columbia. that s why we are reporting from outside. there are major developments involving cell phones, information that you need to know from the world health organization about the possible danger of cell phone use and cancer. stand by. elizabeth cohen has a full report. we re also watching bin laden and the black money trail. new information coming in on money and bin laden. stand by for that as well. we ll have the latest on anthony weiner, the congressman from new york. our own dana bash is following up on this story. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. but we begin with major developments involving cell phone use and you. information that you need to know right now. the world health organization for the first time has raised a serious possibility of a link between cell phone use and cancer. here s our report. what did this world health organization report conclude? the who concluded that cell phone are a possible carcinogen for humans. this is a really
taking on islamic militants who have overrun a coastal town. it s a case eerily similar to the one against former imf chief dominique strauss-kahn. an egyptian businessman could be arraigned in new york today, charged with sexually assaulting a hotel housekeeper. 74-year-old mahmoud abdel salam omar is accused of groping a maid at the pierre luxury hotel. she says she went to the room at omar s request to drop off tissues. call it a bin laden bounce. strong performances on national security and international relations are driving president obama s overall poll numbers even higher. a new cnn opinion research survey finds that 54% approve of the job he is doing. that is up six percentage points since early april. when are you planning to announce you ll run for president? what do you think the odds are you ll run? are you going to run? that is the question. there is no public schedule, but sarah palin s bus tour seems to be headed for philadelphia today. now palin v
the photo and tweet were quickly deleted. representative weiner is denying he posted the photo, and says it was a prank by a hacker. we caught up with the congressman again today to get some more answers. but this is what he said. aren t you concerned someone is looking at your sensitive information? i m going to return to working on the things i care about. i participated in the story a couple of days now, given comments on it. this is a distraction, and i m not going to let it distract me. are the capitol police looking into it? put out a statement about that in the past couple days. put out a couple statements. i m trying the best to i just spent a couple days cooperating, and you know, trying to help you do your job, but at a certain point i m going get back to work, and i think we have reached that point today. this might go away if you answer some of the questions out there. i m not going to answer. to answer part of that question for you, the capitol po
course as i know you v and it is a fascinating read. one of the things that strikes me is that we are talking about two guys, very young guys, 23 and 30 years of age respectively, and speak to their youth, a, and b, what are they accused of doing? well, in the case of wad ramadan alwan, he is now 30 years old, but he has been at the business of terrorism for more than 10 years. since he was a teenager. and in his case, he was involved directly in the manufacture and the placement of ieds designed specifically to kill u.s. troops on roadsides. he bragged recently that he had in fact handled more than 100 ieds himself during the period 2003 to 2006. and then he was arrested by iraqi authorities. he was finally released and in 2009, he came to the u.s. and has been living in kentucky. it is interesting that you used the word brag, because one thing that stuck out for me is the same alwan, 30 years of age and also talking about the types of ieds that he was using against troo
will win the $10 million and qualcomm is an amazing company that has transformed the cell phone industry, and this is one way to take the cell phone platforms to create something new, and so with don jones and paul jacobs creating a common vision and with their capital and our prize management, we will get hundreds of teams around the world trying to build this technology. i want the ask you about another prize you are frying to get won out there, and this is the oil cleanup challenge, $1.4 million. is it working? the goal is to get the oil out of water and do it quickly? yes, we are excited about this. a year and a bit ago when the oil spill was going on, james cameron joined the board and he was a big ocean fan and said, what do we do about this? and our oceanographer expert said, let s create a competition to clean up the oil spill technology, and because the