embarrassment that democrats really want to avoid. there are no details on the negotiations but house majority leader steny hoyer says it is up to rangel to decide whether to resign. rangel is accused of failing to disclose personal income as well as other ethics violations. after serving three years in prison as an accomplice to rape, polygamist leader warren jeffs is getting a legal reprieve from utah s supreme court. the justices threw out his conviction on a technicality saying that the trial judge gave the jury faulty instructions. cnn s gary tuchman has covered the warren jeffs case extensively and joins us now on the phone from tucson, arizona. a lot of people even in the legal world are outraged by this ruling by the court. reporter: kiran, john, this is absolutely stunning. this man who was on the fbi ten most wanted list of 2006, nabbed about four years ago and in prison for the last four years, now with the possibility of getting out of prison on bond after his convict
this morning. at 7:10 eastern we ll be joined by the newly named ceo of bp, bob dudley. for some great insights into the oil spill looking back and looking ahead, check out cnn .cm oil disaster. if you haven t visited yet, it is an exceptional experience. an airbus plane carrying 152 people crashed outside of the capital of pakistan, saddislama. officials say they pulled 45 bodies from the wreckage so far but amazingly, at least eight people survived the crash. using the global resores of cnn, reza sayah has been tracking it all from our islamabad bureau. res za, as they look to a cause right now, is weather possibly a factor? reporter: it s possible. weather was very poor at the time of the crash, kiran. it s very poor now. we ve had steady rains for the past 24 hours, heavy at times.
guinea pigs, hamsters and small household birds which is just one step away from snakes on a plane. birds are one step away from snakes on a plane? yeah, you allow all those animals, what s next? somebody s going to bring their anaconda. or their bald python. put it in a cage under your seat, it s fine. snakes on a plane. next on the most news in the morning, the twist on the financial dangers of online dating. scammers pretending to be u.s. servicemen deployed overseas looking for love and money. what s the military doing about it? it is a cnn special investigation that you have to see. 24 minutes after the hour. slee. what i wouldn t do for a do-over. [ female announcer ] new neutrogena® clinical skincare. exclusive ion2 complex combined with activating cream helps restore collagen depleted skin. neutrogena clinical skincare is clinically tested to undo the look of a year s worth of skin aging in just 4 weeks. do-overs do exist.
27 minutes after the hour. they used photos of soldiers stolen off of the web to create fake profiles of eligible bachelors on a host of different dating websites. the scammers goal, lure women into falling in love, then dupe them out of their money. it s just amazing how low people will stoop. cnn has confirmed that it is happening to everyone from foot soldiers, all the way up to generals at the pentagon. our special investigations unit correspondent abbie boudreau is live in atlanta this morning. it is horrible to think this is happening. i mean obviously in many cases the soldiers have no idea that their pictures and profiles are going up. what are they saying about this? reporter: well, most of them, kiran, have no idea. some of them are stationed overseas in iraq or afghanistan and they have no clue that their images are being used by
credit for, banged around the water pretty good and maybe dispersed it further. dispersed oil doesn t mean it is gone. it is still in the water, it is just floating around. but the natural biodegradation process is going to take hold as well and just because we can see it doesn t mean it s not there. it is still going to take years before the gulf is back to where it should be. rob marciano for us this morning, thanks so much. unfortunately, another problem though off the coast of louisiana this morning. another well leaking oil. a barge crashed into an abandoned well. it happened yesterday in an inlet just north of barataria bay. oil, natural gas and water now spraying 100 feet into the air. crews are on the scene. they ve laid thousands of miles of boom around it. the area s already been badly sorry, thousands of feet of boom. contaminated by crude from the bp spill. it is not clear how much oil is leaking right to you or how long it will take to cap that abandoned well. ke