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hacking scandal. david cameron minutes away from a show down. two major proposals in the trillion dollar showdown over the nations debt. the first is called a possible break through. the second plan is under attack by democrats. all this next on american morning . thanks for being with us, it s wednesday, july 20th, this american morning . i m kiran chetry. i m ali velshi. do we have a lot going on today. british prime minister david cameron is about to get grilled by parliament. the newscorp phone hacking hearing begins in 30 minutes. cameron is expected to face tough questions about what some are calling a cozy relationship with rupert murdoch s media empire. go to used of parliament this morning. fireworks yesterday. the consensus, though, is david cameron is not likely to lose his job over this but that he s under enormous pressure right now. reporter: he s definitely is. he s got a lot to defend himself today. basically, this is a special day in parliament. t
for news international and tabloids over in great britain possibly tried to hack into the phone numbers of 9/11 victims and possibly some other u.s. citizens, so now this scandal that started over in great britain has a chance to make it to the united states and the fbi it appears right now is getting involved. we ll have much more on this still developing story throughout the next couple of hours here on cnn. also coming up for you this hour, the man accused of killing and mutilating an 8-year-old boy is arraigned in court. the charges, first-degree kidnapping and first-degree murder. we will take you there coming up, and adarandi kaye just mentioned to you a moment ago, l.a. is gearing up for gridlock. you might be thinking, well, what s the big deal? it s l.a. they are used to gridlock on their highways. but this is different. they are calling it carmageddon, and it s set to begin soon. but first, let me give you a update on where we are with the debt negotiations going on
that set off bells for the administrator. no it s not, shep. apparently it s the 16-year-old sending out these text messages according to investigators. he sent one of them to at least one fellow student using words like explosives and killing and talking specifically about the plan to get away using a stolen plane, saying in one text message we ain t going to crash it we re just going to kill and fly our way to a country that won t send us back to the u.s. now the police chief in roy, utah says the student who alerted authorities may well have saved many lives. listen. when the information first came, it came from someone who had very little information but was concerned about it. and we were able to quickly put some information together. and having put that information together, shep, they decided they had no choice but to act. shepard: one of those students was reportedly not only inspired by the massacre at columbine but obsessed with it. again, according to the