berman. nice to have you. i m zoraida sambolin. up first, the shooting rampage in tucson, arizona, takes a dramatic step this morning. jared lee loughner now facing a lifetime in prison after pleading guilty to a shooting that killed six people and almost killed a former member of congress, gabrielle giffords. under the plea deal loughner will be sentenced to life in prison with no parole but will avoid the death penalty. the u.s. attorney prosecuting the case says loughner s mental state was a big factor in this decision. the doctors who have treated and observed mr. loughner since the shooting agree that he suffered from a severe mental illness. that is severe schizophrenia. at the time of the shooting and before the shooting. the fragility of his continued competency to stand trial was taken into account. we re live in tu san. we re used to seeing loughner s picture we just showed on the screen. you saw him in the courtroom yesterday. how did he look to you? report
1% pace. and then as you mentioned, we also got some pretty good news in terms of fixed mortgage rates which are falling to historic new lows for a fourth straight week and people are saying they would like it to fall further. average on a 30-year fixed mortgage fell to 4.01% this week. it is all feeding into the new usa today survey of money managers. saying that 80% do not expect a double dip recession. really begs the question whether or not the market falls or volatility we have been seeing since april may be overdone. let s talk about reebok. so many women bought these shoes but now the company is going to pay $25 million to settle their unsupported claims that easy tone sneakers essentially firm you up and, i guess, the government says not so much. yeah. federal trade commission announced that settlement with reebok over what it said were unsubstantiated claims about the so-called exercise benefits of
get a refund check in the mail. the company agreed to pay $25 million to settle claims over its advertising. the government says some of the claims just aren t true. here is abc s linsey davis. shake it up reporter: reebok s run tone and easy tone sneakers promise to tone your legs and other assets just by walking in them. better legs and a better butt with every step. reporter: the shoemaker claimed its design increased muscle activity without someone even knowing it. reebok spent $64 million on advertising alone, paying big names like the kardashians, as well as actors and models, to sell the shoes. reebok easy tone, proven to tone your hamstrings, calves and butt up to 28% more. reporter: but the government said, not so fast. saying it s deceptive advertising. there is no scientific proof to back up reebok s claims. the shoemaker agreeing to pay the $25 million settlement. reebok s claims didn t withstand scrutiny. consumers expected to get a workout, not to get worked
25 past the hour. i know you guys like to shake it up and be loose. but 15 minutes on the red sox is too much. not even close to it. we ll go to our parade of papers next. dallas morning news. dallas morning news, the obama administration has asked the supreme court to hear a case concerning the 2010 health care overhaul law. the development makes it all but certain that the court will soon agree to hear at least one challenge to the law. a decision could come by june, smack in the middle of the 2012 presidential campaign. and the tampa tribune, nothing happening in the tampa area, but reebok going to be paying $25 million to customers who bought the popular easy tone sneakers. part of the settlement what did they do? kill people? advertising scum.
no, just kidding. he was tired yesterday. we start with this. he was bent on jihad and he is no dummy. that s what the feds are saying after they arrested a man in an alleged plot to dive bomb the pentagon with remote controlled planes like these. the planes would be packed with explosi explosives. the suspect is an american muslim with a physics degree. brian todd with more on how his plot was foiled. federal authorities arrest ad 26-year-old man from ashland, massachusetts. in an affidavit he started his plot last year by buying cell phones, modifying them to act as electrical switches for ieds and giving them to people he believed to be members of al qaeda and hoped they would be used to kill u.s. soldiers overseas according to that document. but the people he was give thing equipment to were actually undercover agents from the fbi. authorities say that he then expanded his plot to use these. model planes. they say that he planned to use them like drones operated by remo