the newt machine gets lean. gingrich cuts a third of his staff and turns back his schedule. he s still in it to win it. nationwide outrage over a florida teenager s killing may not have been so fever pitched if local police had charged the shooter the night it happened. they wanted to do just that. why didn t they? the rocky mountain wildfire that won t let up. more lives, homes and property lost. hundreds of firefighters from across the country are coming in to help get that fire under control. and from basketball legend to baseball owner, the l.a. dodgers might be calling magic johnson the boss. we begin this morning with much more information on about the captain who had a mid flight meltdown. we have more information on who the pilot is and the jetblue passengers who pounced on him when he unleashed this terrifying rant. a federal law enforcement official identified the jetblue pilot as clayton. he s flown with jetblue for just under a dozen years. it also shows o
it is 5:00 a.m. in the east. we ll start with the top stories. the sound and the fury. he was screaming, they re going to take us down and ranting about the middle east and a bomb. new tape this morning of a jet blue pilot and what s being called a mental breakdown at 30,000 feet. you re going to hear from the hero copilot and the passengers who literally grabbed him by his neck to save the flight. and the more you hear, the more you realize just how close they came to disaster. the supreme court, set for a critical final day of arguments in the historic health care debate. today s session focusing on whether parts of the president s plan can even remain law if the individual mandate at the heart of the overhaul is deemed unconstitutional. an emotional plea for justice. the parents of trayvon martin speaking to lawmakers on capitol hill, as supporters continue to insist the florida teenager was killed because he was black. newt gingrich is scaling back. the former hou
against the pilot alleged to have gone on a rampage and screamed about a bomb on boar. captain clayton osborn is accused of interfering with the flight crew. listen to this outburst captured bypass jers. oh, my god, imso distraught. we ve got israel. we ve got iraq. lizzie has been pouring over this new affidavit. a lot of details are eyebrow raising. it walks us through what happened in the cockpit and the cabin. what you realize is that pretty quickly, the first officer had a sense something wasn t quite right. i want to read to you a couple parts of the affidavit after cruising cruisi cruising altitude. he yelled over the radio to air traffic control and instructed them to be quiet, turned off the radios and started dimming the mon stores and admonished the first officer for trying to talk. he became worried whether osbon said we need to take a leap of faith. he talks about sins in las vegas. at some point, osbon told the first officer, we are not going to las vegas.
news to dmitry medvedev with a new message for mitt romney. high winds drive a fire wild in the rockies. at least one person is dead. several more have lost their homes and danger is on the move. trayvon martin case. deeper the investigation goes, the more complicated it gets. there s only one truth but at least two conflicting witness stories about what happened. not a good time to be in the pink slime business. first the public recoils and then stores stop selling it and plant stops making it. today is the day there could be fireworks at the u.s. supreme court. two years in the making. the key and most controversial part of president obama s health care law put to the test. we begin with the russian president. he s not happy with republican presidential candidate mitt romney. he made that very clear this morning in south korea telling romney to listen to reason when talking about russia. dmitry medvedev is apparently upset romney called russia our number one geopo
activists or government. u.s. officials say the american soldier who allegedly shot and killed 16 afghan civilians was acting alone. the unidentified staff sergeant turn himself in after the shootings. officials have not said whether he had mental health issues or what his motive may have been. meanwhile, the taliban have issued a statement vowing to take revenge against, quote, american invaders and savage murders. security officials and medical sources say israel launched a new round of air strikes in gaza early on monday. they claim at least 30 people were injured. at least 18 people have been killed in israeli air strikes since friday. israel says it is responding to more than 100 rocket attacks from gaza. those are the headlines from cnn. i m monita rajpal. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london, i m charles hodson. good afternoon from cnn hong kong, i m andrew stevens. welcome to world business today. our top stories this morning