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cnn news 2011-07-24

Well, One day after Rupert Murdoch tried to repel the British assault on his empire, it's the prime minister's turn to face parliament. David Cameron, tainted by claims that he was too cozy with the media giant, it drew raucous responses in his appearance before the special session. 

What's the public expects is not petty political point scoring but a -- what -- what they want, what they deserve is concerted action to rise to the level of events and pledge to work together to sort this issue out once and for all. And it is in that spirit that I commend this statement to the house. 

Across Great Britain, public and political outrage has been boiling over claims of police bribery, phone hacking and a heartless abuse of power. 

James and Rupert Murdoch walked into parliament knowing that they had to tamp down some of that public anger. 

So did they succeed? Atika Shubert in London now. 

Atika, what are the people saying on the streets? 

Well, the remark that most people are really focused on is one of the MPs, Tom Watson, really grilled Rupert Murdoch and ultimately very bluntly asked him, do you think you are ultimately responsible for this whole fiasco? And Murdoch said, no. That it was the people underneath him who he had hired and who he had trusted. That's where the fault lies. 

Now where do we go from here is now the question. Remember, there are actually two police investigations ongoing. One on phone hacking, one on police payments, and as Cameron pointed out in a statement to parliament today, there is a judicial inquiry now going to be under way and in 12 months' time we do expect to see a report on that. 

And both James Murdoch and Rupert Murdoch have said they will cooperate fully on that and they will be under oath. So we can expect to see them in a similar situation pretty soon. 

Checking stories "Cross Country." 

Kid in Memphis, Tennessee, may be doing a little celebrating today. That's because the school district is keeping schools close until the city ponies up 140 million bucks. Schools are scheduled to open August 8th. 

In New York it's mangled and partially burned but the fire truck from Ladder Company 3 is returning to Ground Zero. It's been almost 10 years since it was used to respond to the scene of September 11th attacks. The truck is going to be permanently installed in the 9/11 Memorial Museum. 

And talk about a close call. A woman had to be rescued from the Niagara River right near the falls. She'd been hiking along the shore and actually slipped into the water. Luckily for her there was a tour boat nearby that swooped in for the rescue.      

Couples supposed to have each other's back, stand up for each other, defend them. Well, we know one wife who takes that very seriously. Here's Jeanne Moos. 

Wendi Murdoch was easy to pick out in pink. When you're 38 years younger than your husband, it's nice to rub his back and pour him water before he testifies. She even restrained him when he pounded the table too much. 

But she didn't restrain herself when this happened. An activist pulled a foam-filled plastic pie plate out of a plastic bag. Some of that foam landed on cnn producer Jonathan Wald as the attacker --

Plunges it squarely into the face of Rupert Murdoch.

And that's when his wife Wendi whacked the guy, even picked up the plate.

Hit him back with it. It was all extremely dramatic. 

Sort of reminds us of the woman who used her purse to try to knock the gun out of a hostage-taker's hand at a school board meeting. 

This is the weapon. 

Apart from the shaving cream, all Rupert Murdoch got was a tongue-lashing from his attacker. 

"You're a greedy billionaire." 

The activist who British media identified as Johnnie Marbles had just sent a tweet saying, "It is a far better thing that I do now than I have ever done before. Hash tag, splat."

It may have been more than a close shave for Rupert Murdoch, but at least he avoided major embarrassment by getting his face full off camera. 

Unlike pie targets like Ann Coulter --

Oh. 

And Ralph Nader who managed to throw his pie back at his attacker. Bill Gates got splattered and then his image got splattered for eternity all over the Internet.

Anita Bryant got pied by a gay demonstrator. 

At least it's a fruit pie.

Let's pray for him right now. 

First her husband prayed for the attacker, then he went outside and splattered him back.

Wendi Murdoch was praised by a member of parliament. 

Your wife has a very good left hook.

Or was it her right? Regardless, a prankster temporarily changed her Wikipedia entry to say, "Wendi used her ninja background to ward off an attacker. The move is now being referred to as the Crouching Wendi, Hidden Dragon."

After the attack, Wendi carefully cleaned off her husband. 

Carefully wiping the foam off his jacket and his face. She was smiling and seemed quite happy that she had managed to score a blow. 

We watched her crossing her arms and crossing her legs, but it was the right cross we won't forget.