speech that bill clinton made. it didn t have that little spark. do you think there s a reasonable chance that your husband could lose this election? absolutely not. the key august jobs report is just in. the unemployment rate dropped to 8.1% from 8.3%. the bad news is that only 96,000 jobs were created. this is not the hopeful number that the administration and the country was looking for. prince harry has arrived in afghanistan this morning to begin a new deployment to be on the frontlines facing the taliban. drew peterson found guilty of murdering his third wife kathleen savio. maximum sentence of 57 years in prison. two people in federal custody tonight after a hoax claiming a passenger on a flight was carrying a dangerous substance. the incident was a prank. this is where things tend to get a little ugly. oh, my goodness. look out. that s got to be in sportscentre s bottom 10, right? all that i love it. i did it wrong. no, you did it perfe
the republican convention nearly destroyed by hurricane sarah. do you remember that? we are in the midst of one of the biggest outbreaks of west nile virus ever. there has been 41 deaths nationwide. last week it was 693 illnesses. and now it s 1,118. three times the norm. the worst outbreak since 1999. west nile virus is indemic to the united states right now, which means it will be here for years to come. a chilling first-hand account of the raid that killed osama bin laden is set to hit store shelves next month. written by a naviy s.e.a.l. who helped lead the combat mission into pakistan last may. curiosity making its first test drive. the rover will soon begin its month-long trip searching for signs of life. extreme flooding is what s happening in nevada. las vegas locals didn t know what to do with floodwaters shut down roads and intersections. police are looking for the person behind a cruel prank, a turtle spot the duct taped and dangling from balloons
including three golds, and finished one-two in women s beach volleyball. here is the medal count this morning. the u.s. now has 82 medals overall, taking the lead over china. however, the chinese still have the most gold medals. russia is in third place, followed by britain and germany. mark phillips is covering the olympics in london. mark, good morning to you. reporter: good morning, gayle, charlie. well, the stars were aligned in the heavens, and at the starting line here. it was a good day to be an american in the main olympic stadium. not so hot if you re jamaican, about you their time will come again. but let s start somewhere else. spare a thought this morning for borg es. you train for years for the biggest moment of your athletic life, and poof, or rather snap, it s gone. there were other memorable moments here that didn t involve winning, at least not winning medals. there was another kind of victory for sara atar, the first woman ever to run in the olympics for
since the 1992 games. brittany reese has won the gold medal. the journey is complete. aries merritt. the olympic gold medal. allyson felix gets the gold. there s tons of hardships along the way but you can t give up. emergency landing. those are words you don t want to hear on a plane. a midair malfunction in the skies over california forced an alaskan airlines jet to make an emergency landing when air ground sensor malfunctioned. it pulled away like it expanded inside. at the top of my list of programs we don t need is one that costs $100 billion a year i m going to get rid of and that s obama care. the affordable care act known as obama care. i actually like the name because i do care. an american has been picked up from the research station in antarctica. the person is in stable condition. a resort hotel in new mexico got an unexpected guest. they roll up on you like that. that s an unsportsmanlike foul. kids are rich. i have nothing in common wit
penn state releases a scathing report into the jerry sandusky sex abuse scandal. the total disregard for the safety and welfare of sandusky s child victims by the most senior leaders at penn state. there was a corrosive atmosphere at penn state, and mr. paterno was in the center of it. i m going to eliminate every nonessential expensive program i can find. that includes obama care. and i m going to work to reform and save [ crowd booing ] . it was a tough crowd for mitt romney at the naacp convention. we expected that of course. hell, yeah, boos. you re my boo. i m your boo. we re all boos. he has some health challenges he is dealing with. following weeks of speculation, jesse jackson jr. is receiving treatment for a mood disorder. people get sick. and when people get sick, they miss work. just give him the grace of space so that he can get well. rescuers are searching for more victims after an avalanche in the french alps swept at least nine climber