situation came less than two hours after several massachusetts police officers standing next to sergeant youly criticized him for getting involved in a situation they say he knew little about. >> in our view, there was nothing stupid about what happened. what happened to produce a different outcome was directly under the control of dr. gates. >> reporter: an investigation sundays way to determine what happened when gates was arrested for disorderly conduct. one of the officers at the scene today gave his own account of what he saw. >> i heard him saying this is how a black man is treated in america. and a white woman calls the police and i'm locked up. >> reporter: president obama also called professor gates today to say he would like to meet with both him and officer youly at the white house over a beer. timmon bradley, abc news, new york. >>> cash for clunkers in coming up, find out if your vehicle qualifies for the government program. >>> plus, a consumer group that is suing denny's. why the activists say the restaurant chain is serving up trouble. >>> and a dramatic rescue is caught on tap

in an emotional news conference whalen said she is not interested in joining gates, youly and presidentbama for that much heralded beer at the white house tomorrow. >> she doesn't like beer anyway. >> reporter: a disorderly conduct charge against gates was later dropped. even though other officers there that day supported crowley's arrest of gates. but none were present for the conversation between whalen and crowley. >> the white house says gates, crowelly and president obama will share the beers on a picnic table outside the oval office tomorrow evening. >>> the los angeles county coroner's office. officials planned a release of those results later this week but today the coroner's office said the announcement won't come until next week. five weeks after jackson's death authorities are still gathering evidence and still trying to figure out what happened during the final hours of his life. the focus is still on jackson's personal fistition and the powerful anesthetic propofol. >> he issued propofol and have other propofol in storage, what kind of medical files did he keep. all of this

cit ended march with are youly $71 billion in assets, one-quarter the size of washington mutual, the biggest firnls to collapse since september. >>> novartis shares have been trading higher today after the company raised its forecasted full year drug sales. the swiss drugmaker has been hit by the u.s. dollar strength and high financing costs. but it's now forecasting growth in the high single digits or better for the rest of the year. >>> well, in asia, china's economy, that country gathered momentum in the second quarter. that's thanks to a palace itch fiscal and monetary stimulus. gdp in china grew 7.9% from a year ago. making china the best performing major economy in the world. the chinese government's full year growth target of 8% appears in reach. >>> there is plenty of headlines moving markets today. you can find them all at cnbc.com. >>> porsche says it's not aware of any merger deal between its company and bmw. stay tuned to wgs was. businesses more efficiently, so we've brought in a team of experts to help. one suggestion is to make your shipping more efficient with priorit

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