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the tabloids. now in a dramatic turn of events, amanda knox is free after being convicted of murder abroad. >> amanda knox is now back home here in seattle after spending nearly four years in an italian prison. she was released after appealing her murder conviction. but she remains haunted by the nightmare that began to unfold when she was just a young student. >> amanda knox was going into her junior year of college. her mother etta recalls amanda the fresh-faced 20-year-old intent on...

People and now revenue cuts from another end from the same regulation. it is bad for the business and economy and people who are hurt the worst by this are you and me the consumers. we have checking account that is are costing money and we have given the banks another incentive not to lend to prospective home buyers. and the banks, no one knows it better than you do. they have a lot of lousy assets on the books and the stocks is down in the tank and for the politicians to say get the heck out ...

dramatic day in the trial of dr. conrad murray, whos accused of causing the death of michael jackson. to ted rollins in los angeles. >> reporter: piers, it was a riveting day in court today, we got to listen to conrad murray, basically, this will be it for jurors, unless he takes the stand, he gets to tell his side of the story through a police interview. a two-hour audiotape that jurors heard about an hour and 40 minutes of. in it he talks about giving michael jackson propofol every s...

Checking account at all. you load cash on to a prepaid card or even your check on to it, and some of them, the rush card, for example, have low fees and good online money management tools for consumers to use, so this is another option to think about a prepaid card as a way to not even have a checking account at all perhaps. >> cash is always king. >> cash is a good thing to have as well. >> lanette, thanks to have you with us. were going to hear her father and her mother -- we heard from her ...

Jenna: they want to you have more money in the bank otherwise youll be charged. >> reporter: exactly. again you mentioned bank of america charging the debit ef-5 tkhr-rz a month. citibank will phase out the free easy checking account. this is a whole new climate of regulation were seeing in the banking industry, and we know why because they cant charge the merchants the swipe fees any more. so they are maybe being it up on the other end hurting the consumers. so its costing us more in the long r...

Jenna: this fox news business alert. youve probably heard the story about bank of america. they are charging customers a monthly fee to use a debit card. you have to pay to spend your own money. now city is getting into the a act. lori rot is here to tell us a little bit about it. >> reporter: the fees are coming at us left and right these days. first the details from city, if you have a checking account you certainly want to listen up. they are increasing the minimum balance on all of your acco...

>> bank of america about to charge you $5 a month to start using your debit card. there is a way to beat the banks? >> joining us is the chairman of credit.com, adam levine. good morning to you. >> good morning. >> we have some scenarios you want to help us save some money, right? >> absolutely. >> first up, a lot of people are going to be charged for debit card usage and free checking going away. how do you beat that problem? >> the way it is, you find alternative banks. local banks, some of th...

behind closed doors. >> i remember well one time when i was very little and i was fighting with my brother every other minute and my mother put us in a back room and said dont come out until you got it figured out, we stares at each other for a while but came out friends. >> thanks, senator, murray for confirming congress is just a bunch of feuding children. to me thats proof they dont get it. tonights number, it will warm your heart. military widow who lost her navy s.e.a.l. in comb...

united nations got up and walked out right in the middle of a security council meeting. good morning to you. it is wednesday, october 5th. this is your a.m. "wake-up call." im carol kos tecostello live fw york this morning. its a brand-new day in every sense of the word for amanda knox. shell be waking up at home for the first time in four years. she returned with her family yesterday, just one day after an italian appeals court overturned her murder conviction in the death of her brit...

up of mostly 20-somethings, theyre angry about fat wall street paychecks, war, environment, you name it. the protests have been going on for three weeks now and now have spread to other cities. americans absolutely fed up with congress. new numbers leave no doubt that a washington post/abc news poll found just 14% of the public approves of the job that congress is doing. congresss lowest rating ever. amanda knox says right now, she just wants time with her family. knox is home in s...