attending the proceeding while locked inside a courtroom cage. the former president is accused of ordering the killing of hundreds of anti-government protesters during mass demonstrations earlier this year. you re looking at live pictures of hosni mubarak right now. this is an incredible moment. the idea of a hosni mubarak trial, this really marks a new moment in arab history, seeing him there standing trial for murder and corruption charges and being held in a cage. mohammed jom joon joins us right now. what will be the reaction in eye row. reporter: shock and utter disbelief for the people we re speaking with. they just can t believe that former president mubarak is actually in that krool, he s there with his two sons. we ve seen the leader on state tv. he came in on a stretcher with an id, apparently with an oxygen mask on as well. we can t understand how historic this is. it s a moment that most egyptians we spoke with the last few days just didn t believe would be po
murdoch s protege rebekah brooks to show up tomorrow to answer questions. despite her arrest over the weekend, her spokesman says she will be there. she s denying she knew her reporters hacked phones for scoops while she was the newspaper s editor. rupert murdoch, chairman of news corp, and his son james are expected to testify alongside brooks tomorrow. they will appear before parliament s media committee. a heatwave hitting the middle of u.s. extremely high humidity makes it feel as hot as 117 degrees in some places. that heat is creeping east. brutal. i probably lost 10 pounds today. it s crazy. we are sweltering, and we re just asking for some relief here. houston is hot as blazes. stay put. stay cool. there s been a change of u.s. command in afghanistan today as well. general david petraeus leaving to become the cia director handed command of the afghan war to marine general john allen. allen served as a deputy at u.s. central command in tampa before getting that
down shells on a civilian population at random and at will. that man on board of the helicopter is the man we believe is behind it will now be at the 16 years on the run getting ready knowing that as he descending out of the sky, as the sunsets here in the hague, close to the coast of the north sea in the hague, as he descending into that prison facility behind me, that is where he can expect to spend very likely the foreseeable best part of the rest of his life. his sponsors say he is not well, and everyone else is, his defense lawyer says he is not well enough to stand trial, but other doctors who have seen him say he is quite capable of standing trial. the chief prosecutor in serbia who i met and interviewed yesterday told me that ratco mladic is a man who is capable of standing trial, and he has been lively and even joking in
course as i know you v and it is a fascinating read. one of the things that strikes me is that we are talking about two guys, very young guys, 23 and 30 years of age respectively, and speak to their youth, a, and b, what are they accused of doing? well, in the case of wad ramadan alwan, he is now 30 years old, but he has been at the business of terrorism for more than 10 years. since he was a teenager. and in his case, he was involved directly in the manufacture and the placement of ieds designed specifically to kill u.s. troops on roadsides. he bragged recently that he had in fact handled more than 100 ieds himself during the period 2003 to 2006. and then he was arrested by iraqi authorities. he was finally released and in 2009, he came to the u.s. and has been living in kentucky. it is interesting that you used the word brag, because one thing that stuck out for me is the same alwan, 30 years of age and also talking about the types of ieds that he was using against troo
after an arizona judge ruled jared loughner mentally unfit to stand trial, he s expected to up to four months at the missouri prison facility. mental health experts will try to help him become psychologically capable of standing trial. experts at the same facility determined that he suffers from schizophrenia. he has pleaded not guilty to charges stemming from the deadly shooting rampage that injured congresswoman gabrielle giffords. gregg: this holiday weekend is time for americans to honor the service members who dave their all for our country. heather: there s a new poll that finds that many of us will do just that. gregg: 60% saying they plan to go out of their way to honor the fallen. that number is up from previous years. heather: here now scott rasmussen of rasmussen reports. he joins us to tack more about this. that s a positive trend. it is.