between these three men and the crime, and they came up with a theory of a satanic killing, and the evidence of that was also very weak. so what you had tamron was a problem for both sides. the defense wanted out, and they wanted the three men released, and all this state would agree to was a new trial in which the defendants would then have to take another gamble at whether they would get convicted or not, but at the same time the state realized that the case was very weak, so what they came up with was this compromise the three men maintain their innocence, and nonetheless pleaded guilty, and that is a technique that the supreme court has upheld before so based on that then the state basically said, okay, you have served enough time, you are free, so it is face-saving for both sides. the lawyers for these three men say there is no way that the state would let them walk free if they thought they really were the killers and so, basically, what you have here is both sides gett
college. who s this young figure skater she s at the center of a military scandal and a heartbreaking mystery. take a good look. good day, i m andrea mitchell live in new york today. the dow is struggling. choppy trading today as stagnant growth in the u.s., credit crunches in europe continue to weigh markets down. greg, i know it s rock-n-roll every day. yesterday we were down 400 points. what is feeding into all of this anxiety? european stocks were getting hammered today. what are the indicators here that you re looking at? i think it s the two major themes that have been rocking the markets for several weeks now. it s europe and the u.s. economy in. the case of europe you had a flare up of conference about the financial stability of their banking system. there was a report in the wall street journal that the federal reserve is scrutinizing the american subsidiaries of some european banks to make sure they re adequately funded. in europe there have been comments and
thank you for waking up with fox 5 morning news. steve is taking a little break. i m allison seymour. i m tony perkins. that is a nice picture out there. i think the nicest one we ve seep this early in the morning over the last couple of days. tucker barnes is here to tell us more about the weather. comfortable temperatures. we are back generally in the 60s. low 70s here in washington. a nice friday. we ll do a little bit of cloud cover but later this afternoon, more sunshine and we should be dry today. let s get to it. satellite-radar, speaking of dry, not completely dry out to the west. got a few light sprinkles. not even sure these are touching the ground. my be a few sprinkles if are watching out towards front royal, out towards winchester. here in wash, just a mix of sun and clouds to start your morning. it will be a partly sunny day today and we should be dry. i think it will be a decent afternoon for us. let s switch gears and do some temperatures. lots of 60s out
the islamist terrorists. we this had the christmas day bombing, not the one on the flight but the on other one on fed ex shipments. gregg: speaking of terrorists let s talk about libya and moammar khadafy who says he is willing to talk to america but he refuses to give up his position. so what is the point of talking to the guy? this has been going for five months. people have said that khadafy is losing or close to making a deal to leave the country but frankly it s just a bunch of games. it on doesn t mean it s impossible but you cannot presented indicate your strategy that he will leave power. the avenues for him going somewhere has been closed off by the criminal court in the hague
said the tide of war is receding but nobody gave that message to the islamist terrorists. we this had the christmas day bombing, not the one on the flight but the on other one on fed ex shipments. gregg: speaking of terrorists let s talk about libya and moammar khadafy who says he is willing to talk to america but he refuses to give up his position. so what is the point of talking to the guy? this has been going for five months. people have said that khadafy is losing or close to making a deal to leave the country but frankly it s just a bunch of games. it on doesn t mean it s impossible but you cannot presented indicate your strategy that he will leave power. the avenues for him going