exam for their child or to correct their child s answers afterwards. all to achieve a sufficiently high preagreed score on those tests. singer accomplished this by paying defendant mark ridell, also charged today, to take or correct the exams and by bribing two exam administrators, defendants nicky williams and igore devorsky. singer paid williams $5,000 per student and devorsky about $20,000 per student. to facilitate the exam, singer counseled parents to take their children to a therapist to say the child needed additional time to complete the a.c.t. or s.a.t. once the companies that administer those exams had agreed to the extra time, sin r
a terrifying attack on a local local playground. a 15-year-old charged as the rapist. lots of people are talking about this tonight, the preps are finished for the inspection of the washington monument. we begin with the carbon monoxide poisoning. i m shawn yancy. i m brian bolter. more than 40 people rushed to the hospital after a boiler malfunctioned. will thomas is live with more. reporter: just a short time ago i spoke with the ceo of second genesis. it is a treatment facility for people with addictions. it s located just behind me on harvard between 13th and 14th. this is where it all played out today. he told me everyone has now been treated and released from local hospitals, and he told me they now know the definitive cause for this carbon monoxide leak. i want to first show you how this chaotic scene played out today. early footage shot at the scene shows firefighters entering second genesis in columbia heights. their job, get everyone out and fast. came up
fell from that structure, nicky williams was the park ranger on duty that day and talked about what that moment felt like. that was the first thought i had. it was some sort of attack. i didn t know what. i figured whatever it was happening the best place for us to be was not at the top was at the bottom of the monument. that was my next move was to get out of there whatever was going on. some great presence of mind there. the parks service says there is no timetable for re-opening the landmark to visitors. that s a live look of the monument now. the chris christie presidential buzz keeps getting louder as he prepares to take center stage at a speech at the reagan library. before any decision is made about running for president, christie wants to make sure his state s image is protected from all things the jersey shore. his latest battle with the show his latest battle with the show that s just ahead. so i took my heartburn pil and some antacids. we re having mexican tonight, s
murray. he s charged with involuntary manslaughter in the pop star s death. the entire jackson family will have front row seats. don lemon is there. don, let s talk about what exactly happens today and who we might see testify. hey, kyra, you may know as much about this and the players as i do. this is your old stomping grounds and some of the same people may be here. you know, this is the set up. that s what s going to happen today. the jury is going to get instructions from the judge and this is a set up. this is where the prosecution and defense say, here s what happened. this is why dr. conrad murray is guilty because he did this and then the defense will say, well, this is why he s not guilty because michael jackson did this and they re going to say that michael jackson really took the lethal dose himself. he either ingested it by drinking it or gave himself a shot or put the iv into his arm and gave himself a higher dose. that s what s going to happen today. that s a
opening statements. prosecutors claim dr. conrad murray caused jackson s death by administering a lethal dose of propofol. the defense is expected to argue that jackson gave himself the deadly dosage. cnn s don lemon is live outside the courthouse in los angeles. it is very, very early in the morning there. don, is there already are there already people gathering there, or are you alone? reporter: i am alone except for the crew and some other reporters. i had to look around. we re sort of in a bubble. you know how that is, but, where do we start, ali? oh my gosh. there is so much to talk about in this case. when you talk about propofol. we didn t know anything about propofol before michael jackson. some people get it when you go into procedures but you didn t know the name of it. as you said, opening statements, starting about 8:45 local time, which is 11:45 eastern. that s when the judge will come in, give the jury instructions, about 15 minutes. after that, the argument