>> shannon: this a fox news alert. a person has been killed in a monorail accident at walt disney world in orlando. it is the bottom of the hour. caroline shively is standing by with the top of the news. >> orange county sheriff's deputies are trying to find out why two monorail trains collided this morning, killing one operator. walt disney executives issued a

statement expressing condolences to the driver's family. the transit system which shuttles thousands of visitors around the sprawling resort each day has been shut down. police in nashville are still trying to figure out how former nfl quarterback steve mcnair and a 20-year-old woman were killed in his downtown apartment today. authorities will not say who they think is to blame but they are not looking for any suspects. authorities in south carolina now believe a teenaged girl and her father could be the latest victims of a serial killer terrorizing the area. they were shot in their family owned furniture and appliance store last week. the father was killed at the store and his daughter was taken to the hospital where she later died. police believe the murders are connected to others in the state but have not revealed the link. >> shannon: all right. and for all of your tennis fans out there, we are getting word that it is over at wimbledon.

roger federer has beaten andy roddick for the title. this gives federer a record 15 grand slam titles, go. sampras was there to see federer beat his record. federer edged out roddick after a hard fought fifth set that lasted 30 games. an unusually long set for any tennis match. independence day is becoming tax independence day for demonstrators around the country. it was round two for tea parties around the country protesting higher taxes, government pork and all the bailouts. in texas, two symbols of the antitax movement spoke at a rally near san antonio. and taxes and tea parties always a hot topic of debate at the fox nation. check out videos from a times square tea party. yes, they had one in new york

city. sound off on the tax debate as well. jack posted tea parties are part of what we the people can do to get our country on track. get involved in our local government from states to country. if you don't know who your representatives are, do your homework and find out. contact them and let them know your conservative vow points. it is going to be an uphill battle and maybe it will slow down government and make them think before they act. to join in the discussion and check out all the hottest video, just go to the fox nation.com. well, fans of michael jackson who had hoped to attend a memorial service on tuesday will soon find out if they won the ticket lottery. casey stegall is live with the latest and i understand they are already showing up there where you are. >> some people wearing gold lamay and white gloves. no doubt that is expected to be the scene here as we get closer

to the memorial. ten days since michael jackson's death and there is still a lot going on. while the memorial is going on, investigators still working to get to the bottom of what killed the king of pop and there are two court battles going. one over who gets custody of his three children and the other who gets control of his estate. tomorrow a judge is expected to rule on who gets temporary custody of the estate valued at more than 500 million bucks. we are still waiting on the toxicology reports to see what prescriptions jackson was on and if they killed him. the dea also interviewing all of his doctors and the state attorney general is involved in this investigation as well. meantime, scalpers hoping to make a quick buck are already posting ads on sites like ebay and craigslist, some offering up to $5,000 for tickets. the organizers of jackson's memorial say there is really no way to control what people decide to do with the second ticket because remember each

winner gets two. aeg hoping people will not want to attend the event alone so officials have is set up where they cannot sell both tickets because the winners have to pick up everything in person and a wrist band will be placed on their arm the the time. as far as the logistics of the planning here in downtown l.a., roughly 27 acres of downtown closed off on tuesday. streets all around the staples center will be shut down. about 5,000 people work in downtown l.a. so this will be a big mess. you can't have access to the area without a wrist band so it is going to be interesting to see as it july unfolds shannon. >> you will be there and we will tune in for your updated reports. thanks. speculation swirling as to the future of alaska governor sarah palin following her surprise resignation announcement on friday.

on her facebook page palin hinted at a possible future role in politics and said she is looking ahead to how we can advance the country together with less government intervention, greater energy independence, stronger national security and much needed fiscal restraint. chris wallace hosts a discussion on the future of sarah palin today on orpheus sunday with the lieutenant governor of alaska as well as karl rove and mike huckabee. tune in today at 2:00 and 6:00 eastern time right here on the fox news channel. well, democrats are hoping for a quick confirmation but could the recent republican outrage over what they call sonia sotomayor's reverse job discrimination derail her nomination. tom joins us now. thanks for coming in today. >> thank you, shannon. >> shannon: a lot of press that she was involved with the white firefighters out new haven, connecticut. the city was worried that other minority candidates hadn't done

as well. they won at the pree supreme c, overturning sotomayor's decision. will that be enough to give her a major bump in the road? >> hard to see this decision derailing the sotomayor nomination. clearly the supreme court said she was wrong and decided by a 5-4 margin. there were four justices that more or less agreed with what judge sotomayor said. it as worry some decision and troubling from a conservative perspective but the supreme court said she was wrong. i will imagine they will ask her about that in the confirmation hearing. >> shannon: we got word that 71 new documents had been sent in. i spent friday afternoon and evening going through those from the puerto rican legal defense and education fund. a lot of people think that is a conservative group and they were involved in a number of cases that involved discrimination issues and actually trying to help the

minority candidates and were trying to force affirmative action quotas and other things. she was a member of the group at that time and also heading up the litigation department in the '80s with the organization. do you about think ties to that group will hurt her at all in a major way? >> we haven't seen anything that she is anything other than as advertised. no question she has a liberal political view on discrimination and affirmative action. i don't think there will be a dramatic shift in public opinion based on the new documents. at the same time, i think that the senate will ask about it. judge sotomayor has a long track record both as a judge and as we are findion out now as a litigator as well. >> shannon: used to be when a nominee would come up in the hearings in the senate it was all about abortion, that was the number one, roe v. wade. senators said they asked about that but a lot of folks are saying gun rights and the

second amendment are the new roe v. wade. a case that she was involved in at the second circuit, the maloney case in which she held that states can ban ownership of certain guns and weapons could land there when she is on the bench if confirm. >> a lot of people will be focused on the second amendment issue. there are other cases right now, in the lower courts and per collating up to the supreme court. look at the five, six, seven major issues of constitutional law, second amendment, gun control, gun rights definitely at the top of the list. >> shannon: and republicans saying still so much they don't know with the documents coming in. that will le their line that this is going too quickly. >> the democrats are fast tracking this. no question. they scheduled a hearing to begin a week from monday. that is particularly fast given

the volume of documents that we have seen so i can tell you there are a lot of folks on capitol hill and elsewhere spending a lot of time like you have going through the sotomayor paper trail, trying to find decisions, legal briefs, speeches, really anything that gives insight into how justice sotomayor would think about and interpret the constitution. >> not much of a fourth of july for the staffers, i'm sure they were knee deep in paper work. former president bush was a huge draw for residents at the let freedom ring 2009 festivities. he expressed gratitude for the invitation and joked about how this year was different from past holidays spent at the white house and how his wife laura is helping him to ajust to civilian life. >> she says yeah, you are free to take out the garbage and free to mow the lawn.

i said wait a minute you're talking to the former president and she said consider that your new toe mes domestic policy ag. 20-year-old actor rupert grant known as ron weasley of harry potter caught the swine flu filming in the latest series. he is expected to be well enough to attend the film's london premier on tuesday. d.c.'s former mayor marion barry has been arrested. it is always drama with marion barry and we will tell you the latest that is going on this time, up next. . unlock an outdoor dreamland for your indoor cat. exciting flavor combinations, plus a touch of garden greens

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the wimbledon men ms title. a record 15 titles, surplussing the old record of 14 held by pete sampras. two monorail trains have collided early this morning at disney world in orlando. one drivinger is dead and the other was taken to the hospital. five guests and two employees were also on board the trains at the time but none of them were injured. it is not clear yet what caused the accident. walt disney world issued a statement offering condolences to the victim's family. the 15 miles of track connect the magic kingdom to epcot and the rest of the theme park. in 1991 a train collided with a maintenance vehicle but no one was seriously injured in the earlier accident. marion barry arrested again. this time, no surveillance video has surfaced yet that we know of anyway. laura ingle has the latest. >> we will be getting more details about what happened

last night in just a few minutes at least his account. marion barry's press secretary called a news conference at wilson building in washington, d.c. to give a statement about her boss' arrest and the misdemeanor charge of stalking he picked up last night. it happened less than 30 minutes before the big fireworks show was set to begin in the nation's capital. i spoke with park officials who told me that a woman in a car flagged down a parked police officer on patrol and claimd that a man in another car was stalking her. the arresting officer at first didn't know that the man they were questioning was the fourth term mayor who has been in trouble with the law before. after questioning the woman and barry they placed him under arrest and charged him with misdemeanor stalking. we will find out more about that soon. barry has had several legal runins. the most high profile when politician was busted in a 1990

cocaine sting during an fbi sting. it brought o the former mayor six months in prison. he was reelected to mayor in 1994 for a four year term as mayor after that. he was also arrested in 2002 when traces of pot and cocaine were found in his car during a traffic stop. no charges were filed there. he claimed that he was set up. in 2004 he won a seat on the d.c. council where he continues to serve. we are waiting for word from his press secretary to hear his side of the story. we will let you know what comes of that. >> shannon: sarah palin will give up her title as governor of alaska at the end of this month. what is her move? we're going to break it down, coming up. i'm zina shannon in guantanamo bay. i would like to say happy independence day to my mom betsy jones and my son and all my family in san diego and

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and get up to 33% more loads from a single bottle. first things first as governor i love my job and i love, alaska. and it hurts to make this choice but i'm doing what is best for alaska and i have explained why so i think as the saying on my parent's refrigerator, a little manager net that says don't explain you don't need it for your friends and your enemies won't believe it anyway. >> what is behind the decision and what does all t mean. republican strategist doug and

democratic strategist. >> a late fridayafter noon going into a holiday weekend. what do you make of this? she seems too really like to do her own thing. >> it difficult. a bizarrely scheduled press conference. i think that look when you have 60% of the public saying that you are not qualified for higher office you can no way help your cause if you are interested in running for president by quitting. i think there had to be something else that was going on. either an ethics scandal that was brewing or figured that she was at her high water mark politically and wanted the sent pursuingoney and is porting that. >> she beat most of the ethics charges. >> a concern a lot of people have because of the timing of the announcement, july fourth weekend, late afternoon, the friday before and the hasty way it was all put together that is a question that a lot of people

have. i would agree with julian, i was watching a few hours after her speech. i was watching the odd couple and felix said quitters never win and winners never witt. >> she talked in her speech about quitting and said that that, you know, is not her take on what this is although a lot of people say you walk away from 18 months left in your term as governor, you know, i got to imagine any kind of candidate that comes up against her in the future is going to try to use that to their advantage that she doesn't finish and get the job done. >> i came to the studio with a friend who played semi professional basketball and he says a point guard will pass the ball but never gets into the grandstand so the metaphor was a bizarre metaphor. i think the idea and i would agree with doug, john edwards quit the senate, bob dole, gary hart, all quit the senate when they wanted to run for senate. you don't advance your case

very well by saying i can't take the heat i'm getting out. it is not that strong. again, i think she is probably a lot smarter than many of us give us credit for. i think she figured out that she is not electable as president or another vice presidential run and figuring out another role for herself. i think in that sense that is the only way in which you can actually make sense out of this decision. >> how does this affect the gop as a whole. a rough couple of weeks with senator enson and governor sanford and she is another one of their stars that seems to be doing something that a lot of us can't understand. >> for a minority party we find ways to stay in the news whether we want to or not. >> top of the headlines. >> congress will be back in session and john boehner and eric cantor and when they are having meetings they are not going to say what are we going to do next because sarah palin is no longer governor of a state that is very far away.

the party will move on and she will be a part of that debate upcoming but we don't know which way. >> i think this is good for the republican party because i think this makes her less and less of a viable candidate for president. i don't think she was ever electable. makes room for other republican presidential candidates. a guy that i really fear as a republican nominee is a guy by the name of john thune. could easily be a guy that could just catch fire. there are candidates like this not getting a lot of attention because sarah palin sucks away some of the oxygen. for a democrat, we would love to see her in the news and as a nominee. this takes her out of the game. >> yes or no, does she run in 2012? >> absolutely no. >> doug? >> given the nature of it, i can't give a yes or no. stay tuned. she will make news over the next two years. >> i wish the answer was, yes.

>> you may disagree even that. thank you very much. the washington post says i'm sorry to its readers but is it too little too late? details right after this break.

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former nfl quarterback steve mcnair and a woman were found dead in his apartment yesterday. they say the former mvp had multiple gunshot wounds and the woman died of a single shot to the head. not clear what caused a deadly monorail accident at disney world in orlando. one driver was kill weld two monorail trains collided early this morning. five guests and two employees were also onboard the train but none were injured. authorities in wisconsin are searching for a convicted murderer. 29-year-old eric adam ran right out the doors of the carl correctional center on friday. president obama set to land in russia tonight. his first trip to the former cold war adversary. they say they want to repair a damaged relationship. also on the agenda, ironing out a deal to cut cold war arsenals of nuclear weapons. obama will also be stopping in

italy and gana during the overseas trip. the publisher of the washington post is apologizing for her paper's offer to give lobbyists off-the-record access to officials. she says "it is my job to ensure that we adhere to standards consistent with our integrity as a news organization" last week i let you and the organization down. she also went on to say we all make mistakes and hope to be forgiven for them. town officials now say a pedestrian bridge in indiana was twice its capacity when it collapsed. it happened last night at a fourth of july celebration in merrillville, indiana. the 90-foot wooden suspension bridge full of people gave way and collapsed right into a lake. witnesses say they heard two snaps and then everyone went into the water. 16 people were injured. swiss tennis star roger federer has broken pete

sampras' long-term record for the most grand slam wins in a career. federer edged out roddick after a hard fought set that lasted 30 games, far longer than most sets. and yesterday, serena williams beat venus williams for the wimbledon title. serena's first win there in six years. >> we will be monitoring a 2:00 press conference. >> that is all for us in washington. "fox news sunday" is up next. be sure to tune in for governo