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American couple, kennel and gwendolyn spent three decades spying for cuba. the judge said they deserve heavy punishment for betraying the united states. law enforcement arrested the couple last year after f.b.i. sting operations. officials say they were motivated by a shared communist ideology in support of the cuban revolution. >> apple responding to the backlash over the iphone 4. what its offering folks who already have the phone and its simple message to potential buyers. ♪ [ music ] if yo...

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Fix. lets bring in julia boorstin at the apple store in new york city. okay, julia. steve jobs said the problem has been blown out of proportion. what are you hearing down there? >> well, down here, people say they are still very loyal to the apple brand. we talked to a number of iphone owners, both of iphone 4 and the older model, the iphone 3gs, and they say they think its kind of annoying, but willing to keep buying apple products, anyway. and one thing steve jobs pointed out is he says its n...

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Hes talking to the iphone buyers. >> neil: he did -- he said i have this plastic cover. whatever this thing -- you can put it over the iphone 4 and youre done. its free. take it. >> thats like saying perhaps my foot accidentally hit your knee and youre bleeding so ill give you a band-aid but its not my fault. >> neil: you thought it was half as ass. >> it was. >> neil: i heard this type of maam by pam biness out of other people. >> what im prepared to be held accountable for the policies i put i...

Customers, computer geeks and even wall street investors will be watching for todays announcement. >> you know, you could help me out if youre on wi-fi, if you could just get off. >> reporter: the problem with the new iphone 4 is so serious, apples steve jobs is expected to address it at a news conference later today. holding the phone in the so-called death grip can disconnect calls and because of that, "consumer reports" this week refused to recommend it. >> you may lose a call in some instanc...

>> is that plastic? honestly, $29 seems like a lot of money. what do you think it costs them to manufacture? >> it is. but its free if you bought an iphone 4. it looks like a piece of rubber, like a rubber band. and on the side, they have the little buttons so you can turn up or down the volume watt without taking off the case. some of the people who bought one of these, one guy told us he bought it not because he had reception problems, but just because the iphone itself is slippery. so people ...

For weeks, bp and the white house have told us that the brightest minds in the business were working on a way to cap the leak in the gulf. but now one guy claims he really came up with a plan. a self-described lowly plumber from brooklyn. at least thats what the guy says. his name is leslie goldstein, his trenels, 55 -- credentials? 55 years in the biz. i look at it as a pipe. if its a pipe its a plumbing job whether its small, big, or indifferent. thats the way i treated looking at it. >> jon: ...

They have a major problem. this is a minor problem, returns of the iphone 4 have been much less than initial returns of the iphone 3 gs, the last model. so people do occasionally return their phones. they think they have a great product. and he emphasized over and over that even with its little snafu and even giving people these cases, they are still confident this is a good product. >> julia, good to see you. thank you. apples troubles with the iphone hot topic on the late-night shows and the...

Apple claims thats not entirely accurate. but the fact that we would get a leak like that from apple is -- >> its not entirely inaccurate either, right? >> they havent said its totally a lie. so maybe theres a grain of truth in there. >> if youve got a design of a product that people are spending hundreds of dollars on, how does that fit? >> its a misstep for apple. because so many people have been replicating this problem. its a widespread problem and what were going to see today is theyre goin...