all right. quick check on wall street. opening bell rang just moments ago and the first few minutes of the trading you can see the dow is down almost 12. but the recession is long over, at least that s according to economists, not americaning. in fact, many of us are worried that more bad times are ahead in the form of a dreaded double-did i believe recession. john roberts spoke with a leading economist this morning and hearing from him in a moment but first poppy harlow, cnnmoney.com breaking it down for us. poppy? yeah. we got the news in your show yesterday, kyra, that the great recession as you will is officially over. 18 months long. the longest we have seen since world war ii. really since the great depression but the bottom line, when people got the news scratching their heads saying i feel like i m in a recession
is pure fiction. here s a fact. former fbi agent tells the times art thieves work for themselves and brings us to paris. three suspects on trial for trying to fence two picasso paintings stolen from his granddaughter s home. josh? you know, kyra, the trial is significant not just because it s about the drama of stolen, precious art in real life but numerous thefts like this in recent years, hundreds of picassos alone missing. this is at the home of his granddaughter. two paintings are the center of this trial. go back to the screen and tell you about them. first is mya with doll. a portrait of his daughter. this girl then grew up, had a daughter and had diana and from diana s house it was stolen and the second is portrait of jaclyn. authorities say two less
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only at age 29 when the air force declassified his father s story did he learn the truth. i was stunned that, in fact, he wasn t killed in a helicopter accident. it was the first time i knew of his heroic deeds. reporter: during the vietnam war, the u.s. military wasn t supposed to be in laos. it was a neutral country. so etcheberger and others shed the uniforms and posed as civilians to run a super secret radar installation on a mountaintop. in 1967 and 68 site 85 guided u.s. bombing of north vietnam. in march of 68, north vietnamese soldiers scaled the mountain and attacked. they were trapped. etcheberger picked up an m-16. it s foggy. weapons going off. he has the comrades, two of whom shot and killed and fall off the
hottest senator. she has been called one of the 50 most beautiful people by the hill newspaper. secondly, joe miller, a guest on john king usa, and he came from behind and beat the republican senator lisa murkowski a few weeks ago and he is somebody calls lisa murkowski a hypocrite because she is bemoaning the tea party activist when she, in fact, has gotten money from outside alaska from lobbyists, and, lastly, all eyes here are on a crucial vote on don t ask, don t tell, and that is, of course, the effort to repeal the policy of gays in the military. that is something that is too close to call right now. we are watching that very carefully, kyra. thanks, dana. we have the next political update in an hour, and you can also go to our website cnnpolitics.com. witchy, woman, more than a popular eagles song these days after delaware s republican