he's been linked to the alabama teenager, natalee holloway, who vanished.last year in a hotel room. patricia, what are you learning? what is today's evidence hearing about? >> reporter: well, right now the father of the woman that joran van der sloot is accused of murdering is inside and in this hearing there is no cameras, no press people allowed. the purpose is to identify stephany flores' alleged personal belongs that van der sloot had with him when he was found in chile. we're also told that surveillance video is going to be shown provided by one of the local municipalities where you see van der sloot and stephany flores on the sleets. >> we know that there could be a crime of passion plea, which will result in a shortened sentencing. and when i say short, three to five years. what can you tell me about that? >> well, van der sloot is trying to get the crime of passion plea providing that maximum sentence is 25 years for murder. but there's no way right now that he has a case because forensic tests has shown that van der sloot searched the internet for

. >> well, we spoke earlier to our correspondent natalee in athens and began to ask her what happens next after t the fst hurdle of the austerity p planas beenleared. >> prime minister george papandreou deliver the austerity measures, and they voted in favor of it. now, it remains to be seen if the international creditors, especially the euro zone partners, who will also deliver as part of the current huge bailout in order to secure the greek mporary survival in the months to come. in the long run, whether there will be a second bailout, 110 billion euros, that the country needs to meet se big funding goals. but also, the greek prime minister has another major hurdle, and that is whether he will be able to implement the austerity measures, and if the scenes behind me are anythingo go by, he will have a tough job with pushing through with implementing the very stringent, harsh measures that greece has been saying for a very long time they cannot bear and the lager. it is essentially crushing them. >> now, we have seen this clashing between the protesters and the police. do you think t

natalee port man welcomes a new baby boy. i am on the red carpet. >> and parts of the nation where people live the longest. >> prince william and his wife announce more details to their trip to california. that's ahead. >> later on at 5:00, ibm helped several families to permanently cut their electricity bills. >> this is a live lookalt the golden gate bridge. traffic backing up in the toll places. check outlet the map. you can see the bay area is colored light green. here's how we compared. red and orange splotches represent the lowest life expectancy. that is shorter than the geping world. they attribute it to snoking and obesity. and the longest for men is in fairfax county, virginia . it is an average of 86 years. >> britain's prince william and catherine will have a black tie dinner to introduce young britain talent to holly wood film makers. they will attend a polo match and william will play and kate will present the trophy. it will be the princess first trip to the united states. the former porn star. i did not sex an

van der sloot is also the prime suspect in the disappearance of natalee holloway in aruba, a case forhich he's never been charged. >>> the mayor of alameda says there will be changes after a man drowned while firefighters and police stood on the beach. alameda residents packed a public meeting last night and told the mayor and interim police chief what they thought of the memorial day incident. some said the crews who stood by should be the subject of a criminal investigation. but city leaders say the emergency workers had not been trained to deal with the situation and that could have put them in danger. >> in the future, the fire department commander on the scene will have the discretion to send swimmers into the water -- >> alameda's fire department says it will restore funding for water rescue training by next month. witnesses say it looked like 53- year-old raymond zach was trying to commit suicide when he walked out into the water fully clothed. >>> 7:20. the federal government taking major action after yesterday's deadly crash of a tour bus. investigators think the drive's -- t

the hollywood community natalee proud of the liberalism but believes would it is doing is right. openly discriminatory and happy to use the power to proselytize they are handing glove to push liberalism their subsidies and back scratching and twist the market as i have explained to achieve their own end. i will play the adios you can hear directly from the people we're talking about. leonard goldberg is of political terror up station attendant and and producer attorneys angels and it is of member of the board of cbs and aaron spelling's tv partner. he sums it up with hollywood politics. >> there is too much special content. >> better-known about the content but in terms of the thought of various matters of socialism, anyone who denies it is kidding themselves and not telling the truth. there is no question. but if you say we are here to write a show about this this, everybody is on one side. [inaudible] people with different viewpoints? >> absolutely. the late ron silver and. [inaudible] is a brilliant actor he felt very strongly that his opportunities are limited because he was

he's the prime suspect in the disappearance of alabama teen natalee holloway in aruba. >>> here's howenager's driving lesson ended with the family minivan in the lake. the girl, her aunt, aunt's mother were rescued. police say the aunt was giving the 14-year-old a lesson when she unintentionally accelerated, breaking through a barrier and going into the water. when young drivers have accidents that's almost always what happens. they think they're putting their foot on the brake and they gas it. >> we have ten years before we have to worry about that. >> that's right. >> still smarting from learning how to drive let alone teaching someone to learn how to drive. >>> volunteers scrambling to build up levees along the swollen missouri rivers. in pierre they've swamped dozens of homes and businesses. iowa, missouri and nebraska are bracing for flooding. >>> a family in seminole county, florida, found a bear who decided to take a dip in their hot tub. it's a bear that fish and wildlife officials have been trying to trap for weeks. she brought her cubs into the area for a visit. neighbors ar

people are hoping the levees will natalee holloway but for a lot of folks it's already just too late. >> my sister called me and her husband, her parents' house is totally under water now. so it's tough. >> have you gotten other calls? >> yeah. i got my brother-in-law's house, my dad's house is all under water now. >> we'll be checking in with reynolds wolf to get the latest in just a moment. >>> also at least two people are dead after a tractor-trailer hit a moving amtrak train near reno, nevada. train caught fire. some people jumped from that train trying to get away from that fire. authorities trying to figure out if there are more victims in the burned out train car. listen to one guy. >> get hit by something, a big ball of fire or something, jumped out the window. >> you jumped out the window? >> yes. >> the train was moving. i thought it would tip over. it didn't. i saw people flying on the other side of the train. >>> also a story that just had a lot of people shaking their heads around the newsroom this morning. live ammo used instead of blanks at a wild west re-enactment in s

he was arrested for the disappearance of natalee holloway. she disappeared during a school trip to aruba in 2005. >>> happening right now, president obama is in san juan puerto rico. there is a live picture of the president and a few other dignitaries. this is the first visit to puerto rico in 50 years. the last one was 196 1 when president kennedy and his wife made a trip to the island. this visit is desined to boost his popularity. puerto ricans living 0 the island cannot vote in the presidential elections but nearly 5 million who live on mainland u.s. have full voting rights. president will be in puerto rico for about five hours today. >>> a legal battle over same- sex marriage getting -- gets personal. the big decision expected sometime this morning. >>> also an eye had opening study on sleep and how it affects married people. >>> also, new money problems for the dodgers. we'll bring you a live report on that from los angeles. we share. shop from anywhere. and are always connected. we live in a social world. isn't it time we had a social

sloot is in court for the killing of a young peruvian woman and also linked to the dispassengers of natalee aruba. >>> california's new plan to deal with overcrowding in state prisons sends some offenders back to local jails. state officials say the plan could affect as many as 33,000 inmates, but for it to happen, california voters would have to approve it at the voting booth this november. >>> two more people have died in europe's e. coli outbreak bringing the death toll to at least 24. the cause of the crisis has still not been conclusively identified and officials still think it may have been bean sprouts from a north german farm, even though some of the farm sprouts tested negative for the bacteria. >>> facebook is rolling out new facial recognition technology. the feature scans every picture and suggests the names of people who appear in the images. if you think it's a little too close for comfort, you can opt out of the feature by going to your privacy settings page. >>> well, a closer look now at the road ahead for the u.s. and afghanistan. president obama is deciding how many ameri

van der sloot is a one-time suspect in the disappearance of alabama teenager natalee holloway. >>> beginninglegal in illinois. that means same-sex couples can enjoy many of the rights usually reserved for married couple which is include hospital visitation, the ability to make emergency decisions for their partners and adoption. five other states plus d.c. have similar laws. >>> will and kate, a month after their wedding, a never-before-seen photo is featured on the cover of "vanity fair." the magazine also has details of the couple's honeymoon. >>> exposure to cell phone radiation might cause cancer. elizabeth cohen has been following this. the word might is in there which says to me, i don't know what to think about this. >> they use the word possibly. >> that makes it better. >> cell phones possibly being a carcinogens for humans. this say big deal, the first time a big respected group said there might be a link here, a possible link here. before everyone said there's no there there. saying there is there there is a big deal. it puts sell phones in a category along with things like lead a

van der sloot is also the prime suspect in the disappearance of alabama teen natalee holloway in aruba back in 2005. >>> president obama's counterinsurgency strategy, only meeting limited success in afghanistan. that is a sobering assessment of a two-year senate foreign relations committee investigation. the report says billions of dollars in foreign aid to afghanistan over the past decade may have been spent in vain, because the country may not survive a u.s. troop withdrawal set to begin next month. the report also urges president obama to rethink his overall war strategy. mr. obama is schedule odd to have a telly conference with afghan fred hamid karzai later today. more on this story in about 30 minutes in our "globe trekking" segment. >>> and in dallas, chalk up a big win for the mavericks, evening the nba championships at two games apiece. a win over the miami heat last night. the big man for the mavericks, their big man, dirk nowitzki, fighting a sinus infection, scored 10 of his 21 points in the final period. game five tomorrow night in dallas. not to be missed. >>> congressman

we go back to natalee holloway and come forward to lauren at this point.woman, a man, too. any young college woman, never leave your wingman. somebody needs to take responsibility for your friend if she's out, if she has to walk home at 3:00 in the morning, somebody should raise their hand and say, hey, i'll walk you to your apartment or she should ask somebody to do that. and that goes for any college student, any young person in a situation like this. >> all right. we certainly hope for her safe return. thank you very much for your time. >> thank you, lester. >>> we'll get a check of the weather. bill karins is standing by with that. >> wonderful crowd out here. the vfw, number 93 all made the trip. how many of you came? >> 38 of us. >> welcome. have a good time. we'll try to give you a bit of a dry forecast, can't promise you a lot, though. let's talk about the forecast. we mentioned the rain. it is coming in through areas of pennsylvania and jersey. we're worried about the belmont, just about where the "c" is in new york city. unlike the last races we

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