diamond or an instruct from the bank of england? >> from the bank of england. >> mr. diamond says you clearly misunderstood this. how could you have misunderstood it? >> well, i only know what i clearly recall from my conversation with mr. diamond. the investigators that have looked at this thoroughly have concluded that there was a miscommunication, misunderstanding, but i can only recall my recollection or i can only state what my recollection of the conversation is. >> his account of events contradicts testimony from mr. diamond earlier this month. >> the note from mr. tucker says that he felt your libor returns could be lower, doesn't it? >> he felt that our libor rates relative to the other 15 posters -- >> could be relatively lower? >> yeah. >> why then on paying 2 of your note to this committee yesterday you said you don't believe you received an instruction? >> i didn't believe it was an instruction. >> what was it a nod and a wink? >> banks are moving to mitigate risks in asia as the global rate fixing probe wide evens. bank of scotland stopped helping singap

well, this year, england is pringing it. according to the sunday "time" their opening ceremonies will feature 30 mary poppinses descending to find a 30-foot lord lord voldemort. it's even inspired an ace book in the series "harry potter and the death of the franchise." notice, for many, for many, the games are about watching world class feats of athleticism. but for me, it's all about hearing them. the crack of the bat. the swish of the three-pointer. the thud of my interest in soccer. ( laughter ) hearing those sounds really puts viewers at the center of the action, but audio engineer dennis baxter says some olympic sounds are impossible to capture. for instance, there are real challenges with rowing. >> the helicopter and the chase boat just completely wash out the sound. >> stephen: sounds tricky. also, am i the only one who thinks it's a little unfair for those boats to have to race a helicopter? ( laughter ) but sound engineers have found a workaround. >> we went out a canoe with a couple of rowers and covered the shot

all the way through portions of new england.his is going to push through the great lakes and then new england will get into the heat and humidity, especially the second half of today and into tomorrow. we have heat warnings in effect from areas of illinois, detroit, back through chicago, and up into minneapolis. we're talk 1g 01 in many areas in the northern plains. the incredible heat wave continues. that's a look at your national forecast. now here's a look outside your window. even after morning clouds and after the showers, once the sun comes out and the hot air arrives if there the midwest and the ohio valley jumping to the mid-90s from charlotte all the way up to new york. a few storms are possible this afternoon. so it looks like a few showers and storms later in the areas of the east but the showers are this morning. >> thanks so much. we need you to cut back on all that partying to preserve your voice. >>> coming up, crude creeps up, auto sales impress, and england's soccer team sets a lofty goal on wall street. your ea

new england was hit hard economically by the war. new england had little to gain by the war, and -- and so you can see why they opposed the war of 1812 up there. >> want to remind our viewers we'll open the phone lines again in half an hour at noon eastern for your calls on the war of 1812. we want to thank our guest vince vaise, chief of interpretation at ft. mchenry. thank you for joining us this morning, sir. >>> we're next going to go to boston where the "uss constitution" is docked, a veteran of the war of 1812. we're going to take a tour of the "uss constitution" museum. >>> we're taking a look at the war of 1812 that fastered a new sense of patriotism and gave us our national anthem. we continue no with american artifacts. >> each week, american artifacts takes viewers into archives, museums and historic sites around the country. "uss constitution" was launched in boston in 1797 and named by president george washington for the constitution of the united states. the ship gained fame during the war of 1812 defeating british wars

a few went to roel island, but a number of people from new england can to netherland where they found a much more congenial and much more prosperous place to be then ryland. >> professor would you teaching at columbia? >> i teach courses on colonial american history, the revolution, native american history also jury important for the early american experience and the american experience as a whole. also american religious history. >> how do you research 300-year-old religious history? >> with this book where did you start? >> welcome you start with research other people have done, very reliant on scholarships that have come before us and that provides a useful guide. in the end you just go back to the original sources and in the case of new netherland we are lucky in that various organization called the new netherland institute which has for several decades now collected and transcribe an organized many of the crucial sources relevant to the new netherland history. for my book what was important is getting out of the dutch context of the new netherland story, i had to go back to the n

the bank of england the banks seemingly. i don't know quite when that that that element of it started it probably didn't start till the height of the crisis in about september always but certainly you know it was well known in fact there's a guy called tim born to used to work for barclays capital who went on bloomberg television in may two thousand and eight and he you know he publicly stated that there was a deep concern about these numbers and whether banks might be making them up so you thought yeah the f.s.a. might have started to investigate at that point but they didn't they pushed back by the financial media in the financial times for example is that we have a committed crimes but they saved the system from collapse is that a legitimate response not in my view i mean i think you know you there's no excuse for committing crimes and even if they are sanctioned by people like paul tucker or if they were sanctioned by people people like paul tucker it doesn't excuse them in my heart in my view right now i think the word

the bank of england so it's gone into the inner sanctum of the world central banks over in the u.s. of course there's this audit the fed of it that's been active for quite some time especially that the federal reserve bank of ben bernanke has been committing acts of interest rate manipulation and fraud but now mervyn king is a in this do you think this will have as some are speculating a kind of a ratcheting up of the post two thousand crisis leading to what some are calling the industry's tobacco moment where that in fact when history suddenly had to admit that they their products are carcinogenic in a change the industry are we headed toward a moment where bankers have to admit that their fundamental business plan is toxic they're a cancer and industry must change i sincerely hope so i mean i read that are in the economist and it was amazing to read that article especially after their january article which was called save the city which was really an abomination of an article i was absolutely appalled by that piece so the one they've just done which mentions that quote of the toba

out the so-called rogue trader and the bad apple but if bank of england authorizing this stuff as it looks like they are then we have time out systemic crime syndicate infecting the entire system now the same time the library crime story was on a following in the media in frasier there was a last reported story of the swaps misselling tell us about the crime which banks were involved ok well that one involves every u.k. bank you know the key players include royal bank of scotland h.s.b.c. barclays lloyds and clydesdale i don't know about santander whether it was involved but it probably was as well basically what they did was they they sold interest rate swaps to s.m.s. which were small companies many of which had no understanding of what it was they were buying in fact they were told it was it was something completely different they didn't understand that if the interest rates fell they would actually they could suffer huge costs and they would have huge break break laws or break costs if they had if they want to exit from these products but it's basically one of the biggest scandal

hit and miss showers and storms in many areas of new england.urse, the afternoon hours is when the meet heating of the day is at the maximum to see the best showers and storms. warmest air down here from philadelphia to d.c., we are on the hot side. new england with the clouds in the 80s. watch out for thunderstorms near chicago this afternoon. you'll be very hot and toasty. then the storms will roll through and cool you off. not so lucky in the middle of the country. so slight risk of severe storms today from cleveland to pittsburgh, detroit, buffalo, all the way back down through the ohio valley. we are right along the cold front. that's good news. once the front kicks through we'll see cooler air returning to areas like chicago tomorrow. so kind of a stormy and hot week once again. what you would expect toward the end of july. >>> all right, thank you, bill. the jackson family feud continues and duh. winners at the teen choice awards. plus, response from friday morning's early tragedy in colorado. your first entertainment look is straight ahe

to england we go. tiger woods in the hunt and then he got lost in bunkers.ever a good sign when you're swinging from your knees. finally got out. but the damage was done. a triple bogey, finished 4 back, tied for third. no collapse was bigger than adam scott's. the leader coming into sunday. bad approach on 15. he'll need a shovel from there. he bogeys the hole. ernie els was chugging along. rolling in a birdie on 18, finished with a 68, 7 under. he watches from the clubhouse as scott falls apart. bogeys the final four holes, needing this to force a playoff. not going to happen. els wins his second british open and fourth major. >>> from the british open to the first brit to ever win the tour de france. bradley wiggins, a leisurely ride, final stage. more ceremony than anything else. he wins cycling's greatest race. >>> yankees with a lead and a's clawed back. seth smith tied it in the ninth with a bomb to straightaway center. ask then in the 12th, how about some coco, tastes like victory. coco crisp with the rbi single. a's walk off with a 5-4 win. >>> cabr

there was no regulation of banking in edwardian england. not a single regulation on books as i understand it and the banks were solvent. today we are positively choked with legislation, dodd/frank 2,300 pages or so, and we still see -- we see the most extraordinary demonstrations of near-misses and of flat-out misses in our financial system. i think you are hard-pressed to put over the point that the gold standard was the cause of financial disruption. humanity is the cause of financial disruption. the question is, what system best contains it? and under what system and what system is the most equitable and the most given over to establishing prosperity. it seems to me that it's clear. it's not this one. >> so lewis, people have often observed the absurdity of a gold-based currency, that you pay people to go in hot countries to go miles underground to extract some gold and refine it or whatever you do and then put it in the vaults of a bank. but there's another side of absurdity in which the ebb and flow of the currency, of inflation/deflat

with a part of england are you from? in lester square for a while and i was one of the statues that didn't move. lieceshire. >> you were so close. >> there is no "h". >> that was your question? >> that was my question. >> i'm going to prove to you that i looked. >> do you think an endorsement from a british actor is going to make a difference? >> a lot of people are interested in my thoughts. >> anna, what is your favorite meal at chick-fil-a? >> a grilled chicken sandwich. >> what kind of beverage? >> a coke. i got something for you. this want to be cool like you. >> hey, bill, any chance you are going tor show us waffle thighs like waffle frys. absolutely not. >> we keep doing that. >> bonnie, congratulations, six minutes and 23 seconds before we had our first nazi joke. well done. >> the only reason i married a jew. [ laughter ] >> have you ever eaten at a chick-fil-a? >> i just have the bun. >> have you ever been in a gay marriage? >> my husband is gay. [ laughter ] >> what part of england are you from? >> you alread

and finalist andy murray passed on the flame to venus williams at the all england club while former england and manchester united football and michael i would was also given the honor of barry torch and former pole vault white said good work couple sirens from the london streets the nine hundred eighty eight and then picked champion snorting been an experiment. for him big movement of olympians and which he united the people of his different religion with different language it's no border through sports or olympics that people are always together this is fantastic and unique power of olympian and in the meantime russia has gone for us either experience as five up and coming gymnasts will be vying to restore the country's former glory and the men's artistic gymnastics in london. has a lot of blood. from the soviet union russian artistic gymnasts have always had a lot to live up to that was the distinguished tradition of soviet union athletes between russia and the u.s. is forty nine gold medals have been won the olympic games for any other nation

it comes from england. the idea originally develops in england at the turn of the 18th century and it is then incorporated in to american belief systems by people who are very awe current with what's going on in england. the educated people in america prided themselves on reading english publications and keeping up to date and some of the most important progeneral or thes of this idea are ady son and steel and their book or their series of essays "the spectator" which is published in book form and i discovered the most advertised book in 18th century america after the bible advertised for sale. and people just thought the spectator was the -- be all and end all and told everyone how they should behave. and it said it was absurd for women to think about politics, absurd for women to think about public affairs and if they did that they would be neglecting their families, they would be creating sort of slovenly households. ady son saying i never knew a political woman to retain her beauty for more than one yea

. >>> coming up, crude creeps up, auto sales impress, and england's soccer team sets a lofty goal onall street. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, who's on the top of this year's list of hollywood's highest paid actors? >>> serena unloads at wimbledon, a pair of walk-offs, and the nets get their guy, you're watching "early today." >>> good morning and welcome back to "early today." i'm lynn berry, and here are some of your top headlines this morning. secretary of state hillary clinton officially expressed regret yesterday for the accidental killing of 24 pakistani troops last fall. pakistan has reopened supply routes into afghanistan now that the u.s. has offered that apology. >>> the food and drug administration has approved the first over-the-counter oral home hiv test. the test made by orasure provides results in 20 to 40 minutes. >>> california prosecutors will not file charges against former commerce secretary john bryson for his role in two car crashes. bryson was found unconscious behind the wheel of his car last month after suffering a seizure

but we have the bank of england meeting this week.retty widespread assumption that we will see a bit more qe this time around. i suppose the figures and the comments you just made about the weakness and the increasingly negative outlook will add to the bank of england's case to pump more money into the economy. >> yeah, i think so. the bank cited the pmis and strength in the first quarter relative to the gdp number. they weren't acting more actively in terms of boosting the economy. now the pmi has also come down into that territory which is historically consistent with easing. i think that case has weakened and we will see some action tomorrow. >> chris, who is our guest host, doesn't like pmis. seeing as you help put them together, maybe chris you can explain why you are so down on pmis. >> i am just very wary about the use of very short-term data to try and react to short-term issues. i think the point earlier on was as part of an understanding of what's going on on a trend level, the front line information is useful but you have i

but the bank of england i know from correspondence i've had in the past and far from asking questions the bank of england thinks that the existing system is efficient and all its outcomes are just and there's just a few bit of trouble here and a bit a few trouble there the bank of england should be the source of an interest free loan supply the money to be put out and taken back and council for the real economy and it's spreading but all the governors of the bank of england so far have always sneered at that and have said oh there's nothing wrong with the existing system well i say to the existing governor mervyn king alas i can say he's a little bit better for them in his predecessor i say to him you're better wake up to this because it's a very serious matter your job is on the line and i think at the end of the day that the politicians jobs should be on the line because they also think they're smug self-righteous and complacent and they do none of them except that the system is fundamentally flawed that debt has got to levels which are totally unreliable and that something very rad

england supreme. pelosi confirmed as the country's head coach. social protests erupt again in israel as thousands demonstrate in solidarity with a man who set himself why his show of desperation and government policy. it would be problems with the food electricity water supply so i want to make sure we can wait this time when the money will be worthless debt doom's day desperation our team meets the austrian with arguably the most pessimistic outlook for the future of the being in the euro zone. it's three pm in a moscow you're watching r t m e so now with our top story and russia's foreign minister sergei lavrov says other countries trying to blackmail moscow to secure a u.n. resolution allowing the use of force in syria. national bunch will motivate you unfortunately we've even seen some elements of blackmail i consider it a talk only counterproductive and dangerous approach because it is unacceptable to use the observers as a bargaining chip but let's. start with peter all over has been after i've come present heard the words from the foreign

new england will be dodging afternoon storms. very hot in the southeast.ut not quite as wet as yesterday. florida got drenched this weekend. looks a little dryer for them also. >> that heat wave is on its way. we all need a beach day? >> yes. no big relief till probably thursday or friday. >> got to get your sandcastle building experience. >>> a big energy acquisition and a motivational mishap. your early morning business headlines are straight ahead. >>> plus, the response from hollywood to early friday morning tragedy in colorado. >>> a monumental collapse at the british open. a close call for the green team. and the newest member of the 300 club. you're watching "early today." >>> good morning and welcome back to "early today." i'm veronica de la cruz. here are some of your top headlines this morning. a syrian opposition group says it launched an offensive to capture aleppo, but syrian army forces have been fighting to recapture neighborhoods in the capital of damascus. >>> in china, at least 37 people have died in the heaviest rain storm to hit beijing

we have the bank of england, too. no change expected on rates at the bank of england. there's an overwhelming projection that there will be qe. patrick, what you make of the effectiveness of more qe for the bank of england where essentially they can't really cut at all at this stage so we're looking at qe as the option. >>s a catch 22. most banks are clearly going into printing. and maybe they will try to do something but they will not expect too much. what we need to take into account, currencies in the last few quarters have been mainly driven by central bank balance sheets. this is a question mark. the more you put pressure down on your currency, we might make that with the u.s. as well. there is a need in the u.s. it would put downside pressure on the dollar and put upside pressure on the euro. >> you talk about -- i mean, there's obviously, the last three years it's been part of the policy to ek waen the currency, not expectly but they're happy with what happens as a result of the policy. should the u.s. actually be arguing -- should they be happy to see a stronge

england supreme. it's confirmed as russia's coach. max drafting a plan for struggling contraries and how to quit the euro as the leading british businessman chief tells r.t. why he thinks they should go. today i'm talking to lord simon wolfson who is a multi-millionaire and chief executive of the next fashion chain he's also just sponsored a prize for the person who comes up with a nice disruptive way for a country to exit the euro is a lot simon wilson thanks for talking to us today now why did you decide to sponsor this prize i was once the prize because there was an enormous intellectual vacuum nine months ago people were not talking about this the euro was designed with all lines of retreat cut off and it looks increasingly unstable and the one thing you can be sure of is if it does break up we need a plan. and i think what this prize has done is it's taken a subject that was to prove it was a forbidden subject and it is now bought into mainstream debate moving that it's produced a fantastic finalist who actually come up with a ve

hello there welcome to the sports and these are the headlines caplets former england boss fabio capello says taking the russia job will be a wonderful adventure. park obscene queens russia's women prepared to make history at the limpid games in london. and no showing moscow heavyweight champ a tally klitschko talked of his next fight in the russian capital as his opponent among those a while. but first former england football manager fabio capello has talked in glowing terms about taking charge of the russian national team saying it would be a wonderful adventure he's heading to moscow to sign a two year deal worth up to twenty four million dollars with a possible two year extension the russian football union named him his dick up the car successor on monday and claimed they now only need to agree some final details with their man capello is expected to appoint four fellow italians and two russians in his coaching staff and would take charge in time for russia's friendly against ivory coast next month before world cup qualifiers against northern ireland and israel in september. well cap

but first the former england manager fabio capello is taking charge of the russian national football team would be a wonderful adventure he's heading to. deal worth up to a staggering twenty four million dollars with a possible two year extension the russian football union named him sticking to cart success on monday and claim they now only need to agree on the fine print with the talent capello is expected to appoint for fellow country men and two russians in his coaching staff and take charge in time for russia's friendly against every coast next month before it was cup qualifiers against northern ireland and israel in september. capello's achievements in the management have seen him qualify england for the world cup in twenty and the recent european championships but his biggest achievements have come at probably winning two la liga titles with real madrid and seven italian league titles with rome eventers and ac milan also won the champions league under him and here's what russian plays said about capello's appointment. i think this is the correct decision and he's a great coach

what other parts would deal with the bank of england? >> it would of started with the group treasury. patrick perry was the group treasurer reporting there. all of the group funding which was sometimes executed -- the execution was done through the markets of the government's and the decisions of treasury. one executive had been with the firm and had the closest relationship with the bank of england in our gilt age operation. >> tell me about your relationship with the bank of england. do you think the bank was slow to respond to the crisis in 2007-2008? does this little lie behind these concerns? >> no, i don't. relative to other banks, one of the best decisions we made at barclays -- if i look over the financial crisis and ask myself what is the single best decision the barclays got right, i think it was when it was clear of october, 2008 that cfsa had made decisions for all banks to carry more capital. soon after, it nationalized lloyd's, that had been arranged. this 62 billion pound loan had been arranged for hboss think after the an

former england manager fabio capello says taking russia job will be a wonderful adventure. boxing queens thrushes women prepare to make a little big games in london. and the civil war is safe organizers keep olympic medals at the tower of london for security reasons. but first former england manager fabio capello says taking charge of the russian national team would be a wonderful adventure he's heading to. a two year deal worth up to twenty four million dollars with a possible two year extension russia will be made to give a card successor on monday and claim they now only need to agree on the fine print with italian capello's expected two point four fellow countrymen and two russians in his coaching staff and take charge in time for russia's friendly against over coast next month before cup qualifiers against northern ireland and israel in september. capello's achievements in management have seen him qualify england for the world cup in twenty ten and the recent european championships but biggest achievement at club level winning two bloody good times with real madrid and

chelsea an england star john terry defends himself in court over racism claims. dating high rushes hottest talented extreme sports come to moscow to showcase that skill. but first revert him and cheney has agreed a new five year deal to stay at the helm of manchester city and therefore ruling out the possibility of becoming the new russia coach their contract would see the forty seven year old stay with the blues until the summer of twenty seventeen the italian coach guided the club to f.a. cup glory in his first full season in charge last year and he followed that up with their first league title in forty four years in may man cheney had been strongly linked with the russia job are to take up the cause departure flooring russia's poor performance at the recent european championships in poland and ukraine. elsewhere a new liverpool manager brendan rodgers says he plans to restore the club to its former glory the thirty nine year old took up the red hot seat after moving from swansea last month and he's already aiming high next season. over school the twenty five

he attended town meetings in new england, observed slave markets in the south. he visited indian villages in the michigan territory, voyaged on steam boats that shortly after he disembarked blew up. it was a highly hazardous form of transportation. he traveled by stage coach. he winter to columbia, south carolina. he did not, unfortunately for himself, make it to charleston. tocqueville was an aristocrat whose family suffered during the french revolution. they could trace their heritage back to the norman times, the invasion of william the conquerer. some of his ancestors were part of that army. his great grandfather, a distinguished philosopher and lawyer, who was defense council in the trial of king louis xvi was gill teened after his client. tocqueville's father escaped the gill teen. when he left the prison at age 22 his hair had turned completely white. this was a family that was traumatized by this great event in history, the french revolution. as a child, tocqueville was born 1805, met the restored king louis xviii after the downfill of napoleon. while he

. >> let's turn to the bank of england here. the deputy governor is giving evidence to a parliamentary committee. it's all about the rate-rigging controversy over libor. >> yes, port tupper will be sitting in front of the treasury select committee. last week, we had bob diamond, as well. the critical questions -- what went on? one particular conversation between port tupper and bob diamond over whether this interbank lending rate should be artificially manipulate it lower. chris jones, the economic sai editor, thinks this could have far-reaching implications throughout the world. >> i think the ultimate outcome will be that the authorities will not be seen to love done something wrong. although, it might mean that he might damage his job as becoming governor of the bank of england. things going on behind the scenes. >> a lot will be resting on exactly how he answers those mp's questions. >> thank you. thank you. >> the genocide trial of srebrenica is now under way -- trial of former bosnian serb army commander ratko mladic is no

mitt romney is having a bugger of a time in jolly old england. we'll break down royal pains here tonight. this is "the ed show," and as ed would say, let's get to work. >> my experiences with regards to the olympics is it is impossible for absolutely no mistakes to occur. >> the british people have erupted in defiance at mitt romney's political insult. >> there's a guy called mitt romney who wants to know whether we're ready. are we ready? are we ready? >> in one day, mitt romney's european vacation went from foreign policy listening tour to heel chasing. ♪ tonight, mitt romney is basically apologizing. the british press are calling him another "w" and worse than palin. we'll have all the latest from mitt romney's european disaster. >>> the romney camp tries to sweep their anglo saxson remark under the rug. >> it's strange and foreign to the american type of experience type of philosophy. >> we'll show you why it's impossible to deny the romney campaign's effort to portray the president as something other than american. >>> and the man who domina

and football is the new man at the top that england supreme hello is confirmed as russia's head coach. you're watching live from the russian capital where it's four pm our top story and moscow says it's under arm twisting tactics from foreign partners who want to push through a u.n. resolution on syria which could allow the use of external force the words now from the foreign minister and analysis from our chief peter oliver. unfortunately we've even seen some elements of blackmail i consider it talks only counterproductive and dangerous approved because it is unacceptable to use the observers as a bargaining chip but its. largest greater all over has been after that conference heard the words from the foreign minister p. what kind of bargain is talking about here. well what russia wants to see is the extension of the u.n. monitoring program on the ground in syria now they proposed a resolution to the u.n. security council which says just the us know some of russia's foreign partners have come forward and said yes we'll vote for your resolution if you vote no the second resolution is

when i got to england, i got -- i noticed people looked at me a little oddly. so i just went into the "ap" bureau and said, i'm not going around wearing american uniform or anybody else's uniform without incig knsig nenia on it. they got me something for the neck, the arms. >> why did they put you in uniform? >> oh, you couldn't be -- you wouldn't be -- well, they had a different way of handling the correspondents now than they had then. then it was a different thing. you were, you had the status with the military service. and you -- you weren't a member of the thing, but you were nevertheless brought in that way and you were subject to their rules and regulations. if they wanted to move the unit out, they moved you along with the unit, you see. and so you were always hunting for a place to affiliate with the military service so that you could get taken places like this, that and the other. that was froeprobably one of th reasons, i wanted to get upfront and see what he was doing up there. >> who had to approve your going? who else had to approve it? >> well, t

that's the diplomatic challenge going to england on the olympics. instead of running straight ahead, he tackles the guy next to him. this is a dream trip for the obama people. >> well, when you look at the quotes from tweets at the romney shambles hash tag, it says romney retroactively cancels visit to london. this is what happens when you send mitt romney to a place where the trees aren't the right height. mitt has proven that only his money is fit to leave the u.s. i like the last one. >> this is what he proved. that he has poor people skills. he doesn't know how to interact with people. >> corporations of people. >> he knows how to relate to corporations, right? but the american people and just human beings can say when a person doesn't relate to people. they can pick up on that quickly. >> i think in all seriousness, though, that he responded as a ceo. he went right to his ceo thing of this is how i ran the olympics in his own mind. and he started critiquing it. he doesn't think like a diplomat or a commander in chief or president or politician.

we give over here in america great coverage to the girls that come over from england. why not -- why shouldn't we get some in reverse? so they agreed that it would be all right for me to do that. and then you want to know how robb got involved. i had good friends in new york that i used to go up and visit like that. whi whi wily smith who was head -- universal service was another one, the hearst outfit. when he -- i would come to town, he would take me to dinner. i knew him when i was -- when he was stationed in washington covering -- as districter of the universal service. so, i looked him up. somehow or another that evening, wily encountered robb and i told what's his name -- wily smith i was going overseas. walking down the aisle i had said, gosh, i'm going to get to go overseas. she went to work right now trying to get too. and i felt -- it didn't bother me there would be another woman in the thing or anything like that. whether i would go alone or she would be with me or anything else. so, we sort of joined forces to get this thing -- this ball rolling. one thing

also into western sections of new england and of course the large hail, torrential rain that goes along with the big, severe weather outbreak should be one of the largest we've seen so far this year. of course when you have that many storms on the map you've got big delays and for a lot of the northeast airports those delays are mounting. brian, i think those folks are probably going to be there for a while. >> eric fisher watching the skies in the northern suburbs of new york city tonight. eric, thanks. >>> turning back overseas now to the crisis in syria, it's been another day of bad and escalating violence in that nation's largest city aleppo and reporting from there has become very difficult. our chief foreign correspondent richard engel is on the ground there covering this conflict working in some very dicey conditions today. he was able to file the following report late today from northern syria. >> reporter: good evening, brian. the syrian government is launching a major counteroffensive and rebel sources tell us about a hundred armored vehicles have been sent to join the attack

and the bank of england there might be some kind of indication of more stimulus onto the markets also in commodities food prices are expected to rise as a fifth of america's crops face damage from the drought wheat corn and soybean prices for your eyes that's the way they closed on tuesday at least big grain exporter russia among the top three is also seeing heavy rains which have pushed prices up further and some experts fear countries will now bring back the export bans we saw during the summer extremes of two thousand and ten to guarantee supply at home. on the currencies markets also inch by inch sure the euro is going down versus the dollar as some experts some investors say cashing out into the greenback and the russian ruble also source in the picture was losing value against these all the gaining slightly versus the euro that's after a huge jump on tuesday against both sides now on the stock markets russia in a quiet trading managed to post the fourth day of gains in the final minutes of pretty much all of the trading session was down throughout most of the day and with my six