lives they were standing holding flowers apparently trying to disguise what their intentions were mr cashin arrived they produced a blunt object inserts about him in a brutal attack with the cash in currently in a very critical condition in a induced coma in a hospital suffering from many many bruises as well as seriously broken fingers from this attack by these these two people we can hear now from neighbors of mr cashin who found him shortly after the attack but even you believe you may be over into this don't have to last twelve hours in my room and i heard some sounds like panting a morning as if someone has been beaten up he was lying right here all covered in blood especially his face and his legs his fingers were smashed his shoulder until doctors were as if the pilots need you and you sure you know they didn't take anything from him he was conscious and he said that there were two people who'd been lying in wait for him. we heard from the editor in chief of the commissar newspaper just the cautions boss who said that the fact that no money was taken or belongings were taken from him

cashin was one of the few journalists allowed to cover the operation he spent several days with the divers and sailors retrieving dead bodies and saw how tough the work was. to begin with the know him of was lying on its side everything inside the ship was upside down. in the wall of a corridor known as the floor what used to be in the left hand wall no it was the ceiling and divers had to descend into that unimaginable hell. physical exertion was not the only problem it was psychologically difficult for divers to cope with the job of retrieving dead bodies. through the ship had a glassed in promenade deck and looks h.-a caution entered it he saw eighteen dead bodies standing erect with their heads out against the glass. and so alex a evacuated all of the eighteen law. by taking each by the hand to lead them out. moved all of us myself included who had never seen such a mass of dead bodies before. there would be a pile of twenty five to thirty five bodies on the deck at a time or. pressing effect especially during the first week because leader such emotions became so. we had only one task

and veteran market watcher art cashin says washington gridlock may not be as welcome as it was in the bull market of the 1990s. >> the reason that this time it's different is that the economy is still on life support, and something could come up-- some geopolitical financial event that might require rather instantaneous response from the government. and if everybody is still picking and not talking to each other, that could be a problem. the normal "gridlock is good" has turned into "gridlock is somewhat suspect." >> reporter: the first test of post-election washington will come later this month, when the lame duck congress returns to consider extending the bush tax cuts and benefits for the unemployed. darren gersh, "nightly business report," washington. >> tom: here are the stories in tonight's n.b.r. newswheel: wall street welcomes the fed's move with a muted reaction. the dow rose 26 points, the nasdaq was up six and the s&p 500 gained four. more details coming up in "market focus." trading volume on the big board topped one billion shares. it was over two billion on the nasdaq. g

hi i'm cheryl casone any, women come to cashin' in. wayne rogers, tracy persons, charlie gasparino and joining this week from the economic policy institute our good friend christian dorsey. well to all of you. tracy, i'm going to start with you. do you think we should use unspent stimulus money to pay for the extension of unemployment benefits? >> that's the most logical thing i've heard to use this money for since we started this whole mess. 2346 billion dollars sitting there, waiting for -- 246 billion dollars sitting there waiting for some supposed shovel-ready projects. if you are gonna use money we have, do not continue to build on this deficiency. 246 billion waiting, take 12 .5 out and extend them. >> the money will come from the same place, stimulus, taxpayers in mother way. why not cut this deal? >> i would like the stimulus to be used to stimulate the economy. if you are going to use it in a keynesian way, spend it now, one of the problems with just spending for stimulus it never gets done on time or do it whatever, a tax cut

fall cold a chill whacking critics say it was just a good old beating but something cashin of both are sure of the republicans to victory in this week's you ask me term elections. archipelago outraged tokyo's angered by president here's a visit to russia's coraline. which japan claims as its own moscow says it will keep investing in its remote region. a well known investigative journalist was brutally beaten in the center of moscow police say his professional activity was most likely to cause. the giant passenger ship admiral knew him a fused to be the most comfortable vessel in soviet times many wanted to experience this floating walk free but only a lucky few managed to get their hands on tickets but how lucky were they that's next on our. always thirty first nine hundred eighty six ten pm the joint passenger liner admiral now he says sail from the soviet portal and over the seas on a cruise of the black sea. there are more than a thousand passengers and crew members aboard. the large boat kerry appeal to fully laden with canadian wheat is set to enter a port the two will converge fo

assaulted him we're hearing that the two men apparently were standing with flowers waiting for mr cashin to arrive on the scene they then produced what believed to be a blunt object then proceeded to attack him in the brutal assault that's left him very badly bruised in a critical condition in the hospital they made a main point of breaking his fingers and hitting him with this this blunt object as i say. as. terrible attack that is piers to have been very well thought out very well prepared the police are saying that the work working for the commissar newspaper here in moscow was the reason for the attack so writing apparently because of this this attack in the center of the city give us more details on the writing as you say you mentioned one possible motive as to why he was attacked but one of more motives here as to why the journalist was beaten. well what we're hearing is that the reason mr caution is a is quite famous for his critical work in a critical reporting into youth groups around russia also into the proposed motorway between new motorway between st petersburg and moscow th

searching for those behind a vicious attack on a russian newspaper journalist commerce and correspondent cashin was brutally beaten near his moscow home early saturday morning and is in hospital in a coma with severe injuries is already undergone surgery twice and doctors say his condition is serious but stable investigators believe cousins journalism is probably links to the brutal assault and attempted the murder inquiry has begun police are examining c.c.t.v. footage showing two people attacking the journalist the case has drawn wide public outrage with the rallies supporting caution in moscow st petersburg president dmitry medvedev says that tigers must be followed and punished and former editor in chief of commerce and andrei receive says culture was not afraid of writing forth wide use which could have made him criminal and. of course the reason for this attack is conscious professional activity he was a popular blog and he was open and outspoken in mind then and the people concerned has a certain more reserved style this beating is very similar to the attack on the journalist because all

know there's been a number of gatherings have there outside moscow's police headquarters since mr cashin was attacked by all appearances this seems to be the biggest one of the people demanding a. good evening to you kevin whether processors are here and they're gathered demanding a couple of things first of all they want better protections for journalists and also they want a they're demanding a speedy and thorough investigation into the savage beating of journalists caution now you mentioned he was savagely beaten outside of his apartment just steps away actually from his apartment building early saturday morning and witnesses say that two men were standing nearby apparently waiting for him and one man was holding up ok of flowers that can still the hype that was later used to beat the journalist for more than a minute he says a severe head injuries and broken bones including a leg and his upper and lower jaw but straight russia has proved that it was so strange one of the police say the investigation progressing. well though the top investigators have been put on this case and they ha

the most serious a reporter olin cashin beaten friday by two men outside his apartment.video of one of these guys, somebody picking him up and helping him to his feet. separate fractures to the skull and legs, finger partially severed. had to be put in an induced coma. he wrote articles and others have written articles critical of the government about building a highway near moscow. this is a serious situation that the world is paying attention to now. back with the panel. that's the question. is the world paying attention for something this egregious for journalists in russia? >> they are paying attention, always paying attention but no pressure on medvedev to do much about it. he has done a better job of putin of pretending to care that journalists are being killed. of course, there have been no arrest, no justice in the cases but the thing is there is no action behind it. the thing is, he was here in june as you remember. you remember he had cheeseburgers with obama and everything. this issue never came up. he talked about wanting more democratic reforms in russia but