rupert murdoch's tabloid, "the news of the world," had hacked her phone, deleting her message, givingily hope that she was alive. the hacking of the girl's phone outraged britains, brought down murdoch's newspaper and put his media empire in the hot seat. but the tabloid industry here is a live and well and very profitable. the question for the panel now, whether it is time to rein them in. harry potter creator, j.k. rowling will testify too. she sued a paper for printing a photo of her son in 2004. actress, hacking victim sienna miller, as this investigation drags the tabloids through the mud. >> interesting tidbit. the first time that a newspaper not owned by rupert murdoch has been implemented in the hacking scandal. very interesting. >> it is interesting. keeps on going, going, going. >> if you are hugh grant, you may be nervous about people hacking into your stuff. he has had previous scandals. >> coming up they want their thanksgiving holiday to go downhill. >> the ski season is here -- you will see what is up on the slopes. we'll be right back. d d d d d d ♪ let it snow, let it

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ago that hacking was widespread and they discussed it directly with james murdoch, he could use a protection force of his own. ruperts murdoch apologized repeatedly over the scandal. james did so again today on behalf of the company. apologies may not be enough this time around. chris? >> charlie, thank you so much. >>> also in london this morning, is a former executive, journalist and talk show host nick ferrari. >> hi, chris. >> how is james murdoch handling the question? >> if his father got hit with a custard pie james is being battered by the questioning. the mps are angry. they believe they have been misled or lied. they have had four months of other executives coming forward giving evidence contrary to what james said. >> in your estimation does anyone believe james murdoch had no idea of the hacking? >> it's a small club if they do. as they go through the testimony from the other executives he seems to beboxed in a corner. many people thought he'd come today with a different game plan. what can he say? he said he's known nothing. difficult to go back on that now. >> why wasn't rupert murdoch brought back? no

rupert murdoch squares off with shareholders as phone hacking revelations continue to rock his leadership. >>> stock markets in europe are stumbling after moody's puts dozens of banks across the continent on notice. >>> the united states has ratings problems as its own as fitch sounds the economic alarm on political infighting. >>> today is a big day for the murdoch empire and most specifically james murdoch, the son of the media magnet rupe per murdoch. the younger murdoch is increasingly seen as compromised as revelations about phone hacking at his father's giant titan of the media industry news corporation just keep on piling up. james murdoch is on the board at the parent company news corp. and that company's -- and at the company's agm last month, more than a third of the shareholders voted against his re-election. so he survived, but clearly a big revolt. the question is will he face a similar shareholder revolt today. nina dos santos is at brks squi brks's annual general meeting to test the mood. nina, does it look as if he'll survive or it will be a rerun, if you like, of what hap

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the times, the times were very important. >> reporter: web said he would give a report back to rupert murdoch's news of the world newspaper. it went on from 2003 right up until murdoch shut it down in july. prince william and prince harry topped the list of celebrities the paper kept an eye on. others include harry potter star daniel radcliffe and paul mccartney. he said he even followed tom watson, the main person leading the investigation into the hacking scandal. webb says he was not ashamed and nothing he did was illegal. why come forward now? money, mostly. while some staffers got hume payouts -- huge payouts when the paper closed, he got nothing. now, instead of a paycheck, you get payback. >> if you get results for them, and it appears in the paper, scoops and even if it's appearing inside, then they're all getting the credit for it. >> reporter: timing couldn't be much worse for the murdochs. james murdoch will be facing british politicians tomorrow over the hacking scandal. they may want to know what he had to do with this as well. >> those are centered around documents released since

the first time he's implicated a newspaper not owned by rupert murdoch.he testified before the u.k. parliament accusing a british tabloid of hacking his phone. he says a 2007 story about his private life could have only been obtained through eavesdropping on his voice mails. >> of course people are interested;p?kp in people's love lives we all have that natural curiosity. it doesn't mean to say you can obtain that information illegally. >> the mail said a quote would refute grant's suggestion and described his comments as smears. >>> who do you think should play the role of steve jobs in the movie about his life? sony has snapped up rights to the movie. two top contenders battling for the role, george clooney and nowa wiley. wiley has already -- played jobs. sony is trying to court screenwriter aaron sore kin to write the script. >>> -- five students elected for the prestigious rhodes scholar ships for up to three years of study at oxford in england. the names of the five winners are on the screen they represent the biggest group stamford has had in a sin

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organization, but that's exactly how elected lawmakers in london now regard the media empire of rupert murdochose, this was their verdict of how the murdochs run their business. >> you must be the first mafia boss in history you didn't know he was running a criminal enterprise. >> mr. watson, please, i think that's inappropriate. mr. chairman? >> the chairman said nothing and the murdoch mafia left the room. thanks very much for watching. my friend and colleague dylan ratigan is here and ready to take us forward. dylan, it's yours. >> and i will expedite this as for the benefit of all involved. as such, the show begins right now. >>> well, good afternoon to you. my name is dylan ratigan. and today's big story is penn

the bbc reports rupert murdoch's "news of the world," now defunct tabloid at the center of england's phone-hacking scandal, paid a private i.d. to spy on prince william and other high profile targets. on monday, news international admitted its staff ordered surveillance of two lawyers of victims suing the company over phone hacking. >>> senior administration officials say the u.s. is preparing additional sanctions against iran after the release of a new u.n. report that says the country is carrying out activities relevant to the development of a nuclear device. iran's president called the report baseless, saying his country won't retreat an iota. >>> three have been reprimanded after the loss and mishandling of the remains of u.s. service members killed in afghanistan. the u.s. office of special council found evidence of gross mismanagement at the dover military mort tuary. >>> hundreds of fans have staged a rally outside the home of penn state football coach joe paterno in the wake of a widening sex abuse scandal involving his former assistant coach. "the new york times" cites unnam

the first time he's implicated a newspaper not owned by rupert murdoch.he testified before the u.k. parliament accusing a british tabloid of hacking his phone. he says a 2007 story about his private life could have only been obtained through eavesdropping on his voice mails. >> of course people are interested;p?kp in people's love lives we all have that natural curiosity. it doesn't mean to say you can obtain that information illegally. >> the mail said a quote would refute grant's suggestion and described his comments as smears. >>> who do you think should play the role of steve jobs in the movie about his life? sony has snapped up rights to the movie. two top contenders battling for the role, george clooney and nowa wiley. wiley has already -- played jobs. sony is trying to court screenwriter aaron sore kin to write the script. >>> -- five students elected for the prestigious rhodes scholar ships for up to three years of study at oxford in england. the names of the five winners are on the screen they represent the biggest group stamford has had in a sin

should a rupert murdoch production have outed a second victim against her will?here have been a deluge of women with similar complaints. >>> we'll turn to the sickening child abuse tragedy at penn state that forced out legendary coach joe paterno. >> i'm out of it maybe now. a phone call put me ahead of it. but we'll go from there, okay? good luck, everybody. >> why did many journalists put this 84-year-old man on a ped school? do the media -- pedestal? >> do the media apply different standards to college football? we'll ask our guests, including jack mccollum. he i'm howard kurtz, and this is "reliable sources." >>> for all the media coverage of the accusations swirling around herman cain, it was not clear just precisely what he was alleged to have done. that is until sharon bialex stepped forward this week. she went before the cameras to accuse the presidential candidate not just of harassment but of pushing his hand under her skirt and pushing her head toward his crotch. this allegedly in a parked car 14 years ago when she was looking for a job. and bialek as

that he was incompetent, then that would have serious ramifications for weather does inherit the rupert murdoch media empire. >> thank you. if you are a fan of eddie murphy, you might like the idea that he will host the oscar awards this year. he was going to, but ps pulled out because its producer has resigned. -- he has pulled out. the producer made some homophobic remarks and was fired. eddie murphy says that he is sure that the new production team and host will do a great job, glover they maybe -- who ever they may be. now let's bring extraordinary pictures. surfers always looking for the next great thing. bigger waves. an american sports writer says that he has served the biggest wave ever, a 30 meter high wall of water, during a competition in portugal. >> with an offshore submerged canyon, the fishing town produces some of the biggest waves on earth. they are towed into position by jet skis. derek mcnamara travels the world in search of waves like this. -- garrett mcnamara. he is totally engulfed by the wave. it looks like he must go under, he emerges unscathed. >> the this wave is very

testimony that indicated the practice went beyond rupert murdoches now defunct "news of the world."ted to say they were harassed by the british press. >>> in cairo, protesters are in tahrir square for the third straight day. the white house weighed in a short time ago calling on all sides to show restraint and stop the violence. nbc's chief foreign correspondent richard engel is live in tahrir square. what's happened there today? >> reporter: what's happened here today is in the morning there was a relatively small demonstration, people came out, they were very angry after the army and police collectively cracked down, beat back protesters yesterday and killed about 20 of them. then throughout the day that small protest grew into clashes. those clashes continued. at one stage part of this square was filled with tear gas. now there is a very large demonstration, tens of thousands of people. it's hard to estimate the size of the crowd. i would say between 50,000 and 80,000 people at the very least. it is a peaceful demonstration at this stage. and people are saying they will continue

the probe was launched after rupert murdoch's tabloid shut down this summer.son was because it was revealed that reporters were hacking into people's cell phones. it's a vile act. we would never do it. seriously. >>> teenage murder victim and british soldiers have been victims of the hacks. there were a lot of terrible stories. grant said they've been allowed to get away with intimidation and bullying. now is the time to stand up and put an end to it. >> you see them glamorizing themselves as, well, we might be a bit naughty, but we get the story. when the story has been obtained by hacking the phone of a murdered school girl or the family of a soldier killed in afghanistan, i don't find that lovable and naughty. i find that cowardly and bullying and shocking. >> very well said. grant also said he believed he was the victim of phone hacking accusing the mail, which is a non-rupert murdoch paper, of writing stories about his girlfriend at the time. his accusation, why didn't the scope of the hacking scandal which had mostly involved murdock papers. >>> out fron

the first time he indicated a newspaper not owned by rupert murdoch. >> it's a commonly voiced opinionhat you can not in any way regulate or improve or legislate or -- for the worst practices of the worst if journalists in this country without damaging free speech without muzzling proper journalism. and endlessly about portraying the baby in the park water and i always said that i don't think it's that difficult to tell the difference between what is a baby and what is a bathwater. i -- to most people, it's bloody obvious. >> the parents of a murdered 13- year-old girl whose phone was targeted also testified, saying the hacking gave them false hope their daughter was alive. the scandal shut down the tabloid news of the world last summer. that was part of news corporation, the parent company of fox 5. >>> up next on the news edge at 6, telegrams from abraham lincoln and a dagger owned by president harry truman. some of the nation's treasures that have vanished. what the national archives is doing to track them down. >>> and a story looking to give us a shout. send us your news tips to t

when she was asked to sing for media tycoon rupert murdoch at his wedding she says she was given a strangeive press from murdoch's newspapers. >> i remember being 13 and thinking, why on earth would anybody take a favor over $100,000, but being advised by management and by certain members of the record company to take the latter option, that he was a very, very powerful man. ♪ >> reporter: murdoch's news international denies a deal. church says she waived her fee and sang this. ♪ >> reporter: because it's what murdoch wanted. then she says the tabloids broke their promise. over the years her phones were hacked a camera planted outside her home, a former boyfriend paid for details of their sex life. the tabloids are a british institution, but the feeling here is that after all of the revelations about phone hacking and paying for stories, that politicians will be forced to pass laws that change the way they do business. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: a business church says her career before it could truly take off. >> reporter: a business church says damaged her career before it could truly take off. abc

the probe was launched after rupert murdoch's tabloid shut down this summer.son was because it was revealed that reporters were hacking into people's cell phones. it's a vile act. we would never do it. seriously. >>> teenage murder victim and british soldiers have been victims of the hacks. there were a lot of terrible stories. grant said they've been allowed to get away with intimidation and bullying. now is the time to stand up and put an end to it. >> you see them glamorizing themselves as, well, we might be a bit naughty, but we get the story. when the story has been obtained by hacking the phone of a murdered school girl or the family of a soldier killed in afghanistan, i don't find that lovable and naughty. i find that cowardly and bullying and shocking. >> very well said. grant also said he believed he was the victim of phone hacking accusing the mail, which is a non-rupert murdoch paper, of writing stories about his girlfriend at the time. his accusation, why didn't the scope of the hacking scandal which had mostly involved murdock papers. >>> out fron

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. >>> and it is reported that a private investigator working for one of rupert murdoch's papers spied on prince william. the bbc says a private investigator conducted surveillance on the prince back in 2006 for the now the defunct "news of the world." murdoch shut down that paper in july following a massive phone-hacking scandal. >>> coming up this morning, alaska is getting slammed by a super storm. >>> plus, one of rap's biggest names dies far too young. this is the "cbs morning news." one day i'm on p of the world... the next i'm saying... i have this thing called psoriatic arthritis. i had some intense pain. it progressively got worse. my rheumatologist told me about enbrel. i'm surprised how quickly my symptoms have been managed. [ male announcer ] because enbrel suppresses your immune system, it may lower your ability to fight infections. serious, sometimes fatal events including infections, tuberculosis, lymphoma, other cancers, and nervous system and blood disorders have occurred. before starting enbrel, your doctor should test you for tuberculosis and discuss whether you've b

and last summer, the paper owned by rupert murdoch's news international, shocked in the scandal.oliticians, movie stars, murder victims and allegedly, kate and her family. but what webb did, this is his actual surveillance footage of a well-known soccer player. this is not illegal in prison. >> but the list of people i've seen, i would find it incredibly difficult to justify, you know, what were they looking at simon cowell for? >> reporter: though spying on royalty is not illegal. but certainly disconcerting for those who seek detail. and that investigator has told the bbc, quote, i don't feel ashamed. if i wasn't doing it, somebody else would be. now, tomorrow, rupert murdoch's son, james, comes before a committee to talk about the phone hacking. and he will face a grilling on this spying, as well. >> not over yet. >> sure did last time. >> nick, thanks. >>> coming up, the gripping moments from inside the jury room during the trial of conrad the first jackson juror breaks her silence. a "gma" exclusive. and dan and nancy weigh in, as well. >>> and the latest on the bieber baby

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the bbc reports that rupert murdoch's "news of the world" paid a private eye to spy on prince william other high-profile targets. on monday, news international, admitted its staff had ordered surveillance of two lawyers of victims suing the company over phone hacking. eparing additional sanctions against iran, after the release of a new u.n. report that says the country is carrying out activities relevant to the development of nuclear device. iran's president called the report baseless. saying his country won't retreat an iota from its nuclear program. >>> three air force officials have been reprimanded after the loss and mishandling of the remains of u.s. service members killed in afghanistan. the u.s. office of special counsel found evidence of gross mismanagement at the mortuary. >>> hundreds of fans have staged a rally outside the home of penn state football coach, joe paterno in the wake of a widening sex abuse scandal involving his former assistant coach. "the new york times" cites unnamed sources saying the school is planning for his departure. >>> and russia's space agency say

rupert murdoch shut down the tabloid, but the scandal is still growing. the string of witnesses speaking out now say the problem goes far beyond phone hacking. when actress siena miller began dating you ljude law, the papar chased her. >> if you take away the cameras, what have you got? a pack of men chasing a woman. >> reporter: the panel will make recommendations on whether to curb the tabloid media early next year. and the criminal investigation is still open. in fact, scotland yard made its first arrest for hacking a computer in search of a scope. david? >> kelly, thank you. >>> back in this country tonight, and to a welcome site this thanksgiving, a milestone in the recovery of gabby giffords. she and her husband mark kelly serving thanksgiving meefls at an air force base in tucson. this is her first public event with her constituents since that tragic shooting nearly a year ago. >>> meantime, across this country tonight, so many moments of gratitude this holiday. some for veterans of war, others for workers fighting to get back on the job. abc's baz

it was triggered by the phone hacking scandal at rupert murdoch's "news of the world" tabloid. the mother of a missing girl felt mentally raped when the paper published part of her personal diary. >> i felt so violated. you know, i had written these words, i thought at a very desperate time of my life. >> the photograph of madeline with the headline, she's dead. >> celebrities like hugh grant and author j.k. rowling are testifying about their battles with the british press. a judge will issue a report next year which could change the way the media operates in the future. >>> in other news today, it is thanksgiving. but for millions of americans, thanksgiving means more than turkey. >> yeah, for them, it is time to get the so holiday shopping list out. why, i don't know. many families are struggling financially this year, of course. experts say most of us will start looking toward practical gifts like clothes. electronics are also expected to be big as they are every year. so, gift cards are a big deal, too. even though one in four of us have one of the gift cards left over from

he testified today in a parliamentary inquiry and implicated a newspaper that wasn't owned by rupert murdoch said the only way "the daily mail" newspaper could have obtained a story alleging a romantic breakup was through phone hacking, but he claims the intrusions didn't stop at his cell phone. >> this flat had been broken into, the front door had been basically shoved off its hinges. and nothing was stolen, which was weird. the police nevertheless came round the next day to talk about it and the day after that. a detailed account of what my flat looked like appeared in one of the british tabloid papers. >> today "the daily mail" denied any violations of grant's privacy saying it had behaved, quote, with journalistic propriety. >>> well, we put out the call for help and the bay area answered. >>> still ahead, the results of our food drive, thanks to the edy faf thousands of a ha tonee ye mi aa to help needy fali.esmi ♪ ♪ [ female announcer ] we know you've got a lot on your plate at thanksgiving. which is why safeway has everything you need to get it all done. right now, get a safeway froze

rupert murdoch's tabloid the news of the world hacked her phone deleting her messages giving her familywas alive. the hacking of her foul outraged britain, brought down murdoch's newspaper and mutt his media empire in the hot seat but the tabloid industry here is alive and well and very profitable. the question for the panel now, whether it's time to rein them this. harry potter creator j.k. rowling will testify too. she sued a paper for printing a photo of her son in 2004. and actress and hagging victim sienna miller as this drags the tabloids through the mud. kelly cobiella, abc news, london. the girl hockey player making history. how she wound up playing with the greatest hockey pros of all time. bed. the magic of this bed is that you're sleeping on something that conforms to your individual shape. you can adjust it to whatever your needs are. if i'm in pain one day, in less than a minute i can get more support. if you change your mind once you get home you can adjust it. so whatever you feel like, the sleep number bed's going to provide it for you. at our ultimate sleep number event

they described how journalists at rupert murdoch's paper broke into their daughter's voice mail to try to get the scoop on the story giving them false hope she was alive. hugh grant also testified about media outlets invading his privacy. >> back here in our region, the university of maryland could have soon one of the smallest athletic departments in the atlantic coast conference. >> unless eight of the university's eight teams can raise $30 million to keep from getting the ax. yesterday, the school's president announced his decision to get rid of swimming and diving, women's water polo and acrobatics, men's tennis and men's track. he said it was purely a cost saving decision to pull the school out of its growing deficit. only maryland's basketball and football programs bring in renew which helps fund all of the other programs but it is not enough money to keep the other it teams viable. >> i want to make it very clear that this is perhaps one of the most painful and heart- wrenching decisions i've made. >> it is very disappointing. it is a huge upset but we're staying positive and we

. >>> this morning, the son of medial mogul rupert murdoch says he was not told the whole truth about the phone hacking scandal. james murdoch answered more tough questions about the scandal this morning during his second appearance before parliament in just four months. lawmakers say an e-mail sent to murdoch may prove the phone hacking at the "news of the world" went further than murdoch's company admits. murdoch insists he was blind sided by the scandal saying people working below him at the company kept him in the dark. >> we're all humbled by it and trying to improve the business to make sure that these things don't happen again because they are something that i'm very sorry about. >> reporters at ne"news of the world" are accused of hacking into phones belonging to celebrities. the royal family and even hacking into the cell phone of a young murder victim. >> up on capitol hill, congress set a deadline of 9:00 a.m. for the white house to turn everything it knows about the solyndra loan. scott, we're about two hours past that deadline. what can you tell us new? >> there hadn't be

. >>> rupert murdoch's son, james, grilled by lawmakers in britain this week, the news corps insisted he was not aware of widespread phone hacking at the now defunct news of the world tabloid. one compared murdoch to a mafia boss saying the company operated under a code of silence. >>> the lawyer for the prime suspect in the disappearance of robin gardner has quit. mike bal lopez was representing gary giordano and jose baez. casey anthony's lawyer has taken over the case. giordano still insists he's innocent. he claims robin gardner was swept out to sea while snorkeling. giordano in due back in court. >> president obama will mark veterans day with a wreath laying ceremony at arlington national cemetery and later, he and the first lady will travel to san diego where they'll attend the michigan state/unc basketball game aboard the u.s.s. carl vincent. >>> metro has closed four stations along the green line. the waterfront, navy yard are all closed. they'll remain closed until the system opens monday morning. buses will replace trains between fleant plaza and southern avenue station so t

am standing here with these microphones makes you feel like what rupert murdoch must have felt like this morning. i have no direct knowledge of the cloud. [laughter] let me make a small correction since my academic colleagues -- you're so sensitive to this. i am lecturer at stanford university, not a professor. that is another level of this conversation teary let me extend the conversation a little bit. one of the things that it was after i left or go, i taught for many years at stanford and talk, as i told the kids, real stuff. i started a class on cloud computing. three years ago, i started a class at the university in beijing as well on this subject because i feel it is really important. we are in my opinion in the second year of a 20-year cycle that is no different than the client server cycle that happened last time around, and i think education is an important component of this. so i'm going to take my four or five minutes to educate you guys a little bit on what is this thing we call cloud computing. i'm going to try uses much plain english as i can, leave all the technical buzzwo