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for this wednesday, august 3. we have just gotten confirmation that bomb squad officers in australia have secured the safety of an 18-year-old girl who was in a house with a suspicious device attached to her. the operation to free her lasted three hours, they say her life was potentially at risk. nearby houses were evacuated and neighboring streets closed off. ill talk to a reporter there in just a few minutes. stocks across the board are lower today, investors are worried about th...

the president said he wanted a deal by friday, so lawmakers met with him at the white house day after day after day. they took a break on friday, and the president pushed again. >> if washington operates as usual, and cant get anything done, lets at least avert armageddon. >> joining me now, white house budget director, mr. lou. thank you for being here. >> thank you, candy. >> we are told by sources since the white house meeting on thursday and this morning, there has been no progress...

we begin with the resignation of a key executive in the rupert murdoch media empire. rebekah brooks is out. many people were outraged when brooks kept her job after the newspaper was shut down for scandalous reporting tactics. and as brooks steps down, the investigations ramp up. the fbi now investigating the murdoch empire right here in the united states. lawmakers demanding the probe amid reports that murdochs journalists hacked the cell phones of 9/11 victims and their families. sus...

hammered with angry questions. egyptians take security into their own hands. even some children are armed with illegal guns. the revolution giving way to a wild west mentality. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." the united states is another day closer to a possible default on its debts. 19 days before the deadline theres no sign that political leaders are any closer to preventen an unprecedented and frightening train wreck. right now members of congress are in the fift...

internet analysts are warning that the bad guys are winning. im wolf blitzer. youre in "the situation room." supporters and rivals always knew this day would come, when he kicked off his second presidential campaign. after all, hes pretty much been running since he lost back in 2008. today romney declared that hes ready to take on president obama. >> when barack obama came to office, we wished him well and hoped for the best. now in the third year of his fourth year term or his four-ye...

To act. >> just to be clear, this is the first really foremost cyber strategy, right? >> thats right, mary. going back to the bush administration, there was a cyber strategy developed while i was at the white house working with others in the national security community. that was really the first wave was really a defensive document. how do we close you will havuln. you will recall there was the virus launched against the iranian nuclear program. the first thing you want to do is protect your -- ...

columbia. thats why we are reporting from outside. there are major developments involving cell phones, information that you need to know from the world health organization about the possible danger of cell phone use and cancer. stand by. elizabeth cohen has a full report. were also watching bin laden and the black money trail. new information coming in on money and bin laden. stand by for that as well. well have the latest on anthony weiner, the congressman from new york. our own dan...

Carolina? >> he has to win. he has to make people take notice. he has a problem there. the way for him to win is to speak to those republicans for whom these have been a terrible three and a half years. if theyre at work, theyre in anxiety. if he can speak to them, he will have something. the money in the republican party is not going in that direction. the money in the republican party is driven by other kinds of concerns that make it difficult to talk about joblessness. make it difficult to ta...

Santorum will launch his campaign four days later in pennsylvania near the coal mines where his grandfather worked and congresswoman michele bachmann says shell reveal her plans for the race next month in iowa. shell make the announcement in waterloo, thats her hometown. joining me to talk more about these candidates is michael smerconish. thanks for joining us, michael. >> thank you. >> lets start with rick perry. for many months he was saying, no, he would not, and now hes saying he might. >> ...

Career as a pedophile lieu to that lax supervision. >> this new report was commissioned by american catholic bishops conducted by researchers at john j. college of criminal justice and funded in part by the justice department. it concluded that celibacy could not be blamed for the epidemic and that gay priests were no more likely to abuse than heterosexual ones. more controversially, the report says theres no single reason behind the abuse, but it did blame an era. listen. >> the abuse is a resu...