In argentina to visit his mistress. Always another story on the heels of the one before it. Ive been unfaithful to my wife. Jackson announced a series of 50 concerts in london, its to be his big comeback. Typically in newsrooms we think of summers as very slow. Theres not a lot going on. Then things begin to happen. Its one thing, then two things then three things. Tragedies in iran, attempts at revolution. Whats going on in iran is massive, mostly peaceful protests over the alleged stealing of an election. In the u. S. Capital, a political storm erupts over a Ground BreakingClimate Change bill. We have been talking about this issue for decades. And now is the time to finally act. South carolina has literally lost its governor. Once you get to a certain level of importance, particularly in public service, its sort of hard to disappear. That makes the disappearance of governor mark sanford extra weird. We had covered the governor mark sanford arrest deal. Farrah fawcet has publicly been sharing her battle with cancer returned to the hospital this week. For the past years 70s icon Farrah Fawcett has been fighting for her life. All of these headlines collide on june 25th. June 25th was a day where things just got eclipsed. How is farrah, how is she doing . Farrah is gone. What turned out to be farrahs last night, we spent the evening in the hospital. We knew that it was likely to be sometime that night or early the next morning. And shortly after 9 00 in the morning, she passed away. Actress Farrah Fawcet has died after her threeyear battle with cancer. She was only 62. Lets go now to nbcs mike oku in burbank. Michael. Andrea, as many of our viewers recall, she was diagnosed with anal cancer back in 2006, she had a reprieve, but fortunately in that same year, doctors found a malignant polyp. Even though everybody knew that Farrah Fawcett was going through a battle for her life literally, when it happened, youre hit with the weight of the actual event. And in this case, its an icon of the 70s. As Farrah Fawcetts death begins to dominate the news cycle, on the east coast, a South Carolina paper breaks startling news about governor mark sanford. South carolinas governor mark sanford admits to an extramarital affair with an argentine woman. The media has been monitoring governor sanfords story since he went missing a week earlier. Governor sanford has had no contact with his staff or his security detail since he was seen last thursday leaving the Governors Mansion in a big black suv. I get a call from a source saying the governor is missing. And i said, how missing . We know that Law Enforcement has said that they have lost track of the governor and did so thursday. Nobody, even his security team, knew where he had been. When mark sanford is elected governor of South Carolina in 2006, republicans immediately view him as someone who could run for president down the line, hes young. Hes got a southern drawl. Hes a reformer, good looking, beautiful family, bunch of kids. Hes served three terms in congress. He had developed a reputation of being a congressman who thought a little differently about things. This kind of outsider, iconoclast person. Willing to be the one person in Congress Voting against something everybody else was voting for. It was heart to understand how somebody in position, targeted by a lot of people in the Republican Party as being a potential president ial candidate would implode the way he did. The governors wife has also said she doesnt know where her husband is. Where is mark sanford . Hes a governor of a state, how can no one know where he is . As the sanford story picks up steam, the death of Farrah Fawcett continues to be the lead. In case youre just joining us, former charlies angels actress Farrah Fawcett has died at A Santa Monica hospital after a long battle with cancer. This is a story we have been following, so that was obviously going to be the major story of the day, until that afternoon. The news had broke about Farrah Fawcett fairly early in the day, and i was assigned to stay inhouse and put together the obituary. Suddenly the news breaks about Michael Jackson. Sometime around very close to 3 00, its been reported that an adult in his home is unconscious. The 911 call came in to the emergency system in los angeles, saying that there was a man at the house who was unconscious, arrest. And thats when paramedics rushed to the scene. We hadnt confirmed whoever had been race freddie that house through the streets of los angeles to the hospital was, in fact, Michael Jackson. Nobody was helped for it. I can say i certainly wasnt, because we were in Farrah Fawcett mode at that point. 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On any given day, in any given mom, a late breaking story can suddenly change the entire face of the news. Michael jackson has been rushed to a Los Angeles Area hospital and there are several reports that he was discovered unconscious in his home. There was a bit of skepticism in the noochl when newsroom when the news first broke. Not because he was a big star but because it was tmz. At the time tmz was not a huge, credible news source. There are many unsubstantiated reports about Michael Jackson floating around, but we can tell you that the l. A. Times is reporting that he is in a coma. Suddenly were racing in a car, im driving with the producer on the way to the Ucla Medical Center. We get there, and all of the media is now descending on this location. Suddenly the news starts to get out there somehow that Michael Jackson may be dead. And it seemed like everyone who had ever cared or listened to a Michael Jackson hit decided this is where they were going to go. I couldnt help but wonder how did they all know this was happening . I have to assume that some of the folks who descended on the scene were doing it because they were on their facebook page. In 2009, facebook and twitter are not yet five years old, but growing at a furious pace. I was at home when reports started coming in that perhaps Michael Jackson has died. There was still a lot of confusion, then you start to see things on twitter. I think the country was like, no, dont let this happen, dont let this happen. Were hearing reports of terrible things, but maybe this will be one of those things, that the first report is terrible, and they walk it back, hes not dead, hes close. In iran, protesters have been using the same social media to stream of their struggle out to the rest of the world. It has been ten days since the president ial election there, which many of our observers and supporters of the opposition candidates say was rigged. Mahmoud ahmadinejad warned protesters that there would be violent retribution if they continued to protest. That was one of the First International conflicts in the eyes of a totalitarian regime where social media said we can get around you. Despite a massive crackdown against all sorts of nonstate sponsored media, video, by amateurs, is still finding its way out from iran, mainly through the internet. They began sending these messages out, and one of them that came out that struck us all so deeply. In South Carolina, more details emerge about governor sanfords bizarre disappearance. Governor sanford has had no contact with his staff since he was seen last thursday. We started to get some very strange signals out of the governors office. Yeah, well, he is out, hes been away for a couple of days now. This is not the first time the good governor has gone awol. A spokesman for mr. Sanford told nbc news, after the session winds down, its not uncommon for him to go out of pocket for a few days at a time to clear his head. Released a statement a little later on that evening that said the governor is hiking the appalachian trail and that hell be back in a couple of days. At the time, its important to remember that everybody in the Office Thinks this is true. Then comes the hes hiking the appalachian trail, which now becomes the way that you describe everything, oh, what happened with that marriage . Oh, he was hiking the appalachian trail. My initial instincts were that story is dubious. If hed been hiking the appalachian trail, its pretty easy to go find where he is and get him to ashville or to some other town to wave in front of the camera and say this is a ridiculous story, and they didnt do that. My colleagues and i looked at each other in the newsroom and said what about those emails. Those emails had been a batch of correspondence anonymously leaked six months earlier, reportedly written by sanford to his mistress in argentina. There were lots of details about his personal life we knew to be true. We did have some doubts about whether this could be an elaborate hoax. We all said this could be it. We had already started checking flight schedules between atlanta and buenos aires, argentina. We knew the next flight back from buenos aires was wednesday when they told us the governor was coming back. I get a call from the chief of staff, governor sanfords plane has just landed. And i say plane . He says, yeah, governor sanford was in argentina. Oh, and it gets better, our gina smith called him at the airport. Sounds like were going to have a lot of explaining to do today. Inside the beltway, the president goes in front of cameras to push his historic energy bill. This legislation will finally make clean energy the profitable kind of energy. That will lead to the creation of new businesses and entire new industries. That will lead to american jobs that pay well and cant be outsourced. Now i urge every member of congress, democrat and republican, to come together to support this legislation. Global warming and Climate Change is a scientific story but its also a political story. And that has at times kind of handcuffed us in terms of where we go with it. After obama won, a bunch of republicans who had always backed Climate Change legislation like john mccain looked like they might not back the bill, as part of the whole general change in politics. I dont think we have anything to do with the bill, but just opposing anything the president is doing. Why is the president wrong . I appreciate what the president said today, this is nothing more than a National Energy tax that will literally cost millions of american jobs. The 2009 Climate Change bill shows this has become an ir redeemably partisan issue. You cant cut down on the president said more on the apology from South Carolinas governor. By the afternoon of the 25th, governor sanfords problems are growing. Democratic representative Todd Rutherford is already calling for sanfords resignation. Governor sanford disappeared for five days and tried to orchestrate this elaborate coverup. Thursday morning the state newspaper printed steamy emails between the two, a far cry from the stand sanford took before congress vocally calling for president clintons impeachment because of his affair. Party leaders and no small number of his constituents said he should leave office. Is the king of pop alive or dead . All of this media that descended, satellite trucks, multiple cameras, as were waiting to get confirmation mike jackson is dead. You hear michael passed away and you pivot, you dont even think about it. Its huge. All reports say that Michael Jackson has died at the age of 50. 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The past three days have been some of the most violent in iran since the protests against the president ial elections began. Left the hospital in santa monica alone. Even big stories can be pushed off the stage when other major headlines steal the limelight. Michael jackson, dead at the age of 50, death was apparently declared at Ucla Medical Center where our own michael oku is standing by outside. Michael. Reporter there seems to be a collective sense of shock here as passersby continue to gather here by what appears to be the hundreds. The tribute to Michael Jackson started. I think fairly early on, it went from a surreal situation whether this pop icon, who had always been with us, and was now gone, it went from being stunned by that, to suddenly celebrating the life that this guy had. As the news spread, fans spontaneously joined together, many outside the Jackson Family home in encino, california. These sort of parasocial relationship become very real to us. And especially in a sort of 24hour celebrity us weekly culture to have this person removed after hes such a part of your mind is very painful. The sidewalk outside the hospital quickly became a memorial too. A strange mix of grieving for a loss and celebrating a unique brand of music. As news spread and spontaneous tributes to Michael Jackson break out around the country irans government is ramping up the pressure on amir wasabi says he wont withdraw his challenge to the president ial election encouraging iranians to continue with illegal protests. Escalating since a young protester was killed five days earlier. She was shot and she died at a demonstration on saturday. She was an iranian protester in anti democratic iranian elections. She had been driving to a protest and her car overheated. She parked it and was walking to the protest when a paramilitary official shot her and killed her in front of multiple witnesses. The video continues beyond that point, showing ultimately a great deal of blood. Two different witnesses on the scene captured her last moments on video. Those images have now rocketed around the world. We watched her die. And to see that was just, was, you know, was so difficult for a lot of people but really helped people understand the depth of what was happening there. The video of her choking out and dying while people rushed to her aid went viral on the internet. It became a symbol of the iranian protest and the uprising generally in the middle east for more democratic governments. So we paid a lot more attention to these stories for a time. South carolinas governor mark sanford says he will reimburse the state for his visit to argentina. After disappearing for nearly a week, he revealed yesterday that he was in argentina to visit his mistress. The state newspaper has been sitting on copies of intimate emails between sanford and his mistress since they received them from an anonymous source. We had the emails for six months, and we did not publish the story saying mark sanford was having an affair. The reason for that was we couldnt prove it. After catching him at the airport, they have the proof it needs to run the story. Immediately it was kind of a case of we want to get this in our paper before anybody else does. The day before the emails are released, governor sanford calls a press conference to try to get had of the story. I have been unfaithful to my w