medco shareholders will get just over $71 per share. medco was one of the most actively traded issues today, up 14%. it closed shy of the buyout price, perhaps reflecting some concern about getting the necessary regulatory approval. still, the deal got an endorsement with the buyer's stock price moving higher. express scripts added 5%. five years ago, express scripts tried unsuccessfully to buy caremark. instead, drug store cvs bought it, creating cvs caremark. its shares were up 2%, while competitor walgreen dropped 5%, dropping below $40 for the first time since march. and that's tonight's "market focus." >> tom: from swimming pools to ice cream shops, a huge section of the united states continues looking for ways to beat the record heat. between tomorrow and sunday, about two out of every three americans will be dealing with heat indices in the triple digits. millions of air conditioners have increased demand for electricity, but the price of a key fuel for that electricity has not boiled over. power utilities that have had to buy na

in deal news, compress scripts is buying medco health for just over $29 billion, combining the nation's largest pharmacy benefit managers. >>> six years earlier than expected, the government has sold its entire investment in chrysler to italy's fiat. now the majority shareholder. >>> and, finally, prince william and wife, catherine, flying home from the u.s. commercial to save taxpayers paid off in more ways than one. to compensate the royal couple and others for the video system on the ten-hour flight breaking down, british airways offered each $300 vouchers for duty-free shopping. wonder what they bought. >>> the rays caught the yanks. the braves bought the rockies, and can it be ten years of peace between the owners and players in the nfl? >>> plus, the padres come up big with the leather. holding back the marlins. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> well, with today being the peak of our historic heat wave, that means the weekend has to be better, right? well, your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. if are you just waking

his way from the drugstore counter back into his old environment as a pharmaceutical executive with medcoe also had a girlfriend, a serious new woman in his life who was going to move in with him in the nice but all-too-lonely house in ramsey, new jersey. while paul was talking marriage, the former mrs. duncsak's life was in free fall. money trouble. she hasn't found work after the divorce. she had been sickly with various complaints and now had fallen behind on bank payments for her home. john duncsak says the way his brother saw it, stacey had only one option to, move in with her parents, ed and dottie ates down in florida, but the child custody arrangement wouldn't allow that. >> every time that stacey had the kids, my brother was always concerned that she would take them out of state. >> and behind that fear of losing his kids was an even darker threat. paul shared it with his friend nancy bagley one afternoon as their kids swam in his backyard. he said that earlier that summer his pool had been sabotaged, its heater cranked up to a piping 101 degrees. he was convinced it was no accid

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