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few moments, but first joe johns takes a look at how edwards went from rising politician to a guy who could face decades behind bars. reporter: john edwards, the politician, remember him? we have much work to do because the truth is we still live in a country where there are two different americas. reporter: but as it turned out, mr. two americas here had two very different faces himself, and one of them wasn t very pretty. people close to him said it was the face of betrayal, betrayal of the people closest to him, his late wife elizabeth, his supporters, staffers, contributors. granded, edwards was a promising politician at first, successful democratic senator from the south. telegenic guy, rich trial lawyer, but a spokesman for the poor. smart but homegrown. talked such a good game he got picked up as john kerry s running mate in 2004. i have chosen a man who understands and defends the values of america. reporter: but it didn t work out, so next election cy ....
they also agreed to boost the eu bailout fund to a trillion euros, details still pretty vague. they re requiring european banks to keep more cash reserves as a cushion against losses. so why should americans care? well i mentioned stocks but that is just the start. my colleague alison kosik has a whole lot more from the new york stock exchange. first, catch us up on the markets, both here and abroad. okay. randi, first stocks are at some of their best levels of the session, the dow up 293 points. if you look at this month as a whole, it is shaping up to be among the best ever. the dow is up more than 1,200 points so far for the year and the strongest gains today actually came from overseas, from europe. in paris we saw the paris index rise 6%. in frankfurt we saw a rise of 5%. france and germany have been financing much of the bailouts in europe and you re seeing this rally because this deal winds up sharing the burden, kind of sharing the pain. they re not going to ....
strike. thousands of public employees say they ll walk off their jobs this week as parliament prepares to vote on yet another round of austerity measures. wrnss in yemen s capital say government troops killed at least five people when they opened fire on pro democracy demonstrators. sunday s violence left eight dead and more than 50 wounded. the surge in violence is blamed on al qaeda and the muslim brotherhood. a revolutionary forces commander was killed in sirte in the front line on sunday. many fear the anti-gadhafi fighters are losing the earlier momentum in the battle for moammar gadhafi s birthplace. those are the headlines from cnn, i m zain verjee. world business today starts right now. good morning from cnn london. i m charles hodgson. this is world business today. the top stories on monday, october 17th. stocks rise as investors pin their hopes on a solution to europe s dead woes. a crisis of olympic proportions, how the 2004 athens games put greece ....
away tears. her attorney trying to save her life pressing the key point how did little caylee die, asserting there is not enough proof to convict his client of murder. let s hear the argument from both sides. there is something wrong. i saw my daughter s car today and t smells like there has been a dead body in the damn car. it was cindy anthony s frantic 911 call in july of 2008 that launched a search for caylee anthony. three months later, the missing child case became a murder investigation. prosecutors say casey killed her two-year-old daughter caylee with premeditation, poisoning her with chloroform and wrapping three pieces of duct tape over her nose and mouth. not one application, not two, but three. placing a heart shaped sticker on the tape covering little caylee s face, putting h her body in three garbage bags and dumping here in the woods. then casey began a 31 day party that ended when her parents found her car reeking with the smell of death. that ....