say they can, too, identify the voices. yesterday, a audio engineer testified for the defense saying that the tape has poor quality. zimmerman claiming that he acted in self-defense in the killing. and today, senator frank lautenberg was buried at arlington national cemetery with his wife receiving the flag draped over his casket. he died monday at the age of 89. the queen s husband prince philip is having exploratory abdominal surgery today. he was admitted yesterday and expected toç be there for two days for observation. he turns 92 monday. vladimire putin and his wife appeared on state television just after a visit to the ball lay, and then announced they will divorce or have divorced. they would have celebrated their 30th anniversary in two months.
news that hiring picked back up this is a quick look at some of the other stories topping the news now, and millions are getting soaked as tropical storm andrea is zipping up the east coast with a potentialf of high flash flooding today. meteorologists predict flash flooding from florida to maine. and john mccain s fact-finding days are far from gone. he is headed to gitmo with white house chief of staff denis mcdonough, and the top senator on the intelligence committee diane finestein. and vladimire putin and his wife have announced their near 30-year marriage is over. they make that announcement ob the russian television saying it is a joint decision and the two rarely see each other anyway.
as for what went wrong? well, the russian press is reporting that putin had an affair with a former rhythmic gymnast and had a son with her. putin has dismissed allegations of an affair. justin bieber headed into space? well, when and if richard branson s commercial space flight program gets off of the ground, bieber paid a reported $250,000 for his seat on board virgin galactic, and he joins ashton kutcher and leonardo dicaprio of the celebrities that would blast off. just having a quarter of a million laying around. today is national doughnut day. not only big business, but they were first served by the salvation army. americans eat 10 billion doughnuts a year. dunkin donuts has 6,000 stors s
the stronghold. video posted online by the opposition shows extensive damage to neighborhoods. there you can see it for yourself, and that one appearing to show people finding the body of a man crushed in his collapsed home. the opposition says that 20,000 people have now been killed since this uprising began 17 months ago. filipinos got more bad news today. expect torrential rains and flooding to continue. listen to this. manila, the capital, already drown i drowning in water. check out the pictures. 30 inches of rain fell in just 48 hours at one point. water chest deep in some place, and so far the flooding and the landslides have killed at least 11 people. almost 800,000 are out of their homes and some of them on rooftops waiting to be rescued or wading through the deep water through high ground. secretary of state hillary clinton providing dancing and diplomacy with her visit to south africa, and after a dinner, with the foreign minister, clinton hit the dance floor sho
annan for this, and don t blame the man. it is kofi annan s name who was on the six-point peace plan and they did not get to point one, and now he is off of the masthead. and so looking for the successor of the arab league, and it will be interesting to see if anybody steps in to want to take that over. they met together, annan and assad together with the security council to come together to meet with consequences to the assad regime to quell the violence, but nothing worked. annan may have missed the glory days of the 1990s when he was the secretary-general and won the nobel peace prize, but things have changed in the post arab spring and he was not able the bring the magic to the situation. richard, i don t understand, why do they believe they will come up with anything that quite frankly is going to work to bring peace to syria? i mean, you have somebody here who clearly has diplomatic experience for decades, and you have got the plan here, and nobody really paid attenti