st. peters basilica able to go by the casket of blessed john paul. jamie: blessed he is. thank you so much. greg burke live in rome. eric: helicopter crashed near the university campus, and they say the chopper was part of a reality tv show. we have details coming up. we ve got a flood. hits the road, the nose the angels start second guessing where they tread.
not they can trace to it her and the news will be coming, 24 hours from now. and we ll keep on top of any developments in that story. martha: a terror alert in the heart of a key american ally. sections of the parliament building in berlin, germany have been shut down, over security concerns. and, this came just hours after a german magazine report that claimed al qaeda had a plot that was in the works there, so we re keeping an eye on that as well on a busy morning, brands new hour of america s newsroom, we re glad to have you with us, i m martha maccallum. bill: i m bill hemmer. good morning, germany s top brass saying the report is complete speculation and nevertheless, that report is being taken seriously this morning. martha: greg burke is standing by live in rome, does the parliament shut down have anything to do with the magazine report, greg? reporter: martha, it certainly does have to do with the report. and, people over the weekend saying there was an initial report last
state department to try to give people more specifics to work on. otherwise people will read the travel alerts, conclude that they are all sort of meaningless and not pay attention to them when it becomes particularly important. now, authorities are urging americans traveling in europe to register their travel plans on the state department website. shannon? shannon: turn to europe where they are on high alert. the british government has alerted its folks traveling in germany and france they have to look out. check in with greg burke live in rome. hi, greg. hi, shannon. it is a travel alert and not a full fledged travel warning but that is enough to spook people. i was talking to people arriving in rome and they are already asking me what is the situation. the fact that they don t mention specific countries makes it even tougher because any one thinking they are going to europe is thinking they are
exchanged, both officers were wounded, we re told they are nonlife-threatening injuries, but the suspect has been critically wounded. the hospital by the way is on partial lockdown because there are several witnesses and police want to make sure they round up all the witnesses and talk with them right now, crayton university medical center, they say no suspect at large. that s the very latest on this breaking situation. let s get you back to gregg and jenna. jenna: right now, major protests erupting all across europe, angry workers, taking to the streets, shutting down cities and clashing with police. greg burke reporting live in rome on this story. greg. strike ascross europe, it s basically people protesting the austerity cuts, they re starting to feel the pain and making their voices heard on the streets and spain, the general strike was the first one in eight years, and a bit of a strange occurrence there, basically the unions which had supported the socialist prime minister,
scandal. reporter: now, also under attack this morning cardinal william levado who went after the new york times criticizing their work on the pope. attorney for abuse victims released a deposition from the cardinal when he was who admitted that as the arch bishop of portland in 1994 he ordered a pastor not to tell his congregation about the abusive past of the priest because the priest had gone through therapy and was deemed not to be at risk to abuse again. anne thompson live in rome, thank you so much for the report. well, we ll take a quick break. when we come back, they re lining up for the ipad, but will the new gadget deliver on all the promise? new mousse temptations by jell-o.