they spent $800,000 of your money on skits, clowns, mock award ceremonies. this hour we will hear their answers about the spending scandal. we begin hearings on the actions of the general services administration employees. the agency supposed to make sure taxpayer dollars are spent wisely. instead, they threw this lavish conference in vegas at taxpayer expense. tornadoes ripped through the midwest. six people in one hard-hit oklahoma community died. ten states in the midwest and plains got slammed by the storm system. people are cleaning up trying to get back to normal today. now, those who made it through the storms, they say they re not taking anything for granted. you don t know when the last time you re going to tell somebody you love them and stuff or see somebody and it s one of those things. just like that everybody was gone. everybody. i mean, everybody. don t matter about what we have, we re here. national weather service tells us it was an ef-3 tornado that
rick santorum s political career will be ending soon. he will go to the republican convention next year not as a candidate but as a fox news contributor again. santorum has traveled all of iowa, and he s still gaining no traction. there s a reason for that. then of course, santorum finished in a virtual tie in the iowa caucuses. how could news outlets make this mistake again and fail to scrutinize santorum s record in the process? mitt romney faces skeptical questioning despite winning iowa because his margin was a measly eight votes. what does did say about your candidacy that you actually won fewer votes than but in 2008, and you fought rick santorum to a draw? perhaps the press is just trying to keep this race alive? plus, we ll talk to the political director of the dominant tv station, wmur, about covering the nation s first primary as a local story. i m howard kurtz and this is the new hampshire edition of reliable sources. the media narrative here in new
they are refusing to leave the jail until they get permission to hold their fast. i m zain verjee and world business today starts now. good morning from cnn paris, i m nina dos santos. welcome to world business today. the top stories this wednesday, august 17th. leaders of the eurozone s two top economies meet and investors are not impressed by the outcome. the world s largest economy hasn t been inspiring much confidence either. in an exclusive interview u.s. president barack obama tells us how he wants to turn that around. new evidence emerged in the news of the world hacking scandal challenging james murdoch s testimony. first, let s get straight to the markets. if investors were holding their breath in the hope of a break through in europe s sovereign death crisis, they ll still be waiting to exhale. tuesday s much-hyped meeting between the french president nicolas sarkozy and german chancellor angela merkel was a damp squid in the eyes of the market as