jackson's father and some of his siblings challenged branca as executor and the validity of jackson's will, but the california courts upheld the will and branca's ability to carry out michael jackson's wishes. >> branca: there was a series of wills, and they were substantively almost identical. >> logan: in that 20% went to charity, 40% went to his children, and 40% went to his mother as long as she was alive and on her death would go to the children. the basic principle never changed. >> branca: never changed. the whole objective of michael's estate plan is to take care of his mother during her lifetime and to accumulate the principle and the assets for the benefit of michael's children. >> logan: the will named branca and john mcclain, a longtime friend of michael jackson, as co-executors. jackson's crippled image was not the only thing they had to contend with. at first glance, michael jackson left more debt than anything. >> zack o'malley greenburg: the day he died, michael jackson had about half a billion dollars in debt. >> logan: zack o'malley greenburg is a senior editor for "

tour in which jackson would never even grace the stage. jackson's family claims the ting king of pop died because the tour company hired a doctor who did everything and anything to make him well enough to perform a break neck schedule. the company, aeg, says jackson was the master of his own plan and the one who hired the doctor. cnn just obtained an exclusive video that the jurors have now seen for the first time. it's the deposition of that ceo from back in december. on the video, he is repeatedly asked about an e-mail he wrote, basically, warning the concert organizers that jackson's personal doctor better shape up. as john berman reports, the ceo's answers or lack thereof, the jury actually burst out laughing. >> reporter: a potential bombshell in the trial against aeg, the concert promoter managing michael jackson's "this is it" comeback tour. [ music playing ] >> reporter: aeg has long contended that they did not hire dr. conrad murray. the physician convicted offed a machinestering the lethal dose of the propofol to jackson. instead

but sarah herman thinks that is unlikely in jackson's case. >> kenneth jackson is simply in confinement because he cannot cope in general population. he is more afraid of being in general pop with other inmates with a roommate and cell mate. we've tried a couple times to get him to go to general population. he didn't last 24 hours. he did not feel safe. go put your clothes on. >> jackson's coping issues are not limited to general population. he recently cut himself in order to deal with the stress of living in confinement. >> the best way to relieve the pressure. i cut on myself. i cut my arm. when i bleed and got the pain it relaxes me. it's like having the most orgasm you can ever have. my blood pressure is 147/104 and i cut and 20 minutes later it's down to 110/70. i relax. straight up. >> this is your daily visit. remember we talked on thursday. where are you at today? let me see your arms. both. both. don't mess with it. >> sergeant herman has come to check on jackson and discuss his request to return to general population. >> when you told me on thursday you were about to break, r

my that's the jackson street box and the 3 feet is running there so the jackson - the shoring wall would be 3 feet and 6 feet away from that red line >> okay. >> so what kind of protections are we asking for first there's a pressure that the developer is responsible for any damage for the street. and in the proposed ordinance that's potentially before the board of supervisors is the fact that the developer and the puc need to enter into an agreement assessable to us and we would have a new easement in place for you know the existing work and planned work we're planning now underground vaults to the area. the proposed utility agreement s from my liabilities and claims associated with this project. we've been drafting that internally we want to make sure that within the city family we can incorporate them into the agreement as we move forward >> can i ask a quick question? and you enter into the amendment with the developer and if the developer is allowed to sell all the condos the owners will pick up part or all of the liability? that you yes. >> typically the case i have the purchase pri

. >> reporter: michael jackson's daughter is 15. paris and prince michael along with blanket from a different mother have been watched over by their grandmother and guardian katherine jackson since their father's death in 2009. >> katherine jackson is a lovely lady, but she is 83 years old. there is close to 70 years age difference. >> reporter: paris has been growing up fast. she recently had a daily mail article and spread in "event" magazine. the past weekend the two were seen looking at horses at a california ranch. then having sushi. they spent paris' birthday together. why now? >> i think it is not only not surprising that a 15-year-old girl wants her mother. i think it is really healthy she wants that influence in her life. >> rowe married jackson in 1996. the couple had two children, prince and paris. later when they divorced rowe reportedly gave up all her parental rights. >> allegedly debbie rowe got paid $8 million to go quietly into the sunset. >> reporter: she had visitation rights after jackson died but hasn't exercise

by other artists, including michael jackson. we are going to explore that angle with our legal panel in just a few moments. >>> plus, we'll raise the question did concert bosses care about michael jackson's deteriorating health? >>> call it cowardly, cruel, a senseless act of terror. while most of us see the boston marathon bombings as an act of evil. some see it as a big success. it shouldn't come as a surprise that one group, in particular, al qaeda in the arabian peninsula not only praises the bombing, appears to be taking advantage of it and market it. our barbara starr reports. >> reporter: this is the latest version of "inspire," the magazine published by al qaeda in the arabian peninsula and much of it, including this article, titled "the inevitable," is cruelly devoted to the boston marathon bombing. >> what it tells you is this group al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is opportunistically trying to take advantage of this attack. >> reporter: the magazine calls the tsarnaev brother brilliant in carrying out the attacks, w

is paris jackson on the move shifting her family ties? this morning new details about her reunion with her birth mother debbie rowe. >> but we begin with the jodi arias trial. the convicted killer now waiting to learn her fate. the penalty phase in the trial begins wednesday. so many of us were captivated by the four-month trial filled with graphic details. >> so here's the question what really happened the night travis alexander was killed? abc news re-created his home and "20/20's" elizabeth vargas walks us through the scene now. >> reporter: what happened between this photo, travis alive, staring intently at the camera, to this photo suddenly slumped in the shower. one minute and ten seconds that changed everything. dan abrams, legal analyst for abc news, makes the case for the prosecution. so she's taking photos of him and asks for one final picture. at some point the prosecution says she gets a knife >> that's right. >> and stabs him. >> that's when it starts and he staggers to the sink, somehow gets here, trying to sort of balance h

the michael jackson civil death trial. meanwhile, eric holder planning to immediate with the media into white house leaks hit a major snag. major news organizations including associated press, the "new york times," and huffington post say they will not take part if the meetings are off the record. the justice department says they're off the record to encourage a full exchange of ideas. holder is under fire for two cases involving secret subpoenas for searches of journalist phone records. if they're believed to be in involved in reports of leaked classified information. >>> the family of the late penn state coach joe paterno is going to sue the ncaa due to the jerry sandusky child sex abuse scandal. they will be party to this lawsuit which is expected to be filed today. it should be noted penn state says it will not be party to any suit against the ncaa filed by the paternos. >>> the sheriff's department in virginia standing by the use of deadly force by two of its deputies at a costco store. employees called police after a

jackson at 78. most of the rain going to move off into the mid-atlantic and certainly the more severe thunderstorms going to be more of a mid-atlantic and southeast type thing. so into the carolinas there. but, remember, these scattered showers some places along the gulf coast could pick up somewhere around an inch of rain and you could see some local flooding quickly. tell you about. warm-up we have here are the numbers for you. minneapolis goes to 90 by tuesday. from 55 today. can you believe that? look at rapid city, 63 to 93 on monday. st. louis even getting up to close to 90 by the time we approach that midweek. that is a look at the big picture. >> this weather report has been brought to you by thomas' english muffins. bianna and dan. >> one of the best parts of being friends with a meteorologist is while everybody is getting their local forecast, we get a specific neighborhood forecast from ginger zee. >> you're right. >> for the upper west side of manhattan. >> any time. >> we're going to ha

and this is bringing the jackson street sewer down >> actually before you move off the sites can you hit the next slide i want to talk about easements. there's been an easements a 32 foot easements between the sewer system and anything else that's supposed to be built and we did a little research on this easement specific in the documents it's for emergency vehicles. now the documents also state there's a restriction that property owners can't abilities above those easement nor use that that easement to damage the city structures >> now do you know when is permanent easements was granted to the city? is this a dive easement you're looking at >> i believe it's the drum street easement. indians that was an easement put in in 1964 >> so that easement wouldn't cover the force main where it comes through. >> telling me about the easement. and by the way, i have had a problem getting this information >> the 32 foot easement runs through the privately owned project that the former jackson street alignment. it's 32 feet wide and it is for public utilities and sewer. the infrastructure is sli

jackson's mother and brothers are suing aeg live to blame for michael jackson's death because they hired conrad murray. but they intend to show that jackson controlled murray, not them. jackson's former attorney thomas mesereau is joining us. >> thanks for having me. >> i know you're testifying on behalf of the jackson family expected this week. why are you on this list? how is that going to help their case? >> i was michael's lead criminal defense lawyer in his criminal trial in 2005. nine months before the trial, michael fired his attorneys in los angeles, hired me. i brought in new paralegals, n went to trial for 5 1/2 months, and acquitteded h ehim of every single charge. the reason i'm on the witness list is the concert promoter wants to bring in evidence he was charged with child molestation. apparently, they want to do to that claim his reputation was damaged and not as valuable as his mother and children claim. if they do that -- and they've already alluded to the fact they will in their opening statement -- the plaintiffs want me to come in and testify to what happened in the tr

>> i have no idea. >> doctor jackson, what changes happened in the building? >> as you know, there has been construction at 1800 o'dell. i was at a facility meeting last week. there was discussion about 100 whitney young circle; whoever is involved in that, i don't know what staff it is, they even wanted the community room. they wanted the office space that we have their for the southeast facility commission. i'm tired of people coming in and taking away. it is unfair. we have to fight to even have that commission set up because as i told you before, roger boyce wanted us to be a committee. even the jobs -- i am getting complaints. my community is not getting the jobs. it is too much. if we have a budget for outreach we have these -- four separate languages in our community that don't speak english and we need interpreters, winged staff to go knock on the doors and talk to the people and let them know what is going on in zip code 94124. i'm not concerned with you going to the head of district in because you don't know anything about district ten. the only ones

only for michael jackson. >> aeg cannot control what happened with jackson's doctor. >> reporter: and the testimony was that michael jackson's death was related to murray's financial troubles, that he would do whatever he had to do to get paid. the judge barred jackson's siblings from the courtroom because they may be called as witnesses in the case. the attorney argued that 82-year-old katherine jackson, a plaintiff in the case, needed a child by her side. a judge allowed that but only one jackson at a time. jackson's siblings would not comment on the decision. catherine jackson and michael's three children are seeking billions of dollars in damage, money they say the singer could have earned had he lived. casey wian, cnn, los angeles. >> our thanks to casey for that. >>> big sports news. jettisoned by the new york jets, tim tebow already has a job offer, if you can call it that. we'll have the details coming up. more... step! [ mom ] my little girl...she loves to help out on big jobs. good thing there's bounty select-a-size. it's the smaller powerful sheet that acts like a big sheet

if this is what the jackson family wants to show, that he was broke, what does that show you in terms of liability for death for aeg. >> that created motive for conrad murray himself but now the defendant is aeg. they're look agent the negligent supervision of conrad murray, not looking into his background to see what his financial reasons could be and that would give him motive and also the knowledge of what michael jackson had allegedly done with other doctors on the road. you know, i enter viewed dr. kline during the criminal trial. he told me he flew to various locations to try to do interventions with michael jackson when doctors were giving him propathol on the road. they knew it could happen. it did happen in this case. they killed michael jackson, conrad murray so aeg is responsible. >> we'll continue to see what additional details come out in civil cases that don't come out in the criminal trial. so thank you for that. you probably all know that this sunday is mother's day. i don't think that kobe bryant's family is going to have a great sunday. they have serious family troub

michael jackson civil trial in l.a. is it legal moments away. >> thanks for staying with us i'm bill o'reilly in the is it legal segment kimberly guilfoyle and lis wiehl. let's begin with kermit gosnell the philadelphia abortion doctor. it's in the hans of the jury now. >> exactly. >> bill: gosnell's lawyer didn't call anybody, no witnesses in the defense. goz nell couldn't get up there. >> doesn't have to but he didn't, right. >> bill: you predict what will happen. >> i predict guilty all five counts of murder for the four infants and murder for this patient that came in and was killed. >> bill: quick verdict tomorrow or next day. >> no, i think this will take some time. seven week trial it's going to take time for them to go through. here is the main legal issue that the prosecution had to show and i think they did it through their witnesses. were the babies born. were they alive and then gosnell and everybody, you know, killed them in a horrible, horrible way. you are predicting guilty on all counts but not execution

jackson? >> yes, sir. >> officer jackson, was inmate antonio easter present when you confiscated -- conducted the shakedown of his living area? >> no. >> officer jackson, were you aware that you were conducting the shakedown of the living area of antonio easter? >> yes. >> officer jackson, do you know the s.o.p. states that an inmate, if can be made available, must be present when that inmate's property is being shaken -- shook down? >> no, i didn't need him there. i suspected there was something in the area. i continued on with it. i already found some contraband in the area. that's why i decided to check his bed. before the knife, i found a glass bottle, a dice, gang paraphernalia. cassette tape. >> all right. antonio, you are correct inasmuch as you can't get a criminal charge for this. but, however, this is an administrative hearing. you can be held responsible for that weapon being in your living area. it was in your assigned living area. therefore, i'm going to find you guilty of the cha

jackson family attorney argued 82-year-old matriarch katherine jackson, who is the plaintiff in the case, needed one of her children by her side. the judge allowed that, but only one jackson sibling at a time. >> what do you think about the judge's ruling? >> reporter: jackson siblings would not comment on the decision. katherine jackson and michael's three children are seeking billions of dollars in damages. money they say the singer could have earned had he lived. casey wian, cnn, los angeles. >> more legal news to tell you. george zimmerman will not use a stand your ground defense at his murder trial next month. instead his lawyers plan to claim he shot and killed trayvon martin in self-defense. zimmerman has reportedly gained more than 100 pounds since he was first arrested. he is facing second degree murder charges when he goes on trial at the end of next month. >>> an alleged customer at a california starbucks is being credited with spotting a woman who left two bottles of poisoned orange juice on a store shelf. the unidentified hero alerted starbucks employees, and also had the pr

. >> president torres: excuse me doctor jackson. i want to make sure the camera is on you not on me. can they hear my voice? someone speaking in a want them to think i am being a ventriloquist for you. we made a phone call to toya moses, he was supposed to be involved in getting the building lease, i don't know to whom. i want to make sure you all understand that we are not going to - i am talking about we in bayview johannes point, will not allow anyone to take away what we have fought for. when this commission took over the southeast facility your responsibility, 100 -- circle, as well as the facility day care center. those belong to the community. for community use, not for other agencies to take over out buildings. if there are programs for our community, let us make the decision of what we want. -- i want to make sure you put that in your budget. come and get this honey. >> what would you like for us to order? >> i don't have taste or smell, since i had my operation. what i bring to you is not for doctor jackson; it is for the

michael jackson, big bucks in this thing. his family led by his mother, suing the promotion company that was putting him on a concert tour and a movie and all of that. they hired a doctor, dr. gave gas, he died. doctor convicted of manslaughter. >> conrads murray. >> bill: serving four years and now we go into the civil trial and you say wiehl? >> wrongful death. i think they have got a good shot maybe not the $40 billion they are asking for. >> against the concert promoter, they are not suing the doctor. >> they hirdz this doctor. they hired this doctor. >> bill: they hired him. >> knowing that jackson was just all messed up. they knew this doctor was not qualified that would give him the propofol. >> bill: how did they know the doctor was not qualified. >> if they didn't they should have. >> bill: how would they know that? >> dent have a license. >> he was also under investigation for a number of cases. so this is a man that was financially strapped. the concert promoter saw an opportunity to get dr. conrad murray come in.

. >> michael jackson's nephew coming to his uncle's defense after a dancer who once defended jackson accuses him of being a pedophile and sex offender. taj jackson reveals on twitter that he was abused by another offender and that michael jackson was his support system. dancer/choreographer wade robison accused jackson of performing sexual acts on him. >>> federal investigators are trying to find the source of a pair of threatening letters laced with deadly ricin, sent to targets in spokane, washington. the letters were intercepted by postal screeners. one was addressed to the spokane post office, and the other was addressed to a federal judge. the postal workers' union says the letters were both postmarked on tuesday, luckily no one was hurt. >>> new developments this morning, federal and state investigators in texas cannot figure out the cause of the deadly fire and explosion at the fertilizer plant last month. they've not ruled out the possibility that the fire was intentionally set. 15 people were killed, dozens injured, remember buildings in that 37-block area of the small town

phil jackson, the least known member of the jackson 5. listen to this, who's that tall white guy? standing next to tito? we all know national politics is-- but local government ain't bean bag, people. i don't know what any of that meant. just phrases i picked up from watching any random 30 seconds of chris matthews. but my point is this, even mayor, mayors can find themselves embroiled in scandal whether it is the way they react to local complaints about raise profiling of hispanics. >> what are you doing about latino community today. >> i might have tacos when i go home. (laughter) >> jon: i will never tire of taco mayor. like the snack he believes will ease the tension between his office and latino community, i can never get enough. (laughter) but the great thing about mayors is they can maintain the excentricities that get sanded off and focus grouped out of statewide or national politician, endearing policies like fear of large beverages. or being a nine and a half fingered bulgarian or having meat and cheese for a head. (laughter) guess which one of those mayors is not kosher

phil jackson. how are you? >> wait a minute, do you realize we're the same size right now. >> all right, the book is 11-- look at this one of these makes you the green lantern but where-- but you have two player rings from the knicks. >> that's right. >> where are they? >> they are not part of coaching. this is about leadership and coaching and that kind of stuff. those are warriorship and playing, right. >> but i am-- they are great. they are great rings. >> i have to say, so much of what this book is about is managing not these just larger-than-life physical people but the larger-than-life personalities. the chapters on the shack and kobe relationship seem especially tenuous, that each, you know, shaq and could bee both have strong personalities t seemed like navigate flag was one of the bigger challenges. >> it was probably one of the hardest challenges i had in coaching over all those years, 20 years that i coached. because there was always this little tension about my team, it's my team, play ball my style

. >> i'm kai jackson. here's what people are talk ing about. we begin with breaking news from montgomery county where a parking garage under con partially collapses on two men. denise is in the news room. >> reporter: wjz has just confirmed moments ago that one of those two workers trapped has died. sky chopper 13 is over the scene. a short time ago at the west field montgomery mall, it was just about 2:00 when a section of the parking garage collapsed. a go team from shock trauma is on the team to assist with the rescue as is the urban rescue team. the deck is under construction. >> we will continue to update you on this breaking story as more information becomes available. >>> the first of the oklahoma tornado victims are being laid to rest today as pounding rain hit the area, stalling the recovery process. edward lawrence reports for wjz from the heart of the destruction in moore, oklahoma. >> heavy rain and flooding added to the misery in moore, oklahoma today as the first of 24 tornado victims was laid to rest. family and friends gather fo

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jackson. candidate for senate in virginia. the president has said that we need to use a scalpel to cut the federal budget. i believe we need to use an ax. >> sir, your ax. >> okay. so more brown and less bizarre. well, i guess one out of two ain't bad. bishop e.w. jackson, a baptist preacher whose biggest political claim to fame before now was losing 95% of the vote during his senate run was enthusiastically chosen as the nominee for lieutenant governor at last saturday's convention. as for bobby jindal's assurances that they would dispense with the offensive and stupid comments, well, let's take a listen at what e.w. jackson has to say about reproductive choice. >> been more lethal to lives than the kkk ever was. >> military has been decimated by this lesbian, guy bisexual, transgender policy that has now been implemented. >> that's just the tip of the eww iceberg. give him a google to get to know e.w. jackson better. meanwhile, the guy above jackson at the top of the ticket need no introduct

jackson is full of hate. peggy fox reports. >> reporter: the three newly nominated virginia g.o.p. candidates reverend e. w. jackson for lieutenant governor, mark obenshain and ken cuccinelli greeted voters in fairfax. >> the ku klux klan did not do nearly as much to destroy black life as planned parenthood does. >> the democrat party and their black civil rights allies are partners in this genocide. >> homosexuality is a horrible sin. it poisons culture. it destroys families. >> reporter: state senator adam evan, the only open gay member of virginia's legislature says jackson's views are frightening. >> because i know very real virginians who moved out of virginia, others who won't come to virginia because of the anti- gay reputation we have. >> reporter: evan is one of several -- ebbin is one of several criticizing him as too severe. >> the idea that president obama is not a christian is laughable. >> it's shocking and ridiculous for a reverend to question others' religious beliefs and judge others. >> reporter: i spoke to both republican party chairmen and both said they could n

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