up of mostly 20-somethings, they re angry about fat wall street paychecks, war, environment, you name it. the protests have been going on for three weeks now and now have spread to other cities. americans absolutely fed up with congress. new numbers leave no doubt that a washington post/abc news poll found just 14% of the public approves of the job that congress is doing. congress s lowest rating ever. amanda knox says right now, she just wants time with her family. knox is home in seattle today for the first time in four years. she went to italy for college studies but ended up in prison for murder. reminding me to speak in english because i m having problems with that. i m really overwhelmed right now. i was looking down from the airplane and it seemed like everything wasn t real. knox was serving a 26-year sentence for killing her roommate and appeals court overturned that murder conviction on monday. u.s. ambassador susan rice is calling it an outrage, she walke
there are several departments responding to the fire. still attempting to put it out. all of our employees and anybody who was visiting the plant at the time the fire began has been evacuated and accounted for. so that was obviously our first concern. everybody is out and safe. i want to ask about this wedgeworth elementary school which is in that area. so if everyone is safe, does that mean that the school has been closed or where are the students at this point? that i don t know. they re not in visual range. we are next to a college that has been evacuated. as far as the elementary school, i don t know the status but i do know they are upwind from the fire so any of the fumes and smoke are all being directed the opposite direction of the school. can you help us understand what caused this and how it got so big so fast? no, i m sorry. we don t know that at this time. can you give me an idea of what type of gases are in the air and how dangerous this might be? i m
in prison for four years and her lawyers claim she had nothing to do with the crime and should be be able to go back to the united states. when the verdict comes down, probably not simple. it will come in complicated italian and complicated legalese, it would be easier if like the old days with the gladiators, up or down, harris. harris: thank you very much for reporting for us tonight from italy. thank you. well, it s been in fact, a long legal road for amanda knox since the murder conviction, in april of last year, prosecutors asked for a harsher sentence for her, days later her attorneys filed their own appeal of the murder conviction. in december, a judge ordered an independent review of crucial dna evidence and this past june. court appointed experts testified that very evidence used to convict knox may have been contaminated. don t miss tonight s geraldo at large, a fbi agent
live from peruggia italy. her legal team is expecting to present closing arguments tomorrow. what are we expecting? that s right. we are expecting amanda knox s legal team to start closing arguments tomorrow. what they are focusing on is the circumstantial evidence that was used to convict knox. much of the dna evidence was called flawed by a panel of independent experts. the lawyers want to focus on circumstantial evidence and to defend her character. she was branded a witch and evil and a she-devil in court. she got a boost from her co-defendant s legal team who compared her to jessica rabbit saying she s not bad she s just drawn that way. we are expecting the two judges and six jurors to retire for a
amanda knox sentenced to 26 years in prison for killing her roommate. the defense claims dna evidence used to convict knox is unreliable. the prosecution says independent experts ignored other key evidence, which reports that knox said in a letter she was worried but that she was thinking of what she would do once she was back in the u.s. after more than two years in iranian prison two freed american are calling their trial on charges of spying a sham. josh fattal and shane bauer say they were hostages. fattal, bauer and fellow hiker sarah shourd were arrested in 2009 when they crossed an unmarked border with iraq. i m zain verjee. world business report starts right now. good morning from cnn london. this is world business today. the top stories this monday, september 26th. european investors are on edge after tim geithner warns the debt crisis is the most serious issue facing the global economy. in asia, investors also reached for the sell button. as european p