state department alumnus but the justice department too. i can t believe if the f.b.i. investigating the c.i.a., to agencies who have no love loss between them, the f.b.i. uncovered possible problems with communications from the c.i.a. s director, i have to believe that the director of the f.b.i. would have been informed of this in a matter of nanoseconds and i would be sunday if the f.b.i. director did not immediately talk to the attorney general as soon as he learned about this potential problem. and i then find it hard to believe that the attorney general wouldn t talk to the president. so we don t know exactly what the timing is, but i simply don t think on something this potentially consequential that the information drifted around at low levels for weeks or months. it s like the november surprise. they talked about the drone attack that iran fired on a drone on november 1st but that didn t come out. that s i think something that
facebook at $100 billion. the most valuable company ever at the time of its initial public offering. and more valuable than citi or mcdonald s. millions hoping it will help them boost their bottom lines this morning. dan simon is live at the facebook mothership in menlo park, california, where workers are marking the occasion by working all night long. seriously, dan, what s up with that? it s 2:00 in the morning here and we re wide awake. they re having a hack a thon, an opportunity for facebook employees to basically do what they do best build, design, create. they do this periodically, an interesting public relations move as we re about to begin the trading of the stock. what they want to do is send a message to the world that they built this company on building stuff. so that s what they re doing. they posted pictures to the website showing what s going on inside some of these rooms. in terms of the fundamental challenge facing facebook in the future, it s exactly tha
begin t. group is claiming responsibility form a series of attacks last weekend in the north that killed more than 200 people. the u.s. republican party presidential kanld dats faced off in the final debate in the u.s. state of florida. newt gingrich quickly fired the shot at miss romney over his immigration policies. both candidates have relentlessly attacked each over in the media in the past few days. a frightening day for australia s prime minister left unanswered questions about her security. activists surged on a restaurant where she was attending an event. police decided to rush the prime minister to safety. those are the top stories from cnn, the world s news leader. i m zain verjee and world business today starts now. hello and welcome to world business today, happy friday to all of you out there. i m nina dos santos in london. from cnn hong kong, i m pauline choiu. i m john deaf tar yoes in switzerland, the top stories on january 27th. nearly a quart
collapses, but you can get a lot of damage just caused by what we would say nonstructural damage, bookcases falling over, light fixtures fallings. and we re seeing lots of small damage. our initial estimate is very low probability for fatalities, but in terms of economic losses, it could add up. unbelievable. it is, i guess comforting to know even you folks at the geological survey weren t sure in the nanoseconds. david applegate, thanks so much. i want to bring in tom costello. they really took some hits, didn t they, tom? reporter: this is a beautiful little town in the middle of
so says a columnist who proposed the idea. dana milbank with the washington post asserts that simple premise. what do you mean, dana? this week senator gene sheheen had an exhibition of robots in the senate part of capitol hill and wanted to demonstrate the usefulness of robots, i thought she could go further by see fg we could have more of them come and take care of our problems here. certainly if the robots were in charge, we wouldn t have anything like what you re seeing today with multiple press conferences with all kinds of name calling. the robots would be able to put together an algorithm and have this budgetç taken care of in nanoseconds. and how would the robots respond, for instance, to special interests? well, i think we could program them anyway we want. what s interesting about the robots that senator sheheen brought is each one is actually sponsored by a corporation like