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charles? >> yeah, indeed. now, another one of the big stories that's been dominating the headlines in the uk and also the united states with a final headline that read "thank you and good-bye," the n""news of te world"" is no more and it's on the editor of rebecca brooks on the right with rupert murdoch on the left. she could be questioned by police today. les hinton told investigators in 2007 that the firm hiking was limited to one reporter. news internation nal said that that conclusion was based on an examination of 2,500 e-mails. but the shocking resch lagss continued to pile up and i suppose the rest is history and now media mogul rupert murdoch has flown no to take part in what is just a mench. he's trying to save the takeover of his british sky broadcasting known as b sky b. it does have the backing of news corps. despite that monday's independence says the deal appears, quote, dead in the water, pauline. >> well, charles, let's take a look at how all of this has affected the stock. it's dented news cor

charles? >> yeah, let's get to the root of the problem. a moment ago the euro i said was at a three-month low it's actually a four-month low against the dollar. european finance ministers are meeting in brussels to contain the crisis. they are discussing a second bailout plan of greece, could include a buy back plan of debt. policymakers may accept some plan of default. christine lagarde say greece's efforts to close the gap have made significant progress but are, in her words "not sufficient." >>> european officials are also discussing increasing worries about italy's finances and joining me in london is cnn's emily rubin. we had a statement yesterday and people are looking at that very carefully in the markets. what does it say? >> it's the result of an eight hour meeting. the market was down nearly 4%, and the euro group comes up with this statement, charles, it's big on generalities on first reading but there doesn't seem to be nearly enough to calm market feegz. >> "ministers reaffirm the

>> i do not disagree with charles. >> then i retract. [laughter] >> i am hoping to in paris charles by agreeing with him. at a moment of this magnitude energy, you have to get everyone a sense of ownership. right now the only ones who have a sense of ownership are john boehner and eric cantor, the republican leaders to come to their credit, have allocated the republican house to the he position of deliberations with barack obama, the president of the united states. democrats and the senate and democratic house members feel excluded it and are angry. that is a problem for any grand bargain. >> i do think the republicans is a missed opportunity. they wanted to use the debt limit to get something. if you go with mcconnell, it is essentially a punt. what they've lost in advance by not agreeing to a single plan and having the president to have to put real numbers and cuts on the table, which he has not done -- what republicans in the house could do -- i talked about this in my column -- half a trillion dollars in cuts and half a trillion doll

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i would say half for victor and half for charles, but more emphasis on charles because the think charles brings more of what we need in an sro tenant there. chairperson kim: thank you, mr. nulty. >> hello. my name is nan. i still live in a shelter. lj has rescued me from being thrown out in the seat -- the street, so i am for lj. i actually know mr. pitts and was very impressed by the top for the third candidate. you guys are going to have a tough decision to make. but lj brings a unique enthusiasm and real good perspective to this, so i hope you choose her. chairperson kim: thank you. >> good afternoon, supervisors. my name is john nulty, and i am here to request that you appoint charles pitts, because i have seen him at community meetings going back a number of years. he is been actively involved with the community and doing various advocating. i think somebody that has been doing it for a long time, i have also seen him at these different events. he speaks his mind. he gets to the point, whereas some people don't. i think he is very articulate and i think we need some reforms that are

charles? >> okay. just to be absolutely clear, you're not saying that all low-cost carriers that save you a bit of cash rather than pay attention to safety. i'm sure that's not what you were saying. >> okay, great. thanks, indeed. >>> fans have turned the final page on the book series. and the world will soon see the last of eight, epic movies. the last one. the magic and the money making power of harry potter seems set to live on. >>> welcome back to "world business today." >> we're going to look at the weather now. wet and windy conditions. more of them for parts of europe, could put a damper on the tour de france. they won't be getting too hot with the kind of weather over the weekend, or all over this week in the u.k., is anything to judge by. jennifer delgado is at the international weather center. hello, jen. would you be out in a bike in this? >> no. but i know you have a fancy compactible bikes out there. it's not going to be a great day in the u.k. the temperatures are going to cooperate. if y

had you a charles boehner who as charles lane suggested beforehand was, i think. more speaking in disappointment than anger at this point with the president. i think as you pointed out he laid out the we thought we had agreement at 800 billion. the president came back at us at 400 billion in new revenues. that's not something the president is willing to do. if you took something away from what john boehner said the way he characterized the president's argument and the way the president characterized his argument if you can get past the foe men nations involved. you really have a bottom line here. basically the president of the united states is saying i am willing to risk economic catastrophe unless i get $1.2 trillion in taxes or new revenues. i think that is the source of the dispute and i think that's what makes these future negotiations so difficult. >> chris: there is another way of looking at it, of course, charles, and that is the argument that one of the reporters made in a question when he said, you know, you are talking about $400 billion of added revenue

hi, everyone, i'm charles payne, neil will be back next week. cut, cap and balance, the house days away from a vote will match a 2.4 trillion dollar limit hike with dollar per dollar spending cuts. is this what americans need even if democrats stay it's dead on arrival. to ben stein, dagen mcdowell, charlie gasperino, daying, this gets to the idea of of serious spending cuts? >> it does, but you need-- the devil's in the detail, charles. and we will he be getting more details on the plan, and plans in the coming days, but if you want to have a really serious debt reduction plan, you're going to have to tackle medicare and social security and medicaid and that's just the fact of the matter. and they are trying to-- one thing that's really important in this, they're trying to cap spending as a percentage of our economy, when it got to 25% of gross domestic product under president obama. this tries to take it down in about seven years, below that mark, back to where we've been since world war ii, that's a huge step in the right direction. >> what's

charles know -- expecked to -- expected to plead guilty today. charles novak was arrested.y searched his home and found evidence linking hem to other burglaries including the theft of girl's underwear. he faces several charges including burglary and peepingtom. >>> this morning police in carroll county are searching for a man accused of kidnapping an 8-year-old boy. police say the man first assaulted his girlfriend and her 2-year-old baby outside the sykesville home before turning his attention towards the woman's son. officers are oking for michael terrell. neighbors say he has a long history of domabuse and he was seen driving a brown 1996 oldsmobile four-door sedan. >>> you pay $5 to get in but don't assume lifeguards on duty at sandy point state park will be there. after a 6-year-old saquan kennedy drowned, we learned lifeguards were not on duty at the time. the boy and his family were swimming on the 4th of july at 8 a.m. when he drowned. lifeguards came on two hours later at 10. and they stayed for 8 hours. in all, nine lifeguards keep an eye on the bay but when they

let's say good morning to meteorologist lynnette charles. >> you know i think -- lynette charles. >> you know i. think i might have a lot of friends if the forecast hold up. but they may not like me so much today because we are hot and humid once again. and we will see the temperatures remaining in the 90s. and we have another code orange because we had the stale air and showers and storms possible once again. so we are thinking about the showers and storms. what are we seeing this morning? we are not seeing a whole lot. we want a dry start to the morning and don't want to see rain contending with the windshield wipers. we don't have to deal with that. things are looking pretty good. 73 right now in annapolis as we look at your humidity. it's up there. 91%. so it's not feeling that great outside. but here the air quality alert i am talking about. the eastern shore, you're not in that but every where else is. let's go ahead and send this over to tonya with your traffic. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. it's a good morning traffic wise. traffic is flowing freely at baltimore ha

charles. >> hmm. now, if hillary clinton is right and a deal is just around the corner, then possibly today it might be time to take profits on gold. but how big an "if" is that though? stocks have been fine this week until the realization that there's still a stalemate in washington. joining me is a trader at etx capital. it looks to me as if the market reaction in europe is fairly measured. does that reflect optimism that there will be a deal struck in the next few hours? >> absolutely. a deal will be struck. maybe not in the next few hours but it's going to be taken to the brink. the deadline is august 2nd next week. it could be taken right to the wire, right to the weekend. but in the meantime we're likely to see increased volatility in equity prices that could take off a little bit and bounce back. the ftse 100 this morning is remarkably robust given the situation going on in the u.s. as you mentioned gold continues to go high. it's the asset class of choice at the moment, irrespective of whether

before charles county -- for the folks in charles county and down toward fredericksburg, those areas are under a storm watch. some of these are trying to move toward the western suburbs, but all of them -- the clusters of it are down more to the south. once again, the nearest area is moving into warren 10, but it is more like rainshowers. the only worry is for you folks around charles town and into harper's ferry. there are the clouds. most likely they will be to our south. tomorrow more popping up. tomorrow, 92 degrees around fredericksburg now. again fredericksburg, spotsylvania at 8:00 or 9:00 there could be some thunderstorms in your area. for those on the mall, they could be seeing some tiny flashes to the south. -- lightning flashes to the south. our average high tomorrow, 88 degrees. as we get more moisture back, wednesday and thursday afternoon, we could be seeing another batch of thunderstorms. right now, we are ready for the four day week. i'm pretty confident anything nasty will stay to the south of the mall. >>> thank you. here is a look at what is coming up on abc part-t

. >> charles gibson ask used to facing danger. he is now the chief of police for the contra costa community college district. he was also on board the erik. >> i could read the name, erik. i felt the feeling of abandonment. they were in the dark water confused and scared. charles didn't have a life vest and instead held on to an ice cooler. amplify a fellow fisherman offered his. his brother is still missing. >> but then the group separated. charles spent nearly 15 hours alone and eventually swam to an island where local fishermen found him and another survivor. this is video of charles and mexico back on land before he returned home yesterday. meantime, the search for seven others who are still missing continues today. >>> do you think they are still alive. >> i hope so. >> coastguard has agreed to keep looking at least until tuesday, survivors have been found in the water and on nash islands. >> if i made it to island, i hope they are somewhere on one of those islands out there waiting to be helped. >> don lee's family is trying

charles street between conway and pratt, the left lane is closed. no construction projects going on right now. the cones are till there -- still there. >>> what started off as a day of family, friends and festivities ended quite differently in downtown baltimore. >> violence erupted in the city leaving a boy with a gunshot wound and another man dead from stab wound. linda so is live downtown with the latest on the 4th of july gone bad, linda. >> reporter: well, this is not the type thing you want to hear about. outside the restaurant, mccormick and economic, police say a man got into a fight with a group of people and he was stabbed in the neck. eye happened after the fireworks show ended last night at 10. the man was taken to shock trauma where he died. then in a separate incident, a 4-year-old boy was shot in the leg as he was standing with his dad at light and pratt street at the inner harbor. police say the boy's father heard a loud noise and the . started to complaining his leg was hurt and the dad realized his son had been shot e was taken to

it looks inviting going out to charles island. yes, it's beautiful and we want you to come to the beach but stay off the sand bar. >> it's uncommon. several people were rescued last month from that sand bar. >>> according for the center for disease control, drownings are aserious issue. every day about 10 people die from unintentional drownings. two of the largest factors for drowning are lack of supervision or children who were not wearing a life preserver. >>> it's now -- >> we are working to keep you safe in the water. we have a list of boating safety tips on abc2news.com. all you have to do is click on the spotlight section of our home page. >>> news time is 6:06. they came to america for the freedoms we so often take for granted and they are proud to say they are americans this morning. >> this is the best 4th of july i can think of. it's great. >> 38 people became citizens of the u.s. yesterday in annapolis. these folks became american citizens at the home of the former signer of the declaration of independence. he was one o

but charles' point is white. these are tiny, tiny little drops in a big ocean. there is not enough in corporate jets or even the hedge fund guys, although i would like to. they have to raise revenues, i hate to say it, on the middle class. this is the point that gets lost on this. everybody is in this boat. there is no way out of it unless every single american does something. >> raise revenues on the shrinking middle class, mark. >> everybody is in it, and evan is right -- evan addressed the possibility of default. when that happens, the federal government of the united states, which bars or 40 cents of every dollar we spend every single day, is faced with the option -- do you pay a sergeant in combat in kandahar, a grandmother with a 1-bedroom apartment in social security check, or to meet the obligations of bankers who are holding their debt in beijing and beverly hills? the answer is simple. the prior claim is on the second group. the reality is we are talking about -- the president is proposing increasing taxes, revenues, by 1% over the next 10 years. $400

charles payne in new york, we've got a lot more coming up, another hour. the likes of congressman joe walsh, dan quayle joining us and don imus, what doesn't belong and why? and also we'll be back here tomorrow. don't forget. 4 p.m. eastern time, the special edition of your world, i want to stress, democrats, republicans, liberals, conservatives we're not all red, we're not blue, we're green, all the time, we are on it.

. >> why can they not make a deal, charles? >> you saw it in the clip you showed. nancy pelosi is the classic definition of a reaction. liberal. no changes in programs, entitlements. -- classic definition of a reactionary at liberal. no genocide programs, entitlements. if you all make -- note changes in programs, entitlements. if you don't make changes, he will wreck the economy, and everybody over the age of nine knows that. is that they are not willing to means test -- if they are not willing to means test entitlements, which you think and liberal alike, who always argue in terms of sharing the sacrifice and the rich bearing the burden, nothing will happen. >> colby? >> you just had exhibit number one of why they have not been able to reach a deal, as my friend charles expressed. if you start out with nancy pelosi and the position of republicans on tax increases, you see why we are at this impasse. i would rather be here than the president put forth a budget that does not address entitlements. i would not think for a second that he would go through the year and n

let's get to lynette charles with a look at what to expect as we get better for what better --we get ready for what better be a great weekend. >> you just called me stupid. >> that moons i love you. i can't believe you -- means i love you. i can't believe you said that. >>> it's a watch that we do have the potential for flooding andkeep your eyes open if you see ponding on the roadways, you don't want to drive through that. we are looking at your maryland's most powerful radar as of now and we are dry. if you have errand to run, -- errands to run do it this morning. >> reporter: good morning. and good advice. we have trees down and flooding in certain areas. so definitely don't drive through if you see standing water. let's see how the beltway is moving. 695 at liberty road. we have the usual volume and it's congested from liberty road all the way around to 270. be aware of that. ever green road at holly avenue in severna park an accident there. york road at beaver run lane and ashland are closed due to flooding and argone we have and accident in baltimore. back to you. >> 6:31 right

. >> charles? >> the problems this at -- problem is that this has the feel of a town with a leader was not leading. he did not propose a budget -- well, the one he did it was voted down by the senate 97-0, it was so preposterous. the democrats in congress have not proposed a budget in two years. the republicans have. what we have is a president in full campaign mode was not proposing anything in public -- who knows whether in private. it seriously, there is no democratic proposal on the table for a budget. he is demagoguing against medicare and the ryan plan, and he has decided, do that and that is how you get reelected. that is why the town is floundering. >> consistency has not been a problem with republicans. they have endorsed the ryan plan, budget, and -- which does not provide for a balanced budget, and now they are pushing for a balanced budget. 103 house republicans have gone on record of saying they will not vote to raise the debt ceiling unless they ate at a cap -- they have a cap on fede

charles, what's it like out there living as a homeless man?s it is to say, i've gotten good at being homeless. when you have two pairs of jeans, a pair of shorts, and three shirts, and you don't have any money to wash them, after a while, the... you... you start to smell, and you know you smell. and so you try... i just try to what... try to avoid people. >> pelley: so you keep moving? >> worley: yes, sir. >> pelley: it's a familiar story for jon nachison, who, as a clinical psychologist, has been working with vets for almost 30 years. it's a new generation of homeless veterans. >> nachison: it is. this group is becoming homeless quicker than the vietnam veteran. vietnam vets came back, it took about eight to ten years before we started really seeing them on the street homeless. this group is coming back, and within a year, they're ending up on the street. and my best hunch is that, for many of them, it's these redeployments again and again. >> pelley: over the last ten years, almost 900,000 troops have been redeployed, sent back to combat at

it's largely a british scandal and charles is right.re tolerated, better tolerated there than here. if the f.b.i. determined that and finds evidence that 9/11 families had their phones hacked it would be a huge scandal here no longer just be a british scandal. >> bret: we have covered this every day. with any developments. we will continue to do so. steve? >> a.b. is right. at this point it's largely a british scandal. as a result of different media cultures that charles mentioned. it's fair to ask and look at whether the 9/11 victims had their phones hacked. if they were, the consequences will be significant. >> bret: two high profile resignations today. before the break, we asked you do you agree with the obama administration recognition of the libyan opposition as the country legitimate government? 16% of you said yes. 84% of you said no. in the unscientific poll. steve? >> this is overdue, in fact, i think it should have happened a long time ago. the question remain what is does it mean in terms of the arms embargo? is it possible n

let's get to lynette charles.opefully today and this weekend will be better. >> the weekend is going to be better. but today, going into the afternoon, we will see chances for showers and thunderstorms in the forecast again. some of those could be on the severe side i hate to break the news. but we will be here to keep you updated if anything goes severe. we have a flash flood watch in effect and goes through late tonight and it's for all the areas here shaded in the green. and you know what? if we get trapped under some of the showers and thunderstorms, you know the rainfall rate is up to about 2 inches in less than an hour. so that's why we do have that flash flood watch in effect. it's a potential for flooding that's possible. so we have mala's most powerful radar looking dry as of now. but i don't want you to think this is how it's going to be throughout the day because we have change coming across the area. so be forewarned. also, you heard me talk about some of those going severe. if it does, the storm predi

charles, your thoughts?ld have been much better if the house passed this a month ago, but right now what the republicans can say is the house legislates, the president talks, and the senate kills. who's responsible here? who's acting as an adult? >> bret: it's important to note that any lawmaker could change their votes, but we're at the magic number right now, 214. steve, when you talk about the tea party conservatives, they, you know, strategists will tell you that they have an argument that this linkage between the debt ceiling increase and any spending cuts would not have happened had they not been elected. so any of this concern or talk about this focus on the debt, or reducing the size of government, would not be happening if it was not for november 2010. >> there's absolutely no question about that. i think they deserve a tremendous amount of credit for changing the conversation. we've heard it in the floor speeches over the last couple of days. law back at january and february of 2009, what washingto

here's meteorologist lynn jet charles.to the weekend. >> me too -- lynette charles. >> i am always looking forward to the weekend. >> me too as we look at maryland's most powerful -- maryland's most powerful radar you have to drive to virginia to get the showers and thunderstorms trying to move in. this is right around front royal where we are seeing showers and thunderstorms and off towards the west of middleburg. then we are dealing with a little thunderstorm. you can see lightning in this right around the stanley area. new market just to the east of that and to the west of lor ray. so -- lore. dealing with wet weather. going through the rest of today, we will see showers and thunderstorms popping up going into the afternoon around here. mp

. >> charles? >> the problems this at -- problem is that this has the feel of a town with a leader was not leading. he did not propose a budget -- well, the one he did it was voted down by the senate 97-0, it was so preposterous. the democrats in congress have not proposed a budget in two years. the republicans have. what we have is a president in full campaign mode was not proposing anything in public -- who knows whether in private. it seriously, there is no democratic proposal on the table for a budget. he is demagoguing against medicare and the ryan plan, and he has decided, do that and that is how you get reelected. that is why the town is floundering. >> consistency has not been a problem with republicans. they have endorsed the ryan plan, budget, and -- which does not provide for a balanced budget, and now they are pushing for a balanced budget. 103 house republicans have gone on record of saying they will not vote to raise the debt ceiling unless they ate at a cap -- they have a cap on fede

vernon area, which is seeing very heavy rain and northern charles county.erstorm warning in effect until 6:00. further south, and you can see that line, extends down i-95 further south. we have another severe thunderstorm warning for northern spotsylvania, northeastern orange, stafford county, culpeper, southeastern fauquier and southern prince william until 5:45 so that makes its way from annapolis and the bay bridge right on down toward the south. you can see that down toward fredericksburg. we'll do a couple zooms here. the heaviest area now seems to be in towards the mt. vernon region and also over towards clinton maryland, right around andrews air force base around friendly and camp springs. some lightning strikes out of these storms, as well. as we move toward the south, we're looking at dale city, around triangle, midway island, and then even further down to the south, just to the north of the fredericksburg area, seeing some of that heavier rain. the heaviest rain in the area that's going to be affected next, we're talking about charles county, righ

>> exactly. >> chris: charles?etoed that but they dare him. >> mcconnell and reid working on a mcconnell version with $1.5 trillion spending cut attached and that may get a second look. i want to say something about "cut, cap and balance." this may be a specific plan, it's not a very serious plan. it was never going the pass the senate. they knew it all along. the president may be posturing today but the plan has been posturing all along. it's not a solution to budget deficit because the balanced budget amendments are full of loopholes that could have been gotten around anyway. >> chris: charles, i know that you and you wrote another interesting column that you advance short-term increase. go to mcconnell plan. because it has buy-in from republicans and democrats in the senate at least. increase debt limit and let president take the haul, take $1 trillion that the biden group agreed to. what do you think of that? >> that will ultimately pass unless republicans pass short-term, cuts only. and adjourn and go home, wh

you don't know where they go. >> bret: charles?> think it will depend hugely on whether the one report from one tabloid in england about the hacking of the 9/11 victims is a true story or not. it's unsourced, second hand, third hand i think and nobody yet produced evidence of it. if there is evidence of it, this is a major event. ed more murder did well defending themselves. they were on the defensive but nothing new emerged. suitably apologetic about the hacking, particularly the scandalous hacking of victims. i thought they looked rather sincere saying they were shocked and appalled by it and apologized. but it will hinge, it will cross the atlantic if there was hacking of 9/11 victims. i must say what was interesting to me was to compare this to an american inquisition in our congress, supposed to be republic not monarchy, they are way up on podium looking down on the defendant. there it look like a cafeteria discussion there were no sort of accusatory speeches like in congress. it was asking the questions and interesting contra

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i'm charles hodson. >> good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i'm andrew stevens. you are watching world business today. these are our top stories, this friday, july 8th. news corp boss rupert murdoch folds his tabloid. >>> shuttle "atlantis" files up for one final foray. >>> and harry potter fans unite for one last wave of the wand. >>> it's the end of the "news of the world." that shamed british sunday newspaper is shutting down. after this weekend's edition and 168 years of history, the last edition of the "news of the world" will have rolled off the printing presses. >> now, as outrage spread from the public to the politicians and finally to the advertisers, rupert murdoch took decisive action. his son, james, announced the paper would close after this coming weekend and that all the staff would be out of a job. james, of course, is the chairman of news international. he posted his statement online for all to see. the key line in that statement, the news of the world is in the business of holding others to account, but it failed when it came to itself. charles?

sindcated columnist charles krauthammer. charles?the last poll shows the importance of the presidency, what the advantage it gives the incumbent. he controls the debate. he can speak with the angle voice, the republicans have not done what they should have done months ago, to find one plan they could all agree on and present it to the president. and to the american people. right now the plans are all over the place. the gang of six i think which rose yesterday already receiving. a lot of people look at details of it, and the second half, the part where negotiations over six months are supposed to happen. you get the real cuts in entitlements and the tax reform appear to have a lot of loopholes in them. it's very fuzzy. i think where the republicans are right now, they need to present a plan, at least a short-term one. what you saw with the president retreating in the carney bite you showed, the president said up until now anything short-term, i will veto. now, he has a little escape clause. he says as long as you're working on someth