pelley: good evening, drivers in the las vegas 300 are telling us tonight it was an accident waiting to happen and, of course it did. taking the life of one of the superstars of this sport 33- year-old dan wheldon. now many are asking questions about how it happened and whether it could have been averted. today at the indianapolis motor speedway where wheldon twice drove to victory in the indy 500 fans paid their respects. he leaves behind a wife and two small children. wheldon s father spoke to reporters earlier today. daniel was born to be a racer and left us doing what he loved to do. pelley: we asked bill whitaker to look into the crash and tonight he is at the las vegas motor speedway. bill? reporter: scott, in the days before yesterday s race, some drivers had expressed concerns about the track speed here at the las vegas motor speedway and especially the high banks that allow drivers to maintain speeds above 200 miles per hour. looking for dan wheldon. rep
these numbers are unheard of when you look at it historically. there was so much talk about how much needed to be cut, line by line, we were supposed to be a tightening of belts and here we are. bill: now questions where all that money is spent. stuart varney, first the report, what does it say? we spent 3 trillion, $600 billion in the financial year just ended, unfortunately, we only took in $2,300,000,000,000, that means we had a decifit, again, second year running, of 1 trillion, 300 billion-dollars. now, what we do not there was no spending cutting, okay? spending cuts overall did not happen. we actually spent more in the year just ended than the year before that. in fact, medicare spending went up, and the big increase was in the payments for interest on our debt. that was up 16 percent. so bill: so when we ask the question, what you get for all that, what you get is more decifit spending, what you get is a greater debt. now, look at the decifit as a share of gro
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indy 500 champ dan wheldon s death. we ll ask if the sport may need to make serious changes. and the world anticipates biggest scrabble event was rocked by a cheating charge as one competitor calls for another to be strip searched over a missing g. we ll get to the bottom of this international incident. it s tuesday morning, october international incident. it s tuesday morning, october 18th, 2011. captioning funded by cbs and good tuesday morning to you. i m erica hill. good to have you with us. beautiful sunrise. chris wragge off this morning. i m jeff glor. some people take their scrabble very seriously. there was a strip search this year. two years ago, a player was accused of eating a tile. yeah. you may think it s just a board game. it s a story we all love. we want to begin, though, with this breaking news. gilad schalit, the israeli soldier captured more than five years ago back in israel with his family. the price for his freedom is the release of more than