everything wasn t real. what s important for me to say it just thank you to everyone who s believed in me, who s defended me. who supported my family. i just want my family s the most important thing to me right now and i just want to go and be with them. so thank you for being there for me. [ cheers ] all right. that s amanda knox. just recently returned from italy where her conviction for murder was overturned by the italian courts. she s back with her family in seattle. just addressing the press right there. i have with me here to make a very difficult segue from the amanda knox story back to john
all the world. everywhere i travel overseas, i hear about america being a leader in freedom from young people and business people. i get pleas for america to rise again because they still admire american ingenuity and, yes, even after the financial crisis, they admire american financial power. today the ultimate image of american power, not an fa-18. no. it is this. the iphone 4s. it had its own press conference today to debut. we did the numbers. there are 128 million iphones in the world right now and there isn t a child anywhere i ve met who doesn t want one. in china, actually, i think iphone is a synonym for america. and that s why every night we re counting up. we re going to count how many days since america lost its top credit rating. it has been 60 d dand our goal is to get it back because psychologically, it matters. so to get there, we have enlisted a team of 0 of the most important business leaders in america. it is called the strike team. the strike team members
a look at these pictures coming in to cnn. helicopter has crashed into new york s east river and a dramatic rescue operation is now underway. we re told by the fire department of new york, a spokesman saying that at least two people were seriously injured in the crash. the chief coast guard petty officer eric swansen tells cnn there were at least three people on board when that helicopter crashed into the east river in new york. in an interview with a local affiliate, a former fdny commissioner says the water temperature right now is approximately 68 degrees. we re told it happened maybe 35 minutes ago in the east river at 34th street and 1st avenue on the east side of manhattan. chad myers is watching this unfold with us. what else are you pick iing up we seize these live images coming in. wolf, literally, we are listening to scanner traffic all the way back to how we used to do it in local tv. scanner traffic from fdny saying there were five, five on board. four are out o
junior year of college. her mother edda recalls amanda the fresh-faced 20-year-old intent on adventure. she was going to study abroad going into college somewhere. she didn t know where yet. amanda would decide on perugia, italy. her sister deanna remembers when she moved into this house which she shared with three other girls, two italians and one british student named meredith kercher. why was she so set on that apartment? i think because of the people really. it was close to the college and her roommates are the sweetest people in the world. but after only six weeks in italy on the night of november 1st, 2007, amanda s overseas adventure would take a bizarre turn. amanda claims she slept over with her boyfriend raffaello sollecito that night. according to her, they cooked dinner at his house, smoked hashish and made love. on that same night, meredith kercher returned to the home she shared with amanda after watching a movie with friends. sometime between 11:00 p.m.
the death of awlaki is a major blow to al qaeda s most active operational affiliate. anwar al awlaki was a long way from the home when the missile found him in yemen. born in new mexico and educated in the u.s., he radicalized and became a leader in al qaeda in the arabian peninsula. implicated in many plots to kill americans, he was a top terror recruiter, awlaki s presence was felt in the ft. hood massacre. the alleged shooter, major nidal hasan is believed to have exchanged e-mails with awlaki before the rampage that left 13 people dead. awlaki is also linked to other terror plots, including the would-be underwear bomber s alleged plan to bring down a u.s. airliner two years ago, the plot to blow up u.s. cargo planes, and the attempt to set off a bomb in new york s times square. i consider al qaeda in the arabian peninsulas with awlaki as a leader within that organization probably the most significant risk to the u.s. homeland. we had always had a tremendous concer