entire game is a casino rigged for the house with a sucker played by the average investor. that's the controversy surrounding a name we all know. morgan stanley which served as facebook's lead underwriter and now investigators reportedly want to know exactly what happened. alison kosik is at the new york stock exchange. can you explain it to us? >> follow this with me, carol. one of the big issues here is who knew what? a week before the ipo of facebook meaning when facebook went public with its shares, it went ahead and revised its documents with the s.e.c. and that's normal. companies usually update their information several times as it leads up to the big day. now what facebook did is they told the s.e.c. that the company may struggle to make money off of its mobile devices and what analysts do is they take that information and they issue guidance to their investors and what their assessment of the company is. what morgan stanley, the chief underwriter of this ipo did, was issued a weaker outlook for facebook. now the thing is, public companies just keep in mind that public companies when you issue this information, that information is shared with everyone, big and small investors to level the playing field. the guidance for morgan stanley winds up helping people make more educated decisions about how to invest in facebook. the thing is that it's not clear if the information was shared with everyone. if the information only went to big investors, she got a leg up. what morgan stanley says is they followed the protocol. morgan stanley says they followed the same procedures for facebook offering it follows for all ipos. procedures are in compliance with applicable regulations. >> if morgan stanley is guilty of what you just said, what could happen to morgan stanley? >> we don't know if morgan stanley is guilty. >> what if? >> you wonder if anything could happen after we saw what happened with the financial crisis. has any bank been punished? let me just say this. this is a big legal gray area. public companies are required to let all investors know this information ahead of time but some security law experts say it may not apply to information that facebook gave to underwriters before going public so in that case if that's the case, carol, they would not have the obligation to give this information out all at the same time even to the little guy that maybe morgan stanley wasn't in the wrong here because maybe they weren't obligated to give out this information all at the same time. clearly it looks really bad pr-wise. it does little to quell what upsets everybody that the system is rigged against the little guy. you have to wait to see all of the details come out on this and s.e.c. is investigating. >> i don't know. i think that if they did do this, why pick facebook? it's the most -- i mean -- >> the biggest fiasco ipo. it really is. >> so much public attention was focused on facebook and its ipo. are you kidding? >> just pile it on all of the trouble for the biggest ipo that we can remember. traded so many shares and interest. look at this big black eye. one after another on this ipo. facebook still made out in cash. >> i know. alison kosik live at the new york stock exchange. to a stark reminder of the changing face of terrorism and how seriously new threats need to be taken. at this time yesterday not even the people aboard this flight knew,000 they were the center of the latest scare. a fellow passenger quietly slipped a note that she had a device surgically implanted inside her. that's the technique al qaeda is now pursuing to kill americans. fighter jets scrambled and the flight diverted from the planned landing in north carolina to a closer airport in maine. >> i have been flying my whole life. i never have been from that altitude to landing that quickly. >> no one knew what was going on. we thought it was a medical emergency and then they told us they were low on fuel because there were strong headwinds. as we were landing you could see the ambulances. >> lizzie o'leary is our aviation and regulation correspondent. lizzie, even before the flight landed, this woman who said she had the device implanted in her body, she was examined by doctors on board the plane. tell us how those doctors determined that she didn't have a device implanted in her body? >> reporter: what we know from two lawmakers is she claimed she had a device implanted surgically implanted. didn't specify what kind of device. never said according to senior law enforcement official that it was a bomb or anything like that. the flight attendants asked on the overhead paging system if anyone was a doctor. a doctor examined her. they found according to two lawmakers no evidence of fresh scars or anything that would be a cause for concern and then took her to the back of the cabin and sat with her for a while until this plane was landing and according to one passenger i spoke with, they sat with her for some time, close to an hour until the flight was able to divert safely to bangor, maine. >> the fighter jets deployed. they were flying alongside the plane. if it was determined this woman was a danger, what would happen? >> fighter jets you need to think of this way. an extra set of eyes and ears. it sounds quite dramatic to viewers but this does happen and happens not infrequently. it happens sometimes with commercial airplanes but more generally with private airplanes that maybe go into restricted airspace. that's something we have seen. so what you have with these fighter jets is a chance to get up and take a look at the plane and sort of have an extra set of eyes on it. we heard from passengers that these jets weren't even close enough for them to see it. we also know from air traffic control transmissions that the pilot of this u.s. airways plane confirmed to air traffic controllers that the cockpit was secure and they were all aware of that and he was in command and in conversation with the air traffic control pretty much the whole time as they guided this flight down. when you think about fighter jets, they are up there to add really an extra level of observation to a flight like this. >> all right. lizzie o'leary reporting live for us from washington. turning now to presidential politics. we're crunching the numbers and a razor thin race turns even tighter. average of three national polls conducted in the past week. gallup, nbc/"wall street journal" and abc/"the washington post." poll of polls. president obama is running uncontested in most democratic primaries but not in arkansas. an attorney by the name of john wolf challenge the president there. "the washington post" reports wolf got about 40% of the vote yesterday. the arkansas primary was held yesterday. the same percentage of democratic voters made their presidential protests known in kentucky's primary choosing uncommitted over the president. today the so-called cradle of civilization writes a new chapter in history. 50 million egyptians can begin voting today in a landmark presidential election. it's the latest ripple from arab spring when outrage citizens rose up and toppled dictators and the thugs that kept them in power. you remember these pictures. history making pictures. this is history making too. it's egypt's first presidential election since the revolution that ousted hosni mubarak. he's awaiting the verdict that he killed protesters during this very uprising. let's head to cairo and get the latest for you. ben wedeman is there. what's the turn out like, ben? >> reporter: the turnout has been fairly good but this is a two-day election. polls are open from 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m. this time it's 3:00 in the afternoon in cairo. people are getting out of work and they're coming to vote. by in large the atmosphere has been very positive, very upbeat. people very happy to be able to for the first time in their lives actually pick who runs their country. in fact, this morning we were at one polling station where we met a 70-year-old woman voting in a presidential election for the first time in her life. she had waited 2 1/2 hours. she arrived 2 1/2 hours before the polls opened because she wanted to be the first person in her neighborhood to cast her t ballot. we're at a middle school in a suburb of cairos where voices have been raised because people are tired of waiting around and it's hot in cairo at the moment. those are most of the complaints we're hearing just that people have to wait for a long time. no reports yet of any severe issues with the election. it seems to be going fairly smoothly so far. carol? >> ben wedeman reporting live from cairo, egypt, this morning. today a member of the british royal family will carry the olympic torch. the torch is zigzagging through the united kingdom. some 8,000 people in all will eventually carry it. many of them every day people. but today it's been carried while riding horseback. the daughter of princess ann who is queen elizabeth's only daughter. the secret service scandal in colombia with a shocking defense coming from fired agents. they said everybody is doing it. every communications provider is different but centurylink is committed to being a different kind of communications company. ♪ we link people and fortune 500 companies nationwide and around the world. and we will continue to free you to do more and focus on what matters. dude you don't understand, this is my dad's car. look at the car! my dad's gonna kill me dude... 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>> i'm okay. thank you for asking. >> he's accused of using campaign contributions to hide rielle hunter. nancy reagan is following doctor's orders to not attend big events until she gets better. she backed out of an event last night that featured house budget committee chairman paul ryan. she broke some ribs back in march and has been slow to recover. here's an excuse worthy of any 12 year old. four of the secret service agents fired in the colombian prosecution scandal say it's unfair because everyone is doing it. according to "the washington post," the former agents want their dismissals overturned because the agency has long tolerated wild behavior on the road. they say the unwritten code even has its own name. the secret circus. that culture goes under the microscope this morning when a hearing is opened this morning. i'm sure that lawmakers are reading this article in "the washington post" with interest. >> reporter: and you can be sure that the director of the secret service will be getting some tough questions today when he goes before the committee in just about an hour and a half. for the part of the director, mark sullivan, in advance copy of prepared remarks that we received, sullivan will obviously acknowledge that this incident has happened and events happened saying it's not representative of the values of the secret service but the director is defending in these remarks his agency calling the misconduct an aberration in one section and also pointing out that none of the security plan surrounding the president was compromised because of the incident. no operational security was compromised because of the incident and pointing out vast majority of secret service personnel were down there doing their jobs and there were 200 down there in cartagena and nine have now been found to be involved with serious misconduct. sullivan in his prepared remarks also says that obviously they are taking this as a learning experience and want to make sure it never happens again and that's one of the main questions that the lawmakers that will be speaking with him will ask about how to make sure this doesn't happen again but to your point, when you were talking in the lead in, he will also face tough questions about this issue of whether there is a culture of this within the secret service. i spoke with the chairman of the committee yesterday, senator lieberman. he wants to know should they have seen this coming and that's something the top republican on the committee definitely wants to know. susan collins in her opening remarks that we received says the facts suggest to her this is likely not a one-time incident and also goes on to say it's basic counterintelligence 101 secret service personnel and others holding positions of trust in the u.s. government should avoid any situation that could provide foreign intelligence or secret service or criminal gains with the means of exerting coercion or blackmail but two primary means of entrapment sexual lures and alcohol were both present in abundance here involving these incidents. tough questions coming up when this hearing begins in an hour and a half. >> we'll check back with you. kate bolduan on capitol hill this morning. don't you love a good implosion. they are cool to watch. a new world record will be set today when demolition crews implode the tower at a nuclear testing site in nevada. this will be the tallest structure of its kind ever imploded. the tower, which sits about 65 miles north of las vegas was used for nuke testing during the cold war but it would take more than a million dollars in repairs to make it usable for new research so some factoids for you, it stands more than 1,500 feet high, taller than both the empire state building and the eiffel tower. the implosion is scheduled for 12:30 eastern time this afternoon. i'm going to be sitting right in front of cnn and i'm going to be watching. today a parade of tall ships will sail up the hudson river in new york for fleet week commemorating the war of 1812. there will be a military flyover. fleet week celebrations give citizens a chance to meet members of the u.s. navy and coast guard. isn't that beautiful? similar sight in baltimore too where as you know soldiers there chased away the british and ended the war essentially. just saying. if you text someone while they're driving and they get in a car crash, could you be held responsible? one teenage girl is at the center of a lawsuit blaming her for a nasty texting while driving. let me say this another way. so if you're in a car and you're driving and you're texting someone some place else, should that person that you're texting also be responsible for the car crash that you were involved in? it's a big lawsuit pending. we'll tell you about it next. sometimes, i feel like it's me against my hair. [ female announcer ] weak, damaged hair needs new aveeno nourish+ strengthen. active naturals wheat formulas restore strength for up to 90% less breakage in three washes. for strong, healthy hair with life, new aveeno nourish+ strengthen. if someone gets in a car crash while they're texting and you were sending them the text, you could be sued. that sounds confusing. that's what's happening to a teenage girl in new jersey. this lawsuit could set a legal precedent. here's deborah feyerick. >> reporter: the accident happened in new jersey along this winding country road. >> went around a curve and i saw a pickup truck coming right for us with a young man with his elbow steering and his head down and he was texting. next thing i know, he hit us. >> reporter: both david and his wife lost a leg in the head-on collision. cell phone records show the driver, 19-year-old kyle best was texting a girlfriend virtually at the moment of impact. in a potentially precedent setting case, they are suing them both saying the girl knew her friend was likely driving home especially since the two texted each other almost every day. >> if shannon knew that kyle best was leaving work and i believe she did and she was texting him, i believe she's just as responsible. >> physically not in the car, the lawyer argues that the texting put her in the car electronically saying she helped trigger the disastrous crash. >> it is as if you were putting your hands over the eyes of the driver preventing that driver from seeing ahead of them. >> kyle best pleaded guilty to careless driving, failure to stay in the lane and improper use of a cell phone. the couple is suing for an unspecified amount in damages. during a deposition, the girlfriend testified she may have known her friend was driving but the lawyer argues the suit should be dismissed because a message sender has no way to control when, where or how a message receiver acts after the message is transmitted. david lost not only his leg but his job and insurance after the crash. >> it could have been prevented. it was not an accident. >> reporter: a judge is set to rule friday whether they can move forward and sue both texters. >> deborah feyerick is in new york. so what is this about to the victims? is it about money or making a point? >> it's a little bit about both. you have to think their lives were changed after this happened. they each lost a leg when the motorcycle went out from under them and the husband actually saw his leg separate and the wife's leg had to be amputated afterwards. there's lot of trauma associated with this. they want people to understand that if you are aware that someone is driving, that maybe it's best to hold off on the texting because it is a distraction and as you heard the lawyers say, it is like covering their eyes. we did reach out to the lawyers for the defendants, and they did not talk to us for this piece. >> so this is the first time a lawsuit like this has ever been filed? >> it's very interesting. there's not a lot of case law when it comes to texting. this is sort of stretching the envelo envelope. this is seeing whether in fact they can make the argument that if you do distract a driver, it's as if you are a passenger in that car. there is precedent where it goes to that. if you are driving drunk and you have a buddy with you and they say take another beer, speed up. both passengers are then responsible. but the question is, did that girl when she texted him know that he would actually respond when he did and the cell phone records suggest that perhaps, yes, that was the case. >> deborah feyerick reporting live for us from new york. thank you. >> now is your chance to talk back on one of the big stories of the day. the question for you this morning. do ceos make good presidents? the argument may sound new but it's really not. for years americans have been captivated by miss titans. think ross perot, donald trump, herman cain. in 2004, george w. bush ran as america's ceo president touting his nba and mitt romney is doing the same thing and voters seem to agree. according to a "wall street journal" poll, 59% called romney's business experience an advantage in helping improve the economy if he's elected. and republicans are capitalizing on this. they are painting president obama as the anti-ceo. >> this is certainly the m