research, but it could also reduce the number of smokers. at least that s the intent. some say the law itself is flawed and big tobacco is fighting it tooth and nail. ahead of voting day california tv screens are full of ads. not for mitt romney or barack obama, but instead proposition 29. no on 29. and here s what s at stake. california voters will decide the fate of proposition 29 raising the tax by $1 on every pack of cigarettes. there s strem evidence from all overtime world that when you increase the tax on cigarettes, when you increase the tries, people smoke less. reporter: it would raise an estimated $735 million a year, and most of that money would go to cancer research. no on 29. according to that s a nonpartisan research firm, nearly $47 million has been spent to try to stop proposition 29. more than of that of that from big to be wroe. another $11 million from rj reynolds. we estimate that if prop 29 practiceses it will cost philip morris and rey
hello everyone. i mfredric i mfredrickahere in the cnn newsroom. we begin in cairo, egypt. live pictures from tahrir square at nightfall. watching the crowd go by the hour all day long. demonstrators started gathering this morning right after an egyptian judge sentenced former president hosni mubarak to life in prison for his role in killing hundreds of anti-government protesters last year. let s bring in cnn s ben wedeman who joins us now from the balcony overlooking tahrir square. ben it is getting late there. however, it appears that the darkness isn t in any way disbursing that crowd. what is the objective here? [ no audio ] reporter: outside of cairo. hosni mubarak and his interior minister did get life sentences but cleared the corruption charges and the interior of ministry got off scot-free, that s krucrux of this and why people are so angry. remember, more than 800 egyptians were killed by government sources during this proet te protest and everybody responsibl
welcome back to msnbc. another message from moammar gadhafi but not anything new, vowing to continue to fight and accuses rebels of being traitors. we do not know where he is. we do know one of his sons fled to niger. andy whitfield, actor of spartacus died. he suffered from nonhodgkins lymphoma. the u.s. tennis association will decide weather to fine williams for her outburst, losing her cool and yelling at the umpire. we are seeing the first video of missing maryland woman robyn gardner who disappeared five weeks now. now we have the video that investigators are looking at for
he s not feeling any side effects from the chemotherapy. not sure if he can play next season, but still if everything goes well and this guy can play for the patriots he ll provide the protection they need for their prized protection. what are the doctors telling him about that prognosis long term. they think he ll be okay? 90% recovery rate. no signs of anything was wrong. years earlier he discovered a deni benign tumor in his brain area. then it comes back here you know at the bind, sure enough he has the nonhodgkins lymphoma. another story nfl related but not a nasty nfl story. kind of an nfl player, just stepping up, just taking it upon
be storms nearby those big rigs. bill: thank you for that. you mentioned the middle of the night. it s one of the most dangerous times when storms hit, everybody is sleeping. this hit at 2:30 in the morning. we re watching it. seven dead so far. let s hope the number does not go higher than that. mark, thank you. alisyn: here s some breaking news out of massachusetts, the salem area, i should say, there was a woman who withheld cancer information from her autistic son, she has been sentenced 8-10 years for this crime, kristen labee, her son died at the age of nine after suffering with nonhodgkins lymphoma. he was autistic and what prosecutors said and what the jury found was that she denied necessary chemotherapy treatment to him and he died as a result. he didn t have to die, and they actually charged her with attempted murder. she was found guilty on all counts today, getting 8-10