. >> east berlin. >> east better lip, excuse me. stalin had cut off the roads to berlin in 1948 and there was the famous berlin airlift. in 1958, khrushchev had made some menacing remarks about berlin and gave a six-month ultimatum about having some kind of treaty about the future of berlin. and the six months had passed and nothing happened. and the soviet union and the three western powers were negotiating about it in geneva at the time. eisenhower hoped to break the stalemate, and he hoped to do so by issuing this information to khrushchev to come to the united states. the invitation was written out and delivered to a soviet official by an american state department official named murphy. murphy was instructed to tell his soviet counterpart that the invitation had strings thatched that in the event that the talks in geneva resulted in a plan, in other words, if they came to fruition, then khrushchev would be invited to the united states. unfortunately, or perhaps fortunately, as it turned out, murphy either didn't understand or for

west berlin was in theiddle of communist east berlin. so that made for a kind of a -- east germany, it's using. and of course, stalin had cut off the road to berlin at one point in 1948 and there was the famous berlin airlift. in 1958, and khrushchev had made some menacing remarks about berlin and gave a six-month ultimatum about having some kind of treaty about the future of berlin. and the sixonths had passed, and nothing happened. and the soviet union and the three western powers were negotiate about it in geneva at the time. eisenhower hoped to break the stalemate, and he hope to do so by issuing this invitation to khrushchev to come to the united states. the invitation was written out and delivered to a soviet official by an ameran state department official named murphy. murphy was instructed to tell his soviet counterpart that the invitation had strings attached, that any event that the talks in geneva resulted in a plan, nor to if they came to fruition, then khrushchev would be invited to the united states. unfortunately, or perha

elsewhere, unicredit is turning down the help of austria and east berlin, as well. going their own way, they get get a $5.6 billion capital rights increase. and it's the same story on that landmark, as well. you mentioned ubs, oswald grubel talking about that painewebber valuation at the start of this century. although it may be on the block and we know it was on the block a couple years before this crisis, he accident like it even though it's noncore. briefly, the lights of sir gay marceloni is the ceo. haven't they got enough on their plate over at royal dutch shell. let's get out to sing tore sxvz what's hating the news there. >> hello, steve. very different day over in asia. a lot of that because of the gains based on m&a activity that we saw in the u.s. in the previous session, investors coming in today and saying, well, if companies are willing to invest billions of dollars in acquiring other companies, perhaps we should take some of the cash we have on the sidelines and get it in the market and get it torque. we didn't expect the markets to do well in august

east germans. with this one spectacular miscalculation, the communist unleashed what they were tried to suppress. it created a popular opposition which spread until it blew away the berlin wall and then the entire country. >> keeler is being treated in the hospital for a minor stroke. he is said to be making good progress. he had surgery to repair a valve. he is best known for his stories about life in midwestern america. the hubble telescope has been fitted with a new camera. its first images are brighter and sharper and even better and stunning. he has been looking as what has been beamed back. >> for years, the hubble space telescope has captured the beauty and majesty of the universe. these pictures are the best yet. this one is of a dying star. its contents spill out like the wings of a cosmic pulse of light. inside this cluster is a star being born. these are pictures taken using a new camera. it is able to see things in the universe that have never been seen before. >> these instruments give hubble a fantastic capability it has not had before. it shows you more detail. it shows you a richness of phenomenon. it shows you the things that are further away and more e

years ago when the berlin wall went down, the iron curtain came crashing down, and the people who were holding up that part of the world, the level side of the world, those on the east side of the berlin wall who had a managed economy, who had the central planning that set up five-year plans for the collective farms, those that told everyone else when to go to work, what raw materials to deliver. if you remember ronald reagan, some of the others made the joke that, well, the soviet union, the people in the soviet union pretended to work and the soviet union pretended to pay them. but eventually that house of economic cards collapsed because the question was before us, as a nation, and that question was, while the soviet union was developing a missile capability to eclipse our own capability here, such a devastating force of icbm's that there was nothing the united states could do to survive such an attack, that mutually assured destruction was going down the path of a destruction that would be so bad in this country that civilization itself may not survive, the question that was before us was articulated best by the former ambassador to the united nations, jeane kir

activity, east of the area, particularly over portions of delaware and lower eastern shore and new jersey, you can see quite a bit of rain out that way. from louis down to ocean city, salisbury, berlin, moderate showers. ocean city has picked up about a half inch of rain today. also further south, heavier showers from southern virginia. that's all moving off to the west as well. all of this coming in from the atlantic ocean. due to that storm we have been telling you about. it's going to take a while to get to the baltimore region. but we'll see rain tonight in varying intensities. and looks like even more rain probably on your friday. kai? >> all right, bob. thank you. >>> let's check on the roads now with sharon gibala at traffic control. >> overall, we're not doing too bad. but it's note to say -- not to say problem-free. one accident on southbound lanes, approaching o'donnell street. a few more wrecks in the city. north haven at pulaski highway. and one more in pasadena, on southbound richie highway. watch for some debris on 95 northbound at southwest side of the beltway. there is also a water main break if you're traveling in parkville, that's blocking the northbound lanes betw