michael. andrea, as many of our viewers recall, she was diagnosed with anal cancer back in 2006, she had a reprieve, but fortunately in that same year, doctors found a malignant polyp. even though everybody knew that farrah fawcett was going through a battle for her life literally, when it happened, you re hit with the weight of the actual event. and in this case, it s an icon of the 70s. as farrah fawcett s death begins to dominate the news cycle, on the east coast, a south carolina paper breaks startling news about governor mark sanford. south carolina s governor mark sanford admits to an extramarital affair with an argentine woman. the media has been monitoring governor sanford s story since he went missing a week earlier. governor sanford has had no contact with his staff or his security detail since he was
level of importance, particularly in public service, it s sort of hard to disappear. that makes the disappearance of governor mark sanford extra weird. we had covered the governor mark sanford arrest deal. farrah fawcet has publicly been sharing her battle with cancer returned to the hospital this week. for the past years 70s icon farrah fawcett has been fighting for her life. all of these headlines collide on june 25th. june 25th was a day where things just got eclipsed. how is farrah, how is she doing? farrah is gone. what turned out to be farrah s last night, we spent the evening in the hospital. we knew that it was likely to be sometime that night or early the next morning. and shortly after 9:00 in the morning, she passed away. actress farrah fawcet has died after her three-year battle with cancer. she was only 62. let s go now to nbc s mike oku in burbank.
mentally, very frail. it was the reason why he took these medications, and anyone who s in that condition has a tough time gauging and measuring how much is too much. and it was my concern that he was doing too much and i feared this day and here we are facing it. we re going to be talking about michael jackson s death, of course. just as the hollywood community was absorbing the news of the death of farrah fawcett, who lost her very long and very public battle with cancer on thursday, two icons who define their times gone in one day. we will honor their legacies this morning. she didn t go out as a girl on charlie s angels. she didn t go out as a girl in a red bathing suit. she went out as a real person. cancer is my own private war. for the past few years, documenting her fight in a documentary.
i distinctly remember going home that night and feeling badly for farrah fawcett and her family that she did not get proper remembrance or recognition on that day because another big star had died the same day. as a new day dawns june 26, and the nation continues to mourn the death of michael jackson, in washington, d.c., an important legislative battle barely registers with the public. the house expected to vote on landmark climate change legislation. one of its aims, greenhouse gas emissions, but will this bill help save the planet or will it raise business competition and costs for everyone? it was called the cap and trade provision. you have a combination of caps on emissions of greenhouse gasses and then you allow businesses to spend money to emit more and then there can be a trade in the allowances. so that s the trade part of cap and trade.
american jobs. some of the protests over the last three days in iran, this has become one of the most, if not the single most iconic moment of this uprising. i m still numb and stunned at the reports that michael has died. in the wake of michael jackson s death, al sharpton holds a press conference in front of the apollo theater. michael loved apollo. i felt that was the place to make a statement. i got to the apollo, by then all of the press was there and droves of people just started coming. i had known michael for 30 years. we had done work together in civil rights. he learned how to sing and dance and be creative against his worst critics. i think the media was at first shocked at michael s passing. and i think that there was the battle between how they were