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of opening statements that will be live when things get going. well, another high-profile trial is winding down. attorneys for amanda knox will make their final arguments. they are hoping to overturn her murder conviction. knox is expected to speak as well. prosecutors claim that knox slit her roommate s throat during wild sex. libyan fighters say that they have seized the port of sirte today. moammar gadhafi controls most of the city. this is one of the areas not under the control of libya s new leadership. washington dodges a government shutdown. lawmakers have a deal in hand to pay the federal government s bills through mid-november. a final vote expected next week when the house returns from break. the spending bill is upheld because they could not agree on funding for fema. president obama is pitching his new jobs bill in denver at a hollywood fund-raiser last night he refinded republicans that they were in charge in the run-up to the economy s big meltdown. we
29th, they find a bag. and inside that bag is an empty saline bag which you ll see in court but it s slit open from top to bottom. you ll hear from the coroner, investigator, they found this 100 milliliter bottle of propofol inside the bag. you ll hear testimony about the significance of that when the medical experts come in and explain it to you. following the commands of conrad murray, alvarez is then told to call 911 and does so. that 911 call was made at 12:20 p.m. what you ll also learn from the evidence is that phone call was not made at 11:56 or thereabouts when sade had heard the phone go dead and heard commotion in the background. that 911 call was not made at 12:12 p.m. when the defendant called michael amir williams to say there had been a problem. that 911 call was not made at 12:15 when michael amir williams returned the call and spoke to conrad murray who only relaid he needed to get there right away. the 911 call was instructed to be given at 12:20 p.m. now, em
militant group that may be as big a threat to the united states in afghanistan as al qaeda or the taliban. the obama administration appears ready to formally call the haqqani network what so many people believe it is, a terrorist organization. our foreign affairs correspondent jill dougherty is at the state department, she s been digging on this story. what are you learning? wolf your know, the political pressure here in the united states has been building to put the haqqani network on that list of terrorist organizations. but what really put force behind the argument is a violent action by the group itself. reporter: violent attacks in afghanistan, american blood spilled. haqqani operatives planned and conducted that truck bomb attack as well as the assaults on our embassy. reporter: now u.s. officials tell cnn, secretary of state hillary clinton is on the verge of designating the al qaeda linked haqqani network as a foreign terrorist organization. one official says,
ted rowlands was inside the courtroom when that audio was played. ted, it was stunning to hear. i can t imagine what the reaction was like inside the courtroom where michael jacks jackson s family was attending. reporter: to be honest, drew, i was not inside the courtroom during that audio, but i think anybody who heard it was shocked. and the prosecutors used it for one reason, to show that dr. conrad murray knew what he was doing to michael jackson, knew the drugs he was administering to michael jackson had this type of effect. they got that recording from murray s own cell phone so murray was recording jackson in if that distorted state. i mean, you could hear him just trying to slur the words. this was part of an hour and a half that the prosecution went through today in their opening statements with the jury. basically, they said murray was incompetent and that he dropped the ball in leaving jackson alone, not only by giving him the propofol and other drugs, but he l