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
13,000 gay troops were kicked out after their secrets leaked out and the taxpayers spent more than $100 million replacing them. today don t ask, don t tell is no more. repeal took effect at 12:01 a.m., nine months after signing the measure from the waining days of a lame duck congress. gays can now serve openly in every branch of service and all of those discharged service members can try to reenlist. key word, try. turns out repeal is one thing but reality is much different. more on that in our next segment moments from now. more than 22 years after former army ranger and offduty police officer was shot to death in savannah, georgia, the man convicted of killing him is once again set to die. the georgia board of pardons and paroles rejected the last ditch appeal for clemency. the state relied almost entirely on witness testimony and seven out of nine witnesses who implicated davis have since recanted or changed their stories. amnesty international is one of several group
withering fire from gadhafi forces from strategically my positions. we strand from a rebel source that 15 of them were we understand from a rebel source that 15 were killed and 60 wounded. reported tensions between rival groups of rebels. some accuse local fighters of being traitors and supplying information to gadhafi loyalists. in sirte, gadhafi s hometown, also a struggle. we spoke to rebels overnight. they said they got near to gadhafi s palace there. but they are facing stiff opposition also there. shannon: david piper, thank you very much. days after president obama announced his new 447 billion dollar american jobs act a group of democratic law maybers, the congressional progressive caucus announced a jobs plan of their own. joining me from san francisco democratic congresswoman lynn
stuntman named jimmy leeward was maneuvering his aircraft through the twists and turns of a national championship air race in reno. something and we don t yet know what but something went terribly wrong. as you saw, the plane left the course, headed for the grandstand and then crashed straight into the ground. leeward and eight spectators are dead. more than 50 others injured. there is early speculation based on witness photographs. look at the tail section of the plane. the photographs focus on a piece of the plane that appears to be missing. you see it right there. a piece that had a major impact on the pilot s ability to stay in control of the plane. let s get to the ground now where this went on. dan simon is live at the scene in reno. the ntsb held a news conference. we saw it here with fredricka. they talked about the photos. what did investigators say about them? first of all, don, the big headline this hour is that nine people have now been confirmed dead. they
less than a week before the united nations, they held over the seat by muammar gadhafi s government. rebel forces are bearing down on one of two strong holes held by gadhafi loyalists. one is the town of sert, gadhafi s hometown. we are following the developments from tripoli. how are you. if you hear the gunfire in the course of the support, it s celebratory gunfire. tripoli itself has been peaceful since gadhafi was driven out, but on green square adjacent to the town where we are, they have been celebrating. that s the gunfire you might hear. gunfire had to say in his hometown of se rta long the