awaken to elton john, first singing and then delivering a message of personal thanks. rupert murdoch built a media empire on the power of selling a scandal but now it's his mighty news corporation that is under siege from london to washington. a prominent u.s. senator jay rockefeller wants to know if u.s. citizens fell victim to sleazy or illegal news gathering so he is calling for an investigation amid reports that victims of the 9/11 attacks are among the nearly 4,000 people who had their phones hacked. the outrage is crushing. over the past week, the media giant has lost nearly $7 billion in market value. and the political damage is mounting. today, britain's prime minister meets with the family of a murdered little girl after a murdoch newspaper allegedly hacked her cell phone to gain an edge on that story. actor hugh grant who is both a vocal critic of murdoch and a frequent target of him explains why all of us in the u.s. should even care. >> rupert murdoch does own an enormous amount of your media with fox news and the fox station and 20th century fox pictures and et cetera. and some of your newspapers. i think people need to ask themselves, you know, who is this man who owns such a large part of our media and i think, you know, when you hear some of new allegations about who the "news of the world" was phone hacking and may include, i stress it's allegations at this stage, some of the 9/11 victims, while i don't know, that may strike a chord with americans. >> the heartless details of the milly dowler case is worth receipt be. murdoch news organizations is accused of hacking her cell phone. the tabloid then reportedly deleted messages so her mailbox could keep providing new material to print for six grueling months, the mailbox activity gave her family false hope that she was still alive. >> after this statement, i will be meeting the family of milly dowler. none of us can imagine what they have gone through, but i do know this, they, like everyone else in this country, want their politicians, all of us, to bring this ugly chapter to a close and insure that nothing like it can ever happen again. >> dan rivers is in london. dan, tell us of today's meeting. >> reporter: well, it's the last of a series of meetings that the dowler family have had. they have already met the deputy prime minister and today meet the prime minister david cameron and i'm sure outline the same points that the media basically, and particularly the tabloid media, specifically the "news of the world" are completely out of control, according to this family who have been subjected to the most horrendous amount of extra suffering and pain on top of the terrible times they have already been through because of journalists hacking into the voice mail of their murdered 13-year-old daughter. and it was this story really that caused this whole phone hacking story to explode here in the uk. there was such a massive backlash of public opinion against "the news of the world." since then, the allegations have gotten worse and worse for the company that owns this newspaper. suggestions now that victims of 9/11 may also have been targeted, something that senator jay rockefeller has brought up as well. so this is a story that is growing, that is now transatlantic in nature and one that is changing the kind of political landscape here massively as well because in the past, all politicians here were clamoring to be as close to rupert murdoch as. . now the very opposite seems to be the case. >> we are watching it closely, dan. at home, millions of americans may have new reason to worry about the national debt and the looming deadline. president obama says if the debt ceiling is not raised in time, your social security check may be put on hold. >> i cannot guarantee that those checks go out on august 3rd if we haven't resolved this issue, because there may simply not be the money in the coffers to do it. >> this morning, we are getting word a new possible compromise that would assure the deadline is met. reshoeing or a jaded ploy driven by politics? dan lothian is at the white house. >> reporter: this is a proposal put out there by mitch mcconnell. not clear whether this is a viable option but nonetheless what it would do is give president obama the power to raise the debt ceiling in three increments all the way through the 2012 elections. now already senator mcconnell receiving some heat from his own party. conservatives saying this is essentially caving to pressure from democrats. the white house, in response to this proposal, put out a statement from jay carney saying, in part, quote, senator mcconnell's proposal reaffirmed what leaders of both parties have stated clearly that defaulting on america's past due bills is not an option and time for our leaders to find common ground and reduce our deficit in a way that will strengthen our economy. no doubt this will get more scrutiny as lawmakers some here for their fourth meeting in a row this week at the white house. still both sides far apart and growing pressure from the business community, business organizations, including the u.s. chamber of commerce sending a letter to not only the president but lawmakers urging them to find some kind of bipartisan agreement to put aside their differences and do what is best for the country. >> dan lothian, thanks. while the government may not be able to pay its bills, president obama has sure raised a lot of 2012 campaign cash. our senior political editor mark pressson joins us. looks like the numbers exceeded expectations? >> they exceeded expectations by about 26 million dollars. look at these mind blowing numbers right now. president obama in 90 days was able to raise $86 million for more than 550,000 contributors. the average donation, kyra, was $69. why that's important is because it is well below the legal limit and these contributors continue to give to obama over the next year and a half as he is running for re-election. by comparison, if you take all of the presidential candidates and looped them together come up with a number, right now, it's about $35 million. so $86 million to $35 million clearly president obama has a huge cash advantage for 2012. >> meanwhile, the republican national committee targeting president obama in four states today, right? >> yeah, they are. this just goes to show you the republican national committee is trying to make president obama own the economy. they are going to be running a 30-second ad in pennsylvania, in michigan and wisconsin and in new hampshire. now, this ad is critical of president obama on the issue of the economy, specifically on jobs, on foreclosures on anything to do with the economy right now, they are saying the numbers have increased. not a lot of money that has been put behind this 30-second tv ad but goes to show you the republican national committee right now and republicans in general are really trying to tie the economy around barack obama's ankle as we head into 2012. kyra? >> mark preston, thanks so much. your next political update in an hour. go to our website 24/7 cnn/politic.com. yesterday, first ladies past and present honored betty ford at a funeral in california. now mrs. ford's body will be flown to grapnd rapids, michiga. she will be buried next to her husband at the gerald ford museum. america's interest in women's soccer has not been so high than today. the u.s. women's team faces france later day in semifinal play and cnn international anchor zain verjee, an athlete herself, joins us from london to talk about how incredibly cool this is! >> reporter: it is a huge moment for u.s. women's soccer. can they beat back france today? that is the big question. you know what? so many people around the world, as well as people watching them in germany, are actually rooting and cheering for the u.s. they are the favorites to win the world cup. i mean, they just had an incredible performance. you know? here you see them practicing. they had this incredible match against brazil and in the last minute, they scored a goal and then ended up winning on penalty shoot-outs. everyone is still buzzing about how i credible it was. so the question is can they pull it off today? and what many people are saying is that they have got the fitness, they have got the never say die attitude and they hope that they can manage it today. you know, they are very fit and the french have to work their da derrieres off today. >> i think they all will be working their derrieres off. what do you think? you've been watching this closely. >> you've got germany out. that was a huge team and the favorites to win the competition in germany. they got booted out. the brazilians, a good team, they are out. now you have japan and sweden is who the u.s. would face were they to win. so i think they have a pretty good chance. a lot of people are saying that the u.s. women's soccer team is really up their game and this team has the magic. they have something special and they can make it happen and it could be 1999 again. you may be partying like it's 1999 again, kyra. >> we will see more than just one soccer playing ripping off all of their jersey. it was a moment, for sure. >> right. i remember. >> zain, thanks. he may have been on the run but agents say he was not traveling light. guns, cash, we have got the photos that boston mobster james "whitey" bulger probably doesn't want anyone to see. ahead, we will hear from one of the jurors who sat on the casey anthony murder trial. if you thought the verdict was tough, imagine the hate mail and the nasty looks she's getting! checking stories across the country. taking a look at the stash recovered in whitey bulger california apartment. the feds say they found 30 weapons including handguns and automatic rifle and even grenade and some hidden in the ball wall and then the cash. more than $800,000, mostly in hundreds. in california, police arrest rodney king for suspicion of driving under the influence. remember him? brutally beaten by officers during a traffic stop in '91. you may that case sparked the infamous l.a. riots a year later. a college cheerleader used a tumbling move after falling four stories off a building and may have saved his life. he did a backflip and landed on his feet and suffered a broken pelvis. when casey.gets out of prison and the jurors who found -- okay. where are we going? okay! we're going to the tease. if you like netflix you will not like this. big changes ahead and will cost you a lot of money. a hollywood actress says yes to an online invite from a marine in afghanistan to go on a blind date. we got all of the details! of prison on sunday she will walk into a lawsuit. texas search group is suing her for the money it spent looking for her missing daughter caylee. it wants $115,000, plus interest. the group says anthony allowed the search to continue for months even though she knew that caylee was dead. the jurors who found casey anthony not guilty have run into their own problems. nasty looks on the street and hate mail and you name it. >> i've seen things on facebook probably from the. you're ignorant and should be ashamed of yourself, you let a murderer go free, et cetera, et cetera. you know? things like that. i just -- i don't want to read it. our gary tuchman had a chance to talk with juror number 3 and he joins us live from orlando. she told you she agonized over this verdict, right, gary? >> reporter: no question about it, kyra. i thought one of the most fascinating things that jennifer ford told me we all remember defense attorneys after the verdict was reached celebrating in the bar and having champagne, you know? one of the defense attorneys giving the media the finger for taking camera shots inside. what is really interesting, she tells us they believe that much of what they heard from those defense attorneys in opening statements were a bunch of lies. the main things they said. the defense attorneys say that caylee anthony drowned and that casey anthony was molested by her father and, therefore, this family kept all kinds of secrets. they didn't believe a word of that. nevertheless what jennifer told me was because the prosecution didn't present enough evidence, therefore, there was reasonable doubt and they could not find her guilty but had he were deeply suspicious of casey anthony. this juror told me the vote was 6-6 to convict for manslaughter and she was, at one time, one of the six who wanted to find her guilty of manslaughter. >> i wanted to investigate it further to see if it fit based on the evidence that we were given. >> reporter: what convinced you and the five others to switch your votes and vote for not guilty? >> i think everyone will tell you the same thing, it's just lack of hard evidence. it's, like i said the duct tape and the chloroform and things like that you could -- if you took a hard -- a good, hard look at it, you could find of -- there was a lot of doubt surrounding all of those certain things, so there's not enough to make anything stick. >> reporter: so you don't necessarily think she is innocent, but you feel you didn't have enough proof to find her guilty beyond a reasonable doubt? >> right. i don't know either way. >> reporter: a couple of things we don't know is a lot of heating arguing in the jury room. they respected each other, these jurors, but there was a lot of arguing about these counts. secondly, we heard a lot about how they came very dressed up to their last day of the trial. the assumption they knew a verdict would be coming. jennifer ford said not the truth and had no idea a verdict would come that day. coincidence they were dressed up that day. it took them hours to know they were units and h were unanimous and had a verdict. >> how has this changed her life, gary? >> reporter: she's in a lot of emotional pain. we spent hours talking before we went on camera because she was afraid this would make things worse for her and i couldn't guarantee it wouldn't but i told her we would tell the human side of the story because no matter how we feel about the verdict and i suspect most of our viewers, as most americans, don't feel it was the right verdict, nevertheless we can't attack the jurors. if we attack the jurors, who will serve on a jury? something we have to keep in mind. one other thing i want to mention, i usually don't talk like this but i want to tell you i haven't had a chance to talk to you since you've been back so i want to welcome you back and ask you how the babies are doing. >> because you're always on assignment. you haven't met them yet but i can't wait. thanks, gary. who is afraid of kelly osborne shp he is tweeted she single handedly stopped two boys from stealing a car in the streets of london. all she said was "oy" and they ran off. an hour later she tweeted she stopped two boys from lacrosse sticks from turning over a car. ted danson is replacing laurence fishburne as a new leader of the team. he made the casting announcement. he makes his debut on wednesday, september 21st, on cbs. arnold schwarzenegger who great a scandal by fathering a child with his housekeeper is going to play a small town sheriff in his acting return. how about the actress decided to serve her country? after a friendly pressure, shall we say, she said yes to an online invitation from a u.s. marine in afghanistan. cnn international anchor zain verjee is live with all of the scoop. tell us about this video that has gone viral. >> reporter: well, mila kunis, the hollywood star, has decided to serve her country and she decided to do that by going on a date. well, what happened, kyra, u.s. marine in afghanistan uploaded a video on youtube and he basically said please come with me to a marine corps ball in greenville, north carolina, just listen to what he said. and how he put his proposal. >> he has, mila, sergeant horn but you can call me scott. i want to take a moment out of my day to invite to you the marine corps ball on november 1th, to greenville, north carolina, with yours true. ly take a second and think about it and get take me. all right. bye now. >> how cute is sthat? sergeant scott moore there in afghanistan. you know what? i bet you he is really surprised to know the answer was actually yes. she was doing an interview with justin timberlake for their movie and he said do it. she said, all right, i'll do it. that piece of video has 800,000 hits. he was really cute in it. i would have said yes. you, kyra? >> i can't say yes. i'm not single. but if i were single, heck, yeah! i'd give the guy a date! he was very sharming and creative and it takes a lot of confidence to do that, zain. >> yeah. tougher than fighting the enemy sometimes, you know? >> exactly. we will see how it goes and follow up. thanks. netflix known for renting dvds by mail is raising prices and the price hike is pretty significant. alison kosik, are we still going to be able to buy these movies for a semigood price? >> reporter: depends on your situation. get ready to pay up to 60% more. this is only for some of the members who use netflix. take a look. before this price change, it was $9.99 for one dvd a month by mail and internet streaming. now both services are going to cost $15.98. that equals 60% increase. why is this happening? because you have to buy everything all la carte. you want a dvd by mail you have on pay another $7.99 for that plan. of course, you can downgrade and get one service and cut your sofs. the new pricing starts now. if you're a current customer, all of these price changes, they kick in on september 1st. >> so why the increase? but, you know, netflix it risks losing a lot of customers over this, right? >> reporter: oh, sure. netflix is blaming higher costs. the fact is streaming is growing more and more popular. think about it. internet connections are getting faster and faster and you can watch videos on any number of mobile devices but it's expensive for netflix to do this because it has to pay to get streaming rights for the movies and countries hundreds of millions of dollars and netflix has to make up the money somewhere. >> alison, while i have you here, business news. i'm getting word in my ear, sky news reporting now. we have been talking about rupert murdoch and the hits financially his company is taking since this scandal has come forward. sky news now reporting that news corporation has dropped its bid to b sky b. we will have more details on that coming up. letting alison kosik know too. she can check the details that have for us. this is one more hit, alison, right, for the media mogul? >> reporter: it really is. you think about what the past, just the past week has been for us news corp. watching its stock prices class a and class b shares. they have plunged over the past week and now this could be just yet another blow to the stock today. the markets open in about four minutes. we will see how news corp shares do. >> got it. alison, thanks for playing. skies news reporting news corp dropping bid for be sky be and we will follow that throughout the hour. could be another instance of the cover-up worse than the alleged crime. roger clemens instead of baseball's hall of fame he could end up in the federal prison. live analysis as clemens' perjury trial gets under way today. on our car insurance. great! at progressive, you can compare rates side by side, so you get the same coverage, often for less. wow! that is huge! 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