economic forecast. let s get to alison kosik. she s monitoring everything today where at one point today, the dow tanked morning 500 points. what s going on? that s right. these worries about a recession were ampfullied today. not just in the u.s., but overseas as well. the federal reserve spooked everybody first. this was yesterday. the fed giving a really bleak assessment of the u.s. economy warning of significant downside risks to the economic outlook. translation there that the economy will get significantly weaker. then overnight, we got weak manufacturing reports out of europe, the u.k, even china, which had been an engine of growth out of the great recession. you have to remember, wolf, we re all interconnected. only been one economist to tell us europe is probably in a recession and the u.s. is teetering on the brink of one. wolf? so, basically, it doesn t look very promising right now. what are they brace you for tomorrow? tomorrow, we re trying to see if we re
announced another stimulus measure inform boost the economy. we will get the reaction around the world. hong kong s hang seng index is off 5%. that s a big move for one day for a stock index. japan s nikkei is down 2%. in europe, more of the same. french, jer planing markets all plunging by more than 4%. have you gold down. you have oil down. you have selling basically acro across the board. downside risk, this is an economy in the u.s. and worldwide that s not out of the woods and markets are responding accordingly. we will talk more later about this. sure. cries of injustice and closure for one family after 20 years. the state of georgia executing by lethal injection death-row inmate troy davis late last night. davis was convicted of shooting and killing off-duty savannah police officer mark mcphail, a father of two children. several witnesses that helped put him away changed their stories even while strapped to the gurney insisted he did not have a gun. a crowd of hu
released from a prison there, but we re also hearing they re still in the prison. our sources in iran say they don t actually know if they left evin prison yet. imany official a a ay officials make sure they are free. released a statement by press tv that their detention sentence has been commuted and they have been released on bail, a lot of speculation is once they are released, they will head to iman. . the reason there is that speculation is it played a part in securing the release of sarah shourd, the third american hiker who was released last september. om omani government officials aren t confirming this. they did go into the prison earlier today and we re awaiting word when and if they will leave the country and in fact, they will be headed to muscat, oman. if you wanted to look at the politics behind all that and look at the relationship between oman and the u.s. mohammed, are you still connected with me? all right, we ve lost connection with jamjoom, apologize for
united nations building in new york. let s go straight to mohammed jamjo jamjoom. how close are these two americans from touching down where you are? reporter: well, brooke, we re here at the royal airport. armani officials are saying that the plane should touch down within the next 20 to 30 minutes. we also learned from the families of josh fattal and shane bauer that the families are indeed here, that sarah shourd, the third american hiker who was detained along with the two men and the fiancee of shane bauer, she s here as well. they re eagerly awaiting the reunion. we do not see any of the families yet or any of the hikers. but clearly there s a sense of anticipation here. we got word two hours ago the omani officials were involved in a negotiation to secure the release of the two hikers. not too much surprise considering there was some anticipation that they would be involved, that they paid the bail because last year when sarah shourd was released, nad her bail and he
a message. moments ago, posted a message on to youtube as part of it gets better project a message of hope to lesbian, gay you bisexual children n his sadness, jamie was reach out to help others. this is jamie rode meyer in his own words. hi this is jamie from buff low, new york. and i m just here to tell you does get better. here is a little bit of my story. um um, december 2010, i thought i was bi. and then i always got made fun of because i virtually have no guy friends. and i only have friends that are girls and bothered me because be like tag got tag and caught me in the hallways and i felt like i could never escape t and i made a form spring, which i shouldn t have done and people would constantly send me hate, telling me that gay people go to hell. jamie says he constantly got messages, hate messages on form spring, a social networking site that allows kids to send anonymous messages to each other. back then, as you hear, he says he rose above the negativity. her