[ gong ] strawberry banana! [ male announcer ] for a smoothie with real fruit plus veggie nutrition new v8 v-fusion smoothie. could ve had a v8. shepard: looks like a break through in morning shows abc good morning america has broken the today show by win an entire week of ratings. gma has been gaining ground. matt lauer was on vacation last week. final numbers are out on thursday. tom petty and his band are offering a $7,500 reward for
pilots will have a lot more information in the cockpit. they re all moving along this very precise path. we know where the path is. the controller knows where the path is we have got auto pilots and flight management computers that are guiding the airplane along that path. at a cost of $340,000 per plane, alaska airlines equipped its entire fleet, its been using g.p.s. to land in places like juneau for about a decade. starting in june will begin testing it at ctack. if it does well you can expect every airport switching from radar to g.p.s. within the next five to ten years it will not be cheap though. the estimated price tag, shep, $42 billion. shepard: wow, dan springer in our pacific northwest bureau. thanks. secretary of state hillary clinton tearing up the dance floor in colombia this weekend. a rare opportunity for the nation s top diplomat to let loose a little bit. we re told she was dancing the rumba and having a beer with her staff. a state department spokesman had this
participatory directory that has everybody s picture. in it they are assigned characters and roles in the page i answered here one is assigned cher. one is assigned sammy davis jr. and elvis and celine dion. shepard: so they were ready for the big party that you paid for. mike emanuel is on capitol hill. not only was there something for the interns in palm springs and conference in vegas but prevegas swore ray of sorts. jeff neeley s the executive s wife photos showing the gsa executive in the tub with a couple of glasses of wine, make it look like a pretty great time. investigators say those preconference trips cost the taxpayers $130,000 and that didn t go over very well. the tribes of israel sent 12 scouts into the promise land before they decided to invade and gsa has to send 15
machine guns engaged security forces for 18 hour fire fight. one that killed at least 36 militants. 8 police officers and three civilians. not guilty pleas today from the two men accused of a racially motivated shooting rampage in tulsa. prosecutors say the suspect killed three people and wounded two more. all the victims were black. and investigators have suggested one suspect wanted to avenge the death of his father two years ago in a struggle with a black man. today, that suspect is speaking out, saying he is not racist. and trying to explain a recent facebook post in which he used a racial slur and wrote, quote: it s hard not to go off. expressed wild upset about the guy shot [inaudible] express something like that about anybody. have you african-americans that you count among your best friends? yes, i do. shepard: the 19-year-old says he was there when his dad
essentially saying the word of a convicted terrorist is simply not to be believed. defense attorney robert gottlieb asked one of the convicted plotters on the stand quote: you would be willing to set off a bomb but you wouldn t lie to a jury? the witness said he was telling the truth but did admit he was offering his testimony in exchange for the hope that he would get a reduced sentence. what will be difficult for the defense to do is to explain away the defendant s apparent efforts to travel to afghanistan to join the taliban. shepard? shepard: david lee miller at the trial in brooklyn, new york. the trial also began today in one of europe s bloodiest terror attacks on record. the man who admits he did, indeed, slaughter 77 people in norway, most of them unarmed teenagers told a court he did it in self-defense. and he says he doesn t recognize the power of the courts at all because they are linked to groups that support multicultural turleyism. the self-described right wing resista