reporter anastasia bolton talked with the children now coping with their new and very different livesporter: when you're a little kid -- life is simple. full of elementary school strive. and peace. this is how it should be when you're 10 and 6. >> mom and dad -- >> reporter: it isn't supposed to be like this. >> >> reporter: on march first of this year, everything about life change forward a family. and for sarah and ethan long. their 12-year-old brother shot their parents, charles and marilyn. he then turned on his siblings. >> i don't know! why he did that. now he's in prison! i think it's good that he's in prison. >> why is that? >> because. he won't touch us ever again. >> reporter: ethan barely survived >> the only reason i remember is probably because it hurt. when i woke up from my second stomach surgery, i was hitting my pain medicine button as much as i could. because it wasn't working! >> reporter: ethan won't say much about his brother other than he wants him to stay away. >> there's that thing that a certain person can't get close enough to you if the judge approves of it.

to anastasia, it sounds like fun. she is an aerialist with cirque du soleil. >> if your rope breaks, you have no chance. at least in the circus you are relying on hands and body in order to control your destiny. >> they had a great day to be outdoors. >>> windy, might have been blowing around a little bit. >>> i can't imagine. i'm a wimp. >>> it will be okay for win sneer washington monument, 500 feet tall, that is all. >>> 73 today. within four degrees of the record high and well above average. now let's start with temperatures mild outside. you probably won't even need a jacket. satellite picture radar combined a couple of things to point out. snow in the north dakota area, snow now in portions of north central minnesota. that is about it. the main feature not crazy unusual for november. look at all the big thunderstorms south of detroit. northern ohio. many of those areas under a tornado watch and have been for sometimes. we have high mid level clouds pushing through. a fantastic night. feels like september, not no

we're back with bret stevens and wall street journal columnist dan henninger and mary anastasia o'gradyd in response to debt and gene greece, a tiny economy relative to others, what the u.s. stake in this euro crisis? >> you know, paul, i think you have to divide it between the financial sector and the real economy. he think in terms of the financial sector, probably, the u.s. is not in a lot of danger, because, i think there's been a lot of advanced warning, even with moan market funds, you know. >> paul: who had invested in the debt of european banks. >> they were looking for yields, there was higher yields there. >> they've pulled back there. >> what about the inner bank market, where banks obviously lend to other banks? >> i think there is some risk there, but as i say, i think that the warning signals are out there so they've had a chance to-- it's not a surprise for them. but i think on the real economy is where the risk for the u.s. comes. we had a banker into thewall wall street journal yesterday talking how the midwest is still a strong manufacturing area and europe is a very i

to anastasia, it sounds like fun. >> i'm a juggler, and i work with rigging. >> reporter: today is theiron and they are amazed by this high wire off. >> many of the cirque du soleil acts are considered death defying. the performers say what they do is relatively safe. they say what is death defying is rapelling down the washington monument. >> that is much more high danger i think. >> reporter: they are filling in the cracks caused by theeth quake. the national parks service says they are using a material similar to a swimming pool noodle that floats. it costs $240,000 to make these repairs, and after the winter, they'll pull it out and make permanent repairs. they don't know how much that will cost. >>> the parks service estimates the climbers will be outside the monument for the next four days. a lot of that depends on the weather. how fast that they can get things done. meantime, washington's national cathedral celebrates its reopening today. organists gave demonstrations of the cathedral's pipe organs. the cathedral had been closed since august when that quake caused stone work to fa