coming up, judge jeanine pirro will join us with her reaction to the bob ward verdict and tonight on ge jeanine, ward's former girlfriend speaking out about the couple's allegedly violent relationship tonight on the fox news channel, 9:00 p.m. eastern time. heather? >> heather: now to another high profile murder case, the appeals trial of american student amanda knox in italy. prosecutors are now asking the court to uphold her murder conviction and increase her sentence to life in prison. currently she's serving 26 years for the murder of her roommate that happened back in 2007. knox's lawyers are trying to debunk dna evidence and get her conviction overturned. next week, a lawyer for the victim's family and the defense team will deliver their closing arguments. a verdict is expected early next month. >> gregg: heavy rain has been pounding the northeast, causing new flooding in areas still recovering from tropical storm lee just about two weeks ago, not to mention hurricane irene. is better weather on the way? meteorologist maria molina knows. she's live in the fox weather center. hey

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joining me now is judge jeanine pirro, host of "justice with judge jeanine ".they claim he essentially confessed when he made that 911 call to shooting her and they cite statements like she's dead, she's done, i'm sorry. you say this guy might actually get acquitted. >> you know, it's very interesting, because these statements on first blush appear to be very incriminating, i just sh-t my wife, she's dead, she's done, then all of the sud been he backs off of that when an attorney comes on the scene and he was like well, it was suicide, we were struggling for the gun, but i think that ultimately if the jury is listening in 4r0r7bd -- in orlando, they will see the trajectory of the bullet is straight, so that even if there were a struggle for the gun and even if he were trying to stop her from committing suicide, the trajectory wouldn't be so straight. megyn: why not, if there were a struggle, if she was trying to shoot herself and he's wrestling with her, why not? >> very unusual it would be that direct, meanwhile, he doesn't have gun shot residue on his hands w

judge jeanine pirro takes up the murder trial tonight with justice on judge janine. >> she has the personh her. >> gregg: the woman who talked to the victim just before the victim died. all right. heather? >> heather: gregg, could we see another serious third party candidate run for the white house next year echoing the days of ross perot? remember him? well, america speaks out. up next, stay tuned. there'only one bottle left ! i've got to tell susie ! the vending machine on elm is almost empty. i'm on it, boss. new pony ? sorry ! we are open for business. let's reroute greg to fresno. growing businesses use machine-to-mhine technology from verizon wireless. susie ! the vending machine... already filled. cool bike. because the business with the best technology rules. >> gregg: past few weeks g.o.p. candidate governor rick perry of texas has inched ahead of president obama in the rasmussen polls. now in the latest rasmussen polling president obama is seven points ahead of perry. meanwhile after dropping behind for a few weeks. former massachusetts governor mitt romney is back behind presid