their fair share. >> that brings me to what's being called the buffett rule, named for billionaire who says the super rich are undertaxed. the president is insisting people who earn is million a year or more pay as much in taxes or more as ordinary wage earners do. republicans are up in arms but the president says it is not class warfare -- it is math. gloria, does the president's math actually add up? >> well, what he did today really was lay down a political marker. this is a president who's been accused by his base of not participating enough in his own health care reform plan or of negotiating with himself too early. what he did this time he said, look, if this were a perfect world for me, this is what i would do, and you'll notice in here that there aren't real entitlement cuts to beneficiaries. there are some to providers in medicare. so he largely left social security untouched. medicare cut-backs to providers. so what he's saying is, i'm leaving that off the table, let's talk about taxes now and in the end, i think you can see some kind of a compromise that people are looking to that would reform the tax code and have cuts in entitlements. but we ain't there yet. >> yeah. taxes and compromises. those two words don't go together very well in washington. this seems this puts the white house or certainly the president on a collision corps rs with house speaker boehner. he has said they will not accept tax increases. >> it does. i think what we're seeing now is the routine that you see. but the real deal is going to be cut by this super committee. that's what's really important here. i think you see the political posturing going on right now, but in the end, they've got something hanging over their heads. if they don't agree to a compromise by christmas, then these draconian cuts are going to take effect because they weren't able to do their jobs. and conscienceal approval rating is down at what? 13% or 14%, congressional approval rating. so they know that they have a job to get done. if you reform the tax code and you lower the top rates for wealthiest americans but get rid of a lot of their deductions, will that be a tax increase or just leveling the playing field? we may be playing semantics here in the end. >> another question is is this just a complain platform or is this really a viable plan? because in some ways it seems as though the president is trying to i guess force the gop to look as though it is protecting millionaires. >> right. look. i think this is the opening bid. so in that sense it is political because this is the president's opening bid. honestly, there isn't anything in here that's really shocking or surprising to me. but the president did go on the record saying this is what he wants and he would veto something that did not include some amount of tax increases on the wealthy if you had benefit cuts in entitlement programs. so it is political but again, opening round, it's not a piece of slgs telling the super committ committee where he stands. we know where the republicans stand. now the super committee has to do its job and come up with something that both sides can swallow. or else they'll really be in a political pickle when these other cuts take effect. >> opening round, round one. can't wait to see round two. >> oh, right. welcome to my world, right? >> i'll leave it with you. thank you. now to atlanta where five people are deciding whether troy davis lives or dies. davis is the convicted killer of a savannah, georgia police officer. but in the years since he was sent to death row in 1991, 7 of 9 prosecution witnesses have recanted or change their stories. a campaign for clemency has spread around the world. and i am not exaggerating. but today the only views that matter belong to the georgia board of pardons and paroles. unless the board votes to spare davis' life, he is set to die by lethal injection 7:00 p.m. local time wednesday. my colleague david mattingly just outside today's hearing joins me now on the television. david, whom is the board actually hearing from today? >> reporter: randi, just a few minutes ago i spoke to davis' attorney. he says that they are now finished with their presentation before the board. so the board has heard everything that is going to be said in this case now in troy davis' favor. he said that the board members had been looking at this case, studying it for months prior to today. he said that they were taking it very seriously. they asked a lot of questions. even questions about evidence, he says, that has not been submitted in the courts in the past. he considers this as an encouraging sign that they are working very hard on this and apparently very interested in all the details that his supporters have been talking about publicly so much now for the last 20 years. so that means that troy davis' case is done. there's nothing else to be said. it's now going to be in the hands of this board. the board will now hear from prosecutors. they will also hear from victims in this case if they wish to speak. again all of this behind closed doors but everything winding down so that this five-member board will be able to make its life and death decision. randi. >> david, do you expect we'd get an answer on that today? what is the time line here? >> it's hard to say. there is really no time line. everyone is very critically aware of the scheduled execution wednesday evening. keep in mind though that this board did deny clemency to davis once before and this board has never, ever in its 30-plus-year history ever gone back on a decision like that. i pointed that out to his attorney. he says well this is an extraordinary case. it is a once in a lifetime case so it is difficult to compare or try to guess how this board is going to act from here. a lot of attention was being paid to three board members who were not on the board back in 2008 when davis was denied clemency and he said those three board members also appeared to have done their homework and were asking a lot of relevant questions. >> there is still the victim's family in this case, the dead officer's family, and also the d.a. from all those years ago who still insist that troy davis does deserve to die. >> that's right. and they now have the floor. they will have the last word before this board as the board starts to make up its mind. >> all right, david mattingly continuing to watch that for us. david, if you get any news during the next couple of hours, please bring it to us. checking other stories we're following -- the man leading the charge for palestinian statehood arrived in new york this morning. palestinian president mahmoud abbas will attend this week's u.n. general assembly. he's due to speak on friday. afterwards he says he'll make a formal application for full u.n. membership. as expected, both the obama administration and israel have spoken out strongly against that move. if you're outraged over netflix's big price hike, the latest word from the company's ceo may make you hotter than ever. he apologized for "messing up." subscribers quit the service in droves, a backlash that caused netflix' stock to plunge. he unveiled a new name for his dvd by mail service to -- get this -- quickster. fet flix wi netflix will remain the name for the online streaming service. there was a little bit of everything at the 63rd prime time emmy awards in l.a. last night. 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>> reporter: well, a few things. first thing i want to talk to you about, randi, we know from the pilot's own words before the crash the plane was modified substantially where the wingspan was actually reduced by about ten feet and according to the pilot he wasn't exactly sure how the plane would perform so there is a lot of speculation that maybe those modifications may have caused something to go wrong. but in the meantime the attention is squarely focused on the tail of the aircraft. videos and pictures show that during his flight a part of the tail actually broke off from the plane, fell to the ground. crews over the weekend when searching the debris field actually found what they believe is part of the tail. it will be shipped off to the ntsb lab for analysis. some memory cards were recovered. not sure if it is from the camera on the plane but will be analyzed, nonetheless. we know plane had a crude black box attached and wirelessly transmitted information to the flight crew. that's another key piece to all this. in the meantime we are still getting some very chilling accounts from eyewitnesses who were among the first to see the scene. we talk to a nurse who was among the first to arrive. take a look. >> the impact of the aircraft was significant and the debris field was wide and it was very traumatic. they have a long road ahead of them. they will have prosthetics. they will have therapy. they'll have to learn to reuse their bodies. we're train for this. but training is different than reality. and the reality is it's horrific. >> reporter: of the more than 70 patients who were taken to area hospitals, we know there were two dozen who were still there and several of the patients are still in critical condition. back to you. >> dan simon, thanks for the update from reno. appreciate that. flooding affecting millions of people around an area half the size of delaware. parts of southern pakistan under water. we'll take you there live for the latest in just a couple of minutes. ♪ [ female announcer ] we're throwing away misperceptions about natural gas vehicles. more of the vehicles that fuel our lives use clean american natural gas today. it costs about 40 percent less than gasoline, so why aren't we using it even more? 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>> reporter: the rain has stopped but i think what we're seeing over the weekend is the numbers rise exponentially. last week we were talking 5.3 million people. it's now risen to 7.5 million people affected. that's not thes sarl because the damage has gotten worse over the weekend. maybe the numbers have caught up with the reality. last week we saw large amounts of water covering farmland which isn't normally used to draining that amount of water. the water is simply staying where it was. that's a huge concern. large parts of the countryside there rendered unusable by basically farmers, countryside people who can no longer live in their villages because the feet of water has suddenly appeared over the last few weeks. >> and which of the areas are hardest hit? >> well, karachi, 18 million people there. the flooding ds pay thing quite quickly. but there are large, flat areas all around it. they've seen the rain land but also stay in place. the government really i think struggling to reach some of the areas we saw to deliver the scale they were talking about. just simply imagine that drinking water per person, the u.n. would like to see each person see five liters a day. simply imagine 7.5 million people being given that much clean water is a real issue, randi. >> we know pakistan's prime minister has actually canceled his address to the u.n. the u.n. is asking for $357 million in flood aid. what will happen if that aid doesn't find its way there? >> reporter: i think it is a strange thing when you see these people on the ground. they have a phenomenal coping mechanism. of course they'll go hungry, they'll be sick. but there seems to be a feeling amongst many of them they're not going to see help. we saw instants of protest, blocking roads, people taking it upon themselves to stop aid from getting through as a political bargaining chip to get aid for themselves. i think people are not actually expecting the government to come. they believe maybe one day the government will provide a solution for them but i don't think they're really sitting there expecting large amounts of food to turn up on government trucks in the very near future, randi. >> such a tragic situation. i'm told now we have those pictures that i was trying to show our viewers before. so this is the before picture that i was -- showed you earlier. now take a look. you can see as we slide it. that the damage that's done. you can see the difference as floods have hit that area of southern pakistan. it's just been overrun by water there. coming up in "crime and consequence," the mother, two daughters, beaten, bound, tortured and burned. today suspect number two finally has his day in court. we'll take you live to new haven, connecticut next.woma ] lower cholesterol. 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( singing along ) ( singing high note ) that should do it. enjoy your new shower. ( door opens, closes ) it was one of the most gruesome crimes in the nation's history. three members of a wealthy connecticut family -- the petits -- brutally murdered in their home back in 2007. a mother and two daughters beaten, burned and worse. the first defendant, steven hayes, was convicted and sentenced to death last year. today the trial begins for the alleged mastermind, joshua komisarjevsky. let's turn now to cnn's deb feyerick live outside the courthouse in new haven, connecticut. you were in court today. i understand the prosecution opted out of an opening