but 16 floors above, american rochelle stimey knows nothing about the blazing inferno below. no alarm, no phone call, no notice at all. her husband is in china away on business and she's in her hotel room with her 7-year-old daughter sona when something catches sona's eye outside their window. >> i noticed some smoke. then i noticed it was coming from straight down below the window. and then i heard people screaming. >> rochelle panicked, rushes to the door, only to discover the hallway is filled with smoke. >> my daughter yelled -- we are going to die. there were no emergency lights in the hallway, so it was pitch black and i wasn't confident that in smoky conditions with my daughter and my self upset that i could make it. >> so rochelle makes a tough decision. staying in the room is their best hope. >> i said, you know what, sona, the fire department is here. let's wait. they will put out the fire and we'll walk down the stairs. >> turns out, it's the right choice. for many at the hotel, there would be no way out. the hotel has no sprinklers, no smoke detectors, and no work

look of the draw rochelle in the fifteen other euro two thousand and twelve qualified nations discover their group stage fate in kiev. continental quest to join fellow russian side c.s.k. a moscow in the last sixteen of basketball's you're only. unclip wings it's double trouble for the star laden eagles in the n.f.l. with the feat to seattle meaning they've lost twice as many games this year as they've won. but we do solid football where the euro two thousand and twelve group stage draw was being carried out in kiev russia hundred watts looks on paper probably the easiest of the four groups for next summer's finals let's take a look dick advocaat side will go up against co-host poland greece and the czech republic their first clash i meeting with the czechs and through slough on the very first day of the tournament june eighth it's followed by a game with poland four days later in warsaw and then greece also in the polish capital on june the sixteenth. and i'm proved to be could very well be tied to a group of death expect fireworks when the netherlands germany portugal and denmark do

they say rochelle grimmer shot them during a 7-hour stand off with police earlier this week. she then took her life. the 12-year-old girl and 10- year-old boy died at a san antonio hospital. their mother went to the office about being denied food stamps. >>> controversial video surfaces showing dominique strauss-kahn minutes after an alleged sexual assault in a new york hotel. the video aired on french tv and shows the former head of the international monetary fund casually leaving the hotel in new york. another clip those shows his accuser a maid appearing to act out the attack to coworkers. and there is a third clip showing two workers celebrating. strauss-kahn's lawyers says itprovence he was too casual to committed a crime the maid attorney says she is reenacting the attack. new york prosecutors dropped charges after losing confidence in the victim's story. >>> if you want to quit smoking, the task is tougher in american. according to the american lung association the state is 3rd worst because of the lack ofhelp it provide. they say the state's help line is underfunded w

spotlight i'll get it over in just a reminder that my guest on the show today is our lady of the famous rochelle. basketball player known in the n.b.a. as a k forty seven. well we started talking about the ability of russians to play abroad the sort of comfort or discomfort that you have when you play when you play in a fairly well this is true not only for basketball this is also true for for hockey players in the n.h.l. this is also true it might sound funny for the russian girls in the modeling business last of them are i working work it's also a kind of sport you have brought well what do you think what's the reason that russians do really often they do really fit into that for that though they may be very good professionally well oh i know a lot of examples for the for the athletes who plays in america and you know they feel very comfortable and i know a lot of examples of people who doesn't know it but there's a language barrier i think it's all individual language probably psychologically you know people get to use for the russia and for the russian friends you know they don't want to mis

means to get to the polling be some people arriving at them today in the further flung parts of rochelle rain did we've also seen people have the ballot boxes delivered to them by helicopter and snowmobile previously as you said we'll be bringing you all the information. throughout the day full hundred fifty feet from the seven political parties by filling it out when they see my colleague. taking a closer look at how. this right here is the state duma the lower chamber of the russian parliament where laws are adopted and all bills are first reviewed and the term comes from the russian dumont meaning to think it was founded in one thousand nine hundred six but does survive the one nine hundred seventeen revolution whoever did bounce back in one thousand nine hundred three when a new constitution was introduced and the upcoming election and the makeup of the six duma since one thousand nine hundred three. there are four hundred fifty seats up for grabs in the duma and the elected deputies will serve for five years well as it stands the stay do must be divided between for political parties

because my first thought oh well the good they're fighting for a healthier lifestyle i think linnean rochelle will agree with me this is what i feel something very topical and welfare russia is fighting for that. i'm happy for them. so i'm going to say yes to produce as long as they're within the law if they don't agree with what the government is doing that's fine because the government is not always right now with everybody is not always giving a proper it responses to the challenges we face. and there are some acts of abuse and we should respond to that as well but when we should not get involved in those teams used to destabilize society in different countries some of the i think this is unacceptable and in that you know proper it. like you said at the beginning many people came to. the square in moscow to. protest. against the way they were treated by the authorities but what we actually saw on television was some opposition leaders when they when you converted people to the square what they said they said. googoosh. you think you shouldn't treat people like cattle this is unacceptable t

thank you very much maria rochelle may get an unexpected bonus from the rising tensions between western powers and iran countries benchmark urals blends could surge to a record margin above brant the rising tensions over iran's nuclear program have already pushed russian troops will grab a premium over its north sea counterparts urals blenders widely consumed by european refineries on the mediterranean which are also big and portals of arabian oil a new proposal by france to impose sanctions against oil imports from the islamic republic could mean the markets will further. the largest steel maker in russia sevastopol is said to spin off its north gold unit the company's also eyeing listing the standalone business in london service now plans to complete the separation of its gold units by january under the deal sevastopol shareholders will be able to swap their stocks the shares and north pole currently held by a six tells subject no gold was set up in two thousand and seven and since then has spent over one billion dollars on buying mines in west africa and has its start analysts estima

well shortly we'll look at the consumerism boom and rochelle but that's after a mine here of our top stories. whether you die from high or to the debts. catch the power of the wind or drift into duty. of the currents. the well prepared is a must and if you're lucky. you'll never forget your experience we only need a screen that's going to be heard and. see. below the ice on our team. on the money with the business of russia this. will go out here watching our t.v. let's take a look at the top stories up to fifty thousand people are expected to say and on central moscow in a second major protest against the results of this month's parliamentary poll the opposition claims the vote was rigged and want a reelection while the russian leadership has promised to let it go reforms. there is no merry christmas in syria where a spiral of violence continued with two suicide blasts in damascus.

saying struggles to break free from crippling debt and things of the numinous spectrum perception rochelle sometimes in brussels where the madrid says it's moscow's interest. to overcome its troubles. now amid this is our. areas remained relatively quiet for weeks and decades and still been tough on the so hollande country with its neighbors. a big concern as the algerian foreign minister now explains that's next. minister the arab countries have been swept by what has been called the arab spring and what is european or russia's position in relation to dance in syria in the arab world as a whole. our opinion is based on mutual trust between our two countries on common vision concerning events in the world and on mutual respect for the principles of each of the sides first of all i'm talking about the principles of non interference in the internal affairs of third countries the principle of long term cooperation and the right of states to change the order within their own territories but not within the territory of other countries i believe russia's stance is serious and well thought out it

financial stability fund this is the fund that was set up when the eurozone crisis started however rochelle prefers to contribute through the i.m.f. and of course the abyss will be very clearly looking for usually beneficial agreements we know that moscow for example has been advocating for a long time now the reform of the i.m.f. to have more influence to our developing nations so this could be a win win situation depending on the agreement they come up with and after that some of that was on december ninth. countries essentially plus some of the countries have agreed to come up with a fiscal compact that's integrating their fiscal policies and having stricter rules but at the end of the day what we're looking at here is the reaction of the markets is whether the or you or has actually improved but in fact it has it had fallen value compared to the dollar and also markets have not been reacting well they still have to come up with a definitive solution to this eurozone crisis so that's why they're still looking for a solution hoping that russia could come on board and help them sort it out

business now discuss these challenges are now joined by jacob knell chief economist morgan stanley rochelle thank you again very kindly nice to see you ok so political liberalization was the key message that made it through it made a good speech but what effects will it have on business on the business climate in general you know i think an investment climate here i think it's it's a sort of secondary importance actually for business what business really wants what's good for the investment climate is to build see predictability triviality to secure decent returns at relatively low risk and political liberalization can be important if that means that political risks are somehow integrated into the political process and there isn't a significant risk of some kind of regime challenge like you saw in the arab world earlier this year but i think that the risks of such a challenge in russia although perhaps they've increased in some people's minds in the last few weeks quite small because russia has full employment it's actually got accelerating growth in the second half of this year. and it als

take it is now the cooling of fact and rockford rochelle 35 decreased visibility is low also a good indicatorons of a mile you have a snowstorm. not so bad there will be snow in the upper midwest, in saturday night into sunday and the rainfall we expect almost half an inch if not more than that in some places. again early print fall snow shower mike linder after tonight's. early tomorrow indiana mostly sunny 45 degrees and tomorrow night crops down to 33 degrees clouds over could be a shout reports the morning on saturday saturday starts with clouds a p in morning showers and partly cloudy when the mild in the afternoon high temperature 52 degrees with a south wind propellant temperatures to the levels and starts smiled on sunday awakening to southern wind 47 degrees and one sector it will be drained off and on sunday morning in the early afternoon spring to land at kickoff time at noon at soldier field and might be a brief switch to flurries had a couple of snow showers on monday colder air temperatures coming up wednesday colder air again later next week. and really cold air the fall of the

>> guest: in new rochelle. he is an editorial member.c-span: do you have another book in mind already? when did you finish this? >> guest: the book came out in jim. c-span: when did you finish? >> guest: i finished it last fall. c-span: you are on your way to the next book? >> guest: yes, on a different topic. c-span: is that what your situation is? >> guest: not quite. my husband is -- so it's a subject. my other, the thing that i write about most it is religion. c-span: and when do you plan to have is when completed? >> guest: it is due in june 2 oxford university press so if the editors are listening, june. c-span: a big hook? is the next one bigger than this one? >> guest: i think it will be. the next book is a lot of, got funding to do a national survey on interfaith marriage and i spent about four months sort of doing, traveling to do interviews with people across the country so this is sort of more kind of a summary of a lot of things that i have learned about higher education over the last number of years as a reporter. c-span: t