mohammed is watching from neighboring lebanon, and he joins us live. good to see you. what can you tell us about the latest violence? well, syrian opposition activists told us today that they are begging the international community for their help, for their intervention, after this barbaric massacre, that s what they re calling it, that happened yesterday in the town in homs province. now, they described intense shelling, mortars raining down on the town, and then as you mentioned, they said the pro regime militias went in and started indiscriminantly slaughtering men, women, and children. we have seen gruesome, stubbing videos today. what we have heard from opposition activists corroborate what we have seen on the videos. women and children in blankets on the floors of rooms in houses. we have seen horrible videos of children which they appear that their heads have been bashed in, their lifeless bodies strewn across floors in the houses. horrifyi horrifying. we know the u.
surprise. you certainly hear republicans call for that, but it wouldn t do anything in the short-term. this is way too big an oil market. as you know, the bulk of what makes up the price of gas is the price of oil. and it s all a lot of tradeoffs, too. certainly you don t want a depression so you can have $2.50 gas. right. i want to look at this. gallop polls can find the price at which consumers significantly change their behavior is $5.35. richard, no economic statistic more immediate than gas prices and consumers are feeling it. is this justified? yeah. i i think that gallop poll says 50% to 60% of us start to change their behavior when that goose price goes above $5 or $6 a gallon. really, it means americans may have to change the way they live. that s the fifth factor that you and lizzie were talking about. it may seem painful in the short run. we have to change the way we live. we have to move closer to where we were, increasing numbers are walking and biking to
seeing the release of dominique strauss-kahn. that s right. in fact, we re waiting for the former imf chief to walk out of jail. a judge agreed to free him on bail yesterday. that s the same day a grand jury indicted him. in order to get out of jail strauss-kahn will post bail of $1 million and a $5 million insurance bond and forced to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet and guarded around the clock. strauss-kahn had been under suicide watch or has been and could be walking out of there any moment. susan candiotti is here now. this is a big victory for his legal team. it wanted this to happen before it was denied and now he got it. it s a matter of making it all come together. we don t know exactly when he ll be getting out of rikers. we do know that the judge is going to have to finally sign off everything is in place. we know that as you ve been reporting, that a security team has been hired by the defense team and he has to pay for this himself, dominique strauss-