let's stay with our top story and the case of dominick strauss kahn.he new york correspondent for the french newspaper "liberacion." he talked about what impact it's had on the french political landscape. >> it's different things altogether. it's a political sunesune. if you look at what happened -- political tsunami. he's seen as a frontrunner in the next presidential elections. he was supposed to announce his candidacy and according to the polls, he was ahead of sarkozy in most of the polls, between six points and 10 points ahead system of yes, he had a reputation as a seducer, he liked to -- he did actually say to us when he had lunch with some of my colleagues on the newspaper that he liked flirting with women but it has nothing to do with what happened here where he's been basically accused of attempting rape and sexual assault. obviously, he was, you know, the pictures today, seeing him getting out of the police station handcuffed was also a bit of a shock. as you know, in france, we don't show those pictures before the person accused is convicte

york city jail cell has come at a very high price for the disgraced former head of the imf, dominick strauss-kahn accused of sexually assaulting a hotel house keeper is spending his first full day und under house arrest. it's a deal well beyond the means of the average accused person. yet, the wealthy frenchman is finding his political prominence and stature can no longer seem to buy him a place to leavive h in new york. kristen. >> reporter: good evening, lester. the man who was once one of the world peace most powerful is holed up here. dominique strauss-kahn was released after posting the $1 million cash bail, a $5 million insurance bond and greeing to restrictions being called some of the most stringent in new york history. it is a world away from rikers island where dominique strauss-kahn spent part of the last week. instead of a small cell, he's now in a spacious apartment, a building that advertises nine foot ceilings, bay windows and two bedrooms that start at more than 4200 a month. >> who cares he gets to wear an ankle bracelet. i could stay there and wear an ankle bracelet. that's no b

are really ripping everyone off because they have such that fat pensions it's people like dominick strauss kahn of that happen to be at the very top that have these drag and take pensions and i think of that we need to make that distinction there but let's move on to our next story which is you know you're saying this guy has new been convicted of anything yet but there he goes it's the perp walk it's what you see if you see them being paraded in handcuffs and speaking of that there is now a daughter of an indian diplomat that was paraded in handcuffs and she's actually suing because she had to i think she had to be in jail and she had to pee in front of a couple other people because she got. accused of cyber bullying what is cyber bullying but i think am i wrong i thought that she was cyber bullying teacher it was that it was a teacher ok it turned out that she didn't actually see any of the threatening letter that you see there do any of this what i find so remarkable about this isn't the fact that she's being poor little rich girl oh here in front of people it's that the person who was actua

dominick strauss-kahn is accused of raping a made maid while staying in a hotel in new york city. say he'll plead not guilty when he's arraigned this evening. the police pulled him off a plane heated for native france on saturday. strauss-kahn is also mentioned as a possible candidate for president in france. this has a lot of legal angles to asker consider. i want to bring in jeffrey here. strauss-kahn is an imf head official, can he get immunity here? >> that seems unlikely. as i understand it, the treaty covering diplomatic immunity between france and the united states does not cover imf officials. so i don't think he's a relative party as far as that is concerned. second, when you look at what diplomatic immunity usually covers, a crime of violence like this generally is not covered. so i really think diplomatic immunity is unlikely an issue in this case. >> i have to ask you, you know when you see in the movies, the crime dramas and there's some sort of diplomat that runs to the consulate and then the u.s. can't touch them. is that so? what the if he had done that instead of

dominick strauss kahn was arrested over the weekend for attempted rape.t a detention facility in new york after prosecutors convinced the judge that strauss kahn would be a flight risk. she denied bail and ordered him to remain in jail. he's accused of assaulting a hotel maid over the weekend. >> he restrained a hotel employee inside of his room. he sexually assaulted her and attempted to forcibly rape her. >> he controls a trillion dollars. he was also set to run for president of france. now he's facing charges of attempted rape, sex abuse and several other criminal counts. >>> next at 6:00, the secret to curing obesity. scientists say they may have found a major clue. >>> good evening. it's cold out there with our latest wild winter blast with temperatures even in the 40s already in the north bay, and we did have winds 15 to 30 miles per hour as this storm continues to move in.weck t'rinrag we're tracking some moderate rainfall in the east bay across livermore and pleasant "discovery" on more rain tracking in a few minutes. >>> british scientists say th

dominick strauss-kahn was pulled off of a plane from new york to paris before takeoff, charged with a criminal sexual act and attempted rape of a maid at a luxury hotel where he was staying. more about him and imf in a second. susan candiotti sets the stage. >> it was a saturday afternoon in the times square area of manhattan. the chambermaid had come into the room of dominick khan. she said he was completely naked when she walked in and the police said that he attempted to force himself on her sexually. she was able to break away. she ran to the hotel staff. when the police arrived on the scene mr. khan had already left the hotel. he was said to leave on an afternoon flight from new york stock exchange to paris, before they closed the door police went on board, they said he was seated in the first class section of the flight, of the pleen. he did not offer any resistance but they did lead him off the plane and turn him over to the new york police department. >>> you might not be familiar with his name, kahn, might not be that familiar with the imf. he's the head of the imf, the world

career dominick's just calm was instrumental in rescuing the eurozone most troubled states is a risk does seem to threaten the end of the euro itself r.t. paris and the resignation of dominic strauss kahn has put the global financial community in a spin economic sense of geopolitics right adrian so says his dell for may well be well plans to use alternatives and u.s. dollar as a reserve currency. his having left the international monetary fund in sochi dramatic way shows that the powers that be were not very happy with mr starr's car was promoting the special drawing rights which in a way are the mechanism that would make the dollar suffer i think that we are going to see that whoever found we were the whole of the i.m.f. will keep away from india too strongly participation in doing away with the us dollar in other words the u.s. dollar needs to be the keep currency and anything which is seen as competition automatically puts on warning lights anything that will trigger countries to sell off the u.s. treasury holdings is a sign of trouble for the united states because as i say those treasury bonds us treasury bonds is what allows boehner lanky to have his printing presses going on twen