an 11-foot burmese python had been living under one of the family's trailers.y it had slithered in from the everglades and made itself at home and chomped down on the animals. >> they say it wasn't venomous but still, an 11-foot python under your house. >> apparently it ate the chickens, some cats, a goat. >> our producer was telling us this horrible story when they were yanking the snake from under the thing, it started regurgitating the animals it had eaten, even the goat. >> did you have to go there, rob? >> just folks having breakfast, i wanted to share that with you on the overnight, all about the details. >> pythons do that. >> 11 feet. i would have had a heartrtttack. all right. more "world news now" coming up after the break. let me tell you about a very important phone call i made. when i got my medicare card, i realized i needed an aarp... medicare supplement nsurance card, too. medicare is one of the great things about turning 65, but it doesn't cover everything. in fact, it only pays up to " 80% of your part b expenses. if you're already on or eligi

this burmese python in south florida, 11-footer, was stuck underneath the trailer, and they could see the tail wiggling. so what would you do? they grabbed the thing and waited for the police to arrive because they were tired of this particular snake eating the grass i'd grab the head, not at the tail. he's going to spin around and bite you in the head. >> you're going to grab the head of a burmese python. really. you need some more sleep, dude. your judgment is off. you run from that thing and call somebody who know what they'ring down. >> that's the right answer. >>> let ee look at the word of the day. it's super majority. find out what it means and why you need to know it today with reference to the debt deal coming up after the break. syste. captain, unidentified object -- detergent chamber. that's a cascade complete pac. the best of cascade powder and gel combined in one vessel. brilliant. we're gonna need it! lasagna pan -- lower rack! fire! [ female announcer ] conquer tough foods and greasy messes. [ woman ] wow! [ crew ] yeah! [ female announcer ] cascade complete pacs. love

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. >>> a florida couple is sentenced to prison after their pet python strangles their daughter. >>> a central florida couple whose pet snipe strangled their daughter is blaming the casey anthony sentence. their attorney believes the jury was harder on the couple because of the anger over casey anthony's acquittal. >> certainly the fact that be our case went the week after after going 31 days without claiming her child was missing deaf netly had an impact on my case. >> prosecutors accused the couple of allows the snake to escape the tank repeatedly. the couple will appeal their conviction. >>> casey anthony has begun serve #-g one year probation for check fraud. it's set to begin in a little more than three hours from now. anthony has been in seclusion in ohio after she was found not guilty of killing her 2-year- old daughter. >>> after ten years the janine case is closed. in january harms brother shotted and killed hip and then himself. harms body has never been found. >>> let's check on traffic with sal. what's going on? >> reporter: i think most of the slow traffic is because of th

the python is like a dog? not really. i think the judge and i agree is going to unload.rs, by the way. lots on the line. >> thanks so much, richard and avery. have a great rest of the weekend. >> you, too. >> see you next time. >> great seeing you. >> all right. >>> another case to tell you about. kind of case closed sort of. three men convicted of killing three boys in west memphis, arkansas, in 1993 are set free, but not exonerated. prosecutors claimed the men mutilated the boys in a satanic ritual, but supporters argued there was no direct evidence and recent dna testing backed that up. even so, the three pleaded guilty yesterday in change for 18-year prison terms with credit already served. >> that we were innocent and they sent us to prison for the rest of our lives for it and we had to come here and the only thing that the state would do for us was say, we'll let you go if you have a deal and that's not justice. >> i'm just tired. this has been going on for over 18 years and it's been an absolute living hell. >> even when you're in prison, it goes on every day. you

an 11-foot python was pulled from a farm near miami chomping at the farmer's livestock.ly that slowed him down enough so he could be captured. it took four firefighters to wrangle him. >>> you will need this important information if you're picking a college. ohio university is the top party school. princeton review puts out the list based on drinking, drug use and hours of study. rounding out the top three, university of georgia and university of mississippi. parents so proud. >>> if you want to complain about your ex-wife can you devote a blog calling her psycho. online and to the supreme court, he's appealing to put it back up. >>> officials in vancouver are handing out crack pipes. >>> here's proof race doesn't matter when it comes to crime fighting. spider-man is half black, half his panic. miles is taking over crime fire duties for peter parker in the new ultimate version of comics. i can i beat it. you need practice to beat that 1:30 mark. anyway, wraps up this hour. i'm contessa brewer in for chris jansing. thomas roberts won't let me live this down. he comes up n

a humongous bernese python. it took several of miami's bravest to spot it.m a trailer after he noticed some of his animals had disappeared. >> that gives me goosebumps! >> what would you do if you saw that? >> i would run like hell! are you kidding me? >> rob marciano and i were talking about it earlier. i got the impression the farmer grabbed the tail. i thought if you're grabbing any part of a snake, i don't know, maybe i'd grab the head because you grab the tail, you just annoy the snake. >> you would grab that snake's head? >> rob said you're clearly sleep-deprived. >> i would be on the money to animal control. >> i grab that thing by the head and show them who is who and what is what. >> i believe you. >> then you would be reading my obit! >>> still to come, tieears and cheers in the house of representatives. not because of the debt deal because of the return of wounded congresswoman gabrielle giffords. the mercedes-benz summer event ends august 31st. but i did. they said i couldn't fight above my weight class. but i did. they said i couldn't get electe

he probably should have asked that 11-foot python what happened. miami dade fire rescue received a call over the weekend after a farmer saw a giant snake slither under a trailner his backyard. turns out this giant snake, it took not one, but two crews ten minutes to pull this serpent out. much to the relief of the farmer and his family who had seen their goats, their chickens, and their cats disappear. let's move on, shall we? >> listen to this -- do not park illegally because this will happen. mr. mayor, i think that might have been a mercedes. they take their legal parking very seriously. ouch. it was a mercedes in lithuania. wolf, what a day. what a past few weeks with the debt ceiling. now everybody gets to go on vacation for a bit. >> the house already has rece recessed until september 7. the senate is about to recess until september 7. there's the president of the united states in the oval office. not a big signing ceremony. he's got a bunch of pens in front of him. >> how many? >> i don't know how many he's got. maybe a dozen pens. you don't

he said very symbolic python didn't post the downgrading them for not cheerful a status is still the markets will be able to take that in their stride but a lot of people saying this is a new financial landscape now and say certainly over the course of today and the next week we could be saying this increase productivity continuing. thank you very much for that. that downgrade may undermine the dollar's position that as a global reserve currency some countries are considering reducing their reserves and other less risky currencies bucks in a bank sees it as a great chance to hedge against a falling oil price. in europe canada ninety three correlated with oil price near. even the last three years rain every time one who praised. the price of american the rice burst. in the. east will create water this is why russian have been american dad to some. price and good on. a let's take a look at the markets now gold has such a fresh record today as investors turn to assets which offer less rest gold is adding over forty dollars per ounce well silver is gaining but a dollar fifty. in crude pr

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very high-end luxury stores are saying what is going off the shelves are full priced things in like pythonnd -- >> and when you talk about the who that is spending, is it predominantly people in the business community that have either taken advantage of the downturn? we know there are elements of the business world that can do that or just those folks that stayed at the top throughout? >> a little bit of both. it's the classic old money rich and new money rich, making their money through business, and then an infusion from chinese tourists and things like that. >> yeah. but you would think when you have stores like even walmart taking a slump do you go the recession, neiman marcus saks. why are they not going belly up? have they taken in fewer of the luxury goods and their product is flying off the shelves? >> they are trying to create a sense of scarcity. but these people want to spend, is the answer. >> look, these folks are driving bmws. we still have these happening and do you expect there to be another turnaround? you make this point, this was all written and discussed before friday.

that didn't stop monty python from making fun of it. >> i'm not dead. >> he says he is not dead. >> yes> i'm not. >> he isn't? >> he will be soon he is very ill. >> i am getting better. >> can't take him like that. it's against regulation. >> i don't want to go. >> a baby. >> bill: mocking death. scientists believe the plague was spread how? correct fleas and rats. question number two, 1989 during game 3 of the world series the candle stick park in san francisco, earthquake struck on live tv. >> man, like, this man. >> i was just walking in from the parking lot. i saw the cars shaking and alarms going off. i will tell you what, pretty wild. >> bill: it was. i was out there. it was wild. they cancelled the series if you remember that who are the opponents in the giants that year? >> all right. cards up, please. and the answer is b, oakland -- pure luck. pure dumb luck. >> no clue. >> 25% chance guessing correctly. here is number three. the 2004 tsunami devastated an entire region. >> oh my god! oh [bleep] [shouting] >> why is he standing there? >> what was the name of the famous model wh

sounds a bit like a sketch in monty python maybe.actually, in a way the story that, you know, i tell you this story because i didn't know a representative of the spirit with which the book was written. my american publisher, bloomsbury usa, in his catalog described this book as a light-hearted book with a serious purpose. so in that same playful way in which that we came up with the title, book, the book has a lot of kind of jokes and kind of satire and things like that. to the extent that one of the reviewers described the book as joan maynard keynes' written by the argentine yang novelist -- [laughter] actually, the reviewer meant it as a criticism, but i took it as praise because, you know, i love boorhurst, and it's exactly the kind of description that i wanted to get attached to the book. it is an economics book, but it's unusually interesting, sometimes bizarre. so let me tell you a few things about this book. the book will, basically, tell you that a lot of things that you thought you knew about capitalism are, at best, partia

they received 12-year prison sentences for manslaughter after their pet python strangled hair's 2-year-oldaughter. their lawyer believes the jury was harder on the couple because of the anger over the casey anthony acquittal. >> certainly, the fact that our week went the week after casey anthony was acquitted, after going 31 days without claiming that her child was missing had an impact on my case. >> prosecutors allowed the couple -- accused the couple of allowing the snake to get out of its tank repeatedly. the couple plans to appeal. >>> sal, what's happening on 880 in oakland. >> you can look at it for yourself. it doesn't look good at all. i'm looking around to see if there's a crash we don't know about yet. 8308, southbound -- 880 southbound, there's a crash but that's going the other way in hayward. i don't see anything reported by chp. moving along and taking a look at the bay bridge, that's backed up for a 20-minute delay. there's a stall inside the tunness. this morning if you are driving in the south bay, all the freeways are getting slow, including 85 is a mess. let's go to mar

. >> the reptile is a burmese python that came from the grenades -- everglades.ily started to know something was wrong when animals were disappearing. >> i told you not to look. [ laughter ] >>> it's hard for her to hide. the reason casey anthony may not be able to avoid the spotlight much longer. >>> welcome back. in florida, casey anthony has until thursday morning to check in with the florida probation office. jury acquitted her r -- she's been in hiding since a jury acquitted her of killing her daughter. she pleaded guilty to felony check charge. well, that judge signed a revised order saying he intended casey anthony's probation to start after her release, not while being detained. her lawyer the are fighting that order -- her lawyers are fighting that order. >>> many kids will go back to school without the supplies they need. in san jose, kids signed up for a list to receive free backpacks. sacred heart says they've only received half of the number they need. >> the backpacks are like $35. school supplies with everything, notepads, another, what? $35, $40.

seven large python snakes have been rescued from a house in arizona in what police are calling a casearding. the snakes were taken -- these are big boys. don't look, tori -- they were taken from a man's mobile home near kingman. they are being housed at the society there for snakes. >> the man quickly became overwhelmed. >> he emphasized -- em a sized with each -- em a size with each animal. but it was a struggle for him to give up what he did. >>> unbelievable. a free man, where dominique straun-khan says he's headed after the sexual assault charges are dropped. ♪ [ female announcer ] you never stop improving your recipe. we never stop improving ours. we've added a touch of philly cream cheese to kraft natural shredded cheese, which adds a touch of creamy to any dish. kraft touch of philly. which adds a touch of creamy to any dish. >>> 7:53. casey anthony has been recorded -- ordered to report to a probation officer's office in florida this friday. before her murder trial, she had pleaded guilty to stealing checks from a friend. a clerical error on the written documents allowed her t