shrinkage or the atrophy of the brain. >> reporter: and he is hoping to help others. >> by understanding, this we may learn something about alzheimer's. >> reporter: he says that more comprehensive monitoring before and during fights could help to minimize the injuries. >> boxing is a dangerous sport and no way to make it 100% safe, but you can always make it safer. >> reporter: reporting for in america, soledad o'brien, cnn, new york. coming thup sundup this sun can hear more about dr. jordan's story when soledad introduces you to a latino boxer "latino in

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middle east leader center stage, and pakistan peeved with washington. space junk hurdling toward earth, and e may not equal mc squared and let's get to it. denise leavitt we want to begin with you. we know that mahmoud abbas went straight to the u.n. to ask that palstein be recognized as a state, and are the palestinians likely to be disappointed here? >> well, i think not yet, brooke. president abbas and clearly a victory for him with the palestinian people, and we saw the pictures all week of the celebrating in the streets of the palestinian people when he held up that piece of paper and said, i submitted my bid for palestinian statehood and does that mean it is going to happen? no. there is certainly a lot of negotiations going on and the united nations general assembly and the security council will be talking about this over the next several days and weeks, but he

can clearly claim a victory. what is going on right now is that the mideast quartet, the u.s., eu, russia and the united nations issued a framework, if you will for the eterms of negotiations of the israeli and the palestinians to get the palestinian president to backoff and start to negotiate with the israelis and the palestinians. >> what does this mean? >> well, it calls for clear time lines for the parties to get back to the table, and says that neither side could take provocative actions, and they don't say what that means really, but in essence it is tacit indication to israel not to build settlements, and settlement freeze while the negotiations are going on, and for the palestinians, they are urged to not take any moves into the international criminal court against israel should they go down the u.n. route and have a new legitimacy at the u.n. to do so. but in essence, brooke, it doesn't mean anything if the parties don't want to get back to the table. it is not like the big bad quartet can do anything here,

because it does not have any legal authority, and it is up to the parties to use this as the impetus to get back to the table, but they can't wanted it more than the parties want it themselves. >> perhaps a step in that direction. elise, thank you. and up next is barbara starr at the pentagon. barbara, talking pakistan, because the foreign minister is very, very upset with the regards of the admiral mike mullen about the intel community? >> well, absolutely. pakistan and the u.s. are supposed to be some of the closest allies in the war of terror, but now three days in a row both sides throwing darts at each other and then some. today, a top u.s. military official said that pakistan's support for the haqqani network, and the pakistan intelligence network, and the haqqani network, that pakistan is directly supporting them with intelligence at the highest level, and this is quite a

statement following admiral mike mullen saying that the isi is a veritable arm of the haqqani network and that is with a response from mullen's counter part from pakistan, and he said the remarks were disturbing and he had a meeting with admiral mullen to talk about it, but the u.s. is not backing down. leon panetta says that the attacks by the haqqanis and the support by the pakistani government is not tolerable. >> thank you, barbara starr. next for political roulette, we go over seas to find out about the speed of light, and particles that are faster, and talk to us about this. >> well, there is a bedrock principle in physics nothing can travel faster than light, and that is the whole point of

einstein's theory of relatively. everything in physics is built on it. until now. you see the scientists in switerland shot a particle beam to italy and 2.4 milliseconds which is how long it should take for a beam of light to cover that distance, but in fact, what scientists found is that kn neutrinos with no mass were actually able to arrive faster. you might think it happened once, but in fact, they repeated the experiment 15,000 times, and that is why the scientists are now publishing the results and asking for help from the scientific community saying, can this be duplicated in another lab? can we show what is happening? otherwise, this completely upends physics as we know it, brooke. >> thank you. finally on the reporter roulette, we go the chad meyers who is watching the path of a 6

tons of satellite tumbling toward earth and we know that we, in north america, are in the strike zone and do we know the when and the where? >> we are in the strike zone and it is slower to fall than nasa thought. it is over chile and heading into brazil and then in an hour the path is over peru, and then an hour and a half later over honduras and then an hour and half later over mexico and the u.s. so if it decides to fall out of the sky here and make a descent into the mexico or u.s., we could have debris here or an hour and a half later with si 8:00 local time here could make some splash downs here in the pacific or even possibly on to land. there it is right now. it is moving very fast, and 17,471 miles per hour, and it is still 100 miles high. when it gets down to about 80 miles high, that is when its fate will be sealed, and it will be falling into the ocean or to maybe some land. >> its fate.

quickly -- the probability of it actually hitting you, one in -- multiple trillions? >> trillions. because it is 32 to 1 to hit anyone and multiply that times 6.5 billion of the number of the people on the planet, and that is where the number comes from. trillions. >> thank you, chad. a missing moon rock is found. >> we think that it's been in storage for probably 30 years sitting there perfectly safe, and it is in perfectly good shape, and we are just delighted that it is back. it belongs to the state. >> you know, you have a moon rock and you chuck it in the storage, right? well, we will tell you which former president had it there, and that is next. joe johns is going to join me for the political pop, but first, you know, you ask, i answer, and angie, sorry, roll the tape. week winddown. >> reporter: a lot of people ask what is the coolest part of working at cnn and the answer is, i love my job, because i

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i know i love music and joe johns loves music and big kurt cobain fan in the '90s and we had to ask the control room to share some teen spirit with us today, but it is 20 years ago tomorrow when "nevermind" came out, and makes agen-xer sound ol old. >> yes, and it makes you want to lose your hair according to my barber. >> and it was months ago, but the president is scheduled to get props over the weekend and explain for us? >> well, president reagan is basically getting the coin flip dedicated to him -- >> what! >> when the refs come out and flip the coin to see who is going to kick and who is golg to

-- going to receive? well, at a bunch of college and high school football games they will flip a ronald reagan commemorative coin, and it started at the southern california university last weekend and should spread around the weekend, and big memories for ronald reagan. >> we know he was not a actual football star, but played one in the movies. >> eureka college. we hear he that he did play in eureka college, and was a big football announcer, but his big connection was in the movies. here is the appearance in the film "knute rockne, all american." >> i don't want to disturb you, gip, or bore you. >> i have nothing else to do. >> maybe i can fix that for you. would you like to play? >> well, i have been sort of n wondering why you gave me this

uniform. >> well, it is a throwback to the scrubs. >> i don't know the signals yet. >> i give you the ball, and you just run with it. >> how far? >> you don't have to worry about that. >> so young. >> yes, and there you go, it certainly was a young ronald reagan and also that movie had one of the most famous lines in cine cinema "tell them to go out there with all they've got and win one for the gipper." and that line was associated with reagan all of his life. >> and speaking of football, joe. we have to talk about the bears. the '85 bears are going to the white house. >> believe it. if you are a football fan and you probably remember the incredible season in 1985 when they won the super bowl and only lost one game that year. and only time they won the super bowl, and they were to go to the white house to meet none other than ronald reagan who at the time i mentioned that he played college football in illinois, but the visit to the white house

got cancelled due to the news, the explosion of the space shuttle "challenger," and the national period of mourning that followed, so now, there is another guy with strong illinois ties, and somebody decided to put the '85 bears back on the visitor list for their trip to the white house and it is coming up on october 7th, and even mike ditka is coming, and he is a big republican or he used to be. >> i would love for you to get back into the white house and get some political pop that day, and note the self. quickly, moon rock and the president. what's the story? >> how do you misplace a moon rock in the first place, and end up in the former governor's stuff? sounds like a scene from "x-files" or something. this is a rock brought back from the moon and the apollo 17 mission, and given to the state of arkansas three decades ago, but apparently an archivist in little rock was going through president bill clinton's papers and found the rock sitting

there, and yes, the moon rock found in little rock is a very little rock. sorry. it weighs less than an ounce and a half. >> was that supposed to be a joke? >> i just had to say it. it is just an ounce and a half. >> i know. we will let it go. joe johns, have a fabulous weekend, and na was a great political pop for this fridayment earlier in the week, we talked to you about the government outrage over the $60 a pop muffins served at the justice department conference paid for by your tax dollar, and the report sparked an audit and it term eed wasteful or extravagant spending at the hotel. and now the hotel is firing back. i want to quote the hilton hotel, the contracted breakfast was fresh fruit, coffee, juice, and muffins plus tax and

gratuity was all for an inclusive price of $16. and we contacted the state department, and they say, yes, each muffin did cost $16 apiece. >> who used this incident as a pretext to attack afghanistan and iraq killing, injuring and displacing millions in two countries with the ultimate goal of taking to the domination, the middle east and its oil resources. >> that is the voice of the -- translated voice of iran iian president mahmoud am din squad saying that the 9/11 attacks were staged, and what else did he tell wolf blitzer when they sat down? we will ask wolf next. good point. ( captain ) this is your captain speaking. annie gets to be the princess. oh... but she has to kiss a boy. and he's dressed up like a big green frog ! ewww. ( announcer ) fly without putting your life on pause.

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"the situation room" with wolf blitzer is coming up in a matter of minutes. with go the wolf with another huge interview, and you talked to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu and how was that? what did he say? >> well, it was good. we had three main subjects that we discussed and we will air it in "the situation room" today, brooke. we went through the whole peace process and why shouldn't israel make another gesture to the palestinians and free settlements and allow the peace negotiations to resume which is the condition that the president of the palestinian authority has asserted. and that the palestinian will assert negotiations with the israelis if that is allowed, and we get into that exchange. and also, has he thrown israel under the bus which is what mitt romney, the presidential candidate, and rick perry, and

especially if you listen to the debate last night, they are suggesting that the president is not a friend of israel, and the prime minister has strong words on that subject as well, and the viewers will be interested, also, about the deputy speaker of the israeli parliament coming to new york this week and appearing together with rick perry, and was that appropriate? inappropriate? we discussed that. finally we get through a whole long thing of iran, and if the iran is building a nuclear bomb and if it is, will israel do to them what they did to syria's nuclear program only a few years ago, and is the u.s. and are the israelis and the u.s. i should say on the same page when it comes to iran and its nuclear ambitions? we will get through all of that as well. here is the question, brooke, have i given you enough to tease the interview and make you want to stay and watch the show? >> amazing interviews all week long. of course. >> bill clinton, mahmoud am din

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we are on the case today with criminal case attorney who is a spokesperson also for amanda knox, and nice to see you and glad to have you on the show. >> nice to see you. >> and we are going to talk about the disappearance of a utah mother, and now the police have arrested her father-in-law who by the way we just learned has been arraigned on the child porn and voyeurism charges, and susan powell's husband claims he took the children on the midnight camping trip and freezing, freezing cold the night she disp appear a -- disappeared, and here is the arraign me arraignment here, but they came over pornographic video in his

home, and this is coming from pierce washington, and you represent susan powell who is on one of the tapes that was videotaped without her knowledge? is that to your knowledge? >> well, it is stunning to everybody and the family and anyone who has been following the case. we have learned that they have lifted 1% of what is on to computer lifted by the father-in-law, and yes, there are images that my client's daughter is not only on there, but it appears that the films or pictures were taken without her knowledge, and of course, without her consent, and they were of intimate parts of her body. >> with regard to her parents, and they went to court today to try to get custody of the two boys, and do we know how the hearing wentb? >> yes. we have had two court hearings this morning and one is a tro which ki talk about and the other is on the custody issue of the boys. the boys were taken into

protective custody ti child protective service and in foster care on a temporary protective hold, and the hearing was to get temporary custody and it is going to be further heard this coming wednesday and josh powell was there, and we will see what the courts do, but they are not in the home for their own protection, and that is good news for my clients. >> and this is the case in which her husband is the only person of interest thus far, is that correct? >> yes. they have called him the only person of interest for the past 21-plus months. they have conducted a number of searches in connection with that in nevada and utah and washington state. >> okay. anne bremner, thank you for doing "on the case" today on this friday. and thank you for watching. we hop you have a wonderful weekend and i want to turn it over for my colleague wolf blitzer day five on the road covering the world leaders. wolf, "the situation roo