at the top of the hour here, this is your cnn sunday morning. i m t.j. holmes. thank you for being here. we want to give a special good morning and welcome to the men and women of the armed forces watching now on the american forces network. thank you for being here. thank you for what you do. let s start with what we saw yesterday in new york. an extraordinary scene really. the brooklyn bridge is, again, open this morning after protesters shut it down. police took away as many as 700 demonstrators who had taken to the bridge as parts of a wall street protest. they re calling this thing the occupy wall street. that s what they call themselves. look, they did occupy wall street for a time and other parts of new york city. they ve been gathering in new york for more than two weeks now. this has been a loosely coordinated effort to protest what they say a financial system that favors the rich at the expense of everybody else. this is the biggest disruption we ve seen in the tw
pat on the back to president barack obama. well, i think the decision that has been made with respect to allowing gays to serve openly in the military is a good one, the right thing to do. president obama signed the law repealing, don t ask, don t tell. it went into effect last month. the brooklyn bridge is open today after a group of occupy wall street protesters shut it down saturday. police arrested more than 700 of the protesters. the loosely organized demonstration began three weeks ago today to protest what the group calls corporate greed. it has spread to other cities, seattle, los angeles, boston, san francisco, as well as a few other cities. we will have a live report at the half hour. a live picture of the washington monument in the nation s capital. no word, however, being done today to locate damage caused by that august earthquake. weather is keeping crews away for a second day. these are some spectacular pictures from last week showing just how dangerou
jet in 172 dressed as a priest. the fbi says wright then forced agents to deliver $1 million ransom dressed only in swim trunks to prove agents had no guns. he flew to algeria and vanished, until now. he was living in a resort town and is now fighting extradition. for a second day workers are hanging outside the washington monument at the very tippy top, checking each marble block. that earthquake that shook the east coast last month did more damage than first thought. these engineers will have to inspect every stone. it will take at least a few days. park officials say they can work through heavy rain, but there f there s any threat of lightning they have to stop. 9 monument s been hit by lightning several times in its history. it is structurally sound. tribal fighters say they shot down a yemeni war jet north of the capital of sanaa today and captured the pilot. the fighters are aligned with a prominent gemny generyemeni gen defected. they raided the base for anti-a
verdict came down and prosecutors hammered away at inconsistencies in ward s story and that he calmly admitted five times, five times in the initial 911 call that he had shot his wife. listen to that. all right. and then there was this bizarre jailhouse video just days after his wife died ward apparently you see him there performing a strip tease for his daughter and sister-in-law and all three acted like him being arrested was a big joke in that video. i want to bring in legal expert holly hughes, a criminal defense attorney and former prosecutor. bob ward was a millionaire. he had a high caliber defense team i would imagine. did the defense make a mistake here? no. the defense was stuck with what their client had already said. we just played that tape for the listeners. when you very calmly say five times i shot my wife and you don t at the time you re not hysterical. no urgency in his voice. he s not hysterical. get here and help her. they re stuck with the stateme
this private hospital. it happened in the heavily visited area of agra where the taj mahal is located. the bomb went off in the reception area blowing out the windows. last weekend a briefcase bomb killed 11 people in new delhi. former senator charles percy is dead. the republican served in the senate for nearly 20 years and eventually became the chairman of the powerful foreign relations committee. in recent years he was battling alzheimer s disease. he died today at the washington, d.c. hospice. he was 91 years old. federal investigators are on the scene of a deadly plane crash at a reno, nevada, air show. they are trying to determine what caused the vintage p-51 mustang to lose control and slam into the ground, killing its veteran pilot and six others. dozens of people were injured. our dan simon is in reno. what are you learning about this crash, dan? reporter: well, fred, there is a press briefing going on now. the death toll has climbed considerably. three people we