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people dead here. four adults, three children, including an infant. and an elderly couple. we don t know what the relation is. but two of them in their 80s. a law enforcement official tells me that the driver of the suv appears to be one of the women who was inside the car. we know that one was aged 45, and the other was 30. they said that the suv was traveling at a very high rate of speed on the bronx river expressway, parkway, and for some reason, they don t know why at this point, it hit a barrier and went flying over the overpass, about 50 to 60 feet into the air. and the same distance down before it came crashing down in the very heavily brush area of the southeast perimeter of the bronx zoo. we re standing at the one of the side entrances right now. not near any of the animal exhibits or any of the investigate tors, totally out of the public view. this suv was crushed. it landed upside down. and all the people inside were pronounced dead at the scene. because it ....
passed into niger, according to reports from several news agencies. it borders on libya and algeria. officials in niger are saying the head of moammar gadhafi security forces entered the country on sunday but there s no official word who may be traveling in this latest convoy. anti-gadhafi rebels have vowed to take control. rebels told cnn just a few minutes ago they ve resumed negotiations with tribal leaders on the surrender of bani walid. the international committee of the red cross says it s been allowed inside syria s main detention facility. this is the first time it s been given access to detainees since protests started six months ago. the increased access was called an important step forward. a man claiming to have a bomb has taken a child hostage at a court complex. police have surrounded the building in a suburban area of sydney and evacuated people from the area. the child reportedly is the man s young daughter. police negotiators are at the scene. just ....
they are refusing to leave the jail until they get permission to hold their fast. i m zain verjee and world business today starts now. good morning from cnn paris, i m nina dos santos. welcome to world business today. the top stories this wednesday, august 17th. leaders of the eurozone s two top economies meet and investors are not impressed by the outcome. the world s largest economy hasn t been inspiring much confidence either. in an exclusive interview u.s. president barack obama tells us how he wants to turn that around. new evidence emerged in the news of the world hacking scandal challenging james murdoch s testimony. first, let s get straight to the markets. if investors were holding their breath in the hope of a break through in europe s sovereign death crisis, they ll still be waiting to exhale. tuesday s much-hyped meeting between the french president nicolas sarkozy and german chancellor angela merkel was a damp squid in the eyes of the mark ....
emerges, or was there prior to that departure, you would have a different piece. but there s quite a that s an important point just to be clear about. my final question is it seems to me on the face of it that the news of the world was sacrificed in order to try to protect rebekah brooks position at news international. in effect, rather than her being having her departure being announced, the news of the world was offered up as an alternative to try to deal with the whole thing. do you regret now making that decision? do you regret closing the news of the world to try and save rebekah brooks? in hindsight, do you wish you accepted her resignation to start with in order that that paper with a fine tradition could probably continue and all of the people who are now out of work could still be in work? i regret very much the pain of people that will not be able to find work. the two decisions were totally unrelated, absolutely sxl totally unrelated. so when y ....
for him? well, there are some people that didn t want a job. in the case of tom crohn, tom s title was news international leading manager, and as mr. sheridan pointed out, it was not just journalists, but many people to find jobs for. in the case of thomas, i explained he predominantly for the last few years had worked for the legal manager of news of the world, and in fact, the legal teams he worked on all of the other newspapers, so that s the current situation with tom. can i just ask you about nevil neville, and did you know that when you were editor of news of the world that he was a somebody who was an informant to the police? no. you didn t know that he was an informant to the police? no. is that true? well, it is in the evening standard and they quoted they have quoted court reporters dated back to 2000 when he said himself after a case that the police were very interested about the type of intelligence i was coming up with that was reveale ....