murray s team says jackson gave himself the fatal dose. yesterday jurors heard jackson slurring his words in an audio recording made just weeks before he died. he was talking about his upcoming shows in london. when people leave my show, i want them to say, i ve never seen nothing like this in my life. murray faces up to four years in prison and the loss of his medical license if he is convicted. iran is planning to send navy ships near the atlantic coast of the united states, at least that s what a commander has told iran s state-run news agency. why, you ask? that commander says iran will do it because the u.s. does the same thing near the marine border. the u.s. defense department has not commented on this. american ships have been deployed to the persian gulf in the past. it looks like 41 years of good fortune have run out for a fugitive. george wright is a convicted killer who escaped from a new jersey prison in 1970 and later hijacked a plane to algeria. he mana
jurors heard an audio recording of a barely coherent jackson just weeks before his death, and saw a picture of him dead on a hospital gurney. cnn s don lemon is live from los angeles, he talked to the jackson family. were you inside the courtroom, don. set the scene for us. reporter: ah, good morning to you, carol, and good morning to you, ali, as well. how do you say this? yesterday, when it all started, the jackson family walked in, and they were they are a strong family. i ve never seen them together this much, the funeral, but now they are co-hehesantx and walken together supporting their mom, katherine jackson who is a strong woman. when they dimmed the light, played videotape and played that audiotape of michael jackson, they had to play it twice, because the first time you couldn t hear it. it was heart wrenching, and everyone sort of looked at everyone saying, is that michael jackson? hear it for yourself and then we ll talk about it. [ mumbling ] when people le
the government has passed to get it out of its deep hole. president obama is on the west coast again today. he ll be in los angeles to raise some big money for his re-election war chest. a dinner tonight costs nearly $18,000 per person. the president was in seattle yesterday and he goes to denver tomorrow before president obama left for the west coast, he spoke at the congressional black caucuses awards dinner and he s really start to sound like a candidate now. i m going to press on for the sake of all those families who are struggling right now. i don t have time to feel sorry for myself. i don t have time to complain. i m going to press on. i expect all of you to march with me and march on! the president also will be in the bay area today hosting a town hall event on the professional social network site linkedin. how about some d.c. deja vu? the federal government could shut down thanks to another budget face-off. i m sure you ve heard about it. lawmakers are butti
recession fear. today the story is the health of the european banks. that s absolutely right, christine. what we re seeing is conflicting reports today in a couple of newspapers about whether the eurozone and european regulators for the banking industry will move to try to recapitalize or shore up the capital that some of the banks hold. this is on the back of on going concerns about the health of the french banks after mohamed el arian said yesterday. he said that could undermined the eurozone, pushing europe into a broader recession. today the markets seem to be rebounding after flirting with losses earlier on in today s session, christine. we should also remember that we ve had really sobering statistics and warning shots from some of the world s biggest institutions this week. let me run you through them. on a positive note, overnight we had the g-20 promising to act put forward concerted action to try to stop these losses and on going concerns about a return to reces
down, too. u.s. stock futures are in the red in pre trading. a lot of this comes after the federal reserve gave a cynical view of the economy. we ll talk more about this with christine romans in just a few minutes. back to troy davis now. he has been put to death. the debate over his guilt or innocence and over the death penalty itself goes on. the state of georgia executed davis last night by lethal injection for the murder of a savannah police officer in 1989. supporters claimed there was too much doubt in the case. the original prosecutor says there is no doubt. despite protests and last-minute appeals, the u.s. supreme court refused to grant a stay and his time ran out. media witnesses to the execution says just before the procedure began, davis told the victim s family he was innocent. he urged them to keep digging for the truth. he asked his family and friends to keep praying, to keep working and keep the faith. then he said to the prison staff, the ones he said who a