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to you all. thank you for spending time with us. we have a number of breaking stories that were going on while you were sleeping. we tart now with a scare for the secret service. a substance sent to the white house tested positive for cyanide. and more tests are being done. it was found at a screening facility where white house mail is monitored. it was not found inside the white house itself. no one who handled that envelope at the facility was hurt. sources say the sender is known to the secret service and criminal charges depend on whether the material is confirmed to actually be hazardous. another breaking story overnight, a victory in israel for the hard-liners and a defeat for the peace process. prime minister benjamin netanyahu should be able to form a government after yesterday s parliamentary elections. despite pre-election polls his conservative party picked up the most votes. the day before netanyahu declared there would be no palestinian state while he ....
we have a number of breaking stories that were going on while you were sleeping starting with a scare for the secret service. a substance sent to the white house tested positive for cyanide cyanide. found at a screening facility. no one who handled that at the facility was hurt. sources say the sender is known to the secret service and criminal charges depend on whether the material is confirmed to actually be hazardous. another breaking story overnight a victory in israel for the hard-liners and a defeat for the peace process. benjamin netanyahu should be able to form a government after yesterday s parliamentary elections. despite pre-election polls his party picked up the most votes. the day before he declared there would be no palestinian state while he was prime minister. we are also getting late word that japanese police are investigating death threats against ambassador caroline kennedy. they say an english speaking man called the u.s. embassy in tokyo thr ....
there goes the presidential bid is just an opinion. varney and company is about to begin. stuart: check out the of big board not much of a recovery with the today s sell-off we were down 200 derek is 157. the s&p 500 is up six coming off the 1950 a couple of days ago. oil. $107 a barrel $106.60 that is all about to iraq. price line is buying open table a and online restaurant reservation company at 2.$6 billion. of cash looking at open table go up 33 points but price line is down 18. not a big deal on a $1,002 stock but the point is that is 2.$6 billion for a restaurant reservation company? they are amazing. the reason i fell in love with this over one year ago i met a guy who works at a hotel in the city they started a company similar. they explain to the monopoly that they have created it is amazing because the more restaurants they sign up of more restaurants have to sign up to the point if you are not on open table you are nobody. than they get for every reser ....
good wednesday morning, everybody. we begin with the biggest political upset of the year. oh, boy, was it. eric cantor, long expected to become the next speaker of the house, has lost his primary to tea party candidate, dave brat. voters in the conservative virginia district apparently angry over immigration reform. abc s tahman bradley has more from washington. reporter: it s one of the most stunning upsets in political history. eric cantor, the second-most powerful house republican, defeated by a virtually unknown tea party challenger. i know there s a lot of long faces here tonight. and it s disappointing, sure. reporter: the man who took down cantor, college economics professor dave brat, a political novice, who was outspent 50-1. cantor spending $5 million. brat, a mere $100,000. dollars do not vote. you do. this campaign was about just basic american values and virtues. reporter: cantor was seen by many as the next speaker of the house, biding his ti ....
today, he testified on a civil law against him on what happened new year s morning 2009. we re live outside of the court house with the story. vic? reporter: oscar grant s father, oscar grant junior, in prison filed a lawsuit against mehser mehserle. this also, his best friend, also detained that fateful night. caldwell is now dead, his lawsuit is alive the defendant today took the stand. oscar grant junior is suing johannes mehserle, claim egg has been deprived of a relationship with his son, who was shot to death. grant was in the plaintiff s table. he was transported from a prison, where he is serving a life sentence for murder the trial resumed this morning with a tax worker testifying as to what she saw of the altercation. michael greer took the stand as well. but the dramatic moment of the day came when attorney mccoy showed this cell phone video of the shooting. mehserle never looked up. plaintiffs lawyer mccoy led mehserle through a lit tany of questions but t ....