highest paid ceos. you might be surprised to learn who they are. plus, imagine getting trapped in a deadly 6.9 magnitude earthquake. that nightmare was reality in one japanese city. now it s being called disaster proof. our dr. sanjay gupta is there. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. new signs this hour that congress newest members are making their mark and not just on the republican side. two new democrats were sworn in by the vice president, joe biden. chris coons and west virginia governor joe manchin will serve the remaining two years in robert byrd s seat. and we re told the vice president s advice to the delaware successor, don t spend the night in washington, d.c. biden, you might remember, made a point to take the train to his home state of delaware every night during his 36 years in the senate. he wanted to be with his family. let s bring in our correspondent dana bash. some of the newly elected members of congress and there are 90 new republican
folks seem to be looking, if the firm goes down, where do the tentacles expand to. that determines whether the company is systemic or if they have counter parties in europe and in asian. it s really how far do their tentacles spread into the financial sector. in today s world. isn t everything interconnected? that s a huge issue. so many firms are interconnected. a hedge fund that does a lot of swaps with participants around the county, they would have a bigger impact because people start calling their positions, they would be unable to make good on their decisions. i can guarantee there s going to be a lot of lobbying. i think this needs to happen fairly quickly. the firms say they need to know if they re going to be designated as systemic. they put a request out for comment. get your comments in quickly because they plan to move fast tom, what did you hear from the chairman? i think it was interesting. she was quite frank in the problems of the neweraa new era of re
after abu ghraib in which we thought everybody should do. i believe the president of the united states acting as president duly elected by the people, if in a special set of circumstances if the sovereignty of the state is being threatened by a typical catastrophic wmd event, if he has somebody that knows whether and when, if the intelligence is there, the president should be able to do something about that. to preserve what could possible as a result of that. that s the only exception i want make for that. : obviously president bush knew it. it was it isn t merely that the counsel defined torture in the memo. it also asserted that the president of the united states has the authority to override the statutes, and that was the feature that impelled jack goldsmith john yoo was the head of it to withdraw the enemy moment but there can be no doubt that torture was the official policy of the bush administration. and we shouldn t engage in a collective denial here. my concern
good morning. chaos and confusion. desperate residents turn to looting in the wake of that devastating earthquake in chile, as much-needed aid trickles in, authorities are struggling to maintain order. this morning, ann curry reports live from one of the hardest hit areas. repeat offender? san diego police step up the search for missing 17-year-old chelsea king, and now investigators believe a man held in connection with her case may be responsible for another girl s disappearance. and he s back! i thought you were leaving us. but i did leave! i went away to the strangest place. jay leno returns to the tonight show and finds there s no place like home, today, tuesday, march 2nd, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i m meredith vieira. and i m matt lauer. secretary of state hillary clinton is in quake-ravaged chile today, and she s bringing with her the first wave of u.s. aid to that region. th
with us. have a great day. we ll see you tomorrow. bye. good morning. chaos and confusion. desperate residents turn to looting in the wake of that devastating earthquake in chile, as much-needed aid trickles in, authorities are struggling to maintain order. this morning, ann curry reports live from one of the hardest hit areas. repeat offender? san diego police step up the search for missing 17-year-old chelsea king, and now investigators believe a man held in connection with her case may be responsible for another girl s disappearance. and he s back! i thought you were leaving us. but i did leave! i went away to the strangest place. jay leno returns to the tonight show and finds there s no place like home, today, tuesday, march 2nd, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and welcome to today on this tuesday morning. i m meredith vieira. and i m matt lauer. secretary of state hillary clinton is in quake-ravaged che today, and she s bring