though there is a volcano erupting under iceland s biggest glacier. we re talking about the rapture in just a few minutes with steven baldwin. you don t want to miss that. in syria, the brutal crack down is far from over. a witness tells cnn that four people were killed today after a funeral march in the city of homs. the same city was torn apart by violence friday. today s assault came as people were leaving a cemetery after burying victims of that bloodshed. the syrian government has forbidden cnn from reporting in the country, so we are unable to confirm these reports independently. tens of thousands of spaniards defied their government and protested for a seventh straight day on the eve of the regional elections there. the demonstrators are upset over the country s 21% unemployment rate. the government made no move to clear them out, despite a court-approved ban on demonstrations the day before an election. sunday spanish voters will elect mayors along with several
To slam. what did that feel like. were you in bed? i can t explain it to you. that wasn t the point at which we hit trouble. it was many hours later into the night. i felt the boat slowing down and he brought the boat down, he looked on the monitor and the screen, 3 1/2 knots. it felt like the boat stopped and that s when the trouble happened. we got caught in a shipping lane and he tried to slow down or whatever, and the boat lost speed, wind hit us on the side and the boat began to roll. and we i m on the seventh deck on balcony, i jumped out of the bed i m sorry, it s upsetting to talk about the boat rolled and i saw the water wasn t ten feet from my window. the boat immediately threw backwards and we went throughing to the other side of the room, and at that point i don t know how, but i was able to get into
If obama s response is i think i slowed the boat down, but i vbt been able to turn it to a new path, as teddy roosevelt was able to do when there were too big to fail institutions in the country extracting money 100 years ago. he had the audacity to create a truly dynamic country. this president doesn t seem to have the wherewithal. i don t see where it comes up with 22 million jobs. my reporting for this story was on the question of stimlative spending. will say on that question, you do wonder whether the political system is equipped to face the financial reality. if you accept the argument of economists who say we really need a big jolt of stimlative spending, this is not a radical idea. you have one hand on the steering wheel of the car trying to pull a left to do that. the conservative hand trying to pull right. the result is the car will go straight off the cliff. you re not going to do either