the seed and garden reply for the number for vice-president biden. we called another number published today, a number alsoly for new jersey governor chris christie. our producer called that number, got a voice mail saying, hello, this is christies. and then the governor s press secretary said we ll get back to you. a few minutes later we tried that number again it was disconnected. that does not prove anything but it s an interesting point. they also put up obvious complete nonsense on this web site as well. for instance, this web site posting, which shows a picture of president obama with the caption, hey, mitt, you mad bro. a lot of this nonsense but for some it s a jeer white house matter. this originally came from russia?
summer around here, because it s all our all american summer concert series kicking off today. what a great way to kick it off with montgomery gentry, greatest duo, one of the greatest duos in country music history will be with us this morning. another great duo is the ladies there. so if you re anywhere in manhattan, come on down for a great barbecue meal and great rocking music and we ll have that for you all morning. speaking of duos, there are two cheeseheads in the crowd this morning. and they have a sign. from wisconsin we hope? they re here. from robin, wisconsin. famous dave s on the plaza and the fleet week here. you see some soldiers and sailors in uniform there so we ll have much more of that coming up. first, there they are! here s some headlines for you this morning. let s get to your news and tell you what s happening. we have a brand new look at some photos of an apparently smiling terrorist. this is a jihadist web site posting what appears to be recent
g.s.a. s jeff neely going from the hot tub to being in the cold. neely who planned a lavish bash in sin city for the agency, you ll recall, now out of a job. the conference cost taxpayers more than $800,000. you think he likes that picture on national television? is that his profile pic? not being revealed yet if he was fired or whether he resigned and until now, he s been on paid administrative leave. he pleaded the fifth when he was called to testify before congress. that vegas bash far from the only waste of your money by the g.s.a. there were numerous videos that have emerged. employees goofing around, even playing dressup on your dime. that s disturbing. all right. brand new photos of a smiling terrorist smuggled out of gitmo. jihadist web site posting what appears to be recent photos of khali shaikh mohammed taken inside the walls of guantanamo bay. the admitted 9/11 mastermind mugging for the camera and reading the quran. he s currently facing a military this is a real p
what happened from the captain. today he says that he was just following orders when he ran that ship aground and overturned it. an italian newspaper reporting this today, its web site posting transcripts of conversations. we re told secretly recorded after the captain s arrest. more than a dozen passengers died in that disaster. a cruise company now blames the captain for steering to close to shore. according to the transcripts, the captain is blaming the ship s owners. they were breaking my balls saying go there, go there. the rock was there, but it didn t show up in the instruments i had and i went there to satisfy the manager. go there, go there. shepard: the captain faces charges of manslaughter and abandoning ship. so far searchers have found 16 bodies but 17 people are still officially listed as missing. among them two americans. today dive teams blasted their way back into that ship.
her the terrorist chatter is at an all-time high, some of those officials also saying, quote, they are not sleeping well. shep? shepard: well, jonathan hunt live in our new york city newsroom tonight. thanks. update on possible peace talks with the taliban. u.s. officials say they will do whatever it takes and that s a quote, to help the afghan president harmid karzai to negotiate with some taliban members. is he focusing on moderates not the hard core leaders like omar. secretary of state hillary clinton doubts that group will ever negotiate. and the taliban spokesman denies it s in talks with the government at all. saying in a web site posting that would be, quote, a waste of time. the port authority of new york and new jersey has tentatively agreed to pay $47.45 million to ground zero workers who say they were exposed to toxic dust in the days after the attacks of 9/11. to date, more than 9,000 of those workers have sued.