marketsite. american morning starts right now. no vote on the debt plan again. i m christine romans. as the u.s. economy lurches closer to a financial crisis, the political crisis continues. house speaker john boehner calls off a vote, unable to convince hardline conservatives in his party to sign on to his plan. i m kiran chetry. more than 90% of texas is now in extreme drought. the state could sure use a lot of rain and now tropical storm don is expected to make landfall along the southern coast today. and it s happened again, a muslim-american soldier in police custody for allegedly plotting to kill fellow soldiers at ft. hood. a live report from texas on this american morning. good morning. it is friday, july 29th. this is american morning. a lot going on to get you caught up today. it s interesting there s a report from credit suisse that says if the u.s. were to default, u.s. stocks would fall 30% over six months to a year showing you just how serious this
her husband. they are not releasing any bodies. they are telling us that they are having to do some investigation of possibly autopsies. please, let us have our spouses, our children we need closure. they need to be laid to peace. this needs to be over. we have welcomed news to report for stephanie and her family. we just spoke with mark bridges, the coroner of newton county, and the identification work on his body has been completed as his body will be released to a funeral home to the family as early as later today. brooke. god didn t take him in iraq, and why did he take him here? that is going to stick with me. casey, any word as to all of these other folks in terms of getting into the morgue to identify their dead? any word on that? the process is moving
but, you know, you have to analyze that. you could say that about any number of murder victims. i mean, look at laci peterson. her husband had taken her out to dinner, and alanna clarkson, her killer, robert blake, had taken her to an expensive restaurant, and kitty whose sons were so kind to her, and then killed her. and many of the jurors, mothers themselves, would they buy the story that casey was molested and that she did it and did not quite report her daughter missing? i think that when they first started, they had a good theory going, that the child died by accident in the swimming pool. and tot mom panicked and didn t
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you asked on cross-examination of witnesses whether or not mrs. anthony was a quote good mother, unquote? well, motion for mistrial denied. baez then proceeded to bring a witness to tears. here she is by asking what kind of relationship she saw between casey anthony and her daughter, caylee, and the witness answer, amazing. and the prosecution played video after video after video after video, and a half dozen surveillance videos in all here, and each one showing casey anthony shopping, weeks after her little daughter was last seen alive and days before she was finally reported missing. nancy grace has been on the case from to get-go here. she is live for me in orlando for this trial. and nancy, you just came out of the courtroom and break some news for me. yeah, as a matter of fact, there is a lot of news out of the courtroom today. you are right, we are here outside of the orlando