i'm lynn berry.re's some of the top stories making news this morning. senior defense officials tell nbc news today the pentagon will announce that both secretary of defense leon panetta and all of the joint chiefs have certified the military is ready to repeal don't ask don't tell. president obama signed the repeal of the military's ban on openly gay troops in december. since then, the military has been preparing personnel for lifting the ban. >>> a new cnn poll shows 64% of americans think the u.s. should play a dominant role in space exploration. half of all americans think the end of the shuttle program is bad for the united states. >>> papers filed this week show former california governor arnold schwarzenegger does not want to pay maria shriver spousal support. they're expected to reach a confidential out of court settlement following revelations he had relations with a household staffer. >>> and chile is digging out from more than 7 feet of snow. what in the world is happening? it is so bad tha

lynn? >> tracie potts in washington. >>> well, now here's a look at other stories making news early today in america. ammonia vapors from a leak in nebraska sent fire crews scrambling yesterday. hazmat and emergency response teams quickly suited up to neutralize the hazardous chemical and keep it from harming locals. authorities believe the leak stems from a faulty release valve on a storage caning. >>> a veterinarian's life-saving heroics were caught on camera when a bald eagle under anesthesia stopped breathing. the vet treated the bird, leapt into action, giving the animal mouth-to-beak resuscitation until it could breathe on its own. despite the successful resuscitation, the vet says it has a long road to recovery. >>> in colorado, a horse's owners gave them a rude awakening when she fell through a well window into their basement. it took hours for rescue crews to figure out an exit plan for the horse. they finally dug a hole to pull the sedated horse from the basement safely. and final

lynn? >> brian, thanks so much. well, last night on "chris matthews," chris asked gang of six senators, mark warner what sets their deficit reduction plan apart from other proposals put forth by republicans? >> this is the first time we've seen a bipartisan plan that includes revenues, that, it really is comprehensive, it's bipartisan. it isn't perfect. but when the alternative is we're going to drive this country over the cliff, i think we've got to start with something that actually gets the job done, that gives us that comprehensive approach, and the fact that we had a whole lot of democrats and republicans yesterday saying, yeah, i'm ready to at least move to the next step, was a good sign. we've got to realize we're 13 days away from a default. we're 13 days away from an indirect tax increase with every american where their interest rates skyrocket and the government can't pay its bills. we've got to be responsible and get something done. if we can build some of this into our process of the debt ceiling, this o

lynn? >> brian, thanks so much. >>> here's your first look at some of the other news going on around america today. a bus trip headed to niagara falls ends in tragedy. when two people were killed and 35 more injured if a horrific accident. according to preliminary reports, a tire blowout caused the driver to lose control and crash into a group of trees on a wooded median. a reconstruction team is expected to confirm the cause of the accident. >>> in the white house, the first family had their eyes glued to the tv, watching the women's world cup final between japan and the u.s. while the president, first lady and their two daughters look optimistic in this photo, they, like most americans, experienced the agony of defeat following america's crushing loss. of course, we'll have more on the game coming up in sports. >>> and finally in california, a cluster of bees turned into a major buzz kill for fans. one particular player there at the giants/padres game. the swarm moved through the stadium

i'm lynn berry. and today we begin with the debt ceiling deadline. as the clock tiks down on the nation's credit limit, president obama and congressional leaders will head back to the bargains available today after a special sunday night meeting at the white house failed to bridge the gap between lawmakers divide over how to fix nation's broken budget. nbc's kristen dahlgren joins us from washington with more on this. kristen, good morning. >> good morning, lynn. yesterday's meeting was short and described by at least one person as a bit tense. there were no ties. the dress was business casual. as they gathered around the table. but they met for less than an hour and a half and were unable to come to any agreement. the president says that social security and medicare are on the table in exchange for closing some tax loopholes, but republicans are standing firm saying no changes in taxes at all. they're looking more for a smaller plan about 2 to $2.5 trillion. the president asked going in are you goin

jim, good morning. >> good morning, lynn. well all eyes will definitely be on a small room inside that building behind me, the mother of parliament it's called here. just big enough for 40 or so spectators, but there will be overflow rooms with television sets. this is really must-see tv today in great britain and for many other places. certainly the united states, which is why there's so much media here today as well. as one british politician put it, it's the three musketeers of the murdoch media empire and the phone-hacking scandal that will appear here later today. they'll be grilled by ten members of a select committee. it doesn't sound like much, it's the committee for culture and media. these hearings will only last an hour for rupert and his 38-year-old son, james murdoch. and another hour following that for rebekah brooks, who was as we know now, the chief executive of murdoch's british newspapers before she suddenly resigned last week. members of parliament in terms of what we're going to hear today, they'll try to

brian, good morning. >> good morning, lynn. the white house says it is confident will meet that august 2nd deadline, but right now it's not at all clear how that's going to happen. today on capitol hill, senator tom coburn unveils the most ambitious plan yet to break the debt ceiling stalemate. >> oh, i wouldn't expect it to pass. but i would expect people to look at it. >> reporter: he's taking aim on $9 trillion in government cuts. >> pick half of them. half of them solve our problem. >> reporter: it's just one of several competing republican efforts to beat the august 2nd deadline to raise uncle sam's credit limit. senate minority leader mitch mcconnell is crafting what looks like the leading contender. but critics say it may be too much of a compromise. >> well, look, mcconnell plan doesn't have 218 republican votes, no way. >> what it does is it says, we the congress will not take responsibility or accountability for our own decisions. >> reporter: before moving forward the tea party is getting a vote on a balanced-budget

i'm lynn berry. today we begin with a stunning verdict. after just 11 hours of deliberations, a florida jury found casey anthony not guilty in the murder of her 2-year-old daughter caylee. an unexpected decision that left casual and close followers of the case in shock. nbc's kristen dahlgren is in orlando for us this morning. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lynn. casey anthony was only convicted on four misdemeanor counts of making false statements to police. she'll be sentenced on those tomorrow, but with time served could be a free woman after what is being called most controversial verdict since o.j. simpson. >> as to the charge of first degree murder, verdict as to count one, we, the jury, find the defendant not guilty. >> reporter: casey anthony sobbed after hearing the verdict. not guilty on the three most serious charges related to her 2-year-old daughter caylee's death. after weeks of testimony the jury took less than 11 hours to decide, and while none who participated in deliberati

i'm lynn berry. officials say a member of a terror group in somalia who was secretly a interrogated for two months aboard a navy ship was brought to new york yesterday to face terrorism charges. in a case likely to reignite debate over the prosecution of terror suspects, the man said to have provided interrogateors with valuable information is accused of providing money and weapons to terrorist groups. >>> exxonmobil has been ordered rebury the pipeline that spilled oil into the yellowstone river to better protect it from external damage. exxon and federal officials say oil has been spotted 25 miles downstream, although department of transportation reports some found as far away as 240 miles. >>> california lawmakers have approved a bill that would make the state first requiring public schools to include the contributions of gays and lesbians in social studies curriculum. governor jerry brown has not said whether he would sign it. >>> and on day six of the north america tour prince william and wife c

i'm lynn berry. today we begin with deficit dirty work. another day of high level debt talks at the white house yesterday and congressional leaders seem no close doer a compromise deal. however, president obama did add clarity to the seemingly stall ruling out a stop gap plan. nbc's kristen dahlgren joins us from washington with more. >> reporter: this will be the third meeting in as many days. just three weeks to go and the two sides still far air part. especially on issues like spending cuts and the biggest stumbling block remains taxes. in a news conference yesterday, the president said he will take the heat for putting the democratic sacred cows of social security and medicare on the table, in exchange for republicans bending on closing tax loopholes. republicans continue to insist on any tax increases would damage job creation. they say those remain off the table for them. they're continuing to look for smaller $2 trillion, to $2.5 trillion reduction deficit deal to help pay the bills through th

i'm lynn berry. today we begin with the hard bargain. as the nation's deficit clock ticks closer to default, lawmakers will regroup today after a week of tense white house negotiations. the president will hold a news conference this morning while on capitol hill a backup plan proposed by senator minority leader mitch mcconnell appears to be gaining momentum. nbc's kristen dahlgren has more. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, lynn. we'll hear from the president in just a few hours. his second press conference this week. he's really taking it to the american people, as he told lawmakers that they have until saturday to try to come up with some type of plan moving forward. yesterday's meeting was described as civil. it focused mostly on taxes, republicans standing firm on their pledge not to raise taxes. meantime, republican and democratic leaders in the senate are trying to work together on that backup plan. it's a complex plan, but it would put raising the debt ceiling on the president's shoulde

i'm lynn berry. here's some of your top headlines this morning. >>> senior defense officials tell nbc news today the pentagon will announce that both secretary of defense leon panetta and all of the joint chiefs have certified the military is ready to repeal don't ask, don't tell. president obama signed a repeal of the military's ban on openly gay troops. since then the military has been preparing for lifting the ban. >>> a new cnn poll shows 64% of americans think the u.s. should play a dominant role in space exploration. half of all americans think the end of the shuttle program is bad for the united states. >>> papers filed this week show that former california governor arnold schwarzenegger does not want to pay wife maria shriver spousal support. they're expected to reach a confidential out of court settlement as they end their marriage following revelations he had a child with a household staffer. >>> and as the u.s. deals with the brutal heat, chile is digging out from more than seven feet of s

i'm lynn berry. today we begin with a humbling day. the murdochs have made a business out of covering the story. now, yesterday they were the story. they testified in a dramatic hearing about the phone hacking scandal rocking their media empire. this as british prime minister david cameron addresses the matter at a special session of parliament this morning. we'll get more now from stephanie gosk. >> reporter: the man who runs the second largest media company in the world appeared beside his son apologetic. >> this is the most humble day of my life. >> i would like to say how sorry i am and how sorry we are to particularly the victims of illegal voice mail and deception and their families. >> reporter: from the beginning james took the lead. >> i think my son can answer in more detail. >> reporter: at times jumping in to help when his 80-year-old father searched or stumbled for the answers. it was rupert murdoch's wife who stepped in at the most critical moment a right hook to protect her husband fro

i'm lynn berry. today we begin with a historic homecoming. the teledecade-old space shuttle program has come to a close with the landing of the shuttle "atlantised." earlier atlantis touched down at the kennedy space center 42 years and a day after astronaut neil armstrong was the first person to set foot on the moon before four americans onboard guided "atlantis" to a safe and final landing. a landing that may also end an era of u.s. dominance in human space exploration. that's because as the shuttle program retires a second great space race begins. "atlantis's" astronauts left a flag on the international space station that flew on the first space shuttle launch in 1981. a private american company says it plans to retrieve that flag in just three years. >>> well, across the nation over 100 million people are under a heat alert due to what's called a heat dome, which has brought triple-digit temperatures to many parts of the country. warnings have been issued across the eastern half of the country fr

i'm lynn berry, this is "early today."just your first stop of the day today on your nbc station. >>> reporters got more than they bargained for when on assignment in china. they were casually looking for antelope when they came across two grizzly bears battling each other. experts say they weren't exactly fighting but exercising and practicing their survival skills. it all lasted for more than three hours until the bears exhausted themselves and simply walked away. >>> guests at one zoo get a two-for-one special. an albino snake on display in a ukrainian zoo was born with two heads. one that's said to be more passive than the other. zookeepers there say they react think and act separately despite sharing the same body. sometimes the heads fight amongst themselves for food. >> one criminal's yearning to perform did him in. on the loose for 13 years, an escaped inmate from northeast china was spotted on a tv dating show. after killing someone in 1988, he disappeared until showing off his singing and dancing talents. a viewer

and her most recent easter egg hunt welcomed the mayor. 10-year-old volunteer kitty lee says eve lynneeighbors like her feel special. >> it makes me feel like i'm her best friend. >> reporter: and then about two years ago, eve lynne started something new and inspire for african-american girls and it all started with these tiles that she created. >> i was learning ceramics at the time, another way to deal with my anxiety. >> reporter: on the tiles, she painted a character she created, a 7-year-old african- american girl named ella b. jenkins. >> ella b. jenkins was so excited. >> reporter: with her friend's encouragement she published her first children's book last fall, ella meets barack obama. >> what is the message of legal? >> self-esteem. feeling good about herself. the they are hand made by african women. >> reporter: even the sale of ella merchandise empowers women. she ensures the 100 women in kenya who sew the beaded accessories get the profits to pay for clean water and medicine. volunteers marvel as all she does to serve her community. >> she always says yes, basically. and p

i'm lynn berry. today we begin with a summer scorcher. dangerously high levels of heat and humidity have a large portion of the country in a choke hold this morning as the mercury hits record highs in the northeast and heat advisories remain in effect for several states. residents are wondering when the brutal heat will pass. nbc's jay gray has more. >> reporter: the blazing summer sun is delivering heat -- >> it's super hot. >> reporter: -- and havoc across a huge cross-section of the country right now. the national weather service has issued a heat advisory in at least 23 states, with an excessive heat warning across parts of ten states in the south and midwest. >> this is some oppressive and dangerous heat. >> reporter: dangerous and deadly. a 51-year-old illinois man suffered a fatal heatstroke. investigators say his air conditioner was broken. hundreds lined up in oklahoma city looking for help with their electric bills and a little bit of relief. >> we have fans. you know, if the electric isn't

i'm lynn berry. it's time for entertainment news.en will get the last laugh at his game of one upmanship with juk laurie, the producer of sheen's former show. laurie is reportedly killing off sheen's old character in next season's first episode. well, tuesday comedy central announced the newest roast target will be sheen himself. and coincidentally, but probably not, the roast airs september 19th. that is the same night that 2 1/2 men premiers with ashton c kucher. >>> climbing snowy mounts anz in iceland, imagine how his agent let alone his mother felt about seeing him crawl on a rope between two mountains. >>> finally, no surprise forbes list of top earning actresses for 2010 is headed by angelina joe lee with $30 million. but sarah jessica parker tieing jolie for a top spot maybe a surprise. but much of that income is linked to her line of fragrances, not her movies. reese wither spoon was also in a tie for second with jennifer aniston. both earned $28 million for the year. every time we do those stories, i just feel a little wors

i'm lynn berry. those stories and more are straight ahead. this is "first look" on msnbc. >>> we begin this morninging with day to remember. from coast to coast american s celebrated a traditional independence day this year from fourth of july picnics and parades to incredible pyrotechnics displays. >> reporter: dazzling fireworks light up the sky in the nation's capital. president obama and the first lady took time on our country's birthday to thank members of the u.s. military. >> together you are standing with all of those around the world who are reaching for the same freedoms and the same liberties that we celebrate today. >> reporter: it was a day of celebration from star-spangled parades in new hampshire to power boat racing in florida. 60,000 runners saw the dawn's early light in atlanta for a 10k race. thousands turned out at coney island, home of the hot dog-eating contest. and in california, would you believe snow skiing at lake tahoe on july 4th. >> snow, skis, bathing suits. >> reporter:

i'm lynn berry. we begin with a day to remember. from coast-to-coast americans celebrated a traditional independence day this year from fourth of july picnics and parades to incredible pyrotechnics displays. nbc's kurt gregory reports. >> reporter: dazzling fireworks light up the sky in the nation's capital. president obama and the first lady took time on our country's birthday to thank members of the u.s. military. >> together you are standing with all of those around the world who are reaching for the same freedoms and the same liberties that we celebrate today. >> reporter: it was a day of celebration from star-spangled parades in new hampshire to power boat racing in florida. 60,000 runners saw the dawn's early light in atlanta for a 10k race. coney island, the home of the hot dog eating contest, and in california, would you believe snow-skiing at lake tahoe on july 4th. >> snow, skis, bathing suits. >> reporter: a day of fun and a celebration of freedom from sea to shining sea. curt gregory, nbc

the confirmation came today in a speech in washington by deputy secretary of defense william lynn. >> to date, malicious cyber activity has been directed at nearly every sector of our infrastructure and economy. our national security correspondent david martin has been investigating and hi managed to get the first television camera ever into the pentagon's command center that defends against computer attacks. david also spoke to deputy secretary lynn about the information that's been lost. >> reporter: the joint strike fighter is the pentagon's high- priced ticket to air superiority for the 21st century. except four months ago the designs for that and other sophisticated weapons were stolen from defense industry computers by hackers-- 24,000 files in all. >> designs of satellites, u.a.v.s-- unmanned aerial vehicles-- cutting-edge military technology. >> reporter: is somebody out there robbing us blind? >> there are a lot of people out there taking a lot of information. >> reporter: lynn told cbs news the u.s. is still not sure who stole the data, although the most likely suspects are

lynn said the u.s. reserves the right to respond with conventional weapons to a grave cyber attack, but that the strategy's focus lies elsewhere. >> rather than rely on the threat of retaliation alone to deter attacks in cyberspace, we aim to change our adversaries incentives in a more fundamental way. if an attack will not have its intended effect, those who wish us harm will have less reason to target us through cyberspace in the first place. >> suarez: a cyber command was established two years ago, but the pentagon and obama administration have sought to de-emphasize a potential militarization of cybersapce. there's one reason for that approach that stands out, according to michael hayden, the former director of the national security agency. he spoke with the "newshour's" spencer michels last year. >> there was a survey done not too many months ago. they asked the citizens of some cyber-savvy nations around the world, who do you fear most in the cyber-domain? and, quite interestingly, we were number

one of the bodies police identified was amber lynn costello. sister, kim overstreet, is looking for answers. >> i was doing research, trying to backtrack, getting everything i could. it got to the point where -- i was obsessed with it. >> overstreet says police have told her very little about the investigation. so like the gilbert family, she started doing her own digging. >> it is my baby sister. you know? it eats at me every day. it's consuming. >> reporter: kim herself used to work for an escort agency. she tried to teach her sister how to stay safe on the job. >> i worked for a service and the guy had to have a home phone listed in his name. if there wasn't a home phone number listed in his name, he wouldn't go. but, she says her sister was a drug addict which made her even more vulnerable. so where we going now. >> we're going to where amber was staying, where the last place she walked out of was, where she met the guy that picked her up. >> reporter: this is the house where amber was last seen. on the night that amber disappeared, kim was

self-esteem, feeling good about yourself. >> reporter: eve lynne ensures that the women who make the africa get the profits. they marvel at all she does to serve her community. >> she always says yes basically. and people just adrawn to her. she is very loving and giving. >> anything we can do to help somebody you know is part of my human revolution. >> reporter: so for healing and inspiring thousands of people from her home, this week's jefferson award in the bay area goes to eve lynne robinson. sharon chin, cbs 5. >>> all right. roberta this time year we are supposed to be enjoying the sun, the warm weather. when do we get to put away the sweaters? >> next week! >> we are satch waited with the low clouds -- saturated with low clouds and fog at the coast and traveling 75 miles inland over night. this is your thursday pinpoint forecast. this is the morning commute and everybody shrouded in this very deep marine layer producing localized drizzle. clouds are retreating back to the coast where they played tag all day long keeping the temperatures down. that was problematic today when we

lynn bailey. who knows more about the history of this area than lynn bailey? all his work gives so much to us. kevin malkin, owners of one of the greatest collections of western memorabilia in this country and who shared an selfishly with anybody who asked. there are people here tonight who are in our books, gary roberts. i am writing this book i met gary and he makes a thank you jesus discovery. and 0 regional newspaper article showing that after wyatt earp was arrested for horse theft in his youth he didn't just walk away on bail, but he broke out of jail and was technically a felon for the rest of his life. gary called me up and said i know you are writing this book and i think this is interesting. let me send you this article. use it in your book. think about that kind of generosity. paul cool, mark borden, and call your do when i met her being a shy timid young lady her first remark is if we are doing all the work why do you write the book? and you think you ask tough questions, buddy. paul hutton, a great lady in texas and knows more about frontier women

camp activities with medical staff on site who helped her manage her blood sugar testing and insue lynn. this is something the younger kids can't do alone without mom and dad. if it's not done right they can go into diabetic shock. but the drama is people who would not ask about her insulin pump and enjoy regular kid stuff about an hour from home. >> there was so many people that i knew that were is going this year. >> we were very involved with them. and we love them and they were a great organization. but at this point, i don't have trust in them. that even -- you know if they cocom back or made a tax deductible donation that money would be put to good use. >> the family got a refund because they paid with a credit card. but families who paid the $700 by cash or check they are out of luck. the diabetes society website says they can apply for a refund or consider it a tax-free donation. the diabetes society is work with a law firm on what's next. the former camp director who is out of a job and a representative for children's hospital says the diabetes camp may have the best chance for

good morning. >> reporter: lynn, good morning. just a glimmer of hope this morning from the so-called gang of six. three democrats and republicans who have been working together on a compromise. the plan on the table would cut $4 trillion from the deficit, lower taxes, but also bring in a trillion dollars in new revenues by closing tax loopholes. both sides seem to like it at least as a first step. president obama calling this a very significant step in line with what he's been working on at the white house. republicans saying it has good elements. they want to take a very close look at this. that after republicans yesterday in the house passed their cap, cut and balance plan. it's pot expected to pass the senate as it moves forward today. president obama has already said he will not sign that $6 trillion plan. but there's still significant opposition here on capitol hill, but not across the country. a new nbc poll finds most americans want to see compromise here. >> so where exactly would the $4 trillion in cuts that tracie just

lynn is sure there is a mismatch between america's dependence on the technology of cyber space. >> it our navigation. it drives our communications. >> and its ability to defend against cyber attacks. >> the attackers are ahead of the defenders in cyber space. the technology for intrusions and far ahead as the technology for defenses. we need to catch up. >> how often are there attacks on the pentagon's networks? >> there are attempted intrusions thousands of times a day. >> these intrusions are not frank's, but espianage. left undetected inside the defense department's 15,000 computer necks. >> they are in and we don't know it. it's entirely possible. we found that someone had gotten into our classified network and we didn't think that was possible because completely separate from the internet. >> a foreign intelligence agency, lynn would say which one penetrated a classified computer network used by the u.s. central command which runs the wars in iraq and afghanistan. >> how long were they in ? >> in a matter of months. >> that p must have been a wakeup call. >> it was. it led us to

i'm shelby lynn, reporting from atlanta. >> mrs.ford's funeral is tentatively scheduled for friday in palm desert. after another service in michigan, she will be buried next to her husband at the gerald ford presidential museum in grand rapids. >>> well, it is described as nearly perfect. the first day in space, for the last mission of space shuttle atlantis. and the one problem that cropped up that has the crew on the ground chuckling. >>> and royal recreation in southern california. celebrities among the hundreds watching prince william play for charity in a polo match. in e near >>> well, chances of drizzle along the coast increasing, fog and cooler temperatures. i have the full pinpoint forecast coming up next. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,, maryland -- where president of the >>> two f-15 fighter jets intercepted a small plane near camp david in maryland where president obama is spending part of the weekend. the north american aerospace defense command says the plane was out of radio communication. the fighter jets directed it out of the camp d

. >> lynn says that his department will promote research and development of a new technology to boost u.s. military capabilities in cyberspace. he also promised to train more personnel to defend computer networks from hackers. he said close links with the military including defense contractors and power utilities will also be protected. lynn recalled one intrusion in march when some 24,000 files were chosen from the network of a defense company. he blamed the foreign government but did not elaborate. >>> south korean officials say the succession in north korea is creating dialogue. government officials in the south say the north power struggle is intense fig as leader kim jong-il transfers authority to his son and heir apparent, kim jong eun. they say he is pointing aides. south korean newspaper reported on friday that the north had purged 30 officials who took part in or supervised the inter-korean talks. the south fears that north could conduct another nuclear test and provocative acts and it will remain unstable for a while. >>> next our series, "the road ahead." today we focus on

one of the bodies police identified was amber lynn costello.r, kim overstreet, is looking for answers. >> i was doing research, trying to backtrack and getting everything i could. and, you know, it got to the point where i was obsessed with it. >> reporter: overstreet says police have told her very little about the investigation, so like the gilbert family, she started doing her own digging. >> it's my baby sister, you know. it eats at me every day. it consumed me. >> reporter: kim herself used to work for an escort agency. she tried to teach her sister how to stay safe on the job. >> i worked for the service and the guy had to have a home phone listed in his name. if there was no home phone listed in his name you didn't go. >> reporter: but she said her sister was a drug addict which made her even more vulnerable. so where we going now? >> we're going to where amber was staying, where the last place she walked out of was, where she met the guy that picked her up. >> reporter: this is the house where amber was last seen. on the night that amber

let's get some insight from herb halter, celebrity attorney lynn wood, and mike sitric. vick and martha stewart. paul, were you surprised by how quickly casey anthony's being set free? >> no, not at all, given the good time laws and the way that most states work in releasing prisoners, i'm not surprised at all. >> well, will she have any restrictions on her when she walks throughgates out of prison? >> that was a surprising part for me. i would have sentenced her differently. i would have sentenced her probably more controversial, but probably three years, and placed her on a period of supervised probation with strict conditions. but as the sentence is imposed now, there's no supervised release, there's no parole, there's no probation, so she'll be walking the streets free and clean. >> let me turn to you, lynn wood. you were a lawyer in the jonbenet ramsey case, so you're used to this kind of high-profile media circus trial. what did you make of the events of the last 48 hours? >> i can tell you that i'm aware of the fact that this young lady was, in effect, tried in th

and so it was really heart warming to see rozz lynn carter be a part of that service. and of course mrs. bush had the opportunity to meet with first lady hillary clinton when she was entering the white house and mrs. obama when mrs. bush was leaving the white house a couple years ago, so there is a unique bond among first ladies. they are not elected to office. they only -- to be first lady at some point in their lives and know what the challenges are of being first lady and seeing how the president has to deal with a very challenging portfolio and she, the first lady sees the president as nobody else does, as her husband. so that's something that really connects them. >> and of course that service was tuesday in palm desert. we've been showing a little bit of video the first puge in the church with rozz lynn carter and first lady michele obama and laura bush did not attend do you know why not? guest: she was traveling, so she had a conflict in her schedule and wasn't able to be there, but she certainly was there in spirit and president bush was at the service represen

all liberals are thieves that's what they do it is who they are you know what i'll give lynn pols the benefit of the doubt here after all if i made four hundred million bucks like him then i might you know actually i don't even think them i think the way he does but just olympos listeners are clear his show is geared to people who are worth four hundred million dollars and if you're in the middle class then rush limbaugh along with the republican party just wants to screw you and the very very ugly dr marcus bachmann if you thought the show bachmann had some far out anti-gay views you should hear what are others been has to say and progress uncovered a seminar conducted by dr marcus bachmann maybe back or even last summer in which he compared gays to barbarians who need to be educated and disappoint and he didn't stop there we have a responsibility as parents and the poor working. naturally courage but. thought and feeling moved into the action step yeah three do. looks like michele bachmann really is the better path in that marriage he's a very strange guy and that's very very ugly.

lynn steadman was the commissioner of the county. >> the preacher, reverend douglas and mrs.glas, were still at the residence on the living room floor. >> dead? >> uh-huh. >> pretty shocking thing. >> yes. certainly was. it didn't take them long to identify their suspects. there had been another home invasion earlier that day in henessey, oklahoma, just up the road from the douglases. two men fled the crime in a distinctive banana yellow chevy malibu with primer spots. the victims who were robbed but not physically harmed gave deputies good descriptions of the men and their vehicle. investigators were able to tries the distinctive car to an oil field a few miles up the road from the douglas property. two rough necks working the drilling rig had up and quit that morning, taking off in a borrowed car. thought they were wanted for parole violations apparently. they weren't. they thought they were. the two were named stephen hatch and glen ache. and they were familiar already to the local police. >> one of them had a burglary conviction. >> these are petty criminals? >> yes, sir.

like a lot of women jack lynn had a mammogram at age 40, wasn't swayed by a study suggesting most don't need screening until age 50. >> i'd rather have it. it's great they do it early because if something is there and wrong, they can catch it early on. >> now, a study by ucsf has come down on jack lynn's side but with a twist. >> we found that how often a woman should have a mammogram depends on the risk of getting breast cancer. there is an area of density that is dense tissue. >> the doctor and his colleagues examined various risk factors, researchers suggested women with less fatty breast tissue are at a higher risk of cancer. >> the more tissue a breast has the greater the chance some of the cells will result in breast cancer. and that is probably the reason that breast density is a such a strong risk factor. >> the denser tissue visible as whiter, solid-looking patches and says radiologies can rate the density on a scale of 1-4. but in order to gather that kind of information, the research team issued a key recommendation that women should have a base line mammogram at age 40. the

deputy chief antonio para, san francisco police department, lynn bruney, director of consumer marketting for the san francisco convention and visitors bureau and wes tyler, general manager, chancellor hotel on union square and president of the union square association. let's hear it for all those judges, ladies and gentlemen. now, these judges have a very, very difficult job. they have to rate the competitors. each bell ringer will be judged on rhythm, originality, and style. today we're going to find out who has the it factor and before the amateur competition stuff starts, i'd like to bring up a former bell-ringing champion, mr. carl payne, ladies and gentlemen. not one, not two, not three, 10-time bell-ringing champion. the only bell-ringing champion who is even close to this would be mr. byron cobb, who has five wins. and buddy, my second husband, what's the secret to winning? >> stay on god's good side. >> ah, that sounds good. now what we're going to do is ask you to go up and gib these fine people a sample of the championship bell-ringing that you have done since, oh, gosh, i can'