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Made other banks fail. banks that were fine the day before. were not fine the day after. heres the thing. the banks are even bigger today than they were then, before the crisis. this graph from bloomberg "business week" tells the story. in 06, the five biggest banks had $6 trillion in assets. today, they have $8.5 trillion. thats more than half what the entire u.s. economy produces in a single year. so when folks say they want to break up the big banks, its because they believe a series of small...

secret no longer. brand-new information this morning on what we will see during the olympics opening ceremonies friday night. details leaking out from london. two early hints, james bond and harry potter. "newsroom" begins right now. and good morning to you. im carol costello. thanks for being with us. we begin with a single stor that captures both the heartbreak and the hope of the shooting rampage in colorado. this morning, americans are rallying to help this man, shooting victim...

involving the colorado theater massacre. a law enforcement official briefed on the investigation tells cnn police and the fbi have discovered a package in the university of colorado mail room that appears to have been mailed by the suspected shooter, james holmes. cnns ed lavandera is in aurora for us. ed, what do we know about this package? >> reporter: well, were still trying to gather information on what exactly is inside that package, wolf. but as you mentioned that law enforcement...

Have show an uptick in gun ownership. although we dont yet know if that is a statistical blip or the beginning of a reversal in the trip. this map, which we made with data from the new england journal of medicine, compares a number of suicides by gun ownership rates. its four times as high in states with a lot of firearms. even when you factor in suicide by other means, any means at all, states with a high rate of gun ownership still experience twice as many suicide. gun ownership and suicide ar...

That line way up there, above all others, that line shows deaths from assault in the u.s. were an extremely violent country, its true, but look at this. were not nearly so violent as we used to be. our assault rate peaked in the late 1970s, and awful events like aurora notwithstanding have been falling continuously ever since. within america, the south is by far the most violent region. it has the most deaths from assault. then comes the wests where the shootings happens followed by the midwest ...

Healey, a social yol -- sociologist from duke university. they show deaths from assault in 23 develops nations not including our own. that line way up there, above all others, that line shows deaths from assault in the u.s. were an extremely violent country, its true, but look at this. were not nearly so violent as we used to be. our assault rate peaked in the late 1970s, and awful events like aurora notwithstanding have been falling continuously ever since. within america, the south is by far t...

Although we dont yet know if that is a statistical blip or the beginning of a reversal in the trip. this map, which we made with data from the new england journal of medicine, compares a number of suicides by gun ownership rates. its four times as high in states with a lot of firearms. even when you factor in suicide by other means, any means at all, states with a high rate of gun ownership still experience twice as many suicide. gun ownership and suicide are in the evidence links. and so are gu...

Spanish bond yields because it would be bad if greece had to leave the euro, but it would be survival. there is no world where spain goes down and the euro endures. if spain goes down, the euro is going down. spanish bond yields, the thing you need to remember is the higher a bond yield is, the higher a country has to pay when they borrow money. spain cant afford to borrow the money necessary to finance itself, and the eurozone is going down. and that means our economy might be going down, too. ...

Would be bad if greece had to leave the euro, but it would be survivable. there is no world where spain goes down and the euro endures. if spain goes down, the euro is going down. spanish bond yields, the thing you need to remember is the higher a bond yield is, the more a country is having to pay when they borrow money. if bond yields keep going up, then spain cant afford to borrow the money necessary to finance itself, and the eurozone is going down. and that means our economy might be going d...

face-to-face with an accused killer. this is the publics first look. james holmes, his hair dyed red and orange, looking dazed and sitten unshaven and handcuffed beside one of the public defenders assigned to his case. he didnt speak. he didnt look at any of the family members. he never took their eyes off him. more family members watched in an overflow courtroom on closed circuit television. want to remind you of exactly what this young man is accused of doing. striding into the darkn...