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Theyre very cool animal. they really are. the whitey bulger mob trial, the reputed crime boss is possibly going to take the stand in his own defense. will he? our legal panel takes up that case. plus is the other shoe about to drop in major league baseballs doping scandal? some big names who might soon see very lengthy suspensions.

Theyre expecting 140,000 people in san diegoing this weekend for comic-con, its bigger than ever. >> i wont make fun. >> were going next year. trekkie. >> if hugh jackman is there, im going. >> im mara schiavocampo. stay tuned. "way too early" starts right now. >> just a few years ago, the auto industry wasnt just struggling, it was flat lining. gm and chrysler were on the verge of collapse. we refused to do nothing and let detroit go bankrupt. i bet on american workers and ingenuity. three year...

Conversation -- >> but i want to have it honestly, and when you have jesse jackson calling florida an apartheid state, when the number of blacks and whites that use stand your ground relatively even, we dont need that kind of rhetoric. that doesnt help us move that very conversation that youre talking about. >> david webb, cornell belcher, lets the three of us continue this conversation in the days and weeks to come. thanks to both of you for coming in. >> thank, wo you, wolf. a potential witn...

Were still waiting to find out the actual cause of death. >> thanks so much. joining us now, former assistant director for the fbi in new york, bill gavin, now vice-president of a global security firm. anybody who has seen the movie, the godfather, or the sopranos how a potential witness in a mob trial could show up dead before he has a command to take the stand. what are you hearing from your law enforcement sources? what might have happened? >> so difficult to tell. this case hays taken so men...

Jon: a fox news alert from massachusetts now where a man who was hoping to testify in a high-profile mob trial has been found dead. this as 83-year-old james whitey bulger is in court today accused of participating in 19 killings during the 1970s and 80s. it was his trial in which this witness was scheduled to testify or at least was on the witness list. molly line live in boston for us now. >> reporter: heres what we know so far, the body of steven rakes, 59 years old, was found off the side of...

Department are investigating a police-involved shooting outside of a b.j. wholesale club in columbia, maryland. the word is that a customer inside the store was brandishing a knife. police responded and wound up shooting the man. he was taken away to the hospital. reportedly his injuries are not life-threatening. this is taking place at a bjs whole say club in the 9,000 block of snowden river parkway in columbia, maryland. well keep you updated as events proceed there. the whitey bulger mob tr...

A.m. tomorrow morning and noon. well have to wait and see how they deal with it. we understand volunteers and so many people are sandbagging and preparing for the worst in medicine hat, fredericka. >> all right. terrible situation. all the best to the people there. appreciate it. next, we have heard lots of hit men testimony of brutal gangland shootings. highlights of the biggest mob trial to hit boston in years straight ahead. at his curren, bob will retire when hes 153, which would be fine i...

Im diana perez.. good morning. im diana perez. >> im john muller. here are some top headlines were following on "world news now" -- the aking commissioner of irs is offering to restore taxpayer trust after new details come out how irs spent lavishly on conferences. jury selection begins in boston in the high-profile mob trial of whitey bulger. the 83-year-old is charged with a long list of crimes. prosecutors link him to 19 murders. senator frank is being remembered. he died of pneumonia. ...

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Incredible, one juror, all they need for a hung jury, can say, i have a reasonable doubt. >> court prosecutions regularly depend on the testimony of witnesses who, shall we say, are not saints. think of every mob trial, right. its not unusual to have a -- someone with not the most stellar reputation to testify. >> what the prosecutors have been so good at doing here is they have all this other evidence. they really didnt need rick gates. e-mails, documents, folks from the banks, the accountants,...