welcome back, some of the top major airlines are uniting by agreeing this weekend not to charge fees for carry-on luggage. american, delta, jet blue, united and u.s. air have all told him they won t be charging the controversial fee. when they took away the meals, the water, the pillows, shrugged our shoulders and said that s life. when they started charging for checked baggage, we didn t like it, but charging for carry on bag is a step over the line because that s part and parcel of flying. julie: all of this coming after sprint airlines announced it would start charging for carry-ones. they re getting hit with enough fees without another one and plans to talk to sprint about concerns next week. schumer and five other democratic senators are
welcome back, discovery a two week mission to space can be extended by a day thanks to mother nature. nasa warning the seven member crew rein in the forecast could delay the landing at nasa s space port. if that s the case, they ll aim for the backup in california on tuesday and that s okay one of the astronauts on board. poindexter welcomes anytime he can spend in space. they witnessed atrocities in their 20 s no one would see in their lifetimes. now the world war ii vets who helped free the nazi concentration camps are honored for their service. david petraeus was on hand to lead the ceremonies in washington and with a world war ii vet it s uncertain how
greg? hi, juliet, tomorrow marks five years since the election of pope benedict. however, it s a papacy that recently seemed is marked by the sex abuse crisis, the pope in malta, but anybody was only interested in seeing what was the pope going to say on the subject. in the end it wasn t so much what he said, but what he did. the pope meeting today priefly with eight victims of sex abuse and all lived in a catholic orphanage. the pope expressing shame and sorrow what happened. it must have been emotional and one victim said everyone in there had tears in his eyes, including the pope. benedict apologizing for the pain caused to both the victims and their families, praying with them and saying the church will do all it can to bring justice to those responsible. now, the trip would have been just another kind of celebration of the faith were it not for the crisis. we got a glimpse of this today, this festive attitude and malta is it a very, very catholic country.
senate bill as written now and mitch mcconnell weighed in this morning. for the president to mrit size it in the same speech in which he said we should depoliticize it and web ads trying to attack republicans on this issue, i thought he wanted us to have a bipartisan bill, that s what i d like to have. the xous is encouraging democrats to drop the controversial 50 billion dollars bank liquidation fund republicans don t like, but the president is also ready to turn up the heat on senate republicans, saying he ll move ahead on the wall street bill with or without g.o.p. support. juliet? julie kirtz in washington, thank you. an american soldier killed and three other wounded in a helicopter crash in northern iraq. the military says the uh 60 blackhawk helicopter like the one shown in this picture went down late saturday night and crashed near saddam hussein s hometown of particular krit and the cause still under investigation. the military says it doesn t believe any enemy fire was
mass transport within the united kingdom and between the united kingdom and europe so we can keep britain moving. according to it europe, they released new numbers, up from 2 million yesterday. and some airports are reopening in spain, southern france and norway, in poland six have reopened, the u.k. has extended the ban though on all air traffic until at least 2 p.m. tomorrow eastern time and germany was on the list to have reopened airports, not anymore, all of those airports will be closed, juliet. 200 million dollars a day, unbelievable now. and i believe that stat when i heard it, thank you, laura. the mounting cloud of volcanic ash making it impossible for president obama and other world leaders to travel to poland today where thousands of mourners gathered on the streets of krakow, to bid final farewell to president kaczynski and his wife maria, they died in a plane crash in russia. dana lewis reports from