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Silver banks whale sanctuary. >> literally on the last day of the trip we stumbled onto a young male and a young female and they were courting, and they were oblivious to us. they just let us do what we wanted. they werent full-grown adults. they were, i guess for lack of a better analogy, they were teenagers, and they were amorous teenagers, and they were cavorting like teenagers do. >> but, remember, these arent like your typical adolescents. humpback whales are one of the largest species on t...

the occupy movement has gone global. what began as a public demonstration in a small park in lower manhattan today spread to cities around the world. you see it there on your screen. it was a worldwide display of sympathy and solidarity with the protesters of occupy wall street. there was tokyo and japan, london in to uk, rome, sidney, hong kong, indonesia to name a few. most were peaceful. though some arrests were reported. rome, however, stands out as the exception today. thousands o...

anarchists have infiltrated this peaceful demonstration. they came to rome today with the sole purpose of butting heads with the police and thats what they are doing now. the area is thick with smoke and tear gas. molotov cocktails, explosions are echoing on the cobblestones of the city. it is really quite a tense situation. a lot of the protesters have gone home. a lot of an ar -- i dont think the night is over yet. there have been confirmation of two serious injuries. one man lost ha...

Yeah, 195 -- 249 million. the odds of being killed by contact with hornets, wasps or bees one in 79,000. we are not actually looking so good here on this satellite thing. >> reporter: comforting, holy smokes now you make me nervous, jon scott. ive got to call my wife and tell her to get back in the bunker. when you think of what happened in 1979 with sky lab, that was 75 tons and the current satellite is six tons. if we say this current satellite is the size of the school bus sky lab was like th...

understand this financial crisis was the worst since the great depression, but ultimately they say, look, hes the president. we think he has good intentions, but were impatient and we want to see things move faster. i understand that. im sympathetic to it. well keep on putting forward ideas that will be good for the country. were going to need a partner from congress. on the other side of the political spectrum, listen to what governor rick perry said in iowa and hes not backing off....

word. >> the truth is that the president wanted a blank check six months ago and he wants a blank check today. this is just not going to happen. >> as makeshift memorials spring up across norway, police and the public are searching for answers to fridays deadly attacks. the lawyer and suspect, anders breivik, the lawyer said his client is in insane. the suspects father, who doesnt want to be identified, agrees. >> translator: no, ill never have more contact with him in my darkest momen...

Conditions on the government it lends money to. >> not only are taxpayers in borrowing countries paying for that salary but theyre having to pay the costs in a second way, which is they have to undertake the policies the imf demands which often hurt particularly ordinary working class people. >> reporter: an imf spokesman responds pay increases for imf officials are below the rate of inflation. but dominique strauss-kahns perks dont stop at his straight paycheck. one of strauss-kahns best perks,...

Thats more than president obama and strauss-kahn pays for taxes on it. this at a time when one critic says the institution imposes stark conditions on the governments it lends money to. >> not only are taxpayers paying for that salary, but then theyre having to pay the cost in a second way which is that they have to undertake the policies that the imf demands which often hurt ordinary working class people. >> reporter: an imf spokesman responds pay increases are below the rate of inflation. but ...

jeannie, happy doomsday to you. >> reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. >> thats it for us. it is 9:00 a.m. on the east coast, 6:00 a.m. out west. good morning to you. im carol costello in for kyra phillips. the schwarzenegger scandal keeps getting more shocking. his child with his wife, maria and his secret child with his housekeeper were born just days apart. president obama getting ready to deliver a major speech on how the united states will deal with the new middle east. sanc...

syrias president and his cronies. new sanctions as the u.s. calls for an end to the security crackdown. waiting for water levels to fall, for thousands of people forced out of their homes by the mississippi floods, life becomes a waiting game. and the disaster that rocked an economy to its foundations, japan sinks back into its third recession in a decade. dominique strauss-kahn has resigned as head of the international monetary fund to focus on clearing his name. his decision fo...