now. i was looking down from the airplane, and it seemed like everything wasn t real. what s important for me to say is just thank you to everyone who s believed in me, who s defended me, who has supported my family. i just want my family s the most important thing to me right now. and i just want to go and be with them. so thank you for being there for me. emotional scene. so amanda knox just a few moments ago. she arrived back in america. joining us now in seattle live is cnn s drew griffin. a pretty relieved and obviously very emotional knox family. where do they go from here? what are the next few days going to hold for them? well, i think, piers, they re going to try to literally hide, to find some home where the media won t be staking out and watch every move that amanda knox makes. in that statement she gave, she s still extremely emotional. remember, she s had no contact with the media or the press while she was in that italian prison. the italians wouldn t allo
all the world. everywhere i travel overseas, i hear about america being a leader in freedom from young people and business people. i get pleas for america to rise again because they still admire american ingenuity and, yes, even after the financial crisis, they admire american financial power. today the ultimate image of american power, not an fa-18. no. it is this. the iphone 4s. it had its own press conference today to debut. we did the numbers. there are 128 million iphones in the world right now and there isn t a child anywhere i ve met who doesn t want one. in china, actually, i think iphone is a synonym for america. and that s why every night we re counting up. we re going to count how many days since america lost its top credit rating. it has been 60 d dand our goal is to get it back because psychologically, it matters. so to get there, we have enlisted a team of 0 of the most important business leaders in america. it is called the strike team. the strike team members
supported us. and especially amanda. yeah. all i can say is, again, thank you. because of the letters and the calls and just amazing support that we received from people all over the world, especially here in seattle, that we ve been able to endure and that we ve been able to, you know, make sure amanda had the support she needed. there there s no way we can thank everybody. so here individually, so here s our way to just say thank you. i d like to add in one more thing. we would also like to send our appreciation to our italian lawye lawyers. they did a fantastic job on that side of the pond and ted was phenomenal on this side of the pond. and obviously we couldn t have done it without you. so appreciate that. do you want to talk? yeah. ed and i will take any questions if anybody has any. there s a couple hands over there. how are you going to hear it? [ inaudible question ] i can t hear. do you want to talk? amanda! they re reminding me to speak in english. becaus
and good morning, everybody. it s wednesday, october 5th. a very cool, crisp day here in the northeast. welcome to american morning, everyone. lots of news to tell you about today. first, amanda knox is back on american soil. what a homecoming it was. knox touched down in seattle shortly after 8:00 last night, p.m. she thanked everyone who supported drew griffin was there. what was it like? reporter: before she even spoke, before anyone spoke, you could just see the relief on their faces. first the attorney addressed the crowd. if the if there were questions. mom and dad addressed the crowd? any questions for them? no. everybody just wanted to hear from her. amanda knox, and when she came to the podium, she said she had to remember, i have to speak in english now. i m really overwhelmed right now. reporter: after spending four years in an italian prison, amanda knox could hardly believe she was back home in seattle. i was looking down from the airplane and it seem
do you think they are going to find a deal? i think they are asking the cast to take a $200,000 pay cut. it s hard to walk away from that kind of money, especially when you don t have to even put on clean clothes to go to work. must be nice, don t have to deal with makeup or nice clothes or anything. steve, thanks so much for coming on. here we go. hour two, i m brooke baldwin. city and the military gets polled and a lot happening in the west. time to play reporter roulette. alison kosik, let s start with you. we ve been talking about the debit card fees and now checking fees? explain? we re being feed to death between the air lies and the banks. city bank is now jumping on the bandwagon. if you don t carry a $60,000 in your banking account, it will cost you $20 a month the regulations are tighter on banks and making it tougher for them to lend money. some senate democrats are saying, switch if you don t want to pay it or go to the credit unions as well. that s another