david staying with us in zurich. let's check in on the equity markets. a bunch of markets are closed today. we have half days in other markets. those that are open are rising this morning. very, very strong performance out of the u.s. the dow at the 18,000 level. we priced the bulk of that yesterday into the european session. spain up over 1% this morning. we're going to take a break, but up next, russia takes a step towards junk. s&p says it is considering a downgrade as vladimir putin plans to bail out a bunch of lenders. more when we return on "on the move" in a moment. ♪ >> welcome back. you are watching "on the move." you are looking at the frobts of st. paul's cathedral. christopher wren being augmented by that tree. beautiful scenes on the other side of the river. st. paul's facing the river. it is kind of drizzling outside in london to be honest. doesn't feel that christmasy. fairly warm. a bit of drizzle. not exactly the white christmas that some were hoping for. standard and poor's has delivered a fresh blow to russia's currency and the crisis

that was one way of looking at it and that was what he went off and disappeared from zurich in april to make revolution elsewhere. there was also that going on. one has to remember the huge thing we were showing earlier on. i think there was all this happening. an awful lot of stuff happening. i doubt that any of the three could have had anything about it. in the early years, if this is just throwing out an idea, but in the early years, if people -- if the family handled willie write or an even bigger what if, if he hadn't had that breech birth and he was the brightest of those three and hadn't fallen into the hants of them, you could imagine a different out come. that's not the way it was. >> hello. i recently pleaded or read a history of world war i by john keegan. he expressed a view i had not heard before. what he said was before serbia issued the ultimatum, before austria which was very weak and crumbling even then, they sent the ultimatum to serbia, he first contacted the kaiser as to whether the kaiser would support him if he invaded in a punitive type of war, serbia. and the

and to give you a different kind of answer, maybe we could hop to switzerland for a minute to zurichre you know, you know, it was full of spies and god knows what else. everyone a passivist or socialist everyone ended up in switzerland, neutral switzerland including lenin. lenin spent his time in the central library writing a book on imperialism or capitalism. i can't remember one of the titles. i'm sure one of the scholars here would know twa what it was. the thesis was predictablely the capitalism was a system would lead typical perry allism because you need more profit, you know. so you have to go elsewhere to get your profit and that in turn would inevitably lead to war. that's one way of looking at it. that was sort of the, he, of course, went off suddenly disappeared from zurich some time in watch 1917 to make real revolution elsewhere and a& nightmare for the czar. there's also that going on. one has to be the huge sort of rather like the map that we were showing earlier on, you know. i think there was all this happening, an awful lot of stuff was happening. i doubt any of the

ryan chilcote caught up with him in zÜrich, asking him about the chances of change back at home.chances of truly losing power are about 50/50 in the next 10 years. when i cannot say. >> a lot of people in the west say the collapse of the oil will create problems for him and speed his departure, do you agree with that? the decline in oil prices and western sanctions, individual sanctions against the putin entourage means that he has far less room to room -- maneuver financially which creates difficulties for him. as a result, the cost of any mistakes he may make could be critical. at the same time, i would not count on the regime being toppled only as the result of mistakes in the economy. you need something more. >> what? you need a black swan event. >> ryan chilcote is with us from london. the thing that surprises us most is to hear him say there is only a 50/50 chance that putin will somehow be forced out of office in the next decade. >> perhaps even more extraordinary than that, he says even when putin leaves, there is only a 50-50 chance that what happens next is better than

as if he just got back from a trip to zurich representing his country. he was in the back yard and he was charming. he was completely versed in the western media and who we were and what we were interested in. i had a treasured picture of them laughing as we were sitting there. he never met me before, but i had a sound man with a boom mike with a big fuzzy thing cut down. i said mr. mandela, this is not a weapon, it's a microphone. he said i'm glad to hear that. i thought it was a shotgun. we broke up in laughter and that was one of the moments we lived for. >> my father and huh a distributor that brought this up when you mentioned them. no socks for a politician. what does that mean? real quickly. what does that mean? >> we had a lot of short hand when we talked about it. there was a candidate running and i can't get too close to the identification of it. a democrat running in the midwest. tim said how is he going to do? a guy had a place in the east as well. he had gotten infatuated with the eastern seaboard cell where he spends a lot of time. he doesn

that is according to scientists at the university of zurich.y found that smart phone users had more electrical activity in their brains when their thumbs and other fingertips were touched. that's compared to regular cell phone users. >>> and, kids who learn how to play a musical instrument may have easier time paying attention and focusing. researchers at the university of vermont analyzed brain scans of children between the ages of six and 18. they found differences in the brains every those who performed music especially in the areas that control coordination memory, attention, and organization. all the more reason to pick up an instrument. >>> good morning checking in with weather watcher network starting things off around the region as a whole generally speaking, a loft have you been reporting mid 30's, on the thermometer over the last hour. few spots where it is a little bit colder, little milder, but we take you into a couple of these, take closer look. charles has yet to up load his profile picture. that's all right we'll show your tempe

. >> we are examining the media performance here including fred francis, and david zurich with "baltimore sun" and chairman is back with us. fred amazing we are talking about this on a day there is another missing plane. the malaysia airlines that was missing is a tragedy with a punch sign with leg us siding of debris. >> a reporter said is it preposterous we could not talk about a black hole? what is preposterous is he is still on the network. it wasn't just him but the producers of cnn, the graphics that went along with the segment had twilight zone in it and "gone," "lost." >> bad reality show. >> a bad reality show. >> everyone did it but cnn stayed with it for weeks and weeks after most other stations moved on. >> part of it, at that period of time for c cnn they were looking nor new nonfiction formula. >> what would that do? >> they covered this as world's greatest mysteries or one of the reality kind of shows. they thought that formula, whether it is another formula they use they are going to nonfiction programing this is the one that lacked like news soviet like news, but they cou

joining us now is david zurich. it's not like cnn is the only met in work that's covered this.d the letter deals with what beverly johnson did or did not say to cnn. what do you make of bill cosby attacking the network? >> yeah. they're using the language of liable and slander and this is the kind of letter that a media institution gets prior to the lawsuit, a event that essentially says stop or retract. that's what this is. i don't think it's going to be any more effective than any of his other strategies. and if you read that letter carefully, it's from arne singer to je zucker. producers did or didn't do and charges with this and that, howie, it sounds to me like they were just trying to interview a potential guest, but he's -- >> he has no efd -- >> cnn insiders, regardless, it's a bit of a brushback. >> totally. totally, yes. >> but at the same time, whether it's cnn or a lot other news organizations, fox and everybody else who has covered this story, the coverage has been a little one sided because cosby won't speak. and the lawyers wouldn't come on camera. so we just get

david zurich and cherylsharyl attkisson is back with us.red amazing that we're talking about this on a day when there's another missing plane. but that plane was in march was a tragedy. bogus sighting of debris. >> yeah. is it preposterous that there could be a dark hole? the network talking about stuff like that, that's preposterous. and it wasn't just do you know lemon. it was the producers of cnn, the graphics that went along with that segment had the twilight zone in it and gone you know, lost. it was a whole -- >> like a bad reality show. >> it was a bad reality show. >> cnn was the network that stayed with it weeks and weeks after most news organizations moved on. >> at that period of time with cnn with a new president, they were doing anything but news. they were looking for new nonfiction formulas. >> it was news, just news nobody could explain. >> except they covered it as world greatest mysteries or one of the reality kinds of shows. and they thought that formula, they're going to of nonfiction programming, this was the one that l

hundreds of may day protesters and onlookers fill a downtown street in zurich, switzerland. they barely notice the white bmw that pulls out from a parking space. the car moves slowly toward the crowd. without warning, the driver steps on the gas, hitting four people. one person is catapulted over the car. the front tire almost runs over a man's head. another is saved by inches. an 18-year-old wedged under the front bumper isn't as lucky. he's dragged an agonizing 250 feet before finally rolling free from under the rear bumper. he survives a fractured spine and serious burns over 20% of his body. questions about what caused the driver's horrifying actions make national headlines. the 30-year-old suspect says he panicked and had no criminal intent, but is convicted of attempted murder and sentenced to seven years in prison. out on bail during an appeal, he is arrested for drunk driving three years later, on may day 2011, and sent back to prison. >>> thousands of miles away, bystanders are threatened by another out-of-control vehicle. may 30, 2012. 1:30 in little canada, minnes

mcnally's ego and erratic ways did not endear him to the americans and allies around him in zurich and doubts began to arise about his loyalty. the phenomenon of an american officer in direct personal contact with the country's enemies was kind of novel at the time. and mcnay naturlly would make r statements that could be viewed as anti-german and anti-french. most of his close friends in switzerland seemed to be pro-german. a lot of americans were really uneasy about this. alan dulles was in switzerland at the time and he recounted he could never figure out if mcmally was a crook or a good american. most other americans just thought he was a traitor. things came to a boil in march 1918 when the french requested and received permission to arrest mcnally as he crossed the spanish french border coming back from a mission. he was only allowed free on the condition he report to the u.s. embassy in paris. he arrives in paris to be grilled. he's the first person that gets to him is u.s. army intelligence officer who says, oh, great, you're here, let's talk about joint espionage operations. t

we spoke with him in zurich about the future of his country and its president.astic number of mistakes. he started making one after another. to boost his ratings with the military adventure in ukraine. that was his real objective. that was obviously a mistake. >> was ukraine a mistake that could lead to his downfall? it's undoubtedly strengthened his regime in the short term. in fourlower stability or five years. i think he already recognizes that. the euphoria does not last long. >> what doesn't the west understand about russia today? >> i think the west's main problem is believing that the reestablishment of a totalitarian problem is only a russian problem. it's a problem for western europe two. the west could help ukraine build a normal democratic state, but they think the cost is too high. ok. what was the take away from this interview? he talks about change in the kremlin. how likely is that? >> he talks about a coup. -- overe no or for signs of that. -- overt signs of that. he is very popular in the country. that, no one saw 1917 coming either. what was he

one would imagine the move that prompted the swiss could be evidence of extreme capital flows into zurich and elsewhere from russia. that has been building for a while. it is romantic to link the cuba thing with russia, but i doubt that. ,y own suspicion is that obama looking to make some big initiative that will give him some legacy, has been thinking about something like this for a while. i don't know -- i've been to havana. it is really exciting. >> they've been waiting for this for decades. >> we were chatting off-line before, maybe it is more to do with perception about jeb bush and the republicans keeping florida. going toks like we are see president putin walking on stage very shortly. >> i think it would be interesting to see how the swiss franc itself trades in response to this move. the timing of it is a bit of a surprise. if you see euro-swiss start the bounce and it keeps up recovery through the weekend -- >> looking at it for the last half hour, not doing that. the rally is beginning to fade. there is pressure on the smb. >> and we have the all-important ecb press conference

coming up with plans, getting money for it, and i think there were secret bank accounts all over zurich now with money they got for weapons of mass destruction. there was never a danger, in my judgment, of a mushroom cloud that we heard a lot about. >> i was going to ask. there never seems to be a compelling reason for us to do it now versus wait until they either came up or discovered something. we were not threatened, the united states. >> no direct threat. no impetus to do it immediately. it was sort of a rush. >> he was in a box. i mean, and we had on a box. >> saddam was on a box. >> at the time. rumsfeld will say we couldn't take a chance because he was getting closer and closer to our overflights. that's now the revised view of it, and rumsfeld now is saying, intelligence, boy, when colin powell went to the u.n., that kind of told us those were not facts. that's what passes for intelligence. there's a lot of sliding away from it from people who were in fact thought he was a grave threat from the moment they arrived in this administration. they had him in their crosshairs. the oth

. >> we're back with david zurich in washington and george concha in new york. how did joe stephanopoulos do? >> i thought he was solid. i thought he was methodical. i thought we got some answers there we've never gotten before. and i thought the reaction showed that both sides, you can see george being attacked either way. i think he asked all the right questions. where i take issue is where we saw a little bid more of this on night line. because of november sweeps, perhaps, and "dancing with the stars" as a juggernaut, it didn't get that. i thought this was a big enough story that it deserved to be played in prime time. >> right. we never really heard darren wilson's voice. >> i think it was interesting in the clip that you showed, morning television has made him better at getting sort of at emotions and that question he asked was the really revealing one. i thought when wilson said no, i have nothing, that that was surprising to me. i thought you couldn't go through that kind of fire without having some. so that was good. and he asked it. it was a morning tv

. >> it is also changing your brain they say that's according to scientists at the university of zurichound smart phone users had more electrical activity in their brains when their thumbs and other fingertips were touched compared to regular cell phone users. >> musical instruments played by children, easier time focusing. researchers analyzed brain scans between the children between six to 18. found differences in the brains every those who perform music specifically in the areas that control coordination memory, attention, and organization. >> so putting offer doing anything taking piano lessons or practicing? >> that's right. my mom new that years ago. got us to learn an instrument. even though i didn't stick with it. >> i didn't either. >> we tried, though. >> we tried up. >> top. we tried. >> we still love music though, and love the arts. >> right now 8:18. still ahead this morning staying ahead of the tech trend. >> we'll show you the gadgets you'll be talking about in 2015. >> also, first here's what's coming up tonight on the "cw philly". [ female announcer ] nervous whitening