smell of the car? just that it was very potent, very strong. was it an offensive smell? yes. shepard: the defense, of course, claims the smell did not come from a dead body and that cailee was not a murder victim at all. instead that she drowned in the family pool and nobody said anything and everything covered it up. phil keating at the courthouse. the jurors this afternoon did hear casey anthony, the suspect here speak in her initial police interview. how did the jury react to that? shep, in the jury box, the jurors actually leaned forward on their seats as they listened to the defendant casey anthony make up this infamous now story of zany the nanny kidnapping caylee. the detective then asked casey why she has not reported this for 31 days. i think part of me was naive enough to think that i could handle this myself which, obviously, i couldn t.
tsunami crippled the power supply. shepard: shuttle endeavour back on earth this time we re told for good. nasa astronauts wrapped up endeavour s last mission with a landing in florida in the we hours of the morning, 2:35 it was. the crew greeting crowds and posing for pictures. the commander there, mark kelly, decided to wait to call his wife. the wounded congresswoman gabriel giffords. he said he didn t want to wake her up. she, of course is, recovering in a houston rehab center after a gunman shot her in the head. endeavour s last stop will be a museum in los angeles. it s the youngest of nasa s shuttles but it has had an impressive career. raking up more than 120 million miles on its odometer and spending 29 the days in space over the course of 19 years and 25 flights. nasa plans to close out its 30-year shuttle program with the atlantis. crews rolled it out to the launch pad last night ahead of the scheduled liftoff on july the 8th. you can read more on the shuttle
we re told officials chased the bear for a few hours as it climbed up a tree as bears want to be. officials shot it with another tranquilizer dart and lowered it with rope they tell us. too bad they didn t use a trampoline because we all know them bears love tran means. i feel like we should update top stories now. a tornado today touched down in springfield, massachusetts one of two confirmed twisters in one part of the state. one woman claimed there is nothing left. i came home and i don t even have a house. shepard: we re told the storm damaged buildings and cars and power lines and trees. dow plummeted on fears the economy is stalling. the drop vaporized more than a quarter of this year s stock market gains and the new york congressman anthony weiner today announced that he cannot say with certitude whether it was his underwear in the lewd photos sent from his twitter account.
could actually land any perpetrator behind bars for years. and if you want to get to the bottom of this and get those twitter records, you are gonna need a government subpoena. shep? shepard: shannon, now what congressman weiner claims he would really like to be discussing. the showdown over the nation s debt ceiling. kind of like the credit limit on our credit cards. and the white house is warning now of dire consequences should congress not increase the limit. saying that could send the economy into yet another recession. the president meeting today with more than 200 house republicans at the white house it try to work out a deal. just last night the house of representatives killed a bill that would raise the ceiling because it did not lower spending. if we re going to raise the debt limit, the spending cuts should exceed the increase in the debt limit. otherwise, it will serve to cost us jobs in our country. it sends the wrong signal and it would be a mistake to directly link
called the fifth column is responsible. they condemned it as an act of terrorism. the big question is this the start of an insurgency that will try to spread fear. also today, nato voted to extend its mission in libya, another three months. that will mean a lot more air strikes in tripoli. the stated goal is not regime change but, rather, enforcing a no-fly zone, enforcing arms embargo and protecting citizens. the new deadline is the end of september. and, finally, another high level defection from the libyan government again today. the oil minister said he wanted out. he left the country, we think, for italy. shep? shepard: dan springer live. benghazi, libya. thanks. the transportation department officials say they were about to shut down a discount bus line right before one of its buses was in a deadly crash. it happened yesterday on i-9 a in virginia. four people killed. more than 50 others expwrured. after the bus reportedly swerved off the road and overturned. the feds say they