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>> reporter: attorney general's announcement and judge's decision suggest major changes are ahead for those with a get tough on crime mentality. but in the nation's largest city that has seen a record drop in crime, mayor bloomberg issues a stark warning. >> crime can come back anytime the criminals think that they're going to get away with things. you just cannot let that happen. >> reporter: the city is appealing the judge's ruling on stop and frisk, but it really is shining a new light on the balancing acts, priorities of safety and liberties. john, diana. >> jeff, thank you. >> former bost...

Possibly. >> reporter: attorney general's announcement and judge's decision suggest major changes are ahead for those with a get tough on crime mentality. but in the nation's largest city that has seen a record drop in crime, mayor bloomberg issues a stark warning. >> crime can come back anytime the criminals think that they're going to get away with things. you just cannot let that happen. >> reporter: the city is appealing the judge's ruling on stop and frisk, but it really is shining a new light on the balancing acts, priorities of safety and liberties. john, diana. >> jeff, thank you. >> f...

world heard of osama bin laden there was shake omar, a blind egyptian cler irk who was the spiritual leaders of the 1993 world trade center bombers. he was later convicted of plotting to blow up other new york city landmarks and is serving a life sentence in the u.s. but now a surprise development. egypt's first democratically elected president, who will be sworn in tomorrow, is vowing to free him whom he calls a political prisoner. our cnn senior international correspondent, dan rivers, is in cairo. dan, tell us about this speech in general by president-elect mohammad morsi. >> repo...

>> it's a long that sparks controversy and outrage as well as sympathy and imitators. today the supreme court told arizona it went too far in trying to stem illegal immigration, taking matters into its own hand that constitutionally belongs to the federal government. the justices struck down three major portions of the law but upheld one of the most controversial provisions. kate bolduan has more. kate, what does the ruling say? >> hey, joe, it was a big day at the supreme court. one that has both sides trying to spin the ruling in their favor. the high court put the brakes on aggres...

Who probably identifies with those youngish people out there, those bureaucrats and working class people who dress western, who seem western. i think he's proebably on their side temperamentally and has made that clear from day one in this episode in history. i also think he knows he has to be on the phone with the representatives of saudi arabia and our oil-producing countries, our oil supply, and he has to be aware that they're nervous as hell, as well as israel, as brian pointed out. so he has to balance things. he has to balance the security concerns of our oil-producing friends, our israe...