why congress may have breathing room when it comes to raising the debt ceiling on this american morning. and good morning, everyone. it is wednesday, july 27th. this is american morning. a lot going on today. let s get to it. it does feel like dueling bangoes, doesn t it? when you hear both sides of the debate they re dug in but insist they re right. and a growing number of americans want them not to be. they all say god bless america. how we get there is the question. two maker developments in the debt crisis, following minute by minute here. six days until the deadline and house speaker john boehner s plan is coming under fire from members of his own party. he s going back to the drawing board because the numbers don t add up. today s vote has been postponed and in just a few hours, house republicans will meet again as john boehner says that they are looking for more cuts and deeper cuts. this is the plan. i ve got it here. 57 pages. what happens when you co
you should not start humira if you have any kind of infection. make today the day you talk to your rheumatologist. and ask how you can defend against and help stop further joint damage with humira. welcome back, everybody. more now on that verdict, the breaking news. 18 of the 20 counts in the corruption retrial of former chicago governor rod blagojevich. we have it, 18 of the 20 counts, a unanimous decision by the jury what. should we expect coming from the jury and when? unfortunately, we lost our connection with nick, but it is the breaking news that just happened a short time ago when we got the information that a verdict has been reached by the
good morning, everybody. i m thomas roberts. a verdict has been reached in 18 of the 20 counts in the corruption retrial of former illinois governor rod blagojevich. this was a unanimous decision on 18 of the counts. however, they cannot come to be a agreement on two of the counts. let s go over some of the charges though. they include wire fraud. they include attempted extortion, conspiracy to commit extortion, soliciting bribes and conspiracy to solicit and accept bribes. in flaggo s first trial they were deadlocked after delating some 14 days over a three-week period of time. they agreed to only one sole charge out of that, that bravo had lied to the fbi. we are hearing from our affiliate in chicago that a verdict is going to be read coming up in two hours. 1:30 p.m. eastern time, but, again, that the jury has come to be a unanimous decision on 18 counts. however, they cannot come to an agreement on two of the counts against the former governor.
jury, unanimous verdict. 18 of the 20 counts of the corruption retrial of former governor rod blagojevich. nick bogav on the phone with us. a little bit of a miscommunication, sorry about that. what s going on. reporter: a little bit after 1:00 the jurors will come into the courtroom. sent a note out 40 minutes or so ago and said they reached agreement on 18 of the 20 counts, confident they wouldn t be able to reach consensus on the other two counts. the prosecutor said it was clear that the jurors had given it a good-faith effort and he urged the judge to accept the 18 verdicts, and the defense team had no objection to that, so judge james sa xw el said we ll give a couple of hours for people to gather and for courtroom security to get in place, and the verdicts will be read a little after 1:00 central time today. nick, from the last trial, it was deadlocked on 23 of the 24 charges. what does it mean to the other
reporter: again, 12,000 people in this situation, and more than 4,000 homes under water here in minot. janel klein, check back with you later. thanks search for that report. breaking news we re learning from our affiliate is wmaq. a verdict has been reached in 18 of the 20 counts of the corruption retrial of former illinois governor rod blagojevich. again, they are just finding out that they have made a unanimous decision on 18 counts. however, they cannot come to an agreement on the final two counts. we ll continue to follow this and bring you more developments out of chicago as soon as we get more details about the verdict that has been reach in the 18 of the 20 counts against him. new details about the capture of whitey bulger l.he now rat out the fbi agents who may have helped him escape? developing news. an arrest warrant issued for libyan leader, moammar gadhafi. thought they were dead. [ laughter ] [ grunting ]