most notorious prisons where they had been held for 26 months. fattal s grandparents and cousin, perhaps just like, watching c thmpb n this time yesterday from their home in seattle. i want to you watch their reaction the second they first laid eyes on him. they emerged. the families are cheering. they re running down the steps. oh! flashing lights. how wonderful is that. what a moment for this family. like i am, waiting 26 months for this day to come. i have josh fattal s uncle back on the phone with me from seattle. fred, what a past 24 hours, huh? how are josh and shane doing? and do we know yet when they get to come home? well, i did get a wonderful photograph e-mailed to me from my sister. but i just sent on it to your studio. a picture of laura, jacob, josh, all together. looking remarkably happy. and you see my barents their tears of joy. i think we re all still a little shell shocked by the wonderful night of this. i understand they re doing really well and
catastrophic failure of the justice system. georgia delayed the execution for four hours while the u.s. supreme court considered the case. davis declared his innocence until l the end. he lifted his head from the gournny and told the victim s family they had the wrong man. and he said to the prison staff, the ones he said who were going to take my life, he said to them, may god have mercy on your souls and his last words were to them, may god bless your souls. then he put his head back down. the procedure began and about 50 minutes later, it was over. davis got the death penalty for killing a savannah police officer in 199 and davis supporters felt his guilt was thrown in doubt when a majority recanted. protests outside united nations today. the crowd wants an iranian opposition group taken off the state department s list of terror groups. the group is working to overthrow iran s ruling. the european union removed the group from its terror list in 2009. protesters are
spending cuts, much of it from medicare and medicaid but also the 1.5 trillion in tax revenue, more than 1 trillion in war savings as operations in iraq and afghanistan draw down and interest savings amounting to more than $400 billion. texas governor rick perry may be asked more about this on the campaign trail. census data shows more than 18% of texans live below the poverty line. that s 3 points higher than the national average. the state also has the highest share of people without health insurance. and it s tied with mississippi for the highest percentage of minimum wage workers. perry s office says the governor is focused on creating jobs so people can take care of themselves. 40% of the jobs added in the united states over the past two years were in texas but many of them pay minimum wage. in other news this morning, there is a murder mystery at an air force base in arizona. a husband and wife found stabbed to death at luke air force base outside phoenix. they were i
their fair share. that brings me to what s being called the buffett rule, named for billionaire who says the super rich are undertaxed. the president is insisting people who earn is million a year or more pay as much in taxes or more as ordinary wage earners do. republicans are up in arms but the president says it is not class warfare it is math. gloria, does the president s math actually add up? well, what he did today really was lay down a political marker. this is a president who s been accused by his base of not participating enough in his own health care reform plan or of negotiating with himself too early. what he did this time he said, look, if this were a perfect world for me, this is what i would do, and you ll notice in here that there aren t real entitlement cuts to beneficiaries. there are some to providers in medicare. so he largely left social security untouched. medicare cut-backs to providers. so what he s saying is, i m leaving that off the table, let s
scientists come forward to challenge her claims about the controversial hpv vaccine. jim acosta is covering the race to unseat perry. shall we say it is a race indeed. it absolutely is, wolf, and the only thing missing from the campaign trail this week, michael buffer. the professional wrestler master of ceremonies, who s known for his battle cry, let s get ready to rumble. it s the main event for the gop comes down to rick perry versus mitt romney, stand back. just yesterday, that jobs legacy in massachusetts got even worse. in iowa, perry is laying into romney s health care plan, pointing to this study from a conservative think tank that concluded the program has cost the state 18,000 jobs. a finding romney aides call deeply flawed. it kills toos many jobs and gets between you and your doctor. doesn t make any difference whether it s passed in massachusetts or washington, d.c. it is bad medicine and needs to be stopped. his campaign is holding up this gallup poll.