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we begin with the resignation of a key executive in the rupert murdoch media empire. rebekah brooks is out. many people were outraged when brooks kept her job after the newspaper was shut down for scandalous reporting tactics. and as brooks steps down, the investigations ramp up. the fbi now investigating the murdoch empire right here in the united states. lawmakers demanding the probe amid reports that murdoch's journalists hacked the cell phones of 9/11 victims and their families. susan candiotti in new york with the details now. susan? >> reporter: hi, kyra. good morning to you. y...

The latest on a sex scandal that is dominating world headlines. dom niece strauss-kahn is under a suicide watch at rikers island jail. also new details about the woman who is accusing him of assault. a 32-year-old single mother originally from guinea. deb, did anything specific trigger the suicide watch, or is it a protective measure? >> it is a protective measure. they put him on suicide watch. this is a man used to meeting with presidents and prime ministers and power brokers. he's now isolated from the general population of the prison on a special wing of rikers island. his wife arrived yes...

show you its powerful punch in many forms. right here the pace of change is slow yet certain. last night we showed you the spillway from above a helicopter ride. the gates open toded to the gates open toded t divert wr away from mississippi. now the water is rising slowly as you see it. you see the rails that go up behind my shoulder. nose are normally dry. that's the edge of the river. it's rising more slowly than the engineers originally predicted. the folks were told by the mississippi crests near here next tuesday many of the homes could be underwater. dwayne moved here four mont...

Identified as airman zachary cutterback, he's from virginia. and i want to share this piece of sound you. this is coming from bruce snyder, whose son is one of those two survivors -- one of several survivors, i should say. he talks about the last time he spoke with his son before that shooting in frankfurt. >> he just told us he was leaving, how long he'd be in germany, and how long he'd be in afghanistan. >> germany officials say the man who pulled the trigger on those americans was a recently radicalized muslim, 21 years of age, originally from kosovo. he seems to be influenced by radical is...

Manhattan. in march, attorney general eric holder told congress the final decision was imminent, weeks away. but earlier they said a public announcement is not expected until after the midterm election. at the time, they did not deny the timing. >> no decision has been made with regard to where the trials will be held but the conversations that we are having are ongoing and the political thing that you mentioned, the election is not part of the conversation at all. >> nine years after the attack say none of the defendants in the military custody is charged with the 9/11 plot and no firm date w...