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Shep. >> shepard: its my understanding that the militarys rules ban him from being with any other prisoners, right? >> thats correct. since the plea deal last month, a one time aid to bin laden has been in solitary. his cell is near to detainee who some military sources say he has essentially lost his mind. one of the reasons why he is emphatic that he be moved. now what he and others learned in court today is that there is no plan in place that specifies where and how prisoners should serve out...

We did get good news from the okeefe family who says none of the injuries are life threatening. although sean okeefe is listed in critical condition, it appears he will recover, shep. >> thats great news and more science today of just how important senator stevens really was to that state. >> well, yeah. you know this state wouldnt be a state without senator ted stevens. his fingerprints are all over the place. the flags throughout the state are at half-staff. we see that his influence is everyw...

Of the judge says its not clear if the fail to reach an agreement on all the counts or some of the accounts. he sent a question back to the jury. he also told them it is accept to be return verdicts on some counts but not all. shep? >> shepard: all right. updates and breaking news from mike tobin live from planet blago tonight. thank you. he usually speaks for president obama. but today the white house press secretary robert gibbs tried to explain some of his own comments. he is in a mess of it ...

Expected to stay is it that way. scottish authorities defended the doctor who made the three month progress nossments the spokesperson says the opinion was based on advice from numerous specialists and called the doctors a quote, professional of unimpeachable integrity. bp has put the brakes on work to permanently seal damaged well in the gulf of mexico. were now told it will be at least two days before the crews start working there again. the reason? this storm system thats working its way acro...

Authority knew that because of the economy they should plan for more people. well, they planned for 10,000 and instead 30,000 showed up. witnesses say people became frustrated after being redirected several times. and there was a lot of pushing in those lines. add that to the hot and humid georgia summer, paramedics had to treat 62 people at the scene. mostly for heat exhaustion. 20 was hospitalized. one woman went into labor and a young boy suffered a seizure. late word is that all of these pat...

Blago for the last 11 days and is there now. what are they going to do? >> it started of out looking like a simple jury question. of course, its with a very exciting because we hadnt heard from the jury for about 8 days. then the note to read the jurys note in the courtroom was delayed and delayed a little longer. pretty soon we learned that the blago brothers had been summoned back to court. finally when everybody returned to the courtroom the note was read outloud and we learned this jury cann...

>> and, shep, the doctor says this man is likely to go on attacking and killing until he is caught. >> shepard: i mentioned authorities had linked him to 16 attacks in michigan and today 17th man claims he, too, was a victim. what do we know about that? >> this happened early on saturday morning. this was another african-american man attacked as he walked along a street again in flint, michigan. he was stabbed several times, including being stabbed in the eye. now, he says the attacker then got ...

Says that the entire situation is, quote, troubling. shep? >> shepard: catherine herridge in washington tonight. catherine, thanks. >> you are welcome. >> shepard: want to get to the plane crash now that killed former senator stevens and four others on alaskan mountain. tonight we are learning brand new details of what happened in the moments after that plane went down and before the help got there. well have the heart breaking story of a child and his father lying in that wreckage. only one wou...

This afternoon. the fishing waders may have saved them. >> thats right, shep. we know they were heading for a fishing trip. they were dressed appropriately with warm clothes and fishing those rubber waders that you mentioned kept them at least relatively dry in what had to be miserable conditions. we know it was wet and told and breezy. so that certainly helped. those good samaritans brought a tarp with them which acted like a tent over the parts of the plane that had broken up. they used blanke...

Diseases. the united states is planning to sell more than 990 -- kuwait. its part of an earth to build up defense systems in the region against potential missile strikes from iran. mike emanuel with the news at the pentagon tonight. how did this play with the overall u.s. strategy in the middle east? >> shep, can i tell you i was with defense secretary robert gates in march as he visited saudi arabia and united arab emirates. all the buzz was what are you going to sell us to protect us from the ...