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jungle. i could see bodies all over. when you re running, they re still shooting? i m still hearing shots. they had identified people they wanted to kill. we were on top of a powder keg. it s almost impossible to fathom, even now, more than 900 americans dead in the jungle at jonestown. it was something out of a horror movie. you re telling me this man said, drink this poison, and they drank it? that s right. we take you inside the mission that exposed the dangerous truth. don t you touch my kids! i m thinking, oh my god, it s true. everything we feared is true. the only video camera there to capture it all belonged to nbc news. he said, i could never put this camera down. rare pictures, powerful details from those who survived. they were shooting point blank my whole shirt was dripping with red blood. all of a sudden, i was hit. i thought, oh my god, this is it. a riveting look at the story that still haunts the world. the enormi ....
jungle. while you are running they are still shooting? they had identified people they wanted to kill. it is almost impossible to fathom, even now, more than 900 americans dead in the jungle at jonestown. you are telling me this man says drink this poison and they drink it? that s right. we take you inside the mission that observed the dangerous truth. the only video camera there to capture it all belonged to nbc news. he said i can never put this camera down. rare pictures and powerful details. my whole shirt was dripping with red blood. all of a sudden i was hit. a riveting look at the story that still haunts the whole world. whole world. and welcome to dateline. jim jones led nearly 1,000 americans hello and jim jones led nearly 1000 americans to a remote area in south america, promising a religious paradise. what followed was more like hell on earth. the horror almost too horrible to believe. you are about to hear from some eyewitnesses who l ....
i m sara eisen. and i m wilfred frost. good morning to you from me as well. and happy friday. let s have a look at u.s. futures. sharp declines. over 1% in the dow. expected to open slightly positively. essentially we are flat in the pre market but called higher by 4 points. and the s&p by 1 and the nasdaq by about 17 points. let s look at the 10 year treasure note. yields ranging around 1.7 and 1 .9 over the last three weeks. china s central bank fixing its currency t yuan higher. in fact at the sharpest pace since 2005 when china removed its peg to the u.s. dollar. there have been huge swings in currency all week long led by yesterday s massive jump in the yen. how did i miss that? a 3% move in the yen. bank of japan s surprise decision to do nothing and leave the monetary policy unchanged. and of course the big importance is the chinese currency s depreciation in the beginning of the year that was spooking markets and it s gone the other way and that is calming ....
in europe. and then finally a quick look at crude before we get to a couple of the big stories of the morning. wti at 46.57. that would have been a good move around the 40 handle couple of days ago. here are the big stories we re watching today. amazon crushing earnings estimate, posting most profitable quarter ever. we asked yesterday are they still sewing? or starting to reap? looks like the reaping has been. cloud computing business. i thought they sold books. no. they have changed apparently. side things. other things in the last few years. helped the online retail giant pull off the beat and stock took off. jeff bezos net worth went up estimated 6 billion dollars based on how much stock he owns. and other stocks on the move this morning as we check into earnings central. pandora reporting a wider first quarter loss. although it wasn t as bad as analysts expect. the streaming music service is raising full year outlook thanks to higher ad sales. and bai ....
starting to change in the wake of the connecticut school massacre. signs of this is not just another tragedy that we talk about for a week and move on, but has changed the sensibility of the news business. that has some commentators rethinking their long-standing opposition to gun control. i knew that day that the ideologies of my past career were no longer relevant to the future that i want. that i demand for my children. friday changed everything. it must change everything. it is time for congress to put children before deadly darkness. time for politicians to start focusing more on protecting our school yards than putting together their next fund-raiser. a very different message for the media in a rather unusual tellvised speech by the nra chief executive wayne lapierre. the media demonized gun owners. what role should the media play in this emotional debate? a new movie about the hunt for osama bin laden revives a passionate debate about torture. no birt ....