mark geragos, judge janine piro and judge joe brown. does all this speculation harm things, mark, for the prosecution, for the defense, for everybody? >> of course, it does. there's no question that you've got people saying things -- there's absolutely no basis to know if they're true or not. they become -- they get into the ether and everybody assumes -- >> larry: judge peer row, frankly, what do we know know? what do we know? >> well, you know, the only thing we do know are things someone like la toya tells us or joe jackson tells us or that the family tells us. or, you know, some of the leaks in law enforcement. until we get that toxicology, until that brain is analyzed by a neuropathologist, we're not going it know the cause of death. then what bill bratton will do is look into the viability of a homicide charge, causation, if it's appropriate or rule it an accidental overdose or rule it a heart attack which makes no sense if a guy is healthy and 50 years old. >> larry: judge brown, do you agree with that? all we know is we don't kn

in new york, judge janine piro presides over the tv court show. that bares her name.e as well. here in los angeles, judge joe brown who presides over his own tv court show. also that bares his name. what do you make, mark, of the la toya charges? >> people keep talking about the -- whether it's manslaughter or anything else. california has a specific what's called implied malice, second-degree murder doctrine which is being used more and more for situations normally you would not think would be in traditional murder. this is clearly a case where i could see under the right circumstances that some prosecutor would bring murder charges, not intentional in the sense people always want to talk about what they think is murder, but what's called implied malice, second-degree murder. >> larry: judge piro, what's your read? >> i think mark is right. there's an implied malice, second degree, which is really a manslaughter charge. if they can show there was diprivan or other drugs in michael's system, i think they'll be able to show that once they do the dissection of the brain

piro cal aisolater today. so it's likely you'll see sherdg inur co serhouse df og afthootee n. rnu f afe lternoon. let's go to the bigger map and you can see what a lot of a ot of cudots t there mostly cloudy afternoon anticipated and notice the activity breaking stoowe west virginia and rt prtofs pennsylvania. that's the cold front. so we think we'll see the cloudf cover and increasing chance for some showers and thunderstorms this afternoon. temperatures right now are warm. we're in the upper 70s and low 80s. 81 here now at reagan national. humidity is 59%. winds out of the north at 5 miles per hour. a quick look at your forecast and more details coming up. partly cloudy, showers likely. i'll be back to look at the weekend forecast coming up. >>> new information this midday regarding the deadly red line crash. the ntsb released the latest investigation update this morning. it found a signal on one of the circuits in the crash area has been intermittently fluctuating since it was replaced december of 2007. now the ntsb is asking metro to turn over all of the troubled tickets w

lawrence piro right after farrah passed.al with her, along with you and her best friend alana stewart. he said up until the end, she was alert and awake. can you describe the atmosphere in her hospital room? >> it was hard. it was -- he thought that she would live just another couple of hours and she lived a couple of days. and she wouldn't move on. she wouldn't pass. she just -- she just looked at us, with this slight smile, it was awful. and then -- and then all the machines flat-lined. after about 16 hours. and she was -- she was gone. >> what were the last words that she said to you and the last words that you said to her, ryan? >> i said i'd see her soon. and i see her every day. i write in my journal now to her. >> well, i know, in may when we talked you said that there were times that you wished that she would just go to sleep, because you couldn't imagine that she was happy in the condition that she was in. so in some small way, are you at peace knowing that she is now no longer unhappy? >> yeah. in a sense i am. you

. >> reporter: hussein told piro the united states used september 11th as an excuse to invite iraq andsight of the cause of 9/11. al qaeda. he called osama bin laden a zealot and despite u.s. claims iraq had contact with al qaeda, hussein said the iraqi government did not cooperate with bin laden, that he did not have the same belief or vision as al qaeda's leader. in these documents, saddam hussein confirms this image we have of him as a secretive and elusive kick tater saying in the 14 years before he was captured he used the telephone just two times. preferring instead to use a courier or to talk in person. about reports that he would sometimes use a body double to avoid being assassinated, he said they weren't true. but he did say he slept in a different bed every night for safety reasons. briana keeler, cnn, washington. >>> the title is "love sick." its author disputes the myth that men don't want to get married and reveals the hypocrisy between politicians and marriage. >>> what a thrill "thriller" was. and still is. nine of michael jackson's albums hit the charts again. right no

. >> is that what you call the trial piro 50? -- trial bureau 50? >> we have six every day. they rotate. she was in a 050. >> i know that every day is separate year. it has to be. if you had to describe what a normal day would have been like at that time for her as an assistant district attorney, how would you describe it? >> they meet with the arresting officer. they have to evaluate his testimony and they had to meet with witnesses if there were any. they had to ride up the complaint and then they handle the arraignment. >> right then and there? >> right then and there. , they had to take fingerprints or something. most of the cases, once they got in the complaint room, they would be arraigned that day. they carried heavy caseloads. >> how many? >> about 60 or 70 cases. >> they would continue with that and continue doing in take? to go on that day of the case, they would have a lot of balls in the air. she had the capacity to handle a lot of work. with judges who sat on the agreement part, they would compete to see how many cases they could dispose of. they used to push ar

newly declassified documents show what he told george piro. the u.s. wanting to keep iran in the dark about his weapons capabilities or lack thereof, hussein said he stopped inspectors from checking iraq for weapons of mass destruction because he feared u.n. inspectors would have directly identified to the iranians where to inflict maximum damage to iraq. convinced iran intended to annex southern iraq, he bet that keeping the u.n. out was safer than showing iran he was bluffing. the new information squares with what pirro told cbs's "60 minutes" in 2008. >> he told me he initially miscalculated president bush and president bush's intentions. he thought the united states would retaliate with the same type of attack as we did in 1998. >> some kind of an air campaign. >> yes. >> and you could survive that. he survived that once. >> hussein told piro he used september 11 as an excuse to invade iraq and the lost cause of 9/11, al qaeda. he called osama bin laden a zealot and despite u.s. claims iraq had contact with al qaeda, hussein said the iraqi

sheriff piro, of course, and his deputies.e cream to inmates to help them stay cool. >>> as i mentioned, extreme heat in arizona. how is the rest of the country faring? we turn to carol for the forecast. >> oklahoma and texas, oklahoma city looking at 106. this is not a value of humidity and heat. it is just the actual outside air temperature that is expected for this afternoon. wait until you see this yellow shaded area. that's where we have heat advisories, and the red, excessive heat warnings out. it extends into portions of arkansas, but the heat turns on all the way into louisiana, all the way down towards houston and expecting 104 degrees by the afternoon. we take a look where the thunderstorms are possibly located. throughout the tennessee river valley along a frontal system that's very stubborn, and over the next several days, we'll just kind of sink towards the south. also across the midwest, some pretty good thunderstorms expected there as well. we'll take you through the afternoon and show you some of the high tempe