it makes me sad to think that people will they feel that they re protecting themselves but they re just adding to the problem. reporter: there was also a surge in gun sales in colorado following the aurora movie theater massacre and after the 2011 mass shooting in tucson, background checks for gun purchases in arizona spiked. nancy elis grieves for the tragedy of the victim in her own backyard my heart breaks for them. it truly does. reporter: this is about protecting her rights for her. did the guns cause the tragedy? no. it is the person behind the gun that caused the tragedy. reporter: for outfront, poppy harlow, newtown, connecticut. all right, in money and power stop right there because a big airline merger was blocked today. this is important. the u.s. justice department and attorney generals from six states have filed a lawsuit challenging the proposed $11 billion combination of american airlines and us airways.
it. it makes me sad to think that people will they feel that they re protecting themselves but they re just adding to the problem. reporter: there was also a surge in gun sales in colorado following the aurora movie theater massacre and after the 2011 mass shooting in tucson, gun purchases in arizona spiked. nancy elis grieves for the victims in her own backyard. my heartbreaks for them. i truly do. reporter: this is about protecting her rights for her. did the guns cause the tragedy? no. it is the person behind the gun that caused the tragedy. reporter: for outfront, poppy harlow, newtown, connecticut. all right, in money and power stop right there because a big airline merger was blocked today. this is important. the u.s. justice department and attorney generals from six states have filed a lawsuit challenging the proposed $11
following the aurora movie theater massacre and after the 2011 mass shooting in tucson, gun purchases in arizona spiked. nancy elis grieves for the victims in her own backyard. my heartbreaks for them. i truly do. reporter: this is about protecting her rights for her. did the guns cause the tragedy? no. it is the person behind the gun that caused the tragedy. reporter: for outfront, poppy harlow, newtown, connecticut. all right, in money and power stop right there because a big airline merger was blocked today. this is important. the u.s. justice department and attorney generals from six states have filed a lawsuit challenging the proposed $11 billion combination of american airlines and us airways. they say that two lead to higher prices and lower service which often happens in airline mergers. an analyst agrees and said the
morning. on wall street all about europe again. stock futures indicate a lower open as we watch to see if cyprus approves its bailout plan today. will be the fourth bailout in europe. banks there are closed at least until thursday to give parliament time to work out the details. it will be the fourth european country to get a bailout. very controversial because it includes a tax on bank accounts. over the weekend, nervous cypriots ran to the atms to with draw large sums. lawmakers holding a hearing today in the u.s. on the us airways/american merger. a senate judiciary committee looking into the impact the deal might have on competition. the ceos of both airlines will appear. many analysts don t expect ticket prizes to rise, because there isn t much overlap between usair and american. still airline mergers are often heated and messy. complaints about lost bags, screwed up reservations, delayed flights typically soar after two airlines combine their reservation systems. we ll continue t
so let s get to it. as you heard here, about 90 minutes ago on cnn, the president said that the federal government has gotten too big and complicated. that s not a revelation but he says he can fix it by streamlining, consolidating, simplifying. he said a leaner government would create a leaner and better national security. congress didn t consolidate on its side so now the department of homeland security reports to over 100 different congressional panels. that s a lot of paperwork. that s a lot of reports to prepare. that s not adding value. it s not making us safer. well, congress will have to approve a rewrite and republicans promise a careful review of that. military investigators say that they have tracked down and interviewed at least two of the marines seen urinating on corpses in afghanistan. the video has gone viral. today the deputy commander of u.s. forces in afghanistan issued a directive, reminding troops, and i quote, we must treat the living and the dead wi