nathan adrian beating the aussie missile in the 100 meter freestyle finish. you ve just got to see it. when is gold actually green? olympians being taxed for their gold, silver, and bronze. does first place really mean a $9,000 tax bill? skipping, pirouettes, the extended trot. a 15-year-old mayor enters the olympic sport of dressage today. why is this news, you ask? rafalka is ann romney s horse. cnn newsroom begins right now. good morning to you. i m carol costello. thank you so much for joining us. just in this morning, a collision narrowly averted at reagan national airport near washington, d.c. it involved three jets carrying a total of 192 passengers. two planes took off tuesday afternoon heading toward a third plane, which was already cleared to land. the planes were seconds away from crashing. when an air traffic controller realized a mistake had been made. 3329, stands by. hold on. we re trying to figure this out too. stand by. we have a temporary stop on a
captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning our starting point today, tropical storm beryl washing away holiday plans in northern florida and georgia. it made landfall overnight with drenching rains and driving winds. the hurricane force winds have died down a bit but the beryl will be a super soaker as they call it. rob marciano is tracking the storm at the severe weather center, good morning. not usual to have one but two tropical storms into the month of may, not even into the beginning of hurricane season yesterday. 70-mile-an-hour winds last night at one point, this close to being a hurricane. there s the radar picture showing you the center distinctly 50 miles to the west of jacksonville florida and all the rain and thunderstorms rotating off the ocean so this will be slow to weaken and it will weaken as far as the winds are concerned but the rainfall becomes the bigger player through time. they could use the rain but don t want it all at one point. this is c
there in florida? yep. i m here in florida, yep. this is your beat for many, many years as you watch this, as you re kind of going over in your head how many times you have you have interviewed the crews, when s going through your mind? what are you thinking about as we start to watch the craft land? you know, i think like so many people here think and of course, you know, my opinion is certainly somewhat skewed that, you know, it had a lot of flights left in them. all of the vehicles could have flown more except for planning that didn t go perhaps the way it should have. you know, nasa deciding to go away from the space shuttles and go to the constellation program and then killed by the curre administration and now a gap and shuttle could be flying if it wasn t for some political decisions made that a lot of people probably wish and i know they wish could be taken back today. that s the sad point. a lot of people out of work and a lot of people are even at this very ha
hey, fredericka. the losses are holding steady. the dow down about 436 points. they re off their lows of this session where we saw the dow down as much as 500 points. this is coming after morgan stanley kind of set off an alarm bell saying that the u.s. and europe are looking like they re getting close to going into a recession. morgan stanley also downgrading its growth forecast globally for this year and next. also not helping we got a bunch of economic reports here in the u.s. one on jobless claims showing a rise in jobless claims, the jobs area something that this economy really wants and needs at this point and not seeing. we also got a very weak regional manufacturing report showing contraction and a weak housing report showing sales declined about 3.5%. see what you do when you olympic all that together you get a big sell-off and that is what we re seeing right now. frederic fredericka? that as it looks for the dow. let s check out what the nasdaq issing looking ou