all i can say is, again, thank you. because of the letters and the calls and just amazing support that we received from people all over the world, especially here in seattle, that we ve been able to endure and that we ve been able to, you know, make sure amanda had the support she needed. there there s no way we can thank everybody. so here individually, so here s our way to just say thank you. i d like to add in one more thing. we would also like to send our appreciation to our italian lawyers. they did a fantastic job on that side of the pond and ted was phenomenal on this side of the pond. and obviously we couldn t have done it without you. so appreciate that. do you want to talk? yeah. ed and i will take any questions if anybody has any. there s a couple hands over there. how are you going to hear it? [ inaudible question ] i can t hear. do you want to talk? amanda! they re reminding me to speak in english. because i m having problems with that. i m really overwhe
for a horrific crime she didn t commit. her roommate was brute ale murdered in an apartment they shared in perugia. tonight amanda and her boyfriend rafael sollecito are free. she s preparing to fly home to the united states to rebuild her shattered life. for the latest, let s go to matthew chance in perugia. you ve been out there the whole time. you were in court today. dramatic scenes. were you expecting that? you ve been following this very closely for years. reporter: yeah, well, i wasn t quite expecting the level of emotion that i witnessed in the court today. it really was tense. you had both the knox family and the kercher family sitting in the same course. the kerchers very much wanted for amanda knox to stay in prison. they wanted the conviction to be upheld. obviously, the knoxes wanted the opposite. when it went the knoxes way, there were whoops and chants. and powerful tension. amanda was just so overcome with emotion. she could barely walk she was crying so mu
after all, most american workers would never be able to take time off whaen a big project has to get done on deadline. funding the government, that s a big project with a very important deadline. and consider this. according to expedia.com, the average american worker gets 18 vacation days a year. 18. and they only use 14 of them. did i mention that since january, congress has only been in session for 125 days? plus, the divided 112th congress promises to be on pace as the least productive in recent memory. since january, only 14 house measures have been signed into law by president obama. and look at this, when democrats controlled the house last year from january to june, 466 bills and resolutions were passed. by comparison, over the same timeframe this year, only 207 bills or resolutions got approval. they spent more time bickering than getting anything actually done. yet house lawmakers sure do get paid a lot. rank and file representatives earn $174,000 a year. the speake