plus: haiti's latest crisis and the six-year ordeal of ingrid betancourt.st, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan in our newsroom. >> sreenivasan: wall street got a big boost today from the federal reserve's plan to spend $600 billion on boosting the economy. the dow jones industrial average had its highest close since the collapse of lehman brothers in september of 2008. the blue chip index gained more than 219 points to finish at 11,434. the nasdaq rose 37 points to close at 2,577. the australian airline qantas grounded its entire fleet of airbus a-380 super-jumbo jets today, after one of them blew an engine in flight. the plane made a safe emergency landing in singapore with 459 people onboard. the ginelosest to the sela hadvisible burn marks and was missing a metal plate section. and passengers reported hearing loud bangs. >> yeah, i was sitting just behind the wing, so we felt this just loud thud, everybody was sort of pretty shaken by it, you can imagine now how pretty full on it was, but like i said, the pilot did a fantastic job. >> sr

>> antes de seguir con el programa recuerde que hoy tenemos una entrevista exclusiva con ingrid betancourtÉdese. >> tambiÉn tenemos mÚsica! cuando vean el set musical se van a quedar con la boca abierta. >> estamos a tan solo unos dÍas... vio la gran final de mira quiÉn baila y anoche en la semifinal vimos llegar el momento que dicen que es decisivo que anunciÓ a la tercera finalista de la competencia. >> doce millones y medio de votos. la finalista fue jaki. >> el pÚblico decidiÓ que como la apodan ya, el huracÁn guerrero, para que emprenda el camino hacia la gran final. >> tuvo una despedida increÍble. el pÚblico se puso de pie y se levantÓ y le dio un aplauso que se merece. >> pero como los grandes. >> ella logrÓ ganarse el cariÑo de todos ahÍ. la noche tuvo invitados de primera. >> emilio estefan y keni ortega. >> pues nos deleitaron con los sueÑos que me encantaron ambos. >> oigan, si les parece comenzamos recordando a diana reyes. que iniciÓ bailando... el huracÁn guerrido la vamos a apodar. le echo el corazÓn de sus fanÁticos pero no del fanático. >> y vadhir derbez? empezando con l

we are going to begin our panel with ingrid betancourt, "even ilence has an end" is the title of her book my six years of captivity in the colombiany jungle. as many of you may know, ingrid betancourt was a senator in colombia when she announced her candidacy for the presidency and it was during that campaign at a time when she was attempting to go to an area of the country that was controlled by the guerrilla forces, the farc. she was apprehended and the book is a memoir about that experience and it is really a t delight to have the opportunity. to have a conversation with you about it, so too. i wonder if he could start with tellgng us about that fateful day in february 22, 2002? >> i would like first to thank you all for being with us you all for being with us this evening. and, well, it was a saturday eight years ago. and i was in a presidential campaign. i had to go to a village which was the place where the peace talks with the farc and the government have been held. this trip was planned many weeks before, but two days before that trip, the peace talks abruptly ended. there wa

gracias, ingrid betancourt. ♪ >> quÉ interesantes respuestas que dio el final.elicito, muy interesante material que nos has traÍdo. ahora vamos a cambiar de tema, maÑana seguimos con grandes exclusivas en despierta amÉrica, va a estar espectacular la sorpresa que tenemos. >> un pedacito de la gran manzana, un pedacito de broadway llega a despierta amÉrica. ahora vamos con negra y una entrevista y un tema muy controversial tambiÉn. >> muchas gracias. hay una joven que ha luchado por esta ley del dream act, es jessica colote, una joven mexicana que vive en los estados unidos desde los 11 aÑos de edad, es estudiante universitaria y es parte de una organizaciÓn llamada georgia dreamers, jessica, buen dÍa, gracias por estar aquÍ en despierta amÉrica. >> buenos dÍas. >> jessica, sabemos que tÚ llegaste a este paÍs jovencita y te sientes mÁs americana que muchos que han nacido aquÍ, eres una joven que persigue un tÍtulo universitario a toda costa, lo podemos comprobar porque estÁs a punto de graduarte en la prÓxima primavera pero tienes un problema muy serio como mucho

ingrid betancourt. and, please, step up to the microphone, and while we wait for people to come, i'll ask a question here and that is, i wa just struckth by the paradox, te great paradox in your book between the beauty of these surroundings that you describe in riveting terms and then the horror within which you found yourself. and it seems such a contradictory universe. can you -- >> yes. y because the world is beautiful but sometimes we humans make it not as beautiful as it shouldau be. the problem in the jungle wasn't the jungle, it's the humans in the jungle. >> it wasn't the anacondas, it was the people. well, thank you, ingrid, very much. [applause] >> we have about ten minutes, if you'll keep your questions short, we'll try to get to as many as we can. >> can you hea>>r me? >> yeah. >> ingrid, first of all, a lot of respect for the endeavor and the suffering you had to go -- undergo. i have not read your book, but e will, okay? >> thank you. >> iou have some very quick questions, and i know i can

the story started in 2002 when the tory percent ingrid betancourt, who is running for president of colombia at that>>m time. the and they had met each other int the united states, were both on book tour with their books andn their publicists.h the publicist introduced them. and so, she decided doing a documentary on a presidential candidate who is running foromar president in colombia, a woman running for president at latin america would be an interesting story and especially the story af ingrid betancourt. h well, that quickly changed with the kidnapping of ingrid betancourt and we ended up turning into a documentary about her family and her campaign,enty running the campaign in herhe absence and about hostages in colombia that situation. and from that documentary, we. met a person -- of the colombia journalist named henrique botero and were introduced by a camera person. .. we interviewed him and with her husband. jorge enrique botero had been covering the conflict in columbia for about 20 years i'd say. and he was one the only journalist to get into hostage camps. and his reporting on th

ademÁs, luego de su largo secuestro la ex candidata ingrid betancourt puso una demanda millonaria a suierno y revelÓ nisionlos err que viviÓ. vea su confesión ante nuestras cÁmaras. >> ivisiounivno no misionvolvíÁ ni los ivisionunh@univisionuniÍ hijos ni nada de lo que fueron esos aÑos en la selva, nada me va a devolver lo que yo sufrÍ. >> ayer nada de enfermedad silenciosa que puede ganarle a ustedes o a sus hijos, vea cÓmo ganarle a la anorexia. lucero sigue haciendo de las suyas como valentina villalba en la dueÑa y univisionunivisiÓ hecho nuestras reporteras estÁn listas para una cobertura de costa a costa. buenos dÍas, muchachas.nunivisionunivisionuÍ dÍas a todos. las posibilidades de avanzar sobre el tema de una reforma migratoria parecen estancadas en el congreso de estados unidos. sin embargo, los demÓcratas insisten en tratar el asunto. barack obama recibe al senador menÉndez y isionunivisionunivisionunivisios uny univisionunivisionunivisioÓ algo interesante, mientras en otros estados proponen quitar derechos a los indocumentados allÍ aprobaron que la matrícula consular se con

we're going to >> midafternoon we began our panel with ingrid betancourt "even silence has an end" her bs of captivity in the colombian junk l. .. when she was attempting to go to an area of the country that was controlled by the guerrilla forces, the farc, she was apprehended. the book is a memoir of that experience mid it is a delight to have a conversation about you with it. could you start by telling us about that fateful day? february 22, 2002? >> guest: first i want to thank you all for being witho us.s and it was a saturday, eight years ago. and i was in a presidential campaign. i had to go to a village which was the place where the peace talks with the farc and the government have been held. this trip was planned many weeks before, but two days before that trip, the peace talks abruptly ended. there was a crisis. and the peace talks just came to an end. and well, i had to, you know, figure out if i was going to go. and the mayor who was a person from my party called me and asked me not to cancel the trip. because for them it was important. they were very concerned that -- with

the group and the kidnapping of three american private contract areas and colombian president ingrid betancourt. this held at the new america foundation here in washington last about an hour. >> hi, thank you