over, but complete devastation here in the rockaways from either the surge or the fire. thank you so much. well, it is back to business on wall street today after sandy sidelined the heartbeat of america s financial world. plus george lucas makes a blockbuster deal that will bring three new star wars movies to the silver screen. you re watching first look on msnbc.
85 degrees down there. according to tj. what a pretty shot. must-read op-eds. mika, of course, has wired them in from nice. but we are not going to talk about that right off the top. let s talk really quickly about i m surprised you brought up pujols. mike, he is batting .219. blockbuster deal. the angels are in the tank. sportswriters aren t really writing about what a total collapse this isn t just a slow april. we re not far from memorial day, and this guy is completely dogging it. part of it is, he plays out in anaheim, california. part of it is everybody, i think, in the sports writing world anticipates that this will not continue through the whole year. he ll come along. but we re in the middle of may. he s got one home run. and it s year one of his contract. one year of 10. that s the scary thing. one year of 10. and you look at the yankees. i hope the steinbrenners have a lot of money for the yankees sake, and i m dead serious, because structurally that s t
getting even richer. wait until you hear about their blockbuster deal. that s coming up later in the skinny. it s a depressing story. i mean, just shows you what it takes these days to get rich. it ain t much. that s the moral of that story. although kim is your gal. i still think she s sexy. am i right, willis? she s worth every penny. yes, indeed. and more. and more. but first, the plane had just taken off heading to florida when the pilot radioed that two birds had hit the windshield. an emergency was declared and the jetblue flight turned around. abc s jim dolan reports from the westchester county airport. reporter: what s left of the geese is splattered on the windshield of the jetblue plane still sitting at the terminal hours after the emergency. it happened just moments after takeoff when a flock of geese flew across the runway. jetblue 571, we got to come back. we hit two big geese. jetblue 571, roger and stand
this is t.j. back in atlanta. you hearing me okay? arwa damon is not hearing me right now. arwa damon one of a number of cnn correspondents who spent a lot of time in iraq over the last several years reporting there literally from the very beginning of that war and throughout. we ll try to get her back in a moment. a historic day we saw even though a few thousand american service members in iraq. they will make their way out, many of them this weekend and, again, formally, it is over. let me turn to our zain verjee. the whole world, zain, she s joining me from london. the whole world watched this event today. what is the world saying now that it s over? well, there s been a lot of reaction today, as you can imagine. it s been eight years, eight months and 26 days. and a lot of blood, sweat and tears on both the sides of the american people, as well as the iraqi people. let me give you an idea. the guardian. has this headline. the u.s. troops are pulling out, but what have
being done through accounting tricks. enron s accountant, arthur anderson, ceased to exist as one of the world s largest accounting firms because of the magnitude of the enron disaster. the problem wasn t that the accountants were helping hide their scams. the bigger problem was that the scams in some part were legal. valuing that disastrous blockbuster deal as $111 million profit, that was thanks to the accounting tricks legalized by deregulating wall street to make financial transactions more profitable. wall street firms did that thing all the time. the only innovation with enron is enron wasn t a wall street firm. they were supposed to be an energy firm that were some reason was doing, you know, home video deals and any other kind of deal they could get their mitts on. when enron collapsed at the end of 2001, the scale of the scandal was unprecedent in american business history. the extent of the devastation is still mind-boggling.