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>> this was something that could be taken out of a lab. put in the envelope. dropped in a mailbox. and people would die. >> robert stevens is the first to die. >> you know, it doesnt say natural causes or accident on my husbands death certificate. it says homicide. >> originally from england, in the 70s stevens and his wife maureen had moved to florida. he worked for american media incorporated. a tabloid publisher. >> theres no one that can say they didnt like him. he was just full of...

murder abroad. amanda knox was going into her junior year of college. her mother etta recalls amanda the fresh-faced 20-year-old intent on adventure. >> she was going to study abroad going into college somewhere. she didnt know where yet. >> amanda would decide on perugia, italy. her sister deanna remembers when she moved into this house which she shared with three other girls, two italians and one british student named meredith kircher. why was she so set on that apartment? >> i think...

what, if any, overseas connections he might have. joining us also fran townsend. so, brian, this was an fbi sting. what do we know about how it went down? it appears to have been a very elaborate string. authorities were tracking mr. ferdaus for the better part of this year. they do indicate that he began some of his various plotting last year but they have tracked him at least since january. they have used undercover agents and at least one cooperating witness who started taping conve...

benefits. its been really at 400 or higher since april. thats really not conducive to cutting the unemployment rate but a good number this week. it fell to 391,000 and thats better than we had expected. another important report, the final read on how fast the economy grew in the second quarter. this is the gdp report. gross domestic product. the sum of everything that this economy puts out and it grew at 1.3%. so, for all those people who are talking about a double-dip recession, this ...

>> right there on the scene, while nick of the most punitive men in america, michael moore. >> a happy day for me as 1 i will be unemployed when i dont have to make another movie and read another one of these book. the real people in this country are in charge and i dont have to do any dust anymore. that is my nevada. >> that was half an hour ago. miraculously, you have appeared on time. it was a little bit here, we lock you out. >> i was down there at the protest but we made it back. ...

positioned himself very much as the grown-up in the room, the reasonable one, something that the presidents advisors thought would help him appeal to the independent voters that he needs if hes going to win relection next year. were seeing a very different tact now. a very aggressive tact, especially after the president saw dismal approval ratings following that bruising debt ceiling battle. weve seen the president taking his message to the home turf, as you mentioned, of his rivals an...

a week after irene hit the east coast, the central gulf coast is getting ready for storm with flooding rains. louisiana governor bobby jindal already declared a state of emergency. oil companies are pulling workers off the rigs in the gulf. some places including new orleans could get as much as 20 inches of rain. texas could really use some of that rain from the tropical system. it doesnt look promising. 14 big wildfires are burning in that state. just one of them west of dallas. firef...

ethnic kurds were holding a peace rally, when dozens of young men en masse apparently hijacked that rally. this set off a confrontation with police and kurds are the minority and theyve been out on the streets protesting because many are angry the turkish military have been attacking their villages. president obama is moving his big speech on jobs from next wednesday to next thursday night. john boehner turned down the presidents request to address congress wednesday. why? it would be ...

days. last night they found him. gentleman vars crittendon is accused of killing a mother of four in atlanta. the fbi arrested crittendon before he boarded a red-eye flight from orange county, california to atlanta. he was in the news about two years ago when he played for the washington wizards. he and a teammate pulled guns on each other in the locker room. the power is still out for about five million customers courtesy of irene. today a white house team will visit some of the har...

good morning. we begin with lingering misery caused by hurricane irene. youre looking at live pictures now from patterson, new jersey, where crews are actually going door-to-door rescuing people from their homes. that water, by the way, coming from the passaic river is supposed to crest today at its highest level since 1903. a pretty eye-catching image of how massive the storm was. this is coming to us from nasa. its an animated satellite of irene as its churning up the eastern seaboar...