the internet we will need them, won t we? that s right. shepard: gerri willis live for us. thanks, gerri. the boy scows say they need more time to decide whether to drop their ban on gay scouts and gay troop leaders. the national executive board met this week at its headquarters in irving texas. board members decided to put the proposal up for a vote at the organization s annual meeting which is coming up in may. speaking of the chinese. their hackers are still attacking the wall street journal. that s according to the news corps chairman rupert murdoch who owns the journal and network. last week he treat tweet and i quote chinese were hack us or were over the weekends. executives from the new york times and the washington post say hackers got into their computer systems as well too. sources at bloomberg news managed to fight off attempted cyber attack. they are good with computers there. federal reserve says hackers infiltrated one of its internal web sites but did not effec
governor romney may go to new jersey to tour some of the damage with you? i have no idea, nor am i the least bit concerned or interested. right. i ve got a job to do here in new jersey that s much bigger than presidential politics and i could care less about any of that stuff. i have a job to do. i have 2.4 million people out of power. devastation on the shore, floods in the northern part of my state. if you think i give a damn about presidential politics, then you don t know me. four days later, rupert murdoch the news corps chairman, owner of fox news fired off this tweet, quote, christie must redeclare for romney or take blame for the next four dire years. today we re learning the fascinating inside details of what happened next. the same day as the tweet, governor romney personally reached out to murdoch with a phone call. the new york times reports, quote, mr. christie told mr. murdoch that amid the
attack and valuable data for that program had been compromised. harris? harris: jennifer griffin live for us in d.c. thank you very much. news corps chairman and chief executive officer rupert murdoch now publicly defending his company against a tabloid hacking scandal. news corps owns fox news and other outlets. investigators saying staffers at the news of the world tabloid hacked into the voice mail accounts of people they were covering. news corps has since closed down that newspaper but the controversy has continued and now murdock is telling the wall street journal which is his company also, that news corps handled the crisis, quote, extremely well and in every way possible and only made minor mistakes. he is also promising to create an independent committee to, quote, investigate every charge of improper conduct. both rupert murdoch and chief operating officer james murdock plan to appear before british lawmakers to answer questions about the scandal. we re told both men will
voice mail accounts of people whom they were covering, including a teenage murder victim. news corps is said to have closed down that newspaper after 168 years. but the controversy gross even now. news corps also owns fox news channel and many other media outlets. one of the largest in the world. hours from now news corps chairman and chief executive officer rupert murdoch and his son james murdock, the deputy chief operating officer are scheduled to testify before british members of parliament. the former news of the world editor rebekah brooks also scheduled to be there. all this controversy has hurt news corps financially. the company s shares are down 4.3% today alone. and since the scandal broke, shares of nws, news corps class a have lost 17% of their value. overall loss on paper roughly $8 billion. the fox report s chief correspondent jonathan hunt live at our new york city newsroom on
now. news corps also owns fox news channel and many other media outlets. one of the largest in the world. hours from now news corps chairman and chief executive officer rupert murdoch and his son james murdock, the deputy chief operating officer are scheduled to testify before british members of parliament. the former news of the world editor rebekah brooks also scheduled to be there. all this controversy has hurt news corps financially. the company s shares are down 4.3% today alone. and since the scandal broke, shares of nws, news corps class a have lost 17% of their value. overall loss on paper roughly $8 billion. the fox report s chief correspondent jonathan hunt live at our new york city newsroom on our parent company. back to the whistleblower s death, what precisely do we know? shep, sean hall was a former show biz reporter for the news of the world. he was the first journalist to