edwards lawyers say it was gifts from old friends intended to keep the affair street from elizabeth edwards who died back in december. first, joe johns lays out how all of this mess began. reporter: john edwards, the politician. remember him? we have much work to do. because the truth is, we still live in a country where there are two different americas. reporter: as it turned out, mr. two americas had two very different faces himself. people close to him said it was the face of betrayal. betrayal of the people closest to him. his late wife, elizabeth, supporters, his staffers, his contributors. grant it, he was a promising politician at first. rich trial lawyer, but a spokesman for the poor. smart but homegrown. talked such a good game, he good picked up as john kerry s running mate in 2004. i have chosen a man who understands and defends the values of america. reporter: but it didn t work out, so next election cycle, edwards jumped into the race for the white hou
he said it was a prank. the recipient, a woman said there have never been any inappropriate exchanges between anthony wiener and myself, including the tweet/picture in question. she s one of about 200 people he follows on twitter. we would love to get her side of the story, but she s been unavailable for comment. a person named dan wolf seems to be the only person who saw the original tweet and retweeted it. and that was before it was taken down. he denies hacking into wiener s account. what s odd is on may 11, someone with the name patriotusa76, a person named dan wolf tweeted chris lee was republican congressman from new york who sent this photo of himself to a woman he found on craigslist and resigned after it became public. we got the photo from gawker. wolf s tweet was sent on may 11th. that was weeks before the picture in question popped up on wiener s twitter page this last friday. yesterday, congressman wiener hoped to be able to put these questions to rest, and
you re watching world one . violent he can lates in yemen after cease-fire break down between security forces and tribal fighters. uncertain future. japan s prime minister survives a no-confidence vote but he s weakened by rebellion in his party. and the u.s. state of massachusetts is reeling after a series of tornadoes, leaving behind a trail of destruction. we want to start in yemen where there are growing fears deadly street battles are dragging the country to the brink of civil war. the capital has been a flash point for revolt. people who live there say they heard explosions all night long. they describe the fighting as worse than anything before and it s spreading. state tvs says an army general has been killed in the latest clashes. here is the man in the center of the crisis, yemen s long-time president saleh. for five months protesters have been calling him to step down. at one point he promised to go but he s still clinging on and this is the result. a coun
to see former massachusetts governor mitt romney formally that s why right here, in australia, announcing he s a candidate for chevron is building the republican presidential one of the biggest natural gas projects in the world. nomination. staffers say romney will enough power for a city the size of singapore for 50 years. telecrowd at a new hampshire what s it going to do to the planet? natural gas is the cleanest conventional fuel there is. farm. we ve got to be smart about this. and he ll talk about how barack it s a smart way to go. obama failed america. new york congressman anthony weiner keeps getting asked about a picture on his twitter down the hill? account. he told cnn s wolf blitzer he man: all right. did not tweet a picture of a man we were actually thinking, maybe. in his underwear, but weiner did we re going to hike up here, so we ll catch up with you guys. not dismiss the possibility that [ indistinct talking and laughter ] the picture might be him. he
political infighting has seen japan with five different prime ministers in five years. witnesses report loud explosions in yemen near a presidential palace in sena. months of failed protests have failed to bring down the president. the deadly e. coli outbreak in europe has left more than a dozen dead and hundreds sick, mostly in germany. the source of the outbreak is not known. google said hackers have targeted g mamail users with a phishing scheme that may have begun in china. those are the headlines. i m zain verjee in london. world business today starts right now. good afternoon, welcome to world business today. i m andrew stevens in hong kong. good morning for me, nina dos santos in london. japan s prime minister survives a no confidence vote but signals he ll step down after the earthquake aftermath is cleaned up. and hundreds of high-profile gmail accounts are breached after suspected chinese hackers go phishing. this guy is not the only trader who h