go to cnn politics.com. suzanne malveaux is here. >> we have to do this together some time. >> we should. maybe. have a great show though and a great weekend. how was the party? was it fun? >> white house party was fantastic. going next week? >> yes. we'll see what happens. >> don't cause any trouble. >> if they'll let me in. thank you. have a great weekend. >> live from studio 7 i'm suzanne malveaux. get you up to speed for this friday, december 9th. a deal to save the euro driving u.s. stocks higher today. want to check out the dow. the big board there up 136 points now. analysts say tgs a positive yet lukewarm reception to today's news from europe. all 17 eurozone nations, those that use the euro as their currency, agreed to tightly inat the great their economy. what does this mean? britain is staying on the sidelines keeping some anxiety in those markets. we'll have full details in a minute. we also have details about

yesterday's virginia tech shootings. now police say the apparent gunman and victim did not know each other. university spokesman says the suspected shooter was not a student there and ballistics tests confirm that the same gun was used to kill the suspect and a campus police officer. the suspect apparently dye died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. they've identified the slain officer as deriek crouse. he was 39. married with five children and step-children. police say the gunman walked right up to him and fired. >> he opened his car door and when they opened it he just fell out towards the ground. and then they immediately started reviving him. then they took off with some sort of automatic weapons. they started running the opposite direction after the gunman. >> that's so sad. a small vigil was held on the

blac blacksburg campus last night. dottie sandusky is telling cnn it's absolutely untrue. updated grand jury report says she ignored a boy's scream for help as her husband, jerry sandusky, sexually assaulted the boy in sandusky's basement. mrs. sandusky says she's shocked by this allegation and she adds, quote, i continue to believe in jerry's innocence and all the good things that he's done. jerry sandusky, he is out now on bail following his second arrest on new child molestation charges. the former penn state coach is now under house arrest. he's required to wear an electronic monitor. a lot of doubts now being raised about the drone that iran has been parading around on tv. iran claims that it's an american drone shot down over its own territory. some officials in the united states say it could be a fake. cnn's chris lawrence tells us, there is even a bigger question.

if the drone is american, what was it doing when it went down? >> reporter: a u.s. official says it was a cia mission strictly to search for insurgents in afghanistan near the border. several sources point out the sentinel is a stealth drone designed to penetrate areas with air defenses. they say it's hard to believe the drone was strictly operating over afghanistan which has none. >> so it could have been used in eye ron t. could have been deliberately used in iran. it's very likely, in fact, that it was a reconnaissance platform of choice to do precisely that. midnight deadline for occupy protesters to leave a city square in boston has come, gone. most are actually staying put in their tents. more than 100 tents have been set up in dewey square since september protesting the country's growing gap between the rich and the poor. a judge ruled the first amendment rights do not include seizing the park. the mayor says he is giving them

a chance to leave at their own will for now. one protester says the protest does not end because of eviction. >> you can't evict an idea. just because the tents are gone doesn't mean it's going to slow down. a woman accused of dausing fellow black friday shoppers with pepper spray at the california walmart not facing felony charges. firefighters had to treat ten people who had been sprayed and the los angeles city attorney's office said he may consider misdemeanor charges. take a look at this incredible video. oh, my goodness. red hot lava rushing down the side of the kill la way a volcano flowing into an abandoned neighborhood. authorities have closed off that section very popular to tourists until they consider it safe.

so now highlights of this deal to save europe from a deepening financial crisis. 17 countries that use the euro, along with five other eu countries, they're going to submit their yearly budgets to a central body for approval. the deficits, the root of the debt crisis, that will be capped off at.5% of economic output. automatic penalties will kick in for any country that overspent. i want to go to fee leash sha taylor to help us sort all of this out here. we looked at the markets today. it seems like it's restorpg the confidence in the markets. do we think that's working? >> reporter: well, suzanne, it's a little bit of a mixed bag. what we're seeing is a relief rally over what was a pretty significant drop. the averages are up about 1%. we're seeing some significant gains in the banking sec tofrmt let's take a look at why americans need to care about this eu summit. we've seen more than a dozen of them in the last few months. what does it mean for those of

us that are investors in the financial sector? i'm joint outside of the new york stock exchange. why should americans care about yet again newer european summit? >> they need to care not so much about the summit, they need to care that the europeans are moving in the right direction to contain the crisis. a year and a half ago we were talking about one country, greece, and they took their time dealing with it not thinking it was going to be a problem. now we've all seen what's happened and it's engulfed the whole country, right? so americans need to be concerned because if, in fact, europe goes off the edge, if the union breaks up it will cause massive financial destruction around the world. nobody wants to see that happen. the fact that they're making some progress, baby steps as the german chancellor called it, they're making progress, moving in the right direction. that's good for europe and the united states. the last thing we want to do is be dragged down into a recession if it doesn't go well over

there. we're hopeful it does not. this is a positive development. >> reporter: britain has said it would not agree to this kind of a pact. what is worrisome about that? what does wall street really need to see the eurozone do at this point? >> i think that britain did make that comment. britain is not part of the currency zone. in fact angela merkel and sarkozy have made it very clear that they will move on and contain this crisis and do what they need to do. i think britain will come around if britain sees that they're making real progress. one way or the other i think what we as americans need to see is that they in general are making progress and that the union does not break up. that's really key. that's what's important. in terms of the u.s. stock market, we're making progress in this country on our own. our recovery is slow but we are making progress. so i would suspect that as long as they get it together, that the world will then, the global economy will make progress. >> reporter: very quickly, what would you be investing right now? >> i love the financials.

they have the lead going up. as a long-term investor, if you're somebody in this for the long term, financials are the place to be. >> reporter: suzanne, they're up 2 or 3%. jpmorgan chase, citigroup, wells fargo. you never know. >> still a little bit of good news there. thank you very much. next, as europe deals with its financial crisis, americans now are getting poorer. we're going to find out what is actually causing that. then we're seeing video for the first time now of a former fbi agent who disappeared in iran nearly five years ago and his family is pleading for help. plus there is a new development in the dominique strauss-kahn sexual assault case. both sides now say it supports their case. rare dramatic video of a marine fire fight inside afghanistan. nyquil (stuffy): hey, tylenol. you know we're kinda like twins.

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there are new pleas for help today from a family of a former fbi agent who is now missing and has been missing. he's been held captive for almost five years. for the first time we are seeing this video of robert levinson. you can see how differently he actually looks from when he disappeared in iran. that was back in marv 2007. the family posted the video on their website today. it is difficult to watch. we want to warn you as this 59-year-old pleads for help. >> i am running very quickly out

of diabetes medicine. i have been treated well. i need the help of the united states government to answer the requests of the group that has held me for 3.5 years. 33 years of service to the united states deserves something. please help me. >> that is difficult to see that man in that state. i want to go to the state department with our own jill dougherty to explain why we are seeing this videotape now. why is the family making this tape public now? have they had it for a little while? >> reporter: they have had it for a while, suzanne. we understand they probably got it back about a year ago, in november of last year. then if you remember, in march of this year secretary clinton mentioned that they had what they were calling proof of life. it was undefined. nobody was saying precisely what

it was, but this appears to be it. it's that videotape. you're right, it's pretty hard to look at t. unclear who made it. in that videotape mr. levinson is talking about his health. he said that he's being treated well but that he's running out of medicine for diabetes. again, if that tape was made, let's say a year ago, we do not know the condition or at least we don't think we know the condition of mr. levinson. you know, he is 6'4", 250 pounds when he was back in the united states. he's looking very gaunt. >> do we know, does the family suspect and does the state department suspect that he is still alive? >> reporter: i cannot answer this right now. we are hoping that we will speak with the family today and get that information. i think, suzanne, you'd have to say that this case has been so mercy since the beginning and so many false leads and nobody

really able to pin down precisely who is holding him, where they're holding him. you know, the u.s. government now for years, it's going to be five years in february since he disappeared, has been talking to the iranian government directly, indirectly trying to get information and all along the iranian government has been saying, we don't know anything. we don't know where he is. we can't give you any information. so it's been a very frustrating thing for this family. >> jill, in just watching that tape you can also hear in the background there is some kind of music that's being played. can they use that information to try to figure out where that tape was made and if, in fact, he still is in iran? >> reporter: absolutely no question that they could analyze that. it's been described as kind of middle eastern music. of course, you know, who knows where that was coming from, exactly where it was taken. but he did disappear, remember, on an island that is an economic

zone in iran. where he went nobody quite knows. he was flying out but then suddenly disappeared. he is a career, as you heard that, 33.5 years as an fbi agent. then he retired and he became an investigator. so he was investigating cigarette smuggling from what we understand and that is when he disappeared. was there a connection to what he was doing? is it just because he was an american? nobody knows? >> jill, we certainly hope that this helps find him and bring some sort of resolution for his family. thank you. a new video now is prompting some new questions about the sex scandal involving this man. you may recall former international monetary fund chief dom neeg strauss-kahn. we'll explain why both sides say this video shows why they were telling the truth. okay-y... okay??? i've been eating progresso and now my favorite old jeans...fit. okay is there a woman i can talk to? [ male announcer ] progresso. 40 soups 100 calories or less.

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so she borrowed money for a one-way ticket to washington and when i met her at the libyan embassy, she just had $40 in her pocket. she said she was desperate. her journey has been a difficult one.

how can you forget this? you may recall in the middle of libya's violent civil war, her story came to embody the cruelty of the gadhafi regime. she burst into a crowded tripoli hotel room saying she had been raped by soldiers. government security forces dragged her out of the hotel to an unknown destination and attacked the journalist who tried to help her. she was called a drunk, a whore by gadhafi's government. by others she was the face of defiance. >> i usually get harassed when i have to show my identification card to government officials somewhere. they find out who i am and that i've put complaints forward against gadhafi's people. they humiliate me to the point where other people gather around and start saying that it's shameful to treat a libyan woman that way. it is the same thing every day. >> so she fled bouncing from country to country. finally, she found asylum here

in the united states, but her journey is not over. this is the first time that we've heard from her since she arrived in the united states and in our exclusive interview she tells me about her life here, her struggles to recover from the brutalitiys of the attack in libya and her efforts to move on here in the states. >> when i came, i never imagined life would be this hard. there's nothing easy. you have to work. you have to work. i mean, as we say in libya, you have to kill yourself working just to survive. and i wish there even was work. the state i'm in seems cut off. there are no work opportunities. i have been going to the employment office for four months. >> reporter: do you have any support from your family? >> my family supports me. i've been here for four months and without the aid they send me every month, i could not have

survived. $300 a month can do nothing. >> reporter: what would you like to do? would you like to go back to your family in libya? >> i am sure everyone wants to return back to their own country, but i'm not mentally ready for that. i also feel personally i'm not ready to integrate back into the society. i feel like for me is hard because everything is so different from culture to language. >> eman says the pain is too great to go back to libya. this is not her home either. i asked her a number of things, including about gadhafi's death and what's she going to do next. we'll bring you more of my exclusive conversation with her on mon only in the "cnn newsroom." if you thought you had heard the last of dominique strauss-kahn's sexual assault case, think again. new video turning up and

prosecutors in new york drop the case against the former international monetary fund chief when they determine that his accuser wasn't a credible witness. both sides claim that these new images support their version of what really happened. >> reporter: the security camera from the sofitel hotel has not been seen in public before. it appears to show the rather casual departure of dominique strauss-kahn from the hotel about 20 minutes after he is alleged to have sexually assaulted a roommate. in contrast to the description used by the authorities at the time that the former director of the international monetary fund fled the scene. bfm will not say where it obtained the footage. the alleged victim is seen in several sequences. in one where the police arrive she is rather passively sitting in a hotel corridor with a hotel

security officer. in another almost an hour after the alleged assault she is more animated. her lawyers say she is describing what happened. thereafter the two men are seen in another room doing a 12-secondhand slapping routine although without audio it's impossible to say what they're celebrating. finally the police arrive to take charge of the affair. as you can imagine, there have been a number of reactions to the release of the video with lawyers for dialo claiming it supports their case while strauss-kahn's attorneys have already said that the so-called sell will he brace dance raises serious questions about what was going on at the hotel. the owners of the hotel says their release of the video extracts unnecessarily exposes employees to media curiosity and that any idea that the hotel was involved in the plot is nonsense. jim bittermann, cnn, paris. americans are actually getting poorer. we're going to tell you why households across the country are not worth as much as they were just months ago.

here's our rundown of the stories that we are working on. next, american's bank accounts get hit harder at this time than any time since the start of the recession. we'll tell you how much we

actually lost. then we're going to show you this where amazing video of a marine fire fight inside afghanistan. later, how to own a piece of elizabeth taylor's world from her diamonds to the gowns. americans have gotten a lot poorer since the financial meltdown back in 2008. a new report proves it. it shows a big drop in the third quarter in how much money each household is actually worth. our felicia taylor is with us at the new york stock exchange. how much of a loss? what does this mean for us? >> it's a whopping 2 trillion in household net worth. that's a 4% decline. this is information that comes from the federal reserve. it's pretty severe. it measures the value of assets like your house, investments minus your debts, like a mortgage that you might have or whatever credit card debt you might have as well. pretty much the driving --

driving the big decline is the value of the stock market. we've seen stocks tumble about 17% during the summer selloff. now that's when the u.s. credit rating was downgraded. obviously we still have all those worries about possibly another recession and the ongoing debt crisis in europe. frankly, our own problems here in the united states. another factor, the value of real estate continued to decline in the third quarter. so all of that coupled together and it's no wonder that total household net worth declined. >> this report shows that there's a jump in consumer spending in the third quarter. does that help counter that at all? is that a good thing? >> not really. i mean, that sounds like the antithesis of what you'd expect to see. people spent by using money out of their savings accounts. that's never something you want to see. that could mean that people don't have money now to buy any more in the consumer sector or actually pay off any other debts.

analysts do say net worth is going to rise in this quarter. the stock market has regained some ground, all of its third quarter losses. there are things that are beginning to feel like things are moving in the right direction. that means people are bringing home the bacon once again, earning an income. all good news. not enough, but at least it's going in the right direction. we haven't recouped all of what we lost in the recession so we're slowly beginning to recover. that's the operative word is slowly. >> i'll take even slowly at this point. thanks. there are two plans for both democrats, republicans to find money to extend the very popular payroll tax cut. well, they are dead on arrival. that is right. senate shot down the democrat's plan that would have added a tax to those making more than a million a year. the failed republican proposal sought to freeze federal pay and reduce the federal work force by 10%. so what's actually going to

happen to your paycheck if the tax cuts expire? christine romans explains. >> reporter: if these tax cuts are not extended by the end of the year, your paycheck will get smaller. well, in your paycheck you pay a part of your earnings to the government in a payroll tax, and that tax, among other things, goes to fund social security, right? 6.2% of your income is what you pay to the government in that particular payroll tax. well, in the stimulus last year there was a holiday, a reprieve for one year that you would only pay 4.2%. that extra little tiny bit, that extra little 2% of your paycheck on average comes out to i think $50 a pay period. it comes out to somewhere between $900 or $1,000 a year extra in your paycheck. the tax cut applies for 160

million working americans and it applies to the first $106,000 of your income. that means somebody making more than $106,000 is not going to get a bigger tax break than everybody else, quite frankly. some economists say, yes, it did stimulate some spending. there's no question when you have so many workers living right on the edge, they're spending every dollar of their paycheck. if you have put a few more dollars in their paycheck, they'll spend it in the economy. it's one reason why now you're seeing bipartisan support for extending this holiday another year, because republicans and democrats have agreed that a little more money in the average worker's pocket is probably something that they'll spend. why does anyone want to end it? because it doesn't come for free. because it costs about $200 billion and we live in a world we can't spend money we don't

have anymore. democrats and republicans finally agree on something. that is that the payroll tax holiday should be extended. they disagree pretty strongly on how to pay for t. republicans don't want to raise taxes on millionaires to pay for lower taxes for working americans. they say there are too many small business owners and small businesses and job creators who don't want to see higher taxes so that you can keep this temporary payroll tax going. democrats would like to see a surtax of almost 2% of millionaires. they'd like to roll back tax breaks for the oil industry to help pay for it as well. they have until the end of the year. there's another measure that goes along with this and a lot of people are talking about it. it's the extension of emergency unemployment benefits. that expires. if congress does nothing. if congress is steal mated and there is no extension of this or other provisions that were meant

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all year we've been introducing you to everyday folks who are changing the world. we call them cnn heroes. you voted on the best of the best. this weekend you're going to get a chance to see the top ten cnn hero. we're going to find out who has been voted cnn hero of the year. a.j. hammer is in the shrine auditorium in l.a. that is where this big event is being held. set the scene for us. >> reporter: well, it is a crisp

morning here in southern california, downtown langs, suzanne. crowds are here. the broadcast will be sunday night at 8:00 eastern. they're working hard getting the cameras in place, working on staging and lighting. we want everything to be perfect when we honor these incredible individuals who are making such a difference in the lives of others. now just a short time ago i spoke with the great actor hill harper from "csi new york." . 's made an incredible difference. he's officially a cnn heroes alumn who was with us last year. i asked him why this event is so important to him. watch what he told me. >> cnn heroes to me, when i got asked to be on the blue room panel last year, i was honored. you're talking about celebrating individuals that you otherwise wouldn't know about. people who are doing great work, inspirational work. when you hear the stories of all the people that are being honored, it makes you want to be

a better person. in news we hear so much negative stuff so it's great that cnn is doing something like this. >> reporter: to that end i hear from so many people, there are not enough family tv programs. we can get the kids together, parents together, whomever is in the family, sit down and watch something. i challenge anybody to but feel inspired after watching this. >> there's no way you can't. it encourages all of us to get involved and do something. what's so beautiful about it is that you have such a diversity of individuals that are doing great work. it's telling you that there's a way any of us can get involved and make a difference, make a change. you know this. award season in l.a. and hollywood is about to kick off. what better way to begin having awards in los angeles than celebrating people on the ground doing work. >> reporter: so much dedication. that's where i think you can really relate to our honor res. you have so much dedication to

your foundation, the manifest your destiny foundation. empowering youth. these are individuals who aren't doing what they do because they're supposed to, they're doing it because it's as if they have no choice. >> absolutely. one of my favorite words is the word courage. the root of that word is cour which is heart. if there's one thing that links all of these heroes, they all are heroes, even the people that got submitted and didn't get chosen in this final panel, you talk about amazing people, what links them all is their heart. their hearts are so big. to be encouraging and go out and say, you know what, i can make a difference. it's not about how much money i have, not about how much celebrity i have, where i come from, i can make a difference right now today. that's what these people represent. >> reporter: great having you here. now, suzanne, on sunday night at 7:00 p.m. eastern i'm going to be standing over here. there will be a massive red carpet and a sea of heroes, honor res as well as

celebrities. for "showbiz tonight" at cnn heroes it's going to be a one hour live preshow. my co host is j.r. martinez, dancing with the stars champ. how cool is that? >> that's amazing. such a great group too. it's an extraordinary group of people we're honoring. have fun. thanks. i'll be watching. great group. we've interviewed a lot of them here. reminder top ten cnn hero nominees. tune in to cnn live sunday evening 8:00 eastern. cnn heroes. all-star tribute. group of u.s. marines now putting their lives on the line. going to take you to the battle zone inside afghanistan for a rare look at combat. ♪

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donald trump, he might not have a lot of company for the presidential debate that he's trying to host. another candidate said no. joe johns live from the political desk in washington. joe, somebody else turned him down, yeah? >> yeah, that's right. rick perry, suzanne, is the latest to say he's got too much retail politics to do, if you will, in the last days before the iowa caucuses when this thing would occur. the question is becoming when is a debate not a debate? what type of forum is it going to take? is it going to happen at all? this thing was supposed to be on the 27th of december starring donald trump as a moderator. so far only two presidential candidates say they will attend that debate. that would be former house speaker newt gingrich, former center rick santorum.

for the record the candidates who have said they're not coming have given a variety of excuses saying, for example, their schedules are already booked. donald trump claims the big problem is that he is signaling he might mount a third-party run for president which makes him a potential competitor for the republican nomination. trump is making it clear he's not backing down. he put out a statement today saying it is very important to me that the right republican candidate be chosen to defeat the obama administration. if that republican, in his opinion, is not the right candidate, he says he is unwilling to give up his right to run as an independent. the chairman of the republican party has said trump's position on running is clearly an issue. a lot of drama there. there always is whenever you talk about donald trump. >> you have to wonder what was the thinking behind that decision in the first place but, okay.

we'll see what happens. >> ratings. >> that's the answer. herman cain, right, suspended his presidential bid, but i think he's still in the spotlight. what is he up to? >> yeah. now that he's suspended his campaign, he says the doors to radio and tv are open. he made this comment on fox news, which of course has put a lot of republican politicians on tv as contributors and paid them, by the way. by the way, his campaign has made a big deal before he suspended it that he wasn't trying to do this to give himself a boost in the media going as far as to say he didn't want a tv show. by the way, he's had a lot of experience, of course. he had radio. he was a host on radio as well as a syndicated columnist in the newspapers. we know about the book that he wrote which he was promoting while he was running for president. a question whether it's going to turn into something else for herman cain. >> yeah. i have a feeling we'll be seeing a lot of herman cain in whatever

fashion or forum. he's not going away. >> that's right. >> thanks, jim. >> you bet. >> for the latest political news you know where to go. cnn politics.com. each week we introduce you to somebody who has achieved remarkable things despite having to overcome remarkable challenges. figuring out what was wrong with this player was half the battle. cnn's dr. sanjay gupta has this week's human factor. >> for georgia tech first base man kol by ren just playing division i baseball is a huge accomplishment. >> i love the game, being out here. >> reporter: because he has a mitochondrial disorder. most of the cells in his body the energy producing mitochondria are failing and can't convert food and oxygen into life sustaining energy. as a teenager he realized his brother wasn't working like his

twin brother kyle's. >> i started to get really sick, threw up every day. i had brown urine. i had small incidents of losing consciousness and black out. >> reporter: it got so bad he could no longer play high school football. >> when i worked out it's really, really tough for me to recover. >> reporter: there is no known cure or even an effective treatment for his disorder. all he can do is manage the symptoms. >> i take supplements like co enzyme q 10. >> reporter: he won't give up and he won't let his coaches go easy on him either. >> when you make a tough decision that you know down the road is going to benefit you but it's going to be a grind all the way until you get there, those things just make you better as a person. >> reporter: he works hard to overcome his disorder but sometimes his body lets him down. >> there's some days where i'll sleep for eight hours right after i get home from class or a work jutout.

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the wonderful elizabeth taylor had eight husbands, hundreds of dresses and a treasure trove of diamonds. well, now you can own a piece of her life and history. jeanne moos looks ahead to tuesday's bidding. >> liz taylor is eyeing her own auction. she's eyeing her jewels. she's eyeing the line of people waiting to get in at christie's.

she's watching her back and the clothes off her back go up for bead from the beaded versaces. >> the do like the chorus line of caftans. >> or maybe you'd prefer to own the tiara given to her by husband number three, film director mike todd who said -- >> elizabeth, are you my queen, you must have a crown. >> reporter: you can even bid on her wedding dresses. she wore yellow the first time she married richard burton, a hippie caftan, second time she married him, her fifth husband. >> by that time she'd run out of the white. >> reporter: but she never ran out of diamonds. >> it is the size of a cherry. >> reporter: richard burton gave it to her. she would call it her baby because she wore it every single day. >> she even wiggled it at larry king. >> most people had a jewelry box. what did she have? >> she had a jewelry room. >> reporter: christie's created a mock-up -- ping-pong diamonds from a match she played with burton. >> he said elizabeth if you beat

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it is a rare look at war that's gone on now for a decade. u.s. marines released their own personal footage after firefight inside afghanistan. this is one they did not see coming and one that they were determined not to lose. here's what they encountered. >> rpgs and fire just started going off. >> just to the northwest of us across the helmand river they have a ridge lawn up there and there's caves in the ridge lawn that they'll crawl into and they engage us from there. >> it was guns and ammo. by the time they dropped a

couple hours, we probably had 100 still left and that was it. got really bad real quick. >> 30 millimeter grenades getting real close. couple casualties. you hear about people being battle tested. this one tested the boys. >> been one hell of a day. you're thinking, man, regular patrol. it ain't happening that way. >> everyone's got to be ready from now on. you never know what's going to happen from now on. we lost one person, injuries. who knows what's going to happen

next. >> another day, man. another day. >> at the end of the day we're the ones out here. >> this is a three-hour firefight. our own barbara starr has word that all of the wounded are now recovering. top of the hour. i'm suzanne malveaux. want to get you up to speed. a deal to save the euro is driving u.s. stocks higher today. want to check the big board now. dow's up 161 points. analysts say it is positive, yet lukewarm. reception to today's news from europe. all 17 eurozone nations, those that use the euro as their currency agree to tightly integrate their economies. so that includes oversight of each country's annual budget and

a cap on deficits. police trying to find a motive behind yesterday's virginia tech shootings. they say the apparent gunman and victim didn't know each other. university spokesman says the suspected shooter was not a student there and ballistics tests confirm that the same gun was used to kill the suspect and a campus police officer. the suspect apparently died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. virginia tech police identified the slain officer as derrick kraus. he was 39, married with five children and stepchildren. police say that gunman just walked right up to him and fired. >> he opened his car door and when they opened it, he just fell out towards the ground and then they immediately started reviving him and then two cops took off with some sort of -- they started running the opposite direction after the gunman.

>> that's so sad. a small vigil was held on the blacksburg campus last night. there is another one that is for officer kraus that is scheduled this evening. a massive blaze in southwestern pakistan today after militants fired a missile at 20 nato supply trucks. trucks were loaded with fuel and supplies for troops in afghanistan. so, we knew it was bad but not this bad. the air force now admitting that it dumped the ashes of at least 274 fallen u.s. troops in a landfill in virginia. that's far more than the defense department acknowledged to congress last month. defense secretary leon panetta now ordering an independent investigation into this case. a woman accused of dousing fellow black friday shoppers with pepper spray at a california walmart not facing felony charges.

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>> joining me now, the director of the center for politics at the university of virginia. so professor, first of all let's just deal with that ad. does that make any sense to you, that perry's using gays openly serving in the military to slam the president on values? >> it makes perfect sense when you consider that perry's entire candidacy rests on iowa. you only need to know two things about the iowa republican caucuses. 60% of the people participating, approximately, will be fundamentalist christians, conservative fundamentalist christians. they love the message of this ad. the second fact is there won't be a whole lot of gay activists participating in the republican iowa caucuses so there's not much of a downside. there's only an up side an perry needs all the help he can get. >> let's look at the candidates going after the man who's topping all the polls for the republicans, newt gingrich. listen to this mitt romney ad.

i understand we don't have it, but he is going after newt gingrich and the one thing that he's using is he's using conservative republicans to make the point, saying that he's flip-flopping, that he's all over the place. do you think that that's going to be effective? >> well, he has to use two arguments and he's trying to use both of them in his ads. the first is that gingrich should be disqualified at least by conservative christians, conservative republicans, because of his inconstancy. that includes three marriages and it also includes flip-flopping on a lot of issues. that's the attack on romney that's really sold within the republican party, and really beyond the republican party that he's a flip-flopper. so romney is turning that on gingrich using people like govern governor sununu of new

hampshire. >> on saturday we'll see all these guys again. what do we make of how they are actually going to he debating each other? is there going to be a topic we think will really pick up and spark? >> well, newt gingrich for the first time will really be on the hot seat, suzanne. i think that's the key to this debate. because he has popped up in the polls almost everywhere and in some places is the run-away front-runner. it isn't just romney who has to go after him. think about perry, rick santorum, michele bachmann. ron paul. gingrich has absorbed all their votes. if they don't get some of them back on iowa, january 3rd, they're not going to be in the race very long. >> we all remember that debate moment where you had romney and rick perry kind of in each other's face there, if you will, with that hand on the shoulder. it almost looked like they were going to duke it out. what do we think in the positioning of now newt gingrich next to romney? >> well, suzanne, i don't think it would be a good idea for

either romney to touch gingrich or gingrich to touch romney. we'll see whether they do. at this point the stakes are really high and there's only three weeks to go and one of the weeks is christmas week. that's not going to be a good political week to make points. this debate and the one following are really it for the iowa caucuses. >> all right. larry, thanks. good to see you again. here's a rundown, some of the stories we are working on. next, former penn state coach jerry sandusky's wife is speaking out. she says her husband did not molest young boys in the couple's home. then, virginia tech copes with another tragedy. we've got new information on yesterday's deadly shootings. also, we're seeing video now for the first time of a normer fbi agent who disappeared in iran nearly five years ago. his family now pleading for help. we've also got some of the year's top pictures, dramatic images, like this one that stick in your mind. and plus, rap star jay-z

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in our basement. we would never do anything to hurt them. we don't know why these young men have made these false accusations but we want everyone to know they are untrue." want to bring in our cnn contributor, sara ganim in state college, pennsylvania. sara, you have the wife here going on to say that her husband's innocent, even though ten now -- ten -- have come forward outlining these alleged crimes in pretty graphic detail to a grand jury. what do we make of this dramatically different story? >> well, you know, i think the significance of dottie's statement yesterday was that she's come up a few times in the grand jury presentments. she was mentioned as one of the people that called one of the victims after he was contacted by police and then yesterday in a much more compelling -- much more compelling testimony was mentioned as somebody who may have ignored screams of a child who was being assaulted in her

basement. you know, i think that was the significance of her statement was that she came out in support of her husband which we kind of already had the idea that she was supporting her husband based on some interactions she had with the wife of -- or ex-wife of one of her adopted sons who had some concerns about jerry sandusky being around their grandchildren. so this is her first public statement since his arrest more than a month ago and, you know, it's what everybody here was talking about yesterday. so for her to issue that statement was something that people really wanted to hear. >> and we -- sara, i know a cnn crew just spoke with sandusky's attorney joe amendola just outside the home a little while ago. he was asked if he was worried that the wife, dottie sandusky, might face charges. let's listen. >> it's not clear even from the allegations made by the accuser number nine that dottie was aware, assuming something was going on, that anything was going on. of course jerry denies anything

happened. dottie denies she ever heard any screams. so i think the attorney general's office will be hard pressed trying to pursue some sort of criminal action against dottie in the absence of any direct proof that even assuming, which we deny -- but even assuming the allegations are true that she knew anything about those allegations. >> we know jerry sandusky will be in court on tuesday for a preliminary hearing and our cnn affiliate, they shot video of the courtroom inside. what do we think is going to happen there? how is this going t play out? >> well, i think that we're going to hear from several of the victims outlined in those two grand jury presentments. that's for sure. his attorney says this morning that anyone who's looking for a surprise or some kind of shocking testimony really is -- that's probably not going to happen, that it is going to be an outline of the case but not necessarily any bombshells coming on tuesday, although everyone's going to be listening very intently to what those --

at least eight of those victims have to say. >> all right. sara, thank you. appreciate it. we'll all be watching tuesday that initial hearing taking place. well, he went missing in iran for almost five years. and now there is a newly posted video message from the former fbi agent. he is desperate to be saved. we're going to talk to the wife of bob levinson. only one calcium supplement does that in one daily dose. citracal slow release... continuously releases calcium plus d for the efficient absorption my body needs. citracal.

a lot of doubts being raised about the drone that iran has been parading around on tv. iran claims that it is an american drone shot down over its territory but there are some officials in the united states that say this could be a fake. but cnn's chris lawrence tells us there is an even bigger question here. if the drone is american, what was it doing when it went down? >> a u.s. official says it was a cia mission strictly to search for insurgents in afghanistan near the border. but several sources point out it is a stealth zone designed to penetrate areas with air defenses. they say it is hard to believe the drone was strictly operating over afghanistan which has none. >> so it could have been used in iran, it could have been deliberately used in iran and it

is very likely in fact that it was a reconnaissance platform of choice to do precisely that. >> iran is complaining to the u.n. about the alleged flight of an american drone over its territory. so there are now new pleas for help today from the family of a missing former fbi agent. robert levinson has been held captive for almost five years. for the first time we are seeing this video of him. you see how different he looks from when he disappeared in iran back in march of 2007. much thinner. and the family posted this video on their website today. it is difficult to watch. he is 49 years old and he is now pleading for -- 59, rather, pleading for help. >> i am running very quickly out of diabetes medicine. i have been treated well but i need the help of the united states government to answer the

requests of the group that has held me for 3 1/2 years. 33 years of service to the united states deserves something. please help me. >> i want to bring in our own jill dougherty who's at the state department. jill, what do we know about this new video and the family coming forward? >> well, it is a new video. however, it actually, we understand, was received by the family last year and now they have decided to release it and what is the big question of course is why did they release it at this time? looking at that picture, suzanne, you said it is difficult to look at it. and indeed, mr. levinson is a very robust 6'4", 250 pound when he was living at home. and now he looks quite different. so i understand that we do have an interview that we can go to.

is that correct? >> yes, jill. >> i believe that we have. i don't know if we can see but we can certainly hear christine levinson, mrs. lefb son, the wife of robert levinson. christine, mrs. levinson, can you hear me? >> yes, i can. >> oh, good. okay. oh, there you are. i wanted to -- i know we've talked before a number of times. when you saw that video -- and if you could tell us when you got it, what did you feel? what did you think when you saw that video? >> of course, we got it, as you said, little more than a year ago. when i saw it i was very sad to see him looking the way he does. however, at the same time, i was happy to learn that he was alive. >> yeah, that's the most important thing, of course. why do you decide to release it

right at this point? i mean you have had it for a year. why now? >> well, we have -- since we received that video, we tried to get in touch with the group that is holding bob. unfortunately, we have not received any response from them and we feel that this is a way to try and reach them with our plea and the video to get them to let us know what the family needs to do to get bob home alive and quickly. >> i know you've been dealing with the state department. in fact, secretary clinton back in march of this year referred to that proof of life. i'm presuming this is that proof of life. did you give that video to them? are they able to help? >> yes, that is the same proof of life that she spoke about. the fbi has an ongoing investigation in the case.

so we're hoping that we'll get some results. >> you had no communication whatsoever from whoever is holding your husband? >> we did when we received the video, we tried to get back in touch with them and since then we've tried multiple times to get an answer from them on what we need to do to get bob home. >> but no response? >> no response. >> you know, this is such a difficult time right now, relations with iran, we all know what's going on. very tense. do you think that in that context of how bad it is, will it be harder, do you think? i know it is difficult to judge but do you think that would be an impact on getting mr. levinson freed? >> well, as recently as the last u.n. general assembly meeting in september, president ahmadinejad

had said that he was willing to help find bob and send him home to us. i'm hoping that he will continue to do that. >> is the iranian government telling you anything to that effect, what they're doing? >> no, i have not had any contact with them recently as far as information about what happened to bob. i have no information. >> i just wanted to make sure, when you -- you had no reaction and so this is why you put the videotape out there on the website. but is it out of frustration? i mean is there any help coming from the u.s. government to free mr. levinson? >> they are investigating. it's a difficult area of the world to get any kind of information from. i continue to hope that the group holding bob will get back in touch with us so that we can find out what we need to do to

get bob home. >> yes. i know, suzanne, i just want to ask one last question of christine and that is, i know you traveled to iran. would you go again if it helped? >> of course. if i knew that i could bring bob home, i would travel anywhere i needed to. >> okay. well, i hope he will come back and very soon. suzanne? >> may i ask a question, miss levinson? i know it's been a very frustrating experience for you having him gone and missing from you for so long. do you feel that your husband is still alive? >> yes, i do. >> okay. well, we wish you the very best and we certainly hope that the videotape will help find him. thank you. >> thank you. she borrowed money for a one-way ticket to washington and when i met her at the libyan

embassy she just had $40 in her pocket. she's desperate an her journey has been a difficult one. you may recall in the middle of libya's violent civil war, eman's story came to embody the cruelty of the gadhafi regime. it was back in march eman burst into this crowded aaa hotel room screaming that she had been raped by gadhafi soldiers. security guards with force dragged her out of the hotel to an unknown destination and attacked the journalist whose tried to help her. she was called a drunk and a whore by gadhafi's government, but for others she has been the face of defiance. >> i usually get harassed when i have to show my identification card to government officials somewhere an they find out who i am and that i've put complaints forward against gadhafi's people. they humiliate me to the point where other people gather around and start saying that it's shameful to treat a libyan woman that way. it is the same thing every day.

>> eman fled, bouncing from country to country. finally she found asylum here in the united states, but her journey is not over. this is the first time that she have heard from her since she arrived in the united states. in our exclusive interview, she tells me about her life here, her struggles to recover from the brutality of that attack in libya, and her efforts to move on here in the states. >> translator: when i came, i never imagined life would be this hard. there's nothing easy. you have to work. you have to work. i mean as we say in libya, you have to kill yourself working just to survive. and i wish there even was work. the state i'm in seems cut off. there are no work opportunities. i've been going to the employment office for four months. >> do you have any support from your family? >> translator: my family supports me. i've been here for four months

and without the aid they send me every month, i could not have survived. $300 a month can do nothing. >> what would you like to do? would you like to go back to your family in libya? >> translator: i'm sure everyone wants to return back to their own country. but i'm not mentally ready for that. i also feel personally i'm not ready to integrate back into the society. i feel life for me is hard because everything is so different from culture to language. >> eman tells me that the pain is still too great to go back to libya. but this isn't home either. i asked her as well about gadhafi's death and what she's going to do next. she is a fighter and we're going to bring more of my exclusive conversation with her on monday only in the "cnn newsroom." well, it is a deal to save the euro. we'll explain how it might impact the dollars in your

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here's what's ahead on the rundown next. european leaders reach a deal to tackle the debt crisis. we'll tell you why it matters to us americans. rapper jay-z talks about taxes and the occupy wall street movement. and remember this iconic image from the past year. we'll show you some of the biggest dramatic moments of the past year in pictures. and now highlights of a deal reached in brussels today. one designed to save the euro and restore confidence in the world market. 17 countries that use the euro, along with five other eu countries will submit their yearly budgets to a central body for approval. now the deficit, that's the root of the debt crisis, they will be capped at .5% of economic output and automatic penalties would kick in for any country that overspends.

now to the new york stock exchange to get a sense of whether or not this is actually working. this is all about restoring the market's confidence in the euro. is the dow responding? what do we see? >> the dow is definitely responding but it is kind of a little bit difficult to gauge exactly what it is responding to because we've got a tiny bit of a relief rally today because we had some significant losses yesterday. the dow was down about 200 points. so it is normal to see a little bit of a give-back, people are sort of jumping into the marketplace looking for those beaten down stocks and picking them up and reduced prices. that's part of the answer to the question. but definitely there's no -- there's certainty that the eu plan is a step in the right direction. but it is these baby steps. that's the problem. it is not a lot of what the market really needs to see implemented in time and that's where some of the uncertainty still remains. but the dow is up 1.3%. the nasdaq is up 1.5%, as is the s&p. so going into a weekend, that's

really pretty strong considering the market's only been open for about three hours. >> that's good news. what do we make of how this deal an ocean away matters to most folks here? >> well, this really is a global economy. we saw the treasury secretary timothy geithner who went to europe this week because, frankly, europe is that important to the american economy and the immediate impact as we've just talked about is in stock but the more important thing is that europe is our biggest trading partner. we've exported $275 billion worth in goods to europe so far this year. if their economies are going to shrink, then those consumers aren't going to be out there buying american goods and products. so naturally the hellialthier europe is the more they buy from the u.s. and the better that our american companies do and affect the bottom line. so it is very important that europe stays healthy because it definitely matters for american manufacturers. >> how's wall street? are they satisfied with the deal?

>> not really. you know, this discussion isn't over yet. that is the problem. this is just an agreement on the table. they have to implement these things. they've got to put the details into it and actually put them to work. that could take more time, will take more time and meanwhile the threat's still out there. take for instance today. moody's, one of the credit rating agencies, downgraded another three big french banks. that's not good news. there is still uncertainty in the marketplace. china has said its manufacturing is going to get hit by europe as well like we talked about with the american economy. so there is still a lot of uncertainty out there. so no. they got a little bit, but not everything that they wanted. >> okay, thanks. have a great weekend. the house is setting up a showdown with president obama next week. republicans plan to go ahead with a vote on a measure to extend the payroll tax cut into 2012. here's the rub. the bill would also revive a proposed oil pipeline running from canada to texas.

president obama shelved that. house speaker boehner says it would create jobs. the president says he wants a bill dealing with the payroll tax cut only and he's going to stay in washington through the holidays to get that done. new information now about the man suspected of opening fire at virginia tech yesterday. the school says he wasn't a student. we'll go live to the campus in blacksburg.e k the next phase was going to be, you know, because you been, you know, this is what you had been doing. you know, working, working, working, working, working, working. and now you're talking about, well you know, i won't be, and i get the chance to spend more time with my wife and my kids. it's my world. that's my world. ♪

it's been 24 hours since gunshots echoed across virginia tech university. students hunkered down taking cover from a gunman. police say the gunman shot and killed a campus police officer. the shooter was not a student. at this point authorities

believe did he not know his victim. the suspect apparently died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. i want to bring in athena jones covering the story for us out of blacksburg, virginia. athena, we understand that they didn't know each other. do authorities have any sense of a motive here behind this? >> well, that's the question everyone was asking at the press conference a little while ago. authorities are still investigating the motive. they say that this suspect was not a virginia tech university student, appeared to have no connection whatsoever to the university. they say that he may have been involved in a car theft earlier in the day in a town nearby but they're still looking into that. that's not yet proven. so there is still a lot of questions to be answered. they're still carrying out toxicology an other tests and of course they haven't released the name because the medical examiner is still examining the body and they have to contact the family members as well. motive, that question is still unanswered. >> athena, how is the campus reacting to this incident given what happened back in 2007, the

tragedy of so many people killed on that campus? >> well, certainly given that massive shooting rampage back then 4 1/2 years ago that left 33 people dead, it was conducted by a troubled student, people were very, very concern. they were very rattled yesterday during that four-hour lockdown. the university though will say that they believe that the new initiatives they put into place to better alert an keep people abreast of the situation worked this time. so people were kept abreast minute to minute really of the developments as they came on. one of the university officials spoke about the media attention those events of april 2007 drew and the attention that this latest incident drew. let's listen to what that official had to say earlier. >> we're all here because of an angry young man who had easy access to violent killing weapons four years ago. i don't believe that i feel any

less safe here than i would on any other place, any other campus in the country. >> so certainly the university has -- is well aware of the level of interest. there were more than 100 people at the press conference peppering them with questions for more than 45 minutes. there is still a lot more questions to be answered but certainly the university understands why there is so much attention drawn on this school. for a tragic reason. >> athena jones, thank you. the occupy wall street protesters say they want the rich to pay more in taxes. well, record producer, entrepreneur jay-z says go ahead, tax me but with one caveat. we'll have a one-on-one with the rap superstar. but first, here's some free money advice from the cnn help desk. >> time for the help desk where we get answers to your financial questions. joining me this hour, jeff otter, executive editor of cbsmoneywatch.com. donna sosato, senior editor at "money" magazine. thank you both for being here.

randy in wichita says, my wife and i hold a 30-year mortgage with 24 years left. we've paid down the balance to under $40,000 -- good for them. should they pay off the mortgage immediately or invest their excess money elsewhere? >> this is a question that has kind of a financial component and a sleep at night component and i can't quantify the latter. if it is really important to be debt free to own that house with no money outstanding, then pay it off. but, purely from a financial perspective, it is probably not the best move. there is a great study that i love where they compared the value of putting your money in a 401(k) versus paying off your mortgage and putting it in the 401(k) was a much better move. first of all it is pre-tax money. you put $1 in the 401(k), it is $1 in there. if you get a company match, it is $1.50. paying off your mortgage is post. t tax money. even investing elsewhere, saving for an emergency fund in case the gutters fall down on that house.

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she said yes. record producer, entrepreneur jay-z says he's willing to pay more in taxes as part of the top 1%. but with one caveat. cnn's one on one with jay-z next.

the midnight deadline for occupy protesters to leave a city square in boston has come and gone but folks are still in their tents. more thn 100 tents have been set up since september protesting the country's growing gap between the rich and the poor. a judge ruled their first amendment right does not include seizing the park. the mayor says he's giving them a chance to leave at their own will for now. one protester says the protest

does not enbecaud because of eviction. >> you can't evict an idea just because the tents are gone doesn't mean the occupy movement's even going to slow down. >> so, one of the demand of occupy protesters is to make the top 1% pay more in taxes. record producer jay-z is a member of that 1%. no surprise. he says go ahead, tax me more but only if the government does one thing. poppy harlow from new york, you spoke to him. you got the story. what did he say? >> this is fascinating. what you are looking at next to me is video of jay-z, shawn carter, at a press conference yesterday at carnegie hall. he amounsed two concerts there at carnegie hall, the first time ever a hip-hop artist will headline there to raise money for his scholarship foundation. we talked to him about the importance of education, why he's giving these kids scholarships. can you see that on cnn money. but when the conversation got pretty interesting is when we talk about taxes and this debate on main street and in congress over whether the rich should pay more.

here's his take. >> me personally, i wouldn't mind paying more taxes if it went to the things that really mattered. if it went to education, people in poverty, you know, if it went to the right things. you know? i wouldn't mind. i think it should be more -- it should be clearly defined, you know, clearly defined where all the money is being allocated. because you can understand paying so much for taxes and then things not improving, you're like where's everything going to? like where's -- should be open accounting of where everything is going to. i'm sure if it was for health care and for education and, you know, to help people that were -- you know, i think most people with a conscience and with some integrity and moral

fiber wouldn't have any problem paying more taxes. >> the occupy wall street movement. you've been supportive of it. you've got occupy all-street shirts out there. not financially supporting it but the message. i wonder what your take is on what we're seeing develop in this country. >> i think it's saying a lot all over the world, you know, that people can get their voice out there and fight for better world. education and health care. there's so many different other fights that we must take on that we just need to -- it's good. it's a good thing that young people are getting out and getting their voice heard. >> now jay-z is a pretty outspoken supporter of president obama. we heard the president just this week talking about the increasing wealth gap in this country, the income divide. so i did have a chance also to ask him about that, whether the obama administration, the government, is doing enough to

close that gap to help the poor. his answer fascinated me. he said it's not just about the government. it's about private individuals like me doing something to make that change. he's doing it with his scholarship fund but interesting, it's not all about the government. he says rich folks like him need to do more. >> he should run for office. very thoughtful. very interesting interview. thoughtful response. i was like, he shall jump into the ring there. tell us a little bit about the kids that are benefiting from his scholarship fund. >> sure. we're going to pull up one girl right here. her name's bianca. she spoke at the press conference yesterday. there you see her. she came from a single parent home. struggled with that as so many do. she got a scholarship through the shawn carter foundation. she went to brooklyn college. she's a senior now and she wants to do what you and i do, she wants to be in this crazy business for some reason. that's just one of the kids. they've helped about 750 kids with more than $1 million an they're wrapping up those efforts now. so that's his passion. >> she should come and visit the

studio, the cnn studios. >> i invited her in. >> well good. good. poppy, thank you. really appreciate it. big events, 2011 in pictures. we'll show you some of the most memorable images from this year that is about to draw to a close. healthy can be fun. see? he's taking his vitamins. new one a day vitacraves plus omega-3 dha is a complete multivitamin for adults. plus an excellent source of omega-3 dha in a great tasting gummy. one a day, gummies for grown-ups.

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them serious and others quite amazing. >> we've been try doing this every day. pick four of the best and go through the rest of the year the and show you the four best that we think captured the moment, captured something, whether it is a war, whether it is an image of love, whether it is an image of life in general. go to the first one. i don't think you'll forget this one. this was all over the press. what was happening here? what were they looking at? osama bin laden was being killed. this was the update. there's secretary of state, mr. biden and mr. president. look, all eyes dpglued to that picture. changing courses a little bit, two women embracing. one 84, the other 76. the first two women to get married. same-sex couple being married in manhattan. >> they were together for -- >> after a lifetime of being together. finally married. finally able to make that

commitment to each other that you get a piece of paper for. obviously committed their entire lives and, boy, there it goes. >> they look very happy. >> that was a great picture there. then taking a look over my facebook and reading facebook one way and the other way on top, facebook changed the world this year. it allowed people to come together, it allowed people to protest, the uprisings throughout the middle east shot up. people went on facebook, what are you doing today? it became that gathering place on the web. >> the arab spring really wouldn't have happened if we hadn't had that kind of communication, people alerted to what was going on. >> what happened? the vancouver canucks lose the stanley cup. a couple embraces on the ground after she's knocked down by the police in vancouver. there was a small riot in vancouver after the loss of the stanley cup. she was knocked down. her australian boyfriend went there to pick her