blogger jeff jarvis stirs up a storm by hurling an obscenity. the reporter whose story prompted david wu to resign over a sex scandal. should he have relied on unnamed sources? i'm howard kurtz and this is "reliable sources." >>> it would be comical if it weren't so serious. washingtonality its worst as all of us in the news business trying to keep up with a story that changes by the hour. the senate scheduled to vote today at 1:00 p.m. to avoid a crippling default. look at the rolling news coverage suggests one inescapable conclusion, we often aren't sure what's going on either the countdown continues, american anger and anxiety keep building as the politicians let another day go by without a deal on the flash debt. >> it is one week and counting to august 2nd, the day the president says the government will run out of money and, among other things, will have to stop sending out social security checks. >> we are not yet in the end game. we are still in the bluff stage of the negotiations. >> tonight, do you know who said this? >> get your ass in

host: we are talking to jon jarvis about the state of national parks. involved in the information. number numbers on the bottom of the screen. you can also get in touch by e-mail and twitter. there's the commemoration of bull run. these do not happen on national parks. guest: beginning this last april, we began the 150th commemoration of the events leading up to and through the entire civil war, so the first battle of bull run was the first major battle in the civil war and occurred just 26 miles south of here. a little west of washington d.c. and so on thursday of this past week, we had a commemoration in virginia, me and a variety of folks that really talked in detail about the transformative effect of the civil war on this country. this was a battle that no one thought would be more than a skirmish. people took their picnic baskets down to watch a shot little fight. turned out they were 5000 casualties. this was a seminole moment in the course of history and leading up to civil rights in this country. we do not allow these re-enactments on the park l

host: we are talking to jon jarvis about the state of national parks. get involved in the information. number numbers on the bottom of the screen. you can also get in touch by e-mail and twitter. there's the commemoration of bull run. these do not happen on national parks. guest: beginning this last april, we began the 150th commemoration of the events leading up to and through the entire civil war, so the first battle of bull run was the first major battle in the civil war and occurred just 26 miles south of here. a little west of washington d.c. and so on thursday of this past week, we had a commemoration in virginia, me and a variety of folks that really talked in detail about the transformative effect of the civil war on this country. this was a battle that no one thought would be more than a skirmish. people took their picnic baskets down to watch a shot little fight. turned out they were 5000 suales. this was a seminole moment in the course of history and leading up to civil rights in this country. we do not allow these re-enactments on the park l

host: jon jarvis, the 18th director of the parks service.hank you very much for being on the program. we want to let our viewers and listeners know what's coming up

>> i'm rebecca jarvis. erica hill is off this morning. >> hopefully, she is in an air-conditioning room right now. >> i think she might be. >> how hot is it? forecasters predict it will feel like 115 over a huge portion of the country today. today and tomorrow could be the hottest two-day stretch since 19 5 50. marysol castro is watching the conditions in northern new york and we will go to seattle where they are complaining it's too sold there. we begin in washington, d.c. with cbs news correspondent whit johnson. how are you doing out there, okay? >> reporter: we are doing all right and hanging in there. relative humidity in d.c. at the moment is a soupy 74%. it's the kind of heat that will fog up your sunglasses and relief is still days away. across the nation, 40 states are experiencing 90 plus temperatures. 1,279 locations have tied or broken day time records this month. at least 22 people have died of heat-related causes. oklahoma city saw its 29th day of 100-degree heat. from east-to-west, there was

the one thing about this which i find very surprising why is it that jeff jarvis is the one who's thats ignited the tweets now sent around the world when just looking at my own, the people i follow and the people who follow the people i follow and the twitter feed that i see, you know, what he says seems to actually be a lot of what the conversation is. the level of anger and frustration at -- directed at washington and with washington the inaction has been rising. not getting less. so jeff just tapped into something and is now the face of something that's been out there for a long time. >> the tracking site topsy said that this phrase has been used already 66,000 times after jarvis' original message. i think that's grown. here's an example. why do we allow children to run the country. let's get responsible folks in washington, and then you're using the hash tag mark. stop defining party lines and do what we elected you to do. make this country great once again. don't fall for obama's b.s. he's the clozest neocon. why all the anger? it reminds me of "network" where people are saying we

. >> i'm rebecca jarvis. good morning. erica hill is off this morning. >> i'm chris wragge. >>> start with the final landing of the space shuttle. "atlantis" touched downed early this morning, a perfect end to the shuttle he program's last mission. cbs news national correspondent chip reid is here with more. >> reporter: you can see the shuttle "atlantis" at the end of the runway behind me. this is the last time you will ever see a space shuttle on an active runway. nasa plans to put a plaque at that very spot to signify the end of an era. it was a perfect landing as the "atlantis" touched down after a 13-day mission delivering supplies to the international space station. a final voyage that brings the shuttle program to an end. >> copy, we will stop and we will take this opportunity to congratulate you, "atlantis." >> reporter: here at the kennedy space center, those are the words, wheels stopped, everybody has been dreading. bill harwood has covered the space program for cbs news for 20 years. >> it really does mean the

i am rebecca jarvis. >> and i'm russ mitchell.tival of foods and highlight some of the best cuisine the u.s. has to offer. coming up we'll taste the wines of napa and a man who began selling key lime pies by the side of the road. now they make 1,000 key lime pies a week. >> also headed to the lone star state for texas barbecue. wayne miller shows us how his family has been serving up br briquettes. first lonnie quinn has a check of the weather. >> we talk about the fourth of july and chance of storms sparking up here and there. presidents' unbelievable, the majority of the country will be dry. let's get to the hot spots and chilly temps. it's the temperature spread, yuma, arizona, hits 118 degrees today. coldest spot, wilson, wyoming, down to 39, minton, north dakota, sunshine, 83 degrees and on monday your fourth of july look at the towns across the country named independence, independence, new york no, 77, with the sun, independence, missouri, 90, come monday you have a storm chance. here's a closer look at the weather for your

i am rebecca jarvis. >> i'm russ mitchell., catherine. personally invited to perform at their wedding reception, she'll perform her new hit single on our "second cup cafe." there she is. we appreciate it. >>> we have barbecue royalty with us, elizabeth karmel, a nationally respected authority on grilling, executive chef at hill country market right here in new york and this morning, she has some sweet and spicy ribs on the grill, also for dessert, looking forward to this one, brown sugar berry cobbler. we love elizabeth. >> we also love the food she brings. we happen to love that, too. all coming up. first over to lonnie quinn for our final check of the weather. >> what kind of cobbler was that? >> berry. >> i've never had a birthday cake, mama made me apple crisp or bluebally cobberry cobbler. i have the authorities on that. weather headline, read it for yourself. tropical storm don fizzled, never amounted to the storm it could have been in terms of bringing the rain. only brought a half inch to portions of texas. some areas

. >> i'm rebecca jarvis. erica hill is off this morning. >>> britain's tabloid scandal, prime minister david cameron faces questions in parliament today why he hired a former "news of the woshled" editor connected to phone hacking. our own jeff glor has made his way to london for the very latest on the scandal that seems to grow day by day. jeff, good morning. >> reporter: chris, good morning to you from london. you mentioned some developments this morning. david cameron, right now, addressing the scandal as it appears to get closer and closer to his office. here is what he said. >> over the past two weeks, a torrent of revelations and allegations has engulfed some of this country's most important institutions. it has shaken people's trust in the media and the legality of what they do. in the police and their ability to investigate media malpractice and, yes, in politics and in politicians' ability to get to grips with these issues. >> reporter: cameron, up until january employed a former editor of "news of t

cbs news business correspondent rebecca jarvis is live on the floor of the stock exchange. the uncertainty is this a result of this debt ceiling uncertainty that is going on? >> reporter: basically what you see here is that stocks yesterday fell 199 points. 1.6% to the downside. for the standard & poors the worst day in eight weeks since june 1st. investors say we looked closer to a debt dealing a week ago than we looked yesterday and that has fueled the flames as far as negativity. traders don't like the uncertainty and in addition to that over the debt deal is the uncertainty like you mentioned over whether or not sander & poors is going to downgrade our country as far as the risk goes here to investors putting their money in our treasuries. >> the federal reserve released it's beige book on wednesday a review of the first half of year. how bleak were the numbers? >> reporter: it ploos gloomy. things are slowing down. wage increases are weak. weakness in the jobs market and we are seeing companies looking like they are not as optimistic about the growth going forward, so

jarvis said the term bird brain is actually a compliment. >> that is what really fascinated me.ike this do what a chimp can't. >> reporter: he believes that snowball can dance because of something that we share with cockatoos. the ability to speak. >> we have to map sound and movement together constantly as part of speaking. we thought maybe that's the foundation upon which moving to a beat builds in the brain. if that's true, then you only would ever see those ability in those kinds of animals never in a dog or a cat or a chimp. you couldn't train them to do it no matter how hard you try because they don't have the right kind of brain to do it. you would only see it in a parrot, song bird or dolphin or an animal that has kind of brain circuitry. >> reporter: snowball doesn't let all this attention go to his head. well, maybe his crest has gotten a little kochier as of late. since snowball's you-tube video was posted in 2007, he's shaken his tail feathers on over 50 tv shows and in five scientific studies. he's got his own facebook page. he's even hawked tacos. you might say his

i'm rebecca jarvis. >> i'm russ mitchell. hazy day, going to be nice later. >> can't wait for that. >>> dead lock talks to raise the nation's debt limit. as the august 2nd deadline approaches, lawmakers are negotiating behind closed doors trying to come up with their own fallback plans. whit johnson is at the white house with the latest. whit, good morning. >> russ good morning to you. today is the deadline president obama set for congressional leaders to come up with dicit reduction plans that could actually pass congress. he remains convinced that most americans, including republicans want a balanceed aagreement. >> the request he is, at what point do folks over there start listening to the people who put them in office? now is a good time. >> reporter: still firing shots at republicans during a friday news conference, president obama tried again to sell compromise as the only way forward. >> if they show me a serious plan i'm ready to move, even if it requires some tough decisions on my part. >> reporter: the president is

. >> i'm rebecca jarvis. from the jobs to the royals and the shuttle launch and to betty ford. >> a courageous first lady who battled addiction to pain killers and addiction to alcohol and defeating breast cancer. she died in palm springs, california, she was 93 years old. scott pelley takes a look back at her remarkable life. >> reporter: relatively unknown until her husband became president, betty ford became one of the most popular and respected women in america. born elizabeth anne bloomer april 18th, 1918, she grew up in grand rapids, michigan. she dreamed of becoming a professional dancer and after high school she moved east to study under martha graham, the high priestess of modern dance. she earned a spot in the auxiliary dance troupe but her mother pressured her to leave the troupe in 1941. she performed in her own dance troupe, married and divorced and then met a young man named gerald ford, they married in 1948, weeks before ford was elected to his first term in congress. through the 1950s and '60s

i'm rebecca jarvis. >> i'm russ mitchell.r exotic animals with one thing in common. they each have a unique ability to stay cool in a brutal heat wave. he'll tell us how these amazing animals do it. >> we're going to pet this animal. >> no. i don't want to touch that lizard. no, i don't think so. >>> also, chef spike gurdy will prepare a great summer meal for us on the menu today. grilled chicken, potato salad, and a white nectarine tartine. am i saying that right? >> i'll put a lot of it in my mouth. >> all on a shoestring budget of $40. >> all coming up. but we head back to lonnie quinn on long beach, new york. 30 miles east of new york city? >> not 30 miles. >> all right. >> outside of the city limits, it's only about five miles from, say, queens. new york city is made from the five burroughs. you get this beautiful beach close to new york city. we're in the middle of a road race out here right now. all of the runners if you noticed they've been drinking so much water we're out of couples. picking up cups off of the ground

jarvis and asked would you come back and work for me, and he said it now -- jefferson? would you come back and work for me, and he said no. this was an important vehicle. >> kenneth walsh, i am so glad you did this book. you worked brilliantly at it. we would like to thank you for watching, and remind you this program has been possible by arizona public service, and its holding company, panicle west. we'll be back in a week. until then, visit us on the web at whchronicle.com. cheers. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- "white house chronicle" is produced in collaboration with howard university television. from washington, d.c., this has been "white house chronicle" a weekly analysis of the news with a sense of humor featuring llewellyn king, linda gasparello, and guests. llewellyn king, linda gasparello, and guests. to view the program online,

. >> reporter: the president of the howard jarvis taxpayers association says lower taxes will help everyone and hopefully will jump start the economy. ktvu.com has a complete break down. you can also watch more of the governor's comments after he signed it just look under the economy watch tab. >>> san jose police officers said goodbye to 67 of their fellow officers all casualties of city budget cuts. ktvu's maureen naylor was there for the emotional farewells. maureen-- >> reporter: frank we spoke with the san jose police chief and he calls this the worse day of this police department because for the first time they had to lay off officers. police officers waited in line for minutes to do something that was pending for months. turn over their badge, and i.d. that means so much to them. >> if it were up to me, i would grab my gear and be on time and do the best job i could. >> reporter: outside the union hall, a somber procession of those that followed. >> if there's a chance i will get brought back in. i don't know if i will come in, i have a lot of bitterness against the council and the d

rebecca jarvis is here to take a look back and a look forward at the second half of 201.f folks are saying let's look at the last six months. >> hoping it will are better. >> as we look forward and so many people have been focused on in the first six months of the year are looking at the high unemployment numbers which don't give an indication we're seeing improvement. what are the thinking on the unemployment numbers from analysts. >> if you look at the combination of the year 9.4%. now the unemployment rate is 9.1%. many analysts don't anticipate it will get that much better by year end. all of the state shutdowns and state problems we've been seeing are adding to it. employers are still questioning whether the strength of the economy is real and the momentum, some that we began the year with has sort of petered out. the best thing to think about in terms of optimism here is manufacturing. that's an industry growing again, we like to see that because it helped the recovery in general. >> hopefully that will help the recovery and unemployment numbers. gas prices we talke

i'm chris wragge along with rebecca jarvis. >> i hope everyone is enjoying the beginning of their week. just a few hours had ago the entire nation of norway stopped for a moment of silence to remember the victims of friday's massacre. >> this morning the man who admits to killing 93 people in those attacks saying he wanted to start a revolution to defend traditional christian values is in court behind closed doors. >> reporter: anders breivik was looking for another chance to spread his radical views around the world today. his lawyer said he wanted today's hearing in oslo televised live, but the court said no, that it would be a closed hearing. a poignant moment of silence. the country's leaders lined together, norwegians watching and processing as chilling new information from anders breivik emerges. his manifesto lifted in part from writings of the unabomber ted kaczynski said he began planning his terror attacks all the way back in 2002. his actions spurred by a deep hatred of immigrants and muz lick extremism. a video he m

. >> so this past saturday night jeff jarvis had just about enough. >> i'm watching the evening news,rnalism professor with 75,000 twitter followers, jarvis put out a message in plain, though offcolor, language. >> hey, washington it's our money, so [ bleep ] you. >> like the angry anchorman from the 1976 movie "network." >> i'm as mad as hell and i'm not going to take this any more. >> jarvis touched a nerve of outrage. [ bleep ] you washington for having the compromising skills of a 3-year-old. or for enslaving all future generations with the largest debt in human history. there were 64,000 tweets on monday alone. >> one tweert jeff howe said there was a large pile of dry tinder and all i did was throw a match on it. people were mad about washington, they're mad about this current so-called crisis and they just wanted to get it off their chest. >> in the latest cbs news poll, 79% of americans are angry or dissatisfied with washington. more blame republicans than the president. it is out rage spreading to the borders. modern technology has clearly made it easier than ever for people

i'm rebecca jarvis with chris wragge.d to have you with us again for this next hour. britain's tabloid telephone hacking growing wider and more serious by the minute. >> rupert murdoch, his son james and a former top member of the company is answering questions from britain's parliament. >> cbs news correspondent michelle miller has more on the biggest challenge ever to this powerful media mogul. >> it all shows lack of good judgment. >> reporter: for days ministers in parliament have called for answers from the man rarely forced to answer anyone. this morning, rupert murdoch faced those british lawmakers in a high stakes effort to defend himself and his media empire. but according to a bloomberg report, the 80-year-old ceo is under growing pressure to step down and may be replaced by current coo chase carrey. >> we're in big trouble. criminal investigations they have to go through, they have parliamentary investigations and a lot of shareholders who are really restless. >> reporter: restless because in the two weeks sinc

. >> mitchell: rebecca jarvis. thanks very much. it's rough being a teenager looking for a job. the numbers show 24% of 16-19 year olds are unemployed. their main competition, older workers who at these times are after the same jobs. we take a look at what's happening to all those teens who want to find work. >> reporter: 17 year old alex rodriguez thrives on competition. but not the type he's seeing in the job market. >> it applies to every store. i've called them, i've had my mom call them. i've had my teachers here have been helping me. >> reporter: does it get disheartening to keep searching. >> it does get difficult. because you can awe meyer to so many jobs -- apply to so many jobs and if you don't get a phone call gets you upset. >> reporter: his teacher says in last year's class of 20 students, 18 had jobs. this year only 4 do. >> it's discouraging to want even just a minimum wage job and be told that those aren't even available to you at this point. they can't even aspire to that next level of job because the entry level jobs are the ones that aren't available. >> repor

judicial the dishes article three as thomas jefferson wrote in an eight hundred twenty letter to mr jarvis who thought supreme court justices should have the power to strike down laws jefferson wrote you seem to consider the judges the ultimate arbiters of all constitutional questions of very dangerous doctrine indeed and one which would place us under the despotism of an oligarchy the constitution has erected no such single tribunals i know of no safe depository of the ultimate powers of the society but the people themselves please read the constitution nowhere in it there's a say that the supreme court can strike down laws passed by congress and signed by the president nowhere and for the first fourteen years of our republic the court never even considered the idea as new pointed out hamilton wrote in federalist seventy eight this is when hamilton and madison were writing the federalist papers to sell the constitution he said he wrote the judiciary from the nature of its functions will always be the least dangerous to the political rights of the constitution because it will be least in t

jarvis and german girls are baskets and collation trained in some club last season was one to forget the taste got as the argument to make it to the group stage for the first time in fourteen is a major turnaround just hopeful this time outs big names being brought in to play or. made us which. now a sports doctor whose high profile clients include golfer tiger woods has admitted smuggling performance enhancing drugs into the united states and has agreed to disclose the identity of all his patients and what treatments they received and i don't have pleaded guilty as a buffalo courts to bring illegal drugs into the u.s. including human growth hormone his admission means there won't be a trial but he's agreed to cooperate with investigators and reveal details of his clients among them is former world number one woods and baseball star alex rodriguez they admit to being treated by the physician but deny receiving performance enhancing drugs from him and i will be sentenced on october the nineteenth and could be jailed for up to eighteen months. now is just a week to go before the third

. >> reporter: jeff jarvis worked for hinton and knows his management style. >> les hinton, i think, was also a very, very loyal executive. and in the end he threw himself on the sword for murdoch. >> reporter: now, as liz palmer just reported, at least nine journalists are being investigated. as for les hinton, in his resignation letter to rupert murdoch, he said he was ignorant of what happened but felt he had to resign anyway. >> pelley: thanks, elaine. for the first time in six days, there was no meeting at the white house today among the leadership trying to find a way to head off a u.s. government default. the president tried one more time today to persuade republicans to raise taxes, and our chief white house correspondent chip reid was there. chip? >> reporter: well, scott, five straight days of meetings failed to produce an agreement, so today the president made one last plea for a grand bargain. >> we have a unique opportunity to do something big. we have a chance to stabilize america's finances for a decade. >> reporter: if the republicans continue to refuse to compromise

but rebecca jarvis tells us few americans have heard about it. >> reporter: when teresa acampora lost her sales and marketing job she was determined not to lose her home too. you were desperate? >> absolutely desperate. >> reporter: with their income cut by more than half, they fell ten months behind in mortgage payments. >> bad things sometimes happen to very good people, and they put you in a difficult predicament. >> reporter: moving was a bad option. their bristol, connecticut house is customized to care for her ten-year-old son kyle who has cerebral palsy. >> we were seven to ten days away from foreclosure. we didn't say grace yet. >> reporter: that's when she learned about a federal program for homeowners in default. >> it was a god send. >> reporter: her god send a billion dollar fund called the emergency homeowners loan program, for homeowners who are either unemployed or under employed. and at least 90 days behind on their mortgage. they get up to $50,000 to bring their mortgage payments up to date, and help make future payments for two years. participants don't have to pay t

you washington thanks to jeff jarvis of buzz machine dot com some of the more popular have been asked to take a few washington for forgetting who you represent families elderly noms kids workers not the corporate pigs to shame on you and hash take a few washington for sending our soldiers on sick seventy two hours to combat zones yet thinking it's too much to ask the richest to pay taxes and f. you washington again i missed it and i'm still furious that everyone has to sacrifice except the ultra rich and corporations.

the other concern about the homosexuality comes from a man named malcolm jarvis that who was fingered by malcolm as part of his burglary crew and went to prison. so you understand here's a man who may have had some grievance about, you know, being fingered in that particular ordeal. so, again, you know, all of the things we see we have to go back to the sources, go back to the sources of these concerns in terms of infidelities and homosexual allegations. take it back to the sources and find out, like, can they stand scrutiny? are those worthy and authentic documents? >> i'm going to let you respond the that quickly, but we're going to take questions so if you have questions, please, move forward. >> very quickly. you know, when manning was, as i said, when he did this chronology and pulled all these sources and where he found clusters of sources where he found sign posts, he didn't include anything in the book that he didn't have at least three different sources for, right? in the case of malcolm's challenges in malcolm's marriage to betty, that letter mentions many things that could

and this is one sent in by joanne jarvis. it appears she was far from the plume of smoke at one point reached what we've estimated 9,000 feet. another shot from a neighborhood, the sky was darkening. this is early on. we invite you to upload pictures and video at you report at abc 7 news.com. >> and still no progress in efforts to raise nation's debt limit to avert what could be a global crisis. house tea party republicans are threatening to end the stalemate. ordinary americans are feeling pressure n napa, democrats supporting the president gathered outside representative thompson's office. the opposition republicans were right across the street. abc 17 here now with an indepth look of the developments today. >> here is a mandate. come up with a plan or face the consequences. which, economists tell us could include economic collapse. >> one day after the president called for compromise, the two sides seemed further apart. >> time is running out. we're pushing this to the last minute. that should not be the case. >> there is

but today the price of crude is higher and cbs news business and economics correspondent rebecca jarvisat it means for gas prices. rebecca, good morning. >> good morning. >> government hasn't done this since katrina back in 2005. what has this done for gas prices? >> this is really the problem because dipping into the strategic petroleum reserve hasn't created the oomph for american consumers they were initially looking for. gasoline prices at the pump dropped about a nickel. now all of a sudden you see them going back up, climbing again and that is a problem as far as keeping prices lower. the whole idea behind this was we'll take some out of the strategic petroleum reserve and push prices down. now they are going back up again. >> let's talk about driving habits for americans now. the current average is $3.58, it is still way up. >> still more than 80 cents higher than it was last year. that's a problem as well. but americans are dealing with that in an interesting way. they are cutting back on their own driving for 15 straight weeks mastercard spending data polls show american consum

i like jeff jarvis, but fu washington could mean many different and contradictory things.ople saying the f word on twitder, i think congress understands the american people don't approve. they have like an 85% disapproval rating. if that doesn't motivate them to change, i don't think this will. i think we need a more cohesive and programmatic campaign. >> i wonder what f word pete's thinking about. he said other possible definitions. we'll get back to that one. maybe that should have been our buzzer beater. >> i was thinking fruit. >> fruit. okay. fruit you, washington. >> what am i missing here? >> nothing. but you've got ten seconds to not miss this one. people are getting pretty creative expressing their frustration with washington in other ways. take a listen here to rapper remi. >> raise the debt ceiling limit, raise the debt ceiling limit, raise the debt ceiling limit. >> okay. i was kind of hoping for other lyrics besides just debt ceiling limit. >> yeah, who wrote that? >> maybe we ought to talk about -- okay. i think we missed the other part. but what's the next p

. >>> rebecca jarvis joins us to explain the impact this is having on the american economy and what might happen if a deal is not reached. >> good morning, rebecca. >> good morning, chris. >> no one wants to hear not reache reached. >> first thing is our credit gets cut. that would get cut. that would send stock market shock waves through the entire system, not only here in the united states but around the globe. of course, that's an impact on anyone's pension fund, 401(k). for an average individual all of a sudden, access to loans get harder. the actual cost of loans is going to go up in addition to that, for anyone who wants to, for example, get a mortgage, buy a car, expand their business. >> just what people want to hear, interest rates going up as a residual effect. >> they may come to some type of agreement on a short-term deal. does a short-term deal help us in the long run? >> not exactly. it sort of kicks the can down the road. the big complaint in corporate america right now is that there's so much uncertainty. they don't know the direction of our economy. they can't sense what

. >> i had a chance to speak with jeff jarvis.he scandal is enough to force rupert murdoch out of the news business all together. >> news corp. is primarily an entertainment company. nobody expects that entertainment executives are anything but rapacious, but in the news business they can't stand the murdoch name and the pressure on them now. how do they sell newspapers in this day? there is no market for them. i think they will get rid of news organizations in the uk first. the new york post will go. fox news? i can imagine a leveraged buyout. the wall street journal? well, murdoch overpaid for that. who knows what happens to it. the end of the day i think this becomes an entertainment company. >> the scandal is reaching deep into rupert murdoch's inner circle. you can be sure the man at the top is feeling the pressure. >> shame on you! shame on you! >> murdoch has ads running in seven british papers through monday saying, quote, we are sorry. here he is in his own words. >> i'm the founder of the company. i was appalled to find

let's talk to jeff jarvis. jeff, thank you so much. beginning of the end for murdoch's newscorp? is this about to be his rose bud moment? >> i think it could be. i think that this becomes a legal story, a moral story that could become a financial story. the fact that in four days last week newscorp lost between 5 and 7 billion dollars of market cap. murdoch won't be in charge of this company very longer and professional management will say newspapers are in many ways now a burden and will try to get rid of these news properties. >> here's my question. is there somebody waiting in the wings to succeed murdoch. you think this is the end of murdoches heading the company. who is waiting in the wings? >> don't know who is waiting in the wings. newscorp is an entertainment company. no one expects that entertainment executives are anything other than rapacious. in the news business they can't stand the murdoch name and the pressure on them. the problem is how do they sell newspapers. there's no market for them. they will get rid of the news o

rebecca jarvis has more from new york. >> reporter: good morning.ope everyone will start their week off with us as they have already begun it with you coming up on the early show. in britain, the head of scotland yard steps down. next is a face-off between murdoch and parliament. plus casey anthony walks free in jail but some wonder if she is really free. she has gone into hiding and some say there is good reason for that. and lastly, the soccer shocker. it was a nail-biter into the final minutes. japan stuns the usa in a tough battle for the world cup. we'll report on the match and how the win is providing a much- needed morale boost for japan. its all coming up plus more on "the early show." join us. grace, have a great day. >> thank you. >>> "the early show" is coming up at 7:00. >>> in the meantime, secretary of state hillary clinton has to pay up after making a friendly bet on the women's world cup soccer championship. japan beat the u.s. in germany yesterday so mrs. clinton now owes the japanese foreign minister -- she has to ship new york app

. >> jarvis and read about it in the newspapers and offered to sell his own book collection. >> it was magnificent collection, and jefferson needed the money, but also jefferson was an eclectic collector. he believed -- read several foreign languages. he had a huge number of books that were poetry and english literature. was very flattering to congress to do this, but he was also saying, if you are going to govern this new country, you need to have a box on all subjects. that created some controversy. in the house there was debate whether the government needed books on a portrait. is this what we should be spending money on? >> part of it was opposition to jefferson himself. there were people who would just not vote for it because it came from jefferson. >> in the end, the house voted to buy jarvis and's library, 6487 volumes for just under $24,000. >> 187 become converts the the best thing it every did when it passed the newly expanded copyright act. it was a requirement that every new books that needed to be copyrighted needs to send two copies of a library. the library of congress g

. >> good morning, it is july 17th, 2011 and i am rebecca jarvis, casey anthony is a free woman and walkedut of the orange county jail in orlando florida shortly after midnight this morning, anthony, who received death threats since being acquitted on charges of murdering her two-year-old daughter was accompanied by her lawyer, the two got in a waiting suv and headed to parts unknown. >> one of ar rupert murdoch's tp executives has reportedly been arrested, sky news is saying rebecca brooks has become the tenth person charged in connection with the phone hacking scandal now threatening murdoch's empire. >> murdoch papers this weekend are full run page ads apologizing for hacking. the white house may call for another meeting today between congressional leaders and president obama on a deficit cutting plan, the deadline for raising the nation's debt crean is, ceiling second, that is just over two weeks away. >> there was fear of a traffic jam for a hollywood movie but we head to a two-day shut down of 405, after the partial demolition of a bridge, so far, so good. police reported unusually l

rah rebecca jarvis is here. >> well below estimates and says hiring in this country is at a stand stillging. they were the biggest drain on the number overall. 39,000 government jobs were gone in the month of june. >> employers are having a tough time because people with the right skill set are not there to fill the jobs. >> the interesting story behind the dire numbers. it may seem like the odds are in favor of the employers but the number of american companies say while the pool of unemployed is growing. 4.1 million people the specialized skills employers want are hard to find and for those who have them the sky is the limit. >> if you want a job, this is definitely the place to be. >> reporter: 20-year-old sam warby isn't talking a career fair or a four-year university. he is talking about his aviation program in washington at a junior college. >> i'm passionate for aviation. >> reporter: he graduates in august and he has a job lined up at boeing. >> i had the skills the qualifications, the training and the education that they needed. >> reporter: job seekers with that education are

rebecca jarvis is here with more on that angle for us. >> good morning. as all of the attention is focused on who said what in washington, americans across the country are beginning to fear the consequences if the debt issues aren't resolved quickly. >> i cannot guarantee that those checks go out on august 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue. >> reporter: when the president said social security checks may not go out on time next month, seniors across the country took notice. >> the president -- >> when i saw that, it shocked me but i said, no, this cannot happen, not in this country. >> reporter: 80-year-old cora meruelo is terrified about the government being late on a payment. if it comes for that she may not be able to pay for her heart medication. >> if i don't get social security how can i cover my expenses? >> i don't know how any of us will survive without it. >> reporter: 55 million americans receive social security checks every month and the thought of having to live without those checks, even for a few days, is unthinkable. >> i may be able to

rebecca jarvis spoke about this with t. boone pickens.ood morning, and boone pickens says that washington has spent 40 years talking about getting america off its addiction to foreign oil but has done almost nothing to achieve that goal. washington's answer to higher oil has been to release 30 million barrels from the spr. you're laughing, why? >> of course i'm laughing. is that a solution? that's not a solution. you're just taking oil out of storage and putting it on the market and there wasn't even a real interest in buying it. most of the oil went in the hands of traders and went into storage in tankers. >> so it's not doing anything. prices are now back where they were before. >> really. >> the announcement, yes. you're not surprised by that. what do you think then prices will be by the end of this year? will they be above 100 bucks a barrel again? >> probably. i think you'll hit, you'll be very high in the first half of next year. >> very high meaning? >> you'll be back up to $125, $150. >> so consumers back to paying $4 a gallon? >>

another tweet, jeff jarvis said, good god, murdoch troops, no bounds. another one, cartoon in murdoch's london times may be the most offensive thing they have done just yet. i mean, it could very well be just to raise the awareness or move the attention away from the murdochs and focus attention on more pressing issues the way they have done it, i think a lot of people are up in arms and really offended by this. >> started watching the story trend on twitter yesterday and still a lot of folks are outraged by this, to say it. >>> all of the information the dmv has on you is private, right? always. it florida, it might be for sale. >>> could the faa shut its doors tonight? a funding fight in washington could mean just that. what does it mean to you? every day, all around the world, energy is being produced to power our lives. while energy developement comes with some risk, north america's natural gas producers are committed to safely and responsibly providing decades of cleaner burning energy for our country, drilling thousands of feet below fresh water s