. >> but the prosecution's message for the jury was blunt. there had been a violent confrontation in the widmer house that night. >> ryan widmer purposely killed sarah stewart widmer and murdered her by drowning. >> the prosecutors began with the first moments of the case, ryan's call to 911. >> my wife, she fell asleep? the bathtub, i think. i just came up here and she was laying face down in the bathtub. >> on the phone, the emergency dispatch testified that the voice on the phone that night was giving more details than normal. >> it seemed that the caller was rather calm. usually i get anything out of them. >> she's in the bathtub? sh yes. the water is draining right now. i was downstairs watching tv. she falls asleep in the tub all the time. >> to the prosecutors, he was trying to place himself as far from the bathtub as he could. >> he doesn't give information about his condition. it was important for him to say, i wasn't there and didn't have anything to do with it. >> and could sarah even be dead facedown in the bathtub? could a body c

the prosecution is arguing strenuously that dominique strauss-kahn should not be freed. t.j.? >> richard, that is the crux of what happens go on in there now? that is the back and dport happening in the courtroom? what else can we expect to come out of the hearing that is still go on? >> reporter: well, this was primarily a meeting about the new application by the defense team to get dominique strauss-kahn out of his 11 x 13 foot rikers island jail cell. dominique strauss-kahn denying charges against him when he issued a statement stepping down last evening from the international monetary fund. the attorney for the alleged sex crimes victim says that she will feel less safe if dominique strauss-kahn is allowed free on bail. the judge has not ruled in state supreme court in new york, the arguments, the world media is here to see if strauss-kahn is coming out the door with his wife and daughter. >> you stay with me for a second. i'm getting more from what's happening inside the courtroom. i'm going to share this with our viewers. folksen side saying the prosecutor saying there's

this is the prosecution has failed to prove his guilt. at is why he has invoked his role to ask for acquittal and 10 million euros of compensation from the court. we will hear later on today as the trout chamber continues its deliberations whether they accept his request for acquittal and whether his trial will and prematurely. >> you're watching gmt. the headlines -- rival palestinian factions gather in cairo to sign a reconciliation deal. the agreements turns forever that are paid to division according to 1 liter. pakistan his back a suggestion from him that this is that it could not be trusted with the tales of the mission that killed osama bin laden. now in syria, there is low left of the anti-government protestors. reports of up to 1000 people being arrested, no independent confirmation. there are reports of threats to protesters as well. france is the latest country to condemn the crackdown. it buys its own nationals to get out of the country. he had been talking to someone who's been watching the situation from peru. foreign journal

the prosecution claims there is no doubt levi bellfield is responsible for her death. e trial is expected to last eight weeks. robert hall, bbc news. ♪ >> you're watching bbc news. the headlines. u.s. secretary of state hillary clinton has said china will fail in its attempts to dismiss democracy. the head of the football association accused top officials of seeking bribes. $8.5 billion microsoft has agreed to buy skype, the free internet telephone service. microsoft will have access to a user base of roughly 170 million who log on to skype every month. our technology correspondent has the details. >> microsoft powers more than 90% of the computers and the other is the firm that revolutionized the way many communicate. now skype is being swallowed up by microsoft. it's just eight years since skype started helping people to make calls over the internet for nothing. and this is the third time it's been bought and sold. microsoft has been struggling to prove it can compete with the likes of google and apple. >> this is a big day for skype and this is a big day for microsof

while the prosecution has the benefit of grants. in fact, i believe the district attorney might have at least half of their budget is provided by grants. that is not provided to the indigent defense providers. federal grants are almost all directed toward prosecution and law enforcement. so the problem to have vast resources that i'm facing right now is that you have grant funding the police department, the sheriff's deft, the district attorney's office. there is a share that -- etc., etc. that share, which for them is a portion of their funding is almost my entire funding so when you say you're going to cut 13% off everybody equally. well, 13% for us is more than 13% of their entire budget than for the other agencies. now the problem is that's the ripple effect we just had here. now they still have their investigators because they have other agencies that provide the investigation. we don't. our investigators are the ones that have to be trimmed off because we can't pay for them. our attorneys, again, they are paid for by the count

>> caylee's bed. >> reporter: tearful as her mother testifies for the prosecution. ecutors allege casey placed duct tape around her daughter caylee's nose and mouth and dumped the body in the woods near the family home, killing her to escape the responsibilities of motherhood. and instead enjoy the carefree life of a party girl. but casey's defense lawyer says the little girl's death was nothing more than a horrible accident. >> caylee anthony died on june 16th, 2008, when she drowned in her family's swimming pool. >> reporter: but nobody called police for 31 days. >> look what you've done! >> reporter: and in a bombshell the defense attorney told the jury casey's father found the body in the pool and was complicit in the cover-up. casey's lawyers claim she was afraid to tell authorities because she was allegedly sexually abused by her father since she was 8 years old. her father, george, a former police officer, denies those allegations. in fact, prosecutors claim not only did casey kill her daughter but that she stowed her daughter's body in her car. >> the instant

the prosecution says that he was leader of the ultra-nationalist serbian radical party and was involved in a joint criminal enterprise to remove the non- serb population of serbia and bosnia. he recruited, trained, and indoctrinated paramilitary with his extremist ideology. he had comments such as "you should not kill croats with knives, but scowled out to rise -- but gouge out their eyes with spoons." he says that was not to be taken seriously. we will hear later on today as they continue deliberations whether they accept his request for acquittal and whether his trial will end prematurely. >> thank you. astonishing pictures coming to us from japan. the company that operates the fukushima nuclear plant in japan has released this new video showing inside of the number one reactor and at the plant. the video was captured by a u.s.-made robot. the footage confirms that electricity cables are safe and there are no water leaks inside the reactor. radiation levels were higher than expected, though. you can get more on the website, bbc.com. >> hello and welcome. >> see the news unfold, get th

anything the prosecution puts up there, the grand jury is nothing more than a rubber stamp. this is not, and i tend to agree with mr. rothman the lawyer, when ben said this is a defensible case, on the face it looks defensible to me, and i would not be so sure, and i agree with eliot, until you see all of the facts and what we're getting, i don't for a second believe are all the facts, until we see that, we're speculating. a lot of this stuff is released by people who have an agenda. >> let me disagree with a couple things. first, the detectives in this unit in particular are very hesitant to proceed with a case they do not believe they can really prove, especially a high profile defendant, especially one where they know the complainant is going to be outcome determinative. they are going to grill her and see is this somebody who has brought 20 allegations -- >> i would agree, but don't you think there may have been just a little bit of -- we got to hurry up and do this because they thought he was leaving the country. two words, roman polanski comes to everybody's mind, so t

earlier the prosecution wrapped up closing arguments. >>> san francisco district attorney announced the jail

this is between the prosecution and the defense. >> i want to get your thoughts on this.n france. this is called the peper walk. marching out in public with the handcuf handcuffs. the commissioner is defending that practice. the american justice system with two adversaries and that's how the truth comes out. it may be different in the system that used in prints. this is what we have. it worked well for us. >> worked well for us, but isn't it fair to say there times when the police department and other police departments can be more sensitive if they choose to be. >> that's true although what we call a peper walk is in fact how every prisoner is treated. there sometimes television cameras there and sometimes not. if the police arrange to take someone away from the cameras, that is a departure from the normal situation. you are right. in certain circumstances, the police ka k take someone away from the cameras. it is also worth pointing out that there lots of defendants who have been perp walk and paraided in front of the cameras and gotten acquitted. they know that being a

the prosecution promised a cutting-edge case. including air samples from the trunk where they say the body of caylee was decomposing. the child's grandmother called 911 when she noticed the smell. her lead attorney jose baez has promised a bombshell in

the district attorney has been prosecuted? >> their work -- there was one in louisiana, roger jordan. >> let me try to get the other panelists into the conversation. you were a former warden of san quentin. i wonder if you could share with us your experience at having actually conducted executions? you saw the word from mississippi said that this had a personal effect on him and i wonder if you can address the issue that comes up with the victim's family often get satisfaction of some kind -- some relief because of the person that they understand has committed the crime and they are finally put to death. can you remark on this? >> let me say, i agree with everything that they have talked about. i cannot really speak for the families of the victims, only what i have observed to the execution process. this has an impact on everyone who is involved, including the staff. and of course the inmates' families. and the people who show up to watch this. and the whole show of people who are there for this. you cannot walk away from this

-- the d.a. prosecutes. there is evidence to show that doing everything we can to try to divert some of his life from repeating their offense, but we will have to really vigorously enhance our approach. one way to do that obviously is the collaboration being fostered and demonstrated here today, but it is more than just today. it will have to be every single day, or else california will continue to be building more prisons, and san francisco may not be far behind. thanks. [applause] >> once again, thanks for the flag. [laughter] have a good time. have a good evening. thank you very much. [applause]

and that these prosecution decisions making reentry felony prosecutions the most commonly prosecuted felony, federal felony has come at the expense of prosecuting other crimes. and non-immigration felony prosecutions in non-border districts have declined 6% to 8% in the same time frame. now, i raise this because many of us when we go home every week get this question from our constituents. as far as we can tell, the department has not brought a single prosecution of a high-ranking wall street executive or major financial firm in the wake of the wall street scandal that contributed to the global economic crisis. so it looks to me that the department is spending its resources prosecuting nannies and busboys trying to get back to their families, illegally reentering, and yet we have not brought any prosecutions on the bandits on wall street who brought the nation and the world to the brink of financial disaster. could you explain these priorities, mr. attorney general? >> well, there's a lot packed into that question. the fact that there are so many prosecutions along the border is an in

how does that affect the prosecution? g like that come from and who's leaking stuff like that and why? >> i've reached out to the d.a.'s office and they haven't confirmed anything like that. i'm sure that they are not going to prosecute this case in the media. this is a sex crime case and they want to protect their victim. they want to protect their evidence. leaks like this do happen. sometimes they come out of the dna testing lab. >> out of the lab? >> out of the lab. sometimes they come out of law enforcement agencies. but it certainly isn't coming from the prosecution. it may not -- >> trying to keep complete control of the situation. >> this is a sex crime case. this is a serious matter and they will not be trying this on "american morning." >> all right. we'll be talking about it. >> jinx. >> sunny hostin, great to see you as always. legal contributor for "in session". >> oprah's final farewell. new details about her final show coming up. it's 47 minutes past the hour. [ male announcer ] in 2011, at&t is at work, bui

. >> a witness for the prosecution who may in fact have helped the defense case.e testimony, why it may have backfired for the prosecution and what we expect to hear in court today. >> all right, with all of this summerlike weather outside, many of us have been outside fixing up our yards, planting, weeding, maximizing the home's curb appeal. before and after curb appeals and how you can achieve the same look before the summer months. >> after the hot day in the yard, how about ice cream sandwiches. we've got the segment on which ice cream sandwiches fared best in a taste test. of course, we've got to taste for ourselves to confirm the findings. >> it's going to be a really tough job, lester. a lot to get to this half-hour. but first, another check of the weather from the weather channel's chris lawrence. >> good morning, chris. >> good morning to both of you. we're having a warm day here on the east coast and the south. it's a happy day for some people here. we have a couple of happy birthdays here. and what are we doing to celebrate? >> i'm going to be going to

the european court of human rights has ruled russia's prosecution of formal oil of. course he was not specifically motivated the charges in its trials but did however find that his rights were violated during his arrest in two thousand and three all the acts head of oil giant you calls on once russia's richest man is currently in jail for investments i'm not evolving let's get the latest while we're going to test the theory of this to say what exactly did the european have to say today. well in the decision of the european court of human rights of a big check to the appeal of qatar and his lawyer schooling me that the prosecution had been politically motivated the court cited the lack of incontestable proof basically which means that the a lawyer so got of course he had failed to provide sufficient solid evidence to back. these claims has to be said though that in two thousand and three when he was arrested kind of course he had been financing opposition political parties now according to chronicles he and his supporters it was because of his political side that he wa

the prosecution has called nearly 70 witnesses including former bakery handyman, broussard. broussard testified that bey ordered him to kill bailey. >>> tonight, the oakland city council will vote on whether to spend any more money on gang injunctions. these injunctions try to fight crime and restricting their movements to a certain area within the city. right now, only gang injunction that's in force is in north oakland. >>> a new program involving community courts is being launched today in san francisco. kraig debro joins us live to explain how this concept will require community involvement and also the swift justice. kraig? >> reporter: that's right, tori. it's basicallying improving the quality of the life at the same time, making sure the criminals don't commit bigger crimes. happening out these cards in the mission district and bayview hunter's point right now if, you are caught with a minor offense you could take this to the 17th station and they will tell you if you qualify. >> we're trying to get the light bulb to go on. the three years unsupervised probation isn't

. >> the prosecution in the hague will have to prove that they were acting on his direct commission. the survivors struggled and the women left behind, there is no doubt. but their satisfaction to the arrest is tempted by anger that it has taken so long. >> i am not that happy. i was disappointed so many times by the work of the hague tribunal. serbia protected him for so long. he enjoyed life for so long. he was supposed to have been arrested years ago. i feel a small satisfaction in my soul. this is proof that this type of crime never gets old and that the perpetrators will face justice. >> for many serbs he remains a folk hero. this is the village where he was found today. tonight his lawyer claimed that he was seriously ill with an unknown condition and not well enough even to undergo questioning. but for the serbian government the arrest of this broken and defeated old man is a signal to the world that serbia is normalizing, in its anxious progress to the european mainstream it is at last turning the page on all that he stood for. >> the question is what happens next. professor

we've had two psychologists here for the prosecution and the defense say you know what, he doesn't havet mental capacity to even understand the proceedings at this point. maybe he will in the future, but he's not ready now. >> woodruff: what has to happen for this finding to take place? are there a set of criteria, that apply in the federal court? >> well, the judge will look at the case law, there has been a lot of case law in this area. the judge has to determine basically and it's often on the expert's testimony whether jared loughner really understands was's going on in the courtroom. and even if he does, whether he can engage and participate and help his defense lawyer. otherwise, a trial would just be a spectacle whereas we heard, he would be screaming out it wouldn't really be a presentation of the evidence. and it's important in a trial that he be able to exercise his rights. and if he's competent he can't even do that. >> so does this give the mental health professionals an extraordinary amount of influence? the process? >> yeah thises was one of those intersections between the

the lack of wall street prosecution. >> well, i was dealing with some things you said -- the fact that we have these prosecutions on the border is not any indication that we're not taking the wall street potential offenses seriously. we have prosecuted a great many cases that deal with fraud with regard to the mortgage area, financial schemes, a case was brought -- just decided in the last couple of weeks, a $3 billion fraud scheme that involved colonial bank. the department is looking right now at the report prepared by senator levin's subcommittee that deals with goldman sachs. the notion -- people have to s disamus themselves with the notion that they don't want these cases. they come to apply the law, look at the facts, and to bring these cases. we are extremely aggressive in that way. >> can i ask how many investigators are assigned to the prosecution of exetives on wall street whoay have committed misconduct? >> i can't give you an exact number, but i can tell you a substantial number of people in the district of new york as well as the criminal division here i washington -- >> w

. >> reporter: the prosecution is charging that bey ordered the murder of bailey. earlier the prosecution's key witness broussard testified that he ordered the killing. his attorney says mackey's testimony helped. >> he's obviously exonerated my client, he's saying he was not involved and he's saying broussard is a liar which is what we've been saying all along. >> reporter: mackey also said he had relationships with several women that broussard was seeing. the two month trial is winding down, closing arguments are expected tomorrow then the case goes to the jury. reporting live in oakland, rob roth, ktvu channel 2 news. >>> los angeles police today unveiled the new steps they are taking to track down the man who brutally beat giant fan bryan stow. the newest clue is this dodger's jersey. police believe one of the suspects wore it the night of the attack. it has the number 16 on it and the name ethier. police plan to set up at the game tomorrow, they hope to get tips from people who may have seen the attack. >> we believe there are people who know. we believe there