so we ve seen scattered outages in parts of the west and dole coal, but colorado but i emphasize that this is scattered. don t want the pan he can buying. yesterday a federal judge it is missed an ftc case against facebook and the ear other was n with investors. but let s talk about the court case. what happened and what is next? yeah, this is a huge victory for facebook. a federal judge threw out this complaint from the ftc saying that the agency didn t provide enough evidence for its claim that facebook has a monopoly power in the social networking space. we should note that the judge didn t rule out the case entirely. the government can file an amended complaint and come back.
waste of time, you know, all these kinds of things. that would have been really premature because the speed with which the social networking space has matured and involved, crowd rise wouldn t exist if facebook didn t exist, linked-in wouldn t exist. when you look at crowd rise, what are some of the interesting things that you re raising money for. one of the causes by causes i mean their platform that they had is that people, you know, you see american corporations and american foundations making a lot of effort to select causes and then get people to engage with it and one of the things we say to the companies we work with is people don t need a lot of coaching on finding a cause to be passionate
or something like that and it s legitimate. people who ten years ago wanted to write off the whole idea of social networking or something like facebook as white noise, a waste of time, all of these kind of things. that that would have been really premature, because the speed with which the social networking space has matured and evolved and linked in would not have existed if facebook had not existed. when you look at crowd rise, what do you see? one thing you see, like crowd rise, what sean is doing with causes and political engagement, and by causes i mean their platform that they had is that people you know, you see american corporations and american foundations making a lot of effort to kind of select causes and then get people to engae engage with it.
plus, a young woman who pulls a car off of her father saving his life. like a scene out of superman. you have to see this. pretty incredible. up first, the golden girls. of course, everyone still talking about the magical night for the u.s. women s gymnastics team. they routed the russians and everyone else on their way to the gold medal in the team competition. take a look, folks. michael phelps cementing his legacy. he is now the most decorated olympian of all time. winning his record breaking 19th medal and adding another gold just for fun to his all-time mark. amanda davies is live in london. amanda, the debate is raging this morning. also here, mr. john berman and i have been debating this. is michael phelps the best olympian ever? reporter: morning. i ll tell you, there s no debate about the fact it was stars and stripes all the way here at the olympics last night. but it s a really difficult question to answer that. it is the topic of conversation across breakfast
out the first flight test of the advanced stealth fighter. robert gibbs raised questions during a meeting in beijing with china s president. a year after the earthquakes in haiti, much left undone. former president bill clinton in haiti reviewing the recovery effort says he s frustrated by the slow pace of reconstruction. new york times, at a time when facebook is making a half billion dollar deal with goldman sachs, the ones dominant social networking space my space is firing half the staff. the 500 lay-offs mark a dramatic change. the san francisco chronicle, governor jerry brown has issued his first executive order stripping cell phones from state employees. the governor wants at least half of the 96,000 state-issued cell phones collected by june. the move he says will save