Tonight. First, cnn has learned that smugglers got their hands on nuclear materials. Enough to apparently build birth dirty bombs. And two f16s diverted their missions when a russian fighter jet came too close as russia rapidly escalates rebel groups fighting the assad regime. Were covering these important stories from every angle. Pamela brown has the latest on the frightening nuke sales and begin with Barbara Starr live from the pentagon. How close did those u. S. Pilots get to the russian jet . Well, good evening, erin. It was two f16s headed to an isis target in Eastern Syria. What happened is a russian fighter jet came within 20 nautical miles of them. That sounds pretty far away, right . But now there are new flight rules for u. S. Pilots. If the russians come within that 20mile limit, they must divert, they must turn their course. Why . Because right now there is no technical military agreement on how both countrys pilots will operate in the skies over syria if they encounter ea
of may. that s the biggest monthly loss in nearly a year. in case you were thinking that europe s crisis was their problem and your eyes glaze over when you hear about it, this is the wake-up call. america s 401(k)s are losing value thanks to greece and spain. why? well, because if and when greece drops the euro, it s a little domino with a lot of punch. next comes spain, portugal, ireland, maybe even italy. they could all fail. and that means the breakup of the world s biggest economy and america s biggest trading partner. it means at least tens of thousands of american jobs will be lost. this is the scene in greece now. destitution and riots. suicide has surged. just today a 61-year-old man left a suicide note. his name was alexanderos. he hung himself in a park in suburban athens. he said, quote, greece will be wiped off the map and he hoped his grandchildren wouldn t be born there. the personal toll is tragic and it s a terrible fall for something that was supposed to cur
in case you were thinking that europe s crisis was their problem and your eyes glaze over when you hear about it, this is the wake-up call. america s 401(k)s are losing value thanks to greece and spain. well, because if and when greece drops the euro, it s a little domino with a lot of punch. next comes spain, portugal, ireland, maybe even italy. they could all fail. and that means the breakup of the world s biggest economy and america s biggest trading partner. it means at least tens of thousands of american jobs will be lost. this is the scene in greece now. destitution and riots. suicide has surged. just today a 61-year-old man left a suicide note. his name was alexanderos. he hung himself in a park in suburban athens. he said, quote, greece will be wiped off the map and he hoped his grandchildren wouldn t be born there. the personal toll is tragic and it s a terrible fall for something that was supposed to cure all the continent s ills. the euro was supposed to unite euro
in nearly a year. in case you were thinking that europe s crisis was their problem and your eyes glaze over when you hear about it, this is the wake-up call. america s 401(k)s are losing value thanks to greece and spain. why? well, because if and when greece drops the euro, it s a little domino with a lot of punch. next comes spain, portugal, ireland, maybe even italy. they could all fail. and that means the breakup of the world s biggest economy and america s biggest trading partner. it means at least tens of thousands of american jobs will be lost. this is the scene in greece now. defendant contusion and riots, suicide has surged. just today a 61-year-old man left a suicide note. his name was alexanderos. he huck himself in a park. he said, quote, greece will be wiped off the map and he hoped his grandchildren wouldn t be born there. the personal toll is tragic and it s a terrible for something to cure all the ills. the euro was supposed to unite europe after suffering thro
outfront tonight, two heroes on the prowl. i need a hero i m holding out for a hero until the end of the night he s gotta be strong and he s gotta be fast yes, bonnie tyler, holding out for a hero. and yes, we think we found them. first stop, senate majority leader harry reid. today in an interview with politico he said the $1.2 trillion in automatic spending cuts set to begin on january 2nd should go ahead as is. come hell or high water. i am not going to back off the sequestration. that s the law we passed. we did it because it wouldn t make things easy for us. it made it so we would have to do something. of course we re in this position because democrats and republicans failed in the super fail super committee to reach a grand bargain and deal with our country s debt crisis. but still what reid said was absolutely right. and he follows another hero on this front. his buddy ole pal john boehner, who says he doesn t want to wait for the election and put all tal