abrams is trying to calculate just how much labor the king had under his command. how many workers were required to build the palace of 18 rabbit ? abrams: it would be wonderful to observe mayan indians building the structures that they built at copan. of course, that's impossible, so we have to set up experiments which replicate the behaviors as best as possible. keach: abrams times each of the construction phases as the maya might have performed them. knowing the maya used only stone tools, abrams estimates that two people could quarry over 3,000 pounds of rock in a day. he times the other processes, like transportation, knowing that the maya had no wheels or draft animals. abrams also times the manufacture of the blocks and construction of part of a wall. five cubic feet takes 80 minutes. by measuring all the walls in a building, abrams estimates the time needed to complete the masonry. he then adds this figure to the times for other processes like back-filling dirt behind the walls and plastering the exterior. abrams: i selected structure 22 to quantify as an e

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we're happy to welcome back dan abrams. our legal analyst and expert who's filling in. >> and both of us are wearing our team robin bracelets. many of you know our good friend lost her mother a few days ago. we want to pass on to you that her family is planning a small, private service and robin is set to begin treatment later this week. >> after yesterday's show, so many people reaching out on twitter and elsewhere asking how you can help. we have all of the information on our website. go to gma.yahoo.com/robin. you can get updates. learn how to get a bracelet. even how to become a bone marrow donor yourself. >> it's so quick to sign up. painless, and of course, we're all thinking about robin and her family right now. >> absolutely. >>> but there are other stories. only two months now until election day and both sides ratcheting up the rhetoric. barnstorming battleground states this weekend. so, what does the president have planned for his big convention this week? >>> also, another brutal brawl in an nfl preseason game, t

good morning, america, i'm bianna golodryga. >> i'm dan abrams in for dan harris.ay, september 2nd. my mother's birthday. >> happy birthday. >>> also ahead -- the search for the adorable but elusive red panda. >>> but first the high-profile divorce between seal and heidi klum, now the singer making some ugly allegations he told tmz that his supermodel wife was having sex with her bodyguard while they were still married. the latest on these bomb shell. story. >> reporter: it shocked so many when they first announced their separation in january. they appear to be taking great pains to keep things peaceful and private. until now. cornered by paparazzi and asked about his separation from heidi klum, seal began by playing nice. >> look, boys, you know, that's what happens when two people separate. you know, i certainly don't expect heidi to all of a sudden become nun. >> reporter: then he dropped this shocking bomb. >> at least wait until we separated before deciding fornicate with the help, as it were. >> excuse me. listen again. >> i wished heidi would have shown a li

thanks so much. >>> now a check of the weather from stephanie abrams in for al.outside with the crowd. hey, steph. >> hi, natalie. i found the ultimate fans. these folks came from florida to see matchbox twenty. how long did you sleep out? >> two nights. >> how was the weather? >> perfect. >> a little wet this morning. overall quite cool outside. that's not the case in the center of the country. hot, hot, hot. look at 90s spreading into south dakota. otherwise the weather will be phenom >> good morning. we're off to a quiet start. scattered thunderstorms will develop this afternoon. some concede local >> for your concert or labor day forecast 24 hours a day, all you have to do is go to weather.com. natalie, over to you. >> stephanie, thanks so much. >>> online shopping might make your life easier but hurt the bottom line of brick and mortar retailers. a trend that is leading to big changes in malls across the country. >> reporter: it's that time again, parents and students hitting the stores for back to school shopping. retailers are fighting for your dollar with

clash of only gods to russian business tycoon abram on abramovich which is a multi billion dollar parcel with but no country man by reason results in london court case full of accusations and tears dealings and that. we hit the road with the russian delegation to the famous and p's show in britain for reenactment of several of the twentieth century major battles a special report is up next. in the early hours of a whole july dawn a group of unusually dressed people carefully trained on to the shore of one of the me up as tributaries there clad in servant military uniform from the days of world war two. in the summer of nine hundred forty one on the sort of you over crossing the a small landscape one hundred thousand people were killed while they were trying to escape the surrounding enemy. eyewitnesses say that the river ran red with blood for several days now candles float down the river. moscow's military history club called the division has traveled here to honor the memory of fallen russian soldiers but this journey to smolensk is just the beginning now they have three thousand kilom

abrams. you saw the pilot -- that is all there was on the page. we had a great conversation about where she was going. it was so enticing to me. it was a very easy thing to want to do. >> giancarlo and elizabeth, sorry we are of time, but we really appreciate you taking the time to talk to us. best of luck on the show. >> thank you very much. >> you can catch new episodes of "revolution" every monday at 10:00 right here on wbal-tv. times are changing in schools as teaching through technology becomes of the norm. smartpens i taking the place of notebooks and textbooks. >> whether it is math, science, and subject at all, this little pen is making a difference in the child's classroom. it can do everything at once so that the students don't have to stress. >> sometimes she would talk a little too fast and i would still be writing something and she would be on subpanels. >> the pen remember is everything the teacher says and rights. -- writes. >> it gives the students a personal future at home. they can -- personal tutor at home. they can rewatch thin

i'm dan abrams. harris has the day off. >> great to have you on the show, dan. >> a lot of people probably want to know him, as well. >> and i'm bianna golodryga. it's saturday, september 1st. >>> also coming up, call him mr. grey. the husband of the "fifty shades of grey" author is speaking out for the first time. what does he think of his wife's steamy novels? >>> first, that bitter international custody battle between "gossip girl" star, kelly rutherford and her husband. the actress losing another day in court yesterday. she's trying to get her judge return her 3-year-old and 5-year-old children to the united states, rather than remain in france with her ex. we'll talk to her in an exclusive interview in a moment. first, the latest from tanya rivero. >> reporter: actress kelly rutherford back to work in new york, on the set of "gossip girl." after the devastating custody ruling, keeping her children away. on the show, she plays a posh and polished mom, that rarely loses her cool. but behind the sc

plus jj abrams. >> and check on the orioles. so far, so good. they had sold possession of fir. >> this is 11 sports. >> a cross-country flight to face the hottest team in baseball. for these birds, nothing seemed to get in their way. game 1 of a monster series. you do not have to wear the hat protection. it is ok. text out -- strikes out. jj hardy. hard shot to 3rd. steven, nice effort. 1-0. orioles with the lead. bottom 4th. not fooled this time. 2 run shot. no easy feat. in the bottom of the fence, game is fence2-2. the rays and the yankees in the bronx. tampa try to bounce back tonight. david price gives of # 3284. jeter passes willie mays but no win for the yanks. the boss man, junio upton. 23 rd of the season. the orioles by a half-game in sole possession of first base. the ravens defense. ray lewis. tory smith one of many options for joe flacco. drop the 52 yard. the eagles must deal also with the noise. >> it is tough. it sounds basic but -- it is going to be a great battle. all of us. >> the ravens question of the day we did what you exp

we're happy to have our legal analyst, dan abrams, in for him. >> great to be here. >> great to see you again, dan. of course, we're all thinking of our good friend, robin roberts, this morning. as you know, she lost her mother thursday night. she was able to make it home to mississippi to say her final good-byes. and robin is scheduled to begin her bone marrow transplant surgery next week. thousands of you have been reaching out over facebook and twitter. so many joining team robin. we have our bracelets on in support of our friend, robin roberts. certainly, she and her family are in our thoughts and prayers this morning. >> the amazing thing about robin is she's always so more concerned about people around her than she is about herself. even when she's going through all of this. really amazing. >>> we do have a lot of news on this holiday weekend. mitt romney riding high from his campaign speech. but he and his campaign are still fielding questions about this, that strange clint eastwood speech. we have new details this morning on just how that odd scene came to be. >> that empty chai

well, the weather channel's stephanie abrams is here for al. we were saying what a great job you did at the weather channel did covering isaac. >> thank you for that. isaac is bringing us rain along the east coast. there it is combined with a front. wet in ohio down to the southeast. a lot of rain out of this as well. we could see a couple of inches as we head over the next 24 hours. look at the heavier totals, perhaps up to four inches in alabama and also into georgia. for the rest of the country, it is dry. as we look westbound, watch for >> 7:15. the unofficial end of summer. it is going to feel summer like across the bay area. taking a live look, this is san francisco, not a lot of fog and what did develop is going to burn off by about 10:00 a.m. leaving us with perfect beach conditions. 80 in santa cruz, 74 in san francisco. even in wine country about 89 not too hot there. livermore 97, no triple digits in the near future. we're going to decrease your temps all the way through sunday. >> carl, over to you. >> stephanie, thanks. prince harr

. >>> we're going to turn to "gma's" legal analyst, dan abrams.an, the photos are on the newsstands this morning in france. what legal options does the palace really have as they consult their lawyers? >> remember, generally, they don't sue the media. they've had a policy of not suing the media. this is more egregious in a sense you're talking about a long lens, on vacation, and in france, where the privacy laws are very tough. the problem is, yeah. they're tough. except with what's the remedy? it's a fine. and a lot of these media organizations are happy to just pay that fine and have the picture because there's going to be, as you point out, no way to literally prevent the photos from making it to the newsstands and certainly not on the internet. >> that's why undoubtedly the magazine did not let the palace know a week ago, when they took the photos, that they had them. >> they would have had a hard time getting an injunction to prevent them from publishing it anyway. this tends to be after-the-fact punishment. >> the palace, in a statement this

nicholai abram off is not just the ship's bo's'n but also a former sub-mariner abramoff a spend the last thirty years making sales. but this utility room here is our workshop we have one hundred sales and store all of different shapes and sizes twenty six of them are meant for masts and races while the others are kept as replacements. nicholai is the only person on board the can repair or patch up a damaged sail. sails are torn fairly often specially by strong winds you might even say they were wounded in the battle against the elements i have especially vivid memories of one rather dramatic sail replacement that was last year when we were competing against the polish boat dharma ga we were on our way across the baltic sea from finland to poland that's when the top most sail collapsed but it took the cadets some four hours to get a new one back up all that happened mid strong winds and torrential rain. don't touch that. again is the bosun's favorite student like all the other cadets he joined me as crew three months ago that remembers only too well the terror he felt when confronted with

dan abrams, thank you so much. >>> another courtroom clash now.ncy jones caught in the middle of the battle between casino mogul, steve wynn, and "girls gone wild" creator, steve francis. he took the stand on thursday and said one of them isn't telling the truth. >> reporter: it took music mogul quincy jones three words to answer the question that's consumed hollywood headlines for three days. >> did you ever hear steve wynn threaten to kill joe francis? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: the ailing 79-year-old was the star witness in a civil suit, pitting las vegas casino mogul, steve wynn, against joe francis, founder of "girls gone wild." francis says wynn threatened to kill him in an e-mail sent in 2010. an e-mail he says he learned about from the legendary music producer. jones is friends with both men. and had even tried to help settle a gambling debt francis owes wynn's casino. >> i was trying to make peace. >> reporter: but jones told jurors, francis' story was a, quote, naked lie. >> i keep hearing about e-mails. i've never seen anything. >>

thanks so much. >>> now a check of the weather from stephanie abrams in for al.s outside with the crowd. hey, steph. >> hi, natalie. i found the ultimate fans. these folks came from florida to see matchbox twenty. how long did you sleep out? >> two nights. >> how was the weather? >> perfect. >> in the center of the country today. it is going to be hot, hot, hot. look at those 90s spreading all the way into south dakota. otherwise the weather is phenom natural for the labor day in the west. on the east coast we have a little rain. now here's a look at what's happening outside your door. >> outside our door it's a little wet for d.c. certainly plenty cloudy out there right now with your "sunrissu sunrise coming to us an hour ago. again, high humidity with a life to even calm wind in most neighborhoods. we'll see occasional showers coming through today and at times heavier rains with any thunderstorms. 80 to 84 for a temperature. we'll stay with >> for your concert or labor day forecast 24 hours a day, all you have to do is go to weather.com. natalie, over to you. >

now what is my pleasure to call upon abram shulsky, a senior fellow here at the hudson. here he was an adviser to me and secretary donald rumsfeld on issues with iraq, mainly, and the global war on terrorism. in previous positions, he served dealing with a number of national security-related affairs, including director at the pentagon and the assistant to the late senator daniel patrick moynihan. he is the author of a college textbook called "silent warfare: understanding the world of intelligence." it is a pleasure to call him to the microphone. >> thank you very much. i want to make a few comments on islam itself to give you a feel for the kind of discussion we have that report. it is a complicated phenomenon with a lot of strands and movements but i think the most important point is we are talking about a political ideology, that is to say it is a program for reshaping society as a whole, political life, the economy, everything. and its impact, therefore, it is in the political realm just as previous kinds of ideologies became important and had that kind of impact. th

techniques the sort of thing that could only be done by somebody as as quickly and used as a former jack abrams off buddy and hustler for gambling casinos questionnaire continues with push poll questions like how much danger do you think liberty is in right now as a result of president obama's policies actions and agenda for america's future what follows are a couple of multiple choice answers the first alleging that president obama's agenda is more serious than the threats we faced in world war two from nazi germany in the japanese because the attack on liberty today is from our own government. other choices say that president obama's more of a threat than the soviets during the cold war more of a threat than a civil war or all of the above course anyone paying attention the last four years knows it's pretty routine for the far right to make all sorts of wild comparisons between president obama and some of the world's most radical figures despots and evil doers it's not a big surprise it was a surprise however as who is behind this latest mailer comparing the president to hitler and how wide i

but it's really hard. >> dan abrams, thank you very much. george?rry for getting in your shot there. >> it's an upgrade. >> very gracious. thank you. >>> a little lighthearted turn now. you know that google maps, you can look at any street anywhere in america on your computer. did google capture a ufo on camera? sam is not buying it all. but people in texas are on high alert for an alien touchdown. and jamie boyar did a little investigating. >> reporter: you don't have to put in a street. just jacksonville, texas. and go to the street view. and pan around. and there it is. a thing that i don't know what it is. it looks like something from a low-budget 1950s flick. and this, this is the bridge where google maps managed to capture an image no one can explain. not even the people of jacksonville. man, it's bright in jacksonville. anyway, the object, if it is an object, we're not saying it's an object, but it was thought in front of the landmark building at the 59 and 69 intersection. most people said wow a lot. >> wow. what is that? >> oh, wow. >> what

. >> first a final check of the weather from stephanie abrams, a loot labor day. >> it's looking a littlee 90s running all the way up through the plains. scarves not needed today but soon enough into the plains we'll be talking about blizzard conditions i'm sure. along the east coast, rain. that continued to push east. >> good morning. we're off to a quiet start. scattered thunderstorms will develop this afternoon. some concede local >> hold up on the boots just yet. >> okay. we'll start planning for the wardrobe switch. coming up next on "today's" style how to stretch your summer wardrobe into fall right after this. d? [ man ] what can you smell? [ inhales deeply ] a lot of flowers. it's on the zingy side of floral. potpourri factory, maybe. you can take off your blindfolds now. oh my gosh. [ laughter ] [ male announcer ] success. victory over odors, for good, both here and in your home. febreze. breathe happy. these are sandra's "homemade" yummy, scrumptious bars. hmm? i just wanted you to eat more fiber. chewy, oatie, gooeyness... and fraudulence. i'm in deep, babe. you certainly are.

. >>> for more, let's bring in "gma's" legal analyst, dan abrams. dan, allegedly, mr. dagley was standing up on the jet ski, speeding on the jet ski, and not looking where he was going. >> right. >> does this sentence surprise you? >> not really. and i know a lot of people are going to say, how can it not surprise you? someone killed someone else here. there's a lot of cases out there, car accidents where someone ends up killing someone else. and sometimes they're not even charged. here, these been charged with a third-degree misdemeanor. that's a really low crime. >> if you kill somebody when you're driving because you're texts or talking on your cell phone, you do pay a price. >> depends. all those things would be a different possible analyses. it depends on how reckless you were. in this particular case, the prosecutor charged him with what's called simple negligence, the lowest standard. they're basically saying, he shouldn't have done this. we are going to charge him with a crime. but we don't believe his conduct rose to that higher level that would have exposed h

. >>> let's get more on this from our "gma" legal analyst, dan abrams.ut the right remedy. but police have arrested these boys. >> and the question is are they going to be formally charged or not? you have to take yourself back away from the idea of bullying in schools. and just ask yourself, if x happened outside of the school arena, if it wasn't kids we were talking about, but adults, would it be a crime? because i think that's what we're seeing more and more in the law. authorities saying, hey, there's no excuses anymore. don't call it bullying. if it's something that would be a crime off of school property, it's going to be a crime on or around school property, as well. the question is, how threatening were the calls? was this an actual group, this kill katie klub? if this was a real group where they had some actual intention, this wouldn't be a misdemeanor case. it would be far more serious than that. >> you think it's likely to be a misdemeanor case? >> that's what they were held on and released. if the authorities thought there was a club out ther

. >>> let's get more of this from dan abrams. you see it rarely. creates a strange dynamic in the courtroom. >> it's always a bad move for someone to represent themselves. there's a famous line that says, anyone who represents themselves has a fool for a client. there's reason for that. part of it is what you saw there in the piece. some of the witnesses can attack the lawyer and say things like, well, when you were stalking me. there was another case, collin ferguson, a long island railroad shooter. he represented himself. and the witnesses called to the stand were shooting victims who would look at him and say, well, when you shot me. no, when the shooter -- no, when you shot me. >> and that's admissible. >> of course. it's admissible because he's the lawyer and he's the defendant. and it's a similar dynamic here because you have a stalking victim who's on the witness stand. he was convicted for stalking her. and she's now talking at him, not like a lawyer, but like the guy who did something terrible to her. >> the judge also seems to be getting