. >>> jean casarez is live in phoenix, good morning, jean. >> reporter: good morning, carol. >> does michael jackson's family have a chance? >> reporter: they definitely do. you see, this is a civil action. it's wrongful death. they believe aeg caused the death civilly of michael jackson, and they have a number of grounds that they are alleging. number one, they are saying aeg was the employer, conrad murray was the employee, aeg paid conrad murray his salary. furthermore, that aeg knew or should have known it was foreseeable that a traveling doctor with michael jackson would give him legal drugs in an illegal manner so he would be able to perform. they are saying they did not investigate conrad murray, they did not know he was so in debt, and there is an e-mail that i think the plaintiffs are going to say is very particularly important that comes 11 days before michael jackson died. it was from the head of aeg live to kenny ortega and it was after conrad murray stopped michael jackson from going to a rehearsal and the e-mail says, i'm summarizing, we pay michael jackson -- aeg, conr