NFL Players, Owners Agree on Deal; Norway's Terror Suspect in Court; Death Talks Hit Impasse; Cause of Winehouse's Death Unknown; Congressman at Center of Sex Scandal; Debt Fears Haunt Markets; Norway Survivors Tell their Stories
KYRA PHILLIPS, CNN ANCHOR: Hi, guys. Good morning. We actually are starting out with two breaking news stories this morning. First of all, the NFL, it looks like, they might have come together on a deal here. NFL.com is now reporting that the players and the owners have agreed on something that will end the lockout. We're following it right now. We're just getting the information in. That means that the players vote will happen, I guess, a little later today in more of a formal setting. Training camp could start as early as Wednesday now, we've been told. David Mattingly has been following this for us. He's been live out of Atlanta every day, at least he was last week when those negotiations were taking place. So, David, did you just get word that something came forward just moments ago?</s>DAVID MATTINGLY, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Reading and finding out now is that the NFL players and the owners did come to an agreement in the wee hours of the morning. And, bottom line, they're going to play some football. Exactly what the owners were asking for last week when they came out of their meeting and had a 31-0 vote in favor of this agreement. And the players still have to vote on this. But it's largely looked at as a formality, that it is going to go through. And the fans will only miss, so far, one game this season. The first game of the preseason, which was going to be in Canton, Ohio, the Hall of Fame game. That appears to be the only casualty of this lockout. So players will be able to start going back to their stadiums, going back to work Tuesday, Wednesday. They report for training camp this weekend.</s>PHILLIPS: So, are you saying the ink is dry? I mean, it's definitely -- all the details have been hammered out? Done deal for sure?</s>MATTINGLY: What we're being told is that the vote today by the players is being looked at largely as a formality, suggesting that the terms have been agreed on and they're ready to play some football.</s>PHILLIPS: Got it. OK. All right. David Mattingly, appreciate it. Thanks so much for calling in. That happens just within -- about the last 60 seconds. Also, we're getting word that the check-in and the ticketing area at American Airlines at JFK, that area has been locked down while an investigation is going on into a suspicious package. The bomb squad apparently is on the scene, investigating this unattended bag at the entrance of that terminal. American Airlines and the port authority of New York and New Jersey have confirmed this for us. We're going to keep an eye on that story as well. All right. It's getting busy already. Two minutes after the hour. We're also talking about Norway. That confessed killer is now going to court. It's not allowed -- actually you'll remember it's impacted the entire world as of Friday and journalists were actually blocked from this morning's court appearance by Anders Behring Breivik. He reportedly wanted to explain himself for the terror attacks which he claims to have carried out alone. And this is what we know as Friday. Ninety-three people are dead. Seven people died in a massive explosion outside government buildings in Oslo. Eighty-six people were massacred at that political youth retreat. And police say that he just rounded up the youngsters, opened fire. They all began to scatter as he continued to hunt them down and that he shot them. Bodies were lined up along the beach and that caused a lot of the panicked teens to try and escape any way they could on that island. CNN's Michael Holmes has been covering it for us since it happened. He's outside the courthouse in Oslo. Michael, bring us up to date about today.</s>MICHAEL HOLMES, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yes, Kyra, as you said, Anders Breivik was meant to appear here. We were meant to be out -- go in. The media was going to have access. There was even talk of a video feed from the courthouse. Well, police went to the judge and said they wanted it to be a closed hearing. Why? Well, because they haven't ruled out completely that he may have had accomplices when he carried out those attacks, the bombing in Oslo and the attack on the island, on all those kids. Now what they said was they feared that if it was broadcast, if the media were in there, if he did have accomplices, he would be able to send some sort of message to them on the outside. And so the judge agreed to close the hearing. We didn't get in. And we haven't heard exactly what's happened. I can tell you that his lawyer has left the building. We saw that with our own eyes. And we are now waiting for the judge to speak to the media and give them a sense of what his ruling has been. We've just got an e-mail now from our producer, Jonathan Walden there, who said that the media is being told that Judge Kim Heger will read his ruling at 3:15 local time. That's at 9:15 where you are in Atlanta. East Coast time. And that's when we'll hear exactly what's happened. Before the hearing, his lawyer spoke to us and said that he expected that Breivik would be remanded in custody. That's pretty much what this was, Kyra, it was a remand hearing, what in the states you'd call an arraignment hearing, to decide whether he's going to be kept in custody, would he get bail, and of course he's not going to get bail, especially since he's confessed to this. Paradoxically, of course, while he's confessed to it, he's also said he's going to plead not guilty. Why? So that he can have a platform to spread his views about Muslims in Europe and their domination, as he saw, increasing influence in Europe, in politics and society -- Kyra.</s>PHILLIPS: Now the victims. There was a moment of silence this morning, right?</s>HOLMES: Yes, there was. At noon. I was right here when it happened. Everything shut down. The trams that are running just behind our cameraman there, they all stopped. Everyone stood, stopped still a real moment here. It has been a somber few days. There's been remembrance services and masses and the king and queen, the prince, the princess, all the political leaders have been out and about at these services. I was up near the lake where a hotel has been turned into a welfare center for the parents and the survivors of the attack on the island up there. I'll tell you the mood up there, very, very somber, Kyra, as you would expect.</s>PHILLIPS: Yes. Michael Holmes, we'll keep talking this morning as we follow the story. The suspect in court. All right. Less than 15 minutes from now, we're going to actually hear from a man who confronted homegrown terrorism right here in the United States. And he's going to share some of his hard- learned lessons from Oklahoma City to the 1996 Summer Olympics. In Washington, the debt talks bogged down and the deadline pressure builds up. We're now less than eight days from the deadline to raise the debt ceiling. On August 2nd, the nation could run out of money, unable to pay its bills. And that threat of default has sent world markets sinking overnight. Investors who have long viewed the U.S. as a safe bet are now seeing the confidence shaken. Let's get straight to the White House and Dan Lothian. Dan, President Obama has canceled two fundraisers for tonight.</s>DAN LOTHIAN, CNN WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT: Right.</s>PHILLIPS: And I guess that pretty much signals just how urgent this has become.</s>LOTHIAN: That's right. It's very urgent here. And in fact, over the weekend on "STATE OF THE UNION," you heard Secretary of Treasury Timothy Geithner talk about how the nation is almost or in this debate, they're almost out of runway. And of course we know what happens when a plane gets to the end of the runway and doesn't lift off. So there is this big sense of urgency here that they get a deal done. And that's why over the weekend you saw the president called the bipartisan group of congressional leaders here to the White House to try to figure out, you know, what can be done to raise the debt ceiling. And then yesterday, again, the president meeting with Democratic leaders here at the White House. One thing is certain among Democrats and the president himself is that they don't want any kind of short- term deal to raise the debt ceiling that doesn't run through the end of 2012. Why? Well, first of all, they don't believe that any short-term deal will really settle some of the concerns of the financial markets. And secondly, if you have to then do this again in the midst of an election cycle, it would be very difficult. If it's difficult now, imagine how much more difficult it will be then. So that's why the president wants to get something done that takes it through the end of 2012 -- Kyra.</s>PHILLIPS: All right. Got it. Dan Lothian at the White House. Dan, thanks. Investors get to show their anxieties at the bottom of the hour when trading gets under way on Wall Street. Ali Velshi is going to join us out in 9:30 Eastern time to show what the debt crisis means to you and of course the hidden costs of the impasse. So are you ready to hear the hotel maid's side of the story? The one who famously accused Dominique Strauss-Kahn of sexually assaulting her is now talking to the media. Nafissatou Diallo gave interviews to "Newsweek" and to ABC News. And this is how she described what happened.</s>NAFISSATOU DIALLO, HOTEL MAID: I was, like, stop, stop this. Stop this. But he would say nothing. He kept pushing me, pushing me, pushing me to the hallway, back to the hallway, keep pushing me. I was so afraid. I was so scared.</s>ROBIN ROBERTS, ABC NEWS: When did you realize that he was one of the most powerful men in the world?</s>DIALLO: I was watching the news and then they say he's going to be the next president of France. Then I say oh, my God. And I was crying. I said they're going to kill me. I said they're going to kill me. I'm going to die.</s>PHILLIPS: She also denies pursuing the case for money. She says all she wanted was for Strauss-Kahn to know there are just some places you cannot use your money or influence. You probably heard by now, Grammy Award-winning singer Amy Winehouse died over the weekend. No cause of death has been released. But if you're a Winehouse fan you probably already know she's been in and out of rehab for years. She even canceled a recent tour after stumbling through her songs on opening night. Zain Verjee joins us live from London. So, Zain, what are police saying about her death right now?</s>ZAIN VERJEE, CNN INTERNATIONAL ANCHOR: Police are saying that they are going to be conducting an autopsy today. But that probably won't get the results today. We'll get the toxicology report some time soon over the course of the week at least. But she was found dead at her home in Camden here in London on Saturday night. Fans, friends, and family totally shocked, even though she had been abusing drugs and many people said that this would be the inevitable end. People are just really shocked, they're laying pictures and flowers, even cigarettes and drinks there, too. But they really are startled. Take a look at the newspaper headlines. The "Guardian" has this. "Album sales surge as fans pay tribute to Amy Winehouse, a great British soul." "Fans of Amy Winehouse," it says, "who died on Saturday afternoon have honored the singer not only with tributes and flowers but by buying her music. Her album 'Back to Black' and several of her singles have seen a surge in sales." Then, Kyra, look at the "International Herald Tribune," it says, "Troubled British pop singer is found dead at 27." It goes on to say, "As much as her misfortunes eventually took on a sense of predictability, she was a fresh voice with a novel take on pop history." And finally the actor and comedian Russell Brand, Kyra, had this to say. It's getting a lot of attention on the Internet, too. He says, "When you love someone who suffers from the disease of addiction, you await the phone call. I think the world has been waiting for that phone call about Amy Winehouse, but never -- at least for me -- thinking it would actually happen. It did happen and it's sad." Kyra, her parents were outside her house meeting with fans just a short time ago. They said thank you to everyone there and said that Amy was always all about love. One of the reports that came out, too, was that she had lunch with her mom just the day before. And the last thing she said to her mom was, I love you -- Kyra.</s>PHILLIPS: Lot of talent, you know. That's the message. So many people fight with demons and they can't win.</s>VERJEE: Yes.</s>PHILLIPS: Zain, thanks. Congress wrestles with the debt limit, one Democratic congressman wrapped up in a sex scandal. David Wu of Oregon is accused of making sexual advances toward the daughter of a longtime campaign donor. Political editor Mark Preston joining us now from Washington. So, Mark, do we know exactly what allegedly happened? And what do you think? An ethics probe?</s>MARK PRESTON, CNN SENIOR POLITICAL EDITOR: Well, you know, Kyra, we don't exactly know the details. What we do know is that the "Oregonian" newspaper on Friday evening, late Friday evening, reported a story that David Wu had this unwanted sexual encounter with a young girl, a girl who is said to be the daughter of a longtime friend, a longtime campaign donor. Now we also know that House Speaker Nancy -- rather Democratic leader Nancy Pelosi last night put out a statement saying she will ask for an ethics probe to look into Mr. Wu's allegations. This is very, very telling of where Democrats think this is going at this point. They certainly do not want another sex scandal along the lines of what we saw with Anthony Weiner, Kyra. So David Wu is in a lot of trouble right now. The seven-time congressman from Oregon.</s>PHILLIPS: Well, we've been following the writing out of Oregon, obviously, Mark. It doesn't look like this is the only time he's been accused of this type of behavior.</s>PRESTON: No. He has had a history of having erratic behavior, erratic actions. In fact, during the last campaign, his aides were said to want to take him off the campaign trail because they couldn't trust him out in public. In fact he even sent this photo right here, a very bizarre photo, to his campaign aides right around Halloween. It shows him there in a tiger costume. Now there was no explanation of why he did that. It raised a lot of eyebrows. You know he went on to say afterwards that he was under a lot of stress. He was raising his children by himself. He had the stress of a campaign and he also had lost his father and he was seeking some medical help. But still, David Wu is not known for -- not unknown for controversy and certainly this is the biggest one he's having to face right now -- Kyra.</s>PHILLIPS: All right. Mark Preston out of Washington. Mark, thanks. We're going to have your next political update in about an hour. And a reminder for all the latest political news, just go to our Web site, CNNPolitics.com. The Norway attacks, the work of a homegrown terrorists, and here in the U.S. we've seen it happen before. So what has a former director of the FBI so concerned about our safety? That's coming up after the break. And out in the wilderness on a survival skill course and brutally attacked by a bear. What happened to the Alaskan teen when we go "Cross Country."