VELSHI: Ten minutes until the top of the hour. Here's what you need to know to start your day.</s>VELSHI (voice-over): Dozens dead in Baghdad bombings overnight. Police say four car bombs and nine roadside bombs went off within two hours of each other killing at least 63 people. A defense department investigation into an airstrike that killed 24 Pakistanis has found U.S. forces acted in self-defense. So, the agency also adds there was poor coordination between the two militaries. Pakistan has repeatedly insisted the airstrike near the Afghan border was deliberate. Nine days now until a tax hike, and House Republicans walking out of an effort by Democrats to force a vote on extending the payroll tax. House Speaker John Boehner saying members still want it extended for the whole year, not just for two months. Syrian rebels are asking the U.N. to help stop, quote, "acts of genocide" in their country. In the last two days, rebels say more than 250 people have been killed in a government crackdown on protesters. The Arab league is expected to send monitors into Syria today. Wal-Mart pulling a batch of baby formula off its shelves after a 10-day-old Missouri boy died from a rare bacterial infection. The manufacturer of Enfamil says the formula tested negative for bacteria before it was shipped. Health investigators are also checking other factors like the water that was used to prepare the formula. Arizona sheriff, Joe Arpaio, has been slapped with a lawsuit from a Mexican woman who says his officers abused her while she was pregnant. She clams officers kept her shackled while she was in labor. Arpaio also faces federal allegations of discriminating against Latinos. A man thought to be a victim of serial killer, John Wayne Gacy, is alive. Ted Zolb (ph) vanished back in 1976. His car found abandoned near Gacy's home. He says he disappeared on his own, running away from the stress of a divorce.</s>VELSHI (on-camera): That is the news you need to know. AMERICAN MORNING is back right after this.
DOD, Afghan Airstrike Was Self Defense