led up to this ipo, this public offering for facebook, many people may step out and say, wait a minute, look where the stock is ending today. the stock ending only up about a fraction of a percent just above that initial ipo offer price of $38. look, many would say it was a messy debut plagued by technical difficulties and not as much demand as everybody thought. we then saw other social media stocks tumble as well in sympathy for facebook. which everybody thought would really pop at the open. and it did. we did see facebook shares pop as much as 18% but clearly they are ending pretty flat on the day. wolf? alison, the whole point is that that $38 number came in at the high end yesterday. that was a number earlier estimates could have come in at $25, $35, $38 was considered pretty big. that was based on investor interest. remember, facebook went on this road show engaging investor interest and there was a lot of investor interest and facebook thought that it could get t
three-page medical report from the family physician of accused killer george zimmerman, and it could become an important piece of evidence here because the day after martin was shot and killed, zimmerman visited his doctor. according to the records, he had a closed fracture of his nose and two black eyes, two lacerations to the back of his head, and a minor back injury as well. martin savidge is joining us live from the cnn center in atlanta. martin, these developments seem to bolster zimmerman s argument that he killed trayvon martin in self-defense. that could be argued in two different directions, zoraida. the attorney that represents the family of trayvon martin is going to say it it doesn t necessarily prove that because what we don t know, despite the medical information that s coming now out of the discovery documents and this is all the information that the prosecution is now bringing forward that they have filed and must make available to the defense team. this i
there may be another debt ceiling crisis. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. captions by vitac www.vitac.com the obama camp today launched an all-out assault on mitt romney s years as a high-powered investment company leader. vice president joe biden slammed romney s business record saying bane capital piled up cash while killing middle-class jobs. jim acosta is out on the campaign trail in florida in st. petersburg right now. here s the question, is mitt romney starting to feel the heat? what s going on? reporter: that s right, wolf, he is. at an event here in st. petersburg, florida, mitt romney did not take reporters questions about his former private investment firm bane capital. in fact, his campaign went out of its way to block reporters asking romney about bane. it was all caught on video. thank you. thank you. reporter: standing in front of a mini national debt clock, mitt romney left no doubt about his message of the day. if i m presiden
the chinese activist at the center of the firestorm interrupted a hearing, cried out for help. chen guangcheng the blind chinese dissident who sought refuge in the american embassy in beijing called into the emergency hearing about his case and pleaded through a translator you can see the call happening, asking specifically to speak with secretary of state hillary clinton. translator: i really fear for my other family member s life and we have installed radio cameras and even with electric fence. now, all of this comes after a whirl wind day of developments that forced the u.s. to explain why chen said he wanted to leave. he said he needs to leave for his safety. and that put ambassador gary locke on the defensive. this was his decision and he indicated of what he wanted. he had the option of staying in the embassy for years if necessary. congressman chris smith spoke to chen today. he was overseeing that committee hearing on human rights. he is outfront tonight.
ac 360 starts now. piers, thank you. good evening, it s 10:00 here on the east coast. we begin tonight, keeping them we begin tonight keeping them honest with the question that seems to have no simple answer. how can someone be fatally beaten, kicked and suffocated, allegedly by more than a dozen people, and yet none of those people, not one, face murder or manslaughter charges. that s one key question in the killing of florida a&m band member robert champion. he died from a brutal hazing, and he died from crossing bus c, where the victim is made to walk down the aisle of the band bus while bandmates hit him. in convicted the maximum anyone could face would be six years in prison. again, the question is why not murder or manslaughter charges? one answer says state prosecutors is that it would be tough getting convictions with the evidence that they have. the testimony obtained to date does not support a charge of murder in that it does not contain the elements of murder