more now on that coast guard yacht rescue. the yacht was headed from china to san francisco during the race around the world when stormy weather swept away the vessel s communication and steering equipment. now the coast guard is coming to the aid of the crew. four of which have injuries. moments ago i spoke to an agency official about exactly what that means. once the coast guard helicopter makes its way to the vessel, it will lower a rescue swimmer just as my rescue lowers to shore would. he is an emt trained person. he will do medical evaluation, check the injuries, treat the injuries as much as he can, and make a decision on what he needs to do at that point. and that official says the coast guard should reach the yacht in about an hour. the republican presidential candidates phobinging on wisconsin today with the primary coming up on tuesday. some analysts say a victory by mitt romney in wisconsin can all but seal his nomination. rival rick santorum says not so fas
lost the ability to inspire confidence in the american people here? the entire country is show-me state. they have heard for some time from the very beginning before the stimulus plan, that the stimulus plan would keep unemployment under a certain amount, grow the economy this amount. they ve heard a lot of things that didn t happen, whether it was because the economy was worse than anyone thought it was, whether it was because it was the wrong remedy or not enough remedy, whatever the reason is the american people are now skeptical that washington, including president obama, can do much to change things. i think that s what s reflected in the polls. everybody wants to see it before they believe it. in those same polls from cnn/orc say three in ten people feel they are better off today than they were ten years ago. we know congress has a lower approval rating than the president. these are one national polls. there s just one national election. if the economy doesn t impro
aircraft, that p-51. this is what ntsb officials had to say just a little while ago. take a look. for new information, first of all, there had been reports about a mayday from the pilot. thus far, our investigators have found no information of a mayday call from the pilot. next, the investigators have found that the accident aircraft was equipped with a video camera, facing outward. they have also found camera fragments at the wreckage site. and among the wreckage site, they have found multiple memory cards that could have come from the camera. reporter: so, don, that s what we know at this point. all of that information is going to be shipped off to the ntsb lab in washington. we should tell you that this would have been the very last day for these races. normally, there would be thousands of people out here. of course, a huge economic loss for reno, the fact that they had to cancel the weekend, the economic loss is going to be in the tens of millions of dollars. they, o
former imf cheap dominique strauss-kahn says something inappropriate and of moral weakness happened in that new york hotel suite in may. but he says it was not violent or aggressive. he gave his first post sex scandal today in paris and i spoke with jim bittermann about that a short time ago. reporter: we were expecting a very short interview, but it went on for about 20 minutes, covered a lot of topics including what happened in new york, also what he s facing here, what his political future is, and all that sort of thing. but on the specific case in new york, he gave some details, but not a lot. here is the way he looked and sounded tonight as he was talking about the case in new york. translator: what happened? what happened was was neither violent nor constraint included in this, nor aggression, nor any act or any illicit act. that s what the prosecutor has said. what happened was not only an inappropriate relationship, but more than that, an error, a mistake. rep
but not allowed to circulate inside syria. the brutality that is being committed in syria against innocent people, against policemen and the syrian military. never reported. i have to say that s not true at all. we have a reported on the deaths of the security forces. we know about a number of the people have been security forces. but a large number have been civilians, demonstrators, pro democracy activists and children. who are these armed gangs? i would love to see this. the first one, the third one, the freedom of democracy movement in syria. ayman al zawahiri, three days ago gave a speech in which he emphasized two things. he was bragging about september 11th and he was asking the mujahideen of the islamic world to go join their syrian mujahideen brothers. so you are saying what s happening in syria is some fundamentalist islamist extremist armed movement that is trying to destabilize. if you are talking about the armed groups, absolutely. if you are talking ab