one statistic to bear in mind according to the u.s. government is that 95% of passengers in plane accidents actually make it out alive. that s a fascinating statistic. lama hasan, thank you. bad news this morning involving that new strain of bird flu that killed 11 people in eastern china but overnight the virus made a big and dangerous leap infecting a 7-year-old girl hundreds of miles away from the initial hot zone. the former director of the cdc, dr. richard besser live in hong kong this morning. dr. besser, tell us about this fresh case and why it worries you so much. right, dan, so this is a 7-year-old girl. she was hospitalized in beijing with severe pneumonia. her parents both worked in the live chicken business. but what concerns moo he is what you showed on that map, the distance between shanghai and beijing. it was able to travel that distance without leaving a trail of dead birds. most kill birds as well. china will need to do a lot of screening of healthy bi
one statistic to bear in mind, and this is according to the u.s. government, is that 95% of passengers in plane accidents actually escape. they make it out alive. dan? that s a fascinating statistic. a lot of people don t know that. lama hasan reporting from london this morning. thank you. we do have some bad news this morning involving that new strain of bird flu. it s already killed 11 people in eastern china, but overnight the virus made a big and dangerous leap infecting a 7-year-old girl hundreds of miles away from the initial hot zone. abc s chief health and medical editor, the former director of the cdc, dr. richard besser, live in hong kong this morning. dr. besser, tell us about this fresh case and why it worries you so much. right, dan, so this is a 7-year-old girl. she was hospitalized in beijing with severe pneumonia. her parents both worked in the live chicken business. but what concerns me is what you showed on that map, the distance between shanghai and b
the tokyo international tor forum for the annual meeting of the international monetary fund and world bank. nhk s ron madison is there and will be there all week. i was hoping you could break this down for us. what s going on there? reporter: there s lots going on. already been a very full morning. lots of people here. we have finance ministers, central bank governors and other officials from 188 member nations all here now to really, you know, try to agree on how to deal with the problems that they share. and as you point out, they do have quite a few of them. of course, we ve got the debt crisis in europe. but also another factor is the slowing growth in china. also, political problems on the horizon in the united states as well as other places. now, the economists from the imf have answered some of our questions with their world economic outlook. we ll have the details of that coming up in just a few minutes. now, also finance ministers and central bankers from the group
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romney release more than one year of tax records because there s been disturbing reports recently that he s got a bermuda corporation, a secretive bermuda corporation that no one knows anything about, investments in the caymans. is that a swiss bank account. you either get a swiss bank account to conceal what you re doing or you believe the swiss frank is stronger than the american dollar. i ve never i known of a swiss bank account to build an american bridge, create jobs ohr rebuild the levees in new orleans. quite frankly, he offshores most of his own personal investments presumably to shield them from taxes. all right. they all read the same talking points. they regurgitate them. what would you advise romney how to deal with that? what should he do, in your estimation? well, what romney is facing here is that obama doesn t want anyone to talk about the two gigantic, huge, enormous issues confronting this country, the totally disastrous economy and the unpopular h