the supersonic f-35 test dropped a 2,000 pound bomb over the mohave desert. >>> a judge ruled d.c. comics can retain the rights to sup irman saying the heirs of one of the co-creators signed the rights away 20 years ago. >>> it's not even halloween but target is already ramping up holiday ads and deals like online price matching and digital in store shopping. >>> finally, celebrity chef rachel ray is cashing in on a food truck craze for a good cause, animals. her new dog food truck will have chicken mutt balls and chicken pau pie. >>> coming up, mother nature keeps the yanks alive and lance armstrong's world comes crashing down, plus the world's oldest profession helps out the world's most popular sport. sports are straight ahead. >>> i'll have an update on the severe weather rolling through the south. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning. in sports, lance armstrong's financial empire has come crashing down. on the same day armstrong stepped down as chairman of his cancer fighting foundation, live strong, nike along with several other companies have terminated their endo

it was august 2, 2003 and as some of you know the mohave is my long-time beat longtime beach and i was visiting the photographer at his home in the antelope valley, which is the northern half of l.a. county. on its shadow side. it is like the kooky cousin that nobody likes to talk about, but it really is the other half of los angeles, only 1/2. it's also desert and we were visiting, mark and i, and i was in the middle of finishing up my previous book and also working on another project about the antelope valley. suddenly we heard all the sirens screeching into the desert and not like one or two or five but dozens and dozens and dozens. even for that area, where you hear everything because sound travels very great distances in the desert and there are lots of police calls up there on domestic violence and so on and it can be a very violent place but also a peaceful place. so we decided to turn on the tv and find out what all the ruckus was about. it turned out that there was a beloved local sheriff named steven sorensen had been ambushed at a trailer in a remote town near lancaster in t

. >> population of the small mohave desert town of hinckley population battle was depicted pollutionllots depict entered the movie erin brockovich smaller now because 200 people have agreed to a property buy-out offered by pg&e. 100 remaining homeowners will continue to use bottled or filtered water. all 300 homeowner were his impacted by water pollution. in the 1950s pg&e used the toxic chemical chromium 6 to reduce corrosion at cooling tower and leaked into the ground water. according to a report the pollution has never been fixed. >>> one family just found out the real reason a british army veteran walked around with necessity problems all his life. family knew that ronald brown had stepped on a land mine while on a mission in france in 1944. blast peppered the left leg with red hot fragment and he was forced to cruel 2 males to safety. now doctors at the time thought it was safer to leave the shrapnel in the body. brown told his family the basic story and that the accident left him with a bad knee. brown died last week at the age of 94. he was cremated and when his ashes came bac

you feel better about the prospects for the eu staying together, greece staying in, everything vag mohaving a m positive outcome. do you feel more positive 1992. >> i've been all across europe in the last six weeks. i think overall there's a strong political will to keep the eu together. certainly germany has played a center role in that, but it's not limited to germany. i do feel better and i do think things overall in terms of the commitment to the e.u. are stronger than they were six months ago. i would say probably the more mixed opinion would be greece. but overall, i'd say it's a little bit better, joe. >> great. bill mcdermott, we appreciate your time today, coming to us from waldorf, germany. watch how do. this seamlessly, we're going to head out to columbus, ohio. this is unbelievable. we've sent signals up there. and then we see becky. becky, what's coming up? >> well, we have liveris, we will talk to him in just a moment. also at the top of the hour, we have berkshire hathaway ceo warren buffett. he'll be joining us for two hours. we'll talk markets, the economy, politics, and mu