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springsteen. most sellers are desperate to get rid of their ticket. you'll see prices drop. >> businesses offer all kinds of discounts to drum up sales. the same with concert venues? >> it is. people are so used to buying tickets online you forget we used to do this by going to the venue itself tlchlt are great deals there. entertainment book will offer buy two get two free tickets or some of the local venues in px detroit. in tampa they're offering $15 recession buster tickets. >> did you ever get a great deal yourself on a great concert? >> i'm hoping to go see u-2. i'm looking for prices to go down. >> where the streets have no name. kelly grant. microsoft and yahoo have finalized a partner deal they hope will make you rethink the way you search the web. they're hoping to mount a real challenge to google.
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yahoo has agreed to used microsoft's new search engine bing. once millions of yahoo users check out bing it will break the habit of using google. in return yahoo gets most of the ad revenue. the company spent about a year and a half firming up the deal. more than a billion apps have been downloaded for the iphone. they rejected google voice. for one reason it kpeecompetes services from at&t. it lets users access multiple phones from a single number. it also provides text versions of voice messages. despite the rejection, google and apple remain tight. so tight regulators are always looking for any sign of anticompetition trade practices. the first e-commerce store is open for business. 1-800-flowers.com features a link to make shoppers make
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purchases while remaining on facebook. you have to type in all the characters, 1-800-flowers.com. shortened versions will land you on pages critical of the company. so far, only 1600 people have signed up for the fan page. lawyers hope a jailhouse interview with bernie madoff will mean more money can be returned to his victims. attorneys representing some of the victims talk with the disgraced financeer for four hours. he revealed details about how he pulled off a ponzi scheme for so many years without getting caught. >> i was very surprised at how candid and open he was. 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. >> he's filing a lawsuit on behalf of the victims in hopes
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yesterday's interview will allow him to name more defendants. which in turn could help him find more money that can be returned. next stop for "endeavour," home sweet home. it undocked yesterday from the international space station. this included five space walks totalling 30 hours. they will do damage check. they're supposed to be back on earth friday morning. should you always be discreet when you tweet? lots of people like to vent on social networking sites. those rants can stir up some serious trouble. how much are you accountable for? what you say to your friends an followers? we're going to get your views.
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her # 911 call sent the officer to professor gates' house. she says the criticism that she and the community are racist has
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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
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self-proclaimed white supremacist james von brunn now faces murder and has charges. he's accused of killing a guard in washington. an indictment was handed up today. on june 10th authorities say von brunn carried a rifle inside the museum near the national mall and shot and killed 40-year-old stephen jones. the 89-year-old suspect was wounded as other guards returned fire. he's been in the hospital since the shooting. word of a major agreement that would clear the way for the house vote on its version of the health care reform package. this time in raleigh, north carolina, president obama is pushing for an overhaul of the nation's medical system. the final holdouts within the democratic party back in washington have apparently signed onto the house version of the reform bill. the so-called blue dog democrats. they said it cost too much. in raleigh the president reassured the crowd they have
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nothing to fear on the matter -- no matter what the critics of the plan say. >> i have been as clear as i can be. under the reform i propose if you like your doctor your 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 may not reach the floor until after the august recess. they've been cranking up the ac right now in the pacific northwest. if they had any. triple-digit temperatures triggered heat advisories in a region known for cool weather. that pacific layer has evaporated. it's just gone away. temperature hit 100 degrees in seattle. that's the hottest ever. in that city. the emerald city. the usual heat wave -- unusual heat wave lasted several days already. winds off the pacific are expected to cool things down a bit. by friday they'll get back to normal. federal officials are looking for an eighth suspect in
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connection with an alleged terrorist group. the man has been identified as jude keenan mohammed. daniel boyd and his two contractor sons are among the seven people accused so far. boyd is the son of a marine and an american citizen. 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 they were thwarted in carrying out jihad overseas. they were prepared to die in the source of carrying out suicide bombings. the possibility existed that they would carry out the acts here. >> a security official said the boyd family tried to get into
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india two years ago. 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.
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that's been reset for next week. a woman eight months pregnant was found dead wrapped in bedding at her apartment in massachusetts. 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 medical attention. she was dead a few days before her body was found. she suffered head injuries, although the exact cause of death has not been determined. court records show 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. police are interviewing registered sex offenders in idaho. family members say robert manwill was last seen leaving home on friday. investigators are following up more than 100 leads in the case. >> this is robert's bear that has always been close to his
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heart. our family would love to reunite them together. please do what you can to help. >> the fbi, more than 120 volunteers are combining to search for the boy. he's 4'2", weighs the 50 pounds. last seen in a dark t-shirt, blue jeans and black shoes. if you have information please call police in boise. 208-570-6457. or e-mail findrobert@cityofboise.org. a 4-year-old girl had to go to the hospital after eating candy tainted with oxycontin. she was going home with her family after she got sick from skit ls. the bag had pills in and it was probably opened and resealed by someone. airport officials say they've not carried these particular blue bag skit ls in months. that day that product was not on the shelves here at the airport. if the child picked up a product
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some place else, on a bench or whatever, we can't answer that now. >> none of the skittles pulled from shelves contained drugs. wrigley says it will help with the investigation. the girl has been released from the hospital. international cancer experts consider tanning beds as deadly as arsenic or mustard gas. they're declaring the devices as probable carcinogens or causes of cancer. a new analysis found people who use tanning beds before age 30 increase skin cancer risk by 75%. the tanning bed train association insists responsible use has never been linked to skin cancer. democratic senators want to make sure drivers are keeping their eyes on the roads and not the cell screens. they're proposing the alert drivers act. it would require states to ban text messaging while driving or risk losing up to a quarter of their federal highway funds. the bill is a response to a
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number of recent studies. >> they show that when drivers have their eyes on their cell phones instead of on the road the results are deadly. recent studies show it's more dangerous to text while driving than to drive while drinking. >> the virginia tech transportation institute found texting make truck drivers 23 times more likely to have an accident. 14 states in the district of columbia have outlawed driving while texting. sources say michael jackson got the powerful medication propofol in the hours before his death. dr. sanjay gupta takes us inside the o.r. as a patient goes under the same anesthetic. see for yourself what happens.
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the man at the center of the michael jackson death investigation dr. conrad murray appears to be in financial trouble. he has $435,000 in judgments and liens against him in spite of the $150,000 a month salary he was getting as jackson's personal physician. murray left those practices to work solely for jackson. his biggest problem right now, though, may be that he allegedly administered a dangerous drug, propofol, to michael jackson in the hours before he died. l.a. police and dea agents were "searching for a lot of things" in his house yesterday and left carrying several containers. dr. sanjay gupta takes us inside the operating room for a lesson on propofol 101. >> there's been a lot of discussion regarding propofol, how exactly to use it, and is it
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considered safe any any setting except a hospital or a medical setting. i decided pictures are worth a thousand words. i'm going to show you firsthand what really happens. come on in. so we are here inside the operating room with the chief of anesthetics. propofol he uses all the time. >> milk of amnesia they call it. >> you okay? >> we have to monitor his ekg. we have to see the saturation. we have to make sure he's d dilated. >> standard of care. >> typical. >> so the propofol -- >> you'll get sleepy vincent. give me some good, deep breaths. >> take a look at his eyes how
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quickly. >> deep breath, benson. doing great. may feel a little burning, okay? >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. >> there's a reason for his heart rate increasing. >> his eyes closed. and what else? >> we look up here. he stopped breathing. this is watching, and he's not breathing. >> take a look over here. all the breathing right now is taking place with this bag and this mask. from that medication you wouldn't be able to breathe on your own without those things. you can see part of the problem. just with that much propofol there he stopped breathing. he's going to need a breathing the tube. >> easy. >> easy. >> what's so attractive about
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this medication? >> it's just basically a quick on, quick off. why people may think it's something they can do at home. if it gets out of hand it goes away quickly. if it gets out of hand and nobody is there to resuscitate you, nobody can bring you back. >> that was quick. you gave him the medication. he's gone from being completely awake to completely asleep. >> he's not breathing. i'm breathing for him. this is a hospital that uses the medication thousands and thousands times a year. they use the hospital in settings. they've never heard of it being used in a home. >> in case you're wondering the patient you saw going under in that report gave his permission to show the procedure. he's doing fine. he's awake with no complications. should you always be discreet when you tweet? lots of people like to vent on social networking sites. those rants can stir up serious
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trouble. three new reasons you may want to think twice before you post.
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the agency that regulates the market for commodities like
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crude oil says it has a responsibility to protect the american people from skyrocketing prices. and it's proposing new rules to prevent another spike in oil prices similar to the one we saw almost exactly one year ago. cnnmoney.com's poppy harlow has our energy fix from new york. poppy, hi. >> hey, chuck. we all remember the $147 a barrel or more than $4 bucks at the gas station for a gallon of regular unleaded. how could you forget? they're holding hearings this week trying to figure out the best week to shield consumers from surging oil prices because of excessive speculation. let's differentiate between airlines that buy oil through contracts. they use the oil. they take the delivery of it. then there's a lot of financial institutions like hedge funds, investment banks that will buy the oil futures contracts but then sell them at a higher price. they don't collect the oil.
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a lot more investors putting money into the market over the past few years. this is driving prices higher. this is proposing trading limits for the financial companies. it's getting widespread report. there were a lot of the commodities, oil, et cetera, the hope is to help consumers bring the prices to a more normal level. some consistency to the picture. >> have they reserved their position? it wasn't excessive speculation but supply and demand that led to the spike? >> you're right. that is what they said. the cfdc is not changing what they said. the "wall street journal" reported yet heir going to issue a report next month saying speculation played a significant role in the surging oil prices.
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if that happens that would be a complete reversal of the previous report. the cdfc saying the "wall street journal" report is mature and accurate. let's quickly wrap up here with the chart that will paint a picture for you. here is two lines. the blue is the price of oil from june '07 to june of this year. spike there in july of 2008. the red is demand or consumption of crude oil. as you can see, check, they are in the in line. that's why people are asking a lot of questions. >> something is up. poppy, good to to see you. thank finalized their partnership deal they hope will make you rethink the way you search the web. the two companies are hoping they can mount a real challenge to google as part of their ten year deal. yahoo! has agreed to use bing. microsoft positions once users will check it out, they'll break the habit of using google for
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online searches. they spent wiabout a year and a half firming up the deal. 1-800-flowers.com features as link that will make shoppers remain on facebook. the company admits finding the page is a bit prop matt tick. you have to type in all the characters. shortened versions will land you on pages critical of the company. the store is hoping to attract facebook members that use the site to mark birth day, an verse ris and other special occasions. when you post on facebook or twitter, do you ever consider what you say could cost you your job, get you sued, maybe land you in jail in here are three cautionary tales to talk about. a plig aide in new york has resigned after one of they posts created an uproar at city hall. lee wrote about president obama's reaction to the arrest of a harvard professor by saying "oh, duma, the situation got out of hand because gates is a
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racist, not because the officer was doing his job. well, a source says landor resigned after being told to either jump or be pushed. in chicago arc woman is being sued over a twitter post. she said her landlord rented her a moldy apartment. they sued and asked for damages and and a business which is teen brag that had she was the one who got away on a high speed chase. somebody read that post and called police. the new caddies at a golf course cannot read the greens.
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does she regret calling 911 about what she saw outside the home of a harvard professor? propofol is the you powerful
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anesthetic linked to michael jackson's death. you'll see what happens when it's given to a patient. and people in the pacific northwest flock to pools as they try to beat the unusually brutal heat. here's the latest from hln news. i'm richelle carey. thank you for your time. listen to this. she says she would place the 911 call again despite everything that has happened nap call brought police to the home of harvard professor henry lewis gates. lucia whalen spoke to reporters and she said the criticism she's received that she's 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.
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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. the man at the center of the michael jackson death investigation had his home searched yesterday. authorities surveying the warrant on murray's house were searching for a lot of things. investigators spent about three
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hours in the house and left carrying several containers. murray operated clinics in las vegas, also in houston, but he left those practices to work solely for jackson as his personal fish and was getting paid $150,000 a month for that service. and apparently did he need the money. had is what we know. he reportedly has 435,000 in judgments and liens against him. his biggest problem at the moment may be that he allegedly administered the dangerous drug propofol to jackson before he died. >> we believe that propofol was one of the drugs that was in michael jackson's system when he died. the autopsy report hasn't come out, so we can't be definitive on that. but the doctor did reportedly tell police that he administered this doctor you rug to jackson g before he died. so they want to see if there are any records how this doctor came in possession of it, are there
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purchase order, did he have any correspondence with michael jackson, what phone calls did he make the morning of his death. all these things so they can piece together a time line of what happened and when. >> as you engineers heard from jim, a source tells our sister network cnn dr. murray allegedly gave jackson propofol 24 hours before his death. murray had said the doctor never gave anything that should have killed him. dr. sanjay gupta, took us into the operating room to show us just how quickly this drug works. >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. >> and the patient stopped breathing shortly after he was given the drug and they had to
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put in a breathing tube and that's part are the danger. most doctors say it should only be used in hospital. that patient is doing just fine. he had no complications. federal authorities are looking for apeighth suspect in connection with an alleged north carolina terror group. sources say the man had been identified as jude mohammed, he's believed to be in pakistan. daniel boyd, a drywall contractor and his two sons are among the seven arrested so far. they are 00 accused of plotting a violent jihad overseas. investigators say boyd, the son of a marine, and an 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. they say their family is good and decent and had weapons because they enjoy hunting and shooting. sabrina boyd says she's been in contact with her husband.
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>> 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 thouknow we're okay, we're innocent. just trying to being muslim and in a country that's supposed to assure us our freedom of religion. >> all the suspects were supposed to have a hearing tomorrow. that has been rescheduled for next week. self proclaimed white supremacist james von brunn now face as murder charge and also hate crime charges. von brunn is accused of killing a guard at the national holocaust museum in washington. that indictment was handed down take da. it was back on jaun 10th he carried a rifle into the museum near the national mall and shot and killed 40-year-old steven johns. the 89-year-old suspect was
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wounded when other guards returned fire. von brunn has been in the hospital since that shooting. a woman who was eight months pregnant has been found dead wrapped in bedding inside a closet at her apartment in massachusetts and police say her fetus was cut from her womb. they're looking for whoever killed 23-year-old darlene haines and that also newborn. investigators say the baby might have survived and would have needed immediate medical attention to stay alive. haines was apparently found dead -- was apparently dead, rather forks a few days before her body was found. an autopsy show that had she suffered head injuries but the exact cause of death hasn't been determined yet. court records show haines had a restraining order against the father of her 1-year-old daughter following several domestic violence complaints. police say he has been interviewed. a new jersey mayor arrested in that massive corruption investigation that we told you about last week has resigned. an attorney representing dennis
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elwell says this doesn't mean his client is guilty. >> i'm glad he resigned. it was it the best thing that key have done. >> he was in a tough situation. we just wish him well. >> i don't think he should govern under that cloud of suspicion. so i'm rae happy and i think it's the best thing for all of secaucus. >>. a political consultant was found dead in his home last night. the prosecutor says it doesn't look like a homicide, but an autopsy will tell. 44 people were arrested last week on charges of bribery, money laundering and trafficking and black market transplant organs. should you always be discreet when you tweet? a woman is actually getting sued by her landlord if using twitter to air her complaints. is her freedom of speech being violated, is her landlord crossing the line? we'll get your views.
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a twitter post could cost a woman $50,000. that's a lot of cash. she's being sued over a tweet she posted about her former landlord in chicago. her tweet accused the landlord of renting her a moldy apartment. the company says its good name was damaged. a spokesman says it discovered the tweet when it was prepared to defend itself against a separate lawsuit from the renter. regular twitter users 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 sensor 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. >> good for her. a law professor says defamation is extremely hard to prove.
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we've been asking what do you think? do you think people who make comments on social networking sites or maybe just shoot off an e-mail should be held legally responsible in let get to the phone. first up is dennis calling from manchester. do you get fired up about something and you want to put something on one of your object web site or an e-mail, do you think should you be able to do that in. >> >> caller: yeah,dy, as a matter of fact. i put it on a web site, www -- >> don't say it, don't say it. that's okay. you don't have to tell us which one. >> caller: yeah. and, well, i give all my money to my girlfriend so they can go ahead and sue me. but i'm looking at this picture here, and i did a web search on this subject, and the woman's apartment, it looks like it's got mold all over the ceiling and wall. >> dennis, let's just keep it
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general. let's not talk specifically about this because apparently it's probably in court, so we don't really know the back and forth about but in general, do you think someone should be legally held responsible for what they put on some of these web sites? >> caller: well, if it's not true, yeah, there's an issue there. but this seems like it's just a challenge it see who's got more money to pay for legal fees. >> okay. so you think maybe they're trying to fool it here a little bit. thank you for your phone call. chris is calling us from los angeles. what's your take on this? >> caller: i think pretty much you have to break it down to its simplest form. there are two sides to the equation. there are e-mail which is are personal matters and then public postings such as twitter, facebook, et cetera. if it's a matter of e-mail, those should be considered personal unless they're voched in criminal activity. at that point, then they are the property of the government and they take whatever necessary steps.
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second point, public sites and public forum are just that, they are in the public. i'm sure we do have a freedom of speech, but we do also have the responsibility to know that we are and should be held accountable for what we say in a public forum. tweeter is a public forum. and if you're engaging in libel or slanderous activity, should you be held accountable. if she didn't know it before, she know it is thousand. >> chris, are you an attorney? >> caller: no, but i should be. >> pretty good. pretty good. chris, thank you very much. and i think there's probably even an issue whether or not all e-mail is private if you really want to talk about it. chris, thank you so much. mike is calling us from california. mike, are you an attorney? >> caller: no. >> okay. go for it. >> caller: well, hi there. thanks for taking my call. if it's true, what's the problem in voicing your opinion or your thoughts via any venue? whether it's twitter or my face oig or you put up a billboard in the middle of the highway. and regarding the person with
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the the mold, she should probably sue the owner over the mold and get that taken care of, then maybe it would slap in some sense into him. >> she might take your advice. we'll have to follow that. >> caller: if i post on to wit thaer my child is a brat, is he going to sue me shall. >> they might nowadays. up never though. >> caller: what's happening in this had country? >> thank you, mike. i appreciate it. mike thinks you should be able to say what you want to say and hopefully maybe it would be true. we've got a lot of comments on my hln facebook page. eric wrote, aren't we protected unit the law for human speech in if it was a tweet and not a complete defamation of character, it will get thrown out of court, a waste of taxpayer's money. kevin wrote a newspaper is held responsible if they can't back up their statements. i think the general public should be held to the same standard. be careful what you write. jena disagrees. not if it's the truth. my first apartment had roaches
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and i slung mud whenever i had the chance. and at last check, the results of our unscientific test poll find 40% of you feel you should be legally accountable for your online post. 60% do not. thanks for all the e-mails, phone calls, the posts on facebook. you were great today. if you still want to share your comment, this is what you can do, "prime news" starts at the top of the hour. great topic on that show that you can comment on. so check them out at cnn.com/"prime news" and see how you can get your views heard. not many people have nice things to say about convicted killer better nad madoff, but he has been appraised from his lawyer for some of his victims. why the attorney had good things to say about him.
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have some live pictures for you. president obama just now getting to a kroger supermarket in bristol, virginia. that's where he's about to hold a second town hall meeting today all about health care. this event comes as we're getting word of a major agreement that would clear the way for a house vote on its version of the health care reform bill. we again wanted to show you him just now getting there. back this washington, the final holdo holdout. they said it cost too much.
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earlier in raleigh, the president was reassuring his audiences that in spite of what critics say, people shouldn't be afraid of reform. >> i have been as clear as i can. 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. >> even with the agreement today, the house measure may not head to the floor for a vote until after the august recess. lawyers are hoping a jailhouse interview with bernard madoff will mean more money can be returned to his victims. attorneys representing some of the victims talked with the disgraced financier for four hours yesterday. madoff revealed details about how he pulled off the ponzi scheme for so many years without getting caught. >> i was very surpriseded at how candid and open he was, but on the other hand, if you're doing 150 years in a federal prison,
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you don't have a lot of options other than to be candid and open. >> he's filing a lawsuit on behalf of the victims and hopes yesterday's interview will allow him to name more defendants. that in turn could help him find more money that can be returned. stocks split today as investors pondered several government reports and a long awaited company partnership. hey, stephanie. >> recent rally seems to be on hold as stocks declined for a second day in a row. the dow moving 26 points to end at 9070. nasdaq gave up seven to 1967. that s&p 500 dropped about half a percent. durable goods orders plunged a bigger than expected 2.5% last month add to go fears that the economy may not be stabilizing quite as much as some recent economic reports suggest. this afternoon, the federal reserve released its back which
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details the economic conditions in different regions of the country. economic activity continued to be weak in most areas. and finally, investors were disappointed by the conditions of a new ten year pardoner ship between microsoft and yahoo!. searches on yahoo! will now be powered by bing and microsoft will pay yahoo! nearly 90% of the ad revenue generated. the idea is to offer a google alternative that holds a significant share of the search market. investors had he expected yahoo! to receive an up front payment. it didn't get it and yahoo! shares went down 12% today. so not all good news. >> no, not at all, but people think google, so it will be hard to muscle in on their turf, don't you think? >> google is a verb in the culture. >> well said. all right, thank you. we're all feeling the pinch in the shaky economy. clark howard is here to help you. so logon to cnn.com/clark,
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submit your i-report. . it could be collected to be profiled. and you'll get valuable advice from our money coach. they need to be kank cranking up the ac in the pacific northwest. this are heat advisories in a region known for its cool weather. the temperature has hit 100 degrees in seattle marking -- making it, rather, the hottest day on record there. the usual heat wave lasted for several days. winds off the pacific ocean are expected to cool things down a bit on on friday. investigators in los angeles and the dea have all taken on the might be al jackson case. who is taking the lead? jane la va lez mitchell takes a look. fr
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james von brunn now face as murder charge and hate crime charges. von brunn is accused of killing a guard at the national holocaust museum in washington. the indictment was handed up today.
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it was back on june 10th when authorities say von brunn carried a rifle into the museum near the national mall and shot and killed 40-year-old steven johns. the 89 suspect was wounded when other guards returned fire. of that brun has been in the hospital since the shooting. a woman who was eight months pregnant has been found dead wrapped in bedding inside a closet at her apartment in massachusetts. police say her fee it tuesday was cut for her womb. they're looking for whoever killed 23-year-old darlene haines and they're looking for the newborn. investigators say the baby might have survived and would have needed immediate medical attention to stay alive. haines was apparently dead for a few date before her body was found. an autopsy showed her suffered head injury but the exact cause of her death hasn't been determined. court records show haines had a restraininged order against the father of her 1-year-old daughter following several domestic violence complaints. police say he hats been
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interviewed. president obama is holding a second town hall meeting of the day on health care. this is happening at a kroger supermarket in bristol, virginia. live pictures for you right now. and this is coinciding with word of a major agreement that was cleared the guy a house vote on its version of the health care reform bill. back in washington, the final holdouts within the democratic party signed on. we're talking about the blue dogs. they were concerned saying that they thought it cost too much. earlier today in raleigh, the president was reassuring his audiences in spite of what critics were saying people shouldn't 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 immediate to stop scaring everybody. >> even with this agreement today, the house measure may not head to the floor for a vote until after the august recess.
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she says she would place that 911 call again in spite of everything that has happened. that call of course brought police to the home of harvard professor henry lewis gates. lucia whal event n spoen earlie. she says a criticism that she or the community is 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 hope now that the truth of the
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tapes will help heal the cambridge community as much as it has helped to restore my reputation and integrity. >> she went on to say that she respects both professor gates and the cambridge police department. well, they would be cranking up the pacific ac in the pacific northwest if they had any. triple digit temperatures have triggered heat advisories in a region known for its cool weather. the temperature has hit 100 degrees in seattle making this the hottest day on record there. the unusual heat wave has lasted for several days, but winds off the pacific ocean may cool things down a bit by friday. f. they can hang in there. federal authorities are looking for an eighth suspect in connection an alleged north
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carolina terror group. sources say the man has been identified as jude mohammed, believed to be in pakistan. daniel boyd, a drywall contractor and his two sons were among the seven people arrested so far. they're accused of plotting a violet jihad overseas. investigators say boyd, the son of a marine, was the group's ring leader. he spent three years in the middle east secretly buying guns and recruiting groups to kidnap and kill people. boyd's wife, sabrina, says her family travels to the middle east for peaceful reasons including praying for a son who had died in a car crash. she says her family is good and decented a had weapons because then joyed hunting and shooting. she says she's been this contact %ith 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
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because we know we're okay. we're innocent. we're just trying to be muslim in a country who it's supposed to assure us our freedom of religion. >> neighbors have expressed shock about these allegations saying the boyds were the nicest people. all the suspects were supposed to have a detention hearing tomorrow. that has been rescheduled for next week. the man at the center of michael jackson investigation, dr. conrad murray, had his las vegas home searched yesterday. we brought you some of that live. authorities serving the warrant said los angeles police and drug enforcement agents were searching for a lot of things. investigators spent about three hours in the house and left carrying several containers. murray operated clinics in las vegas, unless houston, but he left those practices to work only for michael jackson has his personal fish and was gettiphys and was getting paid about $150,000 a month to do that.
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he reportedly has 435,000? judgments and liens against him. his biggest problem at the moment may be he allegedly administered the dangerous drug propofol to jackson before he died. >> we believe that propofol was one of the drugs that was in michael jackson's system when he died. the autopsy report hasn't come out yet. so we can't be definitive on that. but the doctor did reportedly 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, are there purchase orders drks he have any correspondence with michael jackson. what phone calls did he make the morning of michael jackson's death, all of these things so they can piece together a time line of what happened and when. >> dr. murraying aedly gave jackson proepful in the 24 hours before he died.
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murray's attorney has said the doctor never gave jackson anything that should have killed him. dr. sanjay gupta took us into the operating room to show us just how fast this drug works. >> ten, nine, eight, seven, six, five, four, three, two, one. >> and the patient stopped breathing shortly after he was given the drug and they had to put in a breathing tube which i believe is standard. most doctors say it should only be used in hospital. that patient is doing just fine. he had no complications. two major players are joining forces to try to take down google. the search for a search engine partnership and google's days might be numbered.
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just a few minutes ago, the centers for disease control and prevention finished a meeting on the h1n1 virus. yes, that is the swooin flew. several recommendations came out of session. the cdc is suggesting vaccinations for five groups of people. pregnant women, health care and emergency workers, adolescents and young adultses from six months to 24 clears old, healthy adults with certain medical conditions, and any caregivers who have contact with children six months or younger. the guidelines were approved by a nearly unanimous vote, but it does not trigger a decision to vaccinate against the decision. a world where google has basically become a verb, it's
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been almost impossible for any other company to crack the internet search market. but a major deal today could start to change that. nicole is here with more on one of the site's most popular stories. somebody's trying to take down google? who do they think they are? >> they think they are microsoft and yahoo!. this has s. like a courtship in the making. now they're finally getting together kind of, not in a merger, but in a partnership. so basically when you go on to yahoo! you're not going to search in their search bar with xwroog he will, you'll search with bing. this is basically ten year new deal where bing will power all use yahoo! searches and in turn yahoo! will be responsible for attracting big dollar advertisers. but did you see that pie chart? google has a massive share of the online search market. this is about 65%. microsoft has made progress with
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bing, but not as much to take over google's team like it says. the new search jip is receiving some favorable reviews. it has some cool features. i like when you search for the video section, for example, you can play it right there in the video search area, which is nice because you kind of bypass the pre-roll ads, but google is not running scared. you can read their response at cnnmoney.com. it is one of the most clicked on. >> i'm thinking kind of like it used to be xerox, xerox used to be the only game in town. if you thought i'm going to go make a copy of something, you'd say i'm going to go xerox it. so there's definitely a chance this could work. >> conventional wisdom is that healthy competition makes everybody better. >> all right, good story. i like that. tough times for the american farmer, but you'll tell us about this one operation that is saving money by having the cows
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do more than give milk? >> well, let's put all of the cow to work really. this is natural gas in its truest sense. essentially it's cow man you'ur. cow poop. it's a fourth generation farm in pennsylvania. the cost of mill sk dropping, so tough to turn a profit. they're getting down right creative. 600 milking cows help them power the farm. the manure turn it is into die guess ter and creates methane thp his other than said if his great, great grand danddy within alive, he would be in disbelief to learn that the farm is being powered by cow manure, but times are changing. >> you were going say another word, but you caught yourself. >> because this is tv. jeremy dropped the f on cnn.com
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live. >> it will be one of the most popular, but are in you trouble? >> no, no. the we did k. do things like than it's the internet. >> you know how to tease a story. good stuff. thank you. lawyers are hoping that a jailhouse interview with bernard madoff will mean more money can be returned to his victims. attorneys representing some of the victims actually talked to him, the disgraceded financier, for four hours yesterday. madoff revealed details about how he pulled off the ponzi scheme for so many years without getting caught. >> it was very surprising how candid and open it was, but on the other hand, if you're doing yo 150 years in a federal prison, you don't have a lot of options other than to be candid and open. >> they're filing a lawsuit on behalf of the victims and hopes yesterday's interview will allow him to name more defendants. that can mean maybe more money
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could be returned to people. it's a message less than 140 characters long. is it worth $50,000? landlords of this building -- of a building say a woman's tweet destroyed their reputation.
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you're itching for "prime news." coming up in just few minutes. let's go to mike for a preview. the first story, we talked a little bit about it. >> it's horrific. and by the way, we love hearing from you on "prime news." so many ways to get in, call, e-mail, texts, facebook. so help us make some sense of this one. a pregnant woman in massachusetts murdered. her baby cut from her womb. she was eight months pregnant. they don't know where the baby is. you wonder who could do this. the father of the baby and also her 1-year-old, there was a restraining order against him. he was accused in the past of abusing her, pushing her into a glass table, talking about the mom in this, darlene haines.
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also in 2008 accused of hitting her, but he has been talking to police. so we'll try to get to the bottom of that one for you. call in, 1-877-tell-hln is the number. update for you on the casey anthony case, her mom, cindy, had to undergo four hours of questioning by state attorneys. also george anthony, brother lee, they could be next. we're try togs ging to get the on that. out of all the information we get, in this case, we don't have a lot. >> that's a great point, we don't. >> so we'll try to get to the bottom of that one, as well. and also this story, the twitter lawsuit. i'm going to give a quick thumb nail on it. you've got a young lady by the name of amanda bonin, she on her twitter page mentioned something about living in a moldy apartment. so the owners say -- they file a $50,000 lawsuit. >> over 140 characters. because that's how long a tweet can be about than's it.
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>> and and i think lot of people -- what it mean, how many people could have viewed this. she had 17 twitter friends. so odds -- so not a lot. you correct me if i'm wrong. anybody it they stumble on to her page could have seen it, right? >> that is true. >> so that's why it's a public forum that's why the company is going lawsuit. personally, a couple things. i think it's wrong when people think they can say and do whatever they want online without consequence. but this case sounds minor to . >> thinking about consequences, and being sued. >> if this was part of an invitation to spend a night, it was not a rant against horizon realty. she basically said to a friend, come spend the night. who says it's bad to sleep in a moldy apartment, right? >> okay. >> folks are chiming in on this one. >> oh, they are. so speaking of that, we've been asking you all day, what do you
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think about this? should you be held legally responsible for what you put on facebook, twitter, all those sites, even in an e-mail. you have been so upset about this on both sides. you shouldn't be held legally responsible if it's the truth. and you have proof. it should be okay for her to say her apartment has mold. but she can't speak for the others unless she's seen them. quentin's really smart. and this is what holland wrote. people write whatever they feel like on these sites without any thought about who's going to read it and what impact it will have. i say keep personal and private information in your head, not your status box. well said. did a little scientific poll -- excuse me, unscientific text pole. 40% say you should be legally accountable for your online posts. high-tech here. 60% of you say, huh-uh, i should be able to rant and rave and say whatever i wanted without any consequences.
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we've got a really good debate going here. you can keep giving your thoughts on "prime news" in a little bit with mike as well. listen to this. a big problem on america's beaches. the biggest contamination are storm water and sewage runoff. researchers for the natural resources defense council monitored beaches on the coasts, as well as the great lakes. overall, there were more than 20,000 closures for health advisories. along the great lakes were the dirtiest. the worst water policy was in louisiana, ohio, indiana and illinois. what might tanning beds have in?
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