we should not be compared to willie horton. politicians keep using him as an excuse for not doing the right thing. willie horton was guilty when he went into prison and he was guilty when they let him out. he has nothing to do with their situation. no just legislator, no just clergy's, no just people can sit here and watch what we have been through. if it had not been for jonathan, reverand, and especially the media -- they have been wonderful at exposing the injustice in this country and around the world. we would not have a voice. we would still languish in those places. and they would pretend like nothing happened. tavis: next time, we will hear the story of a former police officer who was wrongfully convicted of a serious crime while on duty at the university of chicago. we will also look at the work being done to combat wrongful convictions. keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smi ley. tavis: >> to everyone making a difference -- >> thank you. >> you help us all live better. >> mission when

half of the weapons that we supplied a foreign peacekeeping troops and now they handed off to scott horton contributing editor on legal and national security matters for harper's magazine. president barack obama signed the last minute deal to raise review as dead ceiling after the senate finally votes for the motion to avoid the vote but critics say there is little to cheer about as america still faces because we cannot make recovery. the u.n. security council resumes discussions on a resolution on syria after a bloody government crackdown on protesters in houma continues for it's a day with more demonstrators reported killed opting to sunday's death toll of more than one hundred rush says a new zealand decision must be driven by the interests of the city when. the israelis seized by a tidal wave of antigovernment protests demanding sweeping economic reforms but demonstrators complained that summer of discontent is launching a big pasta by the international media. as the headlines now let's go back to the end. download the official location q i phone oh i pod touch from the i choose our. o

say for the wars that we might be arming in the future pretty soon we're going to speak with scott horton contributing editor on legal and national security matters for harper's magazine we're still waiting for him to get on the line but just think about how many times this is happened in the u.s. and you could say that happens from both perspectives either we involve ourselves into a civil war or we could say to make a proxy war we have somebody else fight it for us or maybe just start arming people like i don't know the mujahideen in afghanistan that one point we thought would be on our time would be on our side ok we're actually not going to have scott right now so we're going to move on to our next story but we're going to get back to that in just a moment. now as we've watched the debate over the debt ceiling unfold over the last few months the mainstream media politicians from both parties there are going to tell you that washington is incredibly polarized right now and that's why it's so hard to get legislation through but if you don't listen to what they say to distract you look a

forget the quarterback controversy between horton and tim tebow in denver. brady quinn last night. steve mcgehee, duane harris. dallas down. they would go for the win in a two-point conversion. mcgehee scrambled. scrambled. found martin rucker in the end zone. it's only the preseason. cowboys won it 24-23. that's your early look at sports on "early today." have a great weekend. i'm fred roggin. >>> can the apes hang in there at the box office? your early morning entertainment headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, it's an animal we all take for granted until one falls into a 15 foot well. you're watching "early today." >>> welcome back on this friday morning to "early today." a look at your weekend forecast. the interior west will be warmer than the last couple of days. 96 in boise, 95 salt lake city. vegas and phoenix your typical summer heat. we still have morning clouds to deal with. as you look at saturday, clouds will increase a little bit in the northwest. a little system trying to move in, a little frontal system. temperatures will continue to be on the mild side in the int

kimberly horton. i manage a network of over a thousand nurses, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] find your program at phoenix.edu. >>> 27 minutes after the hour. minding your business right now. u.s. stock futures are trading lower ahead of the opening bell. wall street not feeling very confident about the economy this morning. stocks shot up at the start of the session yesterday on relief about the debt ceiling talks, but markets quickly took a turn and dropped after weak manufacturing numbers were released signaling stalled growth in the economy. >>> today wall street looking to more economic data for a fresh read on the recovery. economists are forecasting that personal income and spending rose in june, slightly from the previous months. those numbers come out in about two hours from now. >>> toyota announcing this morning a big loss in the last quarter, due in part to a lag in production following the earthquake in japan but the company also raised its earnings forecast for the year. other qu

horton gained a more modest 2.7%. meantime, real estate services firm core-logic jumped almost 30%, still not enough to make up for the damage earlier this month. big volume. but the buying today came as the company announced a committee to explore strategic options. what does that mean? those options include a spin- off, merger or possible sale. the biggest gainer among s&p 500 stocks was online jobs site monster worldwide. how about this move? shares shot up 21.5%, a big gain and on big volume. the trading pace was almost four times average. tomorrow we get month private payroll data from a.d.p. and on friday the government reports august employment figures. but today it was disclosed three monster executives have purchases a combined 87,000 shares recently. leading to the rally. a couple of retailers moving off of their earnings and outlooks. dollar general gained almost 6% as it raised its profit forecast range. and book retailer barnes and noble jumped almost 15% despite losing money in the latest quarter. still,

horton not have to close down any trains and they ran on time. there was a huge police response. the group anonymous o began a protest after bar shut down so phone service during a separate protest after the shooting of a 45 year-old transient. >> look at the newgate greenspan eliminated. jackie sissel is live on treasure island with what is going on. it >> is still about two years away from completion but you are getting a look at what it will look like when it is finished. or new-line it's have been put on the catwalks. or previously used over at the carquinez to bridge. the catwalks will be used to strain the cable to the suspension tower that you see there. they will start work on that in a couple of weeks. this thing will suspension cable court is almost a mile long. it will use these 1/2 and topped tables. 5,000 mi. of cable ha. obviously this will be an all-day and all- night affair. you are starting to see what it will look like when it is completed. there will be like on the suspension cables themselves. or it is starting to take shape. >> kunis $6 million bridge is sche

what it says for the wars that we might be arming in the future joining me to discuss this is scott horton contributing editor on legal and national security matters for harvest magazine scott thanks for joining us tonight we finally got got you on the screen there now am i right or am i right this is a familiar story how many times could you say that it's happened before. constantly i mean with scott so back to the whole crisis in afghanistan actually both in the soviet air and then later with the american invasion the american support of. these there was a cry that permitted disclosure of weapons into that country the extent of it was to think back or so to the beginning of the conflict in libya just a few months ago where are people especially the zero korans in washington were arguing that we should turn over weapons but i think what you see here in this report is the problem. with that in a situation as violent as challenge this this is in somalia if you pump weapons into it it's very difficult to control where those weapons will go and in this case we see the ugandan them the soldier

once market watchers claim the renewed supplies could ease the bullish sentiment on the market but horton want to play there from. the docks in oneself said go wrong global demand for oil. i believe in production the outrageous return of oil is roughly in the range of or give or take a million barrels per day so in the biggest scheme of things you goes in change things but much of what he has added to the bullish sentiment so by definition as that production comes back some of the course way from the market place but please note that international prices have really been over one hundred dollars so from our fundamental point of view in terms of the man the man of oil continues to grow saw the basis for the market collapse are not really there and if the central banks flood the market with a queer view then we're in another environment. where scramble to get access to libya's oil has gulf although the fighting is not over rebels hailing the end of the gadhafi regime warned russia firms may lose lucrative oil contracts gas from left anti-theft have invested millions of dollars in libya and

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kimberly horton.a thousand nurses, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] find your program at phoenix.edu. . >>> i'm don lemon live at the cnn world headquarters in atlanta. u.s. troops in afghanistan have suffered their deadliest single incident since the war began. 30 american troops died early today when their helicopter crashed during a mission. the twin motor chinook was shot down by the taliban. 25 of the dead were special forces. most members of the navy s.e.a.ls. >>> the credit rating has dropped for the u.s. standard & poor's 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. as blame congress and the obama administration for the downgrade. the announcement came just days after a mush criticized deal to raise the debt ceiling. >>> texas jury heard testimony today that warren jeffs raped his then 5-year-old nephew more than a decade ago. prosecutors call 28-year-old brent jeffs to the stand as p

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well, up in canada, they're just eating some tim horton's waiting for hockey to start.top of the third, scoreless game, two on for cliff pennington. no banjo hitting allowed. deep shot to left. two score, 2-0 a's. later in the inning a's up and conner jackson, can't make the catch. am i seeing double? a two-run triple. a's up 5-0. top of the sixth, a's up 6-2 and hideki matsui with a single. sizemore comes in to score. godzilla 4 for 6, two rbi and two runs. a's win 10-3. >>> injury news on the struggling giants outfielder carlos beltran. he received a cortisone shot in his right wrist on wednesday and is unlikely to play in the series opener against the marlins on friday. general manager brian sab january told comcast sportsnet he still holds hope that beltran will play this weekend. >>> and friday matt cain gets the ball and the bump as the g-men look to bounce back from a very bad 3-7 home stand which saw them drop to second place in the nl west standings. that's going to do it for sports. >> jim, janelle wants to see you dance again. >> i got it. i've got some shake

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kimberly horton. i manage a network of over a thousand nurses, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] find your program at phoenix.edu. >>> before the break, we asked you what percentage of small businesses flop within the first two years? 30% according to the u.s. small business administration. seven out of ten last at least two years. >>> so it is the number one issue in american homes, getting your financial house in order. well, today in our weekly financial fix, are you thinking of becoming your own boss? starting your own business? before you start that small business, or online service, you need to listen to carrie wilkerson, the barefoot executive, her new book is the ultimate guide for being your own boss and achieving financial freedom. she joins us now from st. louis today. good to see you. >> thanks. good to be here. >> first, you know, let's talk about you, a mother of four, your husband was a corporate vice president and your family was hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt. how did y

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kimberly horton.a network of over a thousand nurses, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] find your program at phoenix.edu. >>> it is a hurricane we're covering, but tornados are the immediate concern. chad myers in the cnn hurricane headquarters with the latest. >> marty, every time one of these larger cells comes onshore and starts to slow down because of the drag that ground actually makes, the trees and it's friction, these storms can actually begin to spin. and now i have four separate tornado warnings, one for wilmington, delaware. one near king of prussia, one just south of trenton, and another one just now about the pylons in the middle there of jersey. every time a storm comes by you, right now, all of north carolina, all of new jersey, all the way up, basically, to newark and delaware, and also newark, new jersey, some of the storms could rotate. if you feel the storm getting around you that has a little bit more intensity, i need you to stay away from windows, because tornadoes can be spa

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when jessica horton was cut off from her house she built herself a bridge. >> somebody else's house hadown the river. and so, we used their floorboards to make a bridge to get across the river. >> reporter: so, we've been driving all over the state of vermont. you have an estimated 250 roads closed and 30 bridges, all due to the floodwawars that followed hurricane irene. this is not an unfamiliar sight. these orange cones here. but this is, to this extreme. look at this. the road just ends. this woman in bennington, vermont, is so worried from being cut off from the outside world, she's hoarding water. >> i am prepared and have drinking water. water, water everywhere. and it's all contaminated. >> reporter: and it's easy to see what happened when floodwaters rush across roadways like this. the weight of the water was simply too much causing the roads to collapse. so, now the big concern is if you happen to live in a house like this. what do you do in the event of an emergency? >> absolutely remarkable stuff. again, linsey davis there on the scene in vermont bringing us pictures of that

and timothy horton the chairman of the power grid says he has never seen anything like it. >> when you it is millions of customers without power and pretty unprecedented. >> well, cnn reporters and our affiliates brought us crucial reports from all over the east coast and great ireporters showed up, stepped up and told us what was happening all around them. jacqui jeras was monitoring so many of them, and it was incredible and gave us an insight to places that we could not get to. >> absolutely. and as the things are happening as well, kyra, and so many of this em f them focused on the water, and what we are dealing with. look at the first one we have from you from chad stewart in nagshead, north carolina. he says he lives 150 foot from the sound and so the surge came in with the debris from the yard and it did not damage his home, but he did lose his car and washer and dryer. this next one from ryan lakeee from rafway, new jersey, and he got -- no, this is the fleischman, new york, one. this is chris cow, and this area overcome with flooding in the catskills, kyra, and you know when y

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kimberly horton. a network of over a thousand nurses, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] find your program at phoenix.edu. >>> 25 minutes after the hour. minding your business this morning, u.s. stock futures indicate stocks could trade lower at today's open. that after merger monday. a rally that recovered most of last week's losses and some. european markets are trading much lower this morning. losses of 2% or more in germany and france and the culprit there is germany, europe's largest economy stalled in the second quarter according to new estimates out today. germany's gdp, the broadest measure of all goods and services produced in any one economy grew by 0.1% for that period. that's cause for concern in both europe and the united states. in the meantime household debt here in the united states is trending lower. the federal reserve bank of new york reports that consumer debt fell by $50 billion in the second quarter. now the world's biggest retailer walmart, might be losing its edge on lower

kimberly horton. a thousand nurses, and i am a phoenix. [ male announcer ] find your program at phoenix.edu. >>> the wrath of irene in new england. i'm christine romans. flash floods rip through vermont, threatening to be some of the worst flooding in that state in eight decades. >>> cut off in carolina. thousands who ignored evacuation orders now stranded on the outer banks. officials scramble to get them out. >>> good-bye, irene. hello katia? a new tropical depression forming in the atlantic. what forecasters say could be the next big threat on this "american morning." >> are you kidding me? good morning. it's monday, august 29th. this is a rob marciano plot to stay in business, tropical depression number 12. it's very small. >> we're keeping an eye on it. >> we are, as we must. >>> with the extreme impact of hurricane irene, as the storm moves out, millions are waking up without electricity this morning. and flooding, far inland. the storm is no longer a hurricane or even a tropical storm. it's cro