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this hour two american hikers are now facing eight years in prison in iran. iranian state run television says josh fattal and shane bauer were sentenced today. the two have been locked up in iran since they were seized near the iraqi-kurdish border while hiking. a dramatic new security cam video of what happens on the streets of england and what happened during the riots in the uk. the footage showed masked, hooded troublemakers firing at unarmed officers. poli here in the u.s., th...

downgrade the nations credit even if a deal is reached. even if a deal is reached. its a aaa, nearly as good as cash or gold and has been almost from the begin. losing that status would raise interest rates for all of us, make mortgages cost more, stifle the economy, possibly trigger a run on the dollar. tonight, president obama restated his desire for a deal that includes tax increases on wealthier americans as well as spending cuts. he cited statistics appealing to bipartisanship and...

good evening everyone. breaking news, president obamas primetime call for a deal to end the debt crisis and house speaker john boehners response. the speech is coming with two competing proposals on the table. one from senate democrats and the other from house republicans, neither of which is looking very likely to pass. meantime, seven days until the government runs out of money and rating agencies are threatening to downgrade the nations credit even if a deal is reached. even if a de...

he cited statistics appealing to bipartisanship and invoked the words of ronald reagan and also acknowledged how sharply divided washington is while trying to channel a bipartisan frustration among americans for what goes on in washington. take a look. >> i realize that a lot of the new members of congress and i dont see eye to eye on many issues. but we were each elected by some of the same americans for some of the same reasons. yes, many want government to start living within its me...

Presumably, in new hampshire. where does tim pawlenty go if michele bachmann takes up all the oxygen in iowa? do you try to regroup for south carolina? look at the -- >> you go to new hampshire and south carolina. the pawlenty campaign is doing really well. hes been working systematically in organizing an excellent campaign. he also has an excellent campaign developing in new hampshire and in south carolina. hes prepared to move on through those first states. we dont know what may happen if -- i...

Hours we were told that the cia was given access to their forensic teams to go into that compound. what can they conceivably get weeks after the commando raid that wasnt already completely explored by the pakistanis? >> well, good question, since it has been over three weeks and it has been in possession of the pakistanis. the s.e.a.l.s who conducted the raid only had 40 minutes on the scene. so it is understandable to expect that there would be a lot of other things you could find out. we have ...

But some ceos are expressing doubt that congress would ever let that happen. for a nation counting every dollar, some voters say maybe the borrowing limit shouldnt be raised at all. ron foreign forney joins me liv. do you think that the house republicans in particular are willing to go and take the risk of pushing the system to the brink? >> oh, sure. theyre certainly willing to go to the brink and get every possible concession they can out of the democrats for some kind of grand package that ma...

Is the closing. thats the closing. you are right. we learn that when we pick juries if you are on a suicide run in a trial, find one your and all the other jurors will hail because you only need one. only looking for one. >> daddy got on the stand and said "thats crazy, i never touched her." the defense he set up, she has to testify. >> she has to take the stand and say dad difficult did -- daddy did this. >> she never stops crying. >> by admitting, putting that out there, her attorney, by putti...

The death of her daughter, whether it was negligent or not they will find her guilty because it is so disgusting. >>shepard: i am with you but just to give you the other side, the argument they are setting up, daddy molested and sexually abused little girl her whole life and little girl figured out a place to put this abuse where she could hide from it. then her daughter died in the pool and she feels guilty and daddy says, her father says, you are going to jail, you are going to jail, you bad g...

There is severe weather in new york, pennsylvania, west virginia, virginia, all of the way back to texas and even oklahoma. that is where tornadoes can occur to day. now, theres another area back out here called moderate and not slight, but moderate. these are levels. one, two, and three. we are in three today all of the way from dallas to memphis and rarely happens, maybe three our four times a year we will get this. so that is telling you how significant the weather will be today. it is all se...