. >> we the jury in the above entitled action find the defendant conrad robert murray guilty. >> reporter: two years after michael jackson died, jurors convicted his personal physician of involuntary manslaughter. weeks later a judge sentenced him. after eight years and thousands of casualties, the white house ordered virtually all troops out of iraq. >> it is good to know that i am a part of history, and it is good to know that i am leaving iraq a more stable country. >> mid-december, the death of yet another tyrant. authority korean state television reported the dear leader kim gung ill died of a massive heart attack. 2012 begins with a flurry of caucuses and primaries as politics returns to the spotlight for november's presidential election. and the pentagon, we will cover it all as it happens. shepherd smith, fox news. >> as we mentioned, the iowa caucus is just two days away and the final push is on. meantime, five of the presidential hopefuls have signed on in hopes of getting their names on the virginia ballot. joining us with more is larry sabato, the director of the university of

conrad murray has already filed an appeal in his criminal case. now his attorney is making another move, kicking off a new battle over money. >> i don't think that he should be responsible for any restitution. >> reporter: murray's attorney, michael flanagan, has contested the amount he has to pay. >> for example, if you're 50% responsible for the death, that might be good enough for the causation to convict you of the criminal offense. however, as far as the portion of the damages, you would only be responsible for the portion you were responsible for, such as the 50%. >> reporter: flanagan says michael jackson carries half the blame for his death. >> when it comes to restitution, the question comes down to, what percentage responsible are you? >> reporter: details of jackson's last minutes played out during his trial will now replay in the battle over restitution. also, being questioned, the true worth of jackson's estate. >> if you count the value of his assets, he's worth a negative $200 million. now, the estate has got a positive balance. >>

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conrad murray was attending to michael jackson when he died.hat case captivated viewers for weeks. now the doctor is locked up, found guilty of involuntary manslaughter. >> we, the jury, find the defendant conrad murray guilty. >> and sentenced to 48 months in the gray bar hilton. >> best american student freed from an italian prison after being jailed for four years, amanda knox. >> people cared about what happened to amanda knox. there aren't that many stories where you see people from all over the world so curious. >> still the trial of the year goes to casey anthony. >> that woman made me angry. >> after weeks of testimony about her little girl caylee and soap opera testimony, the verdict clearly was not what people expected. >> verdict as to count one, we the jury find the defendant not guilty, verdict as to count two, we find the defendant not guilty. verdict as to count three, we the jury find the defendant not guilty. >> i think everybody knows she's guilty, everybody thinks they know she's guilty but to the letter of the law was there

here's kent conrad, the chair. [captioning performed by national captioning institute] [captions copyright national cable satellite corp. 2012] >> i want to go to a markup in committee and i want to do it sooner rather than later. the unknown for us is when we will get c.b.o.'s reestimate and we don't have an answer on that. they sometime ago talked to us about march 9 as a time they might have reestimates. since that time they have end indicated that might slip. so we just have to wait and see. but i will be talking to all the members of the committee and want to start that consultation immediately. we'll start consell takes next week -- consultations next week with members of the committee and certainly be talking to senator sessions about timing and hopefully we'll know in the near term what c.b.o.'s schedule is with respect to re-estimate. i wanted to start with that. i also want to -- >> thank you. i appreciate that. i know that the chairman deeply cares about these issues and i think that process will be good

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conrad murray was treating michael jackson when he died.ty of inwill have unary manslaughter. >> we, the jury, in the abo above-entitled action find the defendant, conrad robert murray guilty and sentenced to 48 months. >> best american student freed from an italian prison after being jailed for four years, amanda knox. >> knox, amanda, is free. >> there aren't that many stories when you see people from all over the world so curious. >> still, the trial of the year goes to casey anthony. >> that woman made me angry. the whole case made me angry. >> after endless testimony about the disappearance of her little girl caylee and a string of soap operalike witness testimony, the verdict was clearly not what many expected. >> as to the charge of first-degree murder, verdict as to count one, we, the jury, find the defendant not guilty. verdict as to count two, we, the jury, find the defendant not guilty. verdict as to count three, we, the jury, find the defendant not guilty. >> i think that everybody knows she's guilty. i think everybody thinks th

. >> the architect and artist modelled it after this author, joseph conrad in the congo in the late 1800srip inspired his very well-known story, or book -- >> right, yeah. >> this hotel just won the "a room for london" international contest, which is kind of this artistic hotel contest they have. >> how do you book this thing? >> this hotel room is already booked through june of 2012. they will begin taking reservations for july through december on january 19th. >> how much for one night? >> $185 american dollars or around 120 pounds per night. >> pretty reasonable. very reasonable. >> okay. i'm supposed to remind you to go to "right this minute".com. so there. >>> president obama has an image problem. apparently he can't express his anger? what's the guy to do? hire an anger translator. a i hope she sends that to the person in a frame. a thank you note for the idea. >> i've got a bit of a love story for you guys. i'm not sure if it's going to make you go ahh or eww. a couple in thailand getting married. this is the groom to be. a happy couple, a picture of them before the wedding. so far

the jackson family speaks to prosecutors in the conrad murray case.ng about restitution is canceled. >>> and it is cloudy right now. but there is a winter storm heading our way. bob is updating your first warning weather forecast. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, >>> four members of a&m's marching band is under arrest. campus police arrested the student thursday night. the students are charged with hazing band members who wanted to join a group in the clarinet section. the victims told police they were punched, slapped and passed. in november -- paddled. in november, a student died in a hazing there. >>> a man's body was dismembered. but his information is not being released. the head was discovered by a dog walker in bronson canyon. thursday, his hands and feet were found. no arrests have been made. but detectives are plowing through dozens of leads. >>> a volunteer firefighter dies at the scene of a fatal fire in new jersey. he passed away while battling the blaze alongside his son. >> reporter: the blaze that killed the homeowner and the firefighter here at 33

. >> dj conrad is part of the kentucky street watchtowers, and their mission is cracking down on prostitutes and pimps. they started the year and half ago taking photos and patrolling the streets and attending the court if the prostitutes and pimps who had been busted. >> we followed this particular gal through court and she was finally convicted. she was the most egregious of the prostitution. >> it didn't stop there. she must have been installed at places where prostitutes with frequent, all funded by toledo residents. >> dropped by about 80%. >> so they got the message. >> yes. and while the vallejo police force has experienced severe cutbacks this resident told cbs five he prefers to cross, but police are still out there and doing the job. >> they stop me because i was dressed like this which is understandable. luckily i didn't get busted because i wasn't doing anything. >> the kentucky street watch files date to keep an eye out. they are happy to see if there are signs of progress. >> prostitution and crime basically does not happen whether it's positive energy. >> to watch all say they

the other one, michael jackson's doctor, conrad murray.ow do you think this will be impacted in the future from this trial. >> what we'll see the legislature back in california is now because so much light has been shone on them with this house arrest bill, they came up with realignment. which means if you're convicted of a nonviolent felony and consider involuntary manslaughter -- yes, your eyebrows are going -- that's the reaction of most of country. they say, what, you killed somebody and it's possible you could serve a four-year maximum sentence on house arrest. now that spotlight has been turned on california and they're starting to rethink how they classify involuntary manslaughter, number one, and, number two, if this whole house arrest idea is such a good idea after all. >> so we had michael jackson, superstar, casey anthony, a little girl and then, of course, a case that some people might have forgotten about but it was very horrific, the connecticut murders of the family, the petit family and joseph komisarjevsky on trial for tha

. >> the architect and artist modelled it after this author, joseph conrad in the congo in the late 1800srip inspired his very well-known story, or book -- >> right, yeah. >> this hotel just won the "a room for london" international contest, which is kind of this artistic hotel contest they have. >> how do you book this thing? >> this hotel room is already booked through june of 2012. they will begin taking reservations for july through december on january 19th. >> how much for one night? >> $185 american dollars or around 120 pounds per night. >> pretty reasonable. very reasonable. >> okay. i'm supposed to remind you to go to "right this minute".com. so there. >>> president obama has an image problem. apparently he can't express his anger? what's the guy to do? hire an anger translator. a comical spoof even the honey...? [ mom ] yes. honey, i can't find my internet cord. oh, i'll borrow hailey's. you're downloading movies. fast! from here? where is her cord?! we switched to at&t high speed internet and got wireless access. no more cords. wireless, okay, honestly, can i just get a cord, p

economist conrad de quadros says with more people pounding the pavement, the unemployment rate will likely tick higher. >> even as employment growth in 2012 is likely to be stronger than what we've seen on average in 2011. if participation rises, we're probably not going to see as rapid a decline in the unemployment rate as we've seen in the last three months. >> reporter: that means the jobless rate at 8.5% could be as good as it gets in 2012. still, more people feeling more positive about getting a job is a good problem to have, especially for a recovery that desperately needs to gain some momentum. joanie ruge is an analyst for the world's second largest staffing firm and says the unemployed have reason to be hopeful. >> i think companies are really starting to look at 2012 and they're making plans to hire. so there is a good sign here, we're seeing a lot of optimism around hiring, adding to their permanent staff payrolls. they're talking about some big numbers as well. >> reporter: to be sure, most economists do not think the u.s. will be able to add more than 150,000 to 200,000 new jo

because you can create poetry within the pros and i think like the writer like nab bark cough or conrad or rushdie they all bring their home language into english and english expands like america. it expands to accommodate you. >> in protest against the iran regime the current regime, some women have set themselves on fire in paris. what is the reaction of our iranian guest to that kind of extreme self sacrifice as a form of protest? we'll put that question to our guest but first here is her distinguished profile. >> born tehran, husband bejohn had dairy -- two children, relist is -- rehim gin muslim -- religion must him. b.a. religious literature, m.a. literature. university of tehran profession of -- professor of literature. writer 22 years. johns hopkins university school of advance studies professor of politics and culture six years and currently. also dialogue project. a program that promotes people to people exchange of ideas and perspectives on democracy and culture and the west. diry. author go books including -- two books including reading lolita in tehran. hobbies, swimming, f

because you can create poetry within the pros and i think like the writer like nab bark cough or conrad or rushdie they all bring their home language into english and english expands like america. it expands to accommodate you. >> in protest against the iran regime the current regime, some women have set themselves on fire in paris. what is the reaction of our iranian guest to that kind of extreme self sacrifice as a form of protest? we'll put that question to our guest but first here ise. >> born is -- rehim gin muslim - religion must him. b.a. religious literature, m.a. literature. university of tehran profession of -- professor of literature. writer 22 years. johns hopkins university school of advance studies professor of politics and culture six years and currently. also dialogue project. a program that promotes people to people ee of ideas and perspectives onculture and the . diry. author go books including -- two books including reading lolita in tehran. hobbies, swimming, film viewing, and painting. azar nafisi. >> do you regard your book as a feminists man first is to -- manifes

jackson's doctor, conrad murray was found guilty in november of involuntary manslaughter. each fan suing for emotional damage in france could legally win up to $13,000, but they are only asking for a symbolic one euro in damages. >>> shedding the pounds for the new year is possible, but keeping it off, another story. and researchers may know why. a study in mice shows eating high fat foods causes damage to an area of the brain that regulates weight as the brain tried to fix the problem, it caused scarring. there was also a loss of cells that play a critical role in fat control. researchers believe that could be a hard time keeping weight off. meteorologist is joining us now. it's been a lovely saturday so far. let's see how sunday is shaping up. >> another gorgeous weekend as we continue this dry and mild pattern. right on through the week. possibly next week as well. as high pressure prevails across the bay. clear and breezy in the north and east bay hills. that will keep the fog to a minimum. that will come down through the morning hours, leaving us slightly warmer here

. >> reporter: bj conrad is part of a group of vallejo residents calling themselves the kentucky street watch owls. their mission, cracking down on prostitutes and pimps. they started a year and a half ago taking photos, patrolling the streets, even attending court dates of prostitutes and pimps who have been busted. >> we have followed this particular gal through court. she was finally convicted. she was the most egregious really of all the prostitutes. she was kind of like 24/7. >> reporter: it didn't stop there. take a look at this. cameras have been installed at places where prostitutes would frequent, all funded by vallejo residents. >> it was like overnight the number of prostitutes dropped by about 80%. >> they got the message. >> yeah. they don't mess with us too much anymore. they used to when we first started but now they don't really mess with us. >> reporter: while the vallejo police force has experienced severe cutbacks, this vallejo resident who told cbs 5 he prefers to cross-dress still believes the police are out there and doing the job. >> they stop me because i was dre

. >>> the california medical board has asked michael jackson's former doctor conrad murray to surrenderedical license. murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter last november in jackson's 2009 death. he is serving a four-year prison sentence. once murray returns, the next step would be to have his license revoked. >>> police in britain are investigating a royal murder mystery. they are still trying to identify a woman whose remains were found at the estate where queen elizabeth and her family celebrated the new year. alison harmelin reports. >> reporter: the estate is a crime scene. police are combing the property for evidence after a dog-walker found a woman's body on new year's day. >> i think the circumstances indicate that she is probably the victim of murder. >> reporter: the remains were just three miles from queen elizabeth's retreat of the estate where the royals spent the holidays and held a new year's celebration. authorities have not yet released details about the victim or how she died. >> i don't want to make any sort of guesses at this time. we really need to wait u

conrad murray turn over his medical certificate. murray had his medical license suspected automatically when he was convicted of a felony. the disgraced doctor is serving four years in prison for the death of michael jackson. >>> the new "vanity fair" cover features a ton of star power. a listers daniel craig, george clooney and matt damon pose for photographer anny liebowitz. the trio filled out the post- questionnaire where clooney admits his dog lives better than he does. craig says his least favorite body parts are his knees and matt damon lists his marriage at his greatest achievement. >> came and clooney rank among the top box office draws. the descendants star came in second. damon, fifth. >> you can't start pena first tonight. >> in first place, brad pitt who starred in the movie money ball and the tree of life last year. theatre owners and film buyers say he did more than any other star to fill seats. that's your eye on entertainment. i'm edward lawrence, cbs news, hollywood. >>> until ghost protocol, i'm sure that's going

north dakota rather where senator kent conrad said he won't run for another term. in nebraska, senator ben nelson waited a very long time before announcing he wouldn't run again. democrats spent more than $1 million to try to prop him up but over the christmas break when he said he would talk with his family, he decided he just wasn't going to run for another term. whether or not that was because of the political realities on the ground, he was always going to face a tough fight for re-election. now democrats don't have much of a chance in nebraska. the one caveat being former senator bob kerrey thinking about running for what is his old seat. p. nelson won that seat 12 years ago once kerry retired. carrey went off to new york to be the head of the new school there. now he's back in nebraska contemplating it but admitting he's going to have a tough time because this is a a red state. >> missouri is always a purple state. swings both democrat and republican. >> she is probably third most likely seat to switch parties. the biggest thing working on her behalf is the r

conrad, the democrat in charge of the senate budget committee said he will go to a mark up this year. he's actually involved in kind of an interesting skirmish with his own leadership. i don't know if that's ever going to come to the forebut he came out and showed we all need to get together on a balanced plan. seeing that rhetoric of a balanced plan for democrats and then republicans really saying need something much more drastic that deals with entitlement programs. >> eric joining us live on capitol hill. his work available online at thehill drkz reacting to latest numbers from cbo predicting a trillion dollar plus debt this year. we've reached 15 and approaches $16 trillion in the debt overall. eric, thanks for being with us. >> thanks, steve. >> we'll be talking about this with jim demint. he's out with a new book called "now or never saving america from economic collapse" he's our guest tomorrow morning on the washington journal heard live here on c-span radio. also a conversation with congressman ryan. not paul ryan but tim reina member of the budget committee, co-chair of manu

he should be possible -- conrad murray is to anesthesia.d is telling him, take control, get back onboard that ship. let's listen to a little bit of it in italian. it's interesting to hear the tone and how an made they were. [speak in italian] megyn: that coast guard captain is not happy, joey. now many others are not happy. if you get assigned to represent this guy he's going to get a lawyer like every other criminal defendant. how are you going to defend this. they say he intentionally made a sail-by salute to this italian island, that's how the ship ended up on its side. then he runs and leaves people onboard to fend for themselves. >> there is a lot of frustration here because people are dead, people are injured and people are missing. as a result of that you are going to have a great deal of frustration and anxiety and there should be. before we start prosecuting people we have to be conversant with all the facts. obviously he hit a rock or reef. did he do that in a way that was negligent in did he do that in a way that was intentional?

. >> reporter: bj conrad is part of a group of vallejo residents calling themselves the kentucky street watch owls. their mission, cracking down on prostitutes and pimps. they started a year and a half ago taking photos, patrolling the streets, even attending court dates of prostitutes and pimps who have been busted. >> we have followed this particular gal through court. she was finally convicted. she was the most egregious really of all the prostitutes. she was kind of like 24/7. >> reporter: it didn't stop there. take a look at this. cameras have been installed at places where prostitutes would frequent, all funded by vallejo residents. >> it was like overnight the number of prostitutes dropped by about 80%. >> they got the message. >> yeah. they don't mess with us too much anymore. they used to when we first started but now they don't really mess with us. >> reporter: while the vallejo police force has experienced severe cutbacks, this vallejo resident who told cbs 5 he prefers to cross-dress still believes the police are out there and doing the job. >> they stop me because i was dre

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conrad murray who breached his standard of care as a doctor. standard, that's an element of the manslaughter charge and it proves wrecklessness. now he's also facing charges of abandonment. >> ship wreck and abandonment. >> that's right. with those charges i believe it's up to 15 years. also, of course, the captain, the cruise ship company, the cruise ship itself, they're all facing civil charges by all of these passengers and their families. now i'd also like to hear about, at some point i think this will come up, if there's separate maritime charges because maritime law takes effect as well. >> soledad, i'm sympathetic to the e-mails you got suggesting maybe there's a language issue. i want to give someone the benefit of the doubt in this. to simply abandon ship and run for the shore seems beyond comprehension. but as you read that entire transcript, that, in fact, sounds like exactly what happened. he says, where are you? what have you done? he said, i'm out, man. the ship is keeling. >> the ship is keeling. >> he did an interview from land.

. >> reporter: the budget chairman ken conrad cried foul saying that claim ignored the debt deal signedlaw last august. >> the budget control act contains the budget for this year and next year. weren't they paying attention? don't they know what they voted on? >> reporter: boehner admits he has not spoke within mr. obama in a month. says negotiating with the president working with somebody who never negotiated anything. bret? >> bret: might be emanuel, thank you. let's get more on the president's address tonight. joining us live this evening from the white house briefing room, white house press secretary jay carney. welcome. >> thank you for having me. >> bret: i know you heard mike's piece. speaker boehner went further, saying the white house made clear by labor day it was in full campaign mode. the president wants this to be a year one address. he is taking on the role of rip van winkle like he slept through the two years where democrats controlled both chambers. your reaction? >> my reaction is it's unfortunate that you have criticism of a speech that someone hasn't heard yet. he is

holly hughes will be here to talk casey anthony, conrad murray and the connecticut home invasion trialn of the new year? >> yes, i did. >> some of it was here. >> we were all kind of here, a lot of us here. i'll ring it institions or traditions? >> i'm going to lose the five pounds. >> that's the number one resolution in america. >> and i'll forget january 8th that that was my resolution. >> okay, hopefully you won't be among the what 51% of americans who break their new year's resolutions within the month of january. >> i will be. i'll be there. >> no, no. we want you to keep that resolution. but you don't need to lose five pounds by the way. >> well, thank you, but -- >> thank you so much. we have much more on people and their resolutions or their traditions as it pertains to the new year. kissing at midnight, that is a very common new year's eve tradition. so what are some of your superstitions? send me some via twitter or facebook and i'll read some of your comments straight ahead. multi-policy discount. paperless discount. paid-in-full discount. [yawning] homeowner's discount. saf

conrad murray curious >>darya: where in the world is casey anthony?ccording to some reports she may have found god. hiding out in a church near west palm beach. >>mark: a quick break as the kron4 news continues. traffic is moving close to the speed limit as we wait for the storm to move in.

and conrad black when he write his biography of roosevelt said roosevelt's greatest achievement was he stayed capitalist and black was right and with the destruction of those radical and populist movements in the name of the red scare in the 50s with the mccarthy hearings we saw thousands of university professors, social workers, journalists essentially purged from their positions. i f. stone, our greatest investigative journalist becomes a nonperson. he can't even get a job. that was disastrous because we lost the pressure on the liberal establishment and then in the name of sort of the battle against anti-communist we followed these liberal institutions out from the inside so that by the 1970s there was no longer any ball work to protect us from the corporate state and we were transferred correctly in the words of the harvard historian charles mayer by the early 1970s from an empire. the what he calls production to an empire of consumption. we began to borrow, to maintain life style of consumption as well as an empire we could no longer afford. and the impediments to that which had b