joe johns is in the courtroom. he s outside the courtroom in greensboro, north carolina. we have our jeffrey toobin, senior legal analyst, helping us along, along with ray lynn johnson and as well as our own sun yib hostin who has been good enough to join us. joe, first to you. it s hard to do it quickly, i know, and briefly. bring our viewers up to speed what we know right now and what we re waiting for. reporter: what we know is this is a six-count indictment against john edwards and the jury has indicated to the judge in the courtroom that they have reached a verdict on count three of that six-count indictment. that count three relates to a charge of accepting illegal campaign donations in the year 2008 from rachel bunny mellon, a 101-year-old woman who lives in upperville, virginia, very rich, it s right outside of middleburg, virginia, and she had taken upon herself to give jon edwards several hundred thousand dollars which according to one of her friends was griffin
mattresses. some senators agree. they re ought to be a law. our current toxics law allows too many untested chemicals on the market. why should parents who would be left to wonder if the chemicals used in their baby s bottles, pacifiers, cribs are safe? the status quo is dangerous and unacceptable. cnn s dana bash joins me now with, dare i say, this rolling coverage. so what are these moms hoping to accomplish? reporter: what they want is basically information, and the backstory, the background, i should tell you, something that certainly i didn t realize as a new mom and many others might not is that chemicals simply are not regulated, and we don t know a lot about the chemicals that are out there. as you mention in everything. at this press conference these lawmakers and activists made clear that there are 80,000 known chemicals, martin. only 200 have been tested and only 4 have been taken off the market. i want to bring in a couple of the moms who came here from far