phone etiquette, the man was an older gentleman but tells the "new york times" he had just gotten the iphone the day before the concert and he didn't know how it worked, didn't know it had an alarm, didn't know how to turn it off. according to "the times" he apologized to the conductor face to face. apology accepted. the lesson learned. at least turn the ringer off. now this. here we go. top of the hour two. welcome back. couple of stories we're watching for you. president obama wants to shrink the government. joran van der sloot learns his fate. and cnn sits down with oprah winfrey in a revealing interview. time to play reporter roulette. dan lothian, let's begin with you at the white house. a new push to try to cut part of the federal government bureaucracy. dan lothian, what's the plan? >> that's right in is something that the president started talking about during his state of the union address last year. he really believes that the federal government is bloated. there's a lot of it, inefficiency, redund dance difficult between agencies and even within some of the agencies. so the president wants to get the powers last held by president ronald reagan. he wants to get that back, the congress to give him the green light to reorganize the administration believing this could save $3 billion over ten years. specifically, six agencies that the president wants to combine into one, including commerce, small business administration, and the office of the u.s. trade rep where the president believes there's some overlap. >> right now there are six departments and agencies focused primarily on business and trade and the federal government. six. commerce department, small business administration, the u.s. trade representative's office, in this case six is not better than one. >> now, the president says that he will elevate the small business administration to a cabinet level position. that is something that he will not need congressional approval for. now, some republicans are being critical the timing of this announcement saying that it really smacks of election year politics. but none the less, promising to give the president's request a careful review. brooke? >> dan lothian, thank you. next on reporter roulette let's go to jean casarez in new york with the news of the crime suspect in the natalee holloway disappearance. he's going to spend a long time in prison for a separate case in pe peru. what was the sentence in the joran van der sloot case and his demeanor in court today. >> he was sentenced to 28 years just minutes ago in a per you'vian court. alease date of june 10, 2038. in nine years he can petition for parole. his demeanor, well, he seemed a little nervous. seemed a little scared. sweating profusely. and then at the point of time where they started describing the condition of stephany flor s flores' body, he bowed his head and didn't look up again. >> what about his status in the natalee holloway disappearance? has anything changed? >> nothing has changed in that case. but the united states does have federal extortion charges and wire fraud charges against joran van der sloot based upon right before he went to peru, him agreeing to tell natalee's mother where her body is for a mere $250,000. he accepted $25,000. that took him to peru, but now we have charges and we can extradite joran van der sloot to this country. >> jeanne casarez, thanks. next on reporter roulette, south africa in a one-on-one interview with, of all people, oprah winfrey. let's talk politics first since we are in an election year. do we know if she's endorsing president obama this time around? >> we'll know oprah likes to open up, share, and she was pretty frank about why she wasn't publicly endorsing barack obama this time around. take a listen to what she said. >> i don't need to endorse him because i am a 100% supporter of him. and i've already endorsed him and i've already, you know, everybody always asks, are you going to do what you did in 2008. what i did in 2008 i did because people didn't know really -- my own friends didn't know who he was at the time. who is this guy? do you think that guy is going to be president? i go, yeah, i really do. so i was happy to step up and do what i felt was a public service because i so believed in him and i still do. >> brooke, i actually asked her if she would rate barack obama's presidency on a score of either -- between one to ten. she wouldn't do that, surprise, surprise, but he did say the fact that she wasn't publicly endorsing him didn't mean that she was disappointed in him. >> what about just the reason she's in south africa, i'm guessing it for her school for girls? >> absolutely. you'll remember, she started this school giving disadvantaged young girls from very, very poor backgrounds a chance at a very excellent education. the first group of girls to graduate is graduating tomorrow. they're going to universities here in south africa. and also in the states. so she's here to pay respects to them. >> robin kurnow, thank you very much. that's your reporter roulette for this friday. i want to pass this along to you. a judge has revealed that john edwards is suffering from a life-threatening heart condition and has delayed edwards' trial until at least march 26th. the former nor is accused of use campaign funds to pay off mistress during his presidential campaign. his trial was supposed to begin later this month. he's expected to have a procedure in february. and this hour, we are watching the dow as it takes a dive. the reason, investors are getting some pretty bad news that could impact americans, your 401(k)s, plus dozens of pow wereful social conservatives are all coming together over the next two days to discuss whether to unite and back one republican candidate. so, who might that be? 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>> exactly, brooke. this isn't coming as a huge surprise if you've been following the saga known as european debt crisis. no doubt about it. still bad news. after the closing bell today in about 45 minutes, it's all but a done deal that credit ratings agency standard & poor's is going to downgrade the credit of france, austria, italy and other countries. they're going to get bumped out of the aaa club. that's the best credit rating you can have. remember what happened in august to the u.s., we lost our top notch credit status going from aaa to aa plus. now, what's happened most recently in december, the ratings agency went ahead and gave notice to the euro zone countries that this was going to happen. so today it's going to happen right after the bell. that's at least what's certainly expected. brooke? >> so why should americans care about a potential french downgrade? >> okay. so first of all, what it can mean sits going to be more expensive for those other countries downgraded to borrow money and pay off their debts. it could. now, for strong economies, these downgrades don't necessarily happen a lot. when they do it's a concern. and when you think about what happened with the u.s., when it was downgraded in august, brooke, the dow fell 600 points the next day. that was kind of a knee-jerk reaction. you saw how it really hurt confidence. especially globally. it rattled investors today as sort of these rumors come out and what's going to happen after the bell. although looks like the dow has paired some of the losses. but when you look at the u.s., it actually has rebounded prelity well from the downgrade, brooke. look at the interest rates, they've fallen since last summer. so the u.s. certainly rebounding quite well. we'll have to wait and see what happens with the other countries. brooke? 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>> they have to try something, obviously. at the beginning as you know, brooke, we talked about this. romney seemed a little bit defensive when he said, you know, i know what it's like to get -- to have that fear of getting a pink slip. he also sounded a little authentic, i might add, when he said that. and i think what these ads are trying to do is say to voters, look, newt gingrich's pac is not right, we created jobs and i'm a job creator and not a job criminaler. i'm not a corporate raider, i'm somebody who cares about you. we'll have to see if they can blunt the impact of the gingrich ads. >> you know, something else i talked about with peter hamby in south carolina and in south carolina he is getting hit with a double whammy. how do you see that playing out with south carolina? >> social issues are going to be very important to the voters of south carolina. 60% of them are evangelicals. mitt romney is somebody who was once pro abortion rights. he no longer is. and you had rick santorum just yesterday gave a speech in which he said that you need someone who you can trust, implying that mitt romney is someone you can't trust. i also believe in addition to the cultural issues, that mitt romney is probably going to get attacked on massachusetts health care since he supported mandates in his health care plan and that would also have some resonates in south carolina. but let me add this. ev