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our political ticker at the bottom of the hour about the retirement of barney frank. they had a revolution. they've ousted a ruler and now they are about to do something that is probably the most important thing that they have done and that is get out and vote. egyptians are hitting the polls today. they are out voting. it is the first in a series of elections for parliament and president. they are all under way. even in the midst of egypt's second major uprising of the year. the goal of both is the same -- an end to military rule which replaced the regime of long-time president ho...

catastrophic failure of the justice system. georgia delayed the execution for four hours while the u.s. supreme court considered the case. davis declared his innocence until l the end. he lifted his head from the gournny and told the victim's family they had the wrong man. >> and he said to the prison staff, the ones he said who were going to take my life, he said to them, may god have mercy on your souls and his last words were to them, may god bless your souls. then he put his head back down. the procedure began and about 50 minutes later, it was over. >> davis got the death penalt...

Former first daughter having a big day today. details about that other big stories we'll be bringing your way as well. we're going to take you now to a story happening in pakistan. a natural disaster. one of the worst in that country's history. the pakistan military helping out in this disaster right now. we're talking about flooding. flooding has hit and hit hard in the northwestern part of that country. the death toll has gone up. it has gone up dramatically. reza sayah is en route to the flood zone. he joins us now on the phone. res za, hello to you once again. we saw this death toll doub...

This morning. at 7:10 eastern we'll be joined by the newly named ceo of bp, bob dudley. for some great insights into the oil spill looking back and looking ahead, check out cnn .cm oil disaster. if you haven't visited yet, it is an exceptional experience. an airbus plane carrying 152 people crashed outside of the capital of pakistan, saddislama. officials say they pulled 45 bodies from the wreckage so far but amazingly, at least eight people survived the crash. using the global resores of cnn, reza sayah has been tracking it all from our islamabad bureau. res za, as they look to a cause ri...

Network. that contradicts reported claims by pakistan that he was an out-of-touch figurehead. i want to bring in cnn's reza sayah now in islamabad. res za, te reza, tell us first about bin laden's fixation within america. that was not a unanimous within in al qaeda. was it? >> reporter: no, it wasn't. it was some al qaeda affiliates in the region. al qaeda affiliates in yemen, algeria, somalia, who didn't necessarily want to attack targets on u.s. soil. they didn't want retaliation in their particular regions where they had grievances with their own governments. but certainly according to u.s....