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Wireless is limitless. coming up, texts on trial, and there is a big focus of text messages and phone messages in the rape trial out of stubenville, ohio and how a cell phone could determine guilt or innocence. here is a look at the stories topping the news. pope francis met with cardinals this morning and including those who were not part of the conclave and not eligible to vote. and big news for the carnival cruise ship. legend cut the trip short and heading back to tampa, because of a p...

Stories making news. another carnival cruiseliner apparently experiencing problems this morning. this time the carnival "dream" in port in st. maarten in caribbean. they were notified of generator issues, but not requested assistance. several passengers have contacted cnn with stories of power outages and overflowing toilets. >> they said they were working on the ship and then there was the generators were having a problem. and an hour later they said the problem is worse than they expected. t...

Commander-in-chief does not socialize more with republicans in washington because he is focused on his family. well take a closer look at who has been hanging out with the president. and an explosive day in court as the rape trial for two high school football players accused of assaulting a classmate officially begins. we are live in steubenville, ohio, a highly charged case that has captured the nation as kellys court takes on one of the most controversial cases in the country today. >> the foo...

Look. >> im jeff gordon. >> and then by the way, and tell, you want to go again. yeah, lets go again. >> pepsi max, 7 million hits on youtube and plenty of advertising and a pretty cool setup. jeff gordon, and a good sport. >> megyn: that guy did the right thing. he did the right thing. he was going to report him to the authorities, and was a good sport in the end. wow! >> and jeff gordon is quite a driver. >> its hilarious as long as youre not in the passenger seat and its not as funny. >> trac...

Education of our children, talking about the security and safety of our senior citizens. were talking about trying to get our economy growing again. this is not a laughing matter. of those kinds of comments. >> congressman james clyburn, thank you for joining us. i appreciate it. >> thank you for having me. >> absolutely. i want to move on to developing news. and that is the rape trial of two high school football players. its getting under way in steubenville, ohio. they are accused of raping ...

>> pasco claims his rage erupted because his victim rejected him and they never did have sex. some of the evidence indicated otherwise. >> well, they turned it into a rape trial. they did their tests. and there was a presence of spermatizoa. she was partially nude. >> i heard an inmate off camera yell something. and cephis whole persona changed. what are you looking at, cephis? >> im marking someone. >> why? >> because he just said child molester. break his [ bleep ] neck. total disrespect for a...

Prosecutors table were not the prosecutors trying his rape trial, turned from those lawyers, shot the court reporter. >> court reporter julie brandau dies a few minutes later. >> i was right outside the courtroom. >> ash joshi is the prosecutor in nichols rape trial, one of the attorneys nichols is looking for. hes making his way to the courtroom for nichols trial when hes stopped by the deputies. >> the deputies were all yelling at me to get off the floor. and it was not at all a suggestion. it...

The well publicized 1991 rape trial of his nephew, william kennedy smith. even though smith is acquitted, the political damage to kennedy is clear. in 1994-94, ted kennedy was somewhat weak. he had just come off of this period of kind of reckless bachelorhood that had brought him a lot of bad headlines. he didnt look particularly good. he seemed actually like somebody who you could beat. >> romney offers himself up as the anti-kennedy. >> he made a great impression. we thought he had a great sto...

You want to take on ted kennedy in massachusetts as your first political task. and he was very committed, very engaged. >> in fact the 1994 massachusetts senate race would be a fascinating precursor to the 2012 presidential election. with many of the same issues and campaign tactics put in play by both sides. romney, playing up his business success. his opponent, questioning it. and questions about romneys religion. the church of jesus christ of latter day saints. but in 1994 it was ted kennedy,...

This long-held notion that in a rape trial it is the victim that is on trial. it is not the defendant. so i was just horrified and felt compelled to respond. >> you are a lawyer now who advocates on behalf of rape victims. and you have said that his comments have made your job more difficult. explain that. >> about two years ago i started kind of investigating why there are so many limited legal protections around the country to women who mother through rape. and what i struck on was this idea t...