welcome back. prosecutors are deciding whether to file charges against gizmodo, the tech site that paid $5,000 to buy an iphone prototype an employee mistakenly left at a bar. meanwhile they have confirmed rumors apple asked for the investigation into the possible phone that has not been released. they raided the house of jason chen, took american express bills as well as copies of checks. wire.com is reporting people claiming to represent apple showed fb finder s address and searched the premises of the roommate refused to let them in. airlines will no longer be able to keep passengers on planes for hour after hour during some of those long delays we know about. the government has set these new guidelines to protect passengers and to give us some options. allow people to get off the plane, go back to the terminal, get off the plane, re-book their
of a high-tech blogger who got national attention last week for his reporting on a top secret iphone prototype. police seizing computers and servers from the editor of gizmodo goth comb gizmodo.com. as the story goes, the software engineer accidently left the next generation device at a california pub. and then, shelled out $5000 to get it from the lucky finder, at least somebody did. now this raid is sparking a national debate over journalistic privacy protection. trace gallagher is live in the west coast room. i confused myself on that lead. somebody leaves it behind in a bar and somebody else picks it up and now they say it s the next generation i phone and how does the blogger come into it with the police? reporter: the blogger, as you said, had a series of stories detailing the features of the iphone, which is called the g4.
janet napolitano, by the way, will be on andrea mitchell s show at 1:00 eastern here on msnbc. up next, an exclusive first look inside the political playbook including who might replace senator harry reid. when it comes to brand names, they don t get much bigger than sarah palin. dave takes us inside his cover story for new york magazine, sarah inc. the iphone prototype that was supposedly lost and found in a california bar. the story just got a little stranger. first, speaking of stranger bizarre. weird. bill karins with a check on the forecast. you should see the things i can do with refried beans. fantastic. oh, just please do the weather. come on, man. sorry. is it tuesday? dang! sometimes visuals are just better. let s just talk about what s going on out there outside.
health. we re just half hour away now from the start of what s billed to be a grilling for goldman sachs on capitol hill. top executives for the company will face a senate subcommittee over allegations that the company misled investors. and mexico has just issued a travel alert to the its citizens who have plans to travel to arizona. and for those who either reside or study in the state due to that immigration law that was just signed by the governor. well, the story starts with a mistake in a bar. an apple employee who left the iphone prototype by accident and now it s a full-fledged police investigation. authorities raided the home of a blogger who got his hands on the phone and then published the first photos of apple s next generation device. jeff ross son joins us with the details on this story. the plot thickens. this is not the person who found the iphone pro foe type, but the person who what, bought it and talked about it? can i say one thing. who has a prototype and le
chen s home friday. he post this had video on line touting the new phone s features. here s some of the features. the front camera, finally there, two volume buttons are separate. the whole outside is meltic. a writer claims the site purchased the iphone prototype for $5,000 from a dude to found it in a bar. with us, lance, the editor in chief of pc magazine.com and arthur aidala. the phone looks cool. it s like the dream iphone with the camera shepard: on boat sides. but apple could be producing a number of prototypes. this isn t necessarily the next iphone but it was apple s