welcome back to the most news in the morning. 14 minutes past the hour. new this morning, denver paramedics say at least 21 people were taken to a hospital after a united airlines flight hit severe turbulence on its way to d.c. a city official says people were treated for head, neck and back injuries. the jet took off in l.a. and landed in denver around 9:30 last night. inspectors are headed to the airport to investigate. in morning lindsay lohan is in a los angeles area jail. lohan was sentenced to 90 days for missing mandatory alcohol treatment classes. she ll likely though only serve about two weeks because of jail overcrowding. is that a mugshot or is that a mugshot? we promise you that that s the last you ll hear of the story on this program at least until she gets out. really? i m making that promise this morning. count on me. this is no cheesy magic
that is what is all happening in los angeles. what do we know now. reporter: everybody saw this this morning, abdel basaet al-megrahi she was sentenced of course to 90 days in jail and she reported for that today. they say the l.a. county jail is overcrowded. so the nonviolent offenders are serving about 22, about a quarter of that sentence, so 22, 23 days. i just talked to legal experts a short time ago, they said that time could even be cut down even further because of overcrowding, that lindsay lohan could serve a couple of weeks, three weeks max in that detention center. it all of course stems from the two dui convictions back in 2007, one, of course, she was guilty of possession of cocaine along with that, and then she blew off a lot of her alcohol treatment classes, and the last straw was when she missed that pivotal court date in may because she was at the cannes film festival and said she couldn t find her passport. she arrived today in jeans in a
we ll punt, which isn t necessarily the right thing to do. if i was one of those climate scientists and i felt my reputation was being unfairly damaged i certainly wouldn t want anyone to punt. we ve got a couple minutes left. i want to hold up a couple new york tabloids. lindsay lohan, a lot of coverage on cable when she got her court hearing this week and got a 90-day sentence essentially for blowing off alcohol treatment classes. why is this worthy of a lot of attention? is this a significant story? i see. it s a juxtaposition between the entire planet melting down versus lindsay lohan going to jail for 90 days. that s a very true observation. are you asking why we care about this? why do the media care? it s exactly for the reason why because it s easy. for the exact reason that the climategate decision got almost no coverage, as you pointed out. she is ratings, and she is also she is a slow-motion train wreck. we ve talked on lindsay lohan on this show before. ye
rehab. well, she served about 84 minutes in jail, and then as we all know, she missed a number of those alcohol treatment classes, the excuses ranged everything from work to her uncle dying. but the last straw came when she was in cannes, cannes film festival and missed a court date in may because she said she lost her passport. she was then ordered to wear an alcohol monitoring angle bracelet, after she put it on the ankle bracelet actually wen off, indicating she had drunk alcohol. the judge issued a warrant for her arrest, which brings us to where we are today. lindsey lohan, sentenced to 90 days in jail. she should arrive any moment now jon. jon: does she are have a lawyer these days? the lawyer who was there in court with her when she was sentenced was fired, right, and then she fired robert shapiro, now he s gone. you saw the picture there with shawn holl kwrefplt chapman, her attorney