james murdoch's 35% no vote.f you take out those investors that were independent it would come out to this much. it would come out to 75% no vote against him. for lachlan, it would be 72% against him and as for rupert murdoch himself, well, that 14% would then go up to 30%. so you can see by these numbers, basically if it wasn't for the murdoch family's controlling share, james and lachlan pay have been voted off the boards. >> ramy inocencio joining us live. >>> coming up here on "world business today," three years late but about to take wing. a new plane is about to make its debut with wings made of high-tech plastics. is it the beginning of a revolution in air travel or another way to catch the red eye? stay with cnn. >>> let's have a look at world currencies as we return and it's interesting, the theme that we're seeing here is whereas the dollar has been the safe haven it's moving -- people are moving away a little bit. money is flowing a little out of the dollar. really a little more risk returning to the m

murdoch was saying, you've really got to go after them.ersation. >> reporter: not only did news america marketing have issues with its competitors, but some clients were also concerned about how it did business. >> he does not appreciate -- >> reporter: in this deposition, debra, one of those clients, reads an e-mail between her and a subordinate discussing their dealings with the company. >> this is the way they have been across the board. adding insult to injury, have had huge issues related to accuracy of placement of in-store vehicles. feels like they are raping us and they enjoy it and there's no desire to work with us in partnership to grow our business. >> to whom is that referring? >> news america. >> reporter: curtner says all the litigation is much more than an expensive business dispute. so you could argue, if you were news america, that $650 million and north of that, as you indicate, could be the cost of doing a business? >> i don't think anybody thinks a quarter, or three-quarters of a billion dollars is a cost of doing busin

as for the speech, murdoch claimed the standards for american schools are lower than the standards forhis fox show "american idol." he backed up his claim with statistics if a college testing service. >> three quarters of american students who graduate from high school are not ready to do college morning. three quarters. these are the kids who are going to college. this is not the foundation for a 21st century economy. >> the conference was hosted by foundation for excellence in education chaired by former governor bush. ed advocates vouchers and performance pay instead of 10 year for teachers. >>> occupy wall street movement is building momentum in new york this morning demonstrators were ready to resist as authorities were said to forcibly remove them from the park they've occupied for weeks. the showdown never happened. >> reporter: occupy street demonstrators claimed their first victory. new york's powerbrokers backed down on evicting the protest from a park. the park's private owners say it is so dirty it a not be safe and asked for police help, clearing it so cleaning crews could

he says he'll release his if murdoch does the same. >>> one grocery store in italy has posted a sign pleading with thieves to stay away. that's because the store has been robbed 23 times. maybe time to get a new alarm. >>> coming up, the rangers catch the rays. phillies ground the cardinals. the diamondbacks bite back. >>> curtis granderson has done it all year for the yankees with his bat, but last night it was with his glove. your early morning sports headlines are straight ahead. >>> our weather pattern has flip-flopped from the east coast to west coast. it's time for the west coast to get all the wet weather. your forecast is coming up. you're watching "early today." for a great vacation you can't beat mississippi. sure you can, it's called louisiana. hang on, florida's where folk's want to be. that's only until they get a taste of alabama hospitality. we can't agree on which state's best, but we can agree on one thing, wherever you vacation in the gulf, you'll have a great time. great seafood, beautiful beaches and fun for the whole family. we've got intimate bed and breakfast r

murdoch was invited by former florida governor jeb bush who now heads a nonprofit think tank. bush has long supported charter schools, performance-based charter school pay and digitized learning. >> this conference is about how do you make a profit out of this fiscal crisis. there's very little about academic achievement. it is about how do you get a return from your dollar. this is rupert murdoch-ville. >> he is a controversial figure and during his speech, mentioned steve jobs, considered by many to be an icon, a visionary. >> mon none lease -- mon none e like our public school system do not work and therefore parents deserve school vouchers. >> they marched in favor of vouchers but protestors still heckledmurdoch. >> well, it makes everything a little more interesting. >> he thought he had a deal with the public schools but the deal fell threw because of the phone-hacking scandal involving his newspapers in britain. >>> pg & e is starting an ambitious and expensive construction project. the utility is replacing more than 1200 miles of 2 clay khaeu plastic pipe. the decision

>>katherine: media mogul rupert murdoch and former florida gov.e bay area and a lot of people are not happy about it kron4 is there as teachers and parents speak out against them. the iphone for is is almost here we show you how you can your hands on one and possibly avoid waiting in line. >>gabe: the new iphone for as comes with a faster processor, a better canada and a voice digital assistant a preview coming up. >>katherine: at 6:00 p.m. today the oakland mayor sworn in howard jordan as the interim police chief a position he held before back in 2009. this time jordan moved up from the assistant chief position following the sudden resignation of the police chief anthony bass earlier this week. >> as the interim chief i intend on taking solid decisions. the term into rum will not apply to my decisions i will make decisions as though i am the chief. i intend to lead in that direction. this is the time for us to move forward and look to the future. >>pam: the new police chief will face a long list of problems one of those will be to deal with a fed

. >>> rupert murdoch's media empire cannot get a break from the british parliament.ose friend and murdoch employee made his third appearance before a house of commons committee. we learned that james murdoch, son of rupert will make another appearance before the committee next month. both are accused of being economical with the truth before lawmakers in london. the former editor of the sunday times author of good times bad times. editor at large is sir harold evans. i read your book and you suggest that rupert murdoch never made a promise that he meant to keep. >> he never made a promise he kept. maybe in a fraction of a second when he made it, he thought perhaps i can keep this one. it doesn't survive. >> that are suggests there is an absence of morality and misconduct. is that fair? >> in my book i said the most interesting character in milton's paradise lost, the most clever and able person is the lucifer. lucifer also had a problem with equating the fact. the fact is rupert has an objective. a nicety like in particular, he said during the time we were investigat

underway in los angeles and they're concentrating their attacks on the media giants leader rupert murdoch so when fox has shareholders meeting to discuss the recent phone hacking scandal whether or not they would keep her apartment son james out of the company the media was banned from the conference room though they just stayed outside ultimately the protesters became the real story of the shareholder meeting but i think that it goes to show that americans are waking up and they're realizing that fox news simply shares the narrative that it wants you to hear whether it be about occupy wall street protests or the murdoch phone hacking scandal but also the fox news is aware of the planned anonymous attack how truly out of touch they are for mocking the occupy movement because one thing's for sure the occupiers aren't going anywhere. and speaking of the occupiers things got ugly between police and protesters occupy oakland last night reports say that hundreds of police from ten different law enforcement agencies arrested seventy five people and some reports and tweets on the grounds of the

investors will vote on the company's board members, including murdoch and his two sons. while the family's 40% stake virtually guarantees they'll be re-elected, protestors have put the company in an unusual defensive position. >> tom: wal-mart is rolling back health care benefits. the giant retailer is cutting health benefits for part-time workers and raising premiums for many of its full-time staff. wal-mart is the largest u.s. private employer in america insuring more than one million people. new part-time employees who work less than 24 hours per week won't be eligible for health benefits. and employees who use tobacco will be charged more for their health care coverage. stable is not a word many would use to describe the climate for investors but tonight's market monitor says that's what they should be looking for. he's randall eley is president of the edgar lomax company, recently named a category king as a top performing mutual fund by tracking firm lipper. congratulations on that honor, well deserved. >> thank you, and good to see you, tom. >> narrator: . >> tom:

as for the speech murdoch claimed the standards for american schools are lower than the standards forhis fox show "american idol." he backed up his claim with statistics if a college testing service. >> three quarters of american students who graduate from high school are not ready to do college morning. three quarters. these are the kids who are going to college. this is not the foundation for a 21st century economy. >> the conference was hosted by foundation for excellence in education chaired by former governor bush. ed advocates vouchers and performance pay instead of 10 year for teachers. >>> occupy wall street movement is building momentum in new york this morning demonstrators were ready to resist as authorities were said to forcibly remove them from the park they've occupied for weeks. the showdown never happened. >> reporter: occupy street demonstrators claimed their first victory. new york's powerbrokers backed down on evicting the protest from a park. the park's private owners say it is so dirty it a not be safe and asked for police help clearing it so cleaning crews could

and buffet versus murdoch. plus it has been on for 23 years and still attracts some of tv's toughest viewers. so why are there threats this morning it may be cancelled? >> coming up, the yankees find their grove. the diamondbacks strike gold. you are watching "early today." >>> good morning and welcome back to early today. here are some of your top headlines this morning. the associated press is reporting that prosecutors have reopened hundreds of investigations into former nazi death camp guards and workers. this year's conviction of retired u.s. auto worker for serving as a nazi death camp guard. he was convicted of thousands of counts of accessory to murder without direct evidence that he participated in any specific killing. >> a helicopter crashed into new york's east river yesterday killing one person and injurying four. the woman who died was visiting from australia to celebrate her 40th birthday. >>> and tutu is furious with south africa's government for not granting the dalai lama a visa. to take part

bush the former governor of florida is in town and murdoch will be the keynote speaker addressing the conference later this morning educators to protest the outside of the conference were joined with those that were part of the occupied san francisco movement they're all upset because they do not like the former governor jim bush ideas on education they're also upset that he invite rupert murdoch the head of the fox news empire and the wall street journal to speak at the conference. taking the it was among those outside had to say. >> the audacity of jeb bush, rupert murdoch and joe klein to think that they have the answers to the educational problems that are plaguing our nation. >> this is about privatizing public schools. >> the more they privatize the more they would take away from public schools the more that only wealthy kids will be getting a good education. >> so you do not penalize the teachers who work with those and the underserved communities and not the teachers thought that the opportunity that is so wide in this country and getting wider, it is directly related to peopl

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. >> a chief executive of rupert murdoch says there was no excuse for the phone scandal. he said that they can't just be a profitable company, they must be a principal company. protesters gathered outside of twentieth century fox and told him to go. the british labor member of parliament said that some of them got computers as well as telephones. rupert murdoch said that he would stop at nothing to discover if this was true. still had a. is this the way ahead for europe? a new system that could rival america's. an irish man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison by a judge in lithuania of being found guilty of buying guns and bombs for the ira. he was secretly filmed test firing weapons in the countryside and was overheard talking about planting bombs in london. >> caught in the act. trying to buy guns and bombs for the real ira. he went from ireland to lithuania to get the weapons. he did not realised at his every move was being secretly photographed by intelligence services. he was arrested by lithuanian police and put on trial two years ago. he wasn't just secretly f

have expressed dissent about robert's murdoch's son. at a shareholders meeting, 35% of shareholders voted against james murdoch being reelected. the trial of michael jackson's personal physician conrad murray has ended its second phase in los angeles. lawyers defending conrad mary have called their first witness. they will have to account for cost -- counter four weeks of damaging testimony from the prosecution to alleged that dr. conrad merit acted with gross negligence. >> the people are prepared and would ask to rest at this time. >> and not dramatic, all for the tv cameras, but it ended four weeks of testimony from 33 witnesses. the case is based on what care dr. conrad murray gave michael jackson and the medical experts evidence was scathing. he gave to singapore ber propofol. michael jackson's bedroom should have looked like a hospital, but there were no monitors. when he stopped breathing, the doctor was out of the room and did not call emergency services immediately and was accused of gross negligence and causing jackson's death

also, rupert murdoch has focused on publishing, which is an area most investors do not see much growth. >> grew upon plans to raise up to $530 million selling shares on the stock exchanges -- groupon. the volatile financial markets forced the company to be less ambitious. general electric reported an 18% rise in quarterly results, making $2.3 billion. it was held by a strong performance in its jet engine making business and train making division. samsung is now the top maker of smartphones, according to a report in "the wall street journal." they claim it shipped more than 20 million smartphones of the three months since september. it beat apple's 70 million and nokia's 16.8 million. -- apple's 17 million parent looking at the markets, the story we are seeing all week, volatility. one day losing and one day gaining. ahead of those talks between the zero leaders and the weekend and going into next week, looking for a solution to the euro crisis. putting a fire wall around a great situation and deal with the banks as well. >> a busy weekend for european leaders. the moment has arrived in

murdoch. >> do i have that on my visa limit? >> do you ever stop and reflect 15 years down the road and think about how far this place as gone? >> when roger ailes would get up and say i have a five-year plan to knock off cnn, i thought the guy was drinking kool-aid. >> i really do believe that overtime fox has become a really powerful news operation. >> cnn had a 16-year head start. but in five and a half years, fox news was number one in viewership. today fox news has an average of 1.86 million viewers in prime time. cnn has 722,000. fox more than doubled cnn and msnbc in prime time. >> you came from cnn. what struck you when you got here? >> when i was working at cnn we had a large staff. >> we have a super large staff. >> we have like twelve. everybody has to be nimble in order for us to stay on top, to stay competitive, and to stay number one. >> and you know you talk to roger ailes about that and how you stay fresh, and he constantly encourages us to think outside the box and to do something different. >> you may be great,

murdoch. >> do i have that on my visa limit? >> do you ever stop and reflect 15 years down the road and think about how far this place as gone? >> when roger ailes would get up and say i have a five-year plan to knock off cnn, i thought the guy was drinking kool-aid. >> i really do believe that overtime fox has become a really powerful news operation. >> cnn had a 16-year head start. but in five and a half years, fox news was number one in viewership. today fox news has an average of 1.86 million viewers in prime time. cnn has 722,000. fox more than doubled cnn and msnbc in prime time. >> you came from cnn. what struck you when you got here? >> when i was working at cnn we had a large staff. >> we have a super large staff. >> we have like twelve. everybody has to be nimble in order for us to stay on top, to stay competitive, and to stay number one. >> and you know you talk to roger ailes about that and how you stay fresh, and he constantly encourages us to think outside the box and to do something different. >> you may be great,

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who else could say that to rupert murdoch.iberal, i hear it all the time but murdock and jobs respected each other. because myrrh tock doctor all of his old fashioned ways he started to create things on this ipad, jumped on the digital rev laigs lucien. i think jobs main point there was the necessity, there were certain shows i won't name names on fox that he said tore people down and i think he felt that way in a broader sense that we reached a time in our society where people don't try to build institutions. there's a lot more tearing down, destructiveness. >> steve jobs with was an obama supporter . he offered to help with the 2012 campaign. >> remember the ads for morning in america, that's what he wanted to do. he wanted to do ads like that for obama, both in 2008 and was a big supporter before he died. wanted to make ads for 2012 and he wanted to do it with sort of that grand branding message he did with the 1984 ads or the different -- the think different ads. when he talks to axelrod about that and i'm not sure that ax

rupert murdoch, for all the criticism he gets, is invested in the media and innovation.ike bloomberg is doing a ton of stuff through his company. they are hiring hundreds of people. i worked at bloomberg 15 years ago, and i was in europe as a foreign correspondent. there were 40 journalists, and now, there are thousands. i think it depends on the interests of certain people, but they are being tapped, and you can get them to lend to foundations and do this type of stuff. it is just creating the bridge from the journalism world into that world, and it is not as hard as you would think, in my experience. >> i would just say that a few of those individuals you had mentioned are not examples of the types of progress of journalism that i think a lot of people are here to talk about and listened of route -- was it about. these guys are kind of villains in a sense of where we want journalism to go. fox news and the daily, who knows where that is going to go, but they are not necessarily public-interested, public radio, public tv, public press minded people. >> that is an opinio

some say murdoch is trying to silence colson with means.e said legal fees were always covered in his contract. the phone hacking investigation happened this summer prompting mr. murdoch to close the newspaper. moment a health alert -- >> a health alert tonight. people who don't get a descent night of sleep may be at a higher risk of a heart attack, 45% increase. people who had trouble staying asleep had a 30% higher risk. the controversy surrunning on the hpv vaccine is growing tonight -- surrounding the hpv vaccine is growing tonight. dr. oz, host of the dr. oz show on fox 5 joins us now with the new development. thank you for being with us. appreciate it. >> all right. >> first of all, we know that hpv can result in warts and cervical vaginal cancer in females. how does hpv affect males? >> there is an indirect benefit for females. a third of girls get vaccinated. if the boys are vaccinated and have intercourse with a girl who has not gotten a vaccination, that can avoid her catching the virus. boys can get cancers, too, penile cancers, a

murdoch. >> do i have that on my visa limit? >> do you ever stop and reflect 15 years down the road and think about how far this place as gone? >> when roger ailes would get up and say i have a five-year plan to knock off cnn, i thought the guy was drinking kool-aid. >> i really do believe that overtime fox has become a really powerful news operation. >> cnn had a 16-year head start. but in five and a half years, fox news was number one in viewership. today fox news has an average of 1.86 million viewers in prime time. cnn has 722,000. fox more than doubled cnn and msnbc in prime time. >> you came from cnn. what struck you when you got here? >> when i was working at cnn we had a large staff. >> we have a super large staff. >> we have like twelve. everybody has to be nimble in order for us to stay on top, to stay competitive, and to stay number one. >> and you know you talk to roger ailes about that and how you stay fresh, and he constantly encourages us to think outside the box and to do something different. >> you may be great,

murdoch. >> do i have that on my visa limit? >> do you ever stop and reflect 15 years down the road and think about how far this place as gone? >> when roger ailes would get up and say i have a five-year plan to knock off cnn, i thought the guy was drinking kool-aid. >> i really do believe that overtime fox has become a really powerful news operation. >> cnn had a 16-year head start. but in five and a half years, fox news was number one in viewership. today fox news has an average of 1.86 million viewers in prime time. cnn has 722,000. fox more than doubled cnn and msnbc in prime time. >> you came from cnn. what struck you when you got here? >> when i was working at cnn we had a large staff. >> we have a super large staff. >> we have like twelve. everybody has to be nimble in order for us to stay on top, to stay competitive, and to stay number one. >> and you know you talk to roger ailes about that and how you stay fresh, and he constantly encourages us to think outside the box and to do something different. >> you may be great,

in fact tomorrow in new york there's going to be a march on murdoch's home and the cope brothers' home and others' homes. to identify who are these 1%, who are the people the millionaires and billionaires who are trying to control the rest of our country. and what we're seeing, ed, really is pure, beautiful democracy at work. >> herman cain slammed the protesters on sunday. here's what he had to say. let's watch it. >> it's not american because to protest wall street and the bankers is basically saying that you're anti-capitalism. the free market system and capitalism are two things that have allowed this nation and this economy to become the biggest in the world. even though we have our challenges, i believe the protests are more anti-capitalism and anti-free market than anything else. >> what's your response to that sound bite? >> well, i think the more slams there are the better there is. the more the social movement grows. sticks and stones can break my bones, you know? all those childish slanderings are an indication that this is really catching on. it's really getting people's at

the new york times for promoting our article and so and then and there and rupert murdoch's block. the wall street journal it said that they needed my article show the new york. to be part of oh no this is actually shows that grassroots americans supporting pataki pie wall street movement and supporting other pro-democracy movements are embracing the tea party it's a cheap party truly cares about history and our founding narrative they would talk about this and frankly i think a lot of the grass at the grassroots level probably the tea partiers have more in common with the ninety the other ninety nine percent folks in new york than and they do an opposition leader out of time but. would you would you would you agree with that point. just in the a train company has a lot of similarities to goldman sachs from the bailouts the corruption that we're seeing in congress today there you go thank you so much lee great to have you on. again more on the occupy wall street movement later tonight my daily take. it's the good the bad and the very much kyra donnelly ugly the good senator dick du

belonging to billionaires le oil tycoon david koch, hedge fund manager john paulson ad media mogul rupert murdoch. they'll be hanging on to evn more of their money when the state's 2-percent tax on millionaires expires in december. the "occupy oakland" protess spending a second night at k ogawa plaza. the group's official website says its mission is to "reclaim publc space and mobilize real resistance". so far --no res of any arrests. and the campers at "occupy n francisco" are back in place tonight. police cleared the area in front of the federal reserve building on market street yesterday. but they were back today. we're told another protest is planned r tomorrow morning. the "occupy" protests are te cover story in new yorker magazine's annual money iss. and the cover art is the wof a bay area man. it shows a gloomy urban skyline, appary manhattan, littered with smokestacks and a sphinx-lie bull at the top. berkeley painter, eric drooker is knn for pushing the envelope wih his politically charged pie. his recent work has become e visual standard for the occy movement. "i am trying to visualize.

to billionaires like oil tycoon david koch, hedge fund manager john paulson and media mogul rupert murdoch to protest a big tax break they're about to get. a state blanket tax on the wealthy is set to expire in december, and take about 5-billion dollars in annual revenue with it. the protesters want it kept in place. the "occupy oakland" protest is spending a second night at frank ogawa plaza. the group's official website says its mission is to "reclaim public space and mobilize real resistance". tomorrow the protest begins in walnut creek. the "occupy" protests are the cover story in new yorker magazine's annual money issue. the cover art is the work of a bay area man. it shows a gloomy urban skyline, apparently manhattan, littered with smokestacks and a sphinx-like bull at the top. berkeley painter, eric drooker is known for pushing the envelope with his politically charged pieces. his recent work has become the visual standard for the occupy movement. "i am trying to visualize...to the top of the pyramid" drooker's cover work was originally part of a graphic novel based on the poem, "ho