she s 77 years old and she said time has come. she was okay with it. reporter: she s had quite a long time of being the most decorated olympian ever, hasn t she? upsteps michael phelps and it was widely expected to happen. it had been disappointing to this point but he is now the most successful olympian ever after picking up the silver and gold in the relay. the big question here, does that mean he s the greatest olympian ever because he has the most medals, is he the greatest or should that be measured in terms of long he havety or impact on the sport and legacy he leaves. there hasn t been much time to celebrate, he s been back in the pool this morning for the 200 meter and he got through those fairly easily. we re looking at the tweet sent from the president to michael phelps and it goes like this. con grats to michael phelps tore breaking the all-time olympic record. you made your country proud and signed it b.o. for barack obama. i m so tired because i stayed up to
and now in mississippi, a new court says that an abortion clinic is going to be allowed to stay open. we have george there, and tell us what has happened here. well, police officers were called here, because protesters were getting on the grass there, and they can stay on the public privat property, but it is not a private property, and it happens everyday this clinic is open. we can pan over to see happy independence day, yes, we are open, and a sign that this clinic will be open today, and basically protected from this new state law that would effectively shut it down. these new regulations, and they do two things. first of all the regulations require that any physician who performs an abortion in the state of mississippi must be board certified ogbyn first, and secondly the physician mustt have privileges to the local hospital to admit patients and the drirector of the clinic say she has been trying to get the privileges for several weeks and months since the law was sig
charged today in a 33-year-old missing child case that set off a national movement. police in new york say pedro hernandez confessed to killing 6-year-old etan patz back in 1979. prosecutors are expected to charge hernandez with second-degree murder. etan disappeared on his way to school. of it his first time walking to the bus stop by himself. historic meeting in space happened about an hour ago when the space x dragon linked up with the international space station. check it out, see how it went down. capture is confirmed. [ applause ] congratulations on a wonderful capture. you have made a lot of folks happy down here over in hawthorne and right here in houston. great job, guys. houston, it looks like we got us a dragon by the tail. private spacecraft is bringing clothes, supplies, experiments to the space station. it has been exactly one week since the jury in the john edwards corruption trial got the case. they are still deliberating. four women, eight men hav
collapse, and black friday gets ugly. very ugly. and the weather may get unpredictable. let s begin in cairo with cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman. ben, you ve been covering the pro military rally there. can you compare for me in terms of numbers and demonstrators that rally to what we ve been seeing in tahrir square since saturday? that pro military rally was maybe one-tenth as many people as are here at the moment. but they say they represent the silent majority. now they want their voices heard. they ve watched tahrir become a political stage, and with so many groups coming out and calling for the military to tep down, other demonstrators are trying to reach the interior ministry. they say the army and this police are the two main pillars. they say the place to determine in the future is not in the streets and in the squares. the elections are due to begin on monday. can you give me a quick update on the three american students? the release is ordered
stolen, which was weird. and the police, nevertheless, came around the next day to talk about it and the day after that. a detailed account of what the interior of my flat looked like appeared in one of the british tabloid papers. if someone like me called the police for a burglarly, a mugging, something in the street, something that happened to me or my girlfriend, the chances are that a photographer or reporter would turn up on your doorstep before a policeman. the tribunal also heard from the parents of 13-year-old murder victim milli doweler. reports allegedly they hacked the young girl s phone after she went missing, deleting messages on her voice mail. it clicked through on to her voice mail. so i heard her voice. yes. and i was it was just like i jumped. she s picked up her voice mails! she s alive! it was then, really. when we were told about the