the situation room. we begin with a life and death question being asked here in the united states and indeed around the world. how are the brutal crackdowns against civilians and opposition forces in syria and libya different? the u.s. and its allies show no willingness at least for now to intervene directly to stop president bashar al assad as they have m with moammar gadhafi. jill dougherty is working that story. the bitter truth is, the u.s. really has little influence in syria. private u.s. officials are pessimistic right now about stopping those killings any time soon. in fact, one u.s. official told cnn that they could actually get worse. in syria, more than 400 people dead in a violent crackdown on demonstrators. but syria is not libya. colonel gadhafi needs to step down from power and leave. reporter: no call from president obama for syrian president bashar al assad to change office. we ask him to heed the concerns of his own people. reporter: travel ban
captioning funded by cbs another damp morning here in the big city. good morning, everybody. i m harry smith. i m erica hill. it is nice in a way. it has been so hot and nasty here all summer. it has been a nice relief for us and they could use some kinds of weather like that. especially out west. where it has been so hot and so dry. wildfires popping up. we will get you the latest on that in just a little bit. also ahead this morning, a question about this egg recall and whether a very simple vaccine could have prevented all of this. half billion eggs recalled. we will get you the latest. first, though, it could be one of the biggest political upsets so far this year. a little known tea party candidate, knocks lisa murkowski off the ballot. nancy cortes joins us this morning washington with the results of yesterday s primaries. good morning. reporter: good morning. yes. this alaska race is really a surprise. you know, there wasn t a lot of polling done the last p
their camera, they can go online don t sit in cars, sit in front of a computer board. good to know. you re scaring me. hope my wife is not watching. raul felder, thank you very much. appreciate it. thank you so much. you don t use facebook. i don t know how to use it, thank god. i was going to friend you. but now i won t. thank you very much. time for the battle of the late night laughs, two hosts, one topic, who had the best line of the night on the hysteria surrounding the new vampire movie eclipse. let s start with david lett letterman. everybody has twilight fever. governor sarah palin was in a helicopter shooting werewolves. not bad. not a huge fan of letterman that s fine. jimmy kimmel now. unfortunately for the clippers and for all the teams lebron is meeting with, i have a good source that says he s already agreed to a six-year $96
take for instance the story we saw on the huffington post about the divorced husbands trying to get full custody of his kids. he told the ladies on match.com, he was single and childless too. then there was a mom who told a court she never smoked pot and then, yeah, i think you see where this is going, she posted pictures of herself partying and smoking on facebook for everyone to see. joining us now is divorce attorney raul felder, famous divorce attorney here in new york. thank you for joining us. more and more divorce attorneys, amazing statistic here, according to the american academy of matrimonial lawyers, 81% of lawyers say they have used evidence from myspace, twitter, facebook. e-mail, some sort of electronic component of virtually every divorce case because it is part of people s lives. it is communication device. it is like diaries, but it is all public. and that s when they tell the truth. then they got the others that turn up in divorce cases where i m a 6 2 blue-eyed f
space correspondent jay barberie to explain that is go on. what happened? they have done this hundreds of times, jeff. as the progress of an unmanned spacecraft russian built carrying fuel, food, cargo for the crew on board, there are six people up there, it was appro h approaching its docking port and they lost communications with it. so they had to make a fly off, get away from the space station, and it is now six to seven miles away and is sitting out, waiting to try again, possibly sunday. no one is in any danger at anytime. but a few years back, the same type of progress ran into the mir space station, the russian station, crashed into it, endangered the crew. it is not an easy task to do, but they pretty well have the drill down now. and they ll try again on sunday to bring it where it should dock. what is important is nobody was hurt here. jay barberie, thanks. a new weapon enlisted in a battle against the oil. an oil-drinking whale. it is a boat. it is the lar