now my take. the european crisis you have been reading about in the newspapers is worth watching very carefully. it has now morphed into something much bigger than a european crisis. it could batter the entire global economy, which is pretty fragile anyway. you read a lot about greece. the real problem is italy. you see, greece is a nano state and makes up about 2% of the european union s gross domestic problem. italy, on the other hand, is one of the seven or eight largest economies in the world. its debts are greater than those of spain, portugal, ireland, and greece combined. and it has long been governed in an almost cartoonishly bad manner. italy is too big to fail, but it also might be too big to bail. even germany may not be able to credibly bail it out along with all the other troubled countries. so what can be done? i don t think the leading proposals will work. creating eurobonds or giving brussels broader powers to tax and spend. those things won t happen. govern
former imf cheap dominique strauss-kahn says something inappropriate and of moral weakness happened in that new york hotel suite in may. but he says it was not violent or aggressive. he gave his first post sex scandal today in paris and i spoke with jim bittermann about that a short time ago. reporter: we were expecting a very short interview, but it went on for about 20 minutes, covered a lot of topics including what happened in new york, also what he s facing here, what his political future is, and all that sort of thing. but on the specific case in new york, he gave some details, but not a lot. here is the way he looked and sounded tonight as he was talking about the case in new york. translator: what happened? what happened was was neither violent nor constraint included in this, nor aggression, nor any act or any illicit act. that s what the prosecutor has said. what happened was not only an inappropriate relationship, but more than that, an error, a mistake. rep
that plane to go down, obviously the focus is on the tail of that aircraft, almost immediately after the crash, photographic evidence emerged that a piece of that tail came off during mid-flight and that s something that ntsb confirmed during their news conferences and when crews went to take a look at the debris field, they actually found a chunk of the airplane and ntsb officials talked about that yesterday. take a look. it just happened so fast, a split-second event. you think, is this it? am i going to die? reporter: obviously, that was not the right sound but we want to talk to you a little bit about the victims. we got an update of the 69 people who were taken to the hospital, and treated for injuries, 31 patients remain in local hospitals and nine patients in critical condition. and, of course, we know that nine people died as well. i know that you have more information on that, fred. that is incredible. that s right. we know that number is at nine right now, but
eyewitness. this is bes bessi murphy, a nur far west virginia. what did you see? i was further away. i was in the pits area. at the point i did not see the actual impact. what i had heard was all call for medical personnel as they were asking for people to leave. so i responded, and when i got on the scene, they were quickly within just a couple of minutes from my time to get to the area, they already had the people triaged, had the ambulances available, had the situation pretty much under control. they still had people looking for families and friends, people were still in shock, so they were still trying to get people out of the area but as far as emergency responders, they had the situation pretty well under control. that s why we wanted to talk to you because you re a nurse back home in west virginia. you came here on vacation to see the races. and you chipped in to help, essentially. exactly. they had asked for all medical personnel. there were others that responde