to putnam, this case is about one thing and one thing only. did aeg live negligently hire dr.d murray. he denies that the company ever even employed murray. >> reporter: had he been hired by aeg live, he certainly wasn't hired negligently. to be a negligent hire, it isn't just that you hired, but you have to hire knowing that there was a problem. aeg live had no indication at any point that there was a problem with dr. conrad murray. >> i spoke with aeg live's president and ceo randy phillips three years ago about similar allegations. in that interview, phillips said the decision to hire conrad murray and pay him $150,000 per month was solely michael's choice. >> he stared at me with this very deep stare and he said you don't understand. my body is what fuels this entire venture. and, like barack obama, i need my own physician with me 24/7, okay. that's not negotiable. >> reporter: phillips believed michael had a very personal reason for taking on the scheduled 50 concerts. >> i said why now? i'd been chasing him to come out of retirement, to get on the stage and perform live

they had no idea, said putnam. they were a concert promoter.d ?in what promises to be a star-studded lineup from sharon osborne to spike lee and jackson ex-wife lisa marie presley. the trial could last well into the summer. kyung lah, cnn, los angeles. >>> and we will continue to follow all of those developments for you. 37 minutes past the hour. what impact will jason collins' groundbreaking announcement have on professional sports? and can we expect other athletes to follow? we're going to talk to the two mikes, mike golic and mike greenberg of espn. [ jen garner ] imagine a makeup that can make your skin grow more beautiful every time you wear it. neutrogena® healthy skin liquid makeup. 98% of women saw improvement in their skin's natural texture, tone or clarity. it's healthier for your skin than wearing no makeup at all. does your makeup do that? healthy skin liquid makeup. from neutrogena® cosmetics. >> welcome back, good morning. christine romans joins us with a look at what's ahead on "starting point." >> today we've got a startling discov

george putnam founder of new generation research and editor of the aptly-named turn around letter. >> intensifying threats today of an imminent conflict against the united states and the south, warning foreigners to evacuate to avoid being dragged into a, quote, thermonuclear war. but there's still big business in south korea. let's take a look at some of the publicly-traded companies. first, samsung, you cannot miss that one. shares up about 2% over the past year. as for the company going for global smartphone domination, they've done very well this that regard. next up, automaker hundred -- hyundai, the company announcing it will recall the 1.9 million vehicles, and you look at the far right part of these charts, you see a little bit of a drop. so perhaps that has something to do with the concerns about the tension in the region. but postco which is south korea's largest steel maker, this was a favorite of buffett's in the past, announcing plans to strengthen the auto industry by spending $600 million to build brand new plants in thailand and indonesia, but shares floundering, down

levy and the sheriff in putnam county. they had argue.r how traffic tickets should be handled and the d.a. levy had been critical of the sheriff in the past. the sheriff has come out and asked for an investigation into whether this has been handled properly and whether somebody had been, quote harboring illegal immigrant. turns out the personal trainer was in the country illegally. >> bill: do we have a picture of the personal trainer? let's throw that up. >> overstayed his visa for a long time this guy. he is a friendship with this d.a. leviy, judge judy's son. now he is he charged with a very heinous crime. awful. we don't know if he is guilty we have to give the presumption of innocence here. however, with the illegal alien on his sheet. with the terrible rhyme, with a lot of unexplained things, it seems to me that the sheriff is doing the right thing. he wants to get -- you have got to get this all out. >> the sheriff in levy's defense, truly, the sheriff seems to want this make this very much about levy. it's really about the man and

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they had no idea, said putnam. they were a concert promoter. how could they know?n what promises to be a star-studded lineup from sharon osborne to spike lee and jackson ex-wife lisa marie presley. the trial could last well into the summer. kyung lah, cnn, los angeles. >> next hour we'll hear from tom mesereau who represented jackson in the 2005 child molestation trial. joint military drills between the united states and south korea officially ended this morning but south korea's defense ministry says that nation remains on guard due to threatening statements north korea has made overed last few weeks. take a look at the mother of all potholes an interstate 81 in virginia. a 20-foot wide sinkhole opened up on the shoulder of a highway near lexington, virginia. officials say this cave-in damaged underground drainage pipes and could take a few days to repair. >>> his name is jack hoffman. he's the 7-year-old cancer patient who became a national sensation when he scored a 69-yard touchdown at a nebraska football game earlier this year. now he gets to cross another maj

to putnam, this case is about one thing and one thing only. did aeg live negligently hire dr.d murray? he denies that the company ever even employed murray. >> had he been hired by aeg live, he certainly wasn't hired negligently. there were no indications in any measure that there was a problem with dr. conrad murray. to be a negligent hire, it isn't just that you hired, but you have to hire knowing that there was a problem. aeg live had no indication at any point that there was a problem with dr. conrad murray. >> i spoke with aeg live's president and ceo randy phillips three years ago about similar allegations. in that interview, phillips said the decision to hire conrad murray and pay him $150,000 per month was solely michael's choice. >> he stared at me with this very deep stare and he said you don't understand. my body is what fuels this entire venture. and, like barack obama, i need my own physician with me 24/7, okay. that's not negotiable. >> phillips believed michael had a very personal reason for taking on the scheduled 50 concerts. >> i said why now? i'd been chasin

here's lawyer marvin putnam. >> i think there is no way you can look at mr. responsibility here. mr. jackson is a person known to go to one doctor for one thing and another doctor for something else. >> miguel, the case is building up to be yet another big one involving the jackson name. set the scene for us. what is happening outside that courthouse and then what about jury selection, how complicated is that going to be? >> well, very complicated. this is the jury questionnaire here. it is 25 pages long and it is very clear from the questions in this, about 110 questions this questionnaire.himself in - and many of them deal with prescription drugs and whether or not one believes that celebrities have greater access to prescription drugs, do they know if michael jackson, have they heard about him having access to prescription drugs. do they think somebody having addiction to prescription drugs is going to be a problem? a lot of questions along those lines, a lot of questions clearly meant to weed out those jurors that they are concerned about. the process is

last week in putnam county, tennessee, cops were called when a resident heard the sound of a man screaminglice showed up to investigate the screaming they heard was not from a man at all, it was from one of these. >> that is charcoal, the 1-year-old goat. and it turned out he was making that noise that one street over sounded just like a person screaming for help. >> jimmy: sounds like a goat to me. i don't know. apparently charcoal was upset because he was tied to a gate. i don't blame him. i was tied to a gate once. i screamed the whole time, too. this goat is very smart. charcoal has an agent now and is trying to parlay his 15 minutes of fame into a full-time position on a popular daytime talk show. >> chelsea grammar his wife gave birth and dropped a lot of her pregnancy weight. [ goat baahing ] [ overlapping speakers ] >> jimmy: i like that he gets his own mug. it's nice. here's another animal video. this came from a cbs affiliate in sioux falls. a camera operator caught footage of a couple of deer fighting in the park. deer don't fight the way i would have guessed they would. [ laugh

he made sure no one, nobody knew his deepest, darkest secrets, putnam said.now in the boston bombing case. investigators have discovered female dna on one of the bombs used in the attacks. sources say it is unclear whether it is from a victim in the attack or someone who handled components of the bomb before it was put together. the suspects' mother insists once again her sons are innocent. >> some may have been involved in helping build the bombs. others may have been involved in helping radicalize the brothers. >> they did not do it. and you again ask me! >> a high-powered defense attorney now has been added to dzhokhar tsarnaev's legal team. judy clark helped keep notorious criminals including the unabomber, to avoid death row. >>> vigil for the california third grader murdered in her family home. the coroner determined that leila fowler died of multiple stab wounds. there is an intense search for a suspect in the killing, but no leads so far anyway. school mates made cards and hung ribbons in leila's memory, known for her bright smile and friendly manner.

johns county live longer than those who live next door in less rich putnam county. the post concluded, "the widening gap in life expectancy between these two adjacent florida counties reflects perhaps the starkest outcome of the nation's growing economic inequality, even as the nation's life expectancy has marched steadily upward, a growing body of research shows that those gains are going mostly to those at the upper end of the income ladder." that's true across america. in california's silicon valley, apple, facebook and google, among others, have reinvented the gold rush. but down the road in san jose it's not so pretty a picture. do the math, in an area where one fourth of the population earn an average of about $19,000 a year, rent alone can average more than $20,000 dollars a year, and that difference adds up to homelessness. we talked to associated press reporter martha mendoza, who brought this story to our attention. >> i've been a journalist in this area for 25 years, and during that time it has gone from having a pretty robust middleclass to being an area

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someone in putnam county, tennessee called 911 because they thought they heard someone hollering forn police arrived, turned out the hollering was actually coming from this goat named charcoal. that's it. thanks for watching, vance. thanks for calling. you made our day. that does it for us. have a great weekend. see you again one hour from now at 10:00 p

someone in putnam county, tennessee called 911 because they thought they heard someone hollering for help. when police arrived, turned out the hollering was actually coming from this goat named charcoal. that's it. thanks for watching, vance. >>> tonight, who is in north korea's cross-hairs? kim jong-un has two missiles ready to launch. has the countdown begun? >>> plus, hey, good-looking. the president apologizes to california's attorney general. >> he apologized for creating this distraction. >> did he really need to? then there's michelle obama's slip of the tongue. >> as a busy single mother -- or i shouldn't say single. >> first couple in hot water. are they just being human? >>> and ari gold meets downton abbey. jeremy piven is not giving up ari just yet. >>> young hollywood gone wild. advice for justin bieber from lance bass. >>> good evening. this is "piers morgan live." got a lot to get to tonight, including north korea's ongoing nuclear threat. the white house says it would not be surprised to see pyongyang conduct a new missile test. i will ask the former senator george mi

. >> well, i guess this is good news, tom putnam, i know him pretty well, he's the curator at the kennedy library in boston on colombia poilo columbia scene, there was not an explosion, there was a mechanical room fire. we've getting conflicts on this all along. you can have a fire and explosion beforehand. he said there never was. he said no fire was intentionally set. we have to dial back now from what was a report coming out a few moments ago this was aen explosion. it was a fire. it could have nothing to do with this and probably did not. we're left with two explosions. we're told by u.s. officials at nbc news not to worry about a further explosion up in boston. there's no indication something further is coming although the police are guarding the situation. what do you make of that, clint? >> number one, it's good to be able to dial back. i think for all of us to know that this wasn't that far reaching. and, again, to have that third -- that second location at the kennedy library not only were there significant political implications, perhaps, to something like that -- >> which are g