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from turkey. reporter: fredricka, the syrian government held state funerals for some of the more than 50 victims from a massive bombing that took place thursday at the capital of damascus outside the headquarters of one of syria s intelligence and security department. now, a shadowy group that identifies itself claims responsibility for the blast in a web posting. they previously claimed responsibility for other large explosions in syria. meanwhile the syrian government has claimed to have foiled an attempted suicide truck bombing in the large city in the last 24 hours. meanwhile the families of two turkish journalists are celebrating right now. they went missing in syria nearly two months ago. they weren t heard of at all until about a week ago and many feared they were dead. well, it turned out they had been held at a sear yaus prison and a turkish islamic charity has helped negotiate their release. they were flown there earlier today. it appears as part of a prison ....
cry with stories about his dysfunctional childhood. the importance of being thin and running with citizen sorescisso award-winning awer this augusten burroughs with his new book and why his take of same-sex marriage is a civil rights issue. good morning, everyone. i m randi kaye. it s 10:00 on the east coast, 7:00 on the west coast. a lot to tell you about this morning, so let s get straight to the news. we re keeping an eye on liberty university this morning. that is because mitt romney is giving the commencement speech at the evangelical school. liberty, of course, is the school founded, of course, by television evangelist jerry f l falwell. romney s camp says there won t be any policy mixed into the speech. instead it will be personal stories and some lessons. rick santorum has a message for mitt romney. use same-sex marriage as a weapon. santorum who just endorsed romney earlier this week spoke at an event last night in arkansas. he s telling romney to, quote, s ....
helping veterans back from war. we have the dogs and their people, live on set. it s saturday may 12th, good morning, glad you re with us i m randi kaye. we start with new developments in several high profile legal stories that captured the nation s attention this week. three more people have been taken in custody for allegedly helping adam mayes evade police. he killed himself in the woods near al pine, mississippi earlier this week, as soon as police closed in on him. next to him at the time were the two sisters he kidnapped after killing their mother and older sister. authorities say the girls are still shaken. here is mayes brother. we don t even plan on claiming the body. that is just how we feel. anyone that was directly involved with adam, pretty much lived in fear. mayes wife charged with two count of murder in the case. jennifer hudson s brother in was found guilty on three counts of first degree murder. william balfour killed hudson s mother, brother ....
shares are down almost 8% right now. shares of others are getting hit hard right now. wall veit is worried about other banks wondering, you know what, if jpmorgan can do this and it s considered the stronger of the banks or the strongest of the banks, what kind of bets are the other banks making especially, once again, that aren t as strong as jpmorgan? fredricka? so the ceo, jamie dimon, had quite the reputation as did jpmorgan altogether. so what does this do to that reputation of both? reporter: no doubt you re going to see the reputation of dimon, the reputation of the company going to take a hit. dimon is well respected on wall street, in the financial industry. you know what, even president obama has called him to washington for meetings on the economy. cheerily he is not happy about this. but he is owning up to it. listen to some of his of what he said last night in the conference call. speaking for the senior management team and myself, what we can t ass ....
for the nuts and bolts on this fias fiasco, it s the impact on the markets and your own investments. alison kosik joins us now. just what was this massive trading bet all about? before it went south? reporter: fredricka, what jpmorgan essentially did was made a big game am. they made risky bets and lost. the bets they made were to protect against possible losses on jpmorgan s other investments, but clearly they backfired and the bets produced losses of their own. how did this come out? it came out in a surprise conference call that ceo jamie diamond called for lamon called. shares are down almost 8% right now. shares of others are getting hit hard right now. wall veit is worried about other banks wondering, you know what, if jpmorgan can do this and it s considered the stronger of the banks or the strongest of the banks, what kind of bets are the other banks making especially, once again, that aren t as strong as jpmorgan? fredricka? so the ceo, jamie dimon, had qui ....