reynard writes that pita is so critical of anyone who is accused of unethical treatment of animals even before due process is granted. they should protest outside their own headquarters. eric had this houston writes, it does make them appear hypocritical but since they usually appear to be total lunatics this is an improvement. this may be the first thought out responsible thing they have ever done. and michael in phoenix writes sure sounds like it. we have two adopted cats and one dog in three years. terrific pets but they act just like children. if you want to read more about this, you ll find it on my blog at cnn.com/kafcaffertyfile. he s offered a variety of
i think i ll get it. you have a guilty laugh. reporter: jeanne moos, cnn, new york. happening now, fire and angry looting in chile. shotted earthquake survivors struggled without power, food or water. this hour, a shaky nation tries to claw its way out of c catastrop catastrophe. plus, a community turns into a ghost town. developers lose millions of dollars and the people facing financial ruin blame a broken promise by the pentagon. and who would pay $1,000 for a toothbrush? you may have done just that if you ve been in a hospital. and we re all paying for it as health care costs spiral out of control. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. in chile right now, some hungry needy earthquake victims are
taking matters into their own hands. we re hearing growing reports of looting and angry clashes with security guards trying to hold them back. in some cases, stores have been torched. two days after that massive 8.8 massive earthquake, the official death toll now stand at 723. and more than 2 million people are affected one way or another. cnn s karl penhaul is in the quake zone. reporter: we re on main street in a fishing town in south central chile and we re on the main street in the town. and look what s here. now, that s a 70 ton sardine fishing vessel and it was washed ashore about 600 yards, in fact, by a tsunami wave that followed about an hour after that earthquake. and the inhabitants say that as soon as they heard that earthquake, they ran out of their homes and headed for higher ground. that was, they say, against advice for members of the navy
$10 billion now for unemployment benefit. if we spent that much so there wouldn t be unemployed why are we spending more on unemployment? he s trying to make a point. first off, let s be clear, it was george w. bush, republican president, who asked for the bailout of wall street, fought for the bailout, wrote the bailout of wall street in the sense of presenting it to congress and signed it. and got senator barack obama to vote for it. he inherited it from himself. bush didn t bail out wall street? you re sticking to that story, alex? they suck up to big business in wall street and when working class people like i used to be before i hit the jackpot with cnn, when they lose their jobs, jim bunning says tough. he s not the face the republican party wants. you don t want to be seen as hurting the unemployed. that s not a plus for
dubai police confirmed to us that mahmoud al-mabhouh was drugged before he was suffocated. the assassins used a drug which basically relaxes a patient s muscles during surgery or when they are on a ventilator. so dubai police tell cnn what they have done is injected him with this particular drug and then they have suffocated him. wolf? was the intention apparently to make it look like a natural death as opposed to an assassination? this is what dubai police are telling us. medically it would make sense. the fact that they are planning to make it look like a natural death thinking they could make an easy getaway and in that respect maybe they wouldn t have to worry about the extensive security camera footage we have seen. but the fact is they are picked up so many times on the security camera footage. the system is extensive within