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The cost of guns. the washington post looked at the glock g-17. pretty much what you think of when somebody says a handgun. the company describes it as the world s most popular pistol. at $5 thunder guns could cost $359 million in total. if we go by just the basic gun safety training and provide firearms the president s idea would cost nearly half a billion dollars but if we want to provide the more expensive training in the guns well that would bump up the tab to more than $1 billion. it s a big number. joining me now is david hemingway. he s dedicated decades asking the question of firearms and public health. david, you have said something really striking about the idea of arming some teachers. you call the idea crazy and then you said what should we do about reducing airline hijacking. do we give passengers guns as
GunsCostWorldHandgunCompanySomebodyPistolWashington-postGlockg-17517Happening now, breaking news, we have new details the on an attempted airline hijacking and bomb threat linked to the olympics as the winter games begin under a cloud of terror fierce. we re also learning about other potential threats in sochi that authorities are tracking right now. sources revealing to cnn some of the dangerous plots that might unfold. plus, opening gaffes from a problem with the olympic rings to a slew of empty seats. can russian keep the winter games on course? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. let s begin with the breaking news. officials in turkey say they have an air pirate about custody after he tried to hijack a plane to sochi claiming he had a bomb on lert. f-16 fighter jets scrambled. in the end the plane landed safely. but for a while there was concern that the threats of olympic terror might be playing out. our senior international
In-sochiBombThreatThreatsWinter-gamesBreaking-newsDetailsOlympicsAirline-hijackingUndera-cloud-of-terror-fierceSouthern-russiaProblemAirline hijacking connected to the opening of the olympic games in sochi. cnn has learned that the suspected hijacker wanted a turkish airliner diverted to sochi. our nick paton walsh is on the ground for us in sochi right now. the plane is in turkey, right, nick? tell us what we know. reporter: well, at this point, yes, it s in the sabiha gokcen airport in istanbul. now, it was flying from ukraine, from the eastern city of kharkhov there. it had 110 passengers on board according to turkish officials. it appears that one of them during that flight while the plane was in air and its route takes it over the black sea behind me or close to it, one passenger said that he d stashed or he knew there was a bomb on board and asked the pilot to divert the plane to sochi here. now, clearly whatever happened, the pilots didn t choose to take that threat seriously enough or obey the man who threatened them. they instead landed in istanbul,
PlaneTo-sochiTurkish-airlinerGroundTurkeyAirline-hijackingSuspected-hijackerOlympic-gamesCnnOpeningIn-sochiNick-paton-walsh can pass it in the next day or two and avert the first default on our national debt in history. i am worried about the size of defense cuts that may be contemplated, but that doesn t mean i m therefore rejecting the agreement. i m just worried. this is a head scratcher. stocks take a tumble after the debt relief rally that happened earlier this morning. the dow surged more than 120 points, but a weak manufacturing report, just sanction the market. stocks posting the worst weekly performance in more than a year in a debt stalemate last week. the dow is at 12:07. down 70 points. new reports of gunfire after what s described as a nationwide offensive against government protesters. sunday s clash killed more than 70 people in that country and at least 50 of them in the city. security forces were responding to armed groups who terrorized citizens by firing from the roof tops of buildings. that s according to government there. egyptian security forces shut down protests in ca
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