police may release audio tape evidence of the arrest of henry louis gates and the original 911 call may be just the beginning. u.s. troops invading upstate new york? why former vice president cheney wanted to send soldiers to buffalo back in 2002. a massive corruption bust in new jersey lifts the lid on a grizzly and lou accurative world. surfers come out in force when the coast gets 20-foot high waves but there's danger. oh, you made it to the weekend. this is hln. i'm natasha curry.

thank you for joining us. the furor isn't dying down yet. president obama spoke about the arrest of his friend harvard professor henry louis gates jr. by cambridge sergeant james crowley. cambridge police officials may release audio tape evidence in the case and that could include the original 911 call and officer radio calls by cops who arrested gates last week for disorderly conduct. gates was arrested outside his home after a 911 call of a possible break-in. he says he proved his identity to officers and the dust-up leading to his arrest in his own home was racial profiling. the arresting officer sergeant james crowley says he did nothing wrong and was surprised when president obama said the police acted stupidly. fast forward to friday. president obama made a surprise appearance at the daily white house briefing yesterday. in the attempt to diffuse the situation. he said he spoke to both gates

and crowley and invited them to the white house for a meeting and while giving the impression that he was -- he did not apologize. >> as a consequence of this event, this ends up being what's called a teachable moment where all of us instead of bumping up the volume spend a little more time listening to each other and try to focus on how we can generally improve relations between police officers and minority communities and that instead of flinging accusations we can all be a little more reflective in terms of what we can do to contribute to more unity. >> the president added that both gates and the officer probably overreacted. all charges against gates have been dropped. a single engine plane has down in oklahoma city here. koco says it went down in front of a bank of oklahoma.

it says five people who were on the plane were taken to the hospital with critical injuries. we're not hearing about injuries on the ground. there may be a new lead in the search for suspects wanted in the shooting death of a border patrol agent. "the los angeles times" reports an injured man was arrested in mexico near the crime scene with a border patrol-issued weapon. they're looking for at least two suspects and they think one of them was hurt in the incident. that left agent robert rosa dead there and killed while responding to a suspected illegal border crossing in san diego county thursday night. the fbi is offering a reward for information leading to an arrest. rosas was the first agent to die in a shooting many more than ten years. alaska governor sarah palin leaves office tomorrow. she gave one of her last speeches as governor yesterday at a picnic in her hometown of wasilla. about 1,000 people showed up. >> from the bottom of my heart

and especially this being my last time to speak to the valley community as your governor, i do want to tell you sincerely that i love you. i appreciate you and your support. the support that you have shown my family. god bless you and god bless america. >> palin once served as mayor of wasilla and hold a second picnic today in anchorage and a third tomorrow officially leaving office and lieutenant governor parnell looks over as governor. president obama is making a new pitch for health care reform and it focuses on small business owners. he cites a new white house study suggesting small businesses pay more per employee than larger companies. in the weekly radio and internet address, he called that unacceptable and says that will change when he signs health care reform into law. >> after a lot of hard work in congress, we are closer than ever before to finally passing reform that will reduce costs,

expand coverage and provide more choices for our families and businesses. it's taken months to reach this point aens once this legislation passes, we'll have to move to implement the reforms over a period of several years. that's why i feel such a sense of urgency about moving this process forward. >> the big question is will health care reform reach the president's desk any time soon? house democrats are split on the current version and so-called blue dog republicans and democrats have enough votes to keep the current version from passing but house leaders say they expect to pass a bill by the fall. cash-strapped california finally passes a new budget. the california state legislature voted to splash state programs and shuffle money around to close a $25 billion budget gap. things have gone so bad here the state is issuing ious. lawmaker s wrapped up a maratho

session yesterday. afterward governor arnold schwarzenegger says all californians will feel the pain. >> i know that college students will pay now higher tuitions. i know that teachers will be laid off. and i know that our state workers will get less money but we have to do that. it's only way to solve the problem and to save our great state. and the only way to do it is to spread the sacrifice. >> when asked if the budget would be a long-term fix, one lawmaker said, quote, i have no way of knowing. there is still a $1.1 billion shortfall but governor schwarzenegger says he can make up with that with cuts he can make without approval. george w. bush ultimately rejected using u.s. troops to arrest terror suspects in buffalo, new york. "the new york times" reports former vice president dick cheney openly supported using the military to arrest members of the so-called lackawanna 6.

others opposed the idea, including condoleezza rice who's been the national security adviser. "the times" are sources are former officials that don't want to be identified. the five people arrested in the buffalo area were accused of conspireing with al qaeda. they eventually pled guilty to terrorism-related charges. the violence raging across afghanistan shows no sign of stopping. today in the city of khost, taliban fighters wearing suicide vests stormed a number of government buildings. some blew themselves up. others were killed in gun battles. seven were killed, four others were hurt. a british soldier was killed by a roadside bomb. u.s. and british troops have stepped up offenses in southern afghanistan. july is now the deadliest month of the nearly eight-year war. at least 66 coalition troops have died. a new jersey corruption probe that busted 44 people

included politicians and religious leaders but one of the more shocking allegations surround this man here who allegedly tried to broker the sale of a human kidney on the black market.

we are beginning to see the consequences of the new jersey corruption scandal. it may be threatening john corzine's reelection bid even though he's not implicated. the "the new york times" reports some of the top democratic lawmakers discussed replacing corzine on the ballot. he did ask for and get the resignation of the community affairs commissioner whose home and offices was raided by fbi agents in thursday's sweep. corzine's already trailing gop challenger chris christie in early polls. christie is running on a campaign promise to clean up the culture of corruption. 44 people were arrested in thursday's bust.

including three new jersey mayors. arguably, the most shocking part of the bust are the allegations that one of the suspects tried to broker the sale of human kidneys. mary snow has details on that part of the investigation. >> reporter: among the dozens arrested in a wide-ranging corruption probe, prosecutors call this man the kidney salesman. levy rosen balm faces charges of being a human broker. he offered to obtain a kidney for an agent and informant explaining i am what you call a matchmaker. >> his business was to entice vulnerable people to give up a kidney for $10,000 which he in turn would turn around and sell for $160,000. >> reporter: about his business the complaint quotes rosen balm saying i'm doing this a long time. let me explain to you one thing. it's illegal to buy or sell or

c begans. we reached out to an attorney representing rosenbaum explaining he wanted to review the charges in the case before speaking. while officials would only say the probe is continuing, an anthropologist director of the group organ watches says she met with the fbi in 2002 to pass on information about rosenbaum saying the meeting involved a much wider global investigation into trafficking of human organs. she also says she witnessed poorer people in yeern europe recruited to sell organs. >> they got so little money, $2,000, $2,500. they felt abused. they felt that they were living cadavers. nobody cared about them. they chopped them up and then after a day or two in a hospital sent home. >> reporter: we asked the fbi about nancy shepard going to them in 2002. she says the fbi contacted her again in recent days. the fbi declined comment saying

it cannot discuss sources or citizens who come forward to lend assistance. mary snow, cnn, new york. the hubble telescope captured an image of a mysterious new dark spot on jupit jupiter. the first science observation since it was upgraded in may. scientists believe the mark was probably the result of a small comet or an asteroid colliding with the planet monday. nasa scientists are still calibrating the new camera and had not planned to start using it until late this summer but they put it back into action for one day just to capture this rare occurrence. the mother of the octuplets signed a contract to star in a reality tv show with her kids. each of nadia suleman's 14 children get $250 a day during the films. that means her family will get a $250,000 over 3 years. suleman signed with a european

company that made "the biggest loser." the judge has to approve the deal but if it happens, filming is expected to start in september. suleman gave birth to the world's longest surviving octuplets in january. when jordan thomas was 16, he lost both of his legs in a terrible accident but led him to help others who couldn't afford the kind of treatment he was able to receive. brooke baldwin has an inspiring story that may move you to impact your world. >> reporter: jordan thomas plays a serious golf game. it is par for the course for this talented athlete who spent his childhood excelling in sports, even on family vacations. four years ago, in the florida keys, the family's annual boating trip went terribly wrong. >> a wave pushed me behind the boat and i remember hearing -- being underneath the boat and i nigh knew what had happened. >> reporter: slashing the legs.

jordan spent two weeks in a miami hospital undergoing multiple surgeries. but while recovering, he visited a wing where children who lost limbs were being treated but they couldn't afford expensive prostettics. >> a lot of insurance companies put a $5,000 cap on the legs and like i said mine are $22,000. $17,000. what do you do? >> reporter: at age 15, she started the jordan thomas foundation getting kids the prostettics they need. they have raising $350,000 paying for 3 children. one of them, 6-year-old noah pardon. his parents primary insurance funded the first prostettic leg but it had no knee. and since noah was a growing boy, he needed more frequent upgrades that insurance didn't cover so jordan's foundation did. >> you can do this.

watch. >> reporter: as for jordan, he is driving home the message that anything is possible. brooke baldwin, cnn, chattanooga, tennessee. >> for more on jordan thomas and his dpoun dags, go to cnn.com/impact for resources that will help you impact your world.

ousted honduran president made good on a move he promised after a cue removed him from power. he crossed the border and returned to honduras yesterday afternoon. it was a brief visit. he spent a few minutes over the border crossing before retreating. he was surrounded by supporters and reporters. police were nearly to arrest him if he went any further. supporters gathered in a city near the point where he crossed into honduras. police fired on that crowd and a cnn correspondent says two people were wounded. secretary of state hillary clinton called the trip reckless. people who live near daytona beach got quite the scare from a sudden tornado. it hit three mobile home parks here in port orange, florida, last night. the tornado ripped roofs off the homes and scattered a bunch of debris. seven homes are destroyed and 163 homes damaged.

a minor injury was reported. lily the five-legged chihuahua has a normal member of paws. a north carolina woman paid the former owner $4,000 to make sure lily wasn't an exhibit. then she footed the bill to have a vet remove the extra leg. a coney island freak show owner wanted to buy lily and put down a $1,000 deposit. the north carolina woman' bid won out and the drama is not over yet. the side show owner says he had dibs and may sue to get lily back. i'm reynolds wolf for hln. a chance of stormy weather in the ohio valley and into the midwest. and here's the culprit. we have a lot of moist air from the gulf of mexico clashing with the frontal boundary and as you make your way further back out to the west and montana, even into idaho, we could see a chance of severe storms late in the day.

the biggest threat from this possibly large hail and maybe damaging winds. further to the south across the four corners, we could see scattered showers. mixture of sunshine and clouds and then into texas the big story is heat and plenty of it with high temperatures right back into the triple digits. dallas 101 expected high. 96 in houston. coupled with the high humidity, feels warmer. 92 in memphis and washington, d.c. 86 in new york. 89 in miami. tampa with 91 degrees and back into denver, 78 degrees. 91 in salt lake city and cooler day for you in vegas. all things considered with 98 degrees. 104 in phoenix. that is a look at your forecast across the nation. i'm reynolds wolf for hln. going once, going twice. sold! there's a new online auction site promising some great deals on brand name merchandise. hln money expert clark howard tells you how to get in on the

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cnn, headlines news, or msnbc are locked on your favorites? if they are i've got the gift for you. i'm gonna richardson and my next guest is ken pullson. a pleasure to have you here. >> good to be with you >> what is the museum. most people know. >> sometimes there you an a museum in articling ton, virginia called the museum. it was an effort to remind

americans of the value of news gathering in america and a nod to the first amendment. we did so well there so we decided to take it where the action is. we have a brand new museum called a the museum on pennsylvania avenue. it's a -- it's a 45 word sign out front with the words of the first amendment 'em blazed there. we think it's healthy for them to read that says congress shall make no law. we're attempting to put it in neon. >> it is flashing? >> it's not a tribute to journalists. we had a blogger say i'm not going to set foot in that museum until they do an extra special to copy editors. it is not about you. it is a museum of history but a

different kind that reports what happened over the last several centuries through the eyes of journalists. so you get contemporary coverage of the assassination of kennedy and arrival of the beatles and the civil war and fascinating >> exactly. what have the visitors reactions been for the first year? exciting. we see the full range of course. tremendous amount of school groups and a lot of tourists visiting washingt washingto was. we bill ourselves as the world's most interactive museum. young people can play the part of a reporter or an editor or a journalist. we can even stand up in front of what you and your business called blue screen, to tape a broadcast announcement for their friends and family and then send it out to friends at home. amazing exhibits there.

i well tell you, i can say this with some degree of humility. i just joined the museum in february, i've been the editor of u.s. a. today for the last five years. we have the largest piece of the berlin wall in north america. you can go there and see that and the guard tower in collaboration and partnership with the f.b. i.we celebrate their 100th anniversary and we have phenomenal artifacts. we have the unibomber's cabin believe it or not. and depending on your age, some of your viewers probably remember patty hurst and her tenure with the liberation army. we have the gun she used in the bank robbery and the leather jacket she wore. we have can coverage including

dillinger's death mask and the bullet pruf vest he zn wear on that night >> with you have so many different exhibits. what do you have planned for us your second year? >> one of the great things about working for a museum where news is in the title we're updating and reflect the headlines in the museum. not long ago when there was an uproar in iran we covered the social network and the twittering. when newspapers have collapsed and some markets we quickly reported that. upcoming exhibits include: throughout the next year you'll be able to see manhunt exhibit about the assassination of abraham lincoln and barack ob a obama. >> i'm so sorry. we've run out of time but

everyone has got and go and see the museum. >> thank you very much >> my guest has been ken pullson president of i'll clean the pool if you clean the windows. pick the windows, pick the windows! anything but the windows. deal. oh! new windex outdoor all-in-one... cleans outdoor glass fast. just spray with water, wipe with a windex cleaning pad, and rinse for a streak-free shine in half the time. you're done? she pulled a fast one! ( laughs ) new windex outdoor all-in-one. a streak-free shine in half the time. s.c. johnson, a family company.

police may release audio tape evidence of the arrest of harvard professor henry louis gates and the original 911 call may be just the beginning. u.s. troops invading upstate new york? why vice president cheney reportedly wanted to send soldiers to buffalo back in 2002. a massive corruption bust in new jersey lifts the lid on a grizzly and luke rative underworld. trafficking human organs. surfers come out in force when the california coast gets 20-foot high waves but among the spectacular surf is danger. you made it to the weekend. this is hln. thanks for joining us. the ferer have over the

policeman, the professor and the president isn't dying down yet. president obama spoke again of the arrest of his friend harvard professor henry louis gates jr. by sergeant james crowley. cambridge police officials may decide to release audio tape evidence in the case and could include the original 911 call an officer radio calls by cops who arrested gates last week. gates was arrested outside his home after a 911 call of a possible break-in. he says he proved his identity to officers and the dust-up leading to his arrest in his own home was racial profiling. the arresting officer, sergeant jamts crowley, says he did nothing wrong and surprised when president obama said the police acted stupidly. fast forward to friday. president obama made a surprise appearance at the daily white house briefing yesterday in an attempt to diffuse the situation. he said he spoke to both gaets and crowley, and invited them to

the white house for a meeting. and while he said he gave the impression he was minding the police department he did not apologize. >> as a consequence of this event, this ends up being what's called a teachable moment where all of us instead of pumping up the volume, spend a little more time listening to each other and try to focus on how we can generally improve relations between police officers and minority communities. and that instead of flinging accusations, we can all be a little more reflective in terms of what we can do to contribute to more unity. >> the president added that both gates and the officer probably overreacted. all charges against gates have been dropped. a single engine plane goes down in oklahoma city. take a look at the pictures. koco says the plane went down in front of a bank of oklahoma,

saying that five people were on the plane were taken to the hospital with critical injuries. we are not hearing about injuries on the ground. former president george w. bush reportedly considered but ultimately rejected using u.s. troops to arrest terror suspects in buffalo, new york. "the new york times" reports former vice president dick cheney openly supported using the military to arrest members of the so-called lackawanna 6. the report says other administration officials opposed the idea including condoleezza rice who is then the national security adviser. "the times" sources are former administration officials who don't want to be identified. the five people arrested in the buffalo area and the sixth in bahrain were accused of conspireing with al qaeda. they eventually pled guilty to terrorism-related charges. there may be a new lead in the search for suspects wanted in the shooting death of a border patrol agent. "the los angeles times" reports that an injured man was arrested

in mexico near the crime scene carrying a border patrol-issued weapon. investigators are looking for at least two suspects and they think one of them was hurt in the incident. that left agent robert rosas dead there. thursday night. the fbi is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. rosas was the first border patrol agent to die in a shooting more than ten years. alaska governor sarah palin leaves office tomorrow. she gave one of her last speeches as governor yesterday at a picnic in her hometown of wasilla. about 1,000 people showed up. >> from the bottom of my heart and especially this being my last time to speak to the valley community as your governor, i do want to tell you sincerely that i love you. i appreciate you and your support. the support that you have shown my family. god bless you and god bless america.

>> palin once served as mayor of wasilla. lieutenant governor shawn parnell will take over as governor. president obama is making a new pitch for health care reform and it focuses on small business owners. he cites a new white house study that suggests small businesses pay more per employee for health insurance than larger companies. in his weekly radio and internet address, he called that unacceptable and says that will change when he signs health care reform into law. >> after a lot of hard work in congress, we are closer than ever before to findly passing reform that will reduce costs, expand coverage and provide more choices for our families and businesses. it's taken months to reach this point and once this legislation passes, we'll need to move thoughtfully and deliberately to implement these reforms over a period of several years. that's why i feel such a sense

of urgency about moving this process forward. >> the big question is will health care reform reach the president's desk any time soon? house democrats are split on the current version and so-called blue dog democrats and republicans have enough votes to prevent the current version from passing but house leaders say they do expect to pass a bill by the fall. cash-strapped california finally passes a new budget. the california state legislature voted to slash state programs and shuffle money around to close a $25 billion budget gap. things have gotten so bad there that the state's been issuing io, us. lawmakers wrapped up a marathon 24-hour session to get the budget approved yesterday. afterward, governor arnold schwarzenegger said all californians will feel the pain. >> i know that college students will pay now higher tuitions. i know that teachers will be laid off. and i know that our state workers will get less money. but we have to do that. it's the only way to solve the

problem and to save our great state. and the only way to do it is to spread the sacrifice. >> when asked if the budget would be a long-term fix, one law enforcement said, quote, i have no way of knowing. there is still a $1.1 billion short fall but governor schwarzenegger says he can make up for that with cuts he has authority to make without approval. human rights supporters and dozens of cities worldwide are holding demonstrations today to protest iran's treatment of pro-democracy activists. it is the global day of action. groups including human rights watch and amnesty international are asking the united nations to investigate alleged human rights abuses in iran. and they're urging iranian authorities to release hundreds of people who were detained for protesting last month's reelection of president mahmoud ahmadinejad. the demonstrators say teheran must allow freedom of expression and assembly. this xwatherring in seoul is one of the smaller rallies.

larger ones in tokyo, london, brussels and throughout australia. the violence raging across afghanistan shows no sign of stopping. today in the city of khost taliban fighters wearing suicide vests stormed a number of government building. some blue themselves up. others were killed in a gun battle. seven militants died, four other people were hurt. also today, a british soldier was killed by a roadside bomb. u.s. and british troops have stepped up offenses against taliban targets in southern afghanistan. july is now the deadliest month of a nearly eight-year war. at least 66 coalition troops have died. a new jersey corruption troeb that busted 44 people had politicians and religious leaders but the shocking details is around this man.

we're beginning to see the consequences of the new jersey corruption scandal. may be threatening democratic governor john corzine reelection bid. even though he isn't implicated in any wrongdoing. "the new york times" reports some of the state's top democratic lawmakers have discussed replacing corzine on the ballot. corzine did ask for and get the rez egg nation of the community affairs commissioner whose home and offices were raided by fbi agents in thursday's sweep. corzine's already trailing gop challenger chris christie in early polls. chrisly is running on a campaign promise to clean up new jersey's culture of corruption. 44 people were arrested in thursday's bust including three new jersey mayors.

arguably the most shocking part of the bust are the allegations that one of the suspects tried to broker the sale of human kidneys. mary snow has details on that part of the investigation. >> reporter: among the dozens arrested in a wide-ranging corruption probe, prosecutors call this man the kidney salesman. levy izhak rosenbaum faces charges of acting as a human organ broker. a criminal complaint alleges rosenbaum offered to obtain a kidney for an undercover fbi agent and informant explaining i am what you call a matchmaker. >> his business was to entice vulnerable people to give up a kidney for $10,000 which he in turn would turn around and sell for $160,000. >> reporter: about his business the complaint quotes rosenbaum saying i'm doing this a long time. let me explain to you one thing. it's illegal to buy or sell organs. so you cannot buy it. what you do is you're giving me a compensation for the time.

we reached out to an attorney representing rosenbaum who declines comment saying he wanted to ve rue the charges before speaking. while officials only say the probe is continuing, an anthropologist at the university of california at berkeley and director of the group organ watch says she met with the fbi in 2002 to pass on information about rosenbaum. she said the meeting involved a much wider global investigation into trafficking of human organs. she also says she witnessed poorer people in urine europe recruited to sell organs. >> they got so little money, $2,000, $2,500. they felt abused, living cadavers. they chopped them up and then after a day or two in a hospital, were sent home. >> reporter: we asked the fbi about nancy shepard hughes going to them in 2002 and she says the fbi contacted her again in recent days. the fbi declined comment saying it cannot discuss sources or

citizens who come forward to lend assistance. mary snow, cnn, new york. the hubble telescope is captured an image of a mysterious new dark spot on jupiter. it's hubble's first science observation since astronauts repaired and upgraded it in may. scientists believe the mark on jupiter probably the result of a small comet or an asteroid colliding with the planet monday. they're calibrating the camera and had not planned to start using it until late this summer but decided to put it back into action for one day just to capture this rare occurrence. the mother of the octuplets sign add contract to star in a reality tv show with her kids. each of nadia suleman's children get $250 a day during a filming. that means her family will get $250,000 over 3 years. suleman signed with a european company that made "the biggest loser." a judge still has to approve the

dale but if that happens, filming is expected to start in september. suleman gave birth to the world's longest surviving octuplets in january. a business sure to fill you up in this week's "how we got started." customers willing to stand in line for tacos a the this houston hot spot. >> even in the rain. >> coming here for 15 years already. >> we opened in september of 1977. my mother started it with one lady making or the till las. >> built it out of necessity. >> she was a single mom with six kids. she had a lot of experience working in restaurants. she was a fabulous cook and that's how it began. >> more than three decades later, the texas taco shop is a local institution and continues to provide for the family. >> we've been blessed that we can have our salaries from the little taco place. i thank my mother for starting the business. she wanted to make sure we had a history left here. that the kids and grand kids talk about it.

>> the best tribute at all is the recipe didn't change. all wrapped in a homemade or the till la. >> making them the same way my grandmother made them 30 years ago. the business grown and making things the same way.

ousted honduran president made good on a move he promised after a cue removed him from power. zelaya crossed the border and returned to honduras yesterday afternoon. it was a brief visit. he spent a few minutes before retreating. he was surrounded by cheering supporters and reporters here. soldiers in the national police were nearby to arrest him if he went any further. supporters gathered in a city near the point where he crossed into honduras. police fired on that crowd and a cnn correspondent says two people were wounded. secretary of state capitol hill capitol hill called the trip reckless. people who live near daytona

beach got quite the scare of a sudden tornado. check it out. it came out of nowhere hitting three mobile home parks here in port orange, florida, last night. the tornado ripped roofs off the homes and scattered debris. seven homes are destroyed and 163 damaged. one minor injury was reported. i'm reynolds wolf. let's get you start and the saturday with a chance of stormy weather across parts of the ohio valley and the midwest. here's the culprit. a lot of moist air from the gulf of mexico. that's going to clash with the frontal boundary draping across places like cincinnati, columbus, ohio. could see severe storms there. making your way further back into the west and montana, even into idaho, we could see a chance of severe storms late in the day. biggest threat from this will be possibly large hail, maybe damaging winds. further to the south across the four corners, looks like scattered showers. a mixture of sunshine and clouds for much of the california coast but then into texas the big story's going to be the heat and

plenty of it with high temperatures once again going right back into the triple digts. 96 in houston. we couple that with the high humidity, it will feel warmer. 92 in memphis and washington, d.c. washington, d.c. 86 in new york. 89 in miami. tampa with 91 degrees and back into denver, 78 degrees. 91 in salt lake city and a cooler day in vegas, all thing consider. 98. that's a look at the forecast across the nation. an investigation is on to find out if employees at the l.a. coroner's office illegally leaked descriptions of michael jackson's body to the tab loiz. vivid descriptions of the pop tar's corpse were publish in the days after his death. at the time jackson's body was in the coroner's custody for an autopsy. the los angeles county supervisor's office asked the sheriff to conduct a preliminary inquiry. that will determine if there is enough evidence for a full

investigation. o.j. simpson wants to give back some of the stuff he says was taken from him. he filed a declaration in court asking police to return footballs, ties, and other memorabilia to him. back in 2007, simpson confront two memorabilia dealers in las vegas claiming that they stole those items from him. he was convicted of arm robbery and kidnapping, and sentenced to at least nine years in prison. lily the five legged chihuahua now has a normal number of paws. a north carolina woman paid the owner $4,000 to make sure lily didn't end up as an exhibit. then she footed the bill to have a vet remove lily's extra leg. a coney island freak show owner want to buy the puppy. the north carolina woman's bid won out. but the side show owner said he had dib on lily and he may sue

to get her back. a court battle heats up in san diego over a sheltered beach cove that's home to a group of seals. what the judge ruled at the 11th hour and what influence his last second decision.

police may release audio tape evidence in the case of harvey gates. and the original 911 call may be just the beginning. u.s. troops invading upstate new york? why former vice president cheney reportedly wanted to send soldiers to buffalo back in 2002. a massive corruption bust in new jersey lifts the lid on a grisly and lucrative underworld. trafficking human organs. and surfers come out in force when the coast gets 20-foot waves. among this surf lies danger. you made it to the weekend. this is hln. thanks for joining us.

the fervor over the plam and the president isn't dying down. president obama so that spo again about the arrest of his friend harvey louis gates jr. now cambridge police officials may decide to release audio tape evidence in the case. and that could include the original 911 call and officer radio calls by cops who arrested gates last week for disorderly conduct. gates was arrested outside his home after a 911 call of a possible break-in. he says, he proved his identity to officers and the dust up leading to his arrest in his own home was racial profiling. the arresting officer, sergeant crowley, said he did nothing wrong and was surprised when president obama said the police acted stupidly. friday president obama made a surprise appearance at the daily white house briefing yesterday in an attempt to diffuse the situation. he said he spoke to both gates and crowley, and invited them to

the white house for a meeting. and while he said he gave the impression that he was maligning the police department, he did not apologize. >> this is as a consequence of this event, this ends up being what is called a teachable moment where all of us, instead of pumping up the volume, spend a little more time listening to each other. and try to focus on how we can generally improve relations between police officers and minority communities, and that instead of pointing accusations, we can all be a little more reflective in terms of what we can do to contribute to more unity. >> the president added that both gates and the officer probably overreacted. all charges against gates have been dropped. there may be a new lead in the search for suspects wanted in the shooting death of a border patrol agent. "the los angeles times" reports an injured man was arrested in

mexico near the crime scene carrying a border patrol issued weapon. investigators are looking for at least two suspect, and they think one of them was hurt in the incident. that left agent robert rosas dead there. he was killed while responding to an illegal border crossing in san diego county thursday night. the fbi is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. rosas was the first border patrol agent to die in the shooting in more than ten years. former president george w. bush reportedly considered but ultimately rejected using u.s. troops to arrest terror suspect in buffalo, new york. the new york time reports, former vice president dick cheney openly supported using the military to arrest members of the so call look wanna six. the report says other administration official opposed the idea, including condoleezza rice who was then the national security adviser. the times sources are former

administration officials who don't want to be identified. the five people arrested in the buffalo area and the six in bahrain were accused of conspiring with al qaeda. they eventually pled guilty to terrorism-related charges. alaska governor sarah palin leaves office tomorrow. she gave one of her last speeches as governor yesterday at a picnic in her home town of wasilla. about 1,000 people showed up. >> from the bottom of my heart and especially this being my last time to speak to the valley community as your governor, i do want to tell you sincerely that i love you, i appreciate you and your support, the support that you've shown my family, god bless you and god bless america. >> palin once served as mayor of wasilla. she will hold a second picnic today and another when she leaves office and the lieutenant governor takes over as governor. president obama is making a new pitch for health care reform and it focuses on small business

owners. he cites a new white house study that suggests small businesses pay more per employee for health insurance than larger companies. in the weekly radio and internet address, he called that unacceptable and said that will change when he signs health care reform into law. >> after a lot of hard work in congress, we are closer than ever before to finally passing reform that will reduce costs, expand coverage, and provide more choices for our families and businesses. it has taken months to reach this point and once this legislation passes, we'll need to move thoughtfully and deliberately to implement these reform over a period of several years. that's why i feel such a sense of urgency about moving this process forward. >> the big question is will health care reform reach the president's desk any time soon. house democrats are split on the version, and blue dog republican have enough votes to prevent the current version from passing but

house leaders say they do expect to pass a bill by the fall. cash strapped california finally passes a new budget. the california state legislature has voted to slash state program and shuffle money rode to close a $25 billion budget gap. thing have gotten so bad there, that the state has been issuing ious. lawmakers wrapped up a 24-hour session to get the budget approved yesterday. afterward, governor schwarzenegger said all californians will feel the pain. >> i know that college students will pay now higher tuitions, and i know that teachers will be laid off and i know that our state workers will get less money. we have to do that. it the only way to solve the problem and to save our great state. the only way to do it is to spread the sacrifice. >> when asked if the budget would be a long term fix, one lawmaker said, i have no way of knowing. there is still a $1.1 billion shortfall but governor schwarzenegger says he can make

up for that with cuts he has the authority to make without legislative approval. human rights supporters in dozens of cities worldwide are holding demonstrations today to protest iran's treatment of pro democracy activists. it is called a global day of action. groups including human rights watch and amnesty international are asking the united nations to investigate alleged human rights abuses in iran and they're urging iranian authorities to release hundreds of people who were detained for protesting last month's re-election of president ahmadinejad. this gathering in seoul is one of the smaller rallies. larger ones took place in tokyo, london, brussels and throughout australia. the violence raging across afghanistan shows no sign of stopping. today in the city of khost, taliban fighters wearing suicide vests stormed a number of government buildings. some blew themselves up. others were killed in a gun

battle. several militant died. others were hurt. also today a british soldier was killed by a roadside bomb. u.s. and british troops have stepped up offenses against taliban targets in southern afghanistan. july is now the deadliest month of a nearly eight-year war. at least 66 coalition troops have died. a new jersey corruption probe that busted 44 people included politicians and religious leaders. one of the more shocking allegations surrounds this man here who allegedly tried to broker the sale of a human kidney on the black market. what we know about the suspect who called himself a match maker.

we're beginning to see the consequences of a new jersey corruption scandal. it may affect jon corzine's re-election bid even though he isn't involved in the wrongdoing. some top lawmaker have discussed

replacing him on the ballot. he did ask for and get the resignation of his community affairs commissioner whose home and offices were raided by fbi agents in thursday's sweep. corzine is already trailing gop challenger chris christi in the polls. 44 people were arrested in thursday's bust. including three new jersey mayors. arguably the most shocking part of the busts is that one of the agents tried to broker the sale of a human kidneys. mary snow has details on that part of the investigation. >> reporter: among the dozens arrested in a wide ranging corruption probe, prosecutors call this man the kidney saleman. levy izhak rosenbaum faces charges. a criminal complaint allege he offered to obtain a kidney for an undercover fbi agent and informant, explaining, i am what you call a matchmaker.

>> his business was to entice vulnerable people to give up a kidney for $10,000, which he in turn would turn around and sell for $160,000. >> reporter: about his business, the complaint quotes rosenbaum as saying, i'm doing this a long time. let me explain to you one thing. it is illegal to buy or sell organs. you cannot buy it. what you do is you're giving a compensation for the time. we reached out to an attorney who decline comment explaining he wanted to review the charges in the case before speaking. while officials would only say the probe is continuing, an anthropologist at the university of california at berkeley and director of the group organ watch, said she met with the fbi in 2002 to pass on information about rosenbaum. she said the meeting involve a much wider global investigation into trafficking of human organs. she also says she witnessed poorer people in eastern europe recruited to sell organs. >> they got so little money.

$2,000. $2,500. they felt abused. they felt that they were living cadavers. that nobody cared about them. they chopped them up and then after a day or two in the hospital, were sent home. >> reporter: we asked the fbi about her going to them in 2002. she said the fbi contact her again in recent days. the fbi declined comment, saying it cannot discuss sources or citizens had a come forward to len assistance. mary snow, cnn, new york. the hubble telescope has captured an image of a mysterious new dark spot on jupiter. it is the hubble's first science observation since astronauts upgraded it in may. scientists believe the mark on jupiter was probably the result of a small comet or asteroid colliding with it. they had not planned to start using the new camera until late this summer so they decided to put it back into acfor one day,

just to capture this rare occurrence. snxt the mother of the octuplets has sign a contract to star in a reality tv show with her kids. each offed in a ya suleman's children will get $250 a day during the filming. that mean her family will get $250,000 over three years. she sign with a european contract. a judge still has to approve the deal but if that happens, filming is expected to start in september. she gave birth to the world's longest surviving octuplets in january. o.j. simpson is trying to get back some of the memorabilia he says was stolen from him. you'll remember his last attempt to do that ended up with him getting convicted with armed robbery and kidnapping. this time he's going about it a little differently.

ousted honduras president made good on a promise he made. he crossed the border and return to honduras yesterday afternoon. it was a brief visit. he spent a few minutes over the border crossing before retreating. he was surrounded by reporters. the police were nearby to arrest him if he went any further. zelaya supporters gathered in a city. police fired on that crowd and a cnn correspondent says two people were wounded. secretary of state hillary clinton called his trip

reckless. people who live near daytona beach got quite the scare from a sudden tornado. it came out of nowhere, hitting three mobile home parks in port orange, florida. it ripped roofs right off the home and scattered a bunch of debris. seven home are now destroyed and 163 homes damaged. one minor injury was reported. >> let's get you started on saturday with a chance of stormy weather across the ohio valley and into the midwest. here's the culprit. we have a lot of moist air coming from the gulf of mexico. that will clash with this frontal boundary you see right across places like cincinnati, eventually columbus, ohio, could see some severe storm there as they make their way a little farther back out to the west and into monday tan, a even into idaho. we could see a chance of storm late in the day. we could see possibly hail and winds. farther to the south across the four corners, we could see some scours. a mixture of sunshine and clouds for much of the california

coast. then into texas, the big story will be the heat and plenty of it with high temperature going right back into the triple digits. dallas, 101. the expected high, 96 in houston. it will feel warmer. 92 in memphis. 92 in washington, d.c. 86 in new york. 89 in miami. tampa with 91 degrees. back into denver, 78 degrees. 91 in salt lake 70 and a cooler day for knew vegas. all thing considered with 98 degrees. 104 in phoenix. that is a look at the forecast across the nation. an investigation is on to find out if employees at the l.a. coroner's office illegally released descriptions of michael jackson's body to the tabloids. they were published by tabloid newspapers in the days after his death. at the time, jackson's body was in the coroner's custody for an autopsy. they asked the sheriff to conduct a preliminary inquiry. that will determine if there is enough evidence for a full

investigation. o.j. simpson wants to get back some of the stuff he says was taken from him. he file a declaration in court yesterday, asking police to return footballs, ties, and other memorabilia to him. back in 2007, simpson confronted two memorabilia dealers in vegas, asking that they stole those items from him. he was convict of armed robbery and kidnapping, and sentenced to at least nine years in prison. lily the five-election chihuahua has a normal number of paws. a woman paid $4,000 to make sure lily can't end up as an exhibit. then she footed the bill to have a vet remove the extra leg. a freak show owner wanted to buy her and put down a $1,000 deposit. the north carolina woman's bid won out. it is not over yet. the side show owner says he had dib on lily and he may sue to get her ban.

to get her back. it's not surprising that uninsured women are less likely to get annual mammograms and more likely to die from breast cancer. today cnn's hero is working to improve the odds of survival for all women and she is doing it by hitting the streets. >> in 2004, i was diagnosed with breast cancer. initially there is shock but i realize how blessed i was to have health insurance. it made me think about all the women who didn't have health insurance. i wanted to make a difference in their lives. i'm andrea ivory and i'm fighting breast cancer in south florida one household at a time. the florida breast health initiative is an outreach organization. we're targeting working class people. we're going to make a difference and save some lives. we have a take it to the streets approach. we feel like little puxys spreading breast cancer

awareness. we target women that are 35 years or older and make appointments on the spot for a free mammogram. i look forward to seeing you. i'll be there. bringing the mobile mammography van into the neighborhood is one of the most important factors. we provide a service that is so needed. i know i'm saving lives. >> they said it was free so come over and get it. >> is the lady of the house at home? >> we give free mammograms on the 25th. that's easy. i was saved from breast cancer to serve other women. every time i knock on the door, it is another opportunity to save a life. if you know someone like andrea ivory who should be a cnn hero, to go cnn.com/heroes and tell us about them. now you can see exclusive heroes footage and get updates on facebook. to go facebook.com/cnnheroes.

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something or drink from a farm every day during that week. >> oh. so where do we get the information about where to find the farms or how do we sign up for this pledge? >> well, there's a website. it's www.by-local-challenge.com that website will give you all sorts of information why to buy local and where to buy local and it connects you to other statewide initiatives that are going on at the same time. if you go to the website, we've added a count. people used to say, where do i sign up? normally you have to go buy, eat something from a local farm. this year we decided to add a counter to the website. when you are' counted, you can receive a certificate with your name on it that you can put up in your office or your home or wherever. >> which is very, very important. it's reduces your carbon foot

print because you're driving hopefully a shorter distance, you have access to local products that are available, and also it helps the farmers. >> well, and in fact, our theme this year is healthy plate, healthy planet. all kinds of benefits to buying local, benefits for you, healthy, nutrition, it's fresh, and preserving our farms survive, we keep clean water, we keep clean air, we reduce the carbon footprints from things traveling 1500 miles, and it tastes good. >> exactly. now for those people who may not cook, how can they be a part of this? >> yeah, sometimes people say, well, i hate to cook. that's okay. you can go to a store or to a restaurant that features local farm products, and there are more and more restaurants every year, some of them are on our website, and you can click throughout to find out who they

are,. >> what kind of items can we acquire localfully. >> during the last week of july, there is so much product available. there's sweet corn, blackberries, all kinds of tomatoes and melons are in season, and of course, there's always wine, cheese, eggs, meatss. >> so we do have a wide variety of things we can get. say that i go and i go to a local farmer's market and purchase something, what is a vegetable that i'm not quite familiar with, how did i find a recipe. >> excellent question. there are recipes on our website. people can post their own recipes of their own events and own blogs by why they buy local. some of the things i wanted to mention is the economic benefits. we talked about the planet, we

talked about the fact that it tastes good, and it's fun, but there's also the benefit of supporting our farms, and if every household in the state mucofmaryland were to buy just 2 worth of products for 8 weeks, basically the summer season that, would put $200 million straight back into the pockets of our farmers. that would do a lot to keep our farmers thriving. >> which is so important. i know we have less than 30 seconds, but you have some partners that you wouldn't typically think of who have now joined in. >> yes. hospitals are joining in this year. fact, they're looking to do a competition to see how many people they can get involved. >> have you exciting. christine, thank you very much for coming in today. >> thank you. >> my guest today has been christine bergmark with the southern agricultural commission. if you're interested in what comcast is doing in your area, go to on demand and click get

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the fervor over the policeman and the president isn't dying down yet. president obama spoke again about the arrest of his friend harvey louis gates jr. now cambridge police officials may decide to release audio tape evidence in the case. and that could include the original 911 call and officer radio calls by cops who arrested gates last week for disorderly conduct. gates was arrested outside his home after a 911 call of a possible break-in. he says, he proved his identity to officers and the dust up leading to his arrest in his own home was racial profiling. the arresting officer, sergeant crowley, said he did nothing wrong and was surprised when president obama said the police acted stupidly. friday president obama made a surprise appearance at the daily white house briefing yesterday in an attempt to diffuse the situation. he said he spoke to both gates

and crowley, and invited them to the white house for a meeting. and while he said he gave the impression that he was maligning the police department, he did not apologize. >> this is as a consequence of this event, this ends up being what is called a teachable moment where all of us, instead of pumping up the volume, spend a little more time listening to each other. and try to focus on how we can generally improve relations between police officers and minority communities, and that instead of pointing accusations, we can all be a little more reflective in terms of what we can do to contribute to more unity. >> the president added that both gates and the officer probably overreacted. all charges against gates have been dropped. a single engine plane go down in oklahoma city. take a look at these pictures. the affiliate says the plane went down in front of a bank of

oklahoma. it says that five people who were on the plane were taken to the hospital with critical injuries. we're not hearing about any injuries on the ground. former president george w. bush reportedly considered but ultimately rejected using u.s. troops to arrest terror suspect in buffalo, new york. the new york times reports, former vice president dick cheney openly supported using the military to arrest members of the so-called lackawanna six. the report says other administration official opposed the idea, including condoleezza rice who was then the national security adviser. the times sources are former administration officials who don't want to be identified. the five people arrested in the buffalo area and the six in bahrain were accused of conspiring with al qaeda. they eventually pled guilty to terrorism-related charges. there may be a new lead in the search for suspects wanted in the shooting death of a border patrol agent. the "los angeles times" reports an injured man was arrested in

mexico near the crime scene, carrying a border patrol issued weapon. investigators are looking for at least two suspects, and they think one of them was hurt in the incident. that left agent robert rosas dead there and he was killed while responding to an illegal border crossing in san diego county thursday night. the fbi is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. rosas was the first border patrol agent to die in a shooting in more than ten years. alaska governor sarah palin leaves office tomorrow. she gave one of her last speeches as governor yesterday at a picnic in her home town of wasilla. about 1,000 people showed up. >> from the bottom of my heart and especially this being my last time to speak to the valley community as your governor, i do want to tell you sincerely that i love you, i appreciate you and your support, the support that you've shown my family, god bless you and god bless america.

>> palin once served as mayor of wasilla. she will hold a second picnic today and another when she leaves office and the lieutenant governor takes over as governor. president obama is making a new pitch for health care reform and it focuses on small business owners. he cites a new white house study that suggests small businesses pay more per employee for health insurance than larger companies. in the weekly radio and internet address, he called that unacceptable and said that will change when he signs health care reform into law. >> after a lot of hard work in congress, we are closer than ever before to finally passing reform that will reduce costs, expand coverage, and provide more choices for our families and businesses. it has taken months to reach this point and once this legislation passes, we'll need to move thoughtfully and deliberately to implement these reform over a period of several years. that's why i feel such a sense of urgency about moving this

process forward. >> the big question is will health care reform reach the president's desk any time soon. house democrats are split on the version, and blue dog republican have enough votes to prevent the current version from passing but house leaders say they do expect to pass a bill by the fall. cash strapped california finally passes a new budget. the california state legislature has voted to slash state programs and shuffle money rode to close a $25 billion budget gap. things have gotten so bad there, that the state has been issuing ious. lawmakers wrapped up a 24-hour session to get the budget approved yesterday. afterward, governor schwarzenegger said all californians will feel the pain. >> i know that college students will pay now higher tuitions, and i know that teachers will be laid off and i know that our state workers will get less money. we have to do that.

it's the only way to solve the problem and to save our great state. the only way to do it is to spread the sacrifice. >> when asked if the budget would be a long term fix, one lawmaker said, i have no way of knowing. there is still a $1.1 billion shortfall but governor schwarzenegger says he can make up for that with cuts he has the authority to make without legislative approval. human rights supporters in dozens of cities worldwide are holding demonstrations today to protest iran's treatment of pro democracy activists. it is called a global day of action. groups including human rights watch and amnesty international are asking the united nations to investigate alleged human rights abuses in iran and they're urging iranian authorities to release hundreds of people who were detained for protesting last month's re-election of president ahmadinejad. the demonstrators say they must allow freedom of assembly. this gathering in seoul is one of the smaller rallies. larger ones took place in tokyo,

london, brussels and throughout australia. the violence raging across afghanistan shows no sign of stopping. today in the city of khost, taliban fighters wearing suicide vests stormed a number of government buildings. some blew themselves up. others were killed in a gun battle. seven militants died. four other people were hurt. also today a british soldier was killed by a roadside bomb. u.s. and british troops have stepped up offenses against taliban targets in southern afghanistan. july is now the deadliest month of a nearly eight-year war. at least 66 coalition troops have died. a new jersey corruption probe that busted 44 people included politicians and religious leaders. one of the more shocking allegations surrounds this man here who allegedly tried to broker the sale of a human kidney on the black market. what we know about the suspect who called himself a match maker.

we're beginning to see the consequences of a new jersey corruption scandal. it may affect jon corzine's re-election bid even though he isn't implicated in any wrongdoing. the new york time reports top lawmaker have skised replacing him on the ballot. he did ask for and get the resignation of his community affairs commissioner whose home and offices were raided by fbi agents in thursday's sweep. corzine is already trailing gop challenger chris christie in the polls. he is running on the clean-up of corruption. 44 people were arrested in thursday's bust. including three new jersey mayors. arguably the most shocking part

of the busts is that one of the suspects tried to broker the sale of human kidneys. mary snow has details on that part of the investigation. >> reporter: among the dozens arrested in a wide ranging corruption probe, prosecutors call this man the kidney salesman. levyzhak rosenbaum faces charges of acting as a human kidney broker. a criminal complaint allege he offered to obtain a kidney for an undercover fbi agent and informant, explaining, i am what you call a matchmaker. >> his business was to entice vulnerable people to give up a kidney for $10,000, which he in turn would turn around and sell for $160,000. >> reporter: about his business, the complaint quotes rosenbaum as saying, i'm doing this a long time. let me explain to you one thing. it is illegal to buy or sell organs. you cannot buy it. what you do is you're giving a compensation for the time. we reached out to an attorney

who decline comment explaining he wanted to review the charges in the case before speaking. while officials would only say the probe is continuing, an anthropologist at the university of california at berkeley and director of the group organ watch, said she met with the fbi in 2002 to pass on information about rosenbaum. she said the meeting involved a much wider global investigation into trafficking of human organs. she also says she witnessed poorer people in eastern europe recruited to sell organs. >> they got so little money. $2,000. $2,500. they felt abused. they felt that they were living cadavers. that nobody cared about them. they chopped them up and then after a day or two in the hospital, were sent home. >> reporter: we asked the fbi about her going to them in 2002. she said the fbi contacted her again in recent days. the fbi declined comment, saying it cannot discuss sources or

citizens who come forward to lend assistance. mary snow, cnn, new york. the hubble telescope has captured an image of a mysterious new dark spot on jupiter. it is the hubble's first science observation since astronauts repaired and upgraded it in may. scientists believe the mark on jupiter was probably the result of a small comet or asteroid colliding with it. nasa scientists are still calibrating the new camera. they had not planned to start using the new camera until late this summer so they decided to put it back into action for one day just to capture this rare occurrence. the mother of the octuplets has sign a contract to star in a reality tv show with her kids. each of her children will get $250 a day during the filming. that means her family will get $250,000 over three years. she sign with a european contract.

a judge still has to approve the deal but if that happens, filming is expected to start in september. she gave birth to the world's longest surviving octuplets in january. o.j. simpson is trying to get back some of the memorabilia he says was stolen from him. you'll remember his last attempt to do that ended up with him getting convicted with armed robbery and kidnapping. this time he's going about it a little differently.

ousted honduras president made good on a promise he made. he crossed the border and return to honduras yesterday afternoon. it was a brief visit. he spent a few minutes over the border crossing before retreating. he was surrounded by reporters. soldiers and the national police were nearby to arrest him if he wept any further. zelaya supporters gathered in a city. police fired on that crowd and a cnn correspondent says two people were wounded. secretary of state hillary clinton called his trip reckless. people who live near daytona beach got quite the scare from a sudden tornado. it came out of nowhere, hitting three mobile home parks in port

orange, florida. it ripped roofs right off the homes and scattered a bunch of debris. seven home are now destroyed and 163 homes damaged. one minor injury was reported. >> let's get you started on saturday with a chance of stormy weather across the ohio valley and into the midwest. here's the culprit. we have a lot of moist air coming from the gulf of mexico. that will clash with this frontal boundary you see right across places like cincinnati, eventually columbus, ohio, could see some severe storms there as they make their way a little farther back out to the west and into montana and even into idaho. we could see a chance of storm late in the day. we could see possibly hail and winds. farther to the south across the four corners, we could see some scattered showers. a mixture of sunshine and clouds for much of the california coast. then into texas, the big story will be the heat and plenty of it with high temperature going right back into the triple digits. dallas, 101. the expected high, 96 in houston.

when you couple that with the high humidity, it will feel warmer. 92 in memphis. 92 in washington, d.c. 86 in new york. 89 in miami. tampa with 91 degrees. back into denver, 78 degrees. 91 in salt lake city and a cooler day for you in vegas. all thing considered with 98 degrees. 104 in phoenix. that is a look at the forecast across the nation. an investigation is on to find out if employees at the l.a. coroner's office illegally released descriptions of michael jackson's body to the tabloids. vivid descriptions of the pop star's corpse were published by tabloid newspapers in the days after his death. at the time, jackson's body was in the coroner's custody for an autopsy. they asked the sheriff to conduct a preliminary inquiry. that will determine if there is enough evidence for a full investigation.

going once, going twice, sold. there is a new online auction site promising some great deal on brand name merchandise. hln money expert clark howard tells you how to get in action. >> okay. i have a new kind of auction deal i want you to be aware of. everybody knows about e-bay. you buy stuff that's new, used, knock-offs. but what if you could buy brand name stuff, brand new, much cheaper than you could easily find it even with good comparison shopping? well, that's the promise of a new auction site set up by sam's club. you have to be a sam's club member to do it. ah, that's the idea, to get and retain members for sam's club. but on the auction site you can buy jewelry, electronics, the hottest item right now is both televisions and computers. and the prices at these auctions, if they close out at near these prices,

extraordinarily cheap. i'm looking at a sheet from real-time bidding from earlier today. great, great bargains. if you are a sam's club member check it out at auctions.sam's club.com. i'm clark howard. check me out at cnn.com/clark howard. >> and clark has more ideas to help you save more, spend less, and avoid getting ripped off. today at 4:00 p.m. eastern right here on hln. lilly the five-legged chihuahua now has a normal number of paws. oh, look. a north carolina woman paid lilly's former owner $4,000 just to make sure lilly didn't end up as an exhibit. then she footed the bill to have a vet remove lilly's extra leg. a coney island freak show owner wanted to buy lilly and put down a thousand dollars deposit on the puppy but the north carolina woman bid and her bid won out. the drama is not over yet. the side show owner says he had dibs on lilly and may sue to get

her back. a court battle heats up in san diego over a sheltered beach cove that's home to a group of seals. what the judge ruled at the 11th hour and what influenced the last-second decision?

a plane crashes near a busy street in oklahoma city just after take off. what happened to those onboard and what investigators know so far about how it happened. police may release videotape evidence in the arrest of harvard professor henry gates and the original 911 call may be just the beginning. and surfers come out in force when the california coast gets 20-foot high waves but among the spectacular surf lies danger. hi there. you're watching hln. i'm natasha curry. thanks so much for joining us. let's get you up to speed on three separate plane incidents taking place in the past 24 hours. two men and three women were critically injured here when a single engine plane crashed in oklahoma city today.

the pilot reported engine problems just after takeoff. he then tried to return to the airport but crashed into two trees and went down near a busy street. an american airlines flight headed from massachusetts to puerto rico made an emergency landing an hour after taking off. flight 1937 returned to boston's logan airport after someone smelled smoke coming from the plane's rear bathroom. no one was hurt. maintenance workers are examining the plane to find out what happened here. an 84-year-old pilot was injured when the plane he was flying yesterday crashed here into an unoccupied trailer near florida's turnpike. state troopers said no one else was onboard. the faa was investigating the crash. there may be a new lead in the search for suspects wanted in the shooting death of a border patrol agent. "the los angeles times" reports the injured man was arrested in mexico near the crime scene carrying a border patrol issued weapon. investigators are looking for at

least two suspects as they think one of them was hurt in the incident. that left agent roseas dead there and he was killed while responding to a suspected illegal border crossing in san diego county thursday night. the fbi is offering a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest. rosas was the first border patrol agent to die in a shooting in more than ten years. the fervor over the policeman, the professor, and the president is not dying down yet. harvard professor henry gates jr. says he has accepted president obama's invitation to come to the white house. no word yet if the sergeant arrested him will attend. gates was arrested outside his home after a 911 call about a possible break-in. he says he proved his identity to officers and a dustup leading to his arrest in his own home was racial profiling. sergeant james crowley said he did nothing wrong and was surprised when president obama said the police acted stupidly. friday president obama said he did give the impression he was

maligning the police department but he did not apologize. the president added that both gates and the officer probably over reacted. the disorderly conduct charges have been dropped. alaska governor sarah palin has just one more day in office. she's holding a series of picnics before she leaves. the first was yesterday in wasilla. there's one today in anchorage and another tomorrow in fair banks. the deputy political director looks ahead at what could be ahead for her. >> natasha, sarah palin steps down sunday as alaska governor about a year and a half before the end of her first term in office. yesterday in wasilla, her hometown, she held her annual picnic and thousands were there. there were some chants of sarah palin we love you and palin 2012. the governor told her hometown crowd that she loves them as well. take a listen. >> from the bottom of my heart and especially this being my last time to speak to the valley community as your governor i do want to tell you sincerely that

i love you. i appreciate you in your support. the support that you've shown my family, god bless you and god bless america. >> what's next for sarah palin? that is the very big question. she didn't take any questions from reporters yesterday at that picnic in wasilla but she has said she wants to campaign for candidates whose issues she agrees with and says she still twoonts fight for the causes that are important for her. that is part of the speculation that maybe she wants to run for the presidency in 2012. remember she was john mccain's running mate last year. what do americans think about sarah palin? two new polls in the past week both showed a majority of americans have an unfavorable view of sarah palin. one of those polls, abc and "the washington post", you can see, 53% have an unfavorable opinion of sarah palin. only 4 in 10 think favorably of her. but it's a very different story when you break it down by party. you can see 7 in 10 republicans have a favorable view of sarah palin. that number drops to 4 in 10

independents and only 2 in 10 democrats. when it comes to sarah palin there is definitely polarization. president obama is making a new pitch for health care reform and it focuses on small business owners. he cites a new white house study that suggests small businesses pay more per employee for health insurance than larger companies. in his weekly radio and internet address he called that unacceptable and says that will change when he signs health care reform into law. >> after a lot of hard work in congress we are closer than ever before to finally passing reform that will reduce costs, expand coverage, and provide more choices for our families and businesses. it's taken months to reach this point and once this legislation passes we'll need to move thoughtfully and deliberately to implement these reforms over a period of several years. that's why i feel such a sense of urgency about moving this process forward.

>> the big question is will health care reform reach the president's desk anytime soon? house democrats are split on the current version and so-called blue dog democrats and republicans have enough votes to prevent the current version from passing. but house leaders say they do expect to pass a bill by the fall. republican lawmakers say contrary to what president obama claims the health care plan will actually hurt small businesses. in this week's gop address, congress mcmorris rogers says the president's plan will cost too much and reduce the quality of health care for those who have insurance. she said republican lawmakers have offered to work with democrats to craft bipartisan legislation but she says democrats don't want their help. >> the democrats' health care plan crafted largely behind closed doors isn't the right thing. it's a prescription for disaster, one that will put washington bureaucrats in charge of your family's personal medical decisions.

some of the most personal decisions you'll ever make. >> people who live near daytona beach got quite the scare from a stud tornado. the twister came out of nowhere hitting three mobile home parks here in port orange, florida last night. the tornado ripped roofs right off the homes and scattered a bunch of debris. seven homes are now destroyed and 163 homes are damaged. one minor injury was reported. waves up to 20 feet high killed a body surfer in newport beach, california. a fire official says the waves slammed the 50-year-old man against some rocks yesterday. life guards pulled him out with the help of other body surfers. it was just too late. swimmers in the area say they noticed conditions were more dangerous than usual. >> it's really rough there. the current is really strong, pulling you toward the rocks. i heard somebody died today so i think it's pretty dangerous. it's scary. when i got caught inside i was worried. >> strong winds in the pacific kicked up the waves.

a high surf advisory is in effect for los angeles, orange, and other coastal counties until tonight. o.j. simpson is trying to get back some of that memorabilia he says was stolen from him. you'll remember his last attempt to do that ended up with him getting convicted for armed robbery and kidnapping. but this time he's going about it a little differently.

we're beginning to see the consequences of a new jersey corruption scandal. it may be threatening democratic governor's jon corzine's re-election bid though he isn't implicated in any wrongdoing. "the new york times" reports some of the state's top democratic lawmakers have discussed replacing corzine on

the ballot. corzine did ask for and get the resignation of his community affairs commissioner whose home and offices were raided by fbi agents in thursday's sweep. corzine is already trailing gop challenger chris christie in early polls. christie is running on a campaign prom toys clean up new jersey's culture of corruption. 44 people were arrested thursday including three new jersey mayors. former president george w. bush reportedly considered but ultimately rejected using u.s. troops to arrest terror suspects in buffalo, new york. "the new york times" reports former vice president dick cheney openly supported using the military to arrest members of the so-called lackawanna six. the report says other administration officials opposed the idea, including condoleezza rice, who was then the national security advisor. "the times" sources are former administration officials who don't want to be identified. the people five arrested in the buffalo area and the sixth in

bahrain were accused of conspiring with al qaeda. they eventually pled guilty to terrorism related charges. o.j. simpson wants to get back some of that stuff he says was taken from him. he filed a declaration in court yesterday asking police to return footballs, ties, and other memorabilia to him. back in 2007, simpson confronted two memorabilia dealers in las vegas claiming that they stole those items from him. he was convicted of armed robbery and kidnapping and sentenced to at least nine years in prison. the arrest of an african-american harvard university professor this past weekend created a kind of racial firestorm across the country sparking a lot of debate. hln prime news correspondent richelle carey takes a closer look at that discussion in our "what matters" segment. >> reporter: welcome back. we're talking about the arrest of african-american harvard professor henry gates by a white

police officer in cambridge, massachusetts. he was arrested at his own home. the charges were later dropped but it sparked an unbelievable discussion about race the likes of which we haven't seen in quite sometime. i want to go back to boyce walker. do you think race had anything to do with how this arrest went off the rail? >> i think that it could have but the problem is that when you're talking about something so serious that's going to affect a person's career you can't go based on what you think happened. you have to look at the evidence and look at the facts. that's why when this event took place, and i know skip gates, but my father has been in law enforcement for 25 years so i've seen both sides very closely. i've been a black man for a really long time now. i said to myself, richelle, what happened? let me interview some cops and find out the procedure. let me listen to what skip has to say and then i'm going to come to my own conclusion. what i've concluded is the cop

may or may not have abused his authority. he may have made a discretionary decision to arrest professor gates which he could have easily walked away from. i think we agree on that. but what was in his mind when he made the arrest none of us will ever know. we need to build off this and really talk about the whole country where the proven racial profiling is actually taking place. it's not taking place at harvard university most of the time. i guarantee you that. >> jean is calling us from arizona. we want you to weigh in on this. it's your turn. >> caller: okay. when the officer called and the other officers responded to professor gates' residence they acted in good faith on the information from the 911 call. when professor gates actually just went outside of his mind and started accusing ts officers of racial profiling he actually fueled the situation and being a man this educated he should possess more common sense and

actually be grateful that a neighbor was looking out for his home. >> all right, jean. thank you for your phone call. james, if someone -- go ahead. >> he was very grateful to his neighbor but i can't believe that we're going to try to have this conversation as if black people are not racially profiled on a regular basis. his response is contingent on that history and the kind of behavior that we've seen in the past from certain police departments and not to excuse his behavior but let's keep it in context. officer crowley, as professor watkins is saying, if officer crowley made a discretionary opinion, inc. he made a wrong decision in this case. if he is such a well respected officer i would want officers of the through make better decisions. yes this is a national conversation. i wish we had this much attention when oscar grant was murdered but the bottom line is we're faced with these challenges on a regular basis. we need professor gates to scream loud right now so we can leverage his position to address this issue across the nation.

>> if i may, it's my belief that mr. gates should have treated the officer as he did his neighbor, shook his hand, and thanked him for coming to his aid and making sure he was okay in his home. >> all right. boyce james and our other guests, we are out of time. the president did sort of tamp down his comments but not to say that -- but he did not back off of saying we need to talk about racial profiling.

ousted honduran president zelaya made good on a promise he made after a coup removed him from power. he returned to honduras yesterday afternoon. it was a brief visit. he spent a few minutes over the border crossing before retreating. he was surrounded by cheering supporters and reporters. soldiers and the national police were nearby to arrest him if he went any further. zelaya's supporters gathered in a city near the point where he crossed into honduras. police fired on that crowd and a cnn correspondent says two people were wounded. secretary of state hillary clinton calls zelaya's trip wreckless. human rights supporters in dozens of cities worldwide are

holding demonstrations today to protest iran's treatment of pro democracy activists. it's called a global day of action. groups including human rights watch and amnesty international are asking the united nations to investigate alleged human rights abuses in iran and urging iranian authorities to release hundreds of people detained for protesting last month's re-election of president mahmoud ahmadinejad. the demonstrators say tehran must allow freedom of expression and assembly. this gathering in seoul is one of the smaller rallies. larger ones took place in tokyo, brussels, london, and throughout australia. cash-strapped california finally passes a new budget. the california state legislature will slash programs and shuffle money around to close the budget gap. the state has been issuing ious. lawmakers wrapped up a marathon 24-hour session to get the budget approved yesterday.

afterward governor arnold schwarzenegger said all californians will feel the pain. >> i know that college students will pay now higher tuition. i know teachers will be laid off. i know that our state workers will get less money but we have to do this. it's the only way to solve the problem and to save our great state. the only way to do it is to sacrifice. >> when asked if the budget would be a long-term fix one lawmaker said, quote, i have no way of knowing. there is still a $1.1 billion shortfall but governor schwarzenegger says he can make up for that with cuts he has the authority to make without legislative approval. an investigation is on to find out if employees at the l.a. coroner's office illegally leaked descriptions of michael jackson's body to the tabloids. vivid descriptions of the pop star's corpse were published by tabloid newspapers in the days after his death. at the time, jackson's body was in the coroner's custody for an

autopsy. the los angeles county supervisor's office asked the sheriff to conduct a preliminary inquiry. that will determine if there is enough evidence for a full investigation. tonight on hln "news and views" shocking search warrants just released in the michael jackson death investigation. an extensive inventory of items seized from jackson's personal doctor's office and storage unit in texas. what explosive secrets do they hold? nancy grace has the latest breaking developments at 8:00 and 10:00 p.m. eastern on hln. the mother of the octuplets has signed a contract to star in a reality tv show with her kids. each of nadya suleman's 14 children will get $250 a day during the filming. that means her family will get $250,000 over three years. suleman signed with a european company that made the biggest loser. a judge still has to approve the deal but if that happens filming is expected to start in

september. suleman gave birth to the world's longest surviving octuplets in january. what has an adorable face, five legs, and the chance to be in a side show? well, up until thursday the answer was a puppy named lilly. what's changed since then and why the story may not be over yet. xxxxxxxxqxx