does the tough talk add up? why all the talk about paul ryan as a possible vp for mitt romney. it shows huge interest and tell you why it s not going to happen. a developin story in louisiana where the earth is devouring trees stories tall and sending residents running for solid ground. let s go out front. . out front tonight, american loophole. today we got this e-mail. i printed it out. it s from the u.s. state department and it announces u.s. sanctions against an oil company based in syria for doing business with iran. we thought hey, this is proof for how tough sanctions are. they are going after everybody. here s the president and the secretary of state talking about how tough american sanctions on iran are. this resolution will put in place the toughest sanctions ever faced by the iranian government. the sanctions will be tough and clearly aimed at the iranians. the sanctions have enormous bite and enormous scope. when we took a second look, buried deep in the
candidates. the response, huge. and komen bombshell. a huge shakeup at the breast cancer foundation, the president stepping down. the founder moving out of management. did planned parenthood funding change komen s focus from pink to green? and history on the track. an american breaking a record 44 years old. leo manzano bringing it in the 1,500 meters. newsroom begins right now. good morning, everyone. i m fredricka whitfield in for carol costole this morning we begin with a political competition this morning called the veep stakes. and any day, we are expecting the answer to this very critical question. who will innit mitt pick? let s bring in cnn reporter. tim pawlenty. a familiar name on the trail, says he is honored to be considered but that 2012 is about more than mitt romney s number two. let s listen. the main issue here isn t the vp process or who s going to be the vp. the main issue is what do we do to get this country and economy moving again and provide
it s 11:00 on the east coast, 8:00 out west. a doctor, father, and authority on near death experiences in children stands accused of water boarding his own daughter. that story is it ahead. also, a hot dry summer translates to pain in farmer s fields and supermarkets. check out supermarket lanes all over the world. and curiosity is out of this world, way out of this world, but it is keeping in touch via tweets. much of that coming up. first, a very tough story. accusations of water boarding not against a prisoner of war but against an 11-year-old american girl. the man arrested, the rl s father who is a pediatrician in delaware. this is a mug shot we re showing you here of dr. melvin morris. his daughter accuses him of holding her face under a running faucet and told police he called it water boarding. dr. morris has written several books including two that deal with near death experiences in children. he is also been interviewed on various national talk shows including opr
fluctuations. we have the highest price ever in the history in this country for gasoline and right now the average roughly 3.61 gallon and that s higher on average than we ve ever paid before. so if that alone is not a wakeup call then you are taking oxycontin and you are out of your mind. do you know that the only regressive tax that the liberals like is higher gas prices and that s a cigarette taxes are regressive and and a couple of them, but they love this one and they don t mind that the poor and working class of this country gets hosed because and what you re saying, charlie, they like environmentalists more than the average poor family in america. i believe that many environmentalists want higher unemployment and they don t care about dagen go ahead and defend higher gas taxes. and here is the bottom line, we re going to have gas prices, until we start drilling and keystone pipeline may move the dial a little
the mayor says the cuts are absolutely necessary to help balance their budgets. union leaders claim the changes will not save any money. california voters split right down the middle on raising the state s tobacco tax. this one is believe it or not still too close to call tonight. the proposed tax hike is losing by about 1%. with all of the precincts reporting, so if you are wondering why it s still up in the air, election officials still have to count all the absentee ballots and they tell us that could take days. now, if this is passed, the measure would increase cigarette taxes by a dollar a pack in california. that s on top of the 7 cents smokers there already pay. about 75% of the money raised they tell us would go to fund cancer research. a major social networking site now admits that hackers have breached its security and people s pass words are clearly in danger. coming up, the risk and what you should do to protect yourself. plus, current and former airline workers accused o