stephen harper. [applause]

stephen harper. [applause] >> prime minister cameron, your excellency's, parliamentary colleagues from both houses, ladies and gentlemen. it is for me an enormous pleasure and an undoubted privilege to be able today here in this room to introduce the prime minister of canada, stephen harper to you and to do so in a personal and official capacity. the prime minister is no stranger to the ways of westminster, being a politician of considerable range as well as outstanding international vision. there is far more he could tell you and me about this place then i could tell him about the parliament in ottawa. that said, it was my privilege to get to load the nonbiased -- the longest-serving one. speaking in your history, and more recently to have a rapport with the youngest occupants of the fear. your speaker.r, you're very welcome visit to britain, this is less a diplomatic engagement than a and-standing close friends, it is all the more appealing for having that quality to it. i hope you feel at home. th

today canadian prime minister stephen harper toured the town. 40 people are still missing. to a symbolic and somber journey home for the 19 firefighters killed nearly a week ago fighting a wildfire in yarnell, arizona. today their bodies are in a procession that is traveling more than 90 miles from phoenix where they were initially taken to prescott, the team's home base. nick valencia covering the story for us. >> reporter: it's certain to be an emotional day in arizona as those 19 firefighters, their caskets are carried along in a public procession from the phoenix coroner's office where they've been since they died last week. they'll make their way along a very special route through yarnell where those firefighters lost their lives on their way home to prescott, arizona. those 19 firefighters, part of an elite hotshots, the granite mountain hotshots unit. they are on the front line. they battle fires and stay when other firefighters leave. they were creating a barrier when the yarnell fire took an erratic shift in winds and trapped them killing all but one of the group's

dignitaries including prime minister stephen harper joined them.mes of the individuals who died in the derailment were read from a card created by a local artist. 47 people were killed by the explosion that destroyed part of the small town after the train derailment three weeks ago. >>> and across the atlantic, spain is still deep in mourning for victims of its own rail disaster, at least 78 people died when a high-speed train flew off the tracks. cnn's brian todd looks at the risk versus reward of high-speed rail. >> reporter: in an instant, a gasp-inducing moment of destruction. spanish media quotes sources within the investigation as saying the driver reported going more than twice the speed limit around that curve. the deadly accident in spain now raising serious questions about the safety of high-speed passenger trains. >> you really have to monitor your track. >> reporter: when he was managing director of the ntsb peter goels investigated more than half a dozen serious train accidents, none of them were high speed. there's no high-speed rail

on sunday, canadian prime minister stephen harper toured the devastation, and said at least 30 buildings were destroyed. >> it looks like a war zone people at this point, the mood is quite good, the solidarity of everybody is quite strong but i know there is going to be waves of emotion over the next few weeks as the extent of this-- and this is a very big disaster in human terms-- as the extent of this becomes increasingly obvious. >> sreenivasan: by today, search teams were still being hampered by the need to keep two more derailed tank cars from exploding. it was the fourth train accident involving oil shipments this year in canada, and it raised new questions about the safety of transporting oil by railroad. all of this, as the obama administration weighs approval of the keystone x.l. pipeline to move crude from canada to u.s. refineries on the gulf coast. for the latest on the accident, we're joined by sophie tremblay, a producer for the canadian broadcasting company. she was at the scene over the weekend and joins me now from montreal. sophie, my first question is, there was just a

the canadian prime minister stephen harper who visited the scene sunday says it looked like a war zone earnings season officially kicks off this afternoon when alcoa reports second quarter results after the bell. overall earnings expectations are pretty low as companies have been cutting back forecasts. analysts now predict results for the s&p 500 rose 3% just three months ago. they thought earnings would rise near 7%. technical materials such as alcoa expected to drag down the growth. alcoa's forecast to post flat second quarter as aluminum prices fell 10%. >>> agenda, may consumer credit figures out around 3:00 eastern. also reporting groupo telivisa and wd-40. >>> eliot spitzer wants back in the political game. he's running for new york city comptroller. he resigned in 2008 after being caught patronizing prostitutes. he says he will ask the public for forgiveness. spitzer says he'll try to raise the profile of the comptroller's office using its power to audit city agencies. we've been asking who in your view has made one of the greatest political comebacks. one of our viewers tweete

stephen harper adjust the british parliament for the first time since william mackenzie king. this is just over half an hour. >> if you can please rise for the prime minister. [applause] >> prime minister cameron, your excellency's, parliamentary colleagues from both houses, ladies and gentlemen. it is for me an enormous pleasure and an undoubted privilege to be able today here to introduce the prime minister of canada, stephen harper to you and to do so in a personal and official capacity. the prime minister is no stranger to the ways of westminster thing a politician of considerable rage as well of a standing international tradition. there is far more he could tell thennd me about this place i could tell him about the parliament in ottawa. it was my privilege to get to load the nonbiased -- the longest-serving one. and more recently to have a rapport with the youngest occupants of the fear. this is less a diplomatic engagement than a long-standing threats. it is all the more appealing for having this. i hope you feel at home. you certainly should do so. the ties between our

. >> reporter: canada's prime minister stephen harper toured the devastation and foreshadowed the grim news that is sure to come. >> i know there is going to be waves of emotion over the next few weeks as the extent of this -- and this is a very big disaster in human terms -- as the extent of this becomes increasingly obvious. >> reporter: what's not obvious is the montreal, main, and atlantic rail way company baseded in the united states, they're saying, look, we don't know what happened here. most likely, there was some kind of brake failure. obviously, you have this train careening into a small town. you know, kate and chris, these small towns, these junctions all the way in north america, u.s., canada -- this train was headed into the united states -- a lot of questions about rail safety and the safety of those tankers, how quickly they can leak or explode. a lot more crude and petroleum products moving around our two countries. >> paula newton following it all. paula, thank you so much. that video, there's a lot of amazing video we're seeing today, but that video with the plumes o

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