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Jon: and, nina, wall street doesnt have a lot of fans right now among the american people in general, but wall street -- im sorry, congress at record lows in terms of peoples opinion. and this is a bunch of congressmen and an administration that cant balance the nations budget. so theyre supposed to rewrite financial regulations? >> again, you can step back and say, jon, look, you know, lets, lets find, lets look at a way to what they call reduce systemic risk in the system. lets find a way so t...

Because theyre trying to spend their money on food and shelter and waiting for a trip back home. its rough. its costing potentially hundreds of millions of dollars for new york city tourism alone. jane: rick, i was just reading some of the reports that the people that were stranded there couldnt actually get to their luggage that they had checked because it was still in the cargo hold, so they couldnt even get to clean clothes and toothbrushes. is that still the case? >> reporter: we saw a coupl...

Jon: breaking news this hour on that volcano in iceland thats been paralyzing air travel worldwide. hello, im jon scott. jane and im jane skinner. the british government plans to reopen some u.k. air space tomorrow morning. in the meantime, were just learning that germany is giving lufthansa airlines the green light to fly about 15,000 passengers home. still look at these pictures, this huge ash cloud is leaving millions of people around the world stranded. cost to the aviation industry? more th...

Column. he was impressed to see these ice blocks flying in the sky for hundreds of meters just below the helicopter. really, really ice. jon: right. the ice blocks being hurled out of the crater. well, they are some incredible pictures, and we very much appreciate you sharing them with us. stay safe as you go back into the volcano in the next hour or so, marco fulle, thank you. >> yeah, yeah. we are flying in one hour, in fact. jon: wow. good for you. jane: would you do it, mr. pilot? jon: i wou...

Record about that, look, thats the president of the united states, i was showing respect for the office. just this last week this big republican-backed bill in the florida legislature which governor crist had indicated he was going to support, and this was very popular amongst conservative republican florida voters, and that was it would tie teacher pay to test scores and also eliminate tenure for all new teachers. this is wildly popular amongst republican conservative circles. however, after ab...

Suspects, william scott, whos 21, eleanor black, whos 26. we dont know the relationship between them and the mom, but police wanted them as well in this whole counterfeit thing they were trying to bust up, and now apparently they have this little boy. you see his description there, brown hair, brown eyes. he was wearing a black and yellow pittsburgh steelers jersey and black and white and red sneakers. those are a lot of colors on him. again, we dont know the circumstances or relationship betwee...

Jon: "happening now," take a look at the top box. senator barbara boxer getting some high-profile help in her re-election battle. president obama flies to los angeles to speak at several of her fund raising events. in the middle, two survivors have been pulled out of rubble five days after that massive earthquake in china. the death toll there nearly 2,000. and in the bottom box, earnest van dyke has won his record ninth boston marathon today, his third consecutive marathon win. congratulations....

Different debates on this. this is focused on derivatives trading. the football instruments that grew out of -- financial instruments that grew out of this crisis, theres still some confusion about how deep were getting into derivatives and regulating these types of instruments. jane: jenna, thank you. well continue to watch the numbers. jon? jon: a search underway at this hour, jane, for a 3-year-old florida boy whos not been seen in nearly a day. his name is nathan yell fawns. he was last spot...

Quite impressive, as you said, as you will see. jon: well, i know that its difficult to get a shot of lightning anytime, but to do it under those circumstances did you know that you had the shot when you first took it? >> yeah, you know, you advance and look at the camera, you know what you have done. jon: right. >> so lightning start coming and that moment not after so if you do not catch them, they are gone. jon: i know youre getting incredibly close to the volcano, to the crater itself, maybe...

Truly there are some really, really thoughtful lawmakers on this. i think dodd hasnt been awful on this, his hearts been in the right place in a lot of ways. but on the republican side, senator corker of tennessee has been working very diligently to find a way to just, to create like, basically, a smooth bankruptcy for these big firms so that they dont bring the economy down when they go down. jon: all right. me saw, clay, thank you. jane: what is our strategy in this country for dealing with a ...