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jet in 172 dressed as a priest. the fbi says wright then forced agents to deliver $1 million ransom dressed only in swim trunks to prove agents had no guns. he flew to algeria and vanished, until now. he was living in a resort town and is now fighting extradition. for a second day workers are hanging outside the washington monument at the very tippy top, checking each marble block. that earthquake that shook the east coast last month did more damage than first thought. >> these engineers will have to inspect every stone. it will take at least a few days. park officials say they can...

of opening statements that will be live when things get going. well, another high-profile trial is winding down. attorneys for amanda knox will make their final arguments. they are hoping to overturn her murder conviction. knox is expected to speak as well. prosecutors claim that knox slit her roommate's throat during wild sex. libyan fighters say that they have seized the port of sirte today. moammar gadhafi controls most of the city. this is one of the areas not under the control of libya's new leadership. washington dodges a government shutdown. lawmakers have a deal in hand...

it's not showing an extension of all of that terrible selling in the last couple of days. what's happening? >> for the moment, it's not, christine. the europe peern markets an mar minutes ago. the markets you said in your introduction showed asian markets losing quite a bit overnight. some of those markets hitting lows we hadn't seen, in fact, since last year or even the year before that. nikkei should point out end of the day up to the tune of about a quarter of 1%. the stock market, same here in europe. losses earlier on to today's session. firmly in the green for the moment. we'll...

that plane to go down, obviously the focus is on the tail of that aircraft, almost immediately after the crash, photographic evidence emerged that a piece of that tail came off during mid-flight and that's something that ntsb confirmed during their news conferences and when crews went to take a look at the debris field, they actually found a chunk of the airplane and ntsb officials talked about that yesterday. take a look. >> it just happened so fast, a split-second event. you think, is this it? am i going to die? >> reporter: obviously, that was not the right sound but we want to ta...

the most pressing issue there is greece. >> reporter: yeah. that's right, ali. what i should also mention, though is that the markets have certainly learned over the last two years this euro in crisis has gone from bad to worse. what they wish for and, then, again, what politicians deliver. what they would ultimately like to see, these leaders agreen on a bold action on a statement promising bold action like raising the euro's bailout fund to cope with countries like greece that they're still having trouble paying bills and might also like a discussion about moo mooch mutualizing. ge...