authorities think they've caught some homegrown terrorists here. one's an ex-marine but still on the hunt for another. where they might have been targeting their attacks. also, could a canning bed be a dangerous for you as mustard gas? new research on the cancer risks. and in the 24 hours before michael jackson died, propofol was allegedly injected into his veins. we take you into an operating room to see how this drug really works and how it can cause patients to stop breathing all together. i want to wish you a happy hump day as it's wednesday. i'm christi paul. it's good to be back with you here. we are waiting, waiting for a

news conference by the woman who called 911 to report a possible break-in at the home of harvard professional henry louis gates jr. this is the first time we're hearing from her. her attorney says she wants to get on with her life after, hounded relentlessly by reporters. i want to share a portion of her 911 call which led to a confrontation between gates and sergeant james crowley. >> are they still in the house? >> they're still in the house, i believe, yeah. >> were they white, black or hispanic? >> well, two larger men. one looked kind of hispanic but i'm not really sure. >> now, as soon as that news conference begins -- we're going to take you there live. we're keeping our eye on it. you saw the podium. the mikes are set up there. meanwhile, former secretary of state colin powell thinks cambridge police and professor gates could have handled gates' arrest a lot better. powell's response on "larry king

live" is pretty popular on cnn.com right now. he said the police escalated the situation beyond a reasonable level. the professor who powell calls skip should have been more patient. >> are you saying gates was wrong? >> i'm saying skip perhaps in this instance might have waited a while, come outside, talked to the officer and that might have been the end of it. i think he should have reflected on whether or not this was the time to make that big of a deal. >> now, powell also said he has been the victim of racial profiling, including when he was national security adviser to president reagan. gates and sergeant crowley will meet with president obama at the white house tomorrow. federal authorities meanwhile looking for an eighth suspect in connection with an alleged north carolina terror group. daniel boyd, a drywall contractor, and his two sons are among the seven people arrested thus far. they're accused of plotting a violent jihad overseas. investigators say boyd, the son of a marine was the group's ring

leader. they say he spent three years in the middle east secretly buying guns and regruting groups to kill and kidnap people. >> i think the reason why they wrapped up the case at this point was that they were this warted in carrying out jihad overseas and with the arsenal they had collected, a massive arsenal, they believed the u.s. was an infidel country and they were ready to die in the operation of carrying out suicide bombs. >> now, a security official says the boyd family tried to get into israel two years ago but were refused entry. the official didn't say why this were he stopped. boyd's wife sabrina is talking about this. she says her family traveled to the middle east for peaceful reasons, including praying for a son who had died in a car crash. she goes on to say that her family's good and decent, that they had weapons because they

enjoyed hunting and shooting. and she says, she has been in contact with her husband. >> i spoke to him. he seemed okay. he said they're innocent. the truth will come out. they're making a lot about nothing. and just for us to be strong because we know we're okay. we're innocent. we're -- we're just trying to be muslim in a country who is supposed to assure us our freedom of religion. >> zoo we want to get to you cambridge right now. the news conference we were telling you about just beginning. this is the attorney, wendy murphy, for the neighbor who called in a report to possibly report a possible break-in at gates' home. >> leave her alone. please, you know, she's had a lot of folks at her house. it's been really hard for her. and she's doing this primarily because it's been emotionally difficult for her to handle the

media at her home. please, after this, respect her privacy. she will not be doing any one-on-one interviews. no worries there. as this story has unfolded, as you all know, we've talked a lot about and debated about the overreaction of three men, professor gates, sergeant crowley and even president obama. all men with special training in one way or another on the important topics at issue in this controversy. well, i'm here today, proud to introduce all of you to the one person who did not overreact, a woman who has no special training, who nevertheless did everything right. you've all heard the tape, when she made a measured, thoughtful and objective call to 911 to report suspicious activity. any one of us would be lucky to have such a person living or working in our neighborhood. someone who cares enough to get involved, but is conscientious enough not to overreact or, worse, react in the wrong way to the wrong information.

for the three highly trained guys who reacted badly, are getting together tomorrow for a beer at the white house. that's a good thing. the one person whose actions have been exemplary will be at work tomorrow here in cambridge. maybe it's a guy thing. she doesn't like beer anyway. i do know that if lucille whalen is the type of example of the person who lives and works in cambridge, massachusetts, contrary to the criticism later on, as race relations go, cambridge is doing real well. as you have all heard, the city of cambridge is convening a panel of experts to come up with ideas for best practices in cases like this. i'd like to suggest someone who should have a seat at the head of that table. ladies and gentlemen, lucille whalen. >> thank you for, here and

giving me this opportunity to speak with you today. i was not planning to make a public statement, but after the media managed to reach my mom, i thought i'd better speak for myself. the criticism at first was so painful for me and difficult, i was, frankly, afraid to say anything. people called me racist and said i caused all the turmoil that followed, and some even said threatening things that made me fear for my safety. i knew the truth. but i didn't speak up right away. because i did not want to add to the controversy. after the tapes came out, there was so much public support. i felt better about the idea of speaking publicly, and then when my mom made her comments, i

figured it was time for me to say a few words. first, i would like to thank my wonderful husband for his support and love throughout this ordeal. i would like to thank my parents as people around the country were saying and thinking the worst things of me. my family knew the truth. and their support made all the difference. i am proud to have been raised by two loving parents who instilled in me values, including love one another, be kind to strangers, and don't judge people based on race,

ethnicity or any other feature other than their character. i am also proud to be a member of the cambridge community. and while i do not live there, i have worked for many, more than 15 years. cambridge is a wonderful place. and when i was called racist, and i was a target, scorned and ridiculed because of the things i never said. the criticism hurt me as a person. but it also hurt the community

of cambridge. now that the tapes are out, i hope people can see that i tried to be careful and honest with my words. it never occurred to me that the way i reported what i saw be analyzed by an entire nation. but so many people have responded with words of support. i now -- i hope now that the truth of the tapes will help heal the cambridge community as much as it has helped to restore

my reputation and integrity. i also want to say that i respect the cambridge police as well as professor gates. and i hope my decision to speak out does not add any controversy to what has been a difficult situation. a special thanks to my entire family, friends, neighbors, and coworkers for their support. it really helped me a lot. >> reporter: did you ever talk to the -- did you ever talk to sergeant crowley?

>> as i said, the only words i exchanged were, i was the 911 caller. he pointed to me and said, stay right there. >> reporter: nothing more? >> nothing more than that. >> reporter: could you give us an idea from your perspective what you saw as you were standing on the street there when you made the call? >> no, no comment. >> reporter: did you find any inaccuracies in the police report saying he had spoken to you directly and you that you had said they were african-americans? >> she's not going to answer questions about the police report. >> reporter: can you make comments -- >> she won't comment on that. >> reporter: you seem like what happened to you might have a chilling effect to other citizens that might call in to police and report a crime? >> i would honestly hope not, but obviously what i have experienced has been very hurtful towards me. so i would hope that would not

be the case. >> reporter: a lot of people are looking ahead to tomorrow. if you can say something to the president, professor gates and sergeant crowley as they're having their beer at the white house tomorrow, what would you want them to know? >> oh, goodness. i honestly have not even thought about that. to be honest with you. i have been emotional and have not even been able to gather thought on that. >> reporter: anything people can learn from all this? >> i would hope that people would learn not to judge -- sorry, to judge others. and to really base it on facts prior to scrutinizing someone, especially so damaging. i would hope that. >> reporter: race relations in the united states? >> i'm not going to comment on that. >> reporter: cue clearly -- >> let everybody else have a turn.

go ahead. >> reporter: how do you feel as through this whole process has effected you because you're clearly shaken by it. what would make you feel better? they're having this meeting tomorrow to make them feel better. what would make you feel better? would there be anything? >> well, what has made me feel better is that the truth is out. and that, i feel good about. >> reporter: can you tell us a little bit about your background? >> i am portuguese descent. i'm american. i was born here. >> reporter: are your parents -- are your parents from portugal? >> yes, my parents are from portugal and i am first generation. >> reporter: can i ask, was the words in the police report most hurtful or something you saw or read that was particularly troubling to you? >> i'm sorry. i'm not going to -- >> reporter: your attorney says you are due an apology.

do you -- >> i think you do. i don't know who positive pick. i think a lot of people should apologize to her but the line would be real long. >> reporter: what do you think? >> you know, i should have prepared for that type of question. i'm -- actually, don't know. i would just think people would start to judge on the facts and to understand that there is a human on the other end. and that would make me feel a lot better. >> so listening there to lucia whalen, she's the neighbor who called in to report a possible break-in at the henry louis gates house. she's been vilified on the blogs. she's speaking for the first time. you can see how daunting this is for her. her voice has been quivering. she thanked her parents, she thanked her parents and she actually said that she has respect for the cambridge police as well as for professor gates but she's happy the truth is out. that truth, she says, coming

through the 911 calls that were released, remember. she was criticized when rumors were going out that she had described the men going into the how as two black men on the 911 call. the 911 call that had been released contradicted that. and she did not do so. so, again, she's just coming out today to say, please, just leave me alone and let me get on with my life here. you can see how emotional it was for her. we're going to keep watching that for you. we do want to get you up on other news because we're lea learning even more right now about the final moments of michael jackson's life in particular. paramedics said the pop superstar wasn't breathing, had no pulse had they got to his rented home. a fire department official said jackson received every possible life-saving treatment, what they called the hallelujah package. paramedics said they worked on him for 42 minutes and they say he was too far gone to be rushed to the hospital. they said his personal doctor,

dr. conrad murray, was there. he was calling the shots. >> he took responsibility at the scene, this fire captain told me. he was in charge. he was calling the shots. he decided and determined that it was best to work on him there for those 42 minutes and try to get him breathing at the scene. captain told me when a patient is pulseless and not breathing there are many things paramedic can try to do to get the heart beating. they gave him oxygen, they gave him medicines they would not named. nothing seemed to work. this was treatment prescribed at the scene and that's why he wasn't transported. >> since jackson's death we have talked at length about how powerful the drug propofol is. we haven't shown you how it works and how quickly it works as well until now. coming up, chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta takes us into his operating room and gives us a demonstration on that. international cancer experts now consider tanning beds as deadly as arsenic or mustard gas.

the cancer is of the world health organization declaring the devices probable carcinogens or causes of cancer. a new analysis of 20 medical studies found people who use tanning beds before 30 increase their skin cancer risk 75%. a cancer bed association says responsible use has never been linked to skin cancer. a twitter post, did you hear about this, could cost a woman $50,000. she's being sued about a tweet she posted over her former landlord in chicago and it accused her landlord of renting her a moldy apartment. a spokesman said it discovered the tweet when it was preparing to defend itself from a separate lawsuit from that renter. so regular twitter users say, they tweet with caution. >> sometimes a lot of people are -- they're not aware of how much power it has when you do put something out. once it's out, you can't take it

back. >> i don't censor what i say on there. i wouldn't put anything about a job interview i've been on recently or anything about past boyfriends or people i dislike. >> a law professor says defamation is extremely hard to prove here. we want your view on this. should you, do you think, be held legally responsible for what you write on a social networking site or in an e-mail? call us at 1-877-tell-hln or e-mail us at cnn.com/hln. thank you for doing so. earlier we told you about search at the home and office of michael jackson's doctor in las vegas. a source tells our senior network, cnn, dr. conrad murray allegedly gave jackson propofol in the 24 hours before jackson's death. murray attorney has said the doctor never gave jackson anything that should have killed him. cnn's dr. sanjay gupta takes us into the operating room. watch how fast this drug works. >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six,

five, four, three, two, one. >> we'll show you more, too. summer is the perfect time to hit the pool, but with fun comes the danger of drowning, of course. a program called make a splash is doing just that, pretty much, teaching kids from all walks of life to swim. susan hendricks has this edition of "health minute". >> reporter: learning to swim can be scary says swim instructor lisa vaughn. >> no matter how scared they are, what their fears are we work with them because that's the fear that can cause them to drown. >> reporter: an average of ten people drown in the u.s. every day. the make a splash campaign is offering free or low-cost swimming lessons at pools around the country to try to reduce the risk, especially among african-americans and hispanics. >> if this were a disease it would be an epidemic. >> reporter: john is with u.s.

swimming, a sponsor of the free lessons. the group commissioned a study that revealed nearly 60% of african-american and hispanic children can't swim. that's about twice the rate of white kids. >> we see the disproportion of drawnings we see in communities of color because generationally those parents, grandparents, did not have the opportunity or access to a quality swim program. >> reporter: the results, he says, with generations of kids who never learned how to swim. >> keep moving. >> reporter: a trend that may be changing one child at a time. >> i can backstroke, breaststroke, butterfly and freestyle. >> reporter: for today's health minute, i'm susan hendrick. let's get back to this question we have for you today. should you always be discreet when you tweet? remember, a woman's getting sued by her landlord using twitter to air her complaints. is her freedom of sweech,

violated? your view on that.

despite everything that's happened, the woman whose call brought the police to the home of harvard professor henry louis gates said she would place that call again. lucia whalen just spoke to reporters, very emotional, as she says she was really hurt. since gates was arrested, whalen says the criticism she and the -- or the community of cambridge, massachusetts, is racist has made her fear for her safety. >> that i tried to be careful and honest with my words. it never occurred to me that the way i reported what i saw be analyzed by an entire nation.

but so many people have responded with words of support. now -- hope now that the truth of the tapes will help heal the cambridge community as much as it has helped to restore my reputation and integrity. >> now, whalen says she respects professor gates and the cambridge police department. former secretary of state colin powell, meanwhile, thanks cambridge police and professor gates both could have handled the arrest a lot better. powell's response on "larry king live," really popular on cnn.com. he said the police escalated the

situation beyond a reasonable level but the professor, who powell calls skip, should have been more patient. >> larry: you're saying gates was wrong? >> i'm saying that skip, perhaps, in this instance might have waited a while, come outside, talked to the officer. that might have been the end of it? i think he should have reflected on whether or not this was the time to make that big a deal. >> now, powell also said he's been a victim of racial profiling, including when he was national security adviser to president reagan. gates and sergeant james crowley, by the way, will meet with president obama at the white house tomorrow. you can bet we'll be covering that, too. now, federal authorities are looking for an eighth support in connection with an alleged north carolina terror group. daniel boyd, a drywall contractor, and his two sons are among the seven men arrested thus far. they're accused of plotting a violent jihad overseas. investigators say boyd, the son of a marine and american citizen, was the group's ring leader. they say he spent three years in

the middle east secretly buying guns and recruiting groups to kidnap and kill people. >> i think the reason why they wrapped up the case at this point is that they were thwarted in carrying out jihad overseas and with the arsenal they had collected, a massive arsenal, they believed the u.s. was an infidel country that could be targeting. they swore allegiance to marty dom and that meant they were going to carry out suicide bombings. they could train their ire on the united states and carry out its acts here. >> a security official says the boyd family tried to get into israel two years ago but were refused entry, but the official didn't say why they were stopped. now, the indictment doesn't specifically list targeted countries, but the government claims members of the group traveled to gaza, jordan, israel, kosovo and pakistan to wage jihad. in the community where the boyd is well liked and known, neighbors are coming to their

defense. they say the boyds are a close, loving family, nicer than most. you're seeing a picture of boyd's wife whos tsays the charges are unsubstantiated. she's asking people not to rush to government. >> we do own guns in our home as our constitutional right allows us. and i don't think there's a crime in that. >> according to the indictment, members of the group purchased several plane tickets to israel and planned meetings there as well. boyd's wife says her husband and son traveled to israel in part because they wanted to pray in jerusalem for another son who had died in a car crash. democratic senators want to make sure drivers are keeping their eyes on the road and not on their cell phone screens. they're proposing the alert drivers act, which would require states to ban texting while driving or risk losing up to a quarter of their federal highway funds. >> they show that when drivers

have their eyes on their cell phones instead of on the road, the results can be dangerous and even deadly. recent studies have shown that it is even more dangerous to text while driving than to drive while drinking. >> a study by the virginia tech transportation institute released just this week found texting made truck drivers, get this, 23 times more likely to have an accident. 14 states, and d.c., have laws that make driving while texting illegal right now. new york city is spending up to a half million dollars a year to give homeless families one-way plane tickets to go back to their hometowns. according to the new york times, many are families that take part in the program are long-time new yorkers who just hit hard times. city officials are using the program to help cut costs at homeless shelters. the city has spent as much as $6300 to send a family to paris, france, we understand.

they're cranking up the ac in the pacific northwest, if they had any. triple digit temperature. the forecast high for seattle, think about this, 100 degrees. that would make it the hottest day on record there. the unusual heat wave has lasted for several days now. winds off the pacific ocean are expected to cool things down just a bit, but, boy, not until probably friday. so hope they're all doing okay out there. president obama is taking his push for health care reform to north carolina. live pictures coming to you right now. we see the town hall meeting in raleigh. the president has been urging congress to send him a bill to extend health care insurance for everyone. he got the crowd fired up right now. international cancer experts now consider tanning beds as deadly as arsenic or mustard gas. the world health organization is declaring the devices probable carcinogens or causes of cancer.

a new analysis of 20 medical studies found people who use tanning beds before age 30 increase their skin cancer risk by 75%. a tanning bed trade association insists responsible use has never been linked to skin cancer. now to the shocking trial of a sudanese journalist who faces 40 lashes for wearing indecent trousers. hussein was in court today, her case was rescheduled for next week. you see her in a picture from the uk daily mail. they were arrested for wearing trousers. ten pleaded guilty. they got ten lashes and $100 fine for doing so. hussein has invited journalist to attend her trial, saying she's done nothing wrong. human rights activists have condemned sudan's strict law saying it discriminates against women. a twitter post could cost a woman 50 grand.

>> they're not aware of how much power it has when you do put something out. >> the expensive lawsuit that might have you thinking twice about your next tweet.

but they have left a long trail of wreckage behind them. the marriage crumbled not long after their son nick was involved in a serious car crash that left an iraq war vet brain damaged. a lawsuit later claimed hulk and linda were to blame for nick's alleged need for speed. and then who could forget hulk's jaw-dropping statement that he

totally understands o.j.? meantime, still not convinced that reality tv destroys lives, daughter brooke is busy starring in her own reality show, a show the hulkster occasionally appears on. when hulk and her exsay they're ready to move on, i hope that means they're ready to go away. i'm ja . >> find out what else jane has on her mind watching "issues." a twitter post may cost a woman $50,000. chicago's wls explains why the woman's 11-word message might have her in big trouble. >> reporter: to tweet or not to tweet? one woman who lived in this uptown apartment building may have wished she never tweeted. at 9:08 a.m. on may 12th, an 11-word tweet on the popular social networking site twitter could potentially cost amanda $50,000 if she loses a defamation suit filed against

her. >> defamation was invented for news organizations. this is something different. but technically the law applies to any communication, whether it's on e-mail, twitter or facebook. >> reporter: bonnen is, sued by her former landlord. they say one tweet she wrote is damaging to the company's reputation. she wrote, quote, who said sleeping in a moldy apartment is bad for you? horizon reality thinks it's okay. her attorney doubts that statement will hold up in court. >> defamation applies to a false statement of fact that injuries reputation. i don't think they're going to be able to prove that their reputation was really injured by a tweet to 20 people. >> reporter: regardless, he says everyone needs to watch what they write. while these friends say it's

ridiculous but they are cautious about what they write on social networking sites. >> they're not aware how much power it has when you put something out. once it's out, you can't take it back. >> i definitely senscensor what put on there. i wouldn't put anything about a job interview or past boyfriends or people i dislike. >> again, our thanks to sara with affiliate wls for the report there. we want to know your thoughts on this whole thing. do you think you should be held legally responsible for what you write on a social networking site or in an e-mail? won't you give us a call? it's 1-877-tell-hln or e-mail us at cnn.com/hln. or text us with your view. send it to hlntv, text views a, yes, you should be held responsible or views b if, no, you should not. we'll give you those throughout the day. thank you so much for sharing. massachusetts police are trying to figure out what happened to a pregnant woman

found dead in her apartment. police say her fetus was cut from her womb but the baby could have survived. however, they say it would have needed immediate medical attention to stay alive. the cause of her death is still unclear but the autopsy indicated she suffered head injuries. the 23-year-old woman did have a restraining order against the father of her 1-year-old daughter and he has been interviewed, we understand, by police. there's a frightening new twist to the swine flu epidemic. the cdc says it could be particularly dangerous for you if you're pregnant.

i want to bring you some live pictures here. the boat you're looking at from miami-dade police in florida, accompanied by state police as they look for a missing diver off hall river beach, north of miami beach. this is just one of several boats we've seen out in the water offshore, trying to locate a diver who, for one reason or another, has disappeared. that's all the information we have at this point. but we'll continue to keep our eyes on it and we'll let you

know what they find when they find it. you can see how close it is to the shore there from that vantage point. we're learning even more about the final moment of michael jackson's life. paramedics say the pop superstar wasn't breathing, had no pulse when they got to his rented home. a fire department official says jackson received every possible life-saving treatment. it's what they call, apparently, the hallelujah package. paramedics say they worked on him for about 42 minutes and they say he was too far gone to be rushed to the hospital. they went on to say his personal physician, dr. conrad murray, was there and that he was calling the shots. >> he took responsibility at the scene, this fire captain told me. he was in charge. he was calling the shots. he decided and determined that it was best to work on him there for those 42 minutes and try and get him breathing at the scene. the captain told me that when a patient is pulseless and not breathing, there are many things, of course, paramedics can do to try to get the heart

beat again. they gave him oxygens, medicines he would not name, nothing seemed to work. again, this is treatment prescribed at the scene. that's why he wasn't transported. >> now, a source tells our senior network cnn final toxicology reports will be released next week. earlier the l.a.'s coroner's office said the results might be released this week. again, it looks like it's been pushed back by five to seven days. police are interviewing registered sex offenders as they search for a missing 8-year-old boy in boise, idaho. family members say robert manuel was last seen leaving his home on friday evening. investigators are following up more than 100 leads in this case. >> this is robert's bear that has always been close to his heart. our family would love to reunite them together. please do what you can to help. >> the fbi and more than 120

volunteers are helping in this search. robert manuel, by the way, you see his picture there, he's 4'2", weighs about 50 pounds, was last seen wearing a dark t-shirt, blue jeans and black shoes. if you have any information, police are asking you to call 208-570-6457 or to e-mail findrobert@cityofboise.org. thank you so much for helping. a new jersey mayor arrested in a massive corruption investigation has resigned. an attorney representing dennis elwell says this does not mean his client is guilty. >> i'm glad he resigned. it was the best thing he could have did. >> he's in a tough situation. we just wish him well, you know. >> i don't think you can gov earn under that cloud of suspicion. i'm very happy. i think it's the best thing for all of secaucus. >> a political consultant arrested was found dead at his

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her phone call sparked a national debate about what role race plays in police arrest. does she regret calling 911 about what she saw outside the home of a harvard professor? is a message worth 150 characters long worth $150,000? landlords of this building says a woman's tweet destroyed their reputation. people in the pacific northwest snapped up fans and ac as they try to beat the unusually brutal heat. hi, everybody, the latest from hln news and views. welcome, one and all. she said she would place the 911 call again despite everything that happened. that call brought police to the home of henry louis gates in cambridge, mass.

lucia whalen spoke. it has made her fear for her safety. >> i hope people can see that i try to be careful and honest with my words. it never occurred to me that the way i reported what i saw be analyzed by an entire nation. but so many people have responded with words of support. i now, i hope now that the truth of the tapes will help heal the cambridge community as much as it has helped to restore my

reputation and integrity. >> she'd like her privacy back. she respects both professor gates and the cambridge pd. the former secretary of state colin powell says the cambridge police and harvard professor, henry gates, could have handled this arrest much better. powell appeared on "larry king live" last night and he said the police escalated the situation beyond a reasonable level but the professor should have been more patient. >> you are saying gates was wrong? >> i am saying that skip, perhaps in this instance, might have waited a while. come outside. talked to the officer and that might have been the end of it. i think he should have reflected on whether or not this was the time to make that big a deal. >> powell said he's been a victim of racial profiling, including when he was national security adviser to president ronald reagan. gates and sergeant crowley, the officer who made the arrest will

meet tomorrow at the white house with president obama and share a beer or two. federal authorities are looking for an eighth suspect in connection with an alleged north carolina terror group. daniel boyd, a drywall contractor and his two sons among the seven people arrested so far. accused of planning a violent jihad overseas. boyd the son of a marine and the american citizen was the group's ring leader and he spent three years in the middle east buying guns and recruiting groups to kidnap and kill people. >> i think the reason why they wrapped up the case at this point is they were thwarted in throwing jihad overseas and with a massive arsenal they collected, they believe the u.s. was an infidel country that could all be targeted and that meant that they were prepared to die in the course of carrying out suicide bombings. therefore, the possibility existed that they would train on the united states and carry out attacks here. >> a security official says the

boyd family tried to get into israel two years ago, but they were denied entry. the official didn't say why they were stopped. her family traveled to middle east for peaceful reasons, including praying for a son who had died in a car crash. she says her family is good and decent and had weapons because they enjoyed hunting and shooting. sabrina boyd says she has been in contact with her husband. >> i spoke to him, he seemed okay. he said they're innocent. the truth will come out and they're making a lot about nothing. and just for us to be strong because we know we're okay. we're innocent. we're just trying to be muslim in a country who is supposed to assure us our freedom of religion. >> neighbors expressed shock of the allegations saying the boyds were the nicest people and seemed very close. all the suspects will be in court tomorrow for a detention

hearing. we're getting reports of progress in the health care package negotiations in the house, even as the president hits the road to push for reform. a live picture now as the town hall continues. he's in north carolina and virginia today, holding town halls right now in raleigh, durham. he says he wants a plan that will ban denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions and one that holds down costs. he also took a swing at people who predict health care reform will inflate the deficit. >> i can't help but remember those same critics contributed to a $1.3 trillion deficit that i inherited when i took office. i mean, seriously, i'm now president so i'm responsible for solving it, but i do think we should have a selective memory in terms of spending habits.

>> cnn's dana bash is now reporting an agreement has been made among house blue dog democrats, conservative democrats for a health care reform package. the leader of the group tells dana bash the energy and commerce committees will begin marking up a health care bill although there is an agreement, although that bill will not be brought to the floor of the house until august recess. a twitter post could cost a woman $50,000. she's being sued over a tweet she posted about her former chicago landlord. it accused the landdened lord of renting her a moldy apartment. it's damaged and its good name was dragged through the mud. it discovered the tweet when it was preparing to defend itself from a separate lawsuit from the renter. some regular tweeters say they tweet with caution. >> sometimes a lot of people are not aware of how much power it has when you do put something out. once it's out, you can't take it back. >> i definitely censor what i

say on there. i wouldn't put anything about a job interview or past boyfriends or people i dislike. >> a law professor says defamation is extremely hard to prove. we love your views on this. a lot of networking going on among you. should you be legally responsible for what you write on a social networking site which is restricted to a few people you know. send us an e-mail or call us 1-877-tell-hln. or text hlntv is the address, your view. text views "a" if you think, yeah, you should be held responsible or views "b" if you tend to think, no, you shouldn't. sources say michael jackson got the powerful medication propofol just hours before his death. dr. sanjay gupta takes us inside the o.r. as a patient goes under that same anesthetic.

parts of the country experiencing weather much hotter. pacific northwest, we're talking seattle and portland and points in between, right? >> in a place, chuck, that you would think nature's air conditioning works all the time because for the most part people don't have air conditioners out there, at least the people i know that live near the coast, they never need them. can you imagine, though. 98 degrees without any help at all, even if you open the windows you don't get any better. if it gets to 100, and it still could, we're only two degrees away, that would tie the all-time record for any day for any year. not just like for today bewhen we say oh, we broke the record for today. that would be any day, any year since they've been keeping track out there. that's how hot the weather has been in the pacific northwest. one more spot you're talking about. texas. we have reporters out there today documenting what the

deficit, what the drought looks like there where literally there is crop failure going on. people are culling their herds because they can't afford to water and keep the herds going in some of these spots in south texas, south of austin and san antonio and corpus christi, you've only received 23% of your normal rainfall. you are 77% below normal. victoria not that far away. 70%, even harlingen, 63%. all of south texas needs rainfall but, chuck, you know you live in nebraska long enough, at some point plants don't come back. if you stop watering them and getting rain and they die and no watering, no and no tropical storm can save them. >> a bad year for the citrus crop in the rio grande valley. bad weather coming in towards the big apple. >> very quickly. a hail-producing day from pennsylvania to scranton all the way down towards trenton and

philadelphia and even one cell just west of new york city into oronge into new jersey. any of these cells, if they come over to your house, could produce golf ball-size hail and pretty rare for new york city and a lot of damage when you put 15 million people all in one space. this is not like a tennis ball-size hail in kansas. dr. conrad murray had his las vegas home searched yesterday, along with his office. authorities served the warrant on omurray's house. drug and enforcement agents were looking for a lot of things, mostly a document search. investigators spent three hours in the house and left carrying several containers. murray operated clinics in both las vegas and houston, but left those practices to work solely for jackson as his personal physician. he was being paid $150,000 a month for that service. murray apparently needed the money and reportedly has $435,000 in judgment and liens

against him. his biggest problem at the moment may be he administered a dangerous drug, propofol, to michael jackson just before he died. >> we believe that propofol was one of the drugs in his system when he died. the autopsy report hasn't come out yet, we can't be definitive on that. the doctor did tell police that he administered this drug to jackson the morning before he died. so, they want to see if there are any records of how this doctor came in possession of it. are there lot numbers and purchase orders and did he have any correspondence with michael jackson. what phone calls did he make the morning of michael jackson's death. all these things so they can piece together a timeline of what happened and when. >> as you just heard from jim, source at our sister network, cnn, dr. murray gave jackson propofol also known as diprivan in the 24 hours before jackson's death.

murray's attorney said the doctor never gave jackson anything that should have killed him. dr. sanjay gupta took us into an operating room to show how fast this drug works. >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. >> the patient actually stopped breathing. briefly, after he was give on the drug and they had to put in a breathing tube. but that's part of the danger of this drug and why most doctors say it should only be used in a hospital setting. by the way, the patientsent fine. he is awake. he had no complications and he agreed to have us in there as the propofol was administered for surgery. a sad update to a story we talked about out of florida affiliate. rescuers have found the body of a scuba diver who disappeared north of miami. they were all involved in the

search and the coast guard said the missing diver was out searching for lobster during the two-day mini lobster season. some people who put up highway signs may need to brush up on their spelling. they got three out of four words on this sign wrong. why the state agency in charge of it says, not their fault.

arrested in a massive

corruption investigation and this doesn't mean his client is guilty. >> i'm glad he resigned. it is the best thing he could have did. >> he's in a tough sipuation. we just wish him well. >> i don't think he can govern under that cloud of suspicion. i am very happy and i think that is the best thing. >> a political consultant arrested in the same probe was found dead in his home last night. a prosecutors says an autopsy will show how jack shaw died, but it doesn't look like a homicide. 44 people arrested just last week on charges of bribery, money laundering and trafficking organs. a woman found eight months pregnant has been found wrapped inside bedding in her apartment in massachusetts. her fetus was cut out of her womb. they are looking for who killed 23-year-old darlene hanes and the baby may have survived and would need immediate medical attention to survive.

she was dead a few days before her body was found. an autopsy shows she suffered head injuries, although the exact cause of death has not been determined. she had a restraining order against her boyfriend after several domestic vidlns complaints. seemed like the perfect get away until the suspect bragged about it on facebook. they clocked a teen doing 85 last week in wisconsin and an officer gave chase but eventually lost him. later, somebody told police the teen had posted all the details on facebook. police found him and charged him. they say he admitted to being the driver, but said he never saw the police car or those flashing lights. a 4-year-old girl had to go to the hospital after eating candy tainted with oxycontin. the girl was going home with here family after the tampa airport and she got sick after eating skittles. it was probably opened and resealed by somebody. officials have not carried these particular blue bag skittles in months.

>> april was the last time it was on the shelf. so that day that product was not here on the shelf in the airport. if the child picked up the product some place else on a bench or wherever, we can't answer that right now. >> authorities say none of the skittles pulled from the airport contained drugs. wrigley which makes the candy says it will help with the investigation. the girl has been released from the hospital. some democratic senators want to make sure drivers are keeping their eyes on the road and not on their cell phone screens. they're proposing the alert driver's act. ban text messaging while driving or risk losing up to a quarter of their federal highway funds. they say the bill is a response to a number of recent studies. >> they show that when drivers have their eyes on their cell phones instead of on the road, the results can be dangerous and even deadly. recent studies have shown that it is even more dangerous to

text while driving than to drive while drinking. >> the virginia tech transportation institute found texting makes truckers 23 times more likely to have a wreck. 14 states and the district of columbia have outlawed texting while driving. here's a highway sign with three words misspelled on it. the words are business, there we go, doesn't that look better and the only word spelled correctly was exit. wisconsin d.o.t. blamed a contractor who made the sign. >> it's funny because the department of transportation administer programs for these tests that we use for alcohol and maybe they could give one to the company and have them come into check out the employees. >> all spelling aerrors have ben fixed. the cdc reports pregnant women make up 6% of all u.s. swine flu deaths.

they account for only 1% of the overall population and still no firm evidence pregnant women are more at risk. the world health organization says they appear to be, especially in the second and third trimester. a federal advisory panel is meeting today to recommend who should get swine flu shots first. divorce can be hazardous to your health and an analysis of health records concludes people who are divorced or widows have more chronic health conditions like heart disease or cancer than married people do. getting remarried reduces the health damage but it doesn't erase it. on the other hand, people who never marry tend to be healthier than people with a history of divorce. the research appears in "health and social d and disorder." the cancer experts at the world health organization are declaring the device probable carcinogens or causes of cancer. 20 medical studies found people who use tanning beds before age 30 increase their skin cancer risk by 75%.

the tanning bed trade association says responsible use it has never been linked to skin cancer. should you always be discreet when you tweet? a woman getting sued by her landlord for tweeting her complaints.

her phone call sparked a nationdle bait and whether the call itself was racist and lucia whalen said the controversy has made her afraid. elaine? >> well, chuck, you know, 40-year-old lucia whalen who calls you noted led to the arrest of henry gates clearly has been shaken. she's been through the ringer, she said. you can tell that at this news conference today. her hands were shaking and voice trembling and she walked up to the mikes just a short time ago with her attorney and her husband paul by her side, but she said she's been really

criticized as racist, basically, for calling 911 chat she is a white woman who is scared of seeing a black man in her neighborhood. that's basically the way she's been characterized by someone. we know that's not the case because we heard on that 911 call, she never mentioned two black men. she says she's been devastated by these acquisitions of racism against her. still, if she had to, she would do the same thing again. >> you have to know if you're concerned, if you're a concerned citizen, you should do the right thing. if you're seeing something that seems suspicious, i would do the same thing. >> now, whalen says that the only words she spoke to sergeant james crowley, who is on the scene there that day, of course, and who has been part of this whole controversy were to basically raise her hand and say i'm the one that made the 911 call. she said there was really no conversation beyond that,

however, that contradicts what sergeant crowley wrote in his own report. he said that lucia whalen told him that there were two black men with backpacks on the porch. cambridge police haven't offered us an explanation to why there was this discrepancy. we continue to ask him about that. to talk things over on the south lawn at the picnic table there with sergeant and obama and professor gates, that's set to take place tomorrow night. >> was she invited, is that a point that kind of rubs her the wrong way? >> yeah, you know, it's interesting. she did not get an invitation and her attorney, wendy murphy, today really took a little bit of a dig at the white house. and, really, sort of all three men involved. she basically said, look, it's interesting thou three men who in her words overreacted to all of this are going to be sitting down, discussing things together while the citizen who had

exemplary behavior, wendy murphy says and as we could hear from the 911 tape was very calm, cool and collected and didn't make race an issue until she had to be asked about it before she even talked about it. it's interesting that she'll be at work while these three will have beers tomorrow. >> she wants her privacy back, you can tell that. >> she does, yeah. >> elaine, thanks, appreciate it. the man at the strof the michael jackson death investigation dr. conrad murray appears to be in some financial straights. murray reportedly has $435,000 in liens and judgments against him despite $150,000 he was earning a month as jackson's personal physician. he left those practices to work solely for jackson several months ago. murr murray's biggest problem at the moment is he may have administered an illegal drug diprivan to michael jackson before he died.

agents were searching for a lot of things in his house yesterday and left carrying several containers. police also looked through his medical office last week in houston. >> we believe that propofol was one of the drugs in michael jackson's system when he died and the autopsy report hasn't come out and he can't be definitive on that. the doctor did reportedly tell police that he administered this drug to jackson the morning before he died. so, they twunt see if there are any records of how this doctor came in possession of it. are there lot numbers and purchase orders and did he have any correspondence with michael jackson and what phone calls did he make the morning of michael jackson's death. all these things so they can piece together a timeline of what happened and when. >> the timeline beginning with after jackson began rehearsing for the london show. you just heard from our network that he gave jackson propofol in the 24 hours before his death

and murray's attorney said he never gave him anything that should have killed him. dr. sanjay gupta took us inside an operating room to show us how fast this drug works. >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. >> the patient stopped breathing shortly after given the drug. they had a breathing tube in. that's part of the danger of this drug. by the way, the patientsent doing fine. he's awake and he had no complications at all. federal agents are looking for an eighth suspect in connection with an alleged north carolina terror group. daniel boyd, a drywall contractor and two sons are among the seven men arrested so far, all accused of plotting a violent jihad overseas. investigators say boyd, the son of a marine and an american citizen was the group's ringleader. he spent three years in the middle east secretly buying guns

and recruiting groups to kidnap and kill people. >> i think the reason why they wrapped up the case at this point was that they were thwarted in carrying out jihad overseas and with the arsenal they collected, a massive arsenal they believe the u.s. was an infidel country that could have been and that meant they were prepared to die in the course of carrying out suicide bombings. therefore, the possibility existed that they would carry out attacks here. >> the boyd family tried to get into israel two years ago, but were denied entry. the official didn't say why they were stopped. the indictment does not specifically list the targeted countries, but the government claims members of the group travelled to gaza, jordan, israel, kosovo and pakistan to wage jihad but in the rural community where the boyd family is well-liked, some neighbors are coming to their defense. the boyds are a nice, loving family and nicer than most.

boyd's wife says the charges are unsubstantiated and she's asking people not to rush to judgment. >> we'll say that we do have, we do own guns in our home as our constitutional right allows us. >> members of the group purchased several plane tick toots otherwise real and planned meetings there, too. they travelled to israel because they wanted to pray in jerusalem for another son that had died in a car crash. we're getting reports of progress in the health care package negotiations in the house all the while president obama is on the road again. this is an appearance in north carolina in raleigh as he pushes for reform. he's both there and in virginia today. he had just finished that raleigh town hall. he says he wants a plan that would ban denying coverage because of pre-existing conditions and holds down costs. he also took at a swipe at people who predict health care

reform will blow up the deficit. >> i can't help but remember those same critics contributed to a $1.3 trillion deficit that i inherited when i took office. i mean, seriously, you know, i'm now president so i'm responsible for solving it, but i do think we shouldn't have a selective memory in terms of spending habits. >> cnn's dana bash reports an agreement has been reached among the blue dog democrats in the house for a health care reform package. details to be released as the day plays out. the leader of the group tells dana bash the energy and commerce committee will mark up the health care bill though there is some agreement and it will not be brought to the floor of the house until members return from their august recess. bernie madoff is getting praise from a lawyer for some of his victims. why the attorney had good things to say about him.

a twitter post could cost a woman $50,000. she is being sued over a tweet she put over her chicago landlord. the company says its good name was damaged. a spokesman says it discovered the tweet when it was preparing to defend itself from against another lawsuit. some regular tweeters say they tweet with caution. >> they're not aware of how much power it has once it's out. once it's out, you can't take it back. >> i wouldn't put anything about a job interview i have been on recently or anything about past

boyfriends or people i dislike. >> a law professor says defamation is pretty hard to prove. we'd love your views on this. it's our topic. you think you should be legally responsible for what you write on a social networking site or maybe in an e-mail directed at one person or perhaps shared by just a few? what do you think? call us toll free. e-mail address cnn.com/hln. you can join the text poll it's up and running. text views "a" if you think, yes, you should be responsible and views "b" if you think, no, you shouldn't. address being hlntv. in a world where google has become basically a verb, meaning to search online. it's been almost impossible for any other company to crack the internet search market and a major deal could begin and virginia cha joins us with one of the site's more popular stories right now. >> let's take you back to the genesis of this long-awaited

deal. microsoft tried to buy google and google flirted with yahoo!. it is a merger between microsoft and yahoo!. let's tell you how this works. under this ten-year deal, microsoft's new bing search engine will power yahoo! searches. in return, yahoo! will be responsible for attracting big-time advertisers buzz they have more experience in that area. we will not see any changes until next spring and you won't see a huge change because yahoo! keeps its branding and bing keeps its branding and it just affects yahoo! searching. by going into together microsoft and yahoo! tend to take on google's massive 65% market share of all online searches. by the way, microsoft has already made some progress with bing. the new search engine received favorable reviews and microsoft's review is up 8% since bing's june debut. but makes up 8% of all searches and yahoo! is at 19%, a distant

second to google. this is costing microsoft hundreds of millions and taken a little bit of a bite out of yahoo!'s overall revenue but, they say, it makes sense for the long run. now, the question is, what is google's reaction to all this? you can read their response by going to cnnmoney.com. >> you're not going to tell us? >> i'm not going to because it's kind of interesting. >> it's a tease. say no more. let's talk farmers. tough time for farmers but an operation that saves money not just by supplying them more milk, but they supply the power, right? >> talk about natural gas, chuck. we're talking from cow patties to cow power. we'll let you vizt and show you pictures here of hillcrest sailor farm. a fourth generation dairy farm in pennsylvania. you know w the price of milk going down these days and the economy the way it is, it's difficult for them to turn a profit. so, they got creative. the 600 milking cows help power

that farm using the waste. they have a mechanical scraper that collects the waste, the manure is move under to something called a digester, sounds lovely, doesn't it? stores it for 16 days to create methane gas and there's so much of it, it not only powers the farm, but powers a dozen neighboring homes. costs $1 million to install, but saving the farm almost $200,000 a year. the owner says his great-grandfather could just see it now. you could hear more about that reaction at cnn.com/video. >> thanks, virginia. seems everybody is letting their thumbs fly these days, even when they're driving. what some senate democrats want to do to ban texting behind the wheel.

a woman eight months pregnant has been found dead wrapped inside bedding in her apartment in massachusetts. police say her fetus was cut from her womb. they're looking for whoever killed 23-year-old darlene haynes and the newborn. the baby might have survived,

but would need immediate medical attention. she was found a few days before her body was found. she suffered head injuries, although the exact cause of death is not determined. she had a restraining order against the father of her 1-year-old daughter after several domestic violence complaints. police say he has been interviewed. a new jersey mayor arrested in a massive corruption investigation has resigned and an attorney representing dennis elwell said that doesn't mean his client is guilty. >> i'm glad he resigned. it was the best thing that he could have did. >> he's in a tough situation. we just wish him well. >> i don't think you can govern under that cloud of suspicion, so i'm very happy and i think that's the best thing. >> a political consultant arrested in the same investigation was found dead at his home last night. a prosecutor says the autopsy will probably show jack shaw, how he died, but it does not look like a homicide. 44 people arrested last week on

charges of bribery, money laundering and black market transplant organs. seems like the perfect get away until the suspect bragged about it on facebook. they clocked a teen doing 85 in wisconsin last week and an officer gave chase and eventually lost him and then somebody told police that the teen posted all the details on facebook. police found him and charged him. they say he admitted to being the driver and he said he never saw the flashing lights. lawyers hope a jailhouse interview with bernie madoff means more money can be returned to his victims. attorneys representing some of the victims talk would the disgraced financier for four hours yesterday. how he pulled off the ponzi scheme for so many years without getting caught. >> i was very surprised at how candid and open it was, but on the other hand, if you're doing 150 years in a federal prison, you don't have a lot of options. other than to be candid and open. >> filing a lawsuit on behalf of the victims and hopes

yesterday's interview will allow him to name more defendants which, in turn, can allow him to find more money that can be returned. some democratic senators want keeping their eyes on the road and not their cell phone screens and proposing an alert drivers act which would require states to ban texting while driving on pain of losing up to a quarter of their furl who i funds in response to a number of recent studies. >> they show that when drivers have their eyes on their cell phones instead of on the road, the results can be dangerous and even deadly. recent studies have shown that it is even more dangerous to text while driving than to drive while drinking. >> indeed, a study by the virginia tech transportation institute released this week found texting made truck drivers 23 more times toe have an accident. 14 states and the district of columbia have laws that make

driving while texting illegal. divorce can be hazard douse to your health. an analysis of health records concludes people who are divorced or widowed have 20% more chronic health conditions like heart disease or cancer than married people do. getting remarried reduces the health damage but doesn't erase it. on the other hand, people who never marry tend to be healthier than people with a history of divorce. the research appears in the journal of health and social behavior. international cancer experts now consider tanning beds as deadly as arsenic or mustard gas. the cancer experts are declaring the devices probable carcinogens. a new analysis of 20 medical studies found people who use the beds before age 30 increase their skin cancer risk by 75%. a tanning bed trade association disputes that and says it's never a problem for responsible users. former soviet leader mikhail gore bo chov was once considered a rock star among politicians,

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her phone call sparked a national debate about what role race plays in police arrests. does she regret calling 911 about what she saw outside the home of a harvard professor. also, could a tanning bed be as dangerous for you as mustard gas? new research on the cancer risk. and people in the pacific northwest flocking to pools, snapping up fans and air-conditioners as they try to beat the unusually brutal heat there. yeah, we're thinking about all of you there. happy hump day to you on this wednesday. i'm christi paul. you're with hln news and views. we love your company. thanks for being here. i hope the day's been good to you so far. we're getting word of a major agreement that would clear the

way for house vote on its version of the health care reform bill happening as president obama is hitting the road to push for an overhaul of the nation's ailing medical system. back in washington, the final holdouts within the democratic party have signed onto the house version of the bill. the blue dogs have said it would cost too much. in raleigh, north carolina, the president was reassuring audiences despite what critics say, people should not be afraid of reform. >> i have been as clear as i can be under the reform i proposed, if you like your doctor, you keep your doctor. if you like your health care plan, you keep your health care plan. these folks need to stop scaring everybody. you know? >> even with the agreement today, the house measure is not expected to head to the floor for a vote till after the august recess. well, she says that yes, she would place that 911 call again, despite everything that's happened. the call, of course, brought

police to the home of harvard professor henry gates. that's lucia whalen. since his arrest, she says the criticism that she and the community of cambridge, massachusetts are racist has made her fear for her safety. >> i hope people can see that i tried to be careful and honest with my words. and it never occurred to me that the way i-reported what i saw be analyzed by an entire nation. but so many people have responded with words of support, i now -- i hope now that the truth of the tapes will help heal the cambridge community as

much as it has helped to restore my reputation and integrity. >> obviously, very emotional for her to get through that. whalen says she respects both professor gates and the cambridge police department. well, former secretary of state colin powell thinks the cambridge police and harvard professor henry gates could have handled the arrest a lot better. he appeared on "larry king live" last night and he said the police escalating the situation beyond a reasonable level in his opinion, but that the professor who powell called skip should have been more patient. >> you're saying gates was wrong? >> i'm saying that skip perhaps in this instance might have waited awhile, come outside, talked to the officer, and that might have been the end of it. i think he should have reflected on whether or not this was the time to make that big a deal. >> powell also said he's been a

victim of racial profiling himself including when he was national security advisor to president reagan. gates and sergeant james crowley, by the way, the officer who made the arrest will pleat with president obama at the white house tomorrow. you know, they're cranking up the ac in the northwest if they had any. heat advisories in a region known for cool weather. high for seattle at 100 today. that would make it the hottest day on record there. the unusual heat waves has lasted for several days now and winds off the pacific are expected to cool things down a bit, hopefully by friday. we hope that is the case for all of you out there. we're learning more about the final moments of michael jackson's life. paramedics say the superstar wasn't breathing, had no pulse when they got to his rented home. a fire department official said he received every possible life saving treatment, what they called the hallelujah package. they also said they worked on him for 42 minutes and they say

he was just too far gone to be rushed to the hospital. they went on to contend that his personal doctor, conrad murray, was there and that evers calling the shots. >> he took responsibility at the scene, this fire captain told me. he was in charge, he was calling the shots. he decided and determined that it was best to work on him there for those 42 minutes and try and get him breathing at the scene. the captain told me when a patient is pulseless and not breathing there are many things paramedics can do to try to get the heart beating again. they gave him oxygen and medicines he would not name. nothing seemed to work. again, this is treatment that was prescribed at the scene and that's why he wasn't transported. >> since jackson's death we've talked but powerful propofol is. we haven't shown you how quickly it, would, not till now. coming up, chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is taking us into his operating room and will give us a

demonstration so we get a sense what this drug is. meanwhile, final toxicology reports will be released next week. remember, earlier the coroner's office had said the reports might be release this had week, but looks like they've been pushed back a bit. federal authorities are looking for an eighth expect in connection with an alleged north carolina terror group. daniel boyd, a drywall contractor, his two sons are among the seven people arrested thus far accused of plotting a violent jihad overseas. now, investigators say boyd, the son of a marine who is an american citizen, was the group's ringleader. they say he spent three years in the middle east secretly buying guns and recruiting people to kidnap and kill. >> i think the reason why they wrapped up the case at this point was that they were thwarted in carrying out jihad overseas and with the arsenal that they had collected, they believed the u.s. was and i

fidel country that could be targeted. they all swore allegiance to martyrdom and that meant they were prepared to die in the course of carrying out suicide bombings. therefore, the possibility existed that they would train their ire on the united states and carry out attacks here. >> now, a security official says the boyd family tried to get into israel two years ago but were refused entry. the official did not say though why they were stopped. now, boyd's wife, sabrina, says her family traveled to the middle east for peaceful reasons, including praying for a son who had died in a car crash. she contends her family is good and decent. and had weapons because they enjoyed hunting and shooting. she says she has been in contact with her husband. >> i spoke to him. he seemed okay. he said they're the innocent. the truth will come out. they're making a lot about nothing. and just for us to be strong because we know we're okay.

we're innocent. we're just trying to be muslim in a country who is supposed to assure us our freedom of religion. >> neighbors have expressed shock about the allegations saying the boyds were "the nice evident people," that they seemed very close. ought suspects will be in court tomorrow though for a detention hearing. a new jersey mayor arrested in that massive corruption investigation has resigned. now an attorney representing dennis elwell of secaucus says this does not mean his client is guilty. >> i'm glad he resigned. it was the best thing he could have did. >> he's in a tough situation. we just wish him well, you know? >> i don't think you can governor under that cloud of suspicion. so i'm very happy and i think it's the best thing for all of secaucus. >> something kind of eerie. a political consultant arrested

in that same investigation was found dead at his home last night. a prosecutor says an autopsy will determine how jack shawl died but it does not look like a homicide. 44 people were arrested last week on charges of bribery, money laundering and trafficking in black market transplant organs. well, some democratic senators want to make sure that drivers are keeping their eyes on the road and not on your cell phone screens. they're proposing the alert drivers act. this would require states to ban text messaging while driving or risk losing up to a quarter of their federal highway funds. the virginia tech transportation institute found texting makes truck drivers 23 times more likely to have an accident. 14 states and the district of columbia have outlawed driving while texting already. so when you post, when you post on facebook or twitter, do you ever stop to consider what you say could cost you your job, get you sued, land you in jail? okay.

here are three cautionary tales for you. first of all, a political aide in new york resigned after one of her facebook posts created an uproar at city hall. lelanders wrote about president obama's reaction to the arrest of henry gates. here's what she said. oh, dumb a, the situation got out of hand because gates is a racist, not because the officer was doing his job. a source says landor resigned after being told jump or be pushed. in chicago, a woman is being sued over a twitter post. she sent a tweet saying her landlord rented her a moeltdy apartment. horizon realty asked 50,000 damages for defamation. then wisconsin, a teenager is facing criminal charges after bragging he was a suspect who got away during a high speed chase. someone who read the post called police. so, we, after you hear all of

that, want to know what you think regarding texting and how much maybe you should disclose. should you, do you think, be held legally responsible for what you write on a social networking site or in an e-mail? call us right now at 1-877-tell-hln. you can e-mail us too, cnn.com/hln, and we're going to be airing your responses throughout the day. thank you so much. well what might tanning beds have in common with arsenic and mustard gas? why some scientists think the beds should incumbent same category.

international cancer experts now consider tanning beds as deadly as arsenic or mustard gas. the cancer experts at the world health organization are declaring the devices possible carcinog carcinogens. a new analysis found people who use the beds before age 307b

increase their skin cancer risk by 75%. a tanning bed trade association insists responsible use has never been linked to skin cancer. u.s. swine flu may be more dangerous to pregnant women than most other people. the cdc is reporting traeth women make up 6% of all u.s. swine flu deaths and account for only 1% of the population. there's still no firm evidence they are more at rick. the world health organization says they appear to be particularly in the second and third trimester. a panel is meeting today to recommend who should get the swine flu shots first. the agency in charge of regulating trade of commodities such as crude oil says it had the responsible to protect the american people from skyrocketing prices and now proposing new rules to prevent a spike in oil prices like we saw last summer. i know you remember that. poppy harlow has our energy fix

from new york. poppy, break this down for us, won't you? >> how could we forget that $147 a barrel oil. this is the commodity futures trading commission or cfcc for short. they've been holding hearings in washington this week trying to figure out the best way to shield customers from surging oil prices due to, quote unquote, excessive speculation. i want to break it down for you because we all speculate on oil prices but some collect the oil and some don't. airlines for example buy oil through these futures contracts and actually collect on that oil. then there are hedge funds and investment banks and investors like you and i that can buy these oil futures contracts but don't necessarily collect the oil. with more and more investors pushing their money into oil in the last year or so, crude prices have soared, obviously they're way down from where they were last summer. cnn's allan chernoff reported on it back in 2007 but what is new is that the cftc is proposinging

trading limits for those financial companies. it's also garnering limits widespread support including from the chicago mercantile exchange where a lot of commodities including oil is traded. so it's a heated debate about this issue. the ultimate goal in the end, help the consumer. >> right, but this is what's interesting. the commodities futures trading commission said last summer excessive speculation did not cause prices to spike. that it was mainly a supply and demand issue. so people are probably looking at this thinking is this a complete reversal of its position? >> let's be clear. officially no, they said it is not reversing that decision but this all got a lot of attention because yesterday "the wall street journal" reported they are going to issue a new report next month that says speculation played a signatures role in surging oil prices last summer. if that happens, that would be a complete reversal of their previous report. they do say the journal's report is premature but they told us

it's in favor of curbing speculation in order to protect consumers. let's show you a chart so you can see the demand picture versus the price picture. what you see in blue there is the price of crude from june woven june of this year. obviously, the price spiked in july of 2008. look at the red line. that's the demand line. so it's really hard to make the argument that it was a surge in demand that drove prices higher as you can see, those two lines aren't in order. we want to know what you think. logon to facebook.com/poppy harlow. i want to know what you think about this argument, is it excessive speculation or supply and demand? let us know. >> great demonstration there. thank you so much. sources say michael jackson got the powerful medication propofol in the hours before his death. dr. sanjay gupta is taking us inside the o.r. as a patient goes under that same anesthetic. see for yourself what happens.