after four people died. it is raising concerns about traffic jams on this trek. too many climbers trying to make their way could make the journey more treacherous even though today s adventure seekers have sherpas and oxygen tanks. ken cool joins me by phone from mount everest, at base camp on his 10th trip to the summit. wow. amazing. good morning to you, appreciate you joining us by phone. first of all let me ask you, did you know the climbers who died last weekend? no, no, i didn t. it is very sad event on the mountain here, obviously most of the base camp was shocked. one of those unfortunate things. lots to celebrate about mount everest and when this happens it saddens the whole community. how dangerous is climbing mount everest, we talked about the crowds, does that make it more dangerous? it all comes down to management, really. this is my tenth trip here, i have ten fingers, toes and my nose, it comes down to good planning, good preparations and working with a g
basketball coach bernie fine last night. a third man now says that fine molested him when he was a boy. also in a phone recording from nine years ago aired on espn fine s wife, laurie, says she knew, quote, everything that went on. we re expecting to hear from a family of a florida a&m student who died in a suspected hazing incident. they plan to announce a lawsuit against the school. robert champion was a drum major with the university s award winning marching band. 30 band members were suspended this semester because of possible involvement in hazing. big day for democracy in egypt. polling centers were overflowing today. the country s first election since the arab spring revolution. the vote comes after a bloody week of protest in the streets of cairo. defying expectations of more violence, egyptians peacefully waited in line for hours for their chance to cast a ballot. for many it was a very emotional moment. i feel good. i feel my vote will change egypt. to a bette
it will not be happening. got to be. you will be. love it. just to see the melee. not looking to buy anything just. people watch. more power to you. thank you. little cup of cocoa or hot java. or whatever. nice holiday festive beverages. it s okay. good to see you. have fun with that shopping. we will be looking for you in the live shots. don t do that. a lot ahead, let s begin in egypt. i m fredricka whit field, welcome to studio 7. it is happy thanksgiving day. military leaders in egypt are apologizing for the deaths of prob pro democracy protester d . . at least 38 people have been killed in the last six days. 3,000 others have been injured. the apology was posted on the facebook page of the supreme council of the armed forces. an egyptian american journalist in cairo is accusing the military police of sexual assault. mona tweeted she was quote beating and arrested. her arms are in casts. she has been released an mona now joins me on the phone f
watermelon haul, which you can picture. oh, boy, yes, i can. hey, go big or go home. that s what i say. thanks, jeff. okay. all right. at 10:00 a.m. on the east coast, 7:00 a.m. out west, i m kyra phillips. thanks for joining us. wall street just minutes after opening, only hours removed from the gut-wrenching plunge, u.s. investors seem to be shrugging off some of the concerns, at least for now. riots erupt across great britain. dozens of police officers hurt. hundreds of people arrested, and a government desperately trying to tamp down public rage. 61-year-old diana nyad back in the u.s. after abandoning her attempt to swim from cuba to miami. she was halfway on the 109-mile journey when she became too sick, and too sore to continue. well this morning, millions of us are waking up to smaller nesteggs, and, of course, looking at that big board on wall street and watching the numbers very closely, we re covering all the angles from new york to london and wall stre
the sickening scene of violence and looting. and one party is paying a bigger price over the showdown over the regular debt. stand by on whether members deserve to even be re-elected. i m wolf blitzer, you re in the situation room. wall street following big gains after some of its biggest losses of the year. the s&p and nasdaq also rebounded. the dow on a roller coaster all day after the federal reserve s afternoon announcement about interest rates and future economic conditions. lit s bring in poppy harlow. it was wild. swings of 600 points. some of them hundreds of points within a minute. the dow industrials in the last hour of trading, ridesing more than 300 points. this is a very good sign. it is the exact opposite of the selloff we saw on monday. it s encouraging that we re seeing investors coming in at the end of the trading day, buying up stocks in droves, saying i m willing to hold these stocks overnight. that is a very good sign. and just to give you some indic