that anymore as she started writing in extraordinary series of historical novels one set in italy in the 1950's just after the war and thus the blue flower was set in germany and a novel called the beginning of spring. she does this extraordinary thing she does all this homework, she knows everything there is to know and then she kind of compresses it down so you read these 150 page books and you feel that you are in this world completely inhibited so i found this very intriguing and nobody's written about her, the family asked me to do it but i've never done a book on someone that i knew and someone whose families are around so it is a completely different kind of challenge. >> did she write historical fiction? >> that's what you'd call it. it's winning all of the prizes and that is what you associate with historical fiction. but when i see it it doesn't sound quite right because it is like as if she disappears inside this particular historical world and without giving 500 pages of description, she just by inference makes you feel as if you are living in that place with those people. it is a g

it begins in italy in the 1980's, particularly when the rome.was coming to a leftwing journalist, who was outraged, thought this was a challenge to italy's pirelli and food culture. so he had a great idea. he did a much more italian protest, which was setting up a table outside of the new mcdonald's, and got all of the italian grandmother as he could find to cook their best dish and say, here is real food. what do you really want? it was a protest based on pleasure. galvanizing, and it started this movement. even though this starts after najaf and alice waters became good friends. that is some of the dna behind the food movement that we see right now. slow food is about who that is clean, and fair, concern with social justice, concern with how humane and chemical- free it is, and they are concerned with the experience, the loss of the family meal, a loss of eating as a communal activity. everything that fast food and food marketing is doing to our culture. effort tod fair,there is a dele undermine food culture to sell us processed foods. the family meal is a challenge it if you are ge

s. helmut kohl and the german chancellor ignored signs and the fact and experts have been saying that pointed that out for him that italy was not ready to join the euro zone he was very well informed and very well aware of the fact of the special reset this country and the succession may pose to the euro and two years later the same happened with greece it was accepted but it wasn't actually ready as experts were saying why at that time countries like italy like cories were so forcefully dragging you think. well it was the european dream then the very you have to look for also other responsibilities or i did we insist in the monetary union we. come over political how was that possible why did we do such a mistake i'm telling the responsibility goes of brussels. to the whole of the european union. and dr no the european union is facing a major challenge it must change it must be taught by the mistakes of the past. but. and we really want to be optimistic we believe that europe will change in the correct direction but mistakes were made and you're absolutely right that well anyway when we stop making them. well we have to

others suggested that f-16's safe in italy could have gotten there in time. according to general martin dempsey, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, who testified before the senate in february, he said they could not. this is our highest ranking military member. the fact is our nation's top military commanders have already testified repeatedly that they did everything in their power to mobilize and deploy assets as soon as possible. every independent and bipartisan review has confirmed this fact. we have the best military in the world. even with all these chronological advances, they could not get there in time. mr. hicks, i know these answers provide no comfort to you or the families of the victims, but this is the testimony congress has received. i have seen nothing to make me question the truthfulness of nation's military commanders. our committee has a fundamental obligation to conduct responsible oversight and that includes carefully examining information that you and others provide. we also have a duty to fairly investigate these claims before we

others suggested that f-16's safe in italy could have gotten there in time. according to general martin dempsey the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, who testified before the senate in february, he said they could not. this is our highest ranking military member. the fact is our nation's top military commanders have already testified repeatedly that they did everything in their power to mobilize and deploy assets as soon as possible. every independent and bipartisan review has confirmed this fact. we have the best military in the world. even with all these chronological advances, they could not get there in time. mr. hicks, i know these answers provide no comfort to you or the families of the victims but this is the testimony congress has received. i have seen nothing to make me question the truthfulness of our nation's military commanders. our committee has a fundamental obligation to conduct responsible oversight and that includes carefully examining information that you and others provide. we also have a duty to fairly investigate these claims before

s&p hit all time interday highs. >>> still relief on the data for us that the services pmi in france recovering from a four-year slump in italy seeing the highest level in almost two years. >>> and the malaysian stocks are soaring after the vote, but the government now faces a radical device and allegations of voting fraud by the opposition. >> announcer: you're watching "worldwide exchange," bringing you business news from around the globe. >> hi, everyone. business news and data news, just looking at our wires. you've got the eurozone services pmi data for april, better than anticipated, a reading of 47. the flash figure was 46.6. we saw a figure of 43.4 back in march. so 47 is quite a bit better than anticipated. german pmi data, 49.2 for april. this, of course, being europe's largest economy. so very, very closely watch this particular one. 49.2 in april, which is slightly worse than spec'd. we were looking for a figure above 50, above that level that separates contraction from expansion. but the eurozone business downturn, though, is pointing according to many analyst toes a continued recession taking place in the second

italy, sold 7 billion t-bill. it was 0.9% on april. bid to cover ratio below the 1.64. italian t-bill average year -- the point sower again. we saw it with spanish debt auction as well this week, lower yields. is this reflective of just the hunt for yield story and is it -- i mean, how much lower can we push italian -- spanish government debt, do you think? >> i think in shorter date maturities not more than already. you highlighted already with regard to pimco and their latest changes in underlying bond asset allocation. they've been pulling back. and i think that's indicative of the fact that yields have moved quite a bit already in some of those peripheral government bond markets. italian debt, spanish debt was traded at significantly higher yields just a few months ago. obsly, lot more of confidence with central banks pushing ahead with much greater stimulus. not just in europe with the ecb rate cut last week but also if we look at federal reserve, recent comments have suggested that they're also wanting to push through more stimulus in the near term. certainly not in the same place we were a couple months a

italy. to some extent in the u.s. . with. that means that there's going to be a lot less upward mobility for some of these people and the ramifications are still to come last friday the b.o.'s release their job reports numbers and beat expectations but a lot of these jobs were and very war or in retail i mean how did those numbers play into this. there's a lot of factors that played into this but they were better than expected but again temporary work was one of the major factors thanks christine. og next i will speak with the host of the big picture tom hartman to discuss their exclusive interview with senator brown on too big to fail then prime interest producer bob english and i will question that story games in the dow are we seeing real growth or is this just a manipulated bubble they were. old . technology innovation all the developments around russia we've got the future are covered. mission. couldn't take free. free. free. free. free. old free blank. free. wealthy british. really happening to the global economy. elite. have been going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember that we will. so there are shared brown and david vitter recently introduced a bi

italy. >>> 7:26, still ahead in our ou next half hour.hour. grading the president 100 days s >>> from the situation in syriaa to his confrontations in congress, we look at the biggest issues facing the administratio when we sit down with our ou bipartisan panel of political insiders. >>> celebrity advice to jason collins, we will tell you who the nba star turned for help before his historic revelation. >>> i love this song. song. >> as we head to the break, here a live look outside. we are going to check in with tucker and julie for a look at t traffic and weather next. it's 7:27.'s 7:2 this is david bowie with his ne album.  >>> the nba's first openly gay player, well altogether has sought a little help from a friend before coming clean about his sexuality. former n-sync says that collins called him for advice before sitting down. bass says that he and collins cn talked frankly about the pop's star's own experience and howd o important it was to come out inn their own terms. terms. bass was outed in a peopling magazine article. >> bass has his own

s. helmut kohl and the german chancellor ignored signs and the fact and experts have been saying that pointed that out for him that italy was not ready to join the euro zone he was very well informed and very well aware of the fact of the special rates that this country and the succession may pose to the euro and two years later the same happened with greece it was accepted but it wasn't actually ready as experts were saying why at that time countries like italy like greece were so forcefully dragging you think. well it was the european dream then the very you have to look for also other responsibilities or did we insist in the monetary union out of. the can over political how was that possible what i did with. i'm telling you responsibility those of brussels. to the whole of the european union. and dr no the european union is facing a major challenge it must train and it must be taught by the mistakes of the past. but. and who we really want to be optimistic we believe that europe will change in the correct direction but mistakes were made and you're absolutely right that well anyway when we stop making them. well you

italy, into benghazi in time. now, the republicans would make it seem as if the calvary never arrived. actually, there were people there to extract our folks sm sly before the mortar attack and that caused more problems, you know, on the ground. it's not as if nobody ever came, but this notion that has taken root on the right that there was somehow an order to stand down, as if some nefarious anti-american person in the u.s. government wanted these people to die, that's the subtext of what they're saying, that some horrible person wanted to not help americans. >> wait, by implication, the president of the united states? >> this is really kind of disgu disgusting. >> right. professor, we heard recently from mike huckabee, the former arkansas governor turned fox news tv personality, i'll quote you what he says. "i believe that before it's all over" meaning the benghazi investigation, "this president will not fill out his term. i know this puts me on a limb, but this is not minor. it wasn't minor when richard nixon lied to the american people." >> oh my god. >> professor, i just wonder how much this says about conservatives' desire to hurt the pre

italy. they are scheduled to leave on monday. >>> later today a bay area teenager will be competing in the semifinal round of the national spelling bee. >> prosciutto, p-r-o-si-u-t-t o, prosciutto. [ applause ] >> that was 13-year-old audrey bantuge correctly spelling prosciutto. nina also made it far into the competition but she was eliminated yesterday. the semifinal round starts in maryland at 11:00 this morning. the finals are later tonight. prosciutto, go. sorry, i didn't mean to put you on the spot. >> i can spell prosciutto but we can go to traffic. prosciutto, a lot of us know what that word is, a lot of the other words we don't know. >>> take a look at what we have starting in the east bay this time around on 80 westbound as you head out to the mcmargareter -- macarthur maze, when you get to the toll plaza a little bit of a crowd here developing in some of the cash lanes, fastrak still moving through okay and no major problems on that bridge. if you are driving on north and southbound 101 near the 280 interchange, that traffic also looks good. southbound 280 on the peninsula is moving well. checking with the south bay, it has been off to a nice sta