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and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearsationwide is on your side. headquarters there off hsbc, one of the more unusual looking buildings. you can see it right in the heart of hong kong. that used to be the global headquarters until hsbc moved to city of london about 19 years or so ago. welcome back. you're watching "world business today." >>> let's stay with hsbc because it's been a stock we've been watching. on monday the bank reported a better than expected earnings. this is how investors have responded to that today here in london. hsbc shares are trading. last time i looked, gain of nearly 1.5%. now, in hong kong, a little bit earlier, hsbc's stock closed about 1.25%. this is london here. but in term of hong kong, 1.25% higher. so markets are clearly giving a welcome of sorts to the bank's latest plans. >>> well, those investors might be pleased that buying the stock but not everyone would be so keen on what they're planning. the bank says it will slash 25,000 jobses worldwide over the next two years. that is despite th

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 years. nationwide is on your side. >>> as we await the house vote let's go to jack. he's got "the cafferty file." >> wolf, the government is selling snake oil again. look closely at this so-called deal on the debt ceiling crisis, and you'll see a triumph of sleight of hand over substance. last night it was we're going to cut $1 trillion in the first ten years. by this morning $1 trillion had become $917 billion which means we lost $83 billion overnight, sort of makes you afraid to go to bed tonight. in the first three years of the obama presidency the deficits will total about $4.2 trillion. cutting $917 billion over ten years, that's $91 billion a year, that's chump change. then there's the commission, another commission. remember president obama's deficit reduction commission? he ordered them to come up with answers to a lot of this stuff almost a year ago, and they did. their report was full of a lot of good ideas, and it was promptly ignored. that's going to be left for the commission.

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and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearsonwide is on your side. c>> harris: i am harris faulkner. things are calmer now after full-blownn rioting in london. police cars and other vehicles burning sparked by a police shooting. the 29 year eeled man they shot dead fired at them first. things turned violent when they attacked the local police station. our nation mourning the deaths of 30 americans in an helicopter crash in afghanistan. president obama getting word in camp david. most of those killed were part of navy seal team unit six. those men, they were not the men who took out osama bin laden. the chopper like the one you see here shot down north of cabble. the taliban is claimming responsibility. i am harris faulkner, we'll get you back to huckabee. >> mike: the weeks leading up to the deadlock. politics blaming each other and blaming them for the consequences ultimately before a debt deal was reached. what was the point of the drama if the credit rating was going to be down anyway. congressman, it is good to have you. >>

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and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearsn your side. . >> sean: during calls for him to cancel his ill timed summer getaway the an anyoned one is once again headed to martha's vineyard. the president is expected to arrive on the upper class island tomorrow for an extended vacation full of golf, family biking, fancy food, friends, fun, mopeds. meanwhile the u.s. economy is still sagging, unemployment more than 9%. what kind of message does this send to americans struggling? not one the white house is going for, that the economy is still the president's top priority. the very top of his list all right. right after he gets a few weeks of a -- weeks of r & r he addresses the nation after labor day. hold on if you are unemployed. joining me with reaction, soon to start his tribune produceed talk show the one and only bill conditioning ham. >> bill conditioning ham show. >> this is my hors d'oeuvre right here. >> sean: one of the worst tv moments of my life, i come in and i have the list of horrific shows that he's done over his c

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 years. nationwide is on your side. jinping. >>> from cnn paris, i'm nina dos santos. >> i'm andrew stevens at cnn hong kong. welcome back. you're watching "world business today." let's bring you up to date on the markets. we're about 90 or so minutes into the trading day in europe. and as you see there, all in the red, not surprising after the lack of decisive action from the leaders of france and germany at what was billed as a key summit to try to restore confidence in the eurozone and get the economies of that region moving back in the right direction. london down almost 1%. xetra dax and frankfurt down by almost 1%. on fevers of a new financial transaction tax which was raised by the two leaders at that meeting. the other two markets, as you see, also down as well. nina? >> andrew, it seems as though the asian markets are also decidedly underwhelmed at what went on in paris. at about 4:00 p.m. when merck ld and sarkozy met. let's go over to ramy inocencio. >> markets were fairly directi

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 years. nationwide is on your side. >>> let's check your headlines, 30 american troops died today when executing a rescue mission. the chinook was most likely shot down by the taliban. 22 of the dead were special forces, members of the navy s.e.a.l.s. >>> for the first time in history t credit rating has dropped for the united states. standard & poors, downgraded the u.s. from a aaa to a aa plus rating that. could mean higher interest rates on things like credit cards, loans, insurance, you name it. s&p blamed congress and the obama administration for the downgrade. the announcement came just days after a much criticized deal to raise the debt ceiling. >>> he's a politician by trade, but texas governor rick perry says there is nothing political about his huge prayer rally today in houston. critics say the religious event televised live to churches around the country breaks the standard of separating search and state. but perry says the gathering entitled "the response" focuses on america's s

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearsnationwide is on your side. >>> back to tripoli libya. our matthew chance is in tripoli. matthew, bring us up to date. >> reporter: thanks very much. a difficult situation in tripoli. up until a few hours ago the government was trying to insist that they had the situation under control here, the gadhafi loyalists. that clearly is not the case. all around tripoli, fierce gun battles are raging among forces loyal to gadhafi and rebels, some of whom have been reported to move in from the western town of zawir. it's not clear to us the exact makeup of the rebel groups at the moment fighting in tripoli. all i can say is there are fierce gun battles taking place, machine guns being fired, very close proximity f. explosions taking place in close proximity to this hotel. where we are reporting on this situation. it's a very, very bleak outlook indeed. according to government officials we have spoken to since last night, there are 376 people have been confirmed dead, another,000 have been injur

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearsour side. >> sean: tonight on our great american panel. he's "the new york times" best selling author -- we got this wrong. you sat in the wrong seats. communications director for the republican national committee doug heye is here. my next guest is the best seller james michael pratt is here. and she worked on several campaigns for the democrats that include al gore and frank law tenberg. my s. -- >> sean: not only one of the meanest campaigns we've seen. the left is going nuts. they are about to lose the white house. probably both houses of congress. janine garofalo, listen to this madness. >> in this presidential race, because he deflects the racism that is inherent in the republican party, the conservative movement, the tea party certainly and the last 30 years the republican party has been moving more and more to the right, also race baiting more, gay baiting more, religion baiting more. herman cain i feel is being paid by somebody to be involved and to run for president so that y

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 years on your side. wrists from the handcuffs. >> i have permanent scars on my ankles where they've put them on so tight that i bleed sometimes. >> damien echols bears the marks of a man who spent nearly half his life on arkansas's death row. >> it's kind of hard to sit here and try to have a normal discussion with your family whenever they can look down and see that you're bleeding through your socks. >> but even more painful, he says, is the question he's had to answer for the past 18 years. >> how often has someone asked you, did you kill those children? >> every single time i've done an interview i've been asked that. >> damien lives in 24-hour lockdown. he's been convicted of murdering stevie branch, christopher byers and michael moore, all 8-year-olds, all found naked and bound in a gully on may 6, 1993. >> it's hard. like i said, it doesn't get any easier. you would think i would be used to this by now. but you don't get used to this. and it does continue to get worse as time goes by

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearsonwide is on your side. ♪ ♪ >> andrea: welcome back to "the five." the debate start on the house floor and there is a vote expected this evening. the senate is expected to vote tomorrow. let's take a listen to eric cantor to hear what he had to say about the deal they're voting on in a few hours. >> the house will vote on a measure today that although not perfect, will begin to change the culture here in washington. now, i said the bill is not perfect and it's not. but changing the way that washington spends taxpayer dollars is often a lot like redirecting our turning an aircraft carrier. it's a monumental task. >> andrea: making some excuses. all right. now the president has similar sentiment that equally this bill is not ideal for washington lawmakers. take a listen to the president. >> this has been a long and messy process. as with any compromise, the outcome is far from satisfying, but it also launched an important debate how we approach the big challenges we face. how we rebuild

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearsnwide is on your side. >>> breaking news out of libya. we are hearing reports that rebels have entered the square. to put it in perspective, this is like times square in tripoli. you're seeing images of one of the sons of moammar gadhafi. and rebel official sas two of moammar gadhafi's sons have been captured. you're seeing images of rebel advances into the city. the rebels say they are now in control of most of parts of the capital. most of the parts of the capital tripoli, that illusive prize that was, it seems, and i'm using the past tense under the control of moammar gadhafi forces. if green square is now in the control of rebels, this is extremely significant. this is the times square in new york, this is extremely symbolic, and it is where moammar gadhafi gave one of his speeches to his supporters saying he would never surrender. the government itself is conceding parts of the city are no longer under its control and says it was a bloody battle. that 1,300 people have been killed

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and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearsr side. >> greta: is the debt ceiling law a band-aid on the economy? the law raises the debt ceiling cuts more $2 trillion on our debt over the next ten years but with a what was when 2013 comes? >> explain this to me. in terms of the debt ceiling deal, change in the first year, in the second year and when are we going to see the last $900 billion in the first group of cuts? >> as we always do when we budget it's spread out over a ten-year period of time. $900 billion is working ten years. if that is carried out, that is not a bad deal. so often we see congress change things along the way. so you are only sure of what is going to be for the next couple of years. for itself year $21 billion throws be spent next year than being spent this year. remember, that is just 15% of the budget we call discretion ear. 44% that is entitlements, it doesn't affect that at all. that is going to go up 6-7%. so if you look at the entire expenditure it's going to go up next year regardless. >> greta: the

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearside is on your side. >> greta: the damage is breathtaking. hurricane irene is still causing heartache. causing 38 deaths, .4 million homes and businesses without power, billions worth of damage. flood waters washed away bridges, roads and homes. in new jersey swollen rivers and creeks, devouring neighborhoods making it hard for crews to battle fires like this one today where a house exploded. in vermont, hundreds of people ordered to evacuate as streams and rivers rose above their banks. transportation brought to a halt many travelers are stranded. airports are scrambling to get back on track. here's a stunning image, soldier on duty at the tomb of the unknown soldier in arlington national cemetery. a guard has continuously watched over this resting place since april 6th, 19348. even hurricane irene could not break that tradition. >> wisconsin state supreme court justice david prosser admits he put his hands around the neck of a justice and said she charged at him he was defending hims

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearsde. >>> "crime and punishment" tonight, a startling new report about the american woman missing in aruba and what the man who is in custody told investigators in the early hours after the search. robyn gardner was last seen august 2nd. the man she was with, gary giordano, said they disappeared shortly after they were together. tonight abc is reporting that police started talking to giordano shortly after they began talking, looked at his watch and said, she might be dead now. local fishermen told abc that he seemed very drunk when he reported her missing. martin savidge joins us live. when you talked to the aruban authorities, what do they make of this guy giordano telling searchers she might be dead now? >> when i first asked them, he laughed. he thought the minutia of the phrases were getting crazy. that said, he said we don't really see that as being so incriminating. keep in mind, the search had been going on for a couple hours, it was dark, she hadn't been found. they had divers i

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 years. nationwide is on your side. >>> jason baldwin, damon echols and jessie miskelly are free men today. they were just teenagers when they went to prison for killing two little boys just three years ago. now they are out thanks to a highly unusual plea deal in which they admit guilt. >> reporter: after more than 18 years behind bars t men known as the west memphis three find that freedom has a bitter taste. >> this was not just -- they sent us to prison for the rest of our lives, and we had to come here and all they said was that we'll let you go only if you admit guilt. >> they get out of prison to proclaim their innocence but only -- the west memphis three go free, but not free of the world murder. >> it's not perfect, it's not perfect by any means, but at least it brings close dwrure to areas and some aspects. you know, we can still bring up new evidence, we can still continue the investigations we have been doing, we can still try to clear our names, the only difference is we can do

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 years. nationwide is on your side. >>> u.s. military officials confirm that most of the troops killed in a war zone helicopter crash were navy s.e.a.l.s. it happened overnight in eastern afghanistan. the white house released this photo of president obama getting an update on the situation from the pentagon and other white house officials. we're told at least 31 american special forces troops and seven afghans were on board the chinook helicopter when it went down. no official word yet on what caused the crash. retired u.s. army general told me the impact on internal operations and the community cannot be overstated. >> my recollection, they're probably seven s.e.a.l. teams in the country. i don't know the exact number in each yield team. probably not less than, or not more than a couple of hundred at the most. so when you start talking a total s.e.a.l. population of perhaps under a thousand, if in fact you've lost two dozen, it is not solely a tragedy for the families, and it is a tremendou

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and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearsis on your side. >> sean: we continue with former governor mark sanford. we are agreeing on the economy. we are not dealing with this ridiculous, insane, baseline budgeting, which growth rates of about 8% a year. we are on a path to bankruptcy we are going to be debt to gdp ratio will be over 100% which means america is on a path to . you are saying this is a -- there is a way to stop it. the tea party is good because they are demanding fiscal responsible. i think it going to take a new president and congress to get there, am i right? >> it will. two thoughts going back to what we were discussing before the break. one, edward gibbons wrote an interesting book in 1776 on the fall of the romance. he looked at the fall of the greeks they said more than freedom they wanted security. they wanted a comfortable life and they lost it all. [ unintelligible ] i think you look across the annals of time, and you see this pattern of destruction where people in essence get ahead of themselves. a boo

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearscome back to "the five." so here we have another sexting scandal. this time involving a democrat named louie magadu who texted nude photos of himself to the lady. that is the good part of it. we have can't show you the rest. the new jersey freeholder -- i don't know what that is -- resigned this week but should he have? he claims it's the woman's fault for leaking the pictures. some feel what he did is the private business because they are adults. please. if you send out nude photos of yourself are you are playing russian roulette with your junk. who doesn't want to see it? america. we deserve a lot of things but we don't deserve to see your junk. these incidents are great for weeding out self-absorbed chumps from politics. if you think your naked middle age body is hot enough to be viewed in the flabby glory, you are too delusionm to be in a position of authority. i don't want you delivering my mail. lastly, maguzu -- there he is again -- says he will hopefully, "hopefully begin the p

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearsnationwide is on your side. >>> welcome back. you're watching world business today live on cnn. >>> a powerful storm killed 16 people in the philippines and caused significant damage in taiwan. now china is in its path. jennifer delgado is at the cnn weather center. tell me, jen, how does this compare to irene in terms of its size and destructive power? >> charles, big difference. it's certainly a smaller storm. structurewise. but we're also talking it being a tropical storm as opposed to irene when had it made landfall as a hurricane. a weaker storm windwise and a smaller one as well. really hard to find the center of sfek lags. it's off the coastline of china. it will make landfall in the next couple of hours. i want to point out to you, you notice rain through parts of taiwan and down towards area, including philippines. some of the outer bands working down towards that region. as i said, it's going to make landfall within the next couple hours. it's going to be inland and go into a

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and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearsnationwide is on your side. >>> an amazing moment in arkansas as on on lookers cleared three men who spent 18 years in prison walked free. it's partly because new dn after the evidence can't connect them to the crime scene and partly because some high level celebrities took up their cause. they've been known as the west memphis three. they were teenagers when a jury convicted them of the 1993 killings of three young boys, but over the year, the doubts gr grew. damien echols was on death row before a maneuver set him and his companions free. >> they came in with ghost story, rumors. innuendo, things that had nothing to do with the case whatsoever. and they know now the whole world was watching, they would have to come with some sort of concrete physical evidence, and they didn't have any. >> david mattingly has long been covering this case. this hearing was a bit of a surprise. take us inside the courtroom when the west memphis free will be free. >> reporter: well, this was a small cour

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and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearsonwide is on your side. >>> the gun battles intensify in the capital city of tripoli in libya between rebel fighters and those who are supportive of colonel moammar gadhafi. this as colonel moammar gadhafi has taken to the airwaves there trying to assure people that he's really not going anywhere but that instead it should be nato who should suspend its military operations. not long ago we talked to a resident there in the capital city who said that people there are amassing in the streets marching, even shouting against moammar gadhafi. with the sound of gunfire in the outskirts of town and even right downtown. the person i spoke with asked that we do not use her name, publicize her name, but listen to what she had to say when asked about whether she was afraid at all. >> not really at all. this is freedom we've been waiting for for 42 years. not to mention the last six months where we weren't allowed to do anything here. you don't even know where your neighbor has guns. i don't even

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and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 years. nationwide is on your side. >>> in vermont tonight, three people are confirmed dead in the flooding caused by hurricane irene. a little bit ago, the state's emergency management agency warned that even though the floodwaters have receded from levels we saw yesterday, most rivers and streams remain above normal levels and are still quite dangerous. with us on the phone is vermont governor peter shumlin. thanks so much for being with us. we know you're quite busy. first of all, governor, can you give us an update on whether the waters are finally receding? >> well, they are from the smaller tributaries, but our major rivers which they flow into are still rising so we have our challenges ahead. >> i understand that this afternoon, you spoke with the president. can you tell us what you asked him for? >> well, i should tell you the president reached out to me. he's been extraordinary as has his entire team. he's going to dispatch his director of fema up here tomorrow, senator napolitano h

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearsthe tools of war, planes, ships, bombs, and boats. -- and bullets. but since ancient times there's been another tool, animals, beasts of war. for hannibal in the third century b.c. it was elephants. his version of a tank to break through enemy lines. in world war i, carrier pigeons. one bird flying 25 miles and delivering its message before dying of its injuries. today, we're driving in to go see a very unique navy program that's been around for about 40 years, but it's only been declassified since the '90s. and this is a really rare opportunity. it was extremely hard to set up. the navy understandably is very sensitive about access to this program. >> reporter: the navy says what you're about to see is the best protection for a ship or a harbor against an attack. it has the finest sonar in the world, and you can't see it coming. the dolphin, what the navy calls the mark 6 weapon system, trained to find and identify a hostile swimmer. the navy has seen firsthand how vulnerable their sh

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearsor decades there's been a trade embargo and travel ban from the united states to cuba. now, do you know what year it was put into place? drumroll. and the answer is 1962 by president john f. kennedy. earlier this year, president obama partially lifted the travel ban, and as our shasta darlington reports, many americans are now seeing havana for the very first time. >> reporter: sipping mojitos to the rhythm of cuban salsa at havana's historic hotel nacionale. thousands of tourists do it every year, but usually they're not americans. cuba receives more than 2 million tourists every yore. they flock to the white sand beaches and ogle at the vintage american cars. but for half a century, the vast majority of americans have been barred from traveling to the communist country. earlier this year, president barack obama eased restrictions and resumed allowing americans to visit the island for purposeful travel, called people-to-people tourism. such trips had been suspended by from president b

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 years. >>> let's talk about what matters now, our partnership with the "essence" magazine, and he is the president and so it comes with the territory, but president obama has not gotten a lot of criticism from the high-profile african-americans until now. at a jobs fair this week, congresswoman maxine waters said she supports the president, but he needs to fight harder for his principles. earlier i asked the congresswoman what's behind her frustration. >> the young people who cannot find jobs and mothers who have worked hard and fathers to send their kids off to college, and they come back and they can't find a job, and the parents are asking us, what is going on? i mean, i have worked hard to send this kid to college and he can't get a job. and then, of course, a protracted debate on the debt ceiling where we got our clocks cleaned and the republicans walked away with everything. and we have no new revenue in this picture at all. and it calculates to frustration. >> congresswoman, let's st

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearsnationwide is on your side. >>> my next guest was told by glenn beck he could be assassinated. brad, big fan of your stuff. it they're great reads. what is particularly apazi of having you as a guest today is coming on the back of i think the unthinkable terror attack in norway, something that nobody i guess could ever have imagined, the double-pronged attack by a lone guy, it seems, maybe with help. when you heard about what had happened, as somebody that concocts these outrageous plot lines yourself, were you surprised by what you heard? >> i wasn't surprised by what i heard. i was actually surprised by who the perpetrator was in the end. i think i, like many people who pay attention to terrorism, thought this had all the fingerprints of an al qaeda-style attack. one of the terrible things we see now is the two-pronged attack or multi-pronged attack, whether it's the bali bombings or what happened in mumbai. so the idea of a bomb going off one place and that taking all the resources

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 years. nationwide is on your side. >>> all right, some breaking news in to cnn. it's already monday morning in asia. i want to give you a map of where and when the markets will open up there. we're less than an hour away from the start of tokyo trading. and for the first time since standard & poor's downgraded the u.s. credit rating we're watching the reaction in asia very closely right now. because it can foretell so much about what we can expect when the u.s. markets open in the morning. you've already seen some of the response. the u.s. market and the downgrade. the middle eastern markets, financial markets, were open today. they closed sharply. and i want to bring in richard quest, because here's something i think is very troubling here. the dow futures down almost 300 points. has that ever happened before? has it been down this much before? >> oh, yes. i mean, this is -- this is a futures market, which tell us where the s&p would be in a month's time. and what it basically means to you

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearsde is on your side. ' >> thank you for staying with us fortunate us. i'm monica crowley in for bill o'reilly. in the fridays with geraldo, david letterman is beefing up security at the theater where he tapes his show after a muslim militant calls for his assassination. according it a private terrorist organization that monitors jihadist web sites a man urged muslims in the united states to "cut off the tongue of letterman" because of a joke he made about an al-qaida leader who was killed in pakistan. geraldo is looking into the situation and joins us now. geraldo, how are you? >> nice to see you. >> you, too. let's start with david letterman. how serious a threat is this? >> i think it's way serious. even if it's a prank, even if it's a guy who had access to that web site and made a posting and what he said is there not among you to cut the tongue of this lola jew and shut it forever. so he is the guy who allegedly killed rabbi meyer kahani, the founder of the jewish defense league in

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearson your side. >>> new york's medical examiner says more tests are needed to determine the cause of death for florida megachurch pastor zachery tims. tims was found unresponsive in a times square hotel room over the weekend. >>> in aruba, authorities say clothing found during a search for a missing american woman does not belong to 35-year-old robyn gardner. meantime, a judge has found enough evidence to continue holding gardner's traveling companion, an american man in connection with the case. he reported gardner missing on august 2nd. >>> casey anthony's attorneys say they'll appeal a judge's order that she must serve one year of supervised probation on a check fraud conviction starting next week. anthony was acquitted in july of murdering her 2-year-old daughter caylee. >>> and anderson, an important lesson for 11-year-old twin boys from minnesota. at a charity hockey event, nate smith scored an improbable 89 foot shot that earned him $50,000. take a look at this. the problem is the

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 years> in the headlines tonight, libyan rebels say they have taken their fight in to the capital. this is video of a recent alternate air strike in tripoli. by all appearances, moammar gadhafi is still in control. a message today from gadhafi on state tv urged his supporters to fight. libyan government says there's been some fighting in the capital but claims the rebels were quickly defeated. state media in iran report two american hikers have been convicted of spying and sentenced to eight years in prison. josh fattal and james bauer were charged with espionage and trespassing. a third hiker was also detained but freed last year for medical reasons. >>> the united states could feel the first hurricane of the year. tropical storm irene has formed east of the least leeward islands in the caribbean, bringing the threat of fierce flash floods. forecasters say it is possible next week it will hit the florida keys. it is not clear if the gulf of mexico will be impacted. >>> a sixth person has di

and that's just one more reason why the earnhardt family has trusted nationwide for more than 30 yearstionwide is on your side. >>> he may have been your teen idol. partridge family star david cassidy was famous around the world, playing keith partridge in a '70s show. but now nearly 40 years after "the partridge family" went off the air, cassidy is mounting a battle to get paid for all that merchandise with his image on it. cnn's poppy harlow has more. ♪ ♪ i think i love you >> reporter: it's 1970, and a 20-year-old named david cassidy is starring in "the partridge family." ♪ >> reporter: not only did the show and sold-out concerts go on to make him a star, but the teen idol's success spawns an avalanche of merchandise. >> this is a dress-upset. remember these? oh, gosh. nice outfit, david. >> would you please put your hands together for the one and only david cassidy! >> reporter: 37 years after "the partridge family" went off the air, cassidy is still performing and producing. and now he is on a personal mission, to get paid for that merchandise from sony, which owns the show. you s

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