the casualties from england's newspaper phone-hacking scandal keep piling up as england's top-ranking police officer abruptly resigned and one of rupert murdoch's most trusted executives was arrested and questioned by police for 12 hours. nbc's stephanie gosk has details. >> reporter: london's police chief resigned under intense pressure after it emerged scotland yard hired a former news much the world editor as media consultant. the same year investigators decided not to pursue the phone hacking case. neil wallace was arrested last week in connection with the scandal. >> i have heard suggestions we must are suspected the alleged involvement of mr. wallace in phone hacking. let me say unequivocally, that i did not and had no reason to do so. >> reporter: even with the head of police preparing to step down, scotland yard continues to make arrests. today it was rebekah brooks, former head of rupert murdoch's newspaper arm in the uk who resigned herself on friday. it was just a week ago murdoch flew to london and stood by her side, all smiles. brooks had a rise at the krngs becoming edit

this was especially true in england, and it was another reason that led me to concentrate on englanddid not have conscription. they still had an all-volunteer army, so whipping up the necessary enthusiasm, they had to whip up enthusiasm in order to get millions of men to enlist, and, in fact, they did goat two and a half million men to enlist before they imposed conscription. how did they do it? they began very early where a cap innocent men -- cabinet minister six weeks into the war assembleed -- to begin with, assembled more than 50 of the country's leading writers, very familiar names, james berry, ht wells, many other people, all the prominent british writers with rare exceptions, in a meeting in a commercial office, an insurance company office in london saying we want you to write for the war effort. whatever you write, we'll see that it's published, and for the next four-plus years, there was a huge mirage of fiction, nonfiction, pamphlets, books, magazines, almost all coming from commercial publishers, but, in fact, the british government agreed in advance to buy 50,000 copies

it was not that everybody in england was pro-south. many of the anti-slavery campaigns, including the great aristocratic families, understood that. tavis: what was the view of president lincoln at the time? >> it was very terrible, actually. about four months ago, one of the main editors of "the guardian newspaper," wrote a kind of an apology because he went to the archives and found that they were anti-lincoln. charles francis adams, the american ambassador, he was not so much as anti-lincoln, but he did not believe that the president was up to the job. in europe, it seemed incredible that a man from a lowly background who was self-taught, who had never been abroad, could have the top job in the country. it was alien. it was from another universe. they never thought that he was handling the war well. of course, one of the many great attributes that we assign to lincoln now, we only understand them afterwards, not what people understood at the time. tavis: as the war went on, did the view of lincoln never shift inside england? >> there

we should be dry in most of new england. as far as the heat goes, we're still very hot throughout much of the country. we don't have a lot of cold weather out there. it's definitely lake, beach or pool weather if you can get there today or maybe in the shade of the park. if the sun is out it's going to be hot in your location. anywhere in the red is where it's fwoing to be at least 90 degrees today. that covers at least half the count country. the only areas that are cool is the pacific northwest in the 70s. san francisco 72 year the water. new york city near 90. same with d.c. also a tad humid in those cities. chicago is probably going to see one of the better days around the country. 83 and should be clear for the fi fireworks tonight. right now the only trouble spot weatherwise, southern illinois wet weather. later today could have strong storms from rapid city to sioux falls to fargo. i don't think it's going to be too bad. just some damaging winds. here's your forecast for fourth of july. thunderstorms possible. atlanta

it did happen in england for a very peculiar reasons. for parliament for a variety of reasons had a lot of solidarity. they hung together, they raised an army. they fought a civil war, defeated him, cut off his head. this was carl the 1st in the 1640s and then in 1688, they deposed another king james ii and brought in william to be their you know monoarch. because they didn't want to be taxed without parliamentary consent. it just happens in the one island nation, you get the powerful parliament that's able to force a institutional settlement on the english monoarch from there to the english is a short distance. john locke was a participant, he wrote the second treaty on government, that has to come out of consent, and then you get to the american revolution which is based on the principal, no taxation without representation. the distance from the english events and our own founding as a country based on democratic consent is not a long distance. it wouldn't have happened if we had been colonized by spanish or latin or america and it did

i think that would be -- >> have no fear ♪ ♪ england's here ♪ to make you feel ♪ a ittle etter ♪. >>, what just happened to your con son ants. >> we took them hem when we're elping eople. >> jon: that's charming. i think are you in own your head, quite frankly. we have real trouble in this country. >> right, jon, what would england know about a dying empire with rotting institutions. well, let me present you with exhibit a, jon, this is the british tabloid news of the world. 168 years old and at their peak they sold 8 million copies a week. and remember, that's in a nation whose population is only 5 million people. >> jon: actually england i don't think that -- >> that's not the point, jon. the point is as of yesterday it's owner rupert murdoch himself 166 years old, shut it down in disgrace. >> jon: i actually don't think murdoch is -- >> again, that's not the point. >> jon: all right (laughter) >> the point is, do you know how hard it is to disgrace a british tabloid, jon? the news of the world are the people who hired a private dect tough learn if freddie mercury had hiv, it's tru

this was especially true in england and it was another reason that led me to concentrate on england inry much shun. -- conscription. they had first year of the war an all-volunteer army. to whip up necessary enthusiasm they had to whip up enthusiasm in order to get millions of men to enlist. in fact they did get 2 1/2 million men to enlist before they imposed conscription. how did they do it? they began very early where a cabinet minister, only about six weeks into the war, assembled to begin with, assembledded more than 50 of the country's leading writers. very familiar names. sir arthur coin nan doyle. h.g. wells. all prominent british writers with exceptions n a meeting in a insurance company office in london and said, we want you to write for the war effort. and whatever you write, we will see that it's published. and for the next four-plus years there was a huge barrage of fiction, nonfiction, pamphlets, books, magazines, almost all of it ostensibly coming from commercial publishers but in fact the british government had agreed in advance to buy, 50,000 copies of this and 100,000

the best chance for showers and storms up in new england.th of new york city, vermont, new hampshire, maine, massachusetts, connecticut. dry from philly southwards, temperature around 92 degrees. but the humidity values will be lower today. so it won't be as oppressive. now as we go towards tomorrow, it looks like a dry day everywhere. temperatures once again right around 90 degrees. it's not until thursday and friday that the humidity increases along with the temperatures and we're still looking at possibilities of mid to upper 90s on friday, around washington, d.c. so nothing compared to the heat wave of last week. but still on the hot side. >> we'll take it for now, bill, thank you. >>> a famous skin art couple is a couple no more. plus late-breaking allegations from across the pond that amy winehouse was a phone-hacking victim as well. your first look at entertainment is straight ahead. >>> you're watching "first look" on msnbc. here, the planned combination of at&t and t-mobile would deliver our next generation mobile broadband experien

shown so much more ethics then murdoch has shown certainly in england ok let me ask you this because i have to ask this if news corps is one of the most powerful companies murdoch one of the most powerful men and fox news is there for a very powerful news network any united states and it is right leaning and it is critical of the obama administration in many cases where there be a vested interest by the current administration to take you down. the administration. had its head screwed on it would have to do with fox news and right wing media. as an outgrowth of the republican party in a much different way than it had so then i think that's why one could argue that if there is politics over at the justice department and the f.b.i. it's in their interests. politics is politics it's influencing the f.b.i. to really find something here so innocent until proven guilty we don't just real quickly yes or no do you think that has anything to do with this f.b.i. investigation of news corp i don't think it does at this point because remember congressman peter king a republican from new york has

is he's accomplished what he'd already accomplished in in england which is the the meshing of tabloid culture with political news but you know it can and one of the most powerful newspaper on fuel is murdoch's son it's the biggest newspaper it's two million twenty million three million circulation when you compare about good research the british population to the u.s. it's the equivalent of having a newspaper in this country that's fifteen million people so but you know damn close to zero national enquirer political news but no one decides who to vote for president sort of a national enquirer in our country right but in england they do and not for publication that you can get your political news and your presidential your prime minister endorsement from murdoch's son which is a powerful voice and news publication that's the difference so how long until we see that cons here as the only way to make money in news because if the most powerful news organization is making money this way that would suggest af where you make money there's no doubt that with the new york post which murdoch ow

england's biggest selling sunday newspaper for good. the paper lost advertisers after it hacked the voice mails of thousands from child murder victims to the families of england's war dead. the scandal has also frozen murdoch's attempt to take over a profitable pay channel. it's now thought murdoch will run a sister tabloid, the sun, on sundays. >>> a 1995 no state had obesity rate above 20%. today all the states do except for colorado which stands at 19.8%. mississippi is the heaviest state with an adult obesity rate of 34.4%. and four years ago only one state had an adult obesity rate above 0%. today a dozen states top that 30% mark. for more information on this and other health stories head to the web. check out the health page online at msnbc.com. >>> cleveland is clutch and the comeback cubs. plus the latest on yankee captain derek jeter's march toward 3,000 hits. your first look at sports is straight ahead. etables make you feel good? etables oh, yeah. v8 juice gives you 3 of your 5 daily servings of vegetables. v8. what's your nu

church is a dominant church in new england. those are the old line churches. the methodists are a new group that grew--they began in the--the bosom of the church of england, but they break with the church of england, they break with episcopalians, become a separate mesc--methodist episcopal church in america. and then the baptists--now there had always been baptists in america, but they were very small sects. but they--what's happened is that these--the methodists and the baptists have the means to reach the people in the west who are going west without churches and after five, 10 years, are unchurched. their children are unbaptized; they're getting married without marriage ceremonies. and there is a thirst for religion. and you have these often unskilled--i shouldn't say unskilled--uneducated preachers; they do have a skill and a talent and a calling to preach. but you have them going into the frontier and preaching and creating converts and building new churches. so religiously for these--at this time, you have a proliferatio

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and staying in england and liverpool captain steven gerrard he sets to be out until such time as the chance because of an infection in his growing thirty one year old midfielder is now on antibiotics and should be in hospital for several days when surgery had ended gerard season in march but he was expected to return to the start of the new campaign he could also miss england's two twenty twelve against gary and wales as well as premier league fixtures against asked not unfold. moving on to formula one where defending champion sebastian vettel edged out lewis hamilton in qualifying for the hunger in grand prix to take his eight opposition of the season last week's home ice in germany was a disappointment that off. as the world champion and outside agency first time this year but let me just break the curfew on working overnight to overhaul the athens car and changes helps him get back on top edging hamilton less than two tenths of a second the second without a jenson button lined up headed for i sleep a master by now the norms of the first season with his win in hungary mark webber w

and activists are growing more vocal in their opposition to a covert us military site in northern england it's inspired by the reagan era star wars project saying they have a right to know what's going on there. and of the shutters are up in denmark as the country passes a strict new nose on border control calls from its european neighbors who say it might violate agreements on visa free travel. and libyan officials say they intercepted two ships carrying a belgian made weapons for the rebels it's all in violation of a u.n. embargo want to arms trafficking to the war torn country. next discusses the missile shield plans that are driving a wedge between moscow and washington to stop. i. for what i understand russians are not against all interceptors they are against the more advanced and the more capable ones could you expand on that well we started the study a couple of months ago to look into the technical side of what might be behind russia's concerns so there's the narrative in the west has been that russia is ideologically opposed to middle missile defense so that they're more concern

the casualties from england's newspaper phone hacking scandal keep piling up, as england's top-ranking police officer abruptly resigned, and one of rupert murdoch's most trusted executives was arrested and questioned by police for 12 hours. nbc's stephanie gosk has details. >> reporter: london police chief resigned under intense pressure after it emerged that scotland yard hired a former "news of the world" editor as a media consultant in 2009. the same year investigators decided not to further pursue the phone hacking case. the former editor, neil wallace, was arrested last week in connection with the scandal. >> i have a suggestion that we must have suspected the alleged involvement of mr. wallace in phone hacking. let me say unequivocally that i did not and have no reason to do so. >> reporter: even with the head of police preparing to step down, scotland yard continues to make arrests. today, it was rebekah brooks, former head of rupert murdoch's newspaper arm here in the uk, who resigned herself on friday. it was just a week ago that murdoch flew to london and stood by her side, a

military sites in northern england inspired by the reagan era star wars project saying that they have a right to know what's going on there. and. the shutters are up in denmark as the country passes strict new laws and border controls which have already caused anger from its european neighbors who say it might breach agreements on visa free travel . and libyan officials say they intercepted two ships carrying belgian made weapons for the rebels and validation of a un involved on arms trafficking to the war torn country. club about to one another what they printed in fifteen minutes from now in the meantime we discuss the missile shield plans that are driving a wedge between moscow and washington that's in our interview next i'm not. from what i understand russians are not against all interceptors they are against a more advanced and the more capable ones could you expand on that well we started to study a couple of months ago to look into the technical side of what might be behind russia's concerns so there's the narrative in the west has been russia's ideologically opposed to middle

one dalmatian in england has 16 newborns on her hands, or paws. the mother was also born into a litter of 16. the owners were shocked and had no idea they were about to inherit so many puppies. their vet even had to write a letter so the kennel club would believe they were all related. so cute. in japan, the drinking age may be 20, but there is no limit to become a drink expert. a 10-year-old has become the youngest certified saki expert. she doesn't actually drink the rice wine but uses her nose and knowledge to perfectly match which sake would go best with your meal. having a keen scent for saki runs in the family. her mom is also an expert and is a sake bar owner. she grew up by her mother's side at the sake bar since she was a baby. this gives her a leg up on the competition. >> you might think i live under a rock but i've never had sake. >> you have never had sake did you ever have sushi? >> yes. >> try it. >>> a former national security agency official who admitted to leaking information on a failed project to a reporter will be sentenced to

>>> and the hacking investigation in england continues to grow. now, former employees are arrested by police. >>> we have a winning toilet paper wedding dress, coming up. >>> tobacco is going up in prices. it follows the price increase from the tobacco company that hiked the menthols up to 11 cents a pack. >>> if you buy a gm, you can get a year's worth of car insurance free. maryland isn't one of the states where it's happening. it's in oregon and washington. after the year is up, gm owners can renew the policy or go elsewhere. they hope the move will help them boost sells. >>> the phone tapping in england shutdown the paper. the investigation is getting bigger and dragging down those in politics. you wouldn't believe it unless you saw it. it's an elephant with an artificial leg. unbelievable. >>> we have a line of storms moving out of baltimore and pushing into annapolis and the eastern shore. we're talk about the current set of warnings and the weekend forecast. ♪ [ female announcer ] everybody loves that cushiony feeling. uh oh. i gotta go. [

other quarter ninas, england taking on france, 58th minute. england on the attack.l scott, what a beautiful shot in outside. go ahead and count that baby. 1-0 england. we jump to the 87th minute. the ball falls to elise. we have a tied match right here after extra time we go to penalty kicks with france up 4-3. england needs to make the kick to keep pace. no hits across the crossbar, france moves on to the semifinals. a lot going on, don't forget, a little bit coming up. more on sports in ane hour. we go to break, when we come back, diane will have the rest of the news. h >>> in san francisco today, some folks gathered to celebrate a first for the asian community. the chinatown ymca celebrated its 100th anniversary today. back in 1911, it was the first american ymca to serve the asian population. in just the past year, the y in chinatown opened up a teen center and a swimming pool as well. they all celebrated today. >>> so we're going to have weather tomorrow? >> pretty good, cool, we have

england and france, 58th minute, england on the attack. jill scott making noise. what a beautiful shot, right where it needs to be. go ahead and count it. however, 87th minute. france making noise this time. elise, this game is tied at one, after extra time, we go to penalty kicks, france up 4-3. england needs to make this kick to keep pace. not this time. hits the crossbar. france moves on to the semifinals. >>> i love it, look at the kids getting clobbered out there by marshawn lynch. he's back in the bay for football camp. the camp provides 600 kids the opportunity to work on their skills, sportsmanship and team work skills while building self-esteem on and off the field. any time you can clobber a kid and then laugh in his face, that's great sportsmanship, right? >>> we're changing gears here a little bit. a 7.1 earthquake hit the northeast coast of japan about a half hour ago. that's the same area that was devastated by the earthquake and tsunami in march. there is a tsunami warning for japan, there's been no warning for california at this point. coming up on

yesterday we saw storms rolling through england, got hit pretty good up by new england. it was pretty hochlt d.c. was # 5, atlanta was 94. but the real, real oppressive heat once again was in the heartland with the drought and the heat wave continues. that's where the worst of it is today. we have heat warnings in effect for the areas in orange, st. louis, kansas city, wichita, utah. dallas to memphis, you're under a heat advisory. you get the idea. what's different with this heat wave than what we dealt with last week, last week was hot but extremely humid. this week is not as humid this week. the dew points have been a little lower. if you're in the 70s, it's very uncomfortable. if you're in the 60s, it's not that bad. that's the case today. even in d.c., the sky is more blue, not as much moisture in the air. it will be hot but not as humid. we still have thunderstorms rolling through the north. pretty good storms rolled through new york city last night around 89er 8:30 delaying the yankee game. the worst of the wet weather's rolling through minneapolis. we've had some

now there are two weeks ago until the start of a new premier league season in england and also manager aston vanga says he wants to quickly resolve the future of his captain says fabregas the midfielder is missing from the ghana squad for this weekend's emirates cup which will also involves a genius harrison from a. red bulls watch the twenty four year old absence has increased speculation he could be on his way to barcelona. because. at the moment. he's coming back from an injury is not settled with dos you know that all the speculation. around. his position. has to be sorted out soon. and staying in england and liverpool captain steven gerrard he sets to be out until september the time because of an infection in his morning thirty one year old midfielder is now on antibiotics and should be in hospital for several days going surgery had ended gerard season in march but he was expected to return to the start of the new campaign he could also miss england's two euro twenty twelve when it was against bulgaria and wales as well as premier league fixtures against arsenal and bolton. moving

activists mark us in the pounds day with protests demanding the closure of an american spy base in england which is due to be a part of the star wars type missile shield your concern it's a step toward the self-serving american militarization of space. denmark's border barriers are coming back with custom chads designed to tackle drug smuggling and illegal immigration but it's angered e.u. colleagues who say it violates the cornerstone of european unity. and even officials say the arms embargo has been breached again as boats from qatar carrying weapons for the rebels are reportedly intercepted so far france is the only nation to admit supplying arms to get out in force its. next r t discusses the missile shield plans that are driving a wedge between moscow and washington. i. for what i understand russians are not against all interceptors they are against the more advanced and the more capable ones could you expand on that well we started the study a couple of months ago to look into the technical side of what might be behind russia's concerns so there's the narrative in the west has been

activists mark us in a panels day with protests demanding the closure of an american spy base in england which is due to be a part of a star wars five missile shield they're concerned it's a step towards a self-serving american militarisation of space. danmark drops down the border verrier is again with customs checks designed to tackle drug smuggling and illegal immigration but it's anger at each new colleagues to say if i allays the cornerstone of european unity. and levy an official say the arms embargo has been breached again as both strong qatar carrying weapons for the rebels are reportedly intercepted so far france is the only nation to admit supplying arms to take it off forces. the next r.t.d. discusses the missile shield plans there are driving a wedge between moscow and washington. from what i understand the russians are not against all interceptors they are against the more advanced and the more capable that is could you expand on that well we started the study a couple of months ago to look into the technical side of what might be behind russia's concerns so there's narrativ

some transfer news and i'm more transfer news in england downing is on his way to. liverpool from aston villa after both clubs finally agreed on a transfer fee villa saying little paul had improved their initial creative twenty four million dollars downing he's twenty six now and again medical have discussed this with the reds and would be little from certain i do feel signing this summer following the arrival of jordan henderson and charlie adams damn things to finalise everything little kenny dalglish will fly back to england day from asia where he saw his team win in twelve matches beating second to club in china for three the reds have had a saying nothing league midway through the first half was to pull in and they don't go getting those goals there however when you don't get one back right before the break trail for one with just five minutes to go connick cody and andy carroll having another say for the visit is becoming calculations men relaxed a bit in the dying moments and just survived a late late comeback by the home side hold on me for a four three win

in a fantasy with protests demanding the closure of an american spy base in england which is due to be part of a star wars type missile shield they are concerned it's a step towards a self-serving american military zation of space. denmark drops down the border barriers again with customs checks designed to tackle drug smuggling and illegal immigration but it's. say it violates the cornerstone of european unity. and leave unifil say the arms embargo has been breached again as both from qatar carrying weapons for the rebels are reportedly intercepted so far france is the only nation to admit supplying arms to take it off and forces. will not start he discusses the missile shield plans that are driving a wedge between moscow and washington. the war of words on missile defense has been going on for quite some time now between russia and the u. lies with washington saying we need powerful interceptors against a potential attack from some dangerous state usually named iran or north korea and also saying why do you need interceptors for weapons that those rogue states don't have but we do so

so there were -- the dominant m figure in england, which a lot of people didn't like. the culture was rough and brutal and it changed the whole nature of politics in that country. >> exit question, is this the beginning of the end for the murdoch dynasty, or will rupert bounce back? >> the murdoch empire i think, john, has reached after gee clearly, its peak level and it's coming down. i don't know how far this is going to play out but i think it will take a long, long time and there are a lot of people in this country who are out to get him. >> eleanor. >> he is moving already out of the newspaper world, and he wanted to get bigger in television. and it stopped that growth. so i think he has hit a wall. there's an internal investigation at news corp, run by joel klein as a very respected person. so let's see what they find out. but there's more trouble ahead for the murdoch family, and so the dynasty that he hopes to put in place. >> you live in new york, did you know that frank lautenberg called for an investigation about the hacking of a 9/11 victim's family? >> yes

in england at the moment but there is a surprise name at the top of the leaderboard he doesn't seem to be bothered it's full by the weather i've got the details. thanks for watching the. headline. please championship is on the way. brazil reached the quarter finals of america along with. the usa will face in the final of the week well. the first championship has got under rules and. george is in kent and it's demo thomas bjorn who leads the way he six under par with two holes left the play in his first round while favorite rory mcilroy is one over par as he starts the back nine well there are windy conditions at the moment plays tasted those during practice sessions seen here yesterday among them tom watson sixty one he's a rank outsider for the tournament and he's almost forty years older than favorite rory mcilroy but that isn't worrying the veteran he's won a major is he surprised the golf world in two thousand and nine when he led the final round at turnberry in scotland before losing in a playoff and watson tees off late this afternoon and says he knows how to tackle this links co

this is the prime minister of england down in the pit taking on all comers. [bleeped] me. no, [bleeped] you. this is unbelievable. i tell you what, you know what we got to do in this country? start eating some [bleeped] tea and eating some [bleeped] finger sandwiches. and this guy cut short a foreign trip just for the privilege of it. our guy starts a war, we can still only get him on voice mail. >> president obama's directing u.s. military action against libya while continuing his trade mission to south america. a national security team accompanied him in brazil sunday where he played soccer with children from a violence-ravaged slum. >> well, american people need to know that we're bombing another country. i'll talk to them in due time, and... goooooalllllll. and if there were preconditions on cameron's questioning, it sure as hell didn't show. remember when the 9/11 commission had the audacity to want to ask pertinent questions to our then-president and vice president? >> first of all, the president and vice president will not be under oath. there will be no official tr