we are live at the courthouse on this american morning. good morning to you. thanks so much for being with us on this american morning. thursday, june 30. could be last day or last two days of the casey anthony trial. we still don t know whether she will take the stand. sunny hostin says she has to. we heard her voice for first time yesterday. we will tell you more about that coming up. major development after that fiery and deadly attack on the intercontinental hotel in kabul. in southeast afghanistan, international forces say that an air strike killed a militant leader belonging to the group. 21 people died in that siege including 12 victims and all nine attackers. there s new fallout this morning from the navy s.e.a.l. mission that tack out osama bin laden. pakistan reportedly ordering the u.s. military to leave an air base that s used to launch drone attacks against al qaeda and taliban targets along the boarder with afghanistan. the pakistani defense minister
report a woman s nation, this is not just of woman s story. this is a story about everyone. it is a report about how women working changes lives of people around them and how men have been affected just as much as women have. it is about the ripple effect of women working on the ground around us. maria shriver, our peerless leader in this project, could not join us because she is doing live television, which we can see on the screen out there on nbc. we re sad that she could not, but i wonder about this on some of the things that she were that she brought to this report, a lot to do with these conversations with men. one of the things that she did, a journalist before the first lady of california, she took that and went around the country and held conversations with everyday americans about what it meant that women were working. one of the themes that she pulled from those conversations is that and what this meant for men families are now negotiating this balance betw