one of our partners for a decade and proud -- one of our board members is landon rowland. i will give the news from recent findings and throw out an issue and question i hope the panelists may discuss. we are getting ready within a number of weeks to read -- release the latest in a periodic series of reports on spending and interest group money and judicial elections. it is save to save the headline continues cents a decade ago. we have seen this explosion in interest group money pouring into elections. more and more judges dialing for dollars frequently from the very parties who appear before them in court. the problem has gotten worse and worse and i am pleased to see ced updated its findings in this area. we have taken a special look at independent expenditures and noted if you look four years ago to the last relevant on presidential cycle because they are often different from non presidential cycles. we noted four years ago outside groups represented 18% of total spending in supreme court elections around the country. this past cycle the percentage jumped to 30%. we ar

the biggest surprise of what they found in 2-year-old rowland, chemicals found in nearly anyone else in the world 6 times higher than in parents, twice the levels that researchers see in land animals. this is a serious warning said a scientist researchers on flame retar tkapbts. young children are exposed because they put their hands in their mouth and bodies don't eliminate chemicals as readily. to me i think very historically crystallizes what we are learning. that was a story in 2006 by the environmental working group where they analyzed the umbilical cord blood of newborn babies and found an average of 200 chemicals found to be toxic in every single baby, man made synthetic chemicals. when we see this picture that babies are being born into the world polluted with industrial chemicals it is time to say how can we do things differently? how can we do things differently? that is the question that essentially we took to the world's largest beauty companies starting in 2003 letters, phone calls. who thinks the companies were wanting to have this conversation? unfortunately they weren

ted rowlands thank you so much.the trial continues on los angeles. >>> next on reporter roulette, chad myers in the weather center. >> about more space junk. this time a 2 ton german space telescope. >> this one has more potential to hit the ground with bigger pieces because the pieces that are up there, are ceramic and glass. >> leave it to the germans. >> hey, they make great lenses and they made a great telescope. the ceramic and glass will not disintegrate like a lot of the pieces did the uars last week. yes, believe it or not, i want to say it, 800 pound piece could come bouncing down to the ground with this one. the last one the uars was only about 300 pounds. >> one pound will probably hurt you. >> no matter what it's going to leave a mark, right? the good news, the last one we know, nasa has made a definitive answer to this. the last satellite did not make it very far off the coast of africa here on its way back around and into australia before it burned up south of australia. here's the path of this is call

cnn's ted rowlands is outside of the courthouse in los angeles. give us a sense, a preview, of who is scheduled to testify today and what are they likely to talk about? >> reporter: well, it's a big day for prosecutors. they'll start with the first person other than conrad murray to see michael jackson unresponsive. he was the first one to walk into the room and he was the run th one taking directions from murray. prosecutors will lay the groundwork to set the scene for jurors but also to basically critique murray's actions specifically. murray asked alvarez to call 911 but it was only after he asked alvarez to help him gather bottles of propofol. very damning because it looks to consciousness of guilt on murray's standpoint. once 911 was called, murray was performing cpr on a bed instead of a flat surface which is normally the protocol. he asked alvarez if he knew cpr and also going to the prosecution's theory that murray was just in over his head all of the way through this whole process and that he was incompetent. this is a theme they hammered

for a better understanding of the case here's ted rowlands. >> your honor, i'm an innocent man. >> reporter: the jury in the conrad murray manslaughter trial will have several questions to answer, number, did dr. murray give michael jackson a lethal doet of propopol. >> his attorneys say there is no way. >> there is no way that dr. murray would pump him full of enough propphol sufficient for major surgery and walk out of the room. >> he claims the day he died he 0 only administered 25 milligrams, far less than what was found in his body by the coroner. >> how did it get in him? >> that's a good question. do you have any idea? >> the defense is expected to argue that jackson somehow gave himself the lethal dose. >> could michael jackson have done it? >> is it possible for an individual to inject himself with a drug, yes. yes. >> reporter: before jackson died, he spent hours struggling to go to sleep according to a time line murray gave police. he said he gave jackson five doses of three different drugs between 1:30 a.m. and 7 kpln 30 a.m. at 10:40 a.m., he said he gave jackson the propofol.

ted rowlands, cnn, los angeles. >>> all eyes on greece this week.their money woes could mean for the u.s. economy. >>> it's not just the u.s. but global markets taking a beating. there's worry this week that greece will default on its mounting debt and if it does will americans feel the ripple effect? financial consultant eric ahm ahmaddo back with us from dallas. why is it what happens in greece does affect so many? >> that's a great question. what's happening in greece is very, very serious. if greece was to default it can have a real concern global wide. first of all it can affect other countries that might have problems and affect the united states and you could have run on banks in greece and some european locations. it's important that imf and other leaders get a handle on what's happening in greece. >> so asian markets will be opening a few hours from now will european and u.s. markets be influential? >> absolutely. what happens in the asian markets will come around to europe and also to the u.s. markets tomorrow morning. some of the things t

ted rowlands thanks so much in los angeles tonight. we appreciate it. >>> using a parliamentary maneuver that takes much longer to explain than it does to watch, the house of representatives today kept the government from shutting down by agreeing to the compromise worked out in the senate. >> without objection, the senate amdments are concurred in and motion to reconsider is laid on the table. >> there you go. crisis averted. >>> in presidential politics, republican newt gingrich today unveiled a new 21st century contract with america. the first one was ten items and fit on two pages in 1994. the new contract is 23 pages and isn't done yet. >> the scale of change i am suggesting is so enormous that i couldn't possibly, as a single leader, show you everything i'm going to do. >>> 391,000 americans filed for new unemployment benefits last week, but that's the lowest number in nearly six months and maybe signals a slight improvement in the job market. >>> speaking on a south florida radio station, vice president biden admitted the obviou

rowland is joining us. >> ed kangas is still subject to call. >> do you want to join us? they will have a few opening remarks and i will open with a question. we are open to questions from you all, which are probably the most important questions as we are here to address whatever you all are interested in. we will allow time for that. if if you want to throw up your hands through the process or come to the microphone, feel free to engage in conversation. first, i will do introductions. barbara bonfiglio is a senior corporate counsel at pfizer. she specializes in compliance in federal state and election law and provides counsel on matters involving the house and senate ethics rules, which could be really interesting subject to get into at another time. on compliance and lobbying disclosure act, she is the author of "tau to cross the potomac without falling in." we also have a down second from the end on the right, charles grezlak, vice president of state government affairs that and policy at merck and company. he has managed responsibility for state government affairs and

i want to talk to ted rowlands, who was in court all day today. ted, another day of twists and turns and claim and counterclaim. the most dramatic testimony, i suspect, is going to hinge around these revelations about dr. arnold kline. tell me about this. what exactly came out today? >> well, every witness, starting with the opening statements, piers, but every witness so far that's taken the stand except for one lawyer, the defense has gotten kline out there and today they really struck from their standpoint. on two separate occasions they had the administrative assistant or the personal assistant to michael jackson and the head of security say that they were taking jackson to kline's office almost daily and he came out in a slurred state, an intoxicated state. they compared that audio recording. the lead defense attorney said was it like that recording we heard here in court? and the response from the witness stand was, well, it was sort of like that, not as dramatic but it was that slow speech. what they're obviously trying to do is get that ot

ted rowlands in los angeles covering the trial. ted, take us inside the courtroom today. >> reporter: well, john, it was a fascinating day of details for the jurors getting inside jackson's house through his personal assistant and the head of security. they talked about when things went wrong, when they were first alerted by dr. conrad murray that there was trouble, both testified that they were never instructed to call 911, and both told a similar story that dr. murray, after jackson had been pronounced dead, about an hour afterwards, he came up to them at the ucla medical center and wanted a ride home to the jackson mansion. he told them that he wanted to retrieve some cream that he said that jackson wouldn't want the world to know. well, prosecutors want jurors to connect the dots and they want people to -- the jurors to think that it was that propofol that they were really -- that he was really after. >> ted, we also heard today, a witness testified that murray requested a cpr machine and he wanted to hire a second doctor for t

ted rowlands, cnn, los angeles. >> there is a good chance you watched the season premiere of "c "csi"ay, it focused on 9/11. since 2004, gary sinise has been on the hit show and when not filming for the series, sinise is on the road with his lieutenant ban dand, named for his character in the movie "forest gump and that band performs at military bases around the world and here at home. this week i asked him about the troops and the family members that he meets. >> these families are resilient. they try to stay strong through the difficult times. we have, you know, considered the 101st airborne who last year lost a lot of soldiers in their deployment to afghanistan. if you consider a military base to be like a small town, and it is like a small town, you could have 60,000 people, you know, soldiers and family members on this particular base. and if you have a base that loses 130 people, killed in action, and many more wounded throughout that year, that's a lot to ask of a small town. just kind of use that comparison and you'll understand just how difficult it can be for some of these m

. >> my name is rowland. i represent the paratransit. i would like to follow-up on bruce oka's comment on taxis. i am also a taxi user. sometimes i do find that we cannot board on the current from the back, and oftentimes, there is not enough ramps to board, so having sideways taxis will benefit most of the people who use wheelchairs, so i am hoping to support the idea of finding more sideways ramp taxis so they will be more accessible for us. thank you. director nolan: thank you. >> the last person who has turned in a speaker card. >> greetings, directors. speaking of recognitions, greetings. i would like to present you with my report on the taxi industry that i wrote last month, a copy that i set aside for you. there are a lot of meetings, and pretty much every one of these board meetings, there are zero words that go up. i do not expect an answer, but i do not meet my question to be rhetorical. when are you going to acknowledge a taxicab driver? thank you. director nolan: thank you. next item. >> peter witt. he is the last person to e

lou gill ton, pat buscovich and frank rowland , geotech -- gee owe technical engineer. are we safe standing here? >> (inaudible). >> okay. right behind us, we can see all the way down san francisco's ocean beach and water front all the way down to points stig identity. what is that. >> pacifica is sticking out. beside that the muscle rock, the next promenade to the north and san andreas fault. >> muscle rock is what? the middle ground? >> in the fog. >> the bunch is just coming out. >> it's the point furthest south. >> okay. and why is that important to us? >> muscle rock is where the san andreas fault comes into san francisco cocaine and city a nd -- county and city. >> this is -- >> coming out into the water. >> going into the water, and out past fill rock and frank, where are we going from there. >>çó port race, it comes up between valleja so,. >> that's balinsa and point rat fault comes in between those two. >> okay. how far offshore is the fault where where we stand? >> about a mile and a half to two miles offshore. >> i have a question. i always hear that earthqua

also designated for assignment, aaron rowland.oth of these guys weren't tremendous. $15 million in contracts eaten up. >> we felt like we had to make a couple changes. that is how will pretty much believe this. i appreciate those with the help that they gave us with the way things are going sometimes you have to break things up. >> it is tough because i've known error in half my life. but that being sent, this is not a hobby, this is a business. we get paid to win. >> we played a bad brand of ball for the last month and that is acceptable i think that the front office and the coaches are sending that message loud and clear to us. >> to have more on what is happening with the giants in their stay with just 25 games left, in the meantime the a's are trend is something out of cleveland. the a's in the indians at progressive field tied up at one and jack went deep last night, and goes deep again. this one gave the indians a 221 lead. andy. now tied it to in the fourth. and so the a's, the ticket 3 to 2 lead. it is three of around in t

ted rowlands, thanks so much. outside the courtroom. of course, we'll check back with you and again in about, now, 40 minutes or so court is to resume there in that trial. >>> so we've heard a lot about this anesthetic, propofol, and its role in michael jackson's death. we're going to talk to an anesthesiologist about how the drug is misused and how it is supposed to be used. dr. zeve cain will join us around 11:30 eastern time. stick around for that. >>> now here's your chance to "talk back" on one evered big stories of the day. today's question -- why do republicans love new jersey governor chris christie? carol costello has more from new york. in, out? what's going on? >> relentless. chris christie is not running until president until, he is -- maybe. the only thing we know for sure is many republicans want him to run desperately. christie is enjoying every single moment of it and delivered a speech fit for a presidential candidate at the reagan library. >> insists that we must tax and take and demonize those who have already achieve

ted rowlands shows us what changed. >> wide receivers over there! let's go!> reporter: germane taylor is excited about his senior year playing football for chicago's urban prep high school. but it's his future and the future of his teammates and classmates that not only has jermaine excited but also educators around the country. >> everyone here knows that they're going to college. >> reporter: every student that's graduated from this all-boys public charter high school on chicago's notoriously rough south side has been accepted to a four-year college. an incredible statistic considering that traditionally, less than 5% of african-american boys from chicago's public schools make it through college. >> i want to go into engineering and get my degree in engineering at u of i. >> reporter: urban prep has been open for five years. there's no test to get in. it is a lottery. there are roughly 1,400 boys on the current wait list. freshman arrive with varying levels of education. the school days are long, 8:30 to 4:30. students wear a jacket and tie and are expected

fringe explorer minister rowland jumo says he's ready to defend gadhafi in the international criminal court which is issued a warrant for his arrest but nato will have to first libya's deposed leader is it hiding for good reason. if they find him they'll kill him like bin ladin and some states are now claiming the right to kill but not against all international law. images like these are moving french lawyers to turn against the government because sarkozy faces lawsuits over the birth of ordinary people in libya lawyers here in france accuse the presence of committing crimes against humanity this lawyer calls the libyan war renew vietnam with the u.s. sprayed tens of millions of liters of toxins on crops in the sixty's and seventy's causing brain disorders miscarriages and birth defects to this day. so they're using missiles with depleted uranium which causes cancer in tripoli i saw people crippled by nato attacks office workers who have nothing to do with the fighting that's why we're seeing president sarkozy for crimes against humanity nato first denied bombing this residence where

allying with al qaida each post that was put out by the united against a new group that opposes ted rowlands nuclear plans some americans are also angry that it is allowed to travel to the u.s. after his recent comments accusing washington of using the nine eleven tragedy to justify attacks on iraq and afghanistan but ivan eland of the independent institute think tank told auntie that novel still ety towards iran only increases its desire for nuclear weapons. if you remember after nine eleven iran helped the united states apprehend. people and provided intelligence on them because remember. islamic government is different than the al qaeda which is sunni and the iranian government is shia and the. is hostile to the billboard furler demonizes iran so i think the problem with demonization as we've seen in the case of saddam hussein and moammar qaddafi is that the united states then seems to take out those leaders after a while and if you've got a republican administration in beat obama and next year in the elections by two thousand and thirteen we could hear the drumbeat for attacking iran whi

i'm joined by professor rowland from the university of. western germany and he's here to talk with us about the fate of the euro mr for.

national transitional council to resign to being ex gadhafi loyalists political satirist dead ted rowlands say says a new civil war is brewing i have some sympathy for. the lobby and his call to get rid of all the former regime figures i mean it's not much of a revolution if you have former officials from the ex from the government that has just been deposed certainly not you would see any kind of division like that uses in a scenario where revolution is not fully realized and that seems to be the situation in libya any kind of revolutionary movement is an alliance of convenience but in the end are you end up with what shah masood in afghanistan once said in the one nine hundred eighty s. in the war against the soviets first we kill the russians next we kill each other in libya they kill there and they have effectively killed that gadhafi regime and now they're going to kill each other still to come this hour on r t putting pressure on the press british police flex their muscles at the media telling news groups they have a responsibility to hand over right to footage of looters to help mak

over the world to take the kind of actions we know that they need to take that's absolutely mark rowlands a wonderful project maggie very quickly just what the u.r.l. again the web site. debbie debbie debbie a duck climate reality project dr mark thank you very much for joining us tonight maggie thank you tom you know we're the only developed nation in the world where manmade climate change is still a major issue up for debate let's hope al gore changes that and grace of climate ignorance here in the united states. i agree with sarah palin. look up in the air pigs are flying just yet really sarah pill and has a new message she's been tried out in recent weeks and it has to do with taking on crony capitalism veiled at a tea party rally in iowa last week take a look. here is the name for this it's called corporate crony capitalism. the capital of the my pretty mad and free market i've got a nation and hard work and ethics. and it read no this is what capitalism and action and government bailout and handout of might and influence peddling and corporate welfare sarah pailin against corporate

ted rowlands, the l.a. courthouse. we'll be following the trial. thanks. >>> here's some other stories making news later today. 11:30 a.m. eastern today, senate republicans focus on jobs, making remarks ahead of the president's speech late they are evening. president obama reveals his jobs plan to a joint session of congress at 7:00 p.m. eastern. we will have live coverage that begins at 6:00. post-speech analysis at roughly 8:00 eastern. then the 2011 nfl season kicks off with the green bay packers hosting the new orleans staaint. >> wow. who are you going for? those are both your towns. >> i know. i don't know what to do. everybody has been sending me e-mails, as you can imagine. how about you? >> oh, i'm a bears fan. >> she's a chicago boy. i'll give you the highlights. >> there you go. >> okay, drew. >> thanks a lot. drew griffin here in studio 7 for suzanne malveaux, who's over in afghanistan. let's get you up to speed. new numbers out today provide more evidence of a very weak job market. the number of americans filing first-time claims rose.

struggling after losing 21 of the last 31 games, the team announced that they're letting players aaron rowland and mcgill go. the morale was lifted a little bit, but some are questioning the team's decision to change the lineup. >> come september when we place our own division we will do we have to do. >> i think they will make it, i think it will be arizona, they will play three games, there will be an arab on the printer row. >> hopefully read on will drop back and we can pick up. >> i think they need them especially for that hit, you know he fires when he pinch hits, so does the other and i did not know why they car rid of them there are other people that they could never lost. >> take our rid of some world series champions. i'm kind of sad about that i think we should have held onto them we had a world- class team and we should have held on to them but you know, it is a game. >> coming up and sports a 40 5:00 p.m. our very own vern glenn has more on this move and what would the giants players have to say. and barry bonds charges were all dropped, federal prosecutors said it will no longer

. >> ted rowlands, i'm going out on a limb, but i think we will see a lot of you. thank you very much. >> we'll be monitoring the opening statements. if you want complete, live coverage, hln is there for you. >>> here's your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. today's question is, does it matter to voters if donald trump or warren buffett endorses a candidate? carol costello has more from new york. carol? >> hi, martin. the donald is back. trump said they hit it off better than anticipated and don't forget the still to be determined it candidate, sarah palin who broke pizza dough with the candidate. take a look at their new ad which portrays romney and trump as two out of touch money man who favor the wealthy. pay special note to the private claim. >> mitt romney and donald trump are meeting today. well, they do have a lot in common. they have both done well for themselves. both support an economic plan that would help out the richest and big corporations but not the middle class. that would slash social security and medicare as we know it. cu

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ted rowlands is at the courthouse. >> reporter: well, today is a big day.oups of 180 prospective jurors come in here. first, they'll be asked a few questions to see if they can serve on a trial, which is four to six weeks in length. they'll kick a lot of people out today, tomorrow, and monday. the rst of them will have to fill out these long questionnaires. they'll then be part of this whole whittling down process. it's a very important process. as any criminal defense attorney will tell you, this could win or lose the case. >> the jury selection process is probably the most critical aspect of a trial. as they say, a trial's won or lost in jury selection. after that, it's all over. you pretty much know whether you've picked a jury likely to convict, acquit, or hang. >> believe me, jurors don't want to sit on trials. although, in a trial of this magnitude, you have what some call stealth jurors that get on there and go, oh, this is my opportunity. this will be my 15 minutes of fame. >> reporter: and clearly, kyra, there will be some of these people who are h

>> ted rowlands, i know you'll be watching and we'll stay in close touch with you.ur chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta is standing by at the courthouse with a closer look at the key drug in question right now, propofol. sanjay, the defense told us that conrad murray was not necessarily a perfect man, but he's not a killer. based on what you know about this drug propofol, this other drug that was apparently administered at the same time, give us your initial thought on the defense argument? >> i think what they are allu alluding to, wolf, is this idea that propofol being used outside the hospital, outside of an intensive care unit or operating room, is -- was obviously a mistake, something that's not conventionally done, and that's probably what they're referring to in terms of the imperfections of conrad murray. i think what they were also saying is that the dosing of propofol that we're talking about here, 25 milligrams, is a relatively small amount. now, you know, you're hearing -- already starting to hear some push back on that, was it propofol in comb

. >> ted rowlands, as always thank you very much. we'll speak again tomorrow. it's dramatic stuff. >>> my next guest was so close to michael jackson that he culled her mum. she's the author of a new children's book, "little man" about a boy that lives for his music. dionne, very, very hard for you and anyone that knew michael well to have to listen to this testimony and circus around this trial. what are your thoughts about it all? >> i have not taken to even watch this fiasco. i think it's very difficult to relive. it has to be awfully difficult for the family. i just would hate to think that someone would deliberately do something of that nature, take another life, especially this particular life we're talking about, michael. it's very, very heart-wrenching, it really is. >> where were you when you heard that michael had died? >> i was at home. i got a phone call. did you hear? did i hear what? michael jackson is dead. i said excuse me? and i literally said i'll call you back. i just had to breathe. and when i picked up the phone to call that person back, i s