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But he's been resistant so far. the president hopes it's a wake-up call but that's really the outstanding question here, what al maliki is going to do and what he really can do. fred? >> athena jones at the white house, thank you. also here at home, many are celebrating the life of legendary radio host casey kasem died this morning at the age of 82. the radio and tv icon had been suffering from dementia. he had been hospitalized in washington state and a judge recently gave his daughter the authority to have doctors end his infusions of water, food, and medicine. kasem had said that he would...

Can see the front, that's just knocking on the door of chicago late evening hours. 8:00 tonight and then a few showers lingering going through tomorrow afternoon. some pop-up thunderstorms expected for the south tomorrow. even some showers in the east for tomorrow afternoon. so, if you are hanging out with dad on this father's day, maybe firing up the grill, some great places to be, san francisco. sunshine, 63 degrees. feeling great. 76 in boston. you may see a few clouds out there and staying dry. monday's forecast, though, spotty showers in the south and mostly cloudy skies in the northeast ...

A military investigation into sergeant bowe bergdahl is going to start this week. a two-star general has been tapped to find out how and why bergdahl left his base in afghanistan. he was held captive by the taliban for about five years. he was freed two weeks ago in exchange for five taliban leaders. that deal has sparked tremendous criticism here at home. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr joins us by phone now. barbara, what can you tell us about how this investigation will get going? >> hi, fred. the one thing we won't do is look at that swap deal per se. this is much more, almost com...

Hollywood. avery is joining me right now in hollywood. i know it's a very tough day for you. he was such a dear friend. you do have the gift of having the opportunity to say good-bye to him before he passed, right? >> i did, fred rericka. i said good-bye to casey. the hospice people said he could hear and then i said good-bye. but most importantly, you think about so many people, like yourself, an event in your life that was happy or sad, and you associated that event with a song and on the weekend you heard casey kasem counting down the hits and talking about that song or talking about the ar...

Comparison to the differences -- >> but the voters in your own district didn't buy that. they voted for another republican instead of you. >> again, going back is not what i want to do. i want to go forward. >> so he wants to go forward, fred. he did say that he is going to vote for the man who defeated him in november in the general election, not the democrat. that was a little bit of news. he was a little bit more forthcoming on how hard it was for him to tell his family, especially his son who -- >> he had a different tenor, too. he sounded more melancholy. >> right. but he sounded like som...