hawaiian vacation to celebrate her 25th anniversary any seen and the fact that she was out of state five days had nothing to do with restoration efforts. nonetheless, people are angry. martha: that s unfortunate timing. so irene taking out an iconic tree in arlington national cemetary, 220-year-old oak at the grave site of president john f. kennedy was destroyed in this storm, officials saying it stood through the construction of arlington house, the pre-civil war home of general robert e. lee, and the creation of the cemetary back in 1864. very sad. that beautiful oak tree. lost in that storm. bill: such a wonderful place to visit, every time in washington, no matter the time of year. especially now, too. sarah palin, still not saying whether or not she ll run in 2012. and a surprising new fox poll shows whether or not voters even want her in the race. martha: those numbers were very surprising. stick around for that.
destroyed by hurricane irene. we re talking about a 220-year-old oak tree at president john f kennedy s grave site at arlington national cemetery. you ve seen it if you visited there. you can see the bark snapped right in half. the tree not far from the tomb of the unknown soldier. army guards stood by the tomb throughout the entire hurricane and that was not damaged. one ucla student is going on a unique summer vacation. chris traveled to libya to join the rebels fight against moammar gadhafi. he is not libyan. he has no relatives in libya. he doesn t know arabic, but thought it would be, quote, cool, to join a real revolution. he and the rebels are currently gathered outside sirte, one of the few towns still under gadhafi s control. they gave supporters an extra week to surrender. gadhafi released two messages while in hiding and says he will not surrender. those are the headlines for today. here is another big headline, a lot of people fired up about
a bigger scandal and we have to come to grips with this weird belief in creating heroes out of losers. this stuff snowden is giving away. the director says it is possible he may have given out secrets that actually help china. obviously. this stuff can start an armed conflict. this guy is not a hero. he is dangerous. why do you want the president telling the bad guys our strategies. what are you talking about? you said the president should tell people why we do it and how we do it. no i didn t say give a how-to m manual. i said he should speak. speak to the american people. don t hide in the white house. if you don t think the government willing to deviolate your 220-year-old laws of
bernard madoff s younger brother, peter, has been sentenced to ten years. he pled guilty in june to conspiracy and falsifying the records of an investment adviser. the younger plaido eer madoff s didn t know about the fraud until his brother told him. a new judge in new york said she had a hard time believing that. and call this an indication of the reduced influence of the 220-year-old new york stock exchange. it s being bought by a company that s just 12 years old. no major changes are expected after atlanta based intercontinental exchange completes its $8 billion purchase. that should happen sometime next year. wow. $8 billion. to purchase the new york stock exchange. that s fascinating. what that could potentially mean should be interesting. but we ll see how it plays out, as always. facebook will soon be racking up more revenue $1 at a time. the social network is testing out a new service on a limited
magnitude quake triggered a tsunami alert for the same area tkpwregsz we ar. gregg: security cameras rolling inside lisa county high school as the ground shook in virginia. it collapsed ceiling tiles and knocked out the lights, the school suffering some of the worst damage from the quake. repairs on the building could take years to complete. jenna: now to virginia, we are learning hurricane irene destrod a national treasure at arlington national cemetery, a 220-year-old oak tree known as the arlington oak, it was part of jfk s grave site. jackie kennedy chose the location because of the tree and the architect based the design around it. the cemetery closed his site as they took the tree away. this oak in particular, you know, it s been around for a