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good morning everyone. welcome to mornings on 2. it s saturday, june 18th. we ll get to the latest united problem that caused delays here in the bay area and across the country. but first here s rosemary with a first look at your forecast. hi, rosemary. good morning to you! it will be a pleasant father s day weekend. running a little bit below average for this time of year. but slightly warmer nan yesterday. we re waking up with those clouds out there. low clouds from the coast all the way inland this morning. a light breeze in store for today. and your highs today upper 50s on the coast, nearly hitting 80 degrees in many cases for our inland spots. a warm-up for tomorrow and then quite hot in time for the first day of summer. we ll outline all that coming up in just a few moments. we start with continuing coverage of the computer problem that grounded united flights across the country. planes are back in the air this morning, but now the airline is facing a backlog ....
Security warns that militant web sites posted a hit list of american executives and companies. that list includes dozens of names connected to the war in iraq. they were posted at the same time that american-born al-qaeda spokesman adam gadahn released a video calling on muslims in the u.s. to kill americans. security analysts believe the two messages are linked. we are staying on tom of the on top of the fast-moving story at the pentagon today. you re just a click away from learning the latest. go to foxnews.com, it has all the details for you anytime you want them. right now a courtroom bombshell in the casey anthony murder trial in florida. a surprise witness for the defense team, vasco thompson, a convicted kidnapper, anthony s attorney claiming thompson had contact with casey s father. well, yesterday the defense began laying out its case. casey anthony accused, of course, of killing her 2-year-old daughter caylee back in 2008. with us now, judge janine pirro, ....
And, the phone number in question, i didn t have the phone number until february of 09. alisyn: there you go, he didn t have the telephone number until february of 09, when the calls were placed it wasn t his cell phone number. don t you think the defense should have thoroughly checked this out? it is not even consistent with their here to identify the cause of death of caylee anthony and if it is a drowning, what does it have to do with vasco thompson being on the phone number list for george anthony? he s also said he doesn t know the man and this is ridiculous. this is their surprise witness? again, that is my point. there is no evidence, presented, thus far, that in fact casey anthony was sexually assaulted by her brother lee or father george or a retired homicide detective would cover up the death, quote, accidental death, of his beloved granddaughter. this makes no sense and in fact, ....
And he got slammed down by the judge who said you don t bring in an expert into my courtroom when you haven t previously alerted the prosecution of what he s going to say. jon: now, you were a successful district attorney prosecutor here in new york. you, obviously, saw defense attorneys good or bad in front of you when you were a judge. it sometimes seems to me this is the throw the bowl of spaghetti against the wall and see what sticks defense. it s smart and it s stupid. maybe there s some pimp on that person on that jury that s going to buy the fact that maybe caylee did drown jon: right, maybe he moved the body. it s just crazy. why move the body and hold it for four months if you re going to collect the money? you know, collect it right away, get interest on it, you know? the judge is making it very clear through his criticism of this attorney, look, you ve got to know the rules of evidence. he today is questioning whether or not he should, you know, hold him in any kind ....
5:30 there was a rush. they have been using self-regulation. they had numbers written in sharpie ink on the back of their hands so everybody knew what order they were in. this morning for some reason, people decided that was not a system they wanted to participate in. it wasn t set up by the court administration. so as you saw the pushing, the fighting, the shoving. it got ugly. they ended up calling several officers from the orlando police department to come over here and separate the mess. as we know, only between 50 and 62 people a day actually get into those seats. there s just not enough room for all who want to see this in person. i was curious. this is live on tv. why do people want to come down here? most of the people i ve seen to say the reason they want to come down and see this because they want to see the jurors faces. those are the one group that are not on tv. meantime, we are over here where there is a news conference getting ready to begin. the gentleman to the right ....