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about to get paid. [ speaking foreign language ] >> more than $14,000 to each survivor. it is a deal reached between the costa cruise line and consumer groups. everyone will get their money back for the cruise tickets and other expenses and the captain who steered the ship into some rocks is still under house arrest. i am going to burn it. >> protesters set an australian flag on fire outside of parliament today. it is the second straight day that people who are angry about australia's policy towards abridgeabri aborigines made news. the prime minister was forced to make a hasty get...

>> reporter: absolutely, richard. the sun has gone down, it's been a few hours, the temperatures are dropping, the numbers have dwindled from 25,000, but no doubt a very strong show of support for the pro democracy activists. they have been denouncing the ruling military council. they say the military council has to turn over power to an elected government. the only problem is, there are no elected governments in egypt so far. the only one really is the parliament that elections have gotten underway, but nothing yet definitive that the military can hand over power to. and it really kind of hig...

A live shot of capitol hill at 38 past the hour. polling is open for the second straight day in nine of egypt's 27 provinces as millions of egyptians cast their ballots in the country's first democratic elections since the removal of president hosni mubarak. voting is being held in multiple stages as additional provinces will begin to vote in coming weeks. voting for both the upper and lower houses of egypt's new parliament are expected to be finalized by march of 2012. richard, let's first start here. how is this going especially given the latest unrest and unease about the future there? >> i...

the sickening scene of violence and looting. and one party is paying a bigger price over the showdown over the regular debt. stand by on whether members deserve to even be re-elected. i'm wolf blitzer, you're in "the situation room." wall street following big gains after some of its biggest losses of the year. the s&p and nasdaq also rebounded. the dow on a roller coaster all day after the federal reserve's afternoon announcement about interest rates and future economic conditions. lit's bring in poppy harlow. it was wild. >> swings of 600 points. some of them hundreds of points wi...

Increase all those spending items that the president said he wanted to increase spending on? >> no, and the fact is, they didn't really make it clear how they're planning to get these spending increases through. now there's a republican house. this is probably a nonstarter. that's why i think there's an element of political positioning here. because the president wants to lay out these policies that he believes in. he wants the republicans to lay out their own policies, then he wants to have a debate on it. axelrod said the american people will then have a debate about this. and they view this...