playoffs. right after the atlanta hawks schooled on the miami heat, the heat s player threw the ball the at his back. it comes just one day after the heat s lebron james threw a ball at a celtics player. we are joined in 20 minutes with highlights of nba stars throwing the ball at the basket. plus, a major league baseball play we are a unique way of turning off the booze. and are americans making informed decisions when they step into the voting booth? we will talk to a cnn.com contributor who thinks they are definitely not. he says they are ignorant. that s coming up. also, that unexpected layover at the airport could become a sleepover. coming up in our fix our flight series, how airports are helping passengers navigate flight cancellations that turn into overnight stays. i can t get rid of these weeds, or these nasal allergies.
we are learning fascinating new details to end the standoff in the ivory coast. a diplomat tells cnn that laurent gbabgo was offered a chance to teach at a university here in the united states. that is, if he would renounce his claim to be president. he rejected the deal. he was captured yesterday after his compound was shelled for several days by french and united nations forces. our zain verjee joins live from london. zplain, tell us other details of this deal to get him to leave. boston university is the american university that laurent gbabgo had had a chance to go and lecture at the archives and research center if he gave up his claim to be the president. this also involved the possibility of had him going to other universities around the united states and being like a guest lecturer. we reached out to boston
in fairness, mayor, i want to ask you about the democrats in congress, there are lots of them. they didn t help you out of this mess either? no they didn t. as a matter of fact, when you look at the vote that got us to where we are today and, you know, we will have another vote coming up later this week, it s clear that we had very little support. i m not sure what the white house did in all of this to till the truth. it looks like the district of columbia was essentially thrown under the bus in order to get a political deal. mayor gray, thanks for joining us, we appreciate it. thank you. a look at news happening across the country. law officials believe this is the man who set off a homemade bomb last week at a california synagogue. they arrested 60-year-old ron hirsch in cleveland. and they say s transient who often went to synagogues for charity. no one was hurt in the explosion. check out what happened at new york s jfk last night. an air france jetliner clips a smaller
an air france jetliner clip as smaller delta plane on the tarmac. cnn s jim bittermann was on the bigger plane. reporter: a slight rumble and it sounded to me like they hit a rough patch of pavement. they stopped plane and in a minute or two the fire trucks started arriving around the plane. everyone was okay. no one was hurt. the planes were damaged. port authority police were interviewing the pilots of both of those planes. oil and gas prices keep on climbing, and now so do concerns that the spiraling costs could deray economic recoveries around the worldf. here in the united states the prices are inching to the ever closer $4 mark. if americans aren t feeling the pinch yet, get ready. there s no reason to believe these prices are on the verge of tumbling. alison kosik is in new york.
funding for low-income abortions. this morning, his daughter paid 50 bucks for his release on a misdemeanor charge. oil and gas prices keep on climbing and now so do global concerns about a larger cost. leading experts are warning that the spiraling cost does jeopardize the modest economic recoveries around the world. japanese officials put the crisis at the fukushima nuclear plant on the same level as children noble. they have raised the threat to a category 7. that s as high as the international scale for rating nuclear accidents goes. the worst nuclear accident, chernobyl, back in 198 was also a 7. the accident at pennsylvania s three-mile island in 1979 was a level five and there have been more aftershocks in japan. cnn paula hancocks live in tokyo. i don t think anyone is surprised by this but why did they raise so long to raised the