court a short time ago. the former ceo arriving at federal court in san jose for a status hearing. she faces conspiracy and wire fraud charges tied to an alleged multimillion dollar scheme to defraud investors. she boasted her lab technology could detect hundreds of diseases from a drop of blood. an alarming spike in measles cases across this country tonight. the cdc now reporting 71 new cases, bringing the total number to 626 this year, with iowa and tennessee now among 22 states dealing with measles outbreaks. and marking earth day. an estimated 1 billion people in 192 countries participating in earth day, from clean water protests in venezuela to picking up trash on florida s beaches. the theme this year, helping to protect endangered animals and plants from extinction. earth day was first celebrated in 1970. when we come back, ken jennings versus this new jeopardy! whiz. who would win? feel the clarity of non-drowsy claritin and relief from symptoms cause
time frame several ambassadors were asked to leave venezuela but not the fbi. at that time, the reason was there was an individual named robert allen stanford out of houston, texas, who woo runnias a ponzi scheme, 7 billion dollar scheme and had a branch in venezuela and defrauded venezuela ans out of $2 million. venezuela said you other agencies get out but fbi, don t go anywhere. we want you to help us in this case because in the event the money would be recovered it would be repate riotated to venezuela. nothing has happened since 2010 because of who is running the operations down there. as far as the visa requirement, the u.s. requires them to pay and that is typical. any country in the world where we require their visitors to get a visa and pay, which i believe
prostitutes, free travel, even lady gaga tickets. cnn s kyung lah has more. reporter: it is a scandal rocking the u.s. navy. three officers charged with accepting bribes like prostitutes and concert tickets, in exchange for giving up classified information. the u.s. attorney is implicating you in a bribery scandal. reporter: dressed in civilian clothes for court. i m sorry, i can t comment. reporter: the commander had nothing to say about his role in a suspected multi million dollar scheme. they say he received thousands in gifts. in tokyo, tickets to see lion king. in thailand, more tickets, this time to lady gaga. then there were prostitutes and free hotel rooms. why? this man, malaysian business man, known as tipping the scales
it to three publicly owned companies. it was a story that wrote itself. and it was a kind of an edgar alan poe horrific, repelling, curious horror story that involved real people with tragic consequences. brings us the latest on this one-of-a-kind case in new york. local people are charged with opening graves, body stealing and illegal dissection. relatives of the deceased are outraged. probably the most hideous horrible crime of the last 100 years. evil people with absolutely no conscience whatsoever. lawsuits were filed all over the country in a multimillion dollar scheme that prosecutors
the initial attempt to get rid of the law came in january of 2011, two weeks after the gop took control of the house. that vote passed and died in the senate however as it has every other time that the house has tried to repeal the law. president obama says he has a sure-fired way to help middle-class taxpayers to help families making less than $250,000 a year, and get rid of tax breaks for the wealthy. i want to bring in jessica yellin who is in new york today. he talked about this and talked about it from the white house and clearly laying down the gauntlet, if you will, and he says, okay, i want to put this before congress again and this is going to be an issue that is going to be hot and heavy for the next four months, and do they think that this is going to catch fire, if you will, as a campaign slogan? as a campaign issue certainly. we will see this on the trail no doubt, suzanne, because it is a battle for the next four months. in congress, don t expect it to go an