now, whether or not amanda knox herself will address the media, that remains unclear. we understand that decision will be made by her while she's on the plane ride to return home. we under her first wish is to lie down in a green field and she will have plenty of time for that because her family wants to spend a lot of private time with her to catch up for that past four years. brooke? >> sandy, thank you very much. let's go to alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. we're 60 minutes away from the "closing bell." how did today fair? >> that's right. it's just another rough day. we've got another hour to go before the "closing bell" sounds. stocks have been stuck in the red for most of the day. we saw them trim their losses after comments from fed chief ben bernanke. saying growth will be in the second half of the year. problem is, the second half of the year is right now. what we're seeing is worries about greece defaulting continue. you're seeing that worry play out in the numbers today. brooke? >> we also -- speaking of the red, we saw the s&p 500 dip into the bear market today. what does that mean? >> it continues to be trading in bear market territory. it represents the same downturn for the market and the s&p 500 is really knee-deep in the red and it's down 20% from the recent high that it had back in april. it's at 10:8 it closes at 1080. the stock market is seen as a forward-looking indicator. investors are not sure of the economy in the near future. keep in mind this bear, the market that we're seeing, doesn't mean that it will last forever. where there is a bull there is always a bull lurking around somewhere. we just can't see him, brooke. >> half empty, half full. we'll get there, alison kosik. thank you very much. and next on reporter roulette, chad myers, surf is up? >> yes. surf is up my friend. this is san diego. two words for you, bio -- >> i was totally blown away when you said that in my office. >> it is awesome. >> explain this. during the day it's red because there is algae out there. not really harmful and using up a little bit of oxygen. >> look at that. >> fish may be swimming away. but when the water crests and excites these little dynoflagulates as you said, they light up. literally, they light up at night. we have a picture of a surfer and right in the tail of the surf board it was all electric blue. >> so is this an anomaly in southern california? >> it is. >> so when i go to enneat as it, not kidding, i go there in a couple of weeks, will it remain that way? >> there is no telling how long that will last. the tide can take it away. the current will take it away. >> if it were to happen, will it be a west coast thing versus an east coast thing? >> yes, for this here. by they are always in the caribbeans. there are many of them there. you go there and hear -- i was a diver at the time. i'm too old for that. you move your hand back and forth and literally it all lights up in front of you. you can't see because all of the organisms are flashing. they are all excited and use the light to attract other mates. >> oh, i see. okay. it's fascinating. watch out for the jellyfish. >> well, i wanted to see the arc. they said don't. thanks, chad. appreciate it. that is your reporter roulette for today. okay. real quickly, is mitt romney speaking? here he is in the villages of florida. we're going to continue on. we're going to listen to him momentarily. a double mastectomy. a breast cancer survivor says she was humiliated when an agent insisted on touching her during the screening process. she says she had the medical documentation about her implants right there. now tsa is saying that they are sorry. the new orleans saints home, the superdome, has a new name. they just announced it. we'll tell you next. 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[ applause ] >> and he may have in theed we're not up and running like we used to be but that's not because we're soft, it's because he's too heavy on our shoulders, and the government of washington is weighing down free people, free enterprise, from doing what we have done, which is compete in the world. the problem is not the people, the problem is the government. and if we want to get america going again, washington is fundamentally broken, wasteful, abusive, overregulating, and such a burden on the american economy that until we get our hands on washington, take it apart, put it back together smaller, smarter, simpler, than this economy will have a hard time going. i will get washington right because that's what i do. i will fings it, get it on track again. [ applause ] >> now, you know that when the president came into office, his number one responsibility, i'm sure, facing him immediately was that our economy was in trouble. and he had to get people back to work. but instead of focusing his energy on the economy, he delegated and maybe even less experience than he, if that's possible. and so he went about what he wanted to do. and stacking the national relations board and interested in dodd-frank which changes the whole regulatory environment of financial services and the president was intent on making sure that the government was intent on federal health care. i saw signs out there. it said, keep your hands off our medicare. by the way, there's only one person that i know of that has cut medicare. that's the president of the united states. he cut it by $500 billion to pay for obama care and we will turn that around. that is wrong. and it's absolutely right. we're going to vote an obama guy out of office. >> so this is the first time from the front-runner in this race, mitt romney, after the announcement not too long ago. governor chris christie not in it. at least not perhaps at this time clearly mitt romney simply taking on the president as he lacks leadership and rebuilding america and our economy. let's continue. imagine standing in an airport in the security line and people everywhere, no privacy and one of the agents touches your breasts. so a double ma sect me says that and now tsa is responding. we have that. also a. texas man will walk free after 25 years behind bars. he claimed he was innocent the whole time. turns out new evidence backs his claim. that's ahead. ur skin with aveeno daily moisturizing lotion. the natural oatmeal formula improves skin's health in one day, with significant improvement in 2 weeks. i found a moisturizer for life. 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[ male announcer ] starts working on contact and at the nerve level to block pain for hours. capzasin. takes the pain out of arthritis. chris christie made it absolutely crystal clear this afternoon that he is not running for president and making the announcement about an hour and a half ago from trenton. >> for months, i've been adamant about the fact that i would not run for president. my language was clear and direct no matter how many times i was asked the question, for me the answer was never anything but no. in the end, what i've always felt was the right decision remains the right decision today. now is not my time. i have a commitment to new jersey that i simply will not abandon. that's a promise i made to the people of the state when i took office 20 months ago. to fix a broken new jersey. and when i look at what we've accomplished so far, i'm proud and i know we're not nearly done. >> and jim acosta was inside when governor and i imagine it was a pretty packed house and no means no again in this case? >> reporter: it was. that's right. this time he means it. he said he made the decision last night after giving it a thought over the last few weeks and the one thing that he could not get past was the fact that he was only on the job for 24 months. he feels there's a lot more to do here on new jersey and ruled out the possibility that he may run for president in the future. he basically said, and he also asked about the vice presidency and asked for am kabt of the master of the universe and holding court in there during this press conference and said, look, i'm not really cut out for being vice president. it was vintage chris christie today, brooke. >> and for people across the country, mentioning getting letters from the farmer in nebraska asking his kids to let him run. it was important to hear from the man himself, wasn't it? >> reporter: that's right. he talked about the speech at the reagan library. he said it didn't factor in a great deal but he was booed by the pleas that you watched visibly expressed. it's interesting that governor christie gave all of these steadfast dedenials and the campaign at this point and you have to say at this point if he had decided to jump in this point to come to rest, he's the person who -- the shermanesque statement was named after, if nominated, i will not run. if elected, i will not serve. those were the words of sherman. and if chris christie had run for president, it would have been inpoperable. >> quickly, jim, so i guess the next item that we will look for from the governor will be a possible endorsement. when do we anticipate that? >> reporter: he said he didn't have anything to say today about an endorsement and he's going to do some time thinking about it. what is interesting, if you look at some of these brand-new polls that came out today, there was a poll that came out today showing him running neck-and-neck with mitt romney and there's another washington post poll that didn't show quite that much support for chris christie. i asked him the question, is the republican party looking for a white knight? he said, no, that's not what is going on today. the speculation that's been going on, this is about me, chris christie. i think now that he's gotten that sorted out, he is going to start focusing on whether he is going to endorse someone. he still has some time to play with. >> jim acosta, thank you very much. coming up, apple announcing new iphones. y2 and what is new? this comes with an assistant. we'll explain coming up. and hundreds of hispanic childrens are fleeing schools in alabama. they are not going to class. it requires schools to ask the legal status of the kids and their parents and has some parents running scared. that's coming up. a lot of times, things are right underneath our feet, and all we need to do is change the way we're thinking about them. a couple decades ago, we didn't even realize just how much natural gas was trapped in rocks thousands of feet below us. technology has made it possible to safely unlock this cleanly burning natural gas. this deposits can provide us with fuel for a hundred years, providing energy security and economic growth all across this country. it just takes somebody having the idea, and that's where the discovery comes from. absenteeism has increased dramatically after a federal judge upheld most of a tough new law in alabama. it's called hb 56 and would require schools to ask the legal status of their kids and parents. covering all aspects of the law, the reaction to it, here's what was told to me. i read that the schools will comply with the law, nobody will be denied an education. is that an oxymoran. >> they have to check the status of all newly enrolled students and have a chance to introduce a birth certificate and attest that the child was born in the united states. if they were not and it's a statistical count. the child is not denied anything. although it's pretty easy to see why someone would interpret this. we have the police giving new latitude under this law. and there are misconceptions out there. >> help me understand how this is enforced. is it not that the teachers and principals enforcing it, it's the police and new students and not kids already in the schools? am i hearing that correctly? >> yeah, correct. it's strictly new students. >> okay. as for the police and the schools, they have no role in this. but if you don't understand the law and you see the police. the new iphone is being called the most amazing iphone yet. if you want to talk to the phone, you can talk to the phone. it's being called the intelligent assistant. you can record high-def video. we have the details coming up. also, a texas man in prison for the murder of his life is set to go free after 25 years. the new information that helped overturn the conviction. time now for the help desk where we get answer to your financial questions. we me is the president of consumer education at smartcredit.com. a personal finance expert. he's 32 and has three different investment portfolios. he's got an 80 index fund. at his age, should he be aggressive in all portfolios? or is he better off more conservative? and absolutely aggressive and i love the stocks and bonds and accounts and i'm assuming that third account is a taxable account. and he may need to spend in the next one to five years with those funds he would want to be a little conservative and not take a lot of risk. we're talking cds and money markets. that is making us aggressive with the remaining balance. >> georgia has a question for john. he's got enough in his savings account to pay off his credit cards but should he pay off the cards or keep the money in his account? 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we don't know. we don't know. it looks to me like they are pulling someone slowly, slowly up. and out of that raft. we're going to stay on it. maybe chad myers looking into how cool the water must be. it's chilly here in atlanta. the water temperature is certainly not something that you want to hop into this time of year? and you can see the bottom right, the guys in the yellow suits, they look to be officials. i'm looking right along with you. we're looking at this live. looking at this live picture. it's someone maybe on something being carried off there. there we go on to land. massive, massive presence. again, we're just getting the initial reports here. don't know a lot at this point in time. new york office of emergency management. three people being rescued. chad myers, how cold is the water right now? >> right there at the east river, it's 66 degrees. >> that's not too bad. >> that's a splash in very, very cold water. would you be able to survive at least 20 minutes in there whereas if we were in the 30s and 40 degree temperatures that we would be in a month or two, your expectancy in that water could be less than 20 minutes. >> it looks like one, two, three spots where they are going to be carrying, four perhaps. and a massive fire and rescue boats. perhaps there were three people in the river and the boat grabbed them and brought them up to land. it looks like a heliport that they are pulling them on to. this is in manhattan and this helicopter went down. we don't know if it's a private helicopter, a helicopter in an official capacity. we just don't know yet. >> the important part is that the occupants of that helicopter get out of the helicopter before it started going down. you know, were they under the water for any length of time trapped in that capsule? and i don't know that because we didn't get there. but we know it with all of those eyes on the east river that you must have had a lot of people reporting this and the officials getting there very, very rapidly. those boats are always in the water. coast guard and all of the other pleasure vessels in the water as well. trying to get to something like this immediately where the coast guard is not only helping to protect the island but for this exact emergency, whether it's by boat or helicopter and by plane, of course. >> i'm trying to look at this screen. you can see three boats in the water. it looks to me, though, i can't see anyone else in the water itself. so hopefully, hopefully by this point in time and just by the sheer presence of people right up along the water's edge, that means that all three have been rescued. all we know is that the coast guard was in the process of rescuing three different individuals and, again, to your point, we don't know how long they were in the water or helicopter, if they got out before it went down. those are questions that we would love to have answers to. for now it's just clearly recently happened. >> the fact that the other boats are still in the area, still kind of looking around, it may tell you a little bit that they are still looking for something and it could actually be jets in that and come off the helicopter for clues of what happened there. we can't see from the angle how many people are being treated and obviously a little bit of hypothermia at 66 degrees. if you're only in that water for five or ten minutes, even ten minutes at that point, completely survivalable at that temperature. >> don't go too far, chad myers. we'll pop that image back up on the screen. for now, let's talk about amanda knox. she's hours from landing in seattle. is she truly free? there could be more court action even though she's been acquitted of murdering her roommate. sunny hostin has been on the case for us. sunny, italian prosecutors are saying that they are going to take this to a higher court. they are going to appeal the decision and freed her around this time yesterday. can they really do that and how does that legal process work? >> yes, they can really do that and by all indications they will be doing that. they can appeal this appellate decision to italy's highest court. italy's supreme court and if the conviction is -- or the decision is overturned, amanda knox could face the same prison sentence. the 26-year prison sentence. they would, of course, the prosecution would have to ex tridiet her from the united states. we now now that she's on her way home to seattle. but by no means is this case completely over. because the prosecutors have indicated that they will appeal the appellate court's decision. >> will that, though, attempt -- how successful -- what was the likelihood? >> you know, i don't think it's that likely even though this is a very different type of process. this isn't a new trial like what we saw. this is really an appeal that will cover technical issues. i don't know that it will be successful but it can't be a good thing for amanda knox to know that this is still hovering over her head. >> important thing to mention, the man still in prison for meredith kercher's murder, rudy guede, can he appeal his conviction and what is the evidence against him? >> well, my understanding is that he has exhausted all appeals. many people believe he was the sole killer here in this case. he did appeal the 30-year conviction and it was reduced to 16 years. he then appealed again and my understanding is that he lost that appeal. at this point, rudy guede has exhausted all of those appeals and will continue to serve 16 years for the murder of meredith kercher. >> sunny hostin, thank you. apple unveiling the new iphone. it's not the 5. it's the 4s. you have the faster chip, an eight megapixel camera and a world phone and it will be available to customers of sprint. katie is in cupertino, california. there is a lot of talk about iphone 5. is this adisappointing at all? >> reporter: i don't think disappointing buff it's an end all to the rumors and speculation. i love that you're running through those features because that's what i want to get to. what they announce today, it was not an iphone 5. it was an iphone 4s. let me tell the features that it comes with. an 8 megapixel camera, world phone, faster graphics and process. it has the same body and style. no changes there. eight hours of talk time. and you can use your phone and your voice to command your phone. if you want to send e-mails or check the weather or text somebody, you do that using your voice. >> let me jump in. if i program like my mother's birthday, it will speak to me and say, it's your mother's birthday today. that's what i need. >> reporter: it's probably something that we all need. it was actually pretty immersive to see these things on stage. tell me where the starbucks are and give me 13 locations and take me to the closest. so being able to ask things on the fly is definitely a cool feature but another one definitely worth noting is iowa's 5. what that means is it comes with an i cloud. if you have an ipad or iphone or mac, you can sync all of your equipment. they have a friends and family, which is great for parents. it will be available for preorder october 7th and if you like camping, it will be available october 14th in retail and as you noted, it will be available in sprint so expect high demand. >> katie, we appreciate it. thank you very much. >> reporter: thanks. i want to pull back and go back to our breaking news. this downed helicopter in the east river. i have thomas mcken zee on the phone with me. he's with the coast guard and three persons on board and helicopter went down in the vicinity of fourth street. it was unknown and taken off the landing. and they were responding with two of their assets. we have the coast guard that put out an urgent radio information broadcast and nypd responded with one of their assets. right now they are contacting them for their updates and i'm sure as soon as we have something more, we can offer you that. >> thomas, do we know what kind of helicopter this was? was it commercial or a private chopper? >> i sure don't know that at this time but that's a good question. thank you. i'll put that to my list. >> okay. how long ago did this happen? >> that happened at 35 minutes after the hour. >> okay. just about 15 minutes ago. and just to confirm, no injuries. three people -- you don't know yet if this happened upon landing or takeoff. are they safe on land? >> right. that's correct. there's no reports of injuries at this time. there may be updates forthcoming but any information available to me, i don't have reports of injuries. >> no reports of injuries but in terms of the three individuals rescued, they are okay ultimately? they are out of the water, is my question? >> i don't know that at this time. >> okay. okay. thomas, at this time. >> i know you have a lot of questions. perhaps bring you back on. u.s. coast guard spokesperson, thanks so much and with that, we'll take a quick break. back to our breaking story. this helicopter went down there in the east river, manhattan, just about 15 minutes ago. according to the spokesperson, didn't know a tremendous amount. but he was able to tell me that there were no injuries reported, but i want to bring in chad myers because, what are you learning? >> i was on the finest.com and this is the fdny and nypd website and their scanner. they said five people are on board. three got out, two did not. one, that other, one of the two is now out and i was watching them pull, do cpr on that person. one is still missing and that's what this search is going on now. it appeared to some witnesses this was trying land and literally missed the landing. that is a diver that came in from the shore. there's the dock right there where the heliport is. he came down that little staircase. could be a temporary ladder. it doesn't appear like that helicopter is very far away from that dock. so that's why they're concentrating right there on that area. >> so five people were on the helicopter. three are okay. one, we don't know. one, still missing. >> now, this is fdny scanner traffic from one firefighter to another firefighter, so that's where we are. i can't confirm any of this except this is what the fdny are telling each other. >> also, the spokesperson told me, 15 or so minutes ago. five people total. they don't know if it was commercial, private helicopter. this is by a heliport at 31st and 1st avenue. they don't know if it was upon takeoff or landing. thank you so much for the update. >> i'm still going back. meantime, warren buffett says the u.s. economy may have some bumps in the road, but we're going to be fine one day. that's i guess his message to poppy harlow, who just spoke with him. what else did he say? >> you know, it's sbreing. this is the first time i think we've heard publicly from warren buffett about president obama's american jobs act. we talked extensively about that in a long sit-down interview. i want you to listen to what he said. i asked him is the american jobs act that's going to cost a lot of american taxpayer money, is that the right move to create jobs? is it the right way to spend money this country has and many say does not have. take a listen. >> president's jobs plan, you say like it or not, call it this or not, it's a stimulus plan. you sound skeptical, frankly, warren. >> i do think we've used up almost all of the power of both monetary and fiscal policy. that doesn't mean that i think every additional unit we put into it is not going to produce something. the american economy is going to flourish in the future, but we have to work through the housing. that is a big segment of the economy. we will come out of it. no question about it. i can't tell you the date. >> and what he went on to say, brooke, and really focus on is that the jobs act may create some jobs, but real jobs, meaningful, mass jobs are not going to come back to this country until housing turns around. he said even he does not have a better housing plan. it is simply going to take time and i think that has not gotten a lot of focus. it is now from warren buffett. one other interesting point. i asked him about michele bachmann's cent comments, saying that if warren buffett wants to pay more in taxes, he should write a check to the u.s. treasury. he laughed that out of and told me interesting she should say we should solve the crisis by voluntary tax contributions. he went on to say i don't know what percent michele bachmann would pay or if i would want to find out. >> thank you so much. still to come, the white house turns pink for a night. an annual tradition started by the bush white house. hello, mr. jones. political pop, next. every time a local business opens its doors or creates another laptop bag or hires another employee, it's not just good for business. it's good for the entire community. at bank of america, we know the impact that local businesses have on communities. that's why we extended $7.8 billion to small businesses across the country so far this year. because the more we help them, the more we help make opportunity possible. the world needs more energy. where's it going to come from? 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[ male announcer ] ask your doctor if chantix is right for you. coast guard telling us with regard to this helicopter, three people and no injuries yet to be totally transparent, we are hearing from fdny's scanner traffic, there were five people involved, so still apparently up in the air in terms of injuries, et cetera. we're working our contacts and will let you know, but still an active seen in the east river. and the white house turned pink last night and joe johns has that in political pop. you know you're my favorite. it's such a pleasure to have you. >> so glad b to be here. >> let's talk pink. why? >> anybody walking past the white house last night would have gotten a big surprise. always been a white house, right? we have some pictures. the white house turned pink. this is of course breast cancer awareness month and so, they decided to do this in order to sort of celebrate the whole month. you look at