low end seven years, three months. dan springer in washington north of seattle. it seems the judge has some sympathy for this bare foot bandit. yeah, shep. she absolutely did. she could have sentenced colton harris moore to almost 10 years. instead as you mentioned she went to the low end of the scale. described him as contrite and shy. she said she applauded him for being will to pate victims back almost a million dollars in restitution and described clearly moved by harris moore s abusive childhood which she described as a mind-numbing absence of hope. that is the triumph of the human spirit and triumph of colton harris moore he has survived. restitution $1.2 billion paid by fox because we paid for the movie rights. shepard: our parent company you mean not fox news channel. our parent company.
i m christine romans. house speaker john boehner says no way to the president s plan. he has another solution and it s simply says, spend less. i m ali velshi. congressional websites crash. what president obama said that had a number of websites going off-line. details coming up on this american morning. thanks for being with us. tuesday, july 26th. welcome to american morning. we all stayed up later than usual last night to get a chance to hear from the president about this debt ceiling showdown as well as from the house speaker. and still divided this morning. they are still divided with different plans, different ideas how to get us out of the mess. didn t you both think maybe they got something, something happened. i didn t think there was a deal. i m always the optimist. lots of ideas, plans, but no agreement. start there with the debt crisis looming, president obama, house speaker john boehner took their cases for getting a deal done directly to the
we re just getting the information in. that means that the players vote will happen later today in more of a formal setting. training camp could start as early as wednesday now, we ve been told. david mattingly has been following this for us. he has been live out of atlanta every day, at least he was last week when those negotiations were taking place. david, did you just get word that something came forward just moments ago? reporter: reading and finding out now is that the nfl players and the owners did come to an agreement in the wee hours of the morning. and, bottom line, they re going to play some football. exactly what the owners were asking for last week when they came out of their meeting and had a 31-0 vote in favor of this agreement. and players still have to vote on this. it s largely looked at as a formality, that it is going to go through. and the fans will only miss, so far, one game this season. the first game of the preseason, which was going to be in canton
story here? there s no hero. there s no feel good element about it. even if they did make a movie or a book about it, do you want to bring that into your bookstore or your movie house where people are going to be holding signs saying you re making money off a dead 2-year-old? i don t think so. i think it s going to be in the interview, that s where the money is going to be. i want to bring in this breaking news, announcing that casey anthony is going to be released in less than a week, coming up on wednesday of next week, july the 13th. so the speculation could go into overdrive in exactly what she s going to do, where she s going to show up. there have been stats out there about what people thought that she could potentially earn, tv interviews, 1 to $2 million, book deal, potentially movie rights, $250,000. it really does depend on the appetite of the american public because people could say publicly that they have no interested in this. i really don t like even doing this segment
the public or sign any big deals. if she does, they would soon be confiscated by the various lawsuits, certainly zanny the nanny s lawsuit and others that are sure to pop up will go after whatever book, tv or movie rights she obtains. what i believe will happen, jon, and i have no real evidence of this but just my familiarity with the case, she ll go someplace relatively low profile where she could be in the custody of some adult, wait until the, you know, the worst of the anger toward her subsides and then try to put together, you know, some blueprint for the rest of her life, jon. jon: yeah. so strange, i mean, she was living with her participants when all of this parents when all of this started, and the fractured relationships in that family have to be even deeper after everything that s gone on. her side accusing her father of molesting her, her brother the same thing.