congress. and former u.s. attorney general alberto gonzales is here. he llw weigh in on holder. president obama s health care law, the supreme court could keep parts of it or strike it altogether. is the individual mandate constitutional? if it is found unconstitutional, does the whole law have to go? or can the mandate be instruct down? and is medicaid expansion constitutional? and will the tax law prevent the court from addressing the mandate issue right now? a chief correspondent, dr. sanjay gupta, also a practicing neurosurgeon, joining me here in new york. s sanjay, what happens if those benefits from the health care, could the insurance companies drop them? they could. that s why it s such a big deal, kyra. we ve been doing investigating on this, we talked to several big insurance companies around the country. some say, listen, in spite of what may happen with the ruling tomorrow, we still will keep things the way they are. some insurance providers may choose to n
expect your bank to do about it. claire mccasket the latest and biggest name in the string of democrats not packing their bags for charlotte. she is staying away from the democrat convention saying she wants to stay away instead. a milestone this morning. at least one state seeing gas prices falling below $3 a gallon. welcome news for those of you hitting the road for july fourth. plus, this. yes, yes, yes! oh, oh! i ll have what she s having. i bet that woke you up this morning. the scene from the classic when harry met sally. director, writer, master of movie magic norah ephron being remembered this morning for her iconic motion pictures. sleepless in seattle, you ve got mail. we re going back to the movies this morning in honor of nora. newsroom beginning right now. and good morning to you. i m carol costello. thank you for joining us. we begin in washington at the u.s. supreme court. a history-making decision over president obama s health care law will c
since tropical storm debby moved away from oil production in the gulf, the price trend should continue. new details about google s cheaper tablet computer to compete with the ipad have been leaked on line. this is called the nexus 7 and prices will start at around $200. now, that s $300 cheaper than the least expensive ipad. analysts say google may be taking a loss on the notebook and could beef up its bottom line by selling apps. the tablet with a 7-inch screen features android operating system. starting at $200. people will give it a try for $200. not bad at all. 16% of the tablet market belongs to ipad. there s a huge advantage here. other things have come out that have been cheaper have not done well, galaxy. amazon kindle, and barnes & noble nook. nowhere close to ipad sales and they re cheaper as well. we get, tend to be creatures of habit.
well, with the highlight really of the morning has been testimony called by the defense of two pennsylvania state investigators who work order this case. one of them is now retired. the defense grilling them over their techniques in how they questioned alleged victims in this case. in particular, they concentrated on one, accuser number four. and the defense was suggesting to the jury that these investigators were in essence telling the victims what to say. encouraging them. tainting them by talking about what other victims alleged victims may have said. the defense attorney saying at one point they referred to an audiotape of accuser number four in which the investigator is heard saying that you are doing well, saying words to the effect of you we are hearing very similar things, sometimes word for word from other alleged victims in this case. and, in fact, after at one point told them we also heard others talk about actual oral sex. the investigators who were testifying
new york and los angeles. you ve got the area covered. accounts are slowly trickling out of the night trayvon martin was killed. we heard from george zimmerman s father and last night zimmerman s brother. he spoke to piers morgan exclusively and an actual witness spoke to anderson cooper. we put together a play-by-play of their accounts. george was trying to get his head off the concrete, trying to move with trayvon on him, into the grass. in doing so, his firearm was shown. trayvon martin said something to the effect of you re gonna die now now or you re gonna die tonight something to that effect. he continued to beat george and at some point george pulled his pistol. where was the gun? the gun i believe was in his inside tucked inside his pant waist. right. in a waist hollister. has pulled it out and he has fired it. well he has taken control of his firearm. he prevented his firearm from being taken from him, and used against him, and that s called sav