has no criminal record, he has strong family ties, for example, two daughters that live here in new york, and he's not a flight risk. when he left -- tried to leave, get on a plane to head to paris, late on saturday, that he was not rushing away from an alleged attack, instead he said he was in a hurry to leave the hotel to have lunch with his daughter and go on to the airport. will the district attorney accept these charges? will the judge? if the judge does, then he could walk out of court a free man, penning trial. if not, it's back to a jail cell. randi? >> all right, susan. before we move on i want to share a few details about the life dominique strauss-kahn is leaving behind. 2010, listen to this, his contract called ford a base salary of almost $442,000, with an added allowance of almost $80,000, no strings attached. he could do what he wanted and with that allowance. oh, no taxes. did i mention that?