bad. but it turns out there are two cases of high-tech companies in massachusetts with connections to then-governor romney getting money from the commonwealth and then going bust. one called accusphere and spherics incorporated got millions before going under. according to the boston herald, both were run by romney campaign donors. the loans were approved by a seven-person board including three romney campaign contributors. the romney campaign says it wasn t romney s idea. quote, this specific funding was part of a stimulus package that governor romney opposed on the grounds that government should not play venture capitalist. the statement went on to say, because of his concerns he vetoed half the funding but the veto was overridden by the legislature. this week a surrogate was asked about the contradictions. take a look. that they had that they enticed to come over and then bankrupt. the structure in massachusetts as i understand it is a position of appointees the gove
balcony. let s get right to cnn s richard quest, live at buckingham palace for us this morning. richard quest, good morning, how has it gone? reporter: good morning to you. it is an overcast but still dry morning. welcome. i m actually up the road from the palace in trafalgar square, where i think you might be able to see there are several hundred people watching what s happening on big screens. the reason we re in tra it ffal square, throughout the day, the queen is literally commuting through the square, backwards and forwards, palace, manchester house, down to westminster for the lunch, and then later this afternoon, soledad, up whitehall and back home to the palace for that royal wave. on the balcony, only six or seven of them. they re limiting the number of people that had be on the balcony. just the queen, the immediate line of succession, charles, camilla, william, catherine and harry. so, up next from the calendar that i ve read, the queen has left st. paul s wher
new york stock exchange here. they said they ll also be listening for any possible stimulus that the fed could hint to. it s something that the market points to a lot. when you see the markets tumble as they are doing, you know, the fed has done this before where it s bought up government bonds in great numbers, basically pouring a lot of money into the market and giving that kind of shot in the arm to the market. there are definitely two sides of the fence as to whether it s really helped the economy. at least it s done so in the short term. so once again, you are seeing stock futures turn around on hopes that the fed chief will say something positive or supportive on thursday. but no doubt about it, you re still going to see the same worries hang over the market today. you re going to see these same worries hang over throughout the week, worries about spain, worries about greece, worries about china. and then our own problems here in the u.s., that so-called fiscal cliff wh
do believe right now is him but they are waiting for fingerprint tests to come back and confirm it. this man himself says he is the suspect. he says he is luca magnata. he was caught in an internet cafe and there were reports that they had seen activity on his account. he still had his own personal mobile phone. they figured this gi sooner or later would give himself up in a sense. because he want doing a good job of trying to cover his tracks. let s bring viewers back it last week when you and i were talking about this case. it plays out like a slasher movie. absolutely chilling, the allegations against this man, and what he s done. and he actually put things on the internet that only helped police lead the investigation toward him and toward these gruesome acts, right? it was quite an internet trail from the beginning. so if we recap according to canadian police and this is what they have put certainly in their document and prosecution documents, that he had a person he
we re going to to to work out the audio and get back to martin in sanford, florida. all right, meantime, let s go to egypt now and look at the live pictures coming out of tahrir square in cairo. thousands of demonstrators are gathering as they have been all day as they re protesting the life sentence given to hosni mubarak earlier today for his role in killing hundreds of anti-government protesters last year, adding to the unrest, two of mubarak s sons were convicted of corruption charges. and the first day marking the queen s diamond jubilee celebration begins with a bang. a 41-gun salute was fired at the tower of london while other similar salutes echoed across the united kingdom marking the 60th anniversary of the queen s coronation. hundreds of thousands cheed as areaved as a race course in london. her first engagement of the four-day celebration. we ll have much more tomorrow. be sure to watch a royal celebration, elizabeth s 60 years as queen. hosted by brooke baldw