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CNNW CNN Newsroom November 24, 2012

How was i to know he was going to do a dumb thing like that . Reporter wn j. R. Was shot by an unknown assailant, it was the most famous cliffhangers in tv history, watched by 300 Million People from all over the world. Hagman never expected the show to endure. I just started this show doing six shows. I never thought id do 300. Reporter in fact, the dallas franchise was so successful, the series was recently reprised. The u. S. Network tnt brought it back with a new generation of ewings and hagman came back, too, returning as j. R. Once again. Critics say he was the best thing about dallas. But explaining the characters appeal, hagman once said the time is right for a real bad guy and im it. Have a good day, master. Im going to have a wonderful day. Reporter it was a good guy who larry hagman blasted into peoples living rooms playing astronaut tony nelson on i dream of jeannie. The show was a hit in the 1960s and is still popular in syndication. Even as a kid, hagman orbited in showbiz as the son of peter pan star mary martin, his movie roles included up the cellar. Im moving up now. Reporter it was only after mill amming a huge contract from the producers of dallas that hagman became immensely wealthy. He had houses, cars, vices, two of them included drinking and smoking. He smoked for 24 years, gave it up and became an antismoking activist and smokesman for the american cancer society. I met at least 30 or 40 people that said they quit because of my personal involvement which makes me fael really good. He stopped drinking in 1995 when he was diagnosed with liver cancer and underwent a life saving transplant. If we juan in vietnam, we wouldnt have this conversation. In recent years, hagman appeared on the big screen in films like nixon and primary colors. But it is his role as the charming and conniving oil man that audiences will never forget. Colleen mcedwards, cnn, atlanta. Fans and former he could stars of the hollywood legend have been reacting all morning long to his passing. Cnns core reen winter is live at harry hagmans star at the hollywood walk of fame. What are people saying and are they leaving mementos, notes and flowers at his star as well . Reporter well, not yet. People are still waking up to the news of larry hagmans passing. I can tell you we just heard from the Hollywood Chamber of commerce which administers the stars on the walk of fame. Theyll be out here at 1 00 local time placing flowers next to larry hagmans star here which he was honored with back on september 8th, 1981, the star is directly next to the star of his mom, mary martin who was a famous actress as well. You mentioned the reaction coming out of hollywood. There are so many, fred. I want to share a little bit of them with you. People, friends close colleagues of larry hagman who have taken to twitter, theyve taken to facebook to share their condolences, joan collins, she wrote oh, oh, no, just heard about larry. He was magnificent as j. R. And inspired me to play alexis, of course. She was alexis on dynasty. Barbara eden from the 1960s hit i dream of jeannie, she wrote, add midst a whirlwind of big laughs, big smiles and unrestrained personality, larry was always larry. You couldnt fault him for it. He was just who he was. Im so thankful that this past year i was able to spend time with him and experience yet again larry in all his big texas breaux vad yoe. Linda gray said so sad to lose such a dear, bigger than life friend. Larry hagman was one of a kind and will be with us forever other. Finally, patrick duffy, another one of hagmans dallas costars wrote my friend is taking a break. Pardon my silence. Love patrick. So that gives you an idea of the tremendous loss so many people in and really beyond the Entertainment Industry are feeling today at the loss of such an iconic actor from the dallas show that made him a household name. He reprised his role with the tnt hit dallas. By the way, the Second Season starts in january. Were told that hagman was taping scenes for the show. He, according to deadline. Com had done six episodes, six of the 15. So writers undoubtedly will have to rewrite that story line, fred, take a look at the plots and see he was such a pivotal character on that show. I know its interesting. It will will be interesting to hear how theyre going to manage that with the Second Season coming up and how theyre going to handle his death. Reporter thats true. Again, he was such a force to be reckoned with on the show. You think dallas, everyone thinks of j. R. Ewing. He really, really made that show. It was so touching in a recent interview piers morgan, he said i didnt want to come back unless my friends joined my. As one of them said, no one can replace larry. So it will be hard to rewrite that story line. But unfortunately its something theyll have to do since things changed. Thank you so much from hollywood, appreciate it. Another sad ending, hector comacho, the former boxing chapelon who beat such fighters as Roberto Durant and Sugar Ray Leonard is dead. He was taken off life support today by his family. Last night before the family made that decision, his mother told reporters in puerto rico, for me, hes not alive. The former boxing champ was shot in the face outside a bar near san juan tuesday night. He was at first expected to survive. But his condition worsened. And he was declared clinically brain dead. One of the fbis most wanted fugitives is now in custody. Jose saenz was captured thursday night in mexico. He faces prosecution in los angeles for the murder of two gang members and his girlfriend back in 1998 and another murder ten years later. Saenz was added to the most wanted list three years ago. The fbi offered a 100,000 reward for information leading to his arrest. And a frightening scene in springfield, massachusetts. A gas explosion ripped through a strip club leveling the building as you see there. Fortunately, about an hour earlier emergency crews had evacuated the area after someone complained about a strong gas odor. 18 people were hurt. Most of them were firefighters and gas company workers. The explosion was so strong it damaged two dozen other buildings and could be felt ten miles away. I jumped. I could feel the garbage cans move next to me. I knew where it came from. I could tell it came from this part of the city. Officials are investigating what caused that blast. Sheriffs deputy in alabama is dead and another critically injured. They were shot during a domestic dispute call. Police say the officers were called to a home to settle an argument and thats when the suspect Michael Janson opened fire. Jansen was also shot and killed. There is growing outrage today and more clashes over legal order announced by egyptian president mohammed morsy. Well tell why you morsys supporters are calling for a million man demonstration. And a maryland law vofrg the collection of dan evidence goes before the u. S. Supreme court in february. It could impact the entire country in many ways. Our legal guys are weighing in. And u. S. Companies are starting to rethink their off shore manufacturing strategy. Well find out why one ceo decided to bring jobs back to the u. S. [ male announcer ] this is joe woods first day of work. And his new boss told him two things cook what you love, and save your money. 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And egypts highest judicial body called on morsy to stay out of all judicial matters. Life is returning to normal in gaza three days after hamas militants and israel agreed to stop fighting. Children returned to school today. Despite a shooting near the border yesterday that reportedly left one palestinian dead, the ceasefire is holding. The next phase of the truce, talks on potentially easing israels blockade in gaza and opening border crossings. The hope is this ceasefire will hold. Joining us right now is a man who knows the area quite well, edward dejarian is the former u. S. Ambassador to both israel and syria. He helped establish the James Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University in houston. Ambassador, good to see you. Good to see you. So how confident are you about this truce thus far . So far, i think its holding. And thats obviously a good sign. There have been minor violations. But the important thing is to build on this truce. In every crisis i think there is an opportunity. And if the truce is just to become a prolonged truce only to be broken, say, a year or two down the road and were faced with a similar crisis that we just seen in the last 12 days, then that i do not think is a successful outcome. So it truce is contingent upon what . Besides both sides trying to be as peaceful as possible. Well, obviously, a sustained ceasefire. The israelis do not want arms to be smuggled in and rockets to be smuggled into gaza during the truce in order to avoid what weve just seen, the rocket shelgz in sou shellings in tel aviv and jerusalem. Then on the palestinian side, they want to end the targeting of hamas leaders. They want the border crossings, the gaza border crossings to be open so that trade, commerce, and people can move more freely in the gaza strip. Those are two of the major parts of the ceasefire. And then how do you assess the victories . Both sides are claiming some victories here. Israel being able to show its muscle and the iron dome working. Hamas being able to demonstrate that it has missiles that can reach as far as tel aviv and has support of iran. How do you assess things here . Well, each side is claiming the most positive outcome for obvious political reasons, both domestically and internationally. Again, if we can just step back, weve seen this act before. And if all were going to do both in terms of the israelis and palestinians and International Community and the arab countries involved is to just manage these crisis as they erupt, i do not consider this to be a very positive outcome. What we should be doing is building on this ceasefire to get a viable israelipalestinian Peace Agreement in place. Now thats a high hurdle and it may sound idealistic at this point, but i think with president obamas reelection, with israeli elections coming up in january 22nd, with the head of the Palestinian Authority going to the u. N. To ask for nonmember states status for the Palestinian Authority for palestine, i think instead of looking upon all of this in a negative way, we should build on it. And then were looking at pictures that involve egypts president mohammed morsy. How do you see his role here . Earlier in the week it was considered that he played a very strong leadership role here. He used his leverage as well. But then now with the power grab that he is entertaining in egypt days after helping to broker this ceasefire, is his role now being looked at or assessed differently . No. I think what we have to look at is president morsys international role. He played a Critical Role and he played a positive role as being a very valid person between hamas and the israelis. I mean you had an israeli delegation in cairo working out this deal under egyptian egis. I think morsy played a positive role in helping gain the ceasefire. So that, i think, is one part of morsy. The other part of morsy is as the First Brother muslimhood in egypt, he has a domestic agenda. His domestic agenda is being challenged by these power grabs with the judiciary and the legislature. So what is key here is that morsy has a Muslim Brotherhood president has to prove that he can govern egypt effectively. And you just cant do it by religion alone. Okay. There is a joke in the arab world, you cant govern by if god wills. He has to face the same problems that every secular leader in egypt faced, jobs, broadened political participation, social justice, and developing the economy. And so he is trying to do this by this political move hes made that is now being contested. Ambassador edward, thank you so much for your time. Appreciate it. My pleasure, fred. All right. I guess you could call it divine intervention. An oklahoma teen is sentenced to church instead of prison for a fatal dui crash. Our legal guys praise the judge for this decision in theyll be weighing in. 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Yeah. Some states, including maryland and virginia, you have differing reasoning in terms of whether theres an expectation of privacy. And what the Supreme Court has done, and i think correctly so, is taken the case because theres a split. Half the states say you can take it based on the fact that youre a suspect. Others say only when theres a conviction. In this case, alonzo king was charged with assault in 2009. They used the dna from that to stick him with a rape charge in 2003. Is there a reasonable expectation of privacy . Does it violate the Fourth Amendment . The Supreme Court is going to answer that question. So, richard, where do you see this case as being rather hairy . Well, ill tell you, fred, in this century this is what were talking about. Heres a q tip. Thats it. Thats what were talking about. Thats dna collection. The case here surrounds whether or not preconviction or post conviction felony. Thats where it applies. If youre arrested on a felony charge, theyre saying 25 states say you can just do that little demonstration i just did. 25 states say, no, its a violation of your Fourth Amendment rights. But if you think about it, fred, if you get arrested today, whether its for a felony or any arrest, they can pat you down. They take your height and weight in some instances, they can take your blood f youre in a car, they can search your car. So already there are instances where maybe arguably in the past it was a violation. But now in this day and age, i think the law has caught up with the technology. I believe the Supreme Court is going to hold that the dna swab, that simple swab is akin to a fingerprint and theyre going to permit it. Because its fascinating. Because in so many cases the dna can actually free you just as it can convict you. I mean there are so many cases where people sprendiending time jail and new technology involving dna can suddenly clarify a case. But, fred, where do you draw the line . If you get pulled over for a dwi, can they subpoena your bank records . Thats the point. The argument is fingerprint is one thing. Using a swab is more intrusive. Thats what the Supreme Court has to resolve here. Thats why we have a split in the court. We have to find out the answer in february. Well find out next year. Lets move on to a case in oklahoma. A 17yearold convicted of dui manslaughter gets an unusual sentence. Its a pretty lenient sentence. Could have gotten ten years in jail. Instead, the judge says, im going to impose that you now do some time by going to church. Richard, apparently the judge is now being looked at as well as whether he has violated the separation between church and state. So where do we begin on this case . Well, you just nailed it. He absolutely has. This judge is a whacko. To impose this kind of sentence in this day and age is insane. Its insanity, okay . You cannot do this. The problem here is the defendant has agreed. He is saying great. And the family of the victim has said, yes, this is fine. So nobody has standing to challenge this except if the government tries to enforce it. Then they have standing to do this. But, fred, its really they put the kid if therapy. Theyre making him wear bracelet for alcohol. It is a manslau

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