on the motorcycle when he crashed. the athletic director was near tears. i shared with them . shared with him my disappointment in having to make the difficult decision. he was fired with cause. he loses $3.5 million salary and $18 million buyout clause. shepard: his agent is speaking? we reached out to get an interview with pa rain petrino, but he release add statement saying the simple response i have is, i m sorry. all i have been able to think about is the number of people i have let down by making selfish decision. i have taken a lot of criticism, some deserved and some not and this time i have no one to blame but myself and he wants to
15,000 defectors from the 600,000-man syrian army who said we will not kill our people. they are huddled own on the border with turkey and sent people to the cities and they are fighting with whatever they have, which is very little. because we are not amending them. the saudis have talked about arming them but they are not providing a lot of weapons, either. so, they are just doing the best they can with what they have but we they are being slaughtered and john mccain and senator lieberman who are visiting the free syrian army right now issue add statement today saying we must do more. we must supply weapons to the people. we must give them a fighting chance. shepard: but what is happening, that is a policemen matter and that s one side of this argument versus another. and it is not for us to take sides on such a thing but you were telling me at break about all the people would were fleeing the nation. guest: that was contained in
whitney houston could have filled the stadium with a public memorial. instead she d have a private funeral in newark. her body was flown home yesterday. from a plane to the golden hearse to the funeral home. we re told houston s mother was waiting inside. jason, you just had a chance to speak to the pastor there. what did he tell you about the funeral arrangements? reporter: right. that would be pastor joe carter, john. pastor carter was very gracious. he allowed us inside the very same sanctuary, inside the church where the services will be held on saturday. when i asked him about the service, he told me he would be officiating over the particular service on saturday. i asked him what are the words that he s going to use to try to bring comfort to those who are going to come here to pay their respects. he said i m going to have to find a way to acknowledge the pain and acknowledge the pain that everyone is dealing with here but also to celebrate the life of whitney houston
within striking distance of iraq, may have forced them to soften its stance of blocking the strait of hormuz. the first hint of a ship came yesterday when the chief of staff of the iranian navy said that iran can blockade the strait of hormuz any time, but then added, it has no intention of doing so at this point. then today, a scheduled test of an iranian long range missile never happened. following that surprise, the commander of iran s revolutionary guard publish add statement on the guard s web site that read in part, discourse of closing it remains to five years ago. today s debate contains new layers and the time has not yet come to raise them. it was only two days ago that the u.s. state department expressed its belief that the international sanctions were beginning to take a toll on iran one can only guess that the international sanctions are beginning to feel the pinch and that the ratcheting up of
river despite the frigid cold dozens of investigators and volunteers continue to fan out but, still, no signs. her father said that he has shared every piece of information he has with state and federal investigators and he release add statement that reads in part i have no idea what happened to ayla, and i will not make accusations or insinuations until the police have been able to prove who is responsible. authorities say their focus to fine the girl. shepard: there is an ongoing custody battle but we have new information on that. rick: the day before she disappeared the mother filed court documents to gain custody of this little girl. they never lived together and were never married and the state gave ayla to the father because the mother went to rehab. he says he was willing to share custody and she does not think much of his parenting skills saying he should have checked on