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. i m carol kos tecostello live fw york this morning. it s a brand-new day in every sense of the word for amanda knox. she ll 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 british roommate, meredith kercher. knox held back tears speaking to reporters thanking her parents and her friends for their support during her time in prison. what s important for me to say is just thank you to everyone who has believed in me, who has defended me, who has supported my family. i just want my family is the most important thing to me right now, and i just want to go be with them. so thank you for being there for me. italian prosecutors say they ll appeal the knox ruling to i
contempt of court charges. so, we don t know exactly who s coming up but the prosecution has been mirroringing what they did in in the preliminary hearing. after cross-examination and redirect of dr. cooper, we could possibly hear later on today from some experts, from some of the phone chops will be analyzing phone records. also this week, we are expected to hear from at least three girl friends of dr. murray, one of whom the prosecution claims was on the phone with him, craig, when he discovered that michael jackson wasn t breathing. crisp dal glenn live outside the courthouse in los angeles for us this afternoon. kristen, thank you. you belt. joining me here in the studio, ricky kleman, legal analyst, former sex crimes prosecutor. we have been having you in here to talk about all things jackson, all things knox as well. talk about michael jackson and the murder trial. we will start there the girlfriends that kristen just alluded to there, perhaps as many as three, what do we e
doctor s office? well, that is a very good question that certainly jurors would like to know the answer to. there are various explanations, none of them good. this is a question over the weekend. i thought about this and i wanted to ask you this, make sure i got this in. the defense is contending that jackson took drugs after murray left the room. correct. can they prove that? well, they can certainly attempt to prove it through an expert or more than one expert. this case can only, craig, go for the defense on the basis of expert testimony. there is no other possible way and what an expert would have to testify to is that either the blood levels or the blood levels in combination with the stomach contents, we know there s this mysterious lidocaine in the stomach contents, that that would have to show that it could only have been ingested, we thought, by mouth of michael jackson. now the theory seems to be switching a bit that perhaps he gave himself an injection. that s the
meanwhile there are no plans to recall the u.s. ambassador to syria after a mob pelted his car. jurors in the involuntary manslaughter trial of michael jackson s doctor heard the 911 call placed by the body guards today. bank of america says it will start charging customers a $5 a month fee for using debit cards to make purchases. u.s. capitol police were not amused by tweets from the onion today saying congress with holding a group of children for ransom. a formal investigation is under way. now back to hardball. any reform should follow another simple principle.
400,000 since april. that is too high. economists say to make a dent in the unemployment rate. federal authorities have charged a young massachusetts physics grad in a terror plot. agents say rezwan ferdaus planned to use remote control airlines to hit the u.s. capitol and the pentagon. they would have been filled with a plastic explosive. the fbi says that they arrested him, he s an american citizen, after a lengthy undercover operation. john mccain leading a delegation of republican senators on a trip to libya today. the group has been meeting with libya s national transition council, the rebel leaders that drove moammar gadhafi from power. a spokesman says the council knows gadhafi s general location. senator mccain talked to cnn from tripoli. i think that the people of libya, the ones that i ve talked to, would like to catch him alive. they would like to see him on trial for the horrendous crimes that he has committed. every few days they come across another grave.