o the newseum posts digital versions of hundreds of front pages every day from all over the world. but the huge landslide of requests crashed the site's servers. the newseum says people always want to see newspaper front pages when huge stories break, even if they have to see them on the web. score one for traditional media. >> tom: that's "nightly business report" for monday, may 2. i'm tom hudson. good night everyone. we hope to see all of you again tomorrow night. this program was made possible by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. captioning sponsored by wpbt captioned by media access group at wgbh access.wgbh.org >> be more. pbs. vo:geico, committed to providing service to its auto insurance customers for over 70 years. more information on auto insurance at geico.com or 1-800-947-auto any time of the day or night.

a spokesman says this was the most traffic ever coming to the newseum's website. 2800 hits a second.ane watrel, news 4. >>> why would so many internet users want to look at newspaper headlines? a spokesman says newspapers offer an emotional snapshot in time while websites are constantly changing. >>> coming up on our broadcast tonight at 11:00, more on the death of osama bin laden including reaction from the founder of the navy s.e.a.l. unit that finally killed him. >>> also, an emotional night out at nationals park as military members were saluted by the team and its fans and the search for a group of boy scouts who have been stranded by floodwaters tonight at 11:00. >>> one more check on our weather, doug? >> our weather look great for tomorrow for part of the day if not for most of the day and many us will see temperatures in the mid to upper 80s. 82 degrees for the washington, d.c. area and yes, a chance for a late shower or thunderstorm, some of the storms will come in late tomorrow night and not during the day, but tomorrow night, some of those could be strong and maybe severe.

the newseum posts digital copies of front pages from hundreds of newspapers around the world onto itsb site. thousands of people could not access the web site yesterday. the newseum says the web site was processing nearly 3,000 transactions per second. >>> the moment that will likely stay engraved in our memories, where were you when you first heard about the death of osama bin laden. some celebrities are now weighing in. >> i was in bed. i just laid there listening. i'm not one to be wanting to rejoicing but i know it's good thing. >> i was just surprised. it happened while i was in the air apparently. so i got off the plane, the guy picked me up at the airport told me about that. >> i learned this morning. what a hard slog, what i -- a what a long road that was. i suppose it's blow for something, for us, for how we conceive life in the west. and the end of a chapter. excellent. >> we are not sure exactly where gary weddle was. >> he vowed to not shave until osama bin laden was caught. >> now, on the right, his current look. >> he looks 10 years younger. >>> holly morris is live at a

news 4's jane watrel is outside the newseum in northwest washington with that part of the story.ane? >> well, jim, the death of osama bin laden is the biggest news story in nearly a decade and you can tell by the number of people that have been coming down here all day to read the worldwide headlines and also go inside to attend a very emotional exhibit. sfwloot 9/11 exhibit, the melted broadcast an taken from the north tower of the world trade center. on this day after the death of osama bin laden, many say they felt coverampelled to be here. >> it gives closure to the victims of the attacks. >> brooklyn tourist was 10 years old in 2001 and watched the towers burn from his elementary school windows. he's part of the crowd that gathered outside the white house last night, reveling in the news that bin laden was dead. >> i'm very happy that he's gone. i wish it would have happened earlier, but at least we got limb. >> reporter: at the kensington volunteer fire department a memorial funded largely by donations is being built outside the main fire station to remember those who lost

she's covered bin laden extensively, and she joins us from washington at the newseum and, christiane, you're not on set. tell us where you're standing. >> we're just a floor up from our set in the newseum right behind me. it's the managinged tower, that antenna on the north tower of the world trade center building and collapsed obviously on 9/11, and it's been brought here and also headlines from here and around the world the day after 9/11, so today it's really important to be here. >> christiane, i want to ask for your reaction to the government's release of these specific images of bin laden as a tired, old man. >> well, i think precisely as your previous guest said, this is not the face of the mastermind of terror, the terrifying man who we've all thought about over the last ten years. the images that we have seen broadcast were very carefully managed. osama bin laden on one knee firing a kalashnikov. osama bin laden giving interviews, osama bin laden giving those, you know, rather terrifying low voice somewhat mysterious image cultivating that he did all these long years. here he

because even here people don't care enough about this old weapon other than to be the highlight of the newseum. a lot easier than i am only talking to my friends about my activism. and they don't care about such serious matter sort of thing like . only the people who was there understand what happened under the mushroom cloud today it's not so it is very difficult in these peaceful time to make young people understand how tragic it was that he is the youngest died a hero she met peace memorial museum but she goes further than providing information our goal is to provoke fear and dread it but i don't want that children have never experienced an atomic bombing that's why i use simple language while trying to make an impact on a family it's in a city on it it was in you know at least let's look over here it was that turned wall see the airplane. in that airplane when they were carrying the bomb into that airplane. is about do you know what time it was. unable. it was eight fifteen. even i was in my house in front of the al char i had been used paper spread out and was treating it like i had just

>> announcer: this week with christian amanpour from the newseum in washington, d.c.om our abc stations. continue in a moment after this from our abc stations. >>> with osama bin laden dead and gone now, president obama will reach out to the muslim world in another speech on thursday. he will address the democratic uprising sweeping the middle east where a heady atmosphere is being tempered by violent oppression. in syria, security forces friday again fired on large demonstrations calling for a end of the regime of president bashar al-assad. the death toll is well over a thousand, with thousands more under arrest. mass arrests in bahrain, a key american ally and human rights groups urging the united states to break its silence on the brutal government crackdown. and in libya, civil war enrages and moammar gadhafi continues to stay in power under that nato no-fly zone. and egypt, which overthrew its president in february is now at a fork in the road, facing change and reform for chaos and instability. so, how will the president address all of this upheaving? with me, r

. >> live from the newseum in washington, "this week" with christiane amanpour starts right now. >> welcome to our viewers here and around the world. there's lots to discuss in the world stage and campaign trail. but first we want to catch you up on news since the sunday morning papers. a major development in the republican race for the white house. in the midnight e-mail to his supporters, indiana governor mitch daniels said he will not run for president in 2012. daniels quickly became the most buzzed about noncandidate but his wife had veto power. and the governor acknowledged it in his statement today. saying, quote, simply put, i find myself caught between two duties, i love my country. i love my family more. much more coming up. >>> and huge plumes of smoke over iceland. the country's most active volcano is reerupting and spewing clouds of ash into the sky. remember a year ago, another volcano stranded 10 million travelers and now iceland's international airport is closed. and president obama is preparing to address apac this morning, the country's larkest pro-israel group in a few hou

the good the bad of the very very cataclysmically ugly good for you too teaming with the newseum here in washington d.c. google unveiled a new you tube channel that honors journalists who've been killed in action the risks and sacrifices that many have made in order broad as with accurate information our remarkable said you tube bloggers do you grow channel features the work of fallen journalists and can be found at youtube dot com slash journalists memorial check it out without rick santorum the republican presidential hopeful fired back at john mccain who said that enhanced irrigation techniques like waterboarding simply don't work santorum responded that mccain doesn't understand how an answer works. the guy who's actually been tortured doesn't know how torture works but santorum who's been a career politician knows everything about torture santorum is also the guy who's still in. as we found a new m d's in iraq i think we found a new campaign platform for santorum both santorum is a frothy mix of law is a nonsense and it will go on and the very very ugly eric cantor yesterday the

conflict this engulfing the war and the true reason why you've got people in cairo in wisconsin in the newseum now in the dreaded it's savers versus specular it is financial repression in oprah rushing yeah and i might add though of course we're being held hostage all the saviors of the world on the workers of the world by those very guys who were with prostitutes and yellow armbands you know this is the theory as a speculator or oh they developed a set a serial killer once you start to just steal wanted lee without any accountability and they call moral hazard i mean mean do you call a serial killer you know he's this problem is the judges go moral hazard he murdered thirty seven people these suffers from moral hazard that's a euphemism for serial financial murder well if you're looking for an end to this financial repression max the next headline does not supposed well inflation jumps again but i was born tells king to keep rates low so this is george osborne the chancellor of the exchequer in the u.k. and mervyn king the head of the bank of england inflation jumped to four point five percen

you can visit the newseum while strolling the boulevards and see spaces arts and crafts daily except mondays. packed with fascinating information it seems every building the monuments represents amazing history. you can see the christian marriage monument it was here in the old nearby church the famous because he married his sweetheart and. she won today the fountain is a popular place for states and even marriage proposals. several addresses on the central boulevards belong to moscow's theater is a mansion and first of all it was given to a theater company in the beginning of the trenches century. it was first names to change theater but from one hundred fifty at best the name of one of russia's best known rises a seller pushed a staging base for chicago. contemp a place. of national. it isn't. the same time the place i sit and feel an occasion like to get to. the green algal stacy is loved by most parts and this is of all ages children can enjoy the various playgrounds and in many sections of the boulevard the street artists and musicians performing. this small chance. and this is

at a cbs news town meeting at the newseum in washington, president obama was asked about what can be done about high gas prices. >> by making our energy usage more fuel efficient, particularly in the transportation sector, that will bring demand down, and that will bring prices down. but there's no single silver bullet. we're going to have to do efficiency, we're going to have to do alternative energy, we have to develop electric cars that can be cheaper and those are all things we've been investing in over the last two years, which is why it's going to be important for us to continue making those investments in the years to come. >> couric: meanwhile, the c.e.o.s of those five oil companies we mentioned appeared before the senate finance committee today. democrats on the panel want to know why the companies should continue to get tax breaks when they're making such big profits. nancy cordes is our congressional correspondent. and nancy, i know these c.e.o.s have been down this road before. >> reporter: right, katie. it's practically a rite of passage on capitol hill. when gas prices

eastern the newseum in washington is dedicating a memorial to journalists killed on assignment, the 59ar. >>> at noon eastern, president obama gives a commencement address to booker t. washington. >>> and a ceremony recognizing the university of connecticut's men's basketball team, uconn is this year's ncaa champions. >>> space shuttle "endeavour" has begun its latest and final mission. >> zero and liftoff for the final launch of "endeavour." expanding our knowledge and expanding our lives in space. >> so we'll talk about some of that knowledge and how it affects our lives. and how we'll keep learning after the shuttle program ends. bill nye, the science guy, next. ? ...or something small? ...something old? ...or something new? ...or maybe, just maybe... it's something you haven't seen yet. the 2nd generation of intel core processors. stunning visuals, intelligent performance. this is visibly smart. and my dog bailey and i love to hang out in the kitchen. you love the aroma of beef tenderloin, don't you? you inspired a very special dog food. [ female announcer ] chef michael's canine c

. >> newseum staffers agree.und the world about reaction to the death of a some of the modern. >>> that is all for abc 7 news at 5:00. coming up next, new details on the death of osama bin laden. we have team coverage of how it went down and how the world is reacting. also, a day of reflection in light of the developments. hear from those remembering the victims of 9/11. could his death sparked another attack? >>> live and in h.d., this is abc 7 news at 6:00 -- on your side. >>> we begin with an end to the manhunt for osama bin laden. >> osama bin laden was shot dead by navy seals during a firefight in pakistan. we have the a from abc news showing the compound after the attack. this is exclusive video. president obama says

every day the newseum posts the front pages of around the world. outside the museum in d. drchc.people caused the website to crash. at one point the website was getting 2800 hits per second. at last check, about an hour ago the site was still overloaded with traffic and would not load. wow! so you just have to stand out front and read it the old-fashioned way because they've got them from all over the world there. >> for the time being. >>> when news 4 at 4:00 continues how a future bride can wart same dress that princess catherine wore during the royal wedding. >>> an angry gator tries to take [ male announcer ] are you paying more and more for cable and enjoying it less and less? stop paying for second best. upgrade to verizon fios and get tv, internet and phone for just $99.99 a month for a year. call now and you'll get this special bonus: $100 back. there's no term contract required. if you don't absolutely love fios you cacancel any time with no early terminatiofee. fios is a 100% fiber-optic network that delivers the best channel lineup, superior picture quality and more hd

>> announcer: live from the newseum in washington, "this week" with christiane amanpour starts right now. >> welcome to our viewers here and around the world. there is a lot happening this sunday and we begin with unfolding news in the libyan capital, tripoli. the libyan government is contempting what it called, quote, a direct operation to assassinate moammar gadhafi, this, after a nato bomb hit gadhafi's compound. it spared him but killed three of his grandchildren and his youngest son. could this be a game hin changer in the war which drive a stalemate. we go to libya. abc's miguel marquez in benghazi and bbc's christian is in tripoli. let's start with you, christian. are they in tripoli? >> reporter: that's a possible. the way it was orchestrated it was deliberately held for two hour, we were take therein and given a press conference which abraham spells out what he thought. certainly, he puts pressure on nato and its allies. we've seen already a very angry reaction from his supporters in tripoli, reports of attacks on the u.s. embassy, i spoke to u.n. officials who said their of

and now mangled antenna that once stood on the north tower of the world trade center here at the newseum for all to see and remember what happened there. president obama visited ground zero this week closing a chapter in american history. nearly ten years after the 9/11 attacks. this as the flood of information from the raid on bin laden's pakistan compound continues to pour in. and just yesterday, new tapes with extraordinary images of the terror mastermind seen as a graying old man watching himself on television. that was one of five videos released by the pentagon, and now abc's martha raddatz here who's followed the story every step of the way. >> reporter: of the five videos released by the pentagon, this one is surely the most compelling. there sits the most wanted terrorist in the world covered in an old blanket with a very gray beard watching news clips of himself on television. he switches his satellite tv from channel to channel when an image pops up showing him wi weapons, he motions to his camera operator to zoom in. what he is watching on the television matches a press confe

but, you know -- >> we're live now at the newseum of tim geithner.. >> be shaped and put in place have some traction so, again, even though our system is much stronger today, much better capitalized, the weakest parts are gone, and we did this much earlier, much more quickly, much more aggressively than any other country. we got to make sure these reforms can work. >> have these mysterious forces that you have referred to -- >> dark forces, i would say. [laughter] >> have they had any success? >> no. and they won't have success ultimately, again, because they can't -- they're not going to -- really, think of it. think of what this crisis caused. you think people have a credible prospect of legislation the reforms would undue. it's not going to happen and i'm sure we can prevent that. >> you mentioned holding up appointments but there's a number of appointments that this administration has yet to make. you have actings a lot of that. >> i'm glad you point that out. think about this anybody, i think, wants to make sure we have a strong financial system

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you didn't see everything that happened at the newseum in or anything?dy was pulling out the cameras, they said keep your cameras down, when we're doing this, there's going to be one break when we let everybody. as soon as harry said take out those cameras, it was like the paparazzi. >> i'm surprised they were allowed to bring the cameras in. >> i thought the same thing. but they didn't. >> i have to say, though, in the commercial break, that's where the gold happens. it's nice to see that the president -- >> that's where the twizzlers come from. >> he has a good sense of humor. good to see harry. >> harry had -- harry was great. let me tell you warming up that crowd. they liked harry smith before that. after that.,,,,,,,,,, my name's reggie. just recently, my wife and i took in her sister's children. now, we already had 4, so i went from becoming a family man to a man with a bigger family. and you can't eat love, so i don't know how i'm going to feed them tonight. how was that, reg? i think i look more like denzel. that's cold, man. announcer: play a ro

to be there in the newseum in washington, d.c., with the president of the united states. >> what was>> he was -- well, everybody was very surprised by how laidback things got in those commercial breaks. and we're going to be speaking with harry smith, who was also there. erica hill was also there. to host the event. it's interesting, because obviously, the economy has been in very tough shape for some time now. and president obama's approval rating as a result of that has really dropped. but the people in the room did seem to connect with him. it seemed like they felt in many cases for example the pregnant zookeeper. >> that's everywhere. >> she's been everywhere. and so it was -- >> rebecca shaking hands. just wanted to say that. >> i appreciate that. >> you were shaking his hands. you didn't get the fist bump. you did the handshake. >> it was a professional type of event. >> speaking of it being professi professional. were you worried about protocol? >> it's interesting when you see how highly orchestrated every single moment of his day is. everything is calculated down to the seco