dan wheldon exemplified everything about this series and about why people continue to come to this place, this is the racing capital of the world. two other drivers spent the night in las vegas hospitals for observation. dan wheldon leaves behind a wife and two sons. the occupy wall street movement is marking one month of protests today. a campsite in lower manhattan group says they have raised $300,000 and received hundreds of boxes of food and medicine from supporters. protestors are angry over the widening payout between corporate executives and every day americans. over the weekend protests in solidarity with occupy wall street spanned cities around the globe. cornell west was among 19 people arrested at the u.s. supreme court on sunday. the authorities say that the group refused to leave the court grounds and weston and the others were protesting corporate influence in politics. three families are asking israel s supreme court to stop the release of 1,000 palesti
republican front-runner for the president. according to the latest national poll. leaving many analysts wondering if the georgia businessman s plan resonating. all that and more on american morning. good morning, everybody. it is thursday, october 13. it is certainly not a good morning. i can t get messages from people, i can t send messages. mine was down yesterday but back now. mine was up yesterday but i e-mailed this morning. our executive producer said i will be late. that s the e-mail i sent. he is panicking going where are my anchor. if you don t know what we are talking about, millions of blackberry users are without service this morning. now four-day blackout spreads to north america. the outage primarily affects e-mails and internet access, not the ability to make phone calls or text. weird. problem started monday affecting customers in europe, middle east and africa. by tuesday, it has spread to south america and yesterday customers here in the un
Both parties share the blame equally for the credit down grade. and we were reporting a call for the top mannan, tim geithner, to leave, and now some news about his future. apparently he s not going to be leaving. a statement from the treasury department today saying geithner has decided that he will stay and that he looks forward to dealing with the challenges ahead, big once as though they may be. and a statement from the press secretary, jay carney, the president asked him to stay on and he welcomes the secretary s decision to do so. and others call for his resignation yesterday, as you noted. thank you very much. live from washington. some world leaders holding emergency conference calls about the stability of financial markets. part of it a reaction to the u.s. being downgraded by standard and poors but they are also dealing with a euro debt crisis because of a cash problems in spain and italy and a growing list of nation that is are trying to avoid financial collapse like w
we all have our own criteria and ours is published for the world to see. takes five pillars. one fiscal and one political and one is monetary and one external and one economy . the two we think that have changed is the political settings, we don t think are as strong as some of the strongest sovereigns that we rate and the recent evidence was the debate over the u.s. debt ceiling and the u.s. coming within a day of having cash problems and the other is fiscal profile. debt is high and fiscal deficits are going to be high for sometime to come. dupersonally talk to someone to the white house. we talked to people in the administration from all 126 governments that we rate. what did they say? we usually don t comment directly on the conversations that we have with issuers. and they were upset at you
we all have our own criteria and ours is published for the world to see. takes five pillars. one fiscal and one political and one is monetary and one external and one economy . the two we think that have changed is the political settings, we don t think are as strong as some of the strongest sovereigns that we rate and the recent evidence was the debate over the u.s. debt ceiling and the u.s. coming within a day of having cash problems and the other is fiscal profile. debt is high and fiscal deficits are going to be high for sometime to come. dupersonally talk to someone to the white house. we talked to people in the administration from all 126 governments that we rate. what did they say? we usually don t comment directly on the conversations that we have with issuers. and they were upset at you