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Of the bottom of the polls? >> mr. attorney general, the blame must go to your desk. >> it is unfortunate that some used inflammatory rhetoric about a strategy that occurred in an effort to store political points. >> heated words between eric holder and republican member of congress over the fast and furious operation. why some say lawmakers are trying to score political points with this one. the morning after pill is safe enough to be sold over the counter without a prescription to girls under ...

Practice. details on a new report released. how many of us are texting while driving. here are things we thought you should know. democrats could be closer to taking back ted kennedys seat. a poll shows elizabeth warren edged seven points ahead of scott brown. that is the largest lead for warren so far. well be right back. cranberry juice? wake up! ♪ thats good morning, veggie style. hmmm [ male announcer ] for half the calories -- plus veggie nutrition. couldve had a v8. its like having porta...

Texting while driving increased 50% despite a push by several states to ban the practice. one in 20 drivers are using phones in some capacity at any given moment while behind the wheel. ed if for thought. a gut check and a lot of you started tweeting. the obama administration blocking the decision to put the morning after pill over the counter. they wanted to make plan b available to anyone without a prescription. its only available over the counter to girls over the age of 17. yesterday health ...

it was a hollywood mystery that captured the attention of the world. now after 30 years, startling new allegations in the death of actress natalie wood. the star of west side story and miracle on 34th street drowned in 1981 boating off the california coast with her husband, robert wagner and actor christopher walken. her death was initially ruled an accident. but investigators are now reopening the case. next hour were going to talk to a man who was right there the night she died. he s...

>> all right. on the new tape, jackson reportedly slams his family for taking his money. yesterday, it was the complicated love life of dr. conrad murray taking center stage. prosecutors called three of his girlfriends to the stand trying to show he was too distracted to take good care of jackson. he was on the phone with one of his girlfriends when jackson stopped breathing. >> a bus driver from new jersey caught on camera texting while driving a busload of passengers down the highway. hes obli...

Savings, their 401(k)s were dead. martha: nancy and jason, thank you. that conversation will be continued over the next many months. thanks for being here today. all right, for the first time ever we got a chance to hear for ourselves what casey anthony said to the police when she first came in after she told them that her daughter had disappeared. you will hear that interrogation, what they asked her. were going to play it for you moments from now, and you can see what you believe about her s...

The citys 24,000 metered parking spaces. and 12,000 more in city-owned garages. if it works, look for it to expand here and in other big cities. but you wonder whether or not there will be public service campaigns to tell people not to use the app and drive. in any event, its estimated in this city alone, people circling around a block, that accounts for about 30% of the congestion. so thats why cities like san francisco looking for, you know, cool technology that could help solve one of our mos...

>> reporter: open floodgates, thousands hit by floodwaters so new orleans stays dry. the alternative, city officials say, would have been worse than katrina. >> water is pouring through 15 of 125 floodgates at morganza, louisiana right now, a quarter of the gates will eventually be opened. downstream, water from the spillway is already overrunning some homes. as many as 25,000 could go under water in the next few weeks. president obama is welcoming jordan king abdallah to the white h...

So you got to work it. definitely work it. >> james? >> i bill, i saw you on "morning joe" the other day and you made an interesting point which is when you talk about the youth movement out there and how they function, their daily lives. talk on the phone, texting while driving. theyre peripatetic, they all have add. tell me how it is that you have a group of people, 18 to 24, tell me how that group of people is going to vote for a newt gingrich or a ron paul. or, lets see, a mitt romney. >> pa...

A state lawmaker wants to have a device installed in your car to jam it from running. if it passes, it would be the first state to do it. he wants to put this technology in police cars, fire trucks, and even on the drivers seats of buses as well. manufacturers do admit, brooke, that the technology is not perfect. it only works with the users phone itself and their car and big surprise here, it doesnt work on iphones or those older style cell phones but you really have to be addicted to your cell...