allegations that the military committed war crimes. workers digging at a site where two painted tombs were discovered. in germany, two pose before the annual chinese lantern plant there. and another blistering hot day here in washington, d.c., the national zoo male panda cools off by snacking on a popsicle. hot shots, pictures worth a thousand words. groundhog day has an oracle named phil. the world cup has paul the octopus. here s cnn s jeannie moos with a most unusual soothe sayer. reporter: he s an octopus who doesn t realize his goal is to call world cup winners. the psychic sea creature. the mystic mollusk has gotten famous. reporter: they lowered two boxes labeled with the flags of competing teams. each box contains muscles, one of paul s favorite foods. he picked the winner like six
american war and our inability to prosecute on it successfully is going to be a detriment to our national security. petraeus hasn t had a chance to get in there and get this thing cooking, and they said the same thing about iraq that they are saying about afghanistan now, so let s just see what general petraeus can do. mary? the cnn polling is clear. 58% do not agree with it, and so, yes, all americans say americans say it is an american war. people still disagree with what is going on. roland martin and mary mat tin, guys, thanks so much. some of the biggest names in the u.s. senate, right now they are the targets of a hoax claiming they are dead. we re investigating what s going on. this is a serious important story, and major league baseball is getting dragged into the legal fight over arizona s immigration law. i can t wait to just sit by the pool and relax. yea. [loud music playing and yelling]
challenging a state law requiring immigrants to carry their registration papers at all times, and allowing the police to question residency status. the justice department says that the immigration is a federal matter and suing to stop the law from taking effect at the end of this month. we have comprehensive coverage this hour, and we will hear from some key players, but let s begin with cnn s lisa sylvester who has the latest. lisa? wolf, the justice department is basing the argument on preemption in that the states can not pass law that preempts federal law. in this case, the justice department is asking the state of arizona for an injunction to keep the law from taking effect at the end of this month, and to take a step further to declare the law null and void. reporter: this new law would make illegal immigration a state crime, and it would make them
fall off of the clip by 2011. and md says, maybe it is time to get our tax cuts expire, and time to get our financial house in order. is the political will there to increase taxes in washington? this ought to be fun to watch. dan writes, this of course is a sunset law which from its inception had an expiration date. talking about the bush tax cuts. the only negative here is the alternative minimum tax intended to apply only to millionaires, but now it enshares some of the upper middle-class whic can be fixed separately by congress. as for the rest of the taxes to expire, the free lunches that the bushes gave us should and will expire and noted a bad deal for the balance sheet either. and bill writes that congress needs to act, because it is a near fatal blow to the economic recovery. if you want to read more on this, you will find it on my blog, cnn.com/caffertyfile.
this story, including whether or not those two relief wells supposed to be ready by early to mid-august, whether they will get the job done. thanks very much. thad allen says he believes bp is still on track to complete those relief wells in august. they are seen as the best hope of permanently plugging the leak. bp chief operating officer says he believes the relief wells will in fact work. he told cnn the company has other options. reporter: let s talk about contingencies. let s say the first relief well, second, none work. what s the plan here? well, there s two pieces to that. one is this containment system we re building and the second is tieing that system back to other production facilities that wouldn t actually have the issues associated with a severe storm. so the backstop is hooking this well and the containment system